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February 20, 2023 at 5:25 AM

Who’s Afraid of Black History?

Who’s Afraid of Black History?     Henry Louis Gates Jr. February 17, 2023New York Times As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so aptly put it, “No society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.” , Photo illustration by Bill…

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February 20, 2023 at 5:00 AM

The Book That Exposed Anti-Black Racism in the Classroom

The Book That Exposed Anti-Black Racism in the Classroom     Ibram X. Kendi February 14, 2023The Atlantic As African American studies faces resistance, a conversation about the continued relevance of Carter G. Woodson’s 1933 book, The Mis-education of the Negro …

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February 20, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Five Principles for Making State and Local Reparations Plans Reparative

Five Principles for Making State and Local Reparations Plans Reparative     Kyle K. Moore February 15, 2023Economic Policy Institute Despite the raised awareness around the issue of reparations, the political will to enact a federal plan is currently lacking. …

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February 20, 2023 at 1:00 AM

How To Get Un-Fired

How To Get Un-Fired     Jenny Brown February 16, 2023Labor Notes If properly enforced, just cause protections would give all workers more security to stand up to dangerous working conditions, sexual harassment, bullying, speed-up, and wage theft. The Memphis 7…

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February 20, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World Review – Chuck D Is a Brilliant History Teacher

Portside Culture Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World Review – Chuck D Is a Brilliant History Teacher     Jack Seale January 21, 2023The Guardian Some of the greatest pop music ever made gets the respectful, rigorous sociological treatment it deserves…

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February 19, 2023 at 1:05 AM

How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline

How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline     Seymour Hersh February 15, 2023Democracy Now Hersh joins us for an in-depth interview to discuss his report and says the U.S. decision to bomb the pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for Ukraine at a time …

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February 19, 2023 at 1:05 AM

The Endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis     William Burr & Leopoldo Nuti February 16, 2023National Security Archive Most of the documents in this posting are never-before-published records discovered at the U.S. National Archives among the State Department’s cent…

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February 19, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Senate GOP Offers D.C. ‘Adult Supervision,’ Pushes To Overturn Criminal Code Bill

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February 19, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Is the Life of a Poor Person Worth Less Than a Rich Human?

Is the Life of a Poor Person Worth Less Than a Rich Human?     Hannah Story Brown and Emma Marsano February 16, 2023Common Dreams Why on earth are people's lives being valued differently depending on the country they live in? A fire burns at a fossil fuel extr…

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February 19, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Eddie Conway (1946–2023)

Eddie Conway (1946–2023)     TRNN February 14, 2023The Real News Network Even in the darkest of times, in the most hopeless of places, Eddie’s commitment to organizing for liberation was unwavering. And, despite the unimaginable toll that 44 years of incarceration ha…

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February 18, 2023 at 2:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | February 17, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | February 17, 2023     February 17, 2023xxxxxx Jordan Klepper Hits Nikki Haley's Rally. I Shall Be Released. How These Buildings Made Turkey-Syria’s Earthquake So Deadly. Revealed: the Hacking and Disinformation Team Meddling in Elections. Inside…

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February 18, 2023 at 1:20 AM

Trump Claims ‘Total Exoneration’ As Georgia Grand Jury Hints at Future Prosecutions

Trump Claims ‘Total Exoneration’ As Georgia Grand Jury Hints at Future Prosecutions     Liz Dye February 16, 2023Above the Law The excerpt released hints at “recommendations on indictments and relevant statutes.” In fact, the jurors offer an explicit endorsement of a…

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February 18, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Roberto Clemente Book Removed From Florida Public Schools

Roberto Clemente Book Removed From Florida Public Schools     Nicole Acevedo February 10, 2023NBC News “His story is his story. He went through racism. It’s something that can’t be changed,” Clemente's son, Roberto Clemente Jr., told NBC News. Roberto Clemente…

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February 18, 2023 at 1:00 AM

A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled

A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled     Kevin Roose February 16, 2023New York Times A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me. ,   Last week, after testi…

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February 18, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Rail Worker Alliance Urges Labor To Back Railroad Nationalization

