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December 16, 2024 at 6:55 AM

The International Court of Justice Takes On Climate Change

The International Court of Justice Takes On Climate Change     Elizabeth Kolbert December 14, 2024 The New Yorker Thanks to the maneuverings of the tiny nation of Vanuatu, the entire industrialized world is effectively on trial in The Hague. Young …
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December 16, 2024 at 3:20 AM

Emilia Pérez Is a Regressive Movie That Thinks It’s Woke. It Will Probably Win an Oscar.

Portside Culture Emilia Pérez Is a Regressive Movie That Thinks It’s Woke. It Will Probably Win an Oscar.     Kyndall Cunningham December 13, 2024 Vox Could a movie musical about a trans Mexican drug lord be this awards season’s Crash? Karl…
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December 15, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Knowing Fascism Requires Understanding Economic Forces

Knowing Fascism Requires Understanding Economic Forces     Taylor Dorrell December 14, 2024 Jacobin Behind the confusion and debates about fascism lies a simple truth: it’s a power game driven by economic elites. Communists recognized that fascism’s form is …
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December 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Mocking the Disabled Is Cruel and Immoral — Especially When the President Does It

Mocking the Disabled Is Cruel and Immoral — Especially When the President Does It     Eric S. Jackson December 11, 2024 Other Words As a speech scientist and speech-language pathologist, I hope Donald Trump’s supporters will push back on his mockery of peopl…
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December 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Israel Expands Invasion of Syria, Launching Massive Airstrikes After Assad’s Fall

Israel Expands Invasion of Syria, Launching Massive Airstrikes After Assad’s Fall     Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous December 10, 2024 Drop Site Israel’s message is clear: regardless of who governs Syria, Israel will ensure it does not possess the …
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December 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Palestinian Writer Karim Kattan and Lebanese Historian Yara El Khoury: “The Catastrophe in Gaza Is Irreversible. The Future Is Terrifying”

Palestinian Writer Karim Kattan and Lebanese Historian Yara El Khoury: “The Catastrophe in Gaza Is Irreversible. The Future Is Terrifying”     Inès Gil November 29, 2024 Equal Times There are lines that cannot be crossed in Western countries, an established …
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December 14, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 13, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | December 13, 2024     December 13, 2024 xxxxxx How Amazon Is Ruining Christmas. Yasmin Williams | Hummingbird. Trump's NY Conviction. Alvin Bragg Is Definitely Not 'Obeying in Advance.' What Is Russia's Plan for Victory? Who Won Big at F…
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December 14, 2024 at 2:30 AM

How We’re Rebuilding the Nation’s Largest Student Organization

How We’re Rebuilding the Nation’s Largest Student Organization     Sean Behl December 12, 2024 The Forge For over 70 years, the U.S. Student Association represented millions, weathered CIA infiltration, and championed civil rights and free higher education. …
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December 14, 2024 at 2:15 AM

Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter

Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter     John Feffer December 12, 2024 TomDispatch Off-the-record, some liberals support Trump on a case-by-case basis. In normal times, finding overlapping interests with your political adversaries makes sense. But let’s be c…
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December 14, 2024 at 1:50 AM

What the Failure To Protect Assad Could Mean for Russia’s Future

What the Failure To Protect Assad Could Mean for Russia’s Future     Meduza December 10, 2024 Meduza The overthrow of Syrian dictator Assad has brought Putin’s image as a provider of stability into question. “This is a sign of his weakness. And no matter how…
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December 14, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Our Margin of Effort: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Our Margin of Effort: Looking Back and Looking Ahead     Max Elbaum December 12, 2024 Convergence Magazine A broad swath of the progressive movement “left it all on the field” in 2024. Some sobering lessons about progressive strength, Establishment myopia an…
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December 14, 2024 at 1:00 AM

What Dreams May Come

Portside Culture What Dreams May Come     Charlotte Muse At the Corner of Hope and Despair: an Anthology for the Trump Era California poet Charlotte Muse digs into the open grave which is Gaza. , Cover art by Nina Koepcke   They came…
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December 13, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Trump Does Not Have Mandate

Trump Does Not Have Mandate     Peter Dreier December 11, 2024 Talking Points Memo Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion po…
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December 13, 2024 at 2:15 AM

A xxxxxx Message: The Challenge of Wannabe Fascism

A xxxxxx Message: The Challenge of Wannabe Fascism     xxxxxx Moderators December 12, 2024 xxxxxx How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how. You can h…
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December 13, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81

Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81     Penelope Green December 9, 2024 New York Times Nikki Giovanni, as a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured…
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December 13, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Legalized Murder

Legalized Murder     Charles Taylor December 6, 2024 Dissent Magazine I do not want to live in a world where the rich are dragged from their limos and beaten. But I do think that world is a lot more likely to be realized because of the modus operandi of UHC …
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December 13, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How a Hostage Family Leader Became One of the Loudest Anti-War Voices in Israel

