December 1, 2024
As the atrocities visited by Israel upon the Palestinian people continue to multiply, this month’s “Notes from the Editors is a forceful condemnation of not only the Zionist entity, but the entire U.S.-led neoliberal world order. Israel’s relentless pursuit of genocide in Palestine “has destroyed any pretense of a commitment to universal human rights on the part of the West,” undeniably revealing “imperialism and settler colonialism in their most brutal forms” as the entire world watches.
July 1, 2024
While Israel’s horrific assaults on the people of Gaza continue, the voices against the U.S. support for the Zionist state grow ever-louder. This spring, the fight spilled onto college campuses. In this month’s “Notes,” MR editors take the long view, starting with the Free Speech Movement over half a century ago.
May 1, 2024
Over six months into to Israel’s atrocity-filled assault on Gaza, Laurence Shoup digs deep to reveal a rarely discussed—but enormously influential—force within the Israel Lobby: the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR, he writes, is more than just Wall Street’s think tank; it is an elite network of Zionist politicians and donors who comprise a significant part of the Israel lobby and the continuing U.S. commitment to funding Israel’s genocidal actions in Palestine.
February 1, 2024
buy this issue According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word exterminate comes from the Latin for “to drive beyond boundaries.” From the sixteenth century onward, it meant “to drive… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
buy this issue The genocide being inflicted by the Israeli state on the Palestinian people has now (as we write this in late November 2023) reached a particularly lethal stage,… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
Paul Buhle has been a contributor to Monthly Review since 1970. His latest graphic novel is The Bund: A Graphic History of Jewish Labour Resistance. � Linda Dittmar, Tracing Homelands:… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
buy this issue Fearful of losing its imperial hegemony over the world economy due to the rise of China as a major economic power, the United States is seeking to… READ MORE
February 1, 2022
He is turned, slightly,�just a boy, in his own home.�Say, Gaza. � Someone took a photograph�in the ruin of what was�his life. Black and white. Sharp � shadows. Light falls… READ MORE
June 1, 2015
Max Ajl is a doctoral student in development sociology at Cornell University and is active in the Palestine solidarity movement. He is also an editor at Jacobin and Jadaliyya. Rich… READ MORE
November 1, 2013
� Tom Mayer is a retired professor from the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he taught for forty years. He is also a long-time… READ MORE