Notes from the Editors, September 2008
September 1, 2008
Just over a year since the beginning of the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression, and only six months after the federal bailout of Bear Stearns, the seizing… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Jeremiah Wright in the Propaganda System
September 1, 2008
Edward S. Herman is professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and has written extensively on economics, political economy, and the media. Among his books are… READ MORE
Humanitarian Imperialism: The New Doctrine of Imperial Right
September 1, 2008
Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent books are Interventions (City Lights, 2007), Failed States (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Inside… READ MORE
The U.S. Media Reform Movement: Going Forward
September 1, 2008
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Communication Revolution (New Press, 2007), The Problem… READ MORE
Stately vistas of stately vistas
September 1, 2008
Rooms opening into each other beckon, light filling each arch— not a railroad flat although I surely have lived in such in Chicago, Brooklyn. � Power, wealth require big �rooms… READ MORE
The Fire Inside
September 1, 2008
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 239 pages, paperback, $19.95. Richard D. Vogel is a political reporter… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2008
July 1, 2008
This number of Monthly Review is a special issue on “Ecology: The Moment of Truth,” edited by Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Richard York. In the present issue we… READ MORE
Peak Oil and Energy Imperialism
July 1, 2008
The rise in overt militarism and imperialism at the outset of the twenty-first century can plausibly be attributed largely to attempts by the dominant interests of the world economy to… READ MORE
Framing India’s Hydraulic Crisis: The Politics of the Modern Large Dam
July 1, 2008
Rohan D’Souza is assistant professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy (Jawaharlal Nehru Unversity, India). He is the author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2008
June 1, 2008
The first third of 2008 should have been a wake-up call to those who, in the short-lived days of capitalist triumphalism, were inclined to lose sight of the immediacy of… READ MORE