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August 6, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Who Is Hustling Who?

Who Is Hustling Who?     Mukoma wa Ngugi July 31, 2023Africa is a Country In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable. , Photo by Bennett Tobias on Unsplash.   There should b…
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August 6, 2023 at 12:00 AM

‘The Athletic Is the Negation of Local Sports Coverage’

‘The Athletic Is the Negation of Local Sports Coverage’     Janine Jackson interviews Dave Zirin August 2, 2023FAIR They say, “Hey, we’re going to have the best sports coverage in the world.” After you fire or reassign all your sports reporters? That’s how you make t…
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August 6, 2023 at 12:00 AM

August 2, 2023

August 2, 2023     Heather Cox Richardson August 3, 2023Letters from an American “I understand Trump fatigue, but it feels like the president and his advisors preparing to use the military to quash protests against his planned coup should be bigger news." , …
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August 6, 2023 at 12:00 AM

US Leaders Split on China Policy

US Leaders Split on China Policy     Richard Wolff August 4, 2023CounterPunch On the one hand, U.S. policy aims to constrain China’s economic and military development because it is our chief competitor and thus enemy. On the other hand, it seeks to secure the benefit…
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August 5, 2023 at 12:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | August 4, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | August 4, 2023     August 4, 2023xxxxxx One Company Controls America’s Entire Health Care System. Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall. Reservation Dogs | Season 3. Oppenheimer’s Secret City, Explained. How Humans Change Their Own DNA. …
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August 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Florida Activists Aim To Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot

Florida Activists Aim To Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot     Regan McCarthy August 4, 2023NPR A Florida Supreme Court decision is expected to trigger a six-week ban passed by the Republican-led state legislature. But an effort is now underway to enshrine the right …
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August 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Trump War on Democracy Is Far From Over

The Trump War on Democracy Is Far From Over     David Corn Mother Jones Ultimately, Trump is not the main danger. Trump was aided and abetted by millions of co-conspirators: the MAGA Republicans who bought his lies and still do. ,   Fight disinformation: …
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August 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan Acts

A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan Acts     Joseph Patrick Kelly August 4, 2023The Conversation The 1870s laws passed by the Reconstruction Congress to enforce 14th Amendment rights and to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, are now being used against Trump. …
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August 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Poisoned Water

Portside Culture Poisoned Water     Philip C. Kolin Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin reminds us of the next imminent global disaster—bad water—and in some places it’s already here. ,   Poisoned Water By Philip C. Kolin Water worldwide is dying of p…
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August 4, 2023 at 11:20 PM

About Half of US Republicans Could Spurn Trump if He Is Convicted, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Shows

About Half of US Republicans Could Spurn Trump if He Is Convicted, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Shows     Jason Lange August 3, 2023Reuters The two-day poll, which closed before Trump's Thursday arraignment, asked respondents if they would vote for Trump for president if he we…
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August 4, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Using the Klu Klux Klan Acts To Indict Trump Is the Most Significant Aspect of This Case

Using the Klu Klux Klan Acts To Indict Trump Is the Most Significant Aspect of This Case     Charles Ellison August 2, 2023The B|E Note The most important of all indictments against the former president: openly and long-time racist businessman and politician being br…
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August 4, 2023 at 12:10 AM

White Minority Locks Out First Black Mayor of Newbern, Alabama

White Minority Locks Out First Black Mayor of Newbern, Alabama     Equal Justice Initiative July 24, 2023Equal Justice Initiative Patrick Braxton, first Black mayor of Newbern, small town in Alabama’s Black Belt region, filed federal civil rights lawsuit alleging the…
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August 4, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Other Progressives To Visit Left-Ruled Latin American Nations

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Other Progressives To Visit Left-Ruled Latin American Nations     Tracy Wilkinson August 3, 2023Los Angeles Times New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a group of fellow progressive Democrats are heading to South America later this mont…
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August 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Judea vs ’Fantasy Israel: Ilan Pappé on the Collapse of Israeli Pillars, and the Opportunities for Palestine

Judea vs ’Fantasy Israel: Ilan Pappé on the Collapse of Israeli Pillars, and the Opportunities for Palestine     Ilan Pappé July 31, 2023The Palestine Chronicle The future liberated and de-Zionised Palestine may look now as a fantasy, but unlike Fantasy Israel, it ha…
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August 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Aug. 3, 2023 – Reader Comments: Criminal Indictments; Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; Voting Rights and DC Statehood; Campaign for Democracy; Israel Reality; Message From a German Reader; John H. Bracey, Jr Memorial; Cartoons; More...

