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April 27, 2024 at 1:20 AM

‘A Watershed Moment’: The View From Ukraine

‘A Watershed Moment’: The View From Ukraine     Elizaveta Antonova April 26, 2024 Meduza Zelensky administration adviser Mykhailo Podolyak on what the new U.S. aid package means for the war’s future Ukrainian soldiers receiving combat awards from P…

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April 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Climate Change

Portside Culture Climate Change     Eve Sutton It’s the Idea of Spring and poet Eve Sutton has been reminding us that climate change has been going on for a long time. It is no joke! ,   Climate Change By Eve Sutton You swore to lov…

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April 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder

Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder     Nina Lakhani April 24, 2024 The Guardian About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home Police arrested hundreds of people as a pro-Palestinian Je…

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April 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but We Don’t Have One

Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but We Don’t Have One     James K. Galbraith April 24, 2024 ScheerPost The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science. Biden …

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April 26, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tesla Is Not the Next Ford. It’s the Next Con Ed.

Tesla Is Not the Next Ford. It’s the Next Con Ed.     Matteo Wong April 24, 2024 The Atlantic Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling. , Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock; Getty.   Of late, Tesla’s cars have come to seem a bit ha…

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April 26, 2024 at 12:00 AM

From World War II to Gaza:

From World War II to Gaza:     Kurt Stand April 25, 2024 The Bullet U.S. Labour Opposition to War and Fascism , UE   At a labor press conference/rally on December 14 in front of the White House, Brandon Mancilla – child of Guatemalan immigr…

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April 25, 2024 at 4:40 AM

Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation

Portside Culture Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation     Andrea Felicetti March 24, 2024 LSE Review of Books This book analyses social movements around the world that engage with democra…

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April 25, 2024 at 3:40 AM

Why Homelessness Stalks America Like the Grim Reaper

Why Homelessness Stalks America Like the Grim Reaper     Thom Hartmann April 22, 2024 The Hartmann Report Both homelessness & inflation are the result of America allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded & speculated in by financial m…

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April 25, 2024 at 3:20 AM

Iranian Women Violently Dragged From Streets by Police Amid Hijab Crackdown

Iranian Women Violently Dragged From Streets by Police Amid Hijab Crackdown     Deepa Parent April 24, 2024 The Guardian Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls Women walking withou…

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April 25, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?     Medea Benjamin April 23, 2024 Common Dreams We are calling on countries around the world to pressure Israel to allow us “free and safe passage” to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. T…

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April 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

We Visited the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Here’s What It’s Really Like.

We Visited the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Here’s What It’s Really Like.     Tiffany Cabán, Shahana Hanif, Sandy Nurse and Alexa Avilés April 23, 2024 City and State What we saw couldn’t be more different from the dire warnings of rampant a…

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April 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – April 24, 2024

Global Left Midweek – April 24, 2024     April 24, 2024 xxxxxx Focus on Europe National strike, Athens, April 17. Writing on banner with red line across the face of Greece’s Prime Minister, reads in Greek: “Killer Government / We Will Overturn It."…

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April 24, 2024 at 12:20 AM

Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime?

Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime?     Abby Vesoulis April 22, 2024 Mother Jones Unhoused people in Grants Pass were arrested for sleeping outside, but there was nowhere else for them to go. Unhoused senior citizens Kim Morris and Ke…

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April 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM

FTC To Finalize Noncompete Rule Today

FTC To Finalize Noncompete Rule Today     David Dayen, Luke Goldstein April 23, 2024 The American Prospect The fight now shifts to the courts, where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will likely try to strip the agency of its rulemaking authority. , Fra…

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April 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM

Bernie Sanders to Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Stop Murdering Innocent People’

Bernie Sanders to Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Stop Murdering Innocent People’     Martin Pengelly April 23, 2024 The Guardian Vermont senator makes remarks after Israeli strike kills seven aid workers, amid war that has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians …

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April 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM

War & Genocide on Earth Day

War & Genocide on Earth Day     Melissa Garriga April 21, 2024 Consortium News U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security, writes Melissa Garriga. Damaged buil…

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April 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Frank Borzage’s ‘Man’s Castle’: The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece

Portside Culture Frank Borzage’s ‘Man’s Castle’: The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece     Richard Brody April 17, 2024 The New Yorker A new restoration of Frank Borzage’s 'Man’s Castle' starring Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy, showcases t…

