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January 16, 2024 at 1:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 16–22

This Week in People’s History, Jan 16–22     xxxxxx Prohibition Gets Started (in 1919), Slave Owners Get Nervous (1834), Swing Comes to the Opera House (1944), Repression Takes Practice (1934), Nazis Make a Reality of Wage Slavery (1934), Wilmington Occupation Ends (…

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January 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Game of Gastrodiplomacy: A Story of How Governments Around the World Market Influence Through Food

Portside Culture The Game of Gastrodiplomacy: A Story of How Governments Around the World Market Influence Through Food     Dan Hong January 15, 2024Vittles Magazine Governments around the world market influence through food. However, the way food is associated…

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January 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM

This MLK Day, We Must Remember His Anti-War—and Anti-Capitalist—Legacy

This MLK Day, We Must Remember His Anti-War—and Anti-Capitalist—Legacy     Rann Miller January 13, 2024The Progressive “Dear politicians/political influencers: When you tweet about my father’s birthday, remember that he was resolute about eradicating racism, poverty…

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January 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 Can Inspire Us in 2024

How Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 Can Inspire Us in 2024     Eddie Wong January 12, 2024Convergence Everything about this moment cries out for a bold intervention like SNCC knew they had to make in 1963. Their clarity and creativity offers a major lesson to our cur…

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January 15, 2024 at 6:15 AM

Sunday Science: Ancient Skeletons Give Clues to Modern Medical Mysteries

Sunday Science: Ancient Skeletons Give Clues to Modern Medical Mysteries     Carl Zimmer January 10, 2024New York Times DNA fragments from thousands of years ago are providing insights into multiple sclerosis, diabetes, schizophrenia and other illnesses. A 4,0…

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January 15, 2024 at 5:55 AM

The Discovery of Europe

The Discovery of Europe     Álvaro Enrigue January 13, 2024The New York Review A new book investigates the lives of the hundreds of thousands of indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the sixteenth century—a story central to the beginning o…

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January 15, 2024 at 5:25 AM

The Ukraine War Is No Excuse for Endless Fossil Fuel Expansion

The Ukraine War Is No Excuse for Endless Fossil Fuel Expansion     Svitlana Romanko, Bill McKibben and Luisa Neubauer January 14, 2024The Guardian We need to get serious about transitioning off fossil fuels. Time to say no to “the world’s final wave of fossil-fuel me…

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January 15, 2024 at 4:20 AM

King Dream Rooted in Labor’s Rising

King Dream Rooted in Labor’s Rising     Bob Hennelly January 13, 2024InsiderNJ This Martin Luther King Day comes just weeks after a year that’s been dubbed ‘the year of the strike’ because in 2023 there were well over 300 such work stoppages involving 450,000 union w…

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January 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Native American Representation Debuts in Marvel Entertainment’s ‘Echo’

Portside Culture Native American Representation Debuts in Marvel Entertainment’s ‘Echo’     Sam Sandoval January 11, 2024Char-Koosta News For Native Americans there is something also familiar about Maya’s interactions with family and friends, with the way the c…

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January 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM

At The Hague, Aharon Barak Will Play Dr. Jekyll to Israel’s Mr. Hyde

At The Hague, Aharon Barak Will Play Dr. Jekyll to Israel’s Mr. Hyde     Orly Noy January 10, 2024972 Magazine As Supreme Court president, Barak provided legal armor for Israel's occupation and façade of democracy. Now he’s back to continue the job. Former Sup…

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January 14, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Landlord’s Game

The Landlord’s Game     Sasha Archibald January 10, 2024The Public Domain Review Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903) The board for Lizzie Magie’s 1906 version of The Landlord’s Game, Courtesy of LandlordsGame.info   There are fe…

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January 14, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Judy Collins Talks Resolutions, War, and Keeping It All Together

Judy Collins Talks Resolutions, War, and Keeping It All Together     Ray Roa January 3, 2024Creative Loafing "We need a song that transcends the moment instead of leaving us to have to live in that feeling of despair and horror and hunger and human suffering,” Collin…

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January 14, 2024 at 1:00 AM

First They Came for Harvard

First They Came for Harvard     Rick Perlstein January 10, 2024The American Prospect The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one. Claudine Gay, then dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, addresses an audience …

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January 14, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Getting High Has Gone Legit — Funny How That All Worked Out...