Tidbits – Aug. 3, 2023 – Reader Comments: Criminal Indictments; Eliminate Nuclear Weapons; Voting Rights and DC Statehood; Campaign for Democracy; Israel Reality; Message From a German Reader; John H. Bracey, Jr Memorial; Cartoons; More…     August 3, 2023xxxxxx Read…
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August 3, 2023 at 6:10 AM

‘A Second Prison’: People Face Hidden Dead Ends When They Pursue a Range of Careers Post-Incarceration

‘A Second Prison’: People Face Hidden Dead Ends When They Pursue a Range of Careers Post-Incarceration     Tara Garcia Mathewson July 28, 2023The Hechinger Report Nearly 14,000 laws and regulations restrict people who have been convicted or even just arrested from ge…
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August 3, 2023 at 5:55 AM

The 45 Pages That Skewer Trump’s Bid To Destroy American Democracy

The 45 Pages That Skewer Trump’s Bid To Destroy American Democracy     Ed Pilkington August 2, 2023The Guardian Two and half years in the making, special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment presents a devastating case laced with telling detail Special counsel Jack…
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August 3, 2023 at 5:40 AM

Top Medical Journals Publish Unprecedented Joint Call for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Top Medical Journals Publish Unprecedented Joint Call for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons     Jake Johnson August 2, 2023Common Dreams "The nuclear-armed states must eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us." Anti-nuclear protest in Taipei.…
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August 3, 2023 at 5:25 AM

50 Years Older and Deeper in Debt

50 Years Older and Deeper in Debt     Stan Karp August 1, 2023Rethinking Schools The Shaky Foundations of U.S. School Funding , Illustrator: Boris Séméniako   This year marks the 50th anniversary of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, t…
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August 3, 2023 at 12:45 AM

“No Equal Justice”: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett

Portside Culture “No Equal Justice”: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett     David Gespass January 5, 2023National Lawyers Guild Review George W. Crockett was a pioneering labor lawyer, defender of Communists and other left wingers, a progressive…
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August 3, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Views From Left Parties

Global Left Midweek – Views From Left Parties     August 2, 2023xxxxxx Changing the world — because it needs it Bárbara Navarrete, secretary-general of the Communist Youth of Chile. Credit, Alborada   Prospects For a New Left in South Africa Workers’ Par…
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August 2, 2023 at 12:40 AM

Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex

Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex     William Hartung July 30, 2023Tom Dispatch The new film about Robert Oppenheimer leaves out some important facts and context. , Shutterstock   Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the p…
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August 2, 2023 at 12:35 AM

‘Most Significant Charges Yet’: Trump Indicted for Trying To Overturn 2020 Election

‘Most Significant Charges Yet’: Trump Indicted for Trying To Overturn 2020 Election     Jessica Corbett August 1, 2023Common Dreams "Holding Trump accountable for his crimes pulls our democracy back from the precipice and prevents his criminal attempt to overturn an …
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August 2, 2023 at 12:35 AM

Jesse Jackson: The 2024 Presidential Race

Jesse Jackson: The 2024 Presidential Race     David Masciotra August 1, 2023The New Republic The civil rights icon speaks with TNR about the 2024 race, his legacy, and how he’s not actually retiring. Jackson during a Moral Mondays march to the Hart Senate Buil…
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August 2, 2023 at 12:35 AM

50 Years Older and Deeper in Debt

50 Years Older and Deeper in Debt     Stan Karp July 1, 2023Rethinking Schools The Shaky Foundations of U.S. School Funding , Boris Séméniako   This year marks the 50th anniversary of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, the landmark …
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August 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Documentary Filmmakers Don’t Have the Option To Strike for a Better System

