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June 28, 2023 at 1:35 AM

IMF Says Corporate Profiteering Caused Nearly Half of Europe’s Recent Inflation Surge

IMF Says Corporate Profiteering Caused Nearly Half of Europe’s Recent Inflation Surge     Jake Johnson June 27, 2023Common Dreams "Companies increased prices by more than spiking costs of imported energy," said economists with the International Monetary Fund. …
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June 28, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Facing Extinction, Tuvalu Considers the Digital Clone of a Country

Facing Extinction, Tuvalu Considers the Digital Clone of a Country     Kalolaine Fainu June 27, 2023The Guardian As the climate emergency threatens its existence, the tiny Pacific nation is not only trying to reclaim physical land but create a ‘twin’ to survive in fu…
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June 28, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Lula Faces Powerful Opposition As He Seeks To Protect the Amazon and Recognize Indigenous Rights

Lula Faces Powerful Opposition As He Seeks To Protect the Amazon and Recognize Indigenous Rights     Farai Shawn Matiashe June 27, 2023New Lines Magazine Brazil’s president is determined to save his country’s rainforest but agribusiness and its political supporters …
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June 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – June 27, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – June 27, 2023     June 27, 2023xxxxxx Leftys look at AI, the writers' strike ties up the entertainment market, and news gets strip-mined Hollywood writers hit the bricks. Credit, Gilbert Flores for Variety   What the Papers Say Abo…
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June 27, 2023 at 6:20 AM

‘Change Is Possible’: How Campaigners Are Using Deep Canvassing To Build a Just Future

‘Change Is Possible’: How Campaigners Are Using Deep Canvassing To Build a Just Future     Jake Johnson June 26, 2023Common Dreams "Beliefs are not fixed," said Eboni Taggart, training manager at the Deep Canvass Institute. "We don't want to write people off as unrea…
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June 27, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 27–July 3

This Week in People’s History, June 27–July 3     xxxxxx International law? What's that? in 1986. First marches for Gay Pride in 1970. Saving a bridge in 1923. Torturers unwelcome in 1980. Bronx hospital patients first in 1970. Guantanamo opens in 1903. Gettysburg in…
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June 27, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Why Settler Pogroms Are Now Sweeping the West Bank

Why Settler Pogroms Are Now Sweeping the West Bank     Menachem Klein June 26, 2023962 Magazine Frustrated at the military's pushback to their pogroms, settlers will continue upholding Jewish supremacy by any means necessary. A field burns amid a series of Isr…
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June 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Genetically Edited Pork Has Entered the Food Supply

Portside Culture Genetically Edited Pork Has Entered the Food Supply     Jesse Hirsch May 18, 2023Ambrook Research Newsletter Washington State University used CRISPR technology to produce pigs that were sold in sausage form. Is this a one-off, or a sign of thin…
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June 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Prigozhin’s Coup Attempt Exposes Putin’s Vulnerability

Prigozhin’s Coup Attempt Exposes Putin’s Vulnerability     Maxim Trudolyubov June 25, 2023Me The war has gradually revealed Putin to be an ’emperor with no clothes,’ which even his inner circle will soon be forced to admit Putin declares Prigozhin, his protégé…
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June 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Have Billionaires Outfitted Justices With Golden Handcuffs To Stop “Liberal Drift”?

Have Billionaires Outfitted Justices With Golden Handcuffs To Stop “Liberal Drift”?     Thom Hartman June 22, 2023The Hartmann Report The GOP & the billionaires who fund them learned their lesson. Never again would they allow a rightwing justice to stray beyond t…
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June 26, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Black Mirror’s Big AI Episode Has the Wrong Villain

Portside Culture Black Mirror’s Big AI Episode Has the Wrong Villain     Rebecca Ackermann June 23, 2023Vox You’re okay, Computer — it’s the corporations that aren’t. Joan (Annie Murphy) isn’t nearly as awful as a computer that steals lives., Nick Wall/N…
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June 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Go Ahead, Try To Explain Milk