Getting High Has Gone Legit — Funny How That All Worked Out…     Joe Maniscalco January 7, 2024Work-Bites The 2018 Farm Bill okayed the production of hemp, removed it from the DEA's list of Controlled Substances and changed the marijuana landscape — that doesn’t eras…

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January 13, 2024 at 4:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | January 12, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | January 12, 2024     January 12, 2024xxxxxx Trump Issues Most Chilling Claim Yet. Radical | Movie. Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals. Something Weird Happens When You Keep Squeezing. Inshallah a Boy | Movie. To view an video, click…

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January 13, 2024 at 1:45 AM

Trumpism Is Devouring the Evangelical Movement

Trumpism Is Devouring the Evangelical Movement     Michelle Goldberg January 12, 2024New York Times There’s not going to be a post-Trump religious right — at least, not anytime soon. Evangelical leaders who started with Trump on a transactional basis, then grew gidd…

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January 13, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Will the ICJ Find Israel Guilty of Genocide?

Will the ICJ Find Israel Guilty of Genocide?     Meron Rapoport January 11, 2024972 Magazine Israeli human rights attorney Michael Sfard outlines what could play out as the world’s top court decides if and how to intervene in Israel’s war on Gaza. Palestinians…

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January 13, 2024 at 1:25 AM

The Social Housing Secret: How Vienna Became the World’s Most Livable City

The Social Housing Secret: How Vienna Became the World’s Most Livable City     Philip Oltermann January 10, 2024Guardian In the Austrian capital, renters pay a third of what their counterparts do in London, Paris or Dublin. How is it possible? Allt-Erlaa publi…

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January 13, 2024 at 1:10 AM

$15, Take a Bow. $20 in Our Sights!

$15, Take a Bow. $20 in Our Sights!     Gabrielle Gurley January 11, 2024The American Prospect Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20. , Fight for 15 Chicago   The New Year b…

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January 13, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Trillion Dollar Question

Portside Culture Trillion Dollar Question     Gerry Sloan War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan. ,   Trillion Dollar Question By Gerry Sloan             (for Dick Benne…

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January 12, 2024 at 3:10 AM

Only Outside Pressure Can Stop Israel’s War Crimes

Only Outside Pressure Can Stop Israel’s War Crimes     Naomi Klein January 10, 2024The Guardian In 2005, Palestinians called on the world to boycott Israel until it complied with international law. What if we had listened? The current atrocities in Gaza dramatically …

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January 12, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Federal Investigations Into Labor Law Violations by Farm Employers Fall to Record-Low

Federal Investigations Into Labor Law Violations by Farm Employers Fall to Record-Low     James Anderson January 8, 2024Barn Raiser In the face of lax enforcement by Biden’s Labor Department, labor organizations have stepped up to protect farmworkers. Members …

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January 12, 2024 at 2:05 AM

Fascism Drops the Mask

Fascism Drops the Mask     xxxxxx Moderators January 11, 2024xxxxxx Trump's fascist ideology and his plans for dictatorial rule are in plain view, day after day. The overriding question of 2024 is: How to defeat this imminent threat? Here is how we -- the xxxxxx mode…

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January 12, 2024 at 1:35 AM

Martin Luther King – a Video Selection 1954 – 1968

Martin Luther King – a Video Selection 1954 – 1968     January 11, 2024xxxxxx Martin Luther King's speeches from 1954's Montgomery Bus Boycott to the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike. Compiled by Abdul Alkalimat, Prof Emeritus Dept of African American Studies and Schoo…

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January 12, 2024 at 1:05 AM

A Second Trump Term Could Spell Economic Disaster

A Second Trump Term Could Spell Economic Disaster     Max B. Sawicky January 8, 2024In These Times From trade wars to border policy, Trump’s plans if he wins the presidency again are set to make the U.S. economy far worse for working people. Former President D…

