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March 1, 2023 at 2:00 AM

Why We Need Pirates

Why We Need Pirates     Paul Buhle, Marcus Rediker, David Lester January 26, 2023Yes! Exploited sailors escaped to form egalitarian outlaw societies under the Jolly Roger. Painted portrait of an unidentified pirate, 20th century., Buyenlarge/Getty Images …

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March 1, 2023 at 1:00 AM

The Netflix Hit “RRR” Is a Political Screed, an Action Bonanza, and an Exhilarating Musical

Portside Culture The Netflix Hit “RRR” Is a Political Screed, an Action Bonanza, and an Exhilarating Musical     Richard Brody June 2, 2022The NewYorker “RRR” -“Rise Roar Revolt”- turns history into legend by way of heightened visual rhetoric. It’s based very l…

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March 1, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 28, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 28, 2023     February 28, 2023xxxxxx Dilbert's race problem, how COVID affected the labor market, and more cultural crackups , Luke McGarry   Covid and Workers’ Power Unbanning Books America is Secularizing Hig…

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February 28, 2023 at 3:25 AM

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left

A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left     Ashley Smith February 24, 2023Truthout Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism. A woman walks outside a ma…

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February 28, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Is Fear of AI Really Fear of Capitalism?

Is Fear of AI Really Fear of Capitalism?     Ezra Klein February 26, 2023New York Times Somehow, society is going to have to figure out what it’s comfortable having A.I. doing, and what A.I. should not be permitted to try, before it is too late to make those decisio…

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February 28, 2023 at 1:05 AM

‘Old-School Union Busting’: How US Corporations Are Quashing the New Wave of Organizing

‘Old-School Union Busting’: How US Corporations Are Quashing the New Wave of Organizing     Steven Greenhouse February 26, 2023Guardian US corporations have mounted a fierce counterattack against the union drives at Starbucks, Amazon and other companies. , …

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February 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM

How Product Placement Gets Wine Bottles Into Shows

Portside Culture How Product Placement Gets Wine Bottles Into Shows     Esther Mobley February 9, 2023San Francisco Chronicle The appearance of a wine bottle in television and film is almost never an accident; it’s a carefully brokered deal between the wine bra…

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February 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM

‘Trail of Broken Treaties’: How the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation Came To Be

‘Trail of Broken Treaties’: How the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation Came To Be     Matt Gade February 25, 2023Rapid City Journal 50 ago the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee with the goal of changing the way the Oglala Sioux governed themselves. AIM also so…

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February 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Russia in Africa

Russia in Africa     Malick Doucouré February 24, 2023CounterPunch We should expect an intensification of Russian economic involvement and arms exports to African nations struggling with conflict, many dealing with wars that have their roots in Western colonial parti…

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February 27, 2023 at 6:15 AM

As Antarctic Fieldwork Ends, a Sexual Harassment Reckoning Looms

As Antarctic Fieldwork Ends, a Sexual Harassment Reckoning Looms     Christian Elliott February 6, 2023Undark A 2022 report described harassment as a “fact of life” on the continent. Young researchers are particularly alarmed. The fieldwork camp at Allan Hills…

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February 27, 2023 at 4:50 AM

Census Corrections Show How Southern Communities Benefit From Prisons

Census Corrections Show How Southern Communities Benefit From Prisons     Maydha Devarajan February 24, 2023Facing South The issue of prison gerrymandering has existed since the census was first taken, but became more noticeable in the late 1970s and early 1980s alon…

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February 27, 2023 at 4:35 AM

Breaking Up (With China) Is Hard To Do

Breaking Up (With China) Is Hard To Do     Robert Kuttner February 14, 2023The American Prospect In the absence of more attention to the supply chain, the U.S. is becoming even more reliant on Beijing—and ‘friendshoring’ often increases that dependence. An emp…

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February 27, 2023 at 4:10 AM

