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November 6, 2023 at 7:55 AM

The Nazis’ First Try

The Nazis’ First Try     Mark Jones November 3, 2023Project Syndicate A century after Adolf Hitler's first attempt to seize power in Germany by force, it is worth remembering the economic and political conditions that gave the Nazis momentum in the first place. …

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November 6, 2023 at 7:30 AM

The World Grapples With How To Regulate Artificial Intelligence

The World Grapples With How To Regulate Artificial Intelligence     Mathew Ingram November 2, 2023Columbia Journalism Review It’s been a big week for AI regulation—or at least, the idea of it. When it comes down to it, though, the US, the UK, and the EU are taking di…

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November 6, 2023 at 7:15 AM

If Graffiti Changed Anything, It Would Be Illegal

If Graffiti Changed Anything, It Would Be Illegal     Ursula Mindermann October 19, 2023This Week in Palestine As (graffiti) art can criticize and shake things up, it is an important tool to educate people about Palestine and the occupation. , Photographs cour…

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November 6, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Gen v Was Always Much More Than a Boys Spinoff. Its Season Finale Proved That.

Portside Culture Gen v Was Always Much More Than a Boys Spinoff. Its Season Finale Proved That.     Alex Abad-Santos November 3, 2023Vox Gen V’s season-long satire of college sports, superheroes, and capitalism comes to a wicked end. Even with their amazing pow…

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November 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How Many Workers Participate in Retirement Plans?

How Many Workers Participate in Retirement Plans?     Pension Rights Center October 23, 2023Pension Rights Center Only 11 percent of private sector workers are in real pension plans. , Investmentu   Annual figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics help…

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November 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Tackling the Problem of ‘Captive Audience’ Meetings

Tackling the Problem of ‘Captive Audience’ Meetings     Daniel Perez and Jennifer Sherer October 24, 2023Economic Policy Institute How states are stepping up to protect workers’ rights and freedoms , The Valley Labor Report   Political and religious coer…

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November 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

School Board Elections Could Make (or Break) Our Democracy

School Board Elections Could Make (or Break) Our Democracy     Julie Marsh, Miguel Casar Rodriguez, Pedro Noguera November 1, 2023The Progressive Attacks on school boards are part of a strategic, deliberate, and well-funded effort to erode public schools and advance…

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November 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Forest Management: Let’s Reclaim Our Intentions

Forest Management: Let’s Reclaim Our Intentions     Sarah Hyden November 3, 2023CounterPunch With the warming and drying climate, and with a multitude of other stresses on forest ecosystems, the best course is less is more — much less. We cannot actually fix ecosyste…

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November 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Israel-Palestine Crisis Has ‘Reached an Unprecedented Level of Dehumanisation’

Israel-Palestine Crisis Has ‘Reached an Unprecedented Level of Dehumanisation’     Francesca Albanese October 29, 2023UN News The occupation has been the vehicle to colonise, brutalise, arbitrarily arrest, detain and carry out summary executions against Palestinians.…

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November 4, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | November 3, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | November 3, 2023     November 3, 2023xxxxxx Major Update in Trial To Disqualify Trump. Deep Fakes Are About To Change Everything. Gaza: Congress Must Act | Bernie Sanders. Hasan Minhaj: My Response to the New Yorker Article. State Dept Official E…

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November 4, 2023 at 12:05 AM

White Nationalists Are Capitalizing on the Gaza Crisis

White Nationalists Are Capitalizing on the Gaza Crisis     Shane Burley November 1, 2023Waging Nonviolence White nationalists are attempting to hijack Israel’s escalating war to draw new recruits and push their antisemitic and Islamophobic narratives. Activist…

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November 4, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy

The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy     Rogé Karma October 30, 2023The Atlantic Private equity has made one-fifth of the market effectively invisible to investors, the media, and regulators. Wall Street Bull, by thenails (licensed under CC BY 2.0…

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November 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Invisible Slaughter of Palestinian Children

The Invisible Slaughter of Palestinian Children     Charles Hirschkind November 3, 2023Informed Comment According to the charity Save the Children, “More children have been killed in the Gaza Strip over the last three weeks than in every other armed conflict annually…

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November 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A ‘Big Whack’ Formed the Moon and Left Traces Deep in Earth, a Study Suggests

