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March 9, 2024 at 4:40 AM

One Big Thing Biden’s SOTU Got Right

One Big Thing Biden’s SOTU Got Right     Zack Beauchamp March 8, 2024 Vox The president dodged the “norms trap” by going straight after Trump on democracy. There is no hypocrisy in defending truth against lies. ,   During Thursday night’s S…
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March 9, 2024 at 4:25 AM

Florida Is Swamped by Disease

Florida Is Swamped by Disease     Richard Luscombe March 3, 2024 Guardian In Florida, quackery is replacing science. The state is in the grip of a measles outbreak, yet Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general, continues to ignore medical science to stop it. …
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March 9, 2024 at 4:10 AM

Harold Washington’s Lessons for Taking On a Political Machine

Harold Washington’s Lessons for Taking On a Political Machine     Mark Engler and Paul Engler February 21, 2024 Waging Nonviolence A new documentary explains how, 40 years ago, Chicago’s first Black mayor shattered status-quo politics, offering insights for …
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March 9, 2024 at 4:00 AM

Ozempic Is a Brain Drug

Ozempic Is a Brain Drug     Sarah Zhang March 5, 2024 The Atlantic The latest weight loss drugs succeeded not because we fully understood the hormone they’re based on but because we got lucky. And drug development, for all the careful research required, does…
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March 9, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Extinction Crisis

Portside Culture Extinction Crisis     Susan C. Moser September 1, 2023 Dear Human at the Edge of Time Susan Moser’s poetry addresses the “extinction crisis”—thousands of species disappear forever—as human life goes on in this world. , …
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March 8, 2024 at 1:10 AM

The Missing News About Gaza

The Missing News About Gaza     Alexei Sisulu Abrahams February 26, 2024 The Nation To understand Palestine and Israel, we need more coverage of the everyday structural violence of occupation. Disinformation involves lying by commission. Decontextualization,…
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March 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Shoah After Gaza

The Shoah After Gaza     Pankaj Mishra March 7, 2024 London Review of Books The dark meaning the Israeli state has drawn from the Shoah, and then institutionalized in a machinery of repression. Anyone calling attention to the spectacle of Washington’s blind …
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March 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

There Were Lynchings in the North, Too

There Were Lynchings in the North, Too     James Barron March 6, 2024 New York Times An NYU project examines the history of lynching's after the Civil War, including one in New York State. Billie Holiday sang a disturbing ballad called “Strange Fruit” for th…
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March 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?

Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?     Alma Guillermoprieto March 4, 2024 The New Yorker One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Their families have fought for answers. “I don’t h…
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March 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Mar.7, 2024 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire Now; Mitch McConnell Water Boy for Trump; Trump Courts Teamsters; Alabama’s Embryos; Harry Belafonte Celebration of Life; Film Workers for Palestine; 1st Annual Walter Rodney Symposium; Cartoons;

Tidbits – Mar.7, 2024 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire Now; Mitch McConnell Water Boy for Trump; Trump Courts Teamsters; Alabama’s Embryos; Harry Belafonte Celebration of Life; Film Workers for Palestine; 1st Annual Walter Rodney Symposium; Cartoons;     March 7, 2024…
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March 8, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Portside Culture Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade     Philip C. Kolin, reviewer March 1, 2024 Portside No one is better qualified than Peter Neil Carroll to write a