Go Ahead, Try To Explain Milk     Katherine J. Wu June 22, 2023The Atlantic No one can define it, much less fully replicate it. , Miya, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons   If an alien life form landed on Earth tomorrow and called up some of the planet’…
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June 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

No Labels Declines To Reveal Just Who Is Funding Its Third Party Bid

No Labels Declines To Reveal Just Who Is Funding Its Third Party Bid     Heidi Przybyla and Shia Kapos June 23, 2023Politico The group isn’t required under law to disclose its donors even as it takes on the look of a political party While No Labels has not act…
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June 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Future of the Labor-Climate Alliance

The Future of the Labor-Climate Alliance     J. Mijin Cha June 15, 2023Dissent Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers. , John Englart   President Joe Biden has emphasized the need for climate action since he was o…
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June 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster

The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster     Andrew Perez, Nick Byron Campbell June 21, 2023The Lever Now that Biden and Congress have ended pandemic protections, nearly a million have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons so far — and many more will. President…
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June 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Long War on Black Studies

The Long War on Black Studies     Robin D. G. Kelley June 17, 2023New York Review It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle. , Cliff Joseph: Blackboard, 1969   We …
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June 25, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Executive Trading in Health Care Stocks

Executive Trading in Health Care Stocks     Ellis Simani and Robert Faturechi June 22, 2023ProPublica Secret IRS records reveal dozens of highly fortuitous biotech and health care trades. One executive bought shares in a corporate partner just before a sale, and an i…
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June 25, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Death of “Deliverism”

The Death of “Deliverism”     Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, Harry Hanbury June 22, 2023Democracy This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, Novemb…
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June 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Modern Form of Colonialism: Climate Change

The Modern Form of Colonialism: Climate Change     Tapti Sen June 15, 2023Inequality.org We praise charity efforts to combat climate change in countries like Bangladesh as generous, without critiquing why they are made necessary in the first place. ,   I…
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June 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Kurt Vonnegut Warned Us About the Dangers of Automation

Kurt Vonnegut Warned Us About the Dangers of Automation     David H. Price June 21, 2023The Progressive The greatest immediate risk presented to humanity by AI is not robotic control of military weapons, but its application within the logic of capitalism—an alignmen…
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June 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Cornel West: The Primaries Call

Cornel West: The Primaries Call     Tom Gallagher June 22, 2023Stansbury Forum Hopefully, West’s supporters will prevail upon him to undertake his fight in the most effective arena that currently exists, where the greatest light-to-heat potential lies – the primaries…
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June 24, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Rosenberg Executions: Let the Full Truth Be Known

Rosenberg Executions: Let the Full Truth Be Known     Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol June 16, 2023Just Security We call on Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to follow her own wise counsel and direct the NSA and the National Archives to open all fil…
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June 24, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | June 23, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | June 23, 2023     June 23, 2023xxxxxx 'Elect Clowns, Expect a Circus.' The Case for a 4-Day Work Week | Juliet Schor. Republican Grifting Exposed, Chief Justice John Roberts Confronted. 'Re-Indicted' - A Parody | Emma's Revolution. Former Cop's …
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June 24, 2023 at 12:15 AM

RIP Jim Brown, Hero and Monster

RIP Jim Brown, Hero and Monster     TOMGRAM Robert Lipsyte June 22, 2023TomDispatch The angry sports star who was a milestone between Jack Johnson and Brittney Griner Jim Brown, by Erik Drost (CC BY 2.0 / Flickr)   Jim Brown was a monster, not only as a …
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June 24, 2023 at 12:10 AM

MAGA Authoritarian Rule or Third Reconstruction?