The Great Slave Strike That Helped End Slavery

The Great Slave Strike That Helped End Slavery     Mark A. Lause February 20, 2023Jacobin Today, on Presidents’ Day, we rightly celebrate Abraham Lincoln for helping end slavery. But we shouldn’t forget the unstoppable force that also brought down the Slave Power: th…

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February 27, 2023 at 3:15 AM

The Unfulfilled Promise

The Unfulfilled Promise     Robert Greene II February 22, 2023The Nation Peniel Joseph’s history of the three Reconstructions. The Black Panthers’ Liberation School, San Francisco, 1969. , UPI / Getty   When it comes to understanding modern politics, ana…

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February 27, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Party Down: Charmingly Low-Budget Workplace Satire From the Makers of Veronica Mars

Portside Culture Party Down: Charmingly Low-Budget Workplace Satire From the Makers of Veronica Mars     Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen August 23, 2020The Guardian The show never leaves the workplace. The complexities of these characters’ lives and relationships are t…

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February 26, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Eight Lessons From Bernie Sanders’s New Book

Eight Lessons From Bernie Sanders’s New Book     Yaseen Al-Sheikh February 23, 2023Jacobin Bernie Sanders is angry about capitalism. You should be too. Here are eight lessons from our favorite democratic socialist’s new book. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to memb…

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February 26, 2023 at 1:05 AM

A Call for One-Party Authoritarian Rule

A Call for One-Party Authoritarian Rule     Matt Ford February 25, 2023The New Republic Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea for America to “separate by red states and blue states” isn’t just dumb and harmless. It’s also a window into a dangerous vision that’s ascendent in …

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February 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM

History Lessons for Antifascists

History Lessons for Antifascists     Helmut-Harry Loewen February 20, 2023CounterPunch A study of strategies that have shaped antifascist mobilizations over the past century, offers lessons for thinking about an “effective and long-term response to the loose coalitio…

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February 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM

20 Years Ago, the World Said No to War

20 Years Ago, the World Said No to War     Phyllis Bennis February 15, 2023Institute for Policy Studies A look back at the history-making mobilization against the Iraq War that turned ordinary people into a “second superpower” — one we badly need today. Antiwa…

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February 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Lessons From Majid Khan’s Release From Guantánamo

Lessons From Majid Khan’s Release From Guantánamo     David Rosen February 16, 2023The Progressive An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp. That torture …

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February 25, 2023 at 3:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023     February 24, 2023xxxxxx Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | John Oliver. What Ever Happened to Hazel Scott? Gloves Off: Buttigieg Calls Out Trump Record of Deregulation. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Documentary. The Complet…

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February 25, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Putin’s Mein Kampf: An Invasion Foretold

Putin’s Mein Kampf: An Invasion Foretold     Greg Palast February 24, 2023Buzzflash How can too many of my fellow progressives, who marched against Bush’s “preemptive” war in Iraq, now find preemptive war by Putin justified by “NATO provocation”? ,   As …

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February 25, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left

Abraham Lincoln Is a Hero of the Left     Matthew E. Stanley February 20, 2023Jacobin From Karl Marx to Eugene Debs to 1930s American Communists, leftists have regarded Lincoln as a prolabor hero who played a crucial role in vanquishing chattel slavery. We should cel…

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February 25, 2023 at 1:10 AM

Expanding Social Security Is Winning Policy and Politics

Expanding Social Security Is Winning Policy and Politics     Nancy J. Altman February 23, 2023Common Dreams Biden is right to highlight Republican attacks on Social Security. He should also propose a plan to expand it. ,   Democrats learned the wrong les…

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February 25, 2023 at 1:00 AM

To Imagine Is Human: An Evolutionary History

To Imagine Is Human: An Evolutionary History     Andrey Vyshedskiy February 23, 2023The Conversation Imagination involves creating a mental image of something that is not present. Imagination is one of the key abilities that make us human. But where did it come from?…

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February 25, 2023 at 1:00 AM

The Day I Discovered Racism (1965)

