№ 2026.Jul.11-004

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Trump's War, and Killing to the Rhythm of the Stock Market

Alexander Zevin ｜ Reading by Reading by Editor

A man who came to power on "no more stupid wars" has launched the war against Iran that the neoconservatives always dreamed of. In NLR 158, Zevin sets this war back into history — from the farce of Napoleon III to the cautionary precedents of the two Gulf Wars, from the myth of air power to market manipulation become reason of state.

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№ 2026.Jul.11-001

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Capitalism's Dead End, and Two Attempts to Crawl Out of It

Prabhat Patnaik ｜ Reading by Reading by Editor

In Monthly Review, Patnaik renders a two-sided diagnosis of capitalism's current crisis: neoliberalism has manufactured a dead end of stagnation, and every exit is sealed off by finance capital. Neo-fascism is one symptom; Trump's "re-colonization" is another — neither solves anything, but both lay bare a deeper structural predicament.

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