Dear Friends, Monthly Review emerged seventy-five years ago out of the Popular Front milieu of the Great Depression and Second World War years, which has been a key part of our identity ever since. The historical significance of this is perhaps best captured by Gerald Horne, author of a number of landmark Monthly Review Press books,…

A Conversation: Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Kahneman [3.4.15] Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface … when brains and computers can interact directly, that’s it, that’s the end of history, that’s the end of biology as we know it. Nobody has a clue what will happen once you solve this. If life can break out…

Posted on Thursday, Sep 19, 2024 7:00AM by Rebecca Baumgartner by Rebecca Baumgartner Carpets…chairs…shoes…bricks…crockery…anything you like to mention – they’re all made by machinery now. The quality may be inferior, but that doesn’t matter. It’s the cost of production that counts. And stories – well – they’re just another product, like carpets and chairs, and no one cares…

Defend Democracy PressThe Newsletter of The Delphi Initiative Website Excerpts: League of Arab States strongly condemns Israeli attack on LebanonSep. 18, 2024 League of Arab States Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has strongly condemned the pager blast attack in Lebanon, which the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon announced was carried out by “Israel”. He also issued a warning about the potential for increased…

Recent indications suggest that NATO may permit Ukraine to use Western-provided missiles to strike Russian territory. This would mark a serious escalation of the conflict. 19 September 2024 Niniko Morbedadze (Georgia), The Orange Clouds on the Boundary, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 13 September, at a conclave in…