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March 31, 2023 at 2:35 AM

Why the Main Players Behind the Israeli Protest Movement Are Bringing the Confrontation to a Head

Why the Main Players Behind the Israeli Protest Movement Are Bringing the Confrontation to a Head     Razi Nabulse March 27, 2023Mondoweiss The protests roiling Israel represent a struggle over its future. The traditional elite is in an existential fight to maintain …

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March 31, 2023 at 2:05 AM

About Russian Neo-Imperialism

About Russian Neo-Imperialism     Bernd Gehrke December 1, 2022Against the Current Bernd Gehrke is critical of those in the peace movement and left who dismissed the threat of invasion coming from Russia - a failure to understand the genesis of today’s Russian capita…

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March 31, 2023 at 12:15 AM

New York City Retirees Fight Their Own Unions To Stop Catastrophic Health Care Cuts

New York City Retirees Fight Their Own Unions To Stop Catastrophic Health Care Cuts     Jenny Brown March 10, 2023Labor Notes New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee voted March 9 to scrap some of the best retiree health care coverage in the country. The change wou…

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March 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Staughton Lynd: The Perils of Sainthood

Portside Culture Staughton Lynd: The Perils of Sainthood     Paul Buhle March 29, 2023Portside Staughton Lynd seemed like a personal force almost more than a person within the antiwar movement of the 1960s. My Country Is the World largely and usefully recounts …

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March 30, 2023 at 5:10 AM

Why We Must Defend Against the GOP Plan To Destroy Public Education

Why We Must Defend Against the GOP Plan To Destroy Public Education     Randi Weingarten March 28, 2023Common Dreams Our public schools shouldn't be pawns for politicians' ambitions. Or defunded and destroyed by ideologues. We are at a crossroads: Fear and division, …

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March 30, 2023 at 4:40 AM

‘They’re Killing Us’: Anger Grows After Deadly Fire at Mexican Migrant Center

‘They’re Killing Us’: Anger Grows After Deadly Fire at Mexican Migrant Center     Marisol Chávez March 29, 2023The Guardian Protesters call for justice as blaze at detention facility in Ciudad Juárez highlights tough US immigration policies Mexico: calls for j…

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March 30, 2023 at 4:30 AM

How American Cultural Assumptions Keep Us From Having Universal Health Care

How American Cultural Assumptions Keep Us From Having Universal Health Care     Nick Licata March 29, 2023Counterpunch Those beliefs are not evil but are stopping our healthcare system from being universally accessible to all Americans. Consequently, let’s examine ho…

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March 30, 2023 at 4:15 AM

We’re About To Find Out How Far the Supreme Court Will Go To Arm America

We’re About To Find Out How Far the Supreme Court Will Go To Arm America     Linda Greenhouse March 29, 2023The New York Times The court is being asked to overturn an Appeals Court decision that would allow domestic abusers to possess firearms despite the fact that "…

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March 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Untold Story of Capitalism

Portside Culture The Untold Story of Capitalism     Joel Wendland-Liu March 10, 2023Marx & Philosophy Review of Books This book, writes reviewer Wendland-Liu, shifts the geographic focus of "origins of capitalism" debates from Europe "to the motion, spaces,…

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March 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – March 29, 2023

Global Left Midweek – March 29, 2023     March 29, 2023xxxxxx Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements ,   La Via Campesina: Peasants Organize Worldwide “Macron Must Fall” Unions Meet on Haiti Questions…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

No Country for Nuclear Madmen

No Country for Nuclear Madmen     Norman Solomon March 27, 2023Common Dreams Everything that can be done must done to avert global nuclear annihilation. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, says he struck a deal with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko …

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March 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

America Is in a Disgraced Class of Its Own

America Is in a Disgraced Class of Its Own     Matthew Desmond March 16, 2023The New York Times The United States has a poverty problem. , Photo illustration by Guillem Casasus; photograph by Javier Zayas Photography   The United States has a poverty pro…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

