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June 8, 2024 at 3:10 AM

The Sunrise Movement’s Critics Really Don’t Get Climate Activism

The Sunrise Movement’s Critics Really Don’t Get Climate Activism     Kate Aronoff June 5, 2024 The New Republic Just because the youth group hasn’t endorsed Biden doesn’t mean it’s handing the presidency to Trump. Chicago Sunrise Movement Rallies f…

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June 8, 2024 at 3:00 AM

Where AI Predictions Go Wrong

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June 8, 2024 at 2:45 AM

A Slippery Slope to World War III?

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June 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM

Michael Pollan on His 25-Year Fight With the Food Industry

Michael Pollan on His 25-Year Fight With the Food Industry     Zoe Williams June 6, 2024 The Guardian “It was the tobacco companies, under pressure from the government over smoking, that bought the food industry. So it’s a similar playbook, except now they k…

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June 8, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Before the Gaza Genocide: Thoughts on Hersey’s the Wall

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June 7, 2024 at 12:05 AM

NAACP Calls on Biden-Harris Administration To Halt Weapons Shipments to Israel, Push for Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire

NAACP Calls on Biden-Harris Administration To Halt Weapons Shipments to Israel, Push for Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire     NAACP Statement From The President June 5, 2024 NAACP The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the 'red line' and indefinitely en…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Billionaires Have Captured Donald Trump

The Billionaires Have Captured Donald Trump     Alex Shephard June 6, 2024 The New Republic Desperate to avoid prison—and needing cash to win reelection, so he can pardon himself—Trump is selling his administration’s domestic and foreign policy to the highes…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

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June 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions

The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions     Tadhg Larabee and Eva Rosenfeld May 20, 2024 Dissent Magazine Georgia’s sweeping, political application of conspiracy law echoes tactics that shattered the left a hundred years ago, when t…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 6 – Reader Comments: Trump No Longer Invincible; Mexico: ¡Viva La Presidenta!; the Sympathizer on Hollywood’s Vietnam War Stories; Leonard Peltier Parole Hearing June 10; Webinar: Organizing, Collective Action, the NLRB; More…

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June 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM

California Communism and Its Afterlives: On Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds”

Portside Culture California Communism and Its Afterlives: On Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds”     Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics May 27, 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books Reviewers Ray and Wranovics call this book "a welcome contribution, and …

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June 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 5, 2024

Global Left Midweek – June 5, 2024     June 5, 2024 xxxxxx Irish reunification in the age of the EU Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum of the leftist Morena party waves to supporters in Mexico City. Credit, Gerardo Vieyra / NurPhoto via Gett…

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June 6, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Republican Id

The Republican Id     Rick Perlstein June 4, 2024 The American Prospect Rather than visiting red-state diners, reporters ought to journey to the venerable conservative message board where the talk after the Trump verdict was nihilistic and bloody. …

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June 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Israel, Russia, and International Law

Israel, Russia, and International Law     Lawrence S. Wittner June 4, 2024 Froeign Policy in Focus National impunity is not inevitable, at least if people and governments of the world are willing to take the necessary actions. , Shutterstock …

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June 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Asylum-Seekers at the US-Mexico Border Worry About Their Next Move: ‘We Cannot Return’

Asylum-Seekers at the US-Mexico Border Worry About Their Next Move: ‘We Cannot Return’     Lorena Figueroa and Amanda Ulrich June 5, 2024 The Guardian People at the border reel after hearing about Biden’s order and consider the CBP One app, where they can go…

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June 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Anti-War Left Makes Inroads in Israel

The Anti-War Left Makes Inroads in Israel     Interview by Federico Fuentes June 2, 2024 Links Standing Together’s national field organizer Uri Weltmann discusses the growing peace movement inside Israel, confronting far-right extremists seeking to disrupt h…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:40 AM

200-to-1: Gap Between CEOs and Workers Grew Even Wider in 2023, Analysis Finds

200-to-1: Gap Between CEOs and Workers Grew Even Wider in 2023, Analysis Finds     Edward Carver June 3, 2024 Common Dreams The finding from The Associated Press adds to the evidence of growing inequality—and helps explain worker dissatisfaction with the eco…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM

Southern Worker School Charts Course for Power

Southern Worker School Charts Course for Power     Southern Workers Assembly June 30, 2024 Southern Workers Assembly Nearly two hundred rank and filers who are developing a movement of workers in the South that can build power to make the anti-union politi…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM

The Dangerous Class Consciousness of Donald Trump

The Dangerous Class Consciousness of Donald Trump     Stephen F. Eisenman June 4, 2024 Counterpunch With the 34 guilty verdicts delivered on Thursday by a New York City jury, Donald J. Trump is now shown to have been plucked by a “seductive priestess,” a Maj…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM