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January 12, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Jan. 11, 2024 – Reader Comments: Enough IS Enough!; Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets – Readers Ask: What About Israel?; Supreme Ballot; Chicken Soup; Forums: What Should Progressives Do About Biden?; Protect the Squad & Block the Right;

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January 12, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Answering the Call: Strategy and Power-Building From the Bottom Up

Portside Culture Answering the Call: Strategy and Power-Building From the Bottom Up     James Mumm January 8, 2024Reviews 4 Radicals The role of strategy in making social movements and organizations more effective, and who creates it, are the urgent questions f…

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January 11, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Nowhere To Run

Nowhere To Run     Rebecca Gordon January 7, 2024Tom Dispatch Where Will the World Find Refuge in 2024? Women who fled Sudan after fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and the RSF paramilitary force queue to receive food at the UN transit centre in Ren…

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January 11, 2024 at 6:30 AM

Revealed: Congress Backers of Gaza War Received Most From Pro-Israel Donors

Revealed: Congress Backers of Gaza War Received Most From Pro-Israel Donors     Tom Perkins, with data reporting by Will Craft January 10, 2024The Guardian Guardian analysis finds top recipients of pro-Israel contributions in last elections were centrist Democrats wh…

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January 11, 2024 at 6:15 AM

Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset

Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset     Luke Goldstein January 9, 2024The American Prospect The plug door that ripped off an Alaska Airlines plane only exists because of cost-cutting production techniques to facilitate cramming more passenge…

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January 11, 2024 at 5:35 AM

The UAW Strike Could Portend a Broader Revival of Working-Class Power

The UAW Strike Could Portend a Broader Revival of Working-Class Power     Nick French January 8, 2024Jacobin The United Auto Workers’ strike last fall saw the union renew its militancy and win big victories on behalf of worker control. The historic walkout suggests t…

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January 11, 2024 at 5:30 AM

Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back

Portside Culture Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back     Magdalene D’Silva December 11, 2023LSE Review of Books blog, This history of neoliberalism focuses on how this school of thought and governan…

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January 11, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – January 10, 2024

Global Left Midweek – January 10, 2024     January 10, 2024xxxxxx In a world beset by war and counterrevolution, resistance is happening A joint Jewish-Arab protest demands a ceasefire in Tel Aviv, Nov. 18. Credit, Zo HaDerekh / People's World   Guatemal…

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January 10, 2024 at 2:00 AM

Poll: Americans Have No Idea What Biden Means When He Says He Is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology Is

Poll: Americans Have No Idea What Biden Means When He Says He Is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology Is     Juan Cole January 8, 2024Informed Comment Saying that Israel must be democratic and Jewish is like saying the United States must be democratic and white or d…

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January 10, 2024 at 1:55 AM

What the New Wealth Tax in Massachusetts Is Paying For

What the New Wealth Tax in Massachusetts Is Paying For     Jared Brey January 9, 2024Governing Massachusetts voters approved an additional tax on incomes of more than a million dollars. At least a billion extra dollars will support transportation and education projec…

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January 10, 2024 at 1:55 AM

In Brazil, Another Way To Remember an Attempted Coup

In Brazil, Another Way To Remember an Attempted Coup     Isabela Dias Isabela Dias January 8, 2024Mother Jones A year after a mob stormed Brazil’s capital, January 8 is now a date to commemorate democracy’s survival. Supporters of Brazilian former President Ja…

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January 10, 2024 at 1:55 AM

The ‘Ghost Budget’: How America Pays for Endless War

The ‘Ghost Budget’: How America Pays for Endless War     Linda Bilmes January 3, 2024Just Security Prior to 2001, U.S. Wars were financed through a mixture of higher taxes and budget cuts, and funded mostly through the regular defense budget. The post 9-11 war fundin…

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January 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – January 9, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – January 9, 2024     January 9, 2024xxxxxx Warning: Reporting news can be deadly dangerous A funeral ceremony is held for Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed, along with his family members, in an airstrike on his…

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January 9, 2024 at 6:05 AM

To Defend Israel As ‘Moral Society,’ Knesset Member Backs South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case

To Defend Israel As ‘Moral Society,’ Knesset Member Backs South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case     Jon Queally January 8, 2024Common Dreams "This is the true patriotism—no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped c…

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January 9, 2024 at 2:25 AM

What Do John Gotti and Donald Trump Have in Common?

