May 1, 2002
ROBERT W. McCHESNEY is a coeditor of Monthly Review. BEN SCOTT is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This essay is adapted from the foreword to… READ MORE
April 1, 2002
For a long time now, the U.S. economy and the economies of the advanced capitalist world as a whole have been experiencing a slowdown in economic growth relative to the… READ MORE
March 1, 2002
The Bases of Empire Empires throughout human history have relied on foreign military bases to enforce their rule, and in this respect at least, Pax Americana is no different than… READ MORE
February 1, 2002
Professor Sam Gindin is the Packer chair in Social Justice, Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto. The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was established last year for… READ MORE
January 1, 2002
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness… READ MORE
November 1, 2001
There is little we can say directly about the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.—except that these were… READ MORE
October 1, 2001
In a 1963 talk on “The Pollution of Our Environment” Rachel Carson drew a close comparison between the reluctance of society in the late twentieth century to embrace the full… READ MORE
September 1, 2001
Barbara Epstein teaches in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz and is working on a book on the underground movement in the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus, during… READ MORE
July 1, 2001
The United States incarcerates five to eight times more of its people per capita than Western European nations—though its crime rates for nonviolent crimes are comparable to those of Western… READ MORE
June 1, 2001
A few weeks ago, the New York Times columnist on economics devoted his space to scolding the demonstrators at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, (April 22, 2001,… READ MORE