How a Hostage Family Leader Became One of the Loudest Anti-War Voices in Israel     Edo Konrad and Oren Ziv December 6, 2024 +972 Magazine After Ayala Metzger's relatives were kidnapped from Nir Oz and abandoned by the government, she had no choice but to be…
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December 13, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Dec.12 – Reader Comments: Trump Plan – End Citizenship, Mass Deportations; It Was Close Election; Health and Death As Profit Industry – $1.39 Trillion in Profits; Syria – a Caution; New Resource – Elections and Health Policy; Take Action;

Tidbits – Dec.12 – Reader Comments: Trump Plan – End Citizenship, Mass Deportations; It Was Close Election; Health and Death As Profit Industry – $1.39 Trillion in Profits; Syria – a Caution; New Resource – Elections and Health Policy; Take Action;     December 12…
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December 12, 2024 at 7:55 AM

‘How Many Dead Palestinians Are Enough?’ The Unbearable Prescience of the Late Poet Refaat Alareer

Portside Culture ‘How Many Dead Palestinians Are Enough?’ The Unbearable Prescience of the Late Poet Refaat Alareer     Sarah Aziza December 10, 2024 The Guardian The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous col…
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December 12, 2024 at 7:40 AM

Hospitals Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them for Positive Drug Tests

Hospitals Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them for Positive Drug Tests     Shoshana Walter December 11, 2024 The Marshall Project Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce a…
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December 12, 2024 at 7:20 AM

‘Crushing Blow to the Labor Agenda’ As Manchin, Sinema Block Biden NLRB Nominee

‘Crushing Blow to the Labor Agenda’ As Manchin, Sinema Block Biden NLRB Nominee     Brett Wilkins December 11, 2024 Common Dreams "These two senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins," noted one observer. , © The A…
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December 12, 2024 at 7:10 AM

How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare

How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare     Robert Kuttner December 11, 2024 The American Prospect Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer? , Charles Krupa/AP Photo   We still don…
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December 12, 2024 at 6:55 AM

Grave New World

Portside Culture Grave New World     David Klion October 1, 2024 Bookforum This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a g…
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December 12, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – December 11, 2024

Global Left Midweek – December 11, 2024     December 11, 2024 xxxxxx As the world churns Rojava revolutionaries. Credit, Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty   Change Requires Deep Organizing Syria, Kurds and Turkey Pink Tide Governments and Trump In…
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December 11, 2024 at 1:50 AM

Activists Call on Biden To Clear Death Row Before Trump Takes Office

Activists Call on Biden To Clear Death Row Before Trump Takes Office     Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Erica L. Green December 9, 2024 The New York Times The series of open letters from human rights activists and former corrections officials aligned with a larger …
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December 11, 2024 at 1:45 AM

How Health Insurance Became a Boon for Business

How Health Insurance Became a Boon for Business     Juan Cruz Ferre, Left Voice. December 9, 2024 Popular Resistance Health insurance companies are a center-piece in a deeply corrupt, inhumane, and deleterious health system that allows business people to re…
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December 11, 2024 at 1:45 AM

What Is the Progressive Working-Class Policy on Immigration?

What Is the Progressive Working-Class Policy on Immigration?     Les Leopold December 10, 2024 Common Dreams That we don't know the answer to this question is the first problem that must be addressed. A migrant sleeps in Huixtla, Mexico while sitti…
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December 11, 2024 at 1:45 AM

Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing

Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing     Layla Maghribi December 10, 2024 New Lines Magazine The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past Syrians in Istanbul, Turkey, celebrate the toppling of the Bashar al-Assad regime …
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December 11, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Toronto Film Festival Goes Around the World

Portside Culture Toronto Film Festival Goes Around the World     Bill Meyer November 16, 2024 Hollywood Progressive A favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was by far M - Son of the Century directed by the talented UK fil…
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December 11, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – December 10, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – December 10, 2024     December 10, 2024 xxxxxx Are media owners surrendering press freedom? Credit, Cathy Wilcox   Newsroom Leaders! Show Some Spine Clock’s Ticking on TikTok Where To, MSNBC? Public Broadcasters on T…
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December 10, 2024 at 7:05 AM

What Caused Assad’s Sudden Fall

What Caused Assad’s Sudden Fall     Interview with Joshua Landis by Michael Hirsh December 9, 2024 Politico And what is its significance for the Middle East and U.S. policy Citizens in Syria take down statues of Hafez al-Assad – the father of Basha…
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December 10, 2024 at 2:10 AM

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

This Week in People’s History, Dec 11–17     xxxxxx Is Torture Really in the Eye of the Beholder? (2014), Winning the Fight Against McCarthyism (1954), Hands Off Haiti! (1929), The First Firefight Against King George (1774), Second City’s Amazing Alumni (195…
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December 10, 2024 at 1:55 AM

Progressives Slam Trump Plan To End Birthright Citizenship

Progressives Slam Trump Plan To End Birthright Citizenship     Jessica Corbett December 9, 2024 Common Dreams "Emboldened by a Supreme Court that would use its power to uphold white supremacy rather than the constitution of our nation, Trump is on a mission …
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December 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Ni Una Menos Is ‘Building a New Generation of Militancy’ Against Physical and Economic Violence

Ni Una Menos Is ‘Building a New Generation of Militancy’ Against Physical and Economic Violence     Marta Facchini Irupé Tentorio December 6, 2024 Il Manifesto Global Between 2015 to 2023 laws were enacted guaranteeing support to victims of violence and to f…
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December 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Will Congress Force This Controversial Alcohol Study To Stop?