A ‘Big Whack’ Formed the Moon and Left Traces Deep in Earth, a Study Suggests     Kenneth Chang November 1, 2023New York Times The Moon is believed to have been blasted from the Earth in a collision with a wannabe planet called Theia. Now evidence of that event has …

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November 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Water

Portside Culture Water     Melanie Tafejian September 30, 2023Nimrod International Journal Another bombing, writes Poet Melanie Tafejian, “Ten people died./ Seven of them children….” Another mistake. ,   Water By Melanie Tafejian On the radio: a b…

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November 3, 2023 at 12:10 AM

When ‘Never Again’ Becomes a War Cry

When ‘Never Again’ Becomes a War Cry     Natasha Roth-Rowland October 28, 2023+972 Magazine In an Israeli war that has been retrofitted onto a Holocaust template, it is obscene that a plea to stop further killing is now read as moral failure. A convoy of Israe…

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November 3, 2023 at 12:05 AM

UAW Strikers Have Scored a Historic, Transformative Victory

UAW Strikers Have Scored a Historic, Transformative Victory     Nelson Lichtenstein November 1, 2023Jacobin With its successful strike, UAW broke with decades of concessions, won on pay and workplace democracy, and launched a new national labor leader. There’s much m…

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November 3, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Past Lies About War in the Middle East Are Getting in the Way of the Truth Today

Past Lies About War in the Middle East Are Getting in the Way of the Truth Today     Zeynep Tufekci October 31, 2023New York Times A former permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations said he was very puzzled by the constant concern which the world is sh…

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November 3, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Sits Down With the Nation

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Sits Down With the Nation     D.D. Guttenplan and Katrina Vanden Heuvel October 28, 2023The Nation For the first time in history, the president of Cuba sits down with a US outlet to share his thoughts on the future of Cuban socialism…

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November 3, 2023 at 12:00 AM

One Person’s Terrorist? Reflections on Zohra Drif’s Memoir of the Algerian Revolution

Portside Culture One Person’s Terrorist? Reflections on Zohra Drif’s Memoir of the Algerian Revolution     Bill Fletcher Jr. February 2, 2018The Nation Written nearly six years ago about the brutal French colonial suppression of the Algerian population. Is the …

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November 3, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Nov. 2, 2023 – Reader Comments: Israel-Gaza War – Ceasefire, Stop the Bombing, Free the Hostages; Stop Ethnic Cleansing; Staggering Oil Profits; Bela Lugosi; Artists Call for Ceasefire Now; Workers Unite Film Festival

Tidbits – Nov. 2, 2023 – Reader Comments: Israel-Gaza War – Ceasefire, Stop the Bombing, Free the Hostages; Stop Ethnic Cleansing; Staggering Oil Profits; Bela Lugosi; Artists Call for Ceasefire Now; Workers Unite Film Festival     November 2, 2023xxxxxx Reader Comme…

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November 2, 2023 at 6:45 AM

‘Wholly Ineffective and Pretty Obviously Racist’: Inside New Orleans’ Struggle With Facial-Recognition Policing

‘Wholly Ineffective and Pretty Obviously Racist’: Inside New Orleans’ Struggle With Facial-Recognition Policing     Alfred Ng October 31, 2023Politico Records obtained and analyzed by POLITICO reveal the practice failed to identify suspects a majority of the time and…

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November 2, 2023 at 6:35 AM

What Does It Mean To Call Israel an Apartheid State?

What Does It Mean To Call Israel an Apartheid State?     Ellen Davidson October 30, 2023The Indypendent A step-by-step look at how apartheid was pioneered in South Africa and replicated by Israel. Israeli and Palestine activists hold a banner during a protest …

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November 2, 2023 at 6:05 AM

Most Utilities That Pledge “Net Zero by 2050” Are Doing Little To Achieve That Goal

Most Utilities That Pledge “Net Zero by 2050” Are Doing Little To Achieve That Goal     Jonathan Hahn October 10, 2023Sierra Club Magazine New report shows that a dirty energy status quo prevails in America’s power sector , Photo by TomasSereda/iStock   …

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November 2, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Bernie Sanders Says First Priority in Gaza Must Be To ‘Stop the Bombing’

Bernie Sanders Says First Priority in Gaza Must Be To ‘Stop the Bombing’     Jessica Corbett November 1, 2023Common Dreams Amid mounting global demands for a cease-fire, the U.S. senator advocated for a "humanitarian pause" and an end to Israel's indiscriminate air a…