Rail Worker Alliance Urges Labor To Back Railroad Nationalization     Jake Johnson February 17, 2023Common Dreams "The railroads, their CEOs, and the hedge fund robber barons will not listen, but railroad workers have the solution to managing and operating critical r…

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February 18, 2023 at 1:00 AM

I’m No Martian

Portside Culture I’m No Martian     William J Harris January 1, 1974HEY FELLA WOULD YOU MIND HOLDING THIS PIANO A MOMENT The Brooklyn poet William J. Harris has something to say about guilt by association as so many of your own best friends have been accused. …

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February 17, 2023 at 1:10 AM

‘American Democratic Socialism’ Has a Proud, Diverse, and Inspiring History

Portside Culture ‘American Democratic Socialism’ Has a Proud, Diverse, and Inspiring History     Matt McManus February 14, 2023Current Affairs Gary Dorrien’s sweeping history of American democratic socialism weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narrativ…

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February 17, 2023 at 1:05 AM

How Not To Get Hoodwinked About Social Security Going “Bankrupt”

How Not To Get Hoodwinked About Social Security Going “Bankrupt”     Josh Marshall February 13, 2023Talking Points Memo All the talk of Social Security “going bankrupt” or becoming “insolvent” is just plain wrong. This is just scare talk designed to convince people t…

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February 17, 2023 at 1:05 AM

We Can’t Let Antisemitism Be Weaponized To Criminalize Solidarity With Palestine

We Can’t Let Antisemitism Be Weaponized To Criminalize Solidarity With Palestine     Taylor Fox , Rachel Krumholz , Sarah Frieman February 13, 2023Truthout A recent Department of Education decision marks a victory for Palestine solidarity organizing, but the fight is…

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February 17, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Forensic Study Finds Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned

Forensic Study Finds Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned     Sam Jones and John Bartlett February 14, 2023The Guardian The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup. Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Ne…

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February 17, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Memphis Police Killed Tyre Nichols. It’s Trauma That’s Familiar to Tacoma, Too

Memphis Police Killed Tyre Nichols. It’s Trauma That’s Familiar to Tacoma, Too     Michael K. Honey February 10, 2023The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) In Memphis, the existence of racial terror and trauma goes back as far as history can remember. Back to stolen l…

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February 17, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Feb. 16, 2023 – Reader Comments: States Can Tax the Rich; Black Studies Vital, Necessary; History Seeing ‘Socialism’ Under Every Bed; Ukraine War; Ohio Train Derailment; Holly Near Tribute; Paul Robeson 125th Birthday Celebration; More...

Tidbits – Feb. 16, 2023 – Reader Comments: States Can Tax the Rich; Black Studies Vital, Necessary; History Seeing ‘Socialism’ Under Every Bed; Ukraine War; Ohio Train Derailment; Holly Near Tribute; Paul Robeson 125th Birthday Celebration; More…     February 16, 2023xxx…

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February 16, 2023 at 6:00 AM

The Turkey/Syria Earthquake Was a Natural Disaster – Murderous Corruption Caused So Many Deaths

The Turkey/Syria Earthquake Was a Natural Disaster – Murderous Corruption Caused So Many Deaths     Constanze Letsch February 15, 2023The Guardian Corner-cutting contractors sold buildings as safe that then collapsed. But just as culpable are officials who offered pe…

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February 16, 2023 at 5:50 AM

State Legislators Can Finally Make Billionaires Pay What They Owe

State Legislators Can Finally Make Billionaires Pay What They Owe     Jessie Ulibarri and Kristen Crowell February 14, 2023Common Dreams No longer should a handful of billionaires be able to rig the rules to redirect resources from our communities to their country cl…

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February 16, 2023 at 5:30 AM

Bernie Sanders’s New Campaign: Taking On Big Pharma and Starbucks

Bernie Sanders’s New Campaign: Taking On Big Pharma and Starbucks     John Cassidy February 14, 2023The New Yorker As the new chair of a powerful Senate committee, the reënergized progressive leader is once again targeting the corporate plutocracy. Bernie Sand…