There Is Power in a Pantry

There Is Power in a Pantry     Kim Kelly March 24, 2023In These Times - Labor Meet the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history. Connie Jones, Haeden Wright and Cheri Goodwin in the pantry that kept the Warrior Met strike going for nearly tw…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 28, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 28, 2023     March 28, 2023xxxxxx Apocalypse is the new normal , Clay Jones, claytoonz.com   Electeds Fight GOP Book Banning Conservationists Sue Biden Over Willow Drilling State Takeover of Houston Schools A Wels…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Why Republicans Abandoned Their Economic Message

Why Republicans Abandoned Their Economic Message     Alex Shephard March 28, 2023The New Republic The GOP used to do its wonky best to make the case that it was the party of the pocketbook. But it’s all wokeness, all the time now. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis…

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March 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Thelonius Monk - The Fraught Dance Between Artist and Interviewer in “Rewind & Play"

Portside Culture Thelonius Monk - The Fraught Dance Between Artist and Interviewer in “Rewind & Play"     Harmony Holiday March 18, 2023The New Yorker A new documentary by Alain Gomis turns footage from an interview with Thelonious Monk into a commentary on…

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March 28, 2023 at 3:45 AM

Beaten, Bombed and Buried

Beaten, Bombed and Buried     Don Kimball March 17, 2023Global Justice Ecology Project The decades-long persecution of Forest Defenders Tortuguita Memorial at entrance to Weelaunee Forest , Photo: Don Kimball   On January 18, Southeast of Atlanta’s downt…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:55 AM

First Graders Not Allowed To Sing ‘Controversial’ Dolly Parton Song About Acceptance

First Graders Not Allowed To Sing ‘Controversial’ Dolly Parton Song About Acceptance     Anya Zoledziowski March 27, 2023Vice The song includes lyrics like “wouldn't it be nice to live in paradise. Where we're free to be exactly who we are.” dolly parton en am…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:45 AM

Workers of Color Made Up 100% of Union Growth in 2022

Workers of Color Made Up 100% of Union Growth in 2022     Prem Thakker March 24, 2023New Republic Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the number of unionized workers in the United States increased by 200,000 from 2021 to 2022. And that growth c…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Silent No More

Silent No More     Stewart Acuff March 19, 2023Stansbury Forum It is the families and friends of men who are beaten to death behind bars who suffer the longest. It is the deepest most evil corruption that covers and enables cruelty and torture unto death. , …

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March 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Workers Behind Two Popular Food Network Shows Are Unionizing

Portside Culture The Workers Behind Two Popular Food Network Shows Are Unionizing     Amy McCarthy March 20, 2023Eater Writers, producers, stylists, and other workers on “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and “The Kitchen” are forming a union with the Writers Guild of…

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March 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Paul Vallas Gave Wall Street Massive Amounts of Money As Chicago Schools CEO

Paul Vallas Gave Wall Street Massive Amounts of Money As Chicago Schools CEO     Matthew Cunningham-Cook March 24, 2023Jacobin Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas helped create a financial disaster as head of Chicago Public Schools, making bond deals worth $666 mil…

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March 27, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Sunday Science: Obsidian Cliff – Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years

Sunday Science: Obsidian Cliff – Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years     Jim Robbins March 20, 2023New York Times X-ray technology has allowed researchers a glimpse at the reaches of the Yellowstone landmark’s prized stone and its importance to Indigenous …

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March 27, 2023 at 5:40 AM

Election-Denying Donors Pour Millions Into Key Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Election-Denying Donors Pour Millions Into Key Wisconsin Supreme Court Race     Alice Herman March 14, 2023The Guardian ‘An organized group of insurrectionists’ is seeking to swing a vote with big implications for voting rights, redistricting and abortion Dani…

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March 27, 2023 at 5:00 AM

A Big Miss on Drug Prices

A Big Miss on Drug Prices     David Dayen March 22, 2023The American Prospect President Biden’s NIH rejects a petition to seize the patent of an unaffordable prescription drug. The Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health h…