Portside Culture What Do John Gotti and Donald Trump Have in Common?     Bill Fletcher, Jr. January 5, 2024Liberation Road 'Watching the Netflix documentary, I found myself wondering—what made Gotti so attractive? Wouldn’t people have understood precisely who h…

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January 9, 2024 at 1:10 AM

This Week in People’s History, Jan 9 – 15

This Week in People’s History, Jan 9 – 15     xxxxxx Fighting the Good Fight (in 1909), Teach Literacy, Go to Jail (1854), Deadly But Very Popular (1964), Pretending to Drain the Swamp (1984), Orgy of Police Brutality (1874), McCarthyism's Downfall (1964), Hitler's F…

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January 9, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Six Challenges for the Tough Year Ahead

Six Challenges for the Tough Year Ahead     Max Elbaum January 5, 2024Convergence Magazine The people-power, energy, and savvy exist to regain the initiative against MAGA and win a ceasefire in Gaza. To do so, we will need to call on positive vision, political clarit…

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January 9, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Corporate America’s Big Lie: What’s Good for Us Is Good for the Country

Corporate America’s Big Lie: What’s Good for Us Is Good for the Country     Kelly Candaele January 2, 2024Capital & Main Corporations used the “crying wolf” strategy to claim that raising the minimum wage would harm the poor, that Social Security was a slippery s…

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January 9, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Does Chicken Soup Really Help When You’re Sick? A nutrition specialist explains what’s behind the beloved comfort food

Portside Culture Does Chicken Soup Really Help When You’re Sick? A nutrition specialist explains what’s behind the beloved comfort food     Colby Teeman October 20, 2023The Conversation Chicken soup as a therapy can be traced back to 60 A.D. army surgeon whose …

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January 9, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets Is the Right Move

Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets Is the Right Move     Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Kosenko January 4, 2024Project Syndicate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Kosenko urge G7 leaders to send a clear message to rogue regimes waging brutal wars of aggression. , Sergei S…

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January 8, 2024 at 8:35 AM

Sunday Science: Giant Project Will Chart Human Immune Diversity To Improve Drugs and Vaccines

Sunday Science: Giant Project Will Chart Human Immune Diversity To Improve Drugs and Vaccines     Mitch Leslie January 2, 2024Science Human Immunome Project aims to capture immune data from thousands of people globally , Yale School of Medicine   The hep…

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January 8, 2024 at 8:00 AM

The Many Lives of Vinie Burrows

The Many Lives of Vinie Burrows     Helen Shaw January 5, 2024The New Yorker Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero. , Alix Jeffry, c Houghton Library, Harvard University   When the actor and activist Vinie Burrows died, on Dece…

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January 8, 2024 at 7:45 AM

Time for a Victory Lap?

Time for a Victory Lap?     Joseph E. Stiglitz January 4, 2024The American Prospect Those who believed inflation would be transitory were proven right, and those who demanded the sacrifice of mass unemployment proven wrong. An employee works on the assembly li…

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January 8, 2024 at 7:10 AM

South Africa Files Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice Over “Genocidal” War on Gaza

South Africa Files Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice Over “Genocidal” War on Gaza     Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Francis Boyle January 2, 2024Democracy Now! South Africa has filed a case at the main judicial body for the United Nations, the Inter…

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January 8, 2024 at 4:35 AM

$8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why ‘We Need a Billionaire Income Tax’

$8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why ‘We Need a Billionaire Income Tax’     Jake Johnson January 4, 2024Common Dreams While most Americans predominantly live off the income they earn from a job—income that is taxed all year, every year—the very richest hou…

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