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Robert Pollin, Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity (London, New York: Verso, 2003), 229 pages, $21.00 cloth. Robert Pollin's Contours of Descent deserves wide [...]

In 'Globalization Is An Issue. The Power of Capital Is The Issue' (MR, June 1997), William Tabb rejects what he calls 'the strong version of the globalization thesis' as based [...]

Robert McChesney's book is an extensive history of the struggle over broadcasting policy and control of the airwaves in the formative years of the radio industry and the subsequent consolidation [...]

CORRESPONDENCE IN MEMORIAM TAMARA DEUTSCHER Only now have we learned that our good friend of many years, Tamara Deutscher, the widow of Isaac Deutscher, died last August. My wife and [...]

Unreliable Sources: A Gaide to Detecting Bias in News Media, by Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon. New York: Lyle Smart, 1990.419 pp. $19.95. (paperhack edition, with new introduction on [...]

Presents developments related to politics and government in the U.S. in 1983. Catchword for all for acts of political violence in the West; Interpretation of the media in presenting the act of political violence in murder attempt of Pope John Paul II, leader of Roman Catholic Church by a Turk; How the Komitet Gosudarstrennoy Bezopasnosti, a committee for state security in the Soviet Union represented the murder attempt of Pope.

Presents letters to the editor for the June 1980 issue of the periodical 'The Nation,' depicting politics, economics and history.

Presents authors' views about various books and journals focusing on carious problems in Cambodia. Names of journals and newspaper and their circulation; Role of books and journals in voicing against the atrocious genocide in Cambodia; Publication of various stories and report highlighting the political, social and economic convulsion in Cambodia.

A new surge of corporate concentration is in process in the United States and abroad, driven in large measure by a restructuring of global markets through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). [...]

Presents a letter to the editor referencing an article about criticism on Walter Heller, an official of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.

Presents letters to the editor on articles published in previous issues. Discussion of the article "Who Owns the Oceans," published in the January 1 and 8 issues; Information about Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough with reference to the article published in the January 22 issue; Proposal for a subsidy for direct and indirect federal payments in the U.S. in the article "Cornucopicous Subsidies," published in the February 5 issue; Error in the article on oil industry "Embroiled in Oil," published in the January 29 issue.

One of the most crushing blows to both the left and democracy in the United States has been the gradual transformation of the five-station Pacifica Radio network from locally based [...]

Readers of Canadian Dimension may have been surprised to see the Globe and Mail publish a column on April 18 by a graduate student at Queens University that assailed the [...]

UNINDICTED WAR CRIMINAL? Among the many ironies of the NATO war against Yugoslavia was the role of the International Criminal Tribunal and its chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour, elevated by Canadian [...]

The article focuses on the propaganda model, which explained how a series of five structural and ideological filters made editors and journalists oblivious to the comprises with elite interest they routinely made. It states that the model is in distinct contrast to the mainstream explanation of media behavior and performance. It also mentions that propaganda occurs when consistent with the interests of those managing and controlling the filters.

The article explores the "New York Times" newspaper's coverage of Russia and other official enemies of the U.S. from 1917 to 2017, highlighting mainstream media outlets' disappointment over the rise of fake news. Topics include the overthrow of the Guatemalan social democratic government in 1954, the Vietnam War, and the attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy in 1981. Also discussed are Russian President Vladimir Putin's leadership.

Presents letters to the editor concerning politics in the United States. Description of large corporations; Economics of small business; Management of socialized corporations; Capital gains from stock ownership; Acquittal of eight national guardsmen on charges of violating civil rights of Kent State University students; Food price problems; Rise and decline of protest movements; Benefits from protest movements.