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March 27, 2023 at 4:35 AM

Document Shows Regulators Knew of SVB Risk Five Years Ago

Document Shows Regulators Knew of SVB Risk Five Years Ago     David Sirota, Julia Rock March 20, 2023The Lever Bank overseers published a 2018 report with a major red flag about Silicon Valley Bank — and then they ignored it. Security guards let individuals en…

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March 27, 2023 at 4:15 AM

The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel

The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel     James Bamford March 23, 2023The Nation While US media fixated on Russian interference in the 2016 election, an Israeli secret agent’s campaign to influence the outcome went unreported. , Illustration by Brian Stau…

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March 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Donald Glover’s Swarm Is Another Piece of Fandom Media That Dehumanizes Black Women

Portside Culture Donald Glover’s Swarm Is Another Piece of Fandom Media That Dehumanizes Black Women     STITCH March 23, 2023Teen Vogue If you’ve ever been in a fandom space — yes, even stan Twitter — the last thing a Black woman gets away with is even the hin…

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March 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Strains Emerge Inside the Union That Beat Amazon

Strains Emerge Inside the Union That Beat Amazon     Noam Scheiber March 21, 2023New York Times Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict. Christian Smalls, right, the Amazo…

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March 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How Cigna Saves Millions

How Cigna Saves Millions     Patrick Rucker, Maya Miller and David Armstrong March 25, 2023ProPublica Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them , Cigna   When a stubborn pain in Nick van Terheyden’s bones would not subside, his doctor had a hunch wh…

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March 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics

Beyond Fatalism: Renewing Working-Class Politics     Sam Gindin March 19, 2023Socialist Project: The Bullet Working people never stopped fighting as neoliberalism was imposed. Bouts of resistance kept resurfacing, but remained localized and politically narrow. In the…

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March 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dems and the Folly of Micromanaging the Trump Spectacle

Dems and the Folly of Micromanaging the Trump Spectacle     Josh Marshall March 20, 2023Talking Points Memo What is going to stop ex-President Trump from returning to the White House is voters refusing to vote for him. Indictments and prosecutions can play a role in …

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March 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Gideon v. Wainwright Was a Landmark Decision, but Women Invented the Idea of the Public Defender

Gideon v. Wainwright Was a Landmark Decision, but Women Invented the Idea of the Public Defender     Emily Galvin-Almanza March 17, 2023Teen Vogue When we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Gideon ruling this year — recognizing the right to counsel conferred by Gi…

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March 25, 2023 at 3:00 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 24, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | March 24, 2023     March 24, 2023xxxxxx Jordan Klepper Meets Trump Arrest Protesters. De La Soul and The Roots: Stakes Is High. Western Weapons Transform the War in Ukraine. Nuclear Fusion: Who'll Be First To Make It Work? "I Almost Ended My Life…

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March 25, 2023 at 1:20 AM

The Government Hasn’t Justified a TikTok Ban

The Government Hasn’t Justified a TikTok Ban     Adam Schwartz and Davide Greene March 16, 2023Electronic Frontier Foundation We are troubled by growing demands for restrictions on TikTok. Before taking such a drastic step, the government must come forward with evide…

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March 25, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Reflections on My Time in Kyiv

Reflections on My Time in Kyiv     Lachlan Hyatt March 20, 2023The Indypendent A skeptic of U.S. foreign policy struggles with how to be anti-imperialist and pro-Ukraine at the same time. Citizens organize a defense of Kyiv,   TALLINN, ESTONIA — For the …

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March 25, 2023 at 12:50 AM

LA Teachers Make Good Their Promise To Support Community Schools

LA Teachers Make Good Their Promise To Support Community Schools     Jeff Bryant March 24, 2023Independent Media Institute “We knew the community schools idea would better address what our students need.” Even though implementations are still in their early phases, t…

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March 25, 2023 at 12:30 AM

How NC GOP Completely Changed Its Mind on Medicaid Expansion

How NC GOP Completely Changed Its Mind on Medicaid Expansion     Jonathan Cohn March 24, 2023Huffington Post Republicans in North Carolina used to be extremely skeptical of offering the health care program to more low-income residents. That officially changed this we…