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February 16, 2023 at 5:10 AM

Paying Homage to Russian War Resisters

Paying Homage to Russian War Resisters     Lawence S. Wittner February 13, 2023LA Progressive Given the Russian government’s brutal repression of dissent, the level of Russian resistance to the Putin regime’s war on Ukraine is quite remarkable. , Wikimedia Com…

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February 16, 2023 at 2:15 AM

Putinism’s Defeated Opposition

Portside Culture Putinism’s Defeated Opposition     Aleksandra Simonova October 1, 2022Dissent In a new collection, Ilya Budraitskis provides a trenchant analysis of the ideological underpinnings of Putin’s Russia and the domestic political groups that have opp…

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February 16, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – February 15, 2023

Global Left Midweek – February 15, 2023     February 15, 2023xxxxxx The global left discusses theory and strategy Nearly a million protesters filled Paris streets. Credit, Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Image   The Left and the Crisis of Hegemony Intel…

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February 15, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Chemical Desolation in Appalachia

Chemical Desolation in Appalachia     Jarod Facundo February 14, 2023The American Prospect Freight rail companies are running their trains ragged to boost profits. Sometimes they crash. A large plume of smoke rises over East Palestine, Ohio, after a controlled…

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February 15, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Social Security Benefits Are Not a Gift, but a Sacred Contract With Working People

Social Security Benefits Are Not a Gift, but a Sacred Contract With Working People     Tom Conway January 26, 2023Inequality.org While corporate politicians consider cuts to essential programs like Social Security, the ultra-rich continue to exploit dodgy tax loophol…

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February 15, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Fears of Renewed FBI Abuse of Power After Informant Infiltrated BLM Protests

Fears of Renewed FBI Abuse of Power After Informant Infiltrated BLM Protests     Ed Pilkington February 14, 2023The Guardian ‘Outraged’ Senator Ron Wyden urges agency to explain tactics from 2020 protests reminiscent of rogue behaviour from decades past A crow…

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February 15, 2023 at 1:00 AM

This Valentine’s Day, Let’s Look to Marxists To Reimagine Love, Romance and Sex

This Valentine’s Day, Let’s Look to Marxists To Reimagine Love, Romance and Sex     Sarah Jaffe February 13, 2023In These Times It’s not you, it’s capitalism. , Carmen Martínez Torrón   Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci has been quoted quite a lot in rec…

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February 15, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 14, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 14, 2023     February 14, 2023xxxxxx Florida's war on woke, and more nightmares from the Sunshine State , Mark Peterson/Redux   Peddling Jesus at the Super Bowl Americans Reject Theocracy Florida: It’s Beginnin…

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February 15, 2023 at 1:00 AM

'Women Talking’ Review: Sarah Polley’s Electric Drama Is an Urgent Vision of How To Remake Our World

Portside Culture 'Women Talking’ Review: Sarah Polley’s Electric Drama Is an Urgent Vision of How To Remake Our World     David Ehrlich September 3, 2022IndieWire For God knows how long, the women of an isolated religious community have been drugged with cow tr…

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February 14, 2023 at 6:55 AM

Mexican President Vows Global Push To End ‘Inhumane’ US Embargo of Cuba

Mexican President Vows Global Push To End ‘Inhumane’ US Embargo of Cuba     Kenny Stancil February 13, 2023Common Dreams One peace group praised AMLO for "once again providing such an important voice against U.S. imperialism and bullying." Mexican President An…

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February 14, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Vermont’s Largest Health Care Union Will Almost Double in Size

Vermont’s Largest Health Care Union Will Almost Double in Size     Kristen Fountain January 27, 2023VTDigger The Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, already the state’s largest affiliation representing some 2,500 health care workers, will roughly d…

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February 14, 2023 at 1:05 AM

‘Perceptual Diversity’ Describes Who We Are

‘Perceptual Diversity’ Describes Who We Are     Oshan Jarow February 11, 2023Vox Every brain experiences reality differently. This census aims to help us understand how human diversity encompasses not only perception, but consciousness itself. See the link at the end…

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February 14, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Police Accountability Is a “Non-Starter” Without Discarding the Qualified Immunity Doctrine

Police Accountability Is a “Non-Starter” Without Discarding the Qualified Immunity Doctrine     Ben Rosenfeld February 13, 2023CounterPunch Contrary to what Qualified Immunity’s defenders claim, it in no way helps police ‘do their jobs.’ It simply helps them get away…

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February 14, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Can Oakland’s New Leaders Save Its Schools and Port?

