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June 18, 2024 at 1:10 AM

France’s New Popular Front Has a Plan To Govern

France’s New Popular Front Has a Plan To Govern     Harrison Stetler June 15, 2024 Jacobin France’s snap elections are widely seen as an opportunity for Marine Le Pen’s far right. But the left-wing parties’ Nouveau Front Populaire has a real possibility of s…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:05 AM

An Amish-Chinese Mushroom Collaboration

Portside Culture An Amish-Chinese Mushroom Collaboration     Laura Reiley June 2, 2024 Ambrook Research A business born of necessity and the pandemic, Amish Agriculture Inc and its mushrooms are finding fertile ground. The collaboration, rooted in ur…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Parole Commission: It’s Long Past the Time to FREE Leonard Peltier

Parole Commission: It’s Long Past the Time to FREE Leonard Peltier     Levi Rickert June 9, 2024 Native News Online "We are hoping and praying that the parole commission will grant Leonard parole so that he can go back to his people on the Turtle Mountain Re…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Du Bois Doctrine

The Du Bois Doctrine     Zachariah Mampilly September 6, 2022 Foreign Affairs Du Bois is rightly venerated for his work on civil rights. But by discarding him, the American foreign policy establishment robbed itself of one of the twentieth century’s most per…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

No. Seriously. What if Trump Wins Again?

No. Seriously. What if Trump Wins Again?     Cayden Mak, Daniel Hunter, Katey Lauer June 14, 2024 Convergence Choose Democracy launched a set of online tools and strategy games to help prepare for this election and after. The tools invite participants to exp…
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June 17, 2024 at 6:50 AM

Sunday Science: Signs of Science

Sunday Science: Signs of Science     Dimitri Selibas June 13, 2024 Science CyberTracker, software developed in collaboration with Indigenous trackers, is enabling almost anyone to collect complex biodiversity data Indigenous trackers, preparing her…
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June 17, 2024 at 6:05 AM

Despite Possibility of Ceasefire, U.S. Imperial Ambitions May Doom Palestine

Despite Possibility of Ceasefire, U.S. Imperial Ambitions May Doom Palestine     Edward Hunt June 12, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus The Biden administration’s efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia may make it impossible for Palestinia…
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June 17, 2024 at 4:20 AM

A Legacy of Plunder

A Legacy of Plunder     Francisco Cantú June 2, 2024 The New York Review In its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work is changing how Native people are situated in the arc of North American histo…
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June 17, 2024 at 3:10 AM

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says     Renee Dudley, Doris Burke June 13, 2024 Propublica Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it fe…
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June 17, 2024 at 3:05 AM

US Banana Giant Ordered To Pay $38M to Families of Colombian Men Killed by Death Squads

US Banana Giant Ordered To Pay $38M to Families of Colombian Men Killed by Death Squads     Luke Taylor June 11, 2024 The Guardian Landmark verdict against Chiquita marks first time major US company held liable for funding human rights abuses abroad …
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June 17, 2024 at 12:55 AM

How the Acolyte Wove Queerness — and Lesbian Space Witches — Into Star Wars

Portside Culture How the Acolyte Wove Queerness — and Lesbian Space Witches — Into Star Wars     Abby Monteil June 13, 2024 Them Writer-director Leslye Headland’s new series takes a nuanced approach to representation. , Disney+   Co…
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June 16, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Weapons, Fossil Fuels, Illegal Settlements

Weapons, Fossil Fuels, Illegal Settlements     Dan McGlynn June 12, 2024 The Shoestring UMass’ Investment Portfolio: As UMass backs out of a commitment to consider divestment, a Shoestring investigation reveals its endowment has millions indirectly invested …
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June 16, 2024 at 12:05 AM

President in Mexico To Accelerate Energy Transition

President in Mexico To Accelerate Energy Transition     Trade Unions for Energy Democracy June 14, 2024 Socialist Project Claudia Sheinbaum’s resounding victory in Mexico’s presidential election on June 2nd, 2024, has been welcomed by two of the country’s ma…
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June 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

