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Anbar Awakes: The Story of the Iraqi Insurgency (August-September 2006)

Continuing a serialized account of the Iraqi insurgency, Rob Ashlar covers a critical turning point in the Iraqi Insurgency between August and September 2006, tracking the zenith of the Mujahidin Shura Council (MSC) / Al Qaida in Iraq (AQI) and the subsequent tribal backlash that birthed the Sahawat movement. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

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The Catechism for American Power

Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power.

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We join RK to discuss several facets of the electric grid.

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The Comfort of Conspiracy: A Review of "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"

Scott Patrick argues that Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism substitutes class analysis with conspiracy-focused explanation in its attempt to understand accommodation to imperialism among Marxist intellectuals.

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Against Civil Society: A Review of Anton Jäger’s 'Hyperpolitics'

Julian Assele reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, finding fault in a conception of civil society that implicitly takes it as a neutral field of conflict rather than a weapon in class struggle used by capital to discipline racialized surplus labor.

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Letter: Why Solar Electrification Means an Energy Transition

May 18, 2026

“In their recent article Energy, Ecology, and the 'Transition': Why Logistics is a Class Question Foppe de Haan suggests that talk of an energy “transition” is a sort …”

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Letter: What is wrong with the U.S.-Israel relations?

May 9, 2026

“From all the countries in this world, there is one that maintains a relationship with the United States that is utterly unique. It is Israel. Pundits in the …”

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Letter: The Meaning of China Debates

May 6, 2026

“Cosmonaut's recent article Toward a Marxist State Theory of the Socialist Market Economy is a welcome addition to the debates on China. While my perspective roughly coincides with …”

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