Monthly Review

The longest protest for Indigenous land rights, sovereignty and self-determination in the world, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, located on Ngunnawal land in Canberra, will mark its 50th anniversary on 26 January. Socialist Alternative - Red Flag

Venezuelan oil experts confirmed the significant growth in the country’s oil production, underlining that the Iranian naphtha is essential for the government in Caracas to be able to sell crude from the Orinoco Oil Belt, which needs to be diluted to be sold on world markets. Press TV

Echoing a 2009 statement from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently denounced an aggressive Russia. Yves Engler Blog

The world is woefully offtrack to achieving the current international consensus that it is necessary to keep the global temperature rise by the end of the 21st century to no more than 1.5C (degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels two centuries ago. JOMO

Environment and employment two fronts on which India has been besieged in recent years. Unemployment since 2011 has worsened in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Janata Weekly

Harris’ updated edition was published a few months before his death in October 2001. 'The Rise of Anthropological Theory' [TRAT] was first published in 1968 and is still marked by some of the ideological concerns of that era. Midwestern Marx

Abby Martin’s second feature film is an anti-imperialist environmental documentary. Abby Martin / The Empire Files

"...on the question of so-called trauma porn....another consideration: A country like this, it may give people ideas!...It may tend to normalize first-class savagery against black people in particular, which once again, were not accidental or coincidental but oozing from the muck of the origins of capitalism itself, in which we were the major victims, in which we were basically the kindling that helped to start the fire in the furnace that led to the spectacular growth of capitalism. And so this is something we need to confront... just as we need to confront the rather sickening and widening growth of white nationalisms, not only in the ranks of the US military, but also in the ranks of the police.... - Professor Gerald Horne LISTEN to the full episode of "By Any Means Necessary:"

NYT breakthrough! "To the Editor: I never thought that I’d live to see this day...None of it is news to #Palestinians...Nor is it news to many thousands of your Jewish readersStill, I say #mazeltov..." -Prof Petchesky, coeditor of #ALandWITHaPeople

"Pem Davidson Buck's "The Punishment Monopoly" is one of the most creatively original works of U.S. historical and social analysis regarding punishment and power dynamics ever written. She uses names of likely ancestors based on historical and familial knowledge to construct a powerful narrative that charts the rise of early American capitalism, and the centrality of monopolizing punishment as an essential means of capitalist development (which include the practices of Africa...n chattel slavery, indentured servitude, and indigenous dispossession and genocide). Buck's powerfully written work is not merely about history, but just as much about letting the characters' lives and the settings they inhabit bring the historical reality back to life in a way I've never quite seen an author be able to do so effectively and vividly. A timeless masterpiece that deserves far more popular attention than it's received to date!" -Nathaniel Wallace

In a recent study conducted by the University of Oxford and the World Health Organization, socialist Nicaragua was placed number nine on a list of the ten safest countries to visit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Peoples Dispatch

It’s no surprise that right-wing media have hyped a supposed crisis on the U.S./Mexico border, or that much of the television coverage of current immigration issues has tended to be superficial. Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting