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January 5, 2024 at 2:30 AM

Israeli Public Figures Sign Letter Against ‘The Dehumanization of Palestinians and Israelis’

Israeli Public Figures Sign Letter Against ‘The Dehumanization of Palestinians and Israelis’     Haaretz staff Haaretz 'The pro-human camp coalition' opposes the 'atrocities committed on October 7' and also stands against identifying all Gazans with Hamas 'used by the…
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January 5, 2024 at 2:20 AM

The Teamster Connection: Apartheid Israel and the IBT

The Teamster Connection: Apartheid Israel and the IBT     Joe Allen December 29, 2023CounterPunch Many U.S. unions have longstanding ties to the State of Israel. What is the Teamster connection? Author Joe Allen uncovers ties going back to Israel's founding, Hoffa, o…
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January 5, 2024 at 1:50 AM

How Culture Warriors Weaponized Jewish Grief and Forced Harvard’s President To Resign

How Culture Warriors Weaponized Jewish Grief and Forced Harvard’s President To Resign     Rabbi Jay Michaelson January 2, 2024Forward Claudine Gay’s enemies are not our friends. All we’ll remember is that that she angered some rich pro-Israel donors, as well as oppor…
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January 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

We Deserve Medicare for All, but What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street

We Deserve Medicare for All, but What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street     Les Leopold January 3, 2024Common Dreams Creating a sane healthcare system will depend on building a massive common movement to free our economy from Wall Street’s wealth extraction. …
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January 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Jan. 4, 2024 – Reader Comments: Trump Right To Run–The 14th Amendment – Readers Debate; a Just Peace in Ukraine – Readers Respond, Author Responds; Claudine Gay Resignation Letter; Emergency Summit for Gaza -Jan 12; More...

Tidbits – Jan. 4, 2024 – Reader Comments: Trump Right To Run–The 14th Amendment – Readers Debate; a Just Peace in Ukraine – Readers Respond, Author Responds; Claudine Gay Resignation Letter; Emergency Summit for Gaza -Jan 12; More…     January 4, 2024xxxxxx Reader Co…
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January 4, 2024 at 6:25 AM

Are We in the Grip of an ‘American Cultural Revolution’?

Portside Culture Are We in the Grip of an ‘American Cultural Revolution’?     Matt McManus and Nathan J. Robinson July 21, 2023Current Affairs Reviewing the new book by Christopher Rufo, architect of the right’s crusade against “critical race theory.” , …
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January 4, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Librarians, Who Lost Jobs for Not Banning Books, Are Fighting Back

Librarians, Who Lost Jobs for Not Banning Books, Are Fighting Back     Interview by Matt Bloom January 2, 2024NPR Librarians in at least three states are asking the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene after they were fired for refusing to ban…
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January 4, 2024 at 1:05 AM

We All See the Horrific Videos of Suffering in Gaza. We Must Not Look Away

We All See the Horrific Videos of Suffering in Gaza. We Must Not Look Away     V (formerly Eve Ensler) January 3, 2024The Guardian We must keep watching. It is only in this pain that we will charge our resolve and our power – and force America and Israel to end this …
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January 4, 2024 at 1:05 AM

How a GOP Campaign Ousted Harvard’s Claudine Gay

How a GOP Campaign Ousted Harvard’s Claudine Gay     Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad by Amy Goodman January 3, 2024Democracy Now A Harvard Professor says plagiarism became a “pretext” to oust Gay, and discusses the larger right-wing war on education aimed at un…
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January 4, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Electric-Vehicle Transition Is Quietly Surging Ahead

The Electric-Vehicle Transition Is Quietly Surging Ahead     Ryan Cooper January 2, 2024The American Prospect Nearly 10 percent of cars sold in 2023 were EVs. Vehicles move along the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV assembly line at the General Motors Orion Asse…
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January 4, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – January 3, 2024

Global Left Midweek – January 3, 2024     January 3, 2024xxxxxx Takeaways from 2023 Striking teachers and their supporters hold a rally in front of Premier François Legault's office, Friday, Dec. 22, 2023 in Montreal. Credit, THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz …
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January 3, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Replacing a Disastrous War With a Just Peace in Ukraine

Replacing a Disastrous War With a Just Peace in Ukraine     Lawrence S. Wittner January 14, 2024Foreign Policy in Focus But first it's necessary to get around Russia's veto in the UN Security Council. , Shutterstock   Although the unfolding humanitarian…
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January 3, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Eugene v. Debs’s Wisdom for the New Year

Eugene v. Debs’s Wisdom for the New Year     Eugene V. Debs January 1, 2024Jacobin During World War I, Eugene V. Debs saw socialism as the “star of hope” that might redeem a world wracked by violence. Read his message of renewal as we leave a war-torn year behind and…
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January 3, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Democratic Backlash As Biden Bypasses Congress for 2nd Time To Arm Israel

Democratic Backlash As Biden Bypasses Congress for 2nd Time To Arm Israel     Jake Johnson January 2, 2024Common Dreams Sen. Peter Welch said U.S. weapons have "grave implications" for "the millions of civilians trapped in Gaza who had no part in the horrific slaught…
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January 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Twenty-Two States Will Increase Their Minimum Wages on January 1

Twenty-Two States Will Increase Their Minimum Wages on January 1     Sebastian Martinez Hickey December 21, 2023Economic Policy Institute The minimum wage continues to be a powerful tool for fostering economic equity and ensuring a dignified standard of living for wo…
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January 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Quest To Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Change

The Quest To Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Change     Jake Bolster January 1, 2024New Lines Magazine Current lawsuits could create a framework for suing fossil fuel companies over their role in the environmental crisis , Illustration by Joanna Andreasson for Ne…
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January 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 2, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 2, 2024     January 2, 2024xxxxxx Will 2024 be just a hangover from 2023? , Ryan Pagelow   Boots Riley Unloads If There’s a Hell Below, They're Both Gonna Go The Undead Beatles The FBI is Still Fixated on the Le…
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January 2, 2024 at 4:05 AM

Fossil Fuel Giants to Lavish Shareholders With Record Paydays As Climate Crisis Deepens

Fossil Fuel Giants to Lavish Shareholders With Record Paydays As Climate Crisis Deepens     Julia Conley January 1, 2024Common Dreams "The global energy crisis has been a giant cash grab for fossil fuel firms," said one campaigner. "And instead of investing their rec…
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January 2, 2024 at 1:30 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 2 – 8

This Week in People’s History, Jan 2 – 8     xxxxxx Deadly Fire's Legacy (in 1904), Forgotten Respect for Radicals (1939), Big Money in Lies (1954), So Long, Subway Tokens (1994), Racism wins, then loses (1959), Innocent man freed after 22 years (1939), FBI Finds "Ri…
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January 2, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Supreme Court Should Decide Trump’s Ballot Eligibility Without Fear or Favor

The Supreme Court Should Decide Trump’s Ballot Eligibility Without Fear or Favor     Ian Bassin December 20, 2023Protect Democracy The harsh reality is that the only way to get past this crisis for our democracy is to go through it. Our institutions were built to sur…
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January 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Vegan School Lunch

Portside Culture The Vegan School Lunch     Jesse Hirsch December 2, 2023Ambrook Research In the popular imagination, vegan school lunch may seem like the exclusive provenance of big cities like New York, but the tide appears to have shifted significantly in mu…
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January 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Joe Biden and Dorothea Lange: Politics and Art Revealed!

Joe Biden and Dorothea Lange: Politics and Art Revealed!     Stephen F. Eisenman December 29, 2023CounterPunch The work of the new year must be to keep the orange fascist out of the White House. But there must a concomitant effort to inform, organize and persuade pol…
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January 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is To Lay the Ground for a National Strike

Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolution Is To Lay the Ground for a National Strike     Jonathan Rosenblum December 28, 2023The Nation By having contracts with all the Big Three automakers expire on May Day, 2028, the UAW president also issued a challenge to the labor move…
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January 1, 2024 at 1:22 AM

Sunday Science: Gravity Is Not a Force. But What Does It Mean?

Sunday Science: Gravity Is Not a Force. But What Does It Mean?     Sabine Hossenfelder December 23, 2023Sabine Hossenfelder What does it mean that gravity is not a force? In this video I will revisit the question and explain why you are currently accelerating upwards…
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January 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Twenty-Two States Will Increase Their Minimum Wages on January 1, Raising Pay for Nearly 10 Million Workers

Twenty-Two States Will Increase Their Minimum Wages on January 1, Raising Pay for Nearly 10 Million Workers     Sebastian Martinez Hickey December 21, 2023Economic Policy Institute In total, workers will receive $6.95 billion in additional wages from state minimum wa…
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January 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The New ‘Scramble for Africa’: How a UAE Sheikh Quietly Made Carbon Deals for Forests Bigger Than UK

The New ‘Scramble for Africa’: How a UAE Sheikh Quietly Made Carbon Deals for Forests Bigger Than UK     Patrick Greenfield November 30, 2023The Guardian Agreements have been struck with African states home to crucial biodiversity hotspots, for land representing bill…
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January 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Data on Sentencing Reform Shows the First Step Act Worked

Data on Sentencing Reform Shows the First Step Act Worked     Michael Waldman December 19, 2023Brennan Center for Justice The law brings second chances and public safety. , txking/Getty   You’re read­ing The Brief­ing, Michael Wald­­­­­man’s weekly news­…
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January 1, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Gas, Gaza, and Western Imperialism

Gas, Gaza, and Western Imperialism     Tara Alami December 20, 2023Mondoweiss The theft of natural resources all rests on the larger backdrop of the Zionist settler-colonial project and its function as an imperialist proxy. Leviathan Offshore Gas Field, …
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January 1, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Apple TV+’s “The Buccaneers” Ruins Edith Wharton and Fails History

Portside Culture Apple TV+’s “The Buccaneers” Ruins Edith Wharton and Fails History     Drew Burnett Gregory November 8, 2023Autostraddle This approach to period pieces does not only erase historical racism and homophobia. It also erases our joy. Accurate histo…
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December 31, 2023 at 1:10 AM

Labor & Palestine: Jeff Schuhrke & Bill Fletcher on How U.S. Unions Are Responding to War in Gaza

Labor & Palestine: Jeff Schuhrke & Bill Fletcher on How U.S. Unions Are Responding to War in Gaza     Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Jeff Schuhrke, Bill Fletcher December 26, 2023Democracy Now! Part 2 of our conversation with longtime trade unionist Bill Fletche…
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December 31, 2023 at 1:05 AM

The Curious Joy of Being Wrong

The Curious Joy of Being Wrong     Daryl Van Tongeren December 26, 2023The Conversation Sometimes humility gets a bad rap. But having intellectual humility – being open to new information and willing to change your mind – can be beneficial for the individual and for …
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December 31, 2023 at 1:00 AM

2023, a Year of Progress: Expanding Voting Rights Across the Country

2023, a Year of Progress: Expanding Voting Rights Across the Country     December 28, 2023The Sentencing Project These inspiring developments serve as powerful reminders that by working together in pursuit of progress, we can manifest meaningful criminal legal reform…
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December 31, 2023 at 1:00 AM

First Things First: Don’t Oppose Trump’s Right To Run

First Things First: Don’t Oppose Trump’s Right To Run     Bill Lueders December 21, 2023The Progressive Keeping Trump off the ballot would be an affront to democracy. Denying people the opportunity to vote for him is going to make him stronger. Former Preside…
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December 31, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another

Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another     Liam Crisan December 18, 2023Inequality.org In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this. Prote…
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December 30, 2023 at 5:35 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 29, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | December 29, 2023     December 29, 2023xxxxxx 2023's Biggest Computing Breakthroughs. Carlos: The Santana Journey. The Human Toll of Philips’ Massive CPAP Recall. The Palestinian Knesset Member Suspended for Criticizing War on Gaza. Trump on the …
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December 30, 2023 at 4:50 AM

In the West Bank, I Saw How Peace Will Require Confrontation With Israel

In the West Bank, I Saw How Peace Will Require Confrontation With Israel     David Ignatius December 16, 2023Washington Post In the West Bank, I met I so many brave Israelis and Palestinians who are working together to document obstacles to peace that I can see a way…
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December 30, 2023 at 4:20 AM

The White Southerners Who Fought for the Union

The White Southerners Who Fought for the Union     Martin Pengelly December 27, 2023Guardian In his new book, Silent Cavalry, former New York Times editor Howell Raines tells of loyalties long suppressed in his native Alabama Union cavalry in action during the…
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December 30, 2023 at 4:05 AM

The U.S. and China at Year’s End

The U.S. and China at Year’s End     Michael Klare December 21, 2023TomDispatch At best, the U.S. and China will avoid a major blow-up over Taiwan or the South China Sea in 2023, while making progress on issues like climate change and drug trafficking. At worst, the …
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December 30, 2023 at 3:45 AM