Portside Culture The Day I Discovered Racism (1965)     William Earhart W.D. Ehrhart’s poem “The Day I Discovered Racism” leaves the reader first with shock and then…. ,   The Day I Discovered Racism (1965) By William Earhart                       …

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February 24, 2023 at 6:05 AM

“We Basically Nuked a Town With Chemicals”: East Palestine Volunteers Risk Mass Toxic Exposure

“We Basically Nuked a Town With Chemicals”: East Palestine Volunteers Risk Mass Toxic Exposure     Bob Hennelly February 16, 2023Work-Bites While the abused residents of East Palestine, Ohio sorted through the contradictory messaging from officials, freight trains wi…

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February 24, 2023 at 5:50 AM

A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews To Ignore Safety Alerts

A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews To Ignore Safety Alerts     Topher Sanders and Dan Schwartz February 22, 2023ProPublica In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated w…

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February 24, 2023 at 5:40 AM

You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State

You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State     Peter Beinart February 19, 2023New York Times Israeli democracy is in danger, demonstrations include very few Palestinians. It’s not a movement for equal rights. It’s a movement to preserve the political system that exis…

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February 24, 2023 at 5:25 AM

The Catastrophe of American Health Care

The Catastrophe of American Health Care     Abby Cartus February 23, 2023Abby Cartus Our current system defines health as the ability to work. Those who can’t are abandoned and exploited. If you’re too sick to work, you will be forced into poverty twice over: First b…

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February 24, 2023 at 4:45 AM

Tidbits – Feb. 23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black History; Earthquake Hits Syria Too; FBI Still Uses Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building Resilient Organizations

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February 23, 2023 at 6:05 AM

The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters

The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters     Catherine Caruso February 1, 2023Teen Vogue A report from the Zinn Education Project released early last year found that, nationwide, the Reconstruction era is seldom taught accurat…

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February 23, 2023 at 5:45 AM

US Supreme Court Lets Arkansas Law Penalising Israel Boycotts Stand

US Supreme Court Lets Arkansas Law Penalising Israel Boycotts Stand     Chris McGreal February 21, 2023The Guardian Anti-boycott law provides model for legislation to protect oil companies, gun makers and contentious industries from protest Supreme court decli…

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February 23, 2023 at 5:25 AM

Who Killed Malcolm X? Family To File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others To Find the Truth

Who Killed Malcolm X? Family To File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others To Find the Truth     Amy Goodman with Juan González February 22, 2023Democracy Now This lawsuit comes more than a year after it was confirmed that federal and local agencies had a role in…

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February 23, 2023 at 4:50 AM

‘Trump’s Asylum Ban Under a Different Name’: Democrats, Immigration Groups Slam Biden Proposal

‘Trump’s Asylum Ban Under a Different Name’: Democrats, Immigration Groups Slam Biden Proposal     Rowaida Abdelaziz February 22, 2023HuffPost “Requiring persecuted people to first seek protection in countries with no functioning asylum systems themselves is a ludicr…

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February 23, 2023 at 3:45 AM

She Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her

Portside Culture She Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her     Lorissa Rinehart August 1, 2018Narratively Hazel Scott was a piano prodigy who wowed the worlds of music, TV, and film. But when she stood up for her rights, the es…

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February 23, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Europe

Global Left Midweek – Focus on Europe     February 22, 2023xxxxxx The new head of the Party of the European Left discusses democracy as a strategic goal Teachers in Lisbon. Credit, picture alliance/Adri Salido   General Strike? Turkey: Communists Organiz…

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February 22, 2023 at 1:05 AM

‘Embarrassed’ by ‘Racist’ Israeli Government, Sanders Threatens Bill To Withhold Aid

‘Embarrassed’ by ‘Racist’ Israeli Government, Sanders Threatens Bill To Withhold Aid     Juan Cole February 21, 2023Informed Comment Sanders lashed out at the new, extremist government in Israel, which includes a minister once convicted of incitement to racial viole…