MAGA Authoritarian Rule or Third Reconstruction?     Max Elbaum June 20, 2023Convergence Magazine An authoritarian bloc with a fascist core is driving for control of all branches of the federal government; the rest is detail. ,   Thirty years after its p…
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June 24, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Survey: Belief in God Not Necessary To Be Moral

Survey: Belief in God Not Necessary To Be Moral     Janell Fetterolf and Sarah Austin April 20, 2023Pew Research In European and North American countries, at least six-in-ten respondents believe that it is not necessary to believe in God in order to be moral. Respons…
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June 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Popular Vote

Portside Culture The Popular Vote     Star Black January 1, 2019Popular Vote What really do we mean by the “popular vote”? The poet Star Black sees the consequences of misunderstanding. ,   The Popular Vote By Star Black Glass-ceiling balloons, w…
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June 23, 2023 at 2:25 AM

A Teamsters Strike Against UPS Could Remake the Union Movement for the Better

A Teamsters Strike Against UPS Could Remake the Union Movement for the Better     Michael Hiltzik June 21, 2023Los Angeles Times Teamsters have overwhelmingly voted to strike July 31. The vote doesn’t mean that a walkout is inevitable. The vote is a signal UPS manage…
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June 23, 2023 at 2:05 AM

Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West

Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West     Patrick Bigger and Sara Nelson May 1, 2023Dissent Magazine Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives. Combatting the rising right…
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June 23, 2023 at 1:50 AM

GOP Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election

GOP Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election     Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel June 19, 2023New York Times A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccin…
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June 23, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Ecuador’s Divided Electoral Landscape

Ecuador’s Divided Electoral Landscape     Marc Becker June 16, 2023NACLA Facing certain impeachment, on May 17 Ecuador's deeply unpopular rightwing president Guillermo Lasso pulled the plug and dissolved the National Assembly, calling for new elections. Enviro…
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June 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 22, 2023 – Reader Comments: Daniel Ellsberg; Winning Working Class Voters; RFK, Jr.; Mental Health Crisis; Unhoused; Chile; Sudan; National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Turns 50; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – June 22, 2023 – Reader Comments: Daniel Ellsberg; Winning Working Class Voters; RFK, Jr.; Mental Health Crisis; Unhoused; Chile; Sudan; National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression Turns 50; Cartoons; More…     June 22, 2023xxxxxx Reader Comm…
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June 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Celebrating the Leadership and Comradeship of Charlene Mitchell

Portside Culture Celebrating the Leadership and Comradeship of Charlene Mitchell     William P. Jones June 17, 2023Portside “People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions a…
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June 22, 2023 at 3:55 AM

Abolition As Method

Portside Culture Abolition As Method     Kay Gabriel October 1, 2022Dissent Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used. ,   Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation Ruth Wilson Gilmore Verso ISBN: 9781839761713 The long h…
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June 22, 2023 at 2:15 AM

Child Care Disruptions Expected As Record Funding Nears an End

Child Care Disruptions Expected As Record Funding Nears an End     Claire Cain Miller, Alicia Parlapiano and Madeleine Ngo June 21, 2023New York Times Three million children could be affected as the largest investment in child care in U.S. history expires in Septembe…
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June 22, 2023 at 2:00 AM

This Teacher Couldn’t Talk About Systemic Racism in Class Because the GOP Banned It

This Teacher Couldn’t Talk About Systemic Racism in Class Because the GOP Banned It     Nathalie Baptiste June 20, 2023Huff Post South Carolina Republicans have banned teaching about topics like systemic racism — and students have played a part in it. Ta-Nehis…
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June 22, 2023 at 1:30 AM

Who’s Unhoused in California? Largest Study in Decades Upends Myths

Who’s Unhoused in California? Largest Study in Decades Upends Myths     Sam Levin June 20, 2023The Guardian Most unhoused people are from in state and desire to find housing, while Black and older people are disproportionately affected Homeless encampment in L…
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June 22, 2023 at 1:15 AM