How Young Karl Marx Got Radicalized

How Young Karl Marx Got Radicalized     Ryan Moore December 26, 2023Jacobin Karl Marx started out in a liberal milieu where the primary concern was abolishing religious authoritarianism. In time, he came to believe that abolishing capitalism was necessary for true fr…
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December 30, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Persistent Moon

Portside Culture Persistent Moon     Carol Kanter Chicago poet Carol Kanter offers a poem of peace, an alternative to “rage…offense…” ,   Persistent Moon By Carol Kanter Near full, she lingers high west mid-morn, night’s far stars tucked at rest. S…
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December 29, 2023 at 1:25 AM

The Long War on Gaza

The Long War on Gaza     Sara Roy December 19, 2023The New York Review of Books Gaza is being devastated as we watch. A stated goal of Israel’s assault, is to “destroy Hamas”. Israel’s goal is less to vanquish Hamas—impossible in any case—than to finally expel Palest…
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December 29, 2023 at 1:05 AM

MAGA’s Revanchist Roots: A Tale of Tropes

MAGA’s Revanchist Roots: A Tale of Tropes     Jerry Lembcke December 13, 2023CounterPunch Signs that MAGA is enmeshed in post-Vietnam War culture begin with its namesake. Make America Great Again is an adoption of Ronald Reagan’s assertion that it was “Morning in Ame…
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December 29, 2023 at 1:05 AM

The Danger of Abortion ‘Compromise’

The Danger of Abortion ‘Compromise’     Erika Christensen December 26, 2023Abortion, Every Day If we want to build a strong, safe world for pregnant people and our families, let’s start with a floor we can all stand on. Policies that claim to keep the government out …
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December 29, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Banning Christmas in Cuba Was an ‘Error’ That Fidel Castro Fixed

Banning Christmas in Cuba Was an ‘Error’ That Fidel Castro Fixed     Chuck Offenburger December 25, 2023Iowa Capital Dispatch It will probably come as a surprise to many of you that religious and church life in Cuba is thriving, and has been since the 1990s. It’s tim…
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December 29, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Dec. 28, 2023 – Reader Comments: Trump-Haley-MAGA GOP Embrace Slavery-Fascism; Israeli War Crimes; Migrants and Immigration; Reader Response to Police Reform; Maestro Does Disservice; March on Washington for Gaza-Jan 13; More...

Tidbits – Dec. 28, 2023 – Reader Comments: Trump-Haley-MAGA GOP Embrace Slavery-Fascism; Israeli War Crimes; Migrants and Immigration; Reader Response to Police Reform; Maestro Does Disservice; March on Washington for Gaza-Jan 13; More…     December 28, 2023xxxxxx Re…
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December 28, 2023 at 6:20 AM

Israeli Teen Jailed for Refusing To Take Part in Army’s ‘Criminal Attack’ on Gaza

Israeli Teen Jailed for Refusing To Take Part in Army’s ‘Criminal Attack’ on Gaza     Brett Wilkins December 27, 2023Common Dreams "I believe that slaughter cannot solve slaughter," said 18-year-old Tal Mitnick, who was sentenced to 30 days behind bars for refusing t…
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December 28, 2023 at 6:10 AM

Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics

Portside Culture Achille Mbembe: Necropolitics     Antonio Pele March 2, 2020Critical Legal Thinking Reviewer Pele says author Mbembe defines “necropolitics” “as the political making of spaces and subjectivities in an in-between of life and death.” Necropolitic…
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December 28, 2023 at 6:00 AM

Haley Declines To Say Slavery Was Cause of Civil War

Haley Declines To Say Slavery Was Cause of Civil War     Lisa Kashinski and Sam Stein December 27, 2023Politico The former South Carolina governor instead said it was a dispute over how ‘government was going to run.’ Republican presidential candidate Nikki Hal…
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December 28, 2023 at 5:45 AM

Uruguay’s Green Power Revolution: Rapid Shift to Wind Shows the World How It’s Done

Uruguay’s Green Power Revolution: Rapid Shift to Wind Shows the World How It’s Done     Sam Meadows December 27, 2023The Guardian Stung by the 2008 oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit? …
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December 28, 2023 at 5:30 AM

Javier Milei’s Shock Therapy Would Be a Disaster for Working-Class Argentinians

Javier Milei’s Shock Therapy Would Be a Disaster for Working-Class Argentinians     Andrew Stoughton December 27, 2023Jacobin Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, has issued a decree with over 350 reforms tearing up labor rights and privatizing industries. The “s…