Portside Culture Will Congress Force This Controversial Alcohol Study To Stop?     Esther Mobley October 17, 2024 San Francisco Chronicle The upcoming revision of U. S. Dietary Guidelines is unfolding amid a shifting global sentiment toward drinking.…
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December 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Why I’m Voting Against the Military Budget

Why I’m Voting Against the Military Budget     Bernie Sanders December 8, 2024 The Guardian While so many Americans struggle to get by, the US is spending record-breaking amounts of money on the military ‘Elon Musk is right when he says the Pentago…
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December 9, 2024 at 8:20 AM

Sunday Science: Archaeological Remains in Alaska Show Humans and Dogs Bonded 12,000 Years Ago

Sunday Science: Archaeological Remains in Alaska Show Humans and Dogs Bonded 12,000 Years Ago     University of Arizona December 4, 2024 Phys.org The bone, along with a 12,000-year-old leg bone discovered at a nearby site, are some of the earliest evidence t…
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December 9, 2024 at 7:50 AM

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk     Annie Waldman November 19, 2024 ProPublica The company is policing mental health care with arbitrary thresholds and cost-driven targets, highlight…
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December 9, 2024 at 7:20 AM

The West Bank Villages Wiped Off the Map by Israeli Settler Violence

The West Bank Villages Wiped Off the Map by Israeli Settler Violence     Oren Ziv December 4, 2024 972 Magazine Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment …
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December 9, 2024 at 6:15 AM

Revealed: The Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts

Revealed: The Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts     Steven Monacelli, Tristan Lee / Texas Observer December 4, 2024 Texas Observer Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, …
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December 9, 2024 at 5:30 AM

Trump Attacks Diversity, but a Fellow New Yorker − US Rep. Vito Marcantonio − Worked To Represent All Americans in a Multiracial Democracy

Trump Attacks Diversity, but a Fellow New Yorker − US Rep. Vito Marcantonio − Worked To Represent All Americans in a Multiracial Democracy     Sandhya Shukla December 6, 2024 The Conversation Marcantonio, like other notable Harlem figures such as writers Lan…
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December 9, 2024 at 2:55 AM

A Portside Message: The Challenge of Wannabe Fascism

Portside Culture A Portside Message: The Challenge of Wannabe Fascism     December 8, 2024 Portside How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how.…
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December 9, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Say Nothing Turns the IRA’s Secret History Into TV Drama

Portside Culture Say Nothing Turns the IRA’s Secret History Into TV Drama     An interview with Josh Zetumer December 7, 2024 Jacobin The new FX TV show Say Nothing dramatizes one of the most controversial stories in modern Irish history, with charac…
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December 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Insurer Sets Time Limits on Anesthesia During Surgeries

Insurer Sets Time Limits on Anesthesia During Surgeries     Helen Santoro December 4, 2024 The Lever A surprise medical bill could be waiting for you when you wake up in the recovery room. A patient receives anesthesia before surgery., AP Photo/Ric…
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December 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Americans Hate Their Private Health Insurance

Americans Hate Their Private Health Insurance     Branko Marcetic December 7, 2024 Jacobin The response to UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder surely disproves the claim that Americans love the private health insurance system. It’s a political force waiting to be …
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December 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Mass Protests Force South Korean President To Revoke Shocking Martial Law Declaration After 6 Hours

Mass Protests Force South Korean President To Revoke Shocking Martial Law Declaration After 6 Hours     Interview with Dae-Han Song and Christine Ahn December 4, 2024 Democracy Now What we witnessed in the last day is an extraordinary example of what America…
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December 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

From Kindergarden to Real World

From Kindergarden to Real World     Paul Garver December 3, 2024 Chartist If DSA can graduate from the kindergarten playground to the real political world, it can make a major contribution to putting the interests of the inclusive and diverse working class o…
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December 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

This Was a Very Close Election, Trump Won, but Got Less Than 50% of the Popular Vote, Now Let’s Act Like That and Build on It – Monroe County, Pennsylvania – a Case Study

This Was a Very Close Election, Trump Won, but Got Less Than 50% of the Popular Vote, Now Let’s Act Like That and Build on It – Monroe County, Pennsylvania – a Case Study     Jay Schaffner December 3, 2024 Stansbury Forum With a much larger population than p…
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December 7, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 6, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | December 6, 2024     December 6, 2024 xxxxxx Five Things Christian Nationalists Want from Trump. What Your Brain Is Really Doing When You're Doing 'Nothing.' The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam. Michael Kosta Meets the No. 1 Bo…
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December 7, 2024 at 2:25 AM

The Most Billionaires Ever

The Most Billionaires Ever     Robert Tait December 6, 2024 Guardian The president-elect is tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services. The gulf between Trump’s taste for the wealthy and his populist …