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April 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 23, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 23, 2024     April 23, 2024 xxxxxx Rights in free fall , Ruben Bolling   Rev. Barber’s Challenge to Christian Nationalism Passover 2024 Weaponizing DEI Three Big Myths About Climate Activism Pro-Pal…

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April 23, 2024 at 3:40 AM

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29     xxxxxx Class Struggle by the Book (in 1914), The Global South Gets Organized (1955), Portugal Dumps Fascism (1974), Apartheid’s End (1994), Nixon on the Skids (1974), Pray for the Dead, Fight for the Living (1989)…

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April 23, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Green Groups Cheer $7 Billion in Federal ‘Solar for All’ Grants

Green Groups Cheer $7 Billion in Federal ‘Solar for All’ Grants     Jessica Corbett April 22, 2024 Common Dreams President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in…

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April 23, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War

The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War     Harold Meyerson April 22, 2024 The American Prospect We still have two labor systems, and need mass unionization to end our immense inequality, which has its roots in the Sou…

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April 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Strange Soups and Brass Bands

Portside Culture Strange Soups and Brass Bands     David Bacon April 12, 2024 The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon Soups are made from the traditions of the countryside where people are used to eating the animals that live there …

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April 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Wisconsin on Earth Day: The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected

Wisconsin on Earth Day: The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected     Amy Barrilleaux April 22, 2024 Wisconsin Examiner We know our health depends on the health of our planet. Clean Wisconsin, the state’s oldest environmental organization, was founded on the fir…

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April 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder

The FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder     Aaron J. Leonard April 19, 2024 Jacobin Special Agent Roy Martin Mitchell was recognized in the FBI for his skill in developing informants in “the racial field.” Now we know the extent of Mitchell’…

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April 22, 2024 at 9:10 AM

Sunday Science: Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle

Sunday Science: Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle     Erin Malsbury April 11, 2024 University California Santa Cruz After years of work, an international team of scientists have detected a sign of a major life event that may have only occur…

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April 22, 2024 at 8:10 AM

The Two-State Solution Is an Unjust, Impossible Fantasy

The Two-State Solution Is an Unjust, Impossible Fantasy     Tareq Baconi April 1, 2024 New York Times The Two-State solution mantra has allowed policymakers to avoid confronting the reality that partition is unattainable in the case of Israel and Palestine, …

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April 22, 2024 at 7:45 AM

The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)

The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)     April 16, 2024 TriContinental In the four decades since its founding, the MST has achieved significant milestones: 450,000 families have gained legal tenure of their land, another 65…

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April 22, 2024 at 6:25 AM

Buried: How We Choose To Remember the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Buried: How We Choose To Remember the Transatlantic Slave Trade     Annina van Neel, Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey De Vere, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Peggy King Jorde March 27, 2024 The Guardian How to create an appropriate memorial for the recently uncovered …

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April 22, 2024 at 5:55 AM

We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court

We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court     Ryan Doerfler, Samuel Moyn April 17, 2024 Dissent The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship. Lincoln…

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April 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Fallout Season 1 Finale: Capitalist Middle Managers Murder the World

Portside Culture Fallout Season 1 Finale: Capitalist Middle Managers Murder the World     William Hughes April 19, 2024 AV Club A messy sendoff is anchored by the series' best, darkest, and most grimly funny scene Fallout, Photo: Courtesy o…

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April 21, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Green Groups Slam RFK Jr.

Green Groups Slam RFK Jr.     Brett Wilkins April 19, 2024 Common Dreams "With so much at stake, we stand united in denouncing RFK Jr.'s false environmentalist claims." Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a town ha…

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April 21, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Eight Decades After the Spanish Civil War, Is Spain’s Slow Exhumation of Its Traumatic Past a Signal That It Is Ready To Build “A Culture of Memory?

Eight Decades After the Spanish Civil War, Is Spain’s Slow Exhumation of Its Traumatic Past a Signal That It Is Ready To Build “A Culture of Memory?     María José Carmona April 15, 2024 Equal Times “The aim of an exhumation is not only to recover the victim…

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April 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union     Luis Feliz Leon April 19, 2024 Labor Notes To head off a union drive, Volkswagen boosted wages 11 percent to match the immediate raise UAW members received at Ford. The vote was a key test of whether the …

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April 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

How We Rebuilt the Young Democratic Socialists

How We Rebuilt the Young Democratic Socialists     David Duhalde April 9, 2024 The Forge DSA's youth section used lessons from Mao and contemporary labor to build a winning strategy: When a strategy and its tactics cease producing desired results, you need t…

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April 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community

Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community     Alan Wagman April 18, 2024 CounterPunch We must demonstrate that one can leave Zionism and still be part of a Jewish community that lives its traditions, its values, and – if so inclined – its spirit…

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April 20, 2024 at 3:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | April 19, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | April 19, 2024     April 19, 2024 xxxxxx The Biggest Win for Workers in Decades. Criminalizing Homelessness Won't Make It Go Away. If I Were a Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof Parody). Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump's Criminal Trial. A Bombsh…

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April 20, 2024 at 1:35 AM

We Watched Bob Marley: One Love, and Here Is Our Take

We Watched Bob Marley: One Love, and Here Is Our Take     Playing for Change April 19, 2024 Playing for Change An undeniable truth in both the movie and real life is the message of peace, love, and redemption, and that is what Marley and The Wailers were fig…

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April 20, 2024 at 1:20 AM

The War on Protest

The War on Protest     Adam Federman April 17, 2024 Type Investigations Since 2017, 21 states have passed 41 laws enhancing penalties and fines for common protest-related crimes—part of a wave of nearly 300 anti-protest bills introduced nationwide. …

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April 20, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Dead Last (With an Emphasis on Dead!)

Dead Last (With an Emphasis on Dead!)     Juan Cole April 16, 2024 Tom Dispatch Despite the fact that the Middle East has experienced hellish heat waves and epic floods, Middle Eastern regimes gets gailing grades on climate action ,   Last …

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April 20, 2024 at 12:55 AM

Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations To Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes

Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations To Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes     Brett Murphy April 17, 2024 ProPublica A special State Department panel told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms s…

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April 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Si, Se Puede (It Can Be Done)

Portside Culture Si, Se Puede (It Can Be Done)     Philip Kolin Marking the anniversary of his death (April 23, 1993), Cesar Chavez continues to inspire support for immigrant farm workers’ rights around the country. ,   Si, se puede…

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April 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian

Statement by University of Southern California Student Asna Tabassum, Class of 2024 Valedictorian     Asna Tabassum April 16, 2024 CounterPunch This should have been a time of celebration for my family, friends, professors, and classmates, anti-Muslim and an…

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April 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM

To Accomplish What?

To Accomplish What?     Jack Radey April 17, 2024 xxxxxx After reading of actions at UC Berkeley to prevent a speaker from addressing a meeting, and disrupting a dean’s backyard party, as a veteran of the Free Speech Movement, the first thing that comes to m…

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April 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Supreme Court Effectively Abolishes the Right to Mass Protest in Three States

The Supreme Court Effectively Abolishes the Right to Mass Protest in Three States     Ian Millhiser April 15, 2024 Vox It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas. The Court’s decision to leaves the Fifth Circuit’s attack o…

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April 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Haiti Today, America Tomorrow? – When Democracies Die, Mobs Take Over

Haiti Today, America Tomorrow? – When Democracies Die, Mobs Take Over     John Feffer April 18, 2024 TomDispatch Don’t make the mistake of associating gangs like Haiti’s with a “primitive” stage of political development or only with countries on the geopolit…

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April 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Apr 18 – Reader Comments: Trump on Trial; Bombing Embassies; Ending Property Taxes; Alabama Communists in the Jim Crow South; Israeli Pavilion Remains Shut at Venice Biennale; Earth Week; John Brown Day; Nakba Days of Action; More;,,,

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April 18, 2024 at 4:45 AM

Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities off the Map’ in the West Bank

Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities off the Map’ in the West Bank     Jake Johnson April 17, 2024 Common Dreams "While the attention of the world is focused on Gaza, abuses in the West Bank, fueled by decades of impunity and complacenc…

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April 18, 2024 at 4:20 AM

The US Isn’t Just Reauthorizing Its Surveillance Laws – It’s Vastly Expanding Them

The US Isn’t Just Reauthorizing Its Surveillance Laws – It’s Vastly Expanding Them     Caitlin Vogus April 16, 2024 The Guardian A little-known amendment to the reauthorized version of Fisa would enlarge the government’s surveillance powers to a drastic, dra…

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April 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM

Handing Taxpayers the Climate Cleanup Bill

Handing Taxpayers the Climate Cleanup Bill     Katya Schwenk April 16, 2024 The Lever New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders nix a landmark proposal that would have made Hochul’s fossil fuel donors pay for their pollution. , …

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April 18, 2024 at 3:55 AM

It’s Time To End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes

It’s Time To End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes     Andrew W. Kahrl April 11, 2024 New York Times Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are among the most powerful and stealthy engines of racism and wealth inequality o…

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