Portside Culture Documentary Filmmakers Don’t Have the Option To Strike for a Better System     Eric Kohn July 15, 2023IndieWire Documentary filmmakers sensitive to the unions aren’t quite sure how to navigate the delicate subject of continuing to work without …
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August 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 1, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 1, 2023     August 1, 2023xxxxxx Summer of our discontent , Ben Jennings, The Guardian   What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Revolution? ERA Centennial Convention The New Fascist Order for Kids A Bakery Chal…
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August 1, 2023 at 2:05 AM

Climate Groups Announce Global Days of Action To ‘Propel Renewable Energy Revolution Forward’

Climate Groups Announce Global Days of Action To ‘Propel Renewable Energy Revolution Forward’     Kenny Stancil July 31, 2023Common Dreams "Around the world, people are uniting to wrest power and resources away from reckless fossil fuel companies," said one campaigne…
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August 1, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, August 1 – 7

This Week in People’s History, August 1 – 7     xxxxxx Pinochet's men accused of Letelier murder in 1978. Dick Cheney's hypocrisy in 2000. Reagan's racist dog-whistle in 1980. Dixiecrats defend the poll tax in 1948. Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966. Birth of a hero i…
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August 1, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms

Portside Culture Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms     David Bacon July 19, 2023Capital & Main Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor. Company housin…
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August 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Filthy Rich Politicians Review: Matt Lewis Skewers Both Sides of the Aisle

Filthy Rich Politicians Review: Matt Lewis Skewers Both Sides of the Aisle     Lloyd Green July 30, 2023Guardian Donald Trump is not the only politico to talk about draining the swamp while eagerly drinking from it, a new book shows money, by thejedi   W…
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August 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Protecting Puerto Rico’s Coastlines & Indigenous Heritage

Protecting Puerto Rico’s Coastlines & Indigenous Heritage     Lola Rosario July 11, 2023NACLA Reports "Las Playas Son del Pueblo” carries with it a reminder to the government and private interests that our beaches and natural resources are not for sale." A…
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August 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

What ‘Oppenheimer’ Doesn’t Tell You About the Trinity Test

What ‘Oppenheimer’ Doesn’t Tell You About the Trinity Test     Tina Cordova July 30, 2023New York Times One film can’t do it all, but I can’t help feeling that the retelling of this story, as it stands, is a missed opportunity. A sign once carried by a victim …
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July 31, 2023 at 8:29 AM

Sunday Science: Childhood Vaccine Crusader Shares Concerns for Future

Sunday Science: Childhood Vaccine Crusader Shares Concerns for Future     Jon Cohen July 20, 2023Science As Seth Berkley leaves Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the epidemiologist reflects on its growth and challenges ahead Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance CEO Seth Berkl…
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July 31, 2023 at 7:35 AM

Mobile, Alabama, Just Diluted the Black Vote Through Annexation

Mobile, Alabama, Just Diluted the Black Vote Through Annexation     Ryan Zickgraf July 28, 2023Jacobin Last week’s annexation vote in Mobile, Alabama, added thousands of white residents, reducing the black-white voter gap in the majority-minority city. It’s an effect…
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July 31, 2023 at 7:10 AM

A Century After Its Founding, the Israeli Communist Party Is at a Crossroads

A Century After Its Founding, the Israeli Communist Party Is at a Crossroads     Joel Beinin July 28, 2023972 Magazine For 100 years, Maki has been the leading force for Jewish-Palestinian equality in Israeli politics, yet it has failed to unite Arab and Jewish worke…
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July 31, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Why Capitalism Is Leaving the US in Search of Profit

Why Capitalism Is Leaving the US in Search of Profit     Richard D. Wolff July 21, 2023CounterPunch The economic consequences of capitalism’s profit-driven movement out of its old centers (Western Europe, North America, and Japan) brought capitalism there to its curr…
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July 31, 2023 at 6:05 AM