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November 2, 2023 at 2:00 AM

A Nation of Guns

Portside Culture A Nation of Guns     Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz October 1, 2023Monthly Review This book, says reviewer Dunbar-Ortiz, "contains a passionate narrative" by Paul Auster, a poet and novelist, alongside "stark and somber black-and-white photographs of sit…

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November 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – November 1, 2023

Global Left Midweek – November 1, 2023     November 1, 2023xxxxxx Keep marching London: Thousands demand ceasefire in Gaza. Credit, via @sahouraxo TW Page   The Imperial System More Blowback from Israel’s War on Palestine Latin America Reports Rosa Luxem…

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November 1, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Behind the Texas GOP’s Latest Attack on People of Color

Behind the Texas GOP’s Latest Attack on People of Color     Sonali Kolhatkar October 30, 2023Counterpunch Given that Latinx people now outnumber non-Hispanic whites in Texas, the Republican Party’s move to pass anti-immigrant bills is a bold provocation. HB 4 is one …

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November 1, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Curse of the AR-15

The Curse of the AR-15     Colin Dickey October 23, 2023The New Republic How the gun became a cultural icon—and unmade America. A Review of American Gun, True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson , Illustration by Brian Stauffer   Th…

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November 1, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Joe Biden Is Engaging in Atrocity Denialism for Israel. It Has a Long History.

Joe Biden Is Engaging in Atrocity Denialism for Israel. It Has a Long History.     Bradley Simpson October 28, 2023Jacobin I’m a historian of US foreign policy. The Biden administration’s effort to muddy the waters about the staggering human toll of Israel’s assault …

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November 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

House GOP Wants To Pair Israel Military Aid With IRS Cuts That Help Rich Tax Cheats

House GOP Wants To Pair Israel Military Aid With IRS Cuts That Help Rich Tax Cheats     Jake Johnson October 31, 2023Common Dreams "House Republicans are using aid for Israel as a political pawn in order to slash taxes for their wealthy donors," said Senate Finance C…

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November 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

An Anti-Racist Cinematic Masterpiece: Stamped From the Beginning

Portside Culture An Anti-Racist Cinematic Masterpiece: Stamped From the Beginning     Ed Rampell October 27, 2023Hollywood Progressive Roger Ross Williams cinematic tour de force proceeds to tell the story of racism through the colonial period up to today’s Bla…

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November 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – October 31, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – October 31, 2023     October 31, 2023xxxxxx Some headway on net neutrality... maybe , Mike Luckovich | Copyright 2016 Creators Syndicate   Another Attempt at Net Neutrality Israel Silences Gaza Social Media Mainstream Media Respond…

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October 31, 2023 at 6:10 AM

UAW President Says Workers Must ‘Flex Our Collective Muscles’ To Win Class War

UAW President Says Workers Must ‘Flex Our Collective Muscles’ To Win Class War     Jake Johnson October 30, 2023Common Dreams "One of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract victory is to organize like we've never organized before," said United Auto Wo…

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October 31, 2023 at 2:20 AM

This Week in People’s History, Oct. 31-Nov.6

This Week in People’s History, Oct. 31-Nov.6     xxxxxx Strikers win big (in 1913). Strikebreaking's deadly cost (1918). No way to win an election (1968). Reign of terror in Georgia (1868). Better late than never (1988). FBI at its worst (1968). Public health catastr…

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October 31, 2023 at 12:05 AM

‘McCarthyite Backlash’: Response to Criticism of Israel Alarms Rights Groups

‘McCarthyite Backlash’: Response to Criticism of Israel Alarms Rights Groups     Chris McGreal October 30, 2023Guardian Civil rights groups say critics of the Israeli assault on Gaza have lost jobs and students who support Palestine have been blacklisted , …

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October 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Pushing Back Against Disaster Capitalism in Florida

Pushing Back Against Disaster Capitalism in Florida     Elena Novak October 19, 2023Yes Magazine A coalition of churches has achieved some successes in resisting and mitigating against rent gouging and displacement after Hurricane Ian. ,   urricane Ian b…

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October 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

FDA Proposes a Helpful New Consumer-Friendly Canned Tuna Label

Portside Culture FDA Proposes a Helpful New Consumer-Friendly Canned Tuna Label     Dave Dickey October 18, 2023Investigate Midwest It took a while, but the FDA’s proposal on net and drained weight of tuna cans is a good thing; just how much tuna resides in any…

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October 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Western States Opposed Tribes’ Access to the Colorado River 70 Years Ago. History Is Repeating Itself.