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March 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Jesus in America

Portside Culture Jesus in America     H.C. Palmer March 24, 2023 When the newly elected Governor of Oklahoma committed his state to Christian nationalism, the poet and war veteran H.C. Palmer raises some objections to such gestures. ,   Jesus in Am…

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March 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

A ‘Rocking Chair Rebellion’: Seniors Call on Banks To Dump Big Oil

A ‘Rocking Chair Rebellion’: Seniors Call on Banks To Dump Big Oil     Cara Buckley March 21, 2023New York Times Older climate activists gathered in on hundred cities around the country for a day of action targeting banks that finance fossil fuel projects. New organi…

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March 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

What Would King Say About Iraq War

What Would King Say About Iraq War     Michael Honey January 16, 2003Seattle Post-Intelligencer This week marks 20 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq. Tens of millions demonstrated worldwide to try to stop it. On Martin Luther King holiday weekend, we thought back to …

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March 24, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Eject the Left-Right Alliance Against Ukraine

Eject the Left-Right Alliance Against Ukraine     Michael Kazin March 7, 2023Dissent Magazine If U.S. leftists take seriously their commitment to self-rule and loathing of foreign aggression, they should shed their ambivalence about supporting Ukraine. The “Ra…

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March 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Strike at the New School Spawned a Radical Coalition That’s Still Going Strong

Strike at the New School Spawned a Radical Coalition That’s Still Going Strong     Miles Hamberg March 16, 2023Truthout A post-strike coalition at The New School has dreams of transforming the university and higher education more broadly. Students begin their …

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March 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Mar. 23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Bank Failures, Deregulation and Fed-Raising Interest Rates; He Illegal Invasion of Iraq; Slash Pentagon Budget; Jim Crow South; New Day for UAW; Letters From Langston; US Policy and Taiwan; How Workers Win

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March 23, 2023 at 5:30 AM

Starbucks Workers at Over 100 US Stores Walk Out Ahead of Shareholder Meeting

Starbucks Workers at Over 100 US Stores Walk Out Ahead of Shareholder Meeting     Michael Sainato March 22, 2023The Guardian The actions were launched in response to Starbucks’ aggressive anti-union efforts against worker organizing, which have included allegations o…

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March 23, 2023 at 5:15 AM

Inside a Brooklyn School Teaching the Course That Florida Banned

Inside a Brooklyn School Teaching the Course That Florida Banned     Troy Closson March 22, 2023The New York Times Students in the course say it has been one of the most valuable experiences of their school years, because it has allowed them to focus on Black life an…

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March 23, 2023 at 5:00 AM

For Palestinians, Israel’s ‘Fight To Protect Democracy’ Is Bitterly Surreal

For Palestinians, Israel’s ‘Fight To Protect Democracy’ Is Bitterly Surreal     George Bisharat and Jamil Dakwar March 21, 2023Haaretz You simply cannot call a state 'democratic' that legalizes privileges for Jews and denies equality and right to self-determination f…

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March 23, 2023 at 4:45 AM

‘Back to One Meal a Day’: SNAP Benefits Drop As Food Prices Climb

‘Back to One Meal a Day’: SNAP Benefits Drop As Food Prices Climb     Lauren Hodges March 17, 2023NPR "I don't think people understand how much impact this relief had. I was finally able to feed my child without the stress, without the worry, or the tears." , …

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March 23, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Occult Features of Anarchism

Portside Culture Occult Features of Anarchism     Bethan Johnson July 19, 2019LSE Review of Books Reviewer Johnson calls this book "a rich work that forces readers to confront questions about the nature of anarchism, conspiracy theories and knowledge." ,…

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March 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – March 22, 2023

Global Left Midweek – March 22, 2023     March 22, 2023xxxxxx A planet haunted by democratic upheavals “The toppling of the Vendome Column” by Paris communards (16 May 1871). Woodcut, 1872, coloured later. Credit, Berlin, Sammlung Archiv für Kunst und Geschich…

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