Atomic Frankenstein

Atomic Frankenstein     R. Howard Bloch, Ellen Handler Spitz July 30, 2023The American Prospect ‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s film, Universal Pictures   Christopher No…
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July 31, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Back for Season 2, ‘Dark Winds’ Is a Cop Drama Steeped in Navajo Culture

Portside Culture Back for Season 2, ‘Dark Winds’ Is a Cop Drama Steeped in Navajo Culture     John Powers July 27, 2023NPR Dark Winds retools and modernizes Hillerman's conception. Set amidst the fiercely beautiful New Mexico landscape of the early 1970s, this …
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July 30, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Republicans Are Threatening To Sabotage Aids Program

Republicans Are Threatening To Sabotage Aids Program     Zack Beauchamp July 28, 2023Vox A program that’s saved 25 million lives is at risk of losing its congressional authorization for the first time. Then-President George W. Bush holds Baron Mosima Loyiso Ta…
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July 30, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Defend Boris Kagarlitsky!

Defend Boris Kagarlitsky!     HANK REICHMAN July 28, 2023Academe Blog News of Kagarlitsky’s arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. Boris Kagarlitsky,   Sociologist and internationally renowned Marxist thinker Boris Kagarlit…
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July 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Atlanta’s Cop City Is Fundamentally Undemocratic

Atlanta’s Cop City Is Fundamentally Undemocratic     Tanya Greene July 28, 2023The Progressive Cop City, beyond contributing to over-policing, will require clear-cutting 381 acres of forest land. , (shutterstock)   After working to avoid a referendum on…
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July 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

A Deep South Governor’s Race To Watch

A Deep South Governor’s Race To Watch     Ben Jealous July 2, 2023Trice Edney Wire News Presley has a story beyond his kinship with Elvis. He was raised by a single mom who worked in a garment factory after his father was murdered. He tells working-class voters that …
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July 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Can Left Parties Oppose Militarism?

Can Left Parties Oppose Militarism?     Jonathan Michael Feldman July 23, 2023The Global Teach-In When questions are raised about militarism towards the Global South, the liberal-to-left militarists will to resort to claims of whataboutism, a mind-numbing concept whi…
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July 29, 2023 at 4:20 AM

Friday Nite Videos | July 28, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | July 28, 2023     July 28, 2023xxxxxx Teamsters Launch Massive Effort To Unionize Amazon. 'Hotel Magadonia' | Parody of Hotel California. Learning From Covid-19, Preparing for Future Pandemics. A Fact-Checked Debate About Euthanasia. Attack Dogs …
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July 29, 2023 at 3:10 AM

Can the Atomic Bombings on Japan Be Justified? A Conversation With Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Can the Atomic Bombings on Japan Be Justified? A Conversation With Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa     Hibiki Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Yoshida and Radomir Compel May 29, 2019Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a US citizen born in Japan, challenge…
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July 29, 2023 at 2:25 AM

New Trump Charge: The Attempt To Delete Securitv Camera Footage

New Trump Charge: The Attempt To Delete Securitv Camera Footage     U.S. Department of Justice July 27, 2023U.S. Department of Justice The U.S. Department of Justice's revised ('superceding') indictment against Donald Trump, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira provides…
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July 29, 2023 at 1:40 AM

Idiots, No Longer Useful

Idiots, No Longer Useful     Boris Kagarlitsky July 26, 2023Russian Dissent Arrests of 'Angry Patriots' like war blogger Igor Strelkov in Russia have begun. No matter how wrong the Angry Patriots may be, they are punished not for their sins, not even for their princi…
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July 29, 2023 at 12:45 AM

ALEC’s Funding Revealed

ALEC’s Funding Revealed     David Armiak | July 25, 2023Center for Media and Democracy The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) tries to rewrite the state laws that govern your rights, often benefiting huge corporations. A review of hundreds of tax filings by…
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July 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Clemency

Portside Culture Clemency     Peter Neil Carroll June 19, 2023Cultural Daily There’s more than a little irony in Peter Carroll’s poem about a woman who has been imprisoned for over 20 years being “free to start over.” ,   Clemency By Peter Neil Ca…