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February 22, 2023 at 1:05 AM

As Turkey Counts Its Dead, a Reckoning Is Still To Come

As Turkey Counts Its Dead, a Reckoning Is Still To Come     Evan Pheiffer February 20, 2023New Lines With a death toll expected to surpass 100,000, how will the nation come to terms with what happened and move forward? Families who lost their relatives seen at…

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February 22, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Hammer & Hope: Toward a Radical New Future

Hammer & Hope: Toward a Radical New Future     Jen Parker and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor February 1, 2023Hammer & Hope A Welcome and an Introduction to a magazine of Black politics and culture. “Meeting the Day,” 2023, Paula Wilson   We live in a ti…

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February 22, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Searching for an Alternative to Neoliberalism and Right-Wing Nationalism

Searching for an Alternative to Neoliberalism and Right-Wing Nationalism     Sean T. Byrnes February 21, 2023Jacobin Review of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023). Workers …

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February 22, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – February 21, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – February 21, 2023     February 21, 2023xxxxxx Fox News stands naked, and more media world shockers , Michael de Adder, Washington Post   Bernie Proposes New Deal for Journalism Open Secret Now on the Record: Fox Lies NYT and the An…

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February 22, 2023 at 1:00 AM

‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Remarkable Life Gets a Towering Film Befitting It

Portside Culture ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Remarkable Life Gets a Towering Film Befitting It     Sophie Monks Kaufman September 3, 2022IndieWire Laura Poitras' "All the beauty and the Bloodshed" is a powerful documentary about Nan …

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February 21, 2023 at 3:35 AM

Qualified Immunity Is Burning a Hole in the Constitution

Qualified Immunity Is Burning a Hole in the Constitution     Joanna Schwartz February 19, 2023Politico Police officers’ go-to defense against civil suits allows them to violate the Constitution with impunity. Demonstrators March Sunday June, 7, 2020 in the Hol…

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February 21, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Three Things the Pandemic Taught Us About Inequality in College — And Why They Matter Today

Three Things the Pandemic Taught Us About Inequality in College — And Why They Matter Today     Elena G. van Stee February 20, 2023The Conversation Students are members of families and communities, and they enter the classroom with different resources and responsibil…

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February 21, 2023 at 1:05 AM

USC Grad Workers Win Their Union, Join Uaw

USC Grad Workers Win Their Union, Join Uaw     Graduate Student Workers at USC Win Union February 17, 2023United Automobile Workers By a 93% margin, graduate workers at the University of Southern California have voted 1,599 to 122 in favor of joining the Graduate Stu…

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February 21, 2023 at 1:00 AM

What Is a ‘Dark Grocery Store’ and How Does It Work?

Portside Culture What Is a ‘Dark Grocery Store’ and How Does It Work?     Chase Shustack January 25, 2023The Daily Meal Dark grocery stores exist solely for delivery purposes. There are no customers to shop the aisles, and there are no checkout lines; it is les…

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February 21, 2023 at 1:00 AM

Hans Modrow, 1928–2023: Son of the German Democratic Republic

Hans Modrow, 1928–2023: Son of the German Democratic Republic     Keith Barlow February 17, 2023Morning Star The man who oversaw the peaceful yet tragic end to state socialism in the east, then stayed to fight for the working class in the newly unified Germany, passe…

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February 21, 2023 at 1:00 AM

How To Turn America Into Communist Russia: The Board Game

How To Turn America Into Communist Russia: The Board Game     Frank Jacobs February 17, 2023Big Think In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on. , Tobias Higbie / Flickr, CC …

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February 20, 2023 at 6:00 AM

FDA To Require Diversity Plan for Clinical Trials

FDA To Require Diversity Plan for Clinical Trials     Max Kozlov February 16, 2023Nature US regulatory agency makes ‘big change’ to increase the number of participants from under-represented groups in drug testing. The US Food and Drug Administration regulates…

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