Remembering Gus Newport, a Progressive Titan

Remembering Gus Newport, a Progressive Titan     Chuck Idelson June 20, 2023Common Dreams The former Berkeley mayor's record of accomplishments from civil rights activism to groundbreaking political initiatives to far-sighted community economic development programs t…
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June 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Euro Focus

Global Left Midweek – Euro Focus     June 21, 2023xxxxxx Europe’s left movements and parties are facing tougher challenges Protesters demonstrate in St. Petersburg, Russia, against military actions in Ukraine in February 2022. Credit, VALYA EGORSHIN / NURPHOTO…
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June 21, 2023 at 12:45 AM

‘A True Scandal, and Should Be Covered As Such’: Outrage Over Medicaid Purge Grows

‘A True Scandal, and Should Be Covered As Such’: Outrage Over Medicaid Purge Grows     Jake Johnson June 20, 2023Common Dreams "Pausing disenrollment was a tremendous act of social welfare; restarting it is criminal," tweeted a single-payer advocate who helps people …
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June 21, 2023 at 12:45 AM

The White House’s Strategic Plan on Antisemitism Is Fatally Flawed

The White House’s Strategic Plan on Antisemitism Is Fatally Flawed     Donna Nevel June 16, 2023Truthout Those concerned with antisemitism must understand what it truly means to challenge it as part of movements for justice. President Joe Biden departs a celeb…
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June 21, 2023 at 12:45 AM

How New York’s Democratic Socialists Brought Unions Around to Public Renewables

How New York’s Democratic Socialists Brought Unions Around to Public Renewables     Luca GoldMansour June 19, 2023The American Prospect State lawmakers worked hard to convince utilities and construction union members that they would not end up on the chopping block. …
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June 21, 2023 at 12:40 AM

Can Canada Contain Conflagration?

Can Canada Contain Conflagration?     Steve Pyne June 18, 2023History News Network The serial ice ages that erased and repopulated Canada like a palimpsest have yielded to a fire age that is rewriting history with flame. An interglacial period has morphed into an epo…
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June 21, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 20, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 20, 2023     June 20, 2023xxxxxx Rising tide in Capital’s sewage drains , Alamy   Morale in the Workplace Fear, Violence and MAGA The Fight Over Education Biden’s Faulty Take on Antisemitism Onward Christian Soldie…
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June 20, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Coalition Convenes in DC To Fight ‘American Death Sentence’ of Poverty

Coalition Convenes in DC To Fight ‘American Death Sentence’ of Poverty     Jake Johnson June 19, 2023Common Dreams "Until our nation's leaders invest the great riches of this nation in ensuring equal justice for all, beginning with the poor and low-wealth of this nat…
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June 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 20 . . .

This Week in People’s History, June 20 . . .     xxxxxx CIA impunity in 1988. U.S. imperialism's baby steps in 1898. Free speech for Nazis in 1978. U.S. responsibility for Vietnam War in 1971. Smallpox-infected presents in 1763. Voting wrongs, not rights, in 2013. Ha…
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June 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy

Portside Culture Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy     Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall May 23, 2023Perspectives on History: the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association The process of examining recipes and cooking instills concepts more deeply than traditiona…
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June 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

From Colonialism to Fascism: A History of Spain’s Elite Forces

From Colonialism to Fascism: A History of Spain’s Elite Forces     Uma Arruga i López May 21, 2023Red Pepper Fascism is, arguably, the application of colonial violence to the imperial core. Franco implemented what he had learnt during the colonial conflict in the civ…
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June 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

What Juneteenth Looks Like for Prisoners

What Juneteenth Looks Like for Prisoners     Antoine Davis and Darrell Jackson June 16, 2023Waging Nonviolence As Black men in prison, we live the tension between celebrating the abolition of slavery and struggling inside the system that replaced it. Prison ba…
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June 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press

A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press     Ralph Engelman, Carey Shenkman January 3, 2023Truthdig How the Espionage Act of 1917 is the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. …
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