A ‘Focus on Solidarity’ and Progressive Solutions at Latest Sanders Institute Gathering

A ‘Focus on Solidarity’ and Progressive Solutions at Latest Sanders Institute Gathering     Jessica Corbett and Julia Conley June 14, 2024 Common Dreams Too often when covering advocacy work, the corporate media focuses on "the controversy," O'Meara Sanders …
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June 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Biden’s Border Restrictions Are Stranding Climate Migrants in Extreme Heat

Biden’s Border Restrictions Are Stranding Climate Migrants in Extreme Heat     Ayurella Horn-Muller June 12, 2024 Grist Many people seeking asylum are fleeing climate disasters. Biden's latest border move puts them even more at risk. , (Katie McTie…
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June 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Uncommitted Voters Sending a Clear Message to Biden About Slaughter in Gaza

Uncommitted Voters Sending a Clear Message to Biden About Slaughter in Gaza     Phyllis Bennis June 10, 2024 Albuquerque Journal Uncommitted voters, tens of thousands of students protesting in encampments, millions more protesting in the streets and in the h…
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June 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM

Friday Nite Videos | June 14, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | June 14, 2024     June 14, 2024 xxxxxx Deep-Sea Mining | John Oliver. They Might Incarcerate Me: The Ballad of Donald Trump. Hitler and the Nazis | Documentary. Dear Mamma: a Transgender Journey in Letters. Why Do So Many Americans Suppo…
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June 15, 2024 at 1:25 AM

The Speech FDR Would Give

The Speech FDR Would Give     David Dayan June 14, 2024 The American Prospect As economic royalists ally with Trump, we have already seen an example of a rhetorical counter that tells it like it is. ,   A first-term president is presiding o…
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June 15, 2024 at 12:55 AM

Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise

Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise     Drew Weissman March 1, 2022 Scientific American Instructing our cells to make specific proteins could control influenza, autoimmune diseases, even cancer ,   Editor’s Note (10…
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June 15, 2024 at 12:35 AM

What Gantz’s Exit Reveals About Israel’s Failed Gaza Strategy

What Gantz’s Exit Reveals About Israel’s Failed Gaza Strategy     Meron Rapoport June 11, 2024 972 Magazine October 7 collapsed Israel’s decades-old ‘separation policy' toward Gaza. Gantz and Gallant know it; Netanyahu and the far right still won’t admit it.…
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June 15, 2024 at 12:25 AM

Will the Revolution Be Funded?

Will the Revolution Be Funded?     Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry June 11, 2024 The Forge Organizers and researchers Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry examine how movements can build power by working within, without, and against philanthropy , …
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June 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Juneteenth

Portside Culture Juneteenth     Peter Neil Carroll Enslavers typically insisted that Africans lacked "civilization," culture, religion until scholars like P. Sterling Stuckey showed beyond doubt the rich complexity --and survival-- of African traditi…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:10 AM

What Did We Know – and When Did We Know It?

What Did We Know – and When Did We Know It?     Rebecca Gordon June 11, 2024 TomDispatch This capacity to predict the future is beginning to feel a bit déjà-vu-ish. It’s not too hard to foresee the approaching catastrophe in Gaza. In our presidential electio…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist?

Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist?     Sam Pizzigati May 30, 2024 Inequality.org Not on this planet. The wealthiest of our wealthy, a just-released report from Americans for Tax Fairness points out, are doing their best to keep these good times — for Am…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

How the Media Failed the College Student Encampments

How the Media Failed the College Student Encampments     Sarah Baum June 6, 2024 he Progressive Magazine The focus on Columbia University has overshadowed the extent of protests—and police brutality—at public schools. Those charged with occupying a Columbia …
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June 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Remembering the Holocaust While Gaza Starves

Remembering the Holocaust While Gaza Starves     Ariel Dorfman June 6, 2024 New Lines Magazine A ceremony at an old food market in Amsterdam prompts reflections on tragedy, indifference and survival. How could so many Israelis feel indifferent to such grief …
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June 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 13 – Reader Comments: Billionaires Captured Trump; Criminalization of Solidarity; Slippery Slope to World War III?; Pride Month Event – Telling the Stories of Lincoln Brigade LGBTQ Volunteers; Cartoons; More…

Tidbits – June 13 – Reader Comments: Billionaires Captured Trump; Criminalization of Solidarity; Slippery Slope to World War III?; Pride Month Event – Telling the Stories of Lincoln Brigade LGBTQ Volunteers; Cartoons; More…     June 13, 2024 xxxxxx Reader Co…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Israel’s Descent

Portside Culture Israel’s Descent     Adam Shatz June 20, 2024 London Review of Books Exterminationist violence is almost always preceded by other forms of persecution, which aim to render the victims as miserable as possible, including plunder, deni…
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June 13, 2024 at 6:20 AM

Could Your First EV Be the Last Car You Ever Buy?

Could Your First EV Be the Last Car You Ever Buy?     Matteo Wong June 8, 2024 The Atlantic An electric car capable of running for 1 million miles is within reach--if car companies allow it. , Illustration by The Atlantic   In April, a grou…
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June 13, 2024 at 6:10 AM

New Republican Plan for Voter Suppression

New Republican Plan for Voter Suppression     Hansi Lo Wang June 11, 2024 NPR A bill has been introduced that would require proof of citizenship for registration to vote in Federal elections while 1 in 10 voters say they can't easily show proof of citizenshi…
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June 13, 2024 at 5:50 AM

News of Chomsky’s Ill Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’

News of Chomsky’s Ill Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’     Brett Wilkins June 12, 2024 Common Dreams "So many thousands of people have stories about how he has changed their lives," said one admirer. "He certainly changed mine." …
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June 13, 2024 at 5:30 AM

If Not in New York, Then Where?

If Not in New York, Then Where?     David Wallace-Wells June 12, 2024 New York Times Governor Kathy Hochul's indefinite pause of a proposed congestion pricing program for lower Manhattan is “a generational setback for climate policy in the United States." …
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June 13, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Inequality Without Class

Portside Culture Inequality Without Class     Simon Torracinta April 5, 2024 Dissent This book surveys how leading economists, over the last two and a half centuries, have accounted for wealth and income inequality. ,   Visions of …
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June 13, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 12, 2024

Global Left Midweek – June 12, 2024     June 12, 2024 xxxxxx More election season news and views Samsung workers declare their strike at corporate headquarters in Seoul, May 29. Credit, Yonhap   India, Modi and Europe Early EP Election Rep…
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June 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Europe’s Decelerating Drift

Europe’s Decelerating Drift     Robert Kuttner June 10, 2024 The American Prospect How serious is the continuing appeal of the far right? Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally party addresses the crowd at a rally before the European Parliament e…
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June 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

‘People Are Dying’: Air in ‘Cancer Alley’ Louisiana More Toxic Than Previously Thought

‘People Are Dying’: Air in ‘Cancer Alley’ Louisiana More Toxic Than Previously Thought     Edward Carver June 11, 2024 Common Dreams Ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic gas, is nine times more prevalent than the EPA estimated, a study shows. And inside petrochemi…
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June 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Fallacy of the ‘Wrong Side of History’ Narrative

The Fallacy of the ‘Wrong Side of History’ Narrative     Gerald Nesmith Jr June 9, 2024 Aljazeera Waiting on history to deliver karmic justice for war crimes is a useless exercise, especially at a time when urgent action is needed. President Joe B…
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June 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

A Democrat, Siding With the G.O.P., Is Removing Limits on Political Cash at ‘Breathtaking’ Speed