How We’ve Failed the Promise of Making “Genocide” a Crime

How We’ve Failed the Promise of Making “Genocide” a Crime     Noah Lanard June 3, 2024 Mother Jones The lawyer Raphael Lemkin hoped to use international law to curb abuses of power. But his efforts were curtailed from the start. , István Szugyiczky…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 4, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 4, 2024     June 4, 2024 xxxxxx Voting and fighting On May 4, 1970, Ohio chose to use its militarized National Guard against the students of Kent State University. Will fear and a commitment to the status quo…

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June 4, 2024 at 5:20 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 4–10

This Week in People’s History, June 4–10     xxxxxx Voyage of the Doomed (1939), Two Roads, Two Endings (1989), A Big Step Toward Ending a Long War (1969), Plain English, or Else! (1954), Pity the Poor War Criminal (1974), Protecting Freedom of Speech (1969)…

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June 4, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Claudia Sheinbaum Is the Next President of Mexico

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June 4, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Anchor Has a Surprise New Owner. Why S.F. Should Be Excited — but Worried

Portside Culture Anchor Has a Surprise New Owner. Why S.F. Should Be Excited — but Worried     Esther Mobley June 2, 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Anchor Brewing is more than just a beloved institution in this city. It’s the very myth of San Francisco…

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June 4, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Jerry Seinfeld’s Lurch to the Right Now Includes Mourning ‘Dominant Masculinity’

Jerry Seinfeld’s Lurch to the Right Now Includes Mourning ‘Dominant Masculinity’     Arwa Mahdawi June 1, 2024 The Guardian The comedian’s remarks on a podcast join his cheerleading of genocidal violence and jokes about suffering children in Gaza J…

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June 4, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Like Israel, Hamas Isn’t Offering Palestinians a ‘Day After’ – Just More War and Suffering

Like Israel, Hamas Isn’t Offering Palestinians a ‘Day After’ – Just More War and Suffering     Amira Hass June 2, 2024 Haaretz Armed struggle has failed to stop the ongoing theft of Palestinian land. The destruction and death wrought by Israel in the Gaza St…

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June 4, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Integrated Vision

Integrated Vision     Tom Stevenson May 21, 2024 London Review of Books The military protection of Saudi Arabia has been the centrepiece of US power in the region. The US has also committed itself to the protection/support of Israel. America has managed this…

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June 3, 2024 at 9:29 PM

Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839–1949)

Britain’s Century Long Opium Trafficking and China’s Century of Humiliation (1839–1949)     Stansfield Smith May 30, 2024 Monthly Review In 1500, India and China were the world’s most advanced civilizations. Then came the Europeans. They eventually looted an…

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June 3, 2024 at 9:00 AM

Sunday Science: Black Hole Flyby – David Kaiser on the Mystery of Dark Matter

Sunday Science: Black Hole Flyby – David Kaiser on the Mystery of Dark Matter     David Kaiser May 30, 2024 London Review of Books What if dark matter is just ordinary matter locked inside black holes – from which, after all, light cannot escape. Such massiv…

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June 3, 2024 at 8:15 AM

Trial Results for New Lung Cancer Drug Are ‘Off the Charts’, Say Doctors

Trial Results for New Lung Cancer Drug Are ‘Off the Charts’, Say Doctors     Andrew Gregory May 31, 2024 The Guardian More than half of patients with advanced forms of disease who took lorlatinib were still alive after five years with no progression …

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June 3, 2024 at 6:30 AM

How Will AMLO’s Presidency Be Remembered?

How Will AMLO’s Presidency Be Remembered?     Nicolas Allen, Edwin Ackerman, Jacques Coste, Viridiana Rios May 31, 2024 The Nation To understand the outgoing president’s popularity—and why not all leftists love him—Nicolas Allen spoke to three Mexican analys…

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June 3, 2024 at 6:05 AM

Alabama’s and Maryland’s Similar Black Unemployment Rates Mask Major Differences in Labor Market Conditions

Alabama’s and Maryland’s Similar Black Unemployment Rates Mask Major Differences in Labor Market Conditions     Chandra Childers and Valerie Wilson May 23, 2024 Economic Policy Institute If Black unemployment rates are so similar in both states, why are empl…

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June 3, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Sympathizer Takes On Hollywood’s Vietnam War Stories

Portside Culture The Sympathizer Takes On Hollywood’s Vietnam War Stories     Li Zhou May 29, 2024 Vox HBO’s new miniseries centers Vietnamese voices — and reframes the consequences of war. The Captain (Hoa Xuande) helps advise a director m…

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June 2, 2024 at 12:05 AM

A Corporate Poisoner Two-Steps out of Toxic Liability

A Corporate Poisoner Two-Steps out of Toxic Liability     Katya Schwenk May 28, 2024 The Lever A Koch-owned company is exploiting bankruptcy law to avoid responsibility for their asbestos assets and rewrite judicial precedent. , AP Photo/Rick Bowme…

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June 2, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Georgia, Center of Election Disputes

Georgia, Center of Election Disputes     Carl Smith May 28, 2024 Governing Election skeptics haven’t taken their eyes off Georgia since the last presidential election. Officials there are working to make sure 2024 outcomes are as bulletproof as its 2020 resu…