This article analyzes the elections recently held in two U.S. military occupied regions of Caribbean basin--El-Salvador and Nicaragua. For cases so antithetically viewed in Washington, different symbols are employed and different criteria are utilized. The March 25 Salvadoran election was sponsored by the United States and was designed to legitimize the rule of the armed forces and associated elite. This formulation allowed a substantial voter turnout to be interpreted as a popular vindication of the military regime and the United States, and their plans for the future. However, in Nicaragua, by contrast, the present leadership is opposed by the United States, and Administration pressure for elections, now set for November 4, has been part of an overall destabilization program.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Open Season on Scientists," which focused on the danger of scientists becoming involved in national decision making; "The Networks on Vietnam," which concluded that television networks have done a poor job of cutting through to the fundamental issues of the war in Vietnam; "Crusade for the Arts in Britain," which suggested that participation in the arts may be an undependable activity for contending with the pressures of leisure in a cybernetic society.

Presents letters to the editor of the periodical concerning issues on politics and government in the U.S. Proposals for economics and finance by Senator Paul H. Douglas; Issues on foreign affairs; Recommendation of punitive action against leaders of other nations who are determined to weaken the U.S. through the so-called Anti-American movement; Issues on poverty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This valuable book provides a great deal of informtion and important insights into the organization, performance, and trends of the world textile industry. One of its main themes is tht [...]

From June 2003 to August 2012, the International Atomic Energy Agency published thirty-eight full written reports on Iran's nuclear program and conducted numerous inspections in the country. Yet although the Agency has never determined that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, Iran has never been able to free itself from the relentless U.S. campaign against its nuclear program. This article shows how the United States has mobilized the multilateral institutions to place Iran's nuclear program on the international stage and kept it there. It also examines the parallel role played by the news media, which have resumed their role of a decade ago when they helped Washington make a fraudulent case for invading Iraq on “weapons of mass destruction” grounds. The essay contends that the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons threat is a U.S. and Israeli propaganda construct intended to mask their own real threat to attack Iran.

Presents several letters to the editor related to political issues in the United States. Discussion on liberalism; Focus on terrorism; Criticism on the author Karlheinz Stockhausen's views on criminal attacks.

Describes the propaganda model as a framework for analyzing and understanding how the mainstream United States media work and why they perform as they do. Propaganda campaigns; Political implications;Mainstream liberalism; Dichotomization of corporate interests.

Asserts that it is a primary function of the mass media in the U.S. to mobilize public support for the special interests that dominate the government and the private sector. Bias in the media arising from the selection of the right-thinking people; Censorship practiced within the media; Propaganda campaigns jointly initiated by the government and the media; Use of media propaganda campaigns in elite interests.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "Is Killing Police No Crime" in the November 1, 1975 issue of the magazine.

Presents letters to the editor related to various political issues in the U.S. Overview of the bill introduced by the Congressional Progressive Caucus to eliminate more than $800 billion in corporate subsidies; Assessment of the Federal government's budgetary policies; Comparison of labor and corporate contributions to legislators.

Presents letters to the editor discussing political issues. Comments on the article, "A Radical's Disenchantment," by David Horowitz.

Presents a letter to the editor referencing an article published in the November 8, 1969 issue.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Soul-Searching on Taxes," which discussed the government expenditures in the Vietnam war; "Highway Murder," which assessed the effects of automobile safety standards on traffic fatalities in 1968; Criticism against the position of a U.S. Senator in the Vietnamese conflict.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of "The New Republic." "The Rattle and the Snake," which discussed relations between the U.S. and China; "Desegregated Housing: Who Pays for the Reformers' Ideal," which discussed living conditions in U.S. ghettoes; Intervention by the U.S. in the Dominican Republic.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including the "Crunch Time for Culture," by Charlotte Gardner in the August 2009 issue, a review of a recording of the masterpieces of George Frideric Handel and Joseph Haydn in the Awards issue, and an update on the closing of the Stokowski Society in the Awards issue.

Focuses on the dispute over the support of the U.S. for bias of mainstream media and intelligentsia in Israel. Guilt of the U.S. over the Holocaust and sympathy with the victims; Reflection of interest and policy on anti-Arab racism; Doubts on the importance of Israeli strategic asset role in explaining the pro-Israel policy.