Can Oakland’s New Leaders Save Its Schools and Port?     Ken Epstein, Kitty Kelly Epstein January 30, 2023Convergence Candidates who pledged to make Oakland work for everyone swept the November elections. They face two huge hurdles to making that real: proposals to c…

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February 14, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Grim Reapers

Portside Culture Grim Reapers     Ian Frazier February 9, 2023New York Review of Books Mega-agriculture is destroying the Corn Belt and the Central Valley, which the country’s food system depends on. Can midsize farms survive to save it? Farmers waiting …

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February 13, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Most Humans Haven’t Evolved To Cope With the Cold, yet We Dominate Northern Climates – Here’s Why

Most Humans Haven’t Evolved To Cope With the Cold, yet We Dominate Northern Climates – Here’s Why     Laura Buck, Kyoko Yamaguchi January 16, 2023The Conversation Given our limited adaptation to the cold, why is it that our species has come to dominate not only our w…

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February 13, 2023 at 6:05 AM

South Africa’s Communists Were Crucial to the Fight Against Apartheid

South Africa’s Communists Were Crucial to the Fight Against Apartheid     Owen Dowling February 12, 2023Jacobin From its foundation in the 1920s, the South African Communist Party took up the fight against racism as a central part of its political vision. The party’s…

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February 13, 2023 at 5:20 AM

Trapped by Empire

Trapped by Empire     Van Jackson February 8, 2023Dissent The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides. The flags of the Unite…

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February 13, 2023 at 5:05 AM

60 Years of No Progress on Black-White Unemployment Equity

60 Years of No Progress on Black-White Unemployment Equity     Algernon Austin February 1, 2023CEPR Regardless of whether economic conditions are good or bad, Black jobseekers are less likely to find work. , CEPR   60 Years of No Progress on Black-White…

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February 13, 2023 at 3:35 AM

War Fever

War Fever     Eric Foner February 7, 2023The Nation The crusade against civil liberties during World War I. Eugene Debs at the US Penitentiary in Atlanta. , Courtesy of the National Archives   With the exception of the Second World War, every military co…

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February 13, 2023 at 2:15 AM

Velma, Its Backlash, and How South Asian Women Are Represented on TV

Portside Culture Velma, Its Backlash, and How South Asian Women Are Represented on TV     Saloni Gajjar February 8, 2023AV Club A few recent series have notably nuanced depictions of brown teens. This is a promising development. (Those racist reactions? Not so …

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February 12, 2023 at 1:05 AM

The Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting Old Law

The Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting Old Law     Paul Kiel and Jeff Ernsthausen February 9, 2023ProPublica Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax saving…

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February 12, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Only in Mississippi

Only in Mississippi     Bobby Harrison and Adam Ganucheau February 7, 2023Mississippi Today White representatives vote to create white-appointed court system for Blackest city in America Rep. Kathy Sykes, D-Jackson, left, asks Rep. Trey Lamar, R-Senatobia, a q…

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February 12, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Washington Post Runs Medicare Newsletter Sponsored by Insurance Lobby Front Group

Washington Post Runs Medicare Newsletter Sponsored by Insurance Lobby Front Group     Jake Johnson February 10, 2023Common Dreams The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper sprinkled its coverage of an intensifying fight over Medicare with ads purchased by an organization that p…

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February 12, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Havana Congress Plans “Unilateral but Coordinated Action” To Secure Technological Sovereignty for the Global South

Havana Congress Plans “Unilateral but Coordinated Action” To Secure Technological Sovereignty for the Global South     January 30, 2023Progressive International "True decolonization means overcoming intra-regional disputes to build lasting regional unity and sovereig…

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