A Democrat, Siding With the G.O.P., Is Removing Limits on Political Cash at ‘Breathtaking’ Speed     Shane Goldmacher June 10, 2024 The New York Times An ascendant new bloc of three Republicans and one Democrat is voting together to roll back limits on how p…
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June 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – June 11, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – June 11, 2024     June 11, 2024 xxxxxx A crisis moment for media A vigil in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2022 for British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Credit, André Penner/AP   The Media Mome…
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June 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

There’s Still Tomorrow Shows Women’s Fight for Freedom

Portside Culture There’s Still Tomorrow Shows Women’s Fight for Freedom     Stefanie Prezioso June 4, 2024 Jacobin Paola Cortellesi’s film There’s Still Tomorrow offers a striking portrayal of working-class women fighting gendered violence in late 19…
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June 11, 2024 at 6:30 AM

Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lies

Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lies     Veronica Riccobene June 3, 2024 The Lever While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts. , AP Photo/…
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June 11, 2024 at 2:20 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 11–17

This Week in People’s History, June 11–17     xxxxxx A Very Unusual Strike (1894), A Bad Day for the African National Congress (1964), Nazi Germany’s Secret Weapons (1944), Sticking it to Robert E. Lee (1864) ,   Due to technical difficulti…
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June 11, 2024 at 1:25 AM

How Israel’s Illiberal Democracy Became a Model for the Right

How Israel’s Illiberal Democracy Became a Model for the Right     Suzanne Schneider June 1, 2024 Dissent Israel maintains a system of unequal citizenship system for Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. This version of democracy has long prevailed in Israel, and …
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June 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Sonic Seasoning

Portside Culture Sonic Seasoning     Andrew Coletti May 18, 2024 Atlas Obscura A developing field called “sonic seasoning” suggests a possible link between our experience of sound and taste. In a Oxford University study, subjects consistently connect…
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June 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Far-Right Surge in Elections Shakes Up European Parliament

Far-Right Surge in Elections Shakes Up European Parliament     Ana Vračar June 10, 2024 Peoples Dispatch Far right gains means European policies will likely shift in direction of security, austerity, and migration restrictions, despite hundreds of thousands …
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June 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Time for the Fed To Meet the FTC

Time for the Fed To Meet the FTC     Robert Kuttner June 5, 2024 The American Prospect The real source of too many price hikes is concentrated market power, not macroeconomic overheating. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news con…
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June 10, 2024 at 4:50 AM

Sunday Science: With All This Bird Flu Around, How Safe Are Eggs, Chicken or Milk?

Sunday Science: With All This Bird Flu Around, How Safe Are Eggs, Chicken or Milk?     Enzo Palombo June 5, 2024 The Conversation Recent outbreaks of bird flu – in US dairy herds, poultry farms in Australia and elsewhere, and isolated cases in humans – have …
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June 10, 2024 at 3:40 AM

Betrayal, It’s Not the Sunrise Movement, It Is the Governor of New York

Betrayal, It’s Not the Sunrise Movement, It Is the Governor of New York     Bill McKibben June 6, 2024 The Crucial Years A plea not to be angry with the youth. ,   I had another piece planned for today, and I will get back to it soon—it wil…
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June 10, 2024 at 3:10 AM

For the Rich, One Nation Isn’t Rolling Out the Red Carpet

For the Rich, One Nation Isn’t Rolling Out the Red Carpet     Sam Pizzigati June 6, 2024 Inequality.org Norway, now maybe more than any other nation, is really working to share the wealth. , Getty Images   So you think the rich have life ea…
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June 10, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Welcome to the Era of Garbage Film and Television Streaming

Portside Culture Welcome to the Era of Garbage Film and Television Streaming     David Moscrop June 6, 2024 Jacobin Private equity and monopoly capitalists will destroy anything to make a buck, and they’ve turned their sights on TV and film. If you h…