This letter, from Robert W. McChesney, was mailed to our subscribers a few weeks ago. We are hoping that the many friends of Monthly Review in our email family will also take a moment to read this letter and respond to our request. We urgently need your support. Dear Friend of Monthly Review, Back in […]
This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite World (free and open to the public, April 10-12, 2012; Claremont Colleges, CA): Money and credit as public services for full-employment, optimal infrastructure, ending debt slavery: Epic proponents, related history of US government and corporate media, partnership for Occupy victory It’s divided into these […]
The following is from Larry Miller’s blog. You can go to: http://millermps.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/a-powerful-argument-for-blocking-wisconsins-voter-id-law and see the video presented as well as read the entire article. There is also information about how you can weigh in on the criminal activities of those rigging the election this year. Cap Times editorial Posted: Friday, March 2, 2012 University of […]
On June 14, 2011 Carlos Hernandez, the mayor of Hialeah, a city in Miami-Dade County, “honored” the FBI and CIA funded terrorist Luis Posada Carriles by giving him the key to the city. As many know, there is overwhelming evidence linking Luis Posada Carriles to the mid-flight bombing of a Cuban airliner, which killed 73 […]
With cash starved public educational facilities and districts, it would come as no surprise that public schools currently being closed or on the ‘list’ might be turned into prisons. After all, with prison population rising and with good pay for prison guards, communities all over the US just might go for the argument that converting ‘failing schools’ […]
Picture of Maryland University forum held by Black Faculty and Staff Association to address public workers’ concerns, April 26, 2011 In the public sector of our society, to take one example within public universities, the school administration is the ‘managerial class’ that oversees education and all the workers who labor within the public university […]
Over the past few months, with the crisis in Japan, endless budget debates, and NATO bombings in Libya, very little media attention has been given to the steady trickle of Wikileaks releases and related stories. Nonetheless, one important news story, mostly overlooked by the main stream media, has been the alleged torture by the U.S. […]
On March 31, the UMD student newspaper, the Diamondback, wrote an article based on an anonymous letter from a non-exempt University Employee describing the work environment on campus as a “Nazi camp” and a “plantation.” “We are made to feel like idiots,” the letter said. “Our opinions are null and void, our days are as […]