Western States Opposed Tribes’ Access to the Colorado River 70 Years Ago. History Is Repeating Itself.     Mark Olalde, ProPublica & Anna V. Smith, High Country News October 17, 2023Propublica Records unearthed by a University of Virginia professor shed new light…

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October 30, 2023 at 9:55 AM

Science Sunday: Menopausal Chimpanzees Deepen the Mystery of Why Women Stop Reproducing

Science Sunday: Menopausal Chimpanzees Deepen the Mystery of Why Women Stop Reproducing     Dyani Lewis October 26, 2023Nature Some chimpanzees have been found to experience menopause. But are they the exception or the rule? An older female chimpanzee (Pan tro…

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October 30, 2023 at 9:13 AM

Fossil Fuel Demand Is Predicted To Peak by 2030. Oil Giants Are Betting Against It.

Fossil Fuel Demand Is Predicted To Peak by 2030. Oil Giants Are Betting Against It.     Kate Aronoff October 25, 2023The New Republic Why Chevron and Exxon are doubling down on fossil fuels, despite what the International Energy Agency says about our renewable future…

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October 30, 2023 at 9:10 AM

Anatomy of a North Carolina Gerrymander

Anatomy of a North Carolina Gerrymander     Michael Li, Peter Miller, Gina Feliz October 27, 2023Brennan Center for Justice A new congressional map takes the Tar Heel State from having one of the fairest maps in the country to its most biased — and voters of color ar…

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October 30, 2023 at 6:10 AM

‘Get the Right Cases to the Supreme Court’: Inside Charles Koch’s Network

‘Get the Right Cases to the Supreme Court’: Inside Charles Koch’s Network     Ed Pilkington, Nick Surgey October 26, 2023The Guardian Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government …

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October 30, 2023 at 5:45 AM

Is the Two-State Solution Dead?

Is the Two-State Solution Dead?     Noah Lanard, Yousef Munayyer October 27, 2023Mother Jones “You need to take reality as it is, not the way you imagine it to be,” says Yousef Munayyer. A group of Palestinian refugees walking along a road from Jerusalem to Le…

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October 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Korea Is Showing the World How To Make Political Horror Movies

Portside Culture Korea Is Showing the World How To Make Political Horror Movies     MICHAEL G. VANN October 28, 2023Jacobin From The Host to Kingdom, Korean filmmakers have used the horror genre as a vehicle for political critique and reached a huge global audi…

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October 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Tumultuous Times for the Left in Europe

Tumultuous Times for the Left in Europe     Nick Wright July 26, 2023Morning Star With the left coalition NUPES rapidly disintegrating in France and the formation of a new party led by Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany, it’s been a dramatic recent period for Europe’s prog…

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October 29, 2023 at 12:05 AM

NLRB Issues New Joint Employer Rules

NLRB Issues New Joint Employer Rules     National Labor Relations Board October 27, 2023NLRB The National Labor Relations Board has issued a new rule on defining joint employers (like McDonalds), overturning the Trump Board rule. , NLRB   NLRB Joint-Empl…

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October 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Calls for Cease-Fire Fill Grand Central Terminal

Calls for Cease-Fire Fill Grand Central Terminal     Claire Fahy, Julian Roberts-Grmela, Sean Piccoli and Erin Nolan October 27, 2023New York Times A large demonstration, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, came as Israel ramped up its military operations in Gaza. …

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October 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

What a Second Trumpocracy Would Mean the Coming Crisis of 2025

What a Second Trumpocracy Would Mean the Coming Crisis of 2025     Clarence Lusane October 26, 2023TomDispatch The 2024 election will not resolve the authoritarian attraction that the Trump vote represents. So it’s time to prepare now, not later, for the political cr…

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October 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Beyond Terrorism and Militarism: An Alternative to Surplus Political Violence

Beyond Terrorism and Militarism: An Alternative to Surplus Political Violence     Jonathan Michael Feldman October 26, 2023The Global Teach-In We have seen immoral and dysfunctional violence and expansionism. There are many Israelis and Palestinians engaged in promot…

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