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June 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dark Clouds and a Gentle Red Dawn

Dark Clouds and a Gentle Red Dawn     Josef Lakatos June 29, 2024 Transform!Europe The big question in this election will be to what extent the KPÖ will actually succeed in convincing enough left-wing voters, segments of previous non-voters and also sympathi…

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June 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Military’s Myth of Black Freedom

The Military’s Myth of Black Freedom     Nicole G. Young May 27, 2024 Yes Magazine Black people’s conscription into America’s endless war-making machine only ensures they will never be safe. , Illustration by Adobe Stock   Black people, we …

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June 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Forced Labor vs. Forced Idleness

Forced Labor vs. Forced Idleness     Tyler Bowman March 27, 2024 Dollars & Sense One of the most important battles of criminal justice today should be changing incarcerated laborers’ classification to legal workers. This would provide the same rights and…

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June 1, 2024 at 4:30 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 31, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | May 31, 2024     May 31, 2024 xxxxxx What It's Really Like To Work at Apple. Following Harry the Film. Jeremy Corbyn: Why I'm Standing Against Labour After 40 Years. The Fake News Divide: How Modi’s Rule Is Fracturing India. Cancer-bust…

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June 1, 2024 at 2:20 AM

Trump’s Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility

Trump’s Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility     Greg Sargent May 31, 2024 The New Republic Democratic operatives sometimes say there’s no sense in talking about Trump’s trials, because his “negatives” are “baked in.” Nonsense. A guilty…

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June 1, 2024 at 2:00 AM

Trump Wishes His Trial Were Rigged

Trump Wishes His Trial Were Rigged     Adam Serwer May 31, 2024 The Atlantic Trump is not angry because the Manhattan trial that convicted him was rigged; he is angry because it wasn’t. ,   Shortly after becoming the first former American p…

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June 1, 2024 at 1:50 AM

Can Palestinians Imagine a Future With Israelis After This War?

Can Palestinians Imagine a Future With Israelis After This War?     Mahmoud Mushtaha May 27, 2024 972 Magazine My grandfather remembers neighborly relations with Jews before 1948. For Palestinians today, such a prospect seems nearly impossible. Pal…

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June 1, 2024 at 1:35 AM

A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years

A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years     Jennifer Schuessler May 23, 2024 New York Times John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiogr…

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June 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Memorial Day

Portside Culture Memorial Day     Joe Zaccardi For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue. ,   Memorial Day By Joe Zaccardi   There’s so much in the sky: gods of c…

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May 31, 2024 at 2:35 AM

No One Is Above the Law – Trump Guilty on 34 Counts – Now a Convicted Felon

No One Is Above the Law – Trump Guilty on 34 Counts – Now a Convicted Felon     Hafiz Rashid May 30, 2024 The New Republic Today a jury found ex-president Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an effort to subvert the 2016…

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May 31, 2024 at 2:15 AM

How To Kill Children Under Siege Legally

How To Kill Children Under Siege Legally     Alex Lo May 28, 2024 South China Morning Post Some of the most respected publications in Britain and America have resorted to obscure legal grammar such as the use of commas to justify killing children ‘legally’ i…

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May 31, 2024 at 2:00 AM

NYU Nurse Is Fired After Calling the Gaza War a ‘Genocide’ in Speech

NYU Nurse Is Fired After Calling the Gaza War a ‘Genocide’ in Speech     Joseph Goldstein May 28, 2024 New York Times NYU Langone Health gave the nurse, Hesen Jabr, an award for her work, for compassionate care. Later that day, she said hospital officials th…

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May 31, 2024 at 1:45 AM

Counting the Negro League Records Is About More Than Numbers

Counting the Negro League Records Is About More Than Numbers     Dave Zirin May 28, 2024 The Nation One player in particular is laying waste to the Major League record book: Josh Gibson. The debut of Robinson was also the first step toward MLB’s destruction …

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May 31, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – May 30 – Reader Comments: Bombing Rafah Children – Where Is “Red Line?”; Trump and Palestine Protests; Response: Women Are Changing Labor Unions; NYC and Medicare Advantage; Organizations Raising Money for Humanitarian Relief in Rafah; More

Tidbits – May 30 – Reader Comments: Bombing Rafah Children – Where Is “Red Line?”; Trump and Palestine Protests; Response: Women Are Changing Labor Unions; NYC and Medicare Advantage; Organizations Raising Money for Humanitarian Relief in Rafah; More     May 30, 2…

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May 30, 2024 at 6:15 AM

Why Is Nikki Haley Scrawling Genocidal Messages on Israeli Bombs?

Why Is Nikki Haley Scrawling Genocidal Messages on Israeli Bombs?     Moustafa Bayoumi May 29, 2024 The Guardian Haley writing ‘finish them’ on an Israeli bomb is everything horrific about the US elite’s morally empty foreign policy Nikki Haley see…

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