Welcome to The Leftist Review

Please join our discussion community.

You must log in to your account to leave comments. If you do not have an account, simply register and begin posting comments on articles now. To register, you will need to create a user name and provide a valid email address. Your privacy is guaranteed--your email and information will never be shared. Your password will be sent to your registered email. Thank you!

Member Login
Lost your password?
Not a member yet? Sign Up!

History

Ironic Lady: Margaret Thatcher and Her Friends

By
April 13, 2013
Thatcher with Shah of Iran

It should be remembered that throughout her career, Thatcher was a staunch supporter of many of the world's most brutal regimes, propping up and arming war criminals and dictators in service to Western imperialism, anti-Communism and neoliberal hegemony.
Read More »

From Iraq to Iran: Memories Ignored and Lessons Unlearned

By
March 12, 2013
Iran Iraq

The tactics of collective punishment and threats of military action now leveled against Iran are the same as they were ten years ago against Iraq. Every week, the mainstream media peddles new stories of supposedly nefarious Iranian acts, only to be debunked and discredited after these narratives have irreversibly gained traction.
Read More »

PFC Bradley Manning and the State of America

By
March 9, 2013
http://www.dreamstime.com/-image20064081

What Bradley Manning did in releasing the materials that show war crimes routinely being committed by the U.S. government and the government and military’s systematic lying and hypocrisy, is what every person should do when they learn that crimes are being committed. Manning ought to be lauded as a heroic whistleblower, rather than treated...
Read More »

Zero Dark Thirty: Bigelow’s “Civilized Lunch”

By
December 30, 2012
ZeroDark

When you make a film about the most politically charged event of our times (9/11) and manhunt in history (the pursuit and assassination of bin Laden), how can you truthfully claim that you are not making a political statement? And why would you falsely present how the key piece of evidence was obtained?
Read More »

The Security State

By
November 28, 2012
Security State

Ask yourself, if the Nazi regime had used the Reichstag fire to put into effect Hitler’s Enabling Act, thus destroying democratic government, and the Nazis had actually set the Reichstag fire themselves, what does the imposition of the USA Patriot Act actually say to us about American government?
Read More »

The Innocence of Imperialism

By
September 19, 2012
Demonstration in Egypt

The outrage has been spreading like a storm since September 11, 2012 when the film “The Innocence of Muslims,” an amateurish video that depicts the Prophet Mohammed as a child molester, buffoon, and womanizer, and that was clearly intended to provoke the Islamic world
Read More »

What Is The Meaning Of Labor Day?

By
August 31, 2012
Striking Miners in Colorado

It’s cold most mornings in the Rocky Mountains, especially when you are living in a canvas tent with nothing but a cast iron stove for heat. I reckon a fella sort of gets used to those sorts of things, but it’s most a hardship on the wives and the youngins. It all began in...
Read More »

The Kingfish

By
August 20, 2012
Huey P Long

How often the name of Jesus Christ is commonly bandied about, and for a fictional or faith based character, I suppose that’s all right. I mean, well, Jesus allegedly cast the money changers out of the temple and he healed a few lepers and cured a couple of cases of blindness. He was, after...
Read More »

The Director Of The Opponent’s Fate

By
August 4, 2012
Fate

In 1933, a group of wealthy industrialists plotted to overthrow the government of the United States. Their plan was to raise a private army of disgruntled war veterans a half million strong to force Franklin Roosevelt to accept a “minder” into his cabinet.
Read More »

How This Democracy Of Ours Works

By
April 24, 2012
The Great White Fleet

It is always comforting to read American history. North Americans are always portrayed as the good guys in these narratives. We have this great national model for government and all with grand and dignified institutions. A history filled with giants and legends, slave holders, power brokers and of course, land speculators. But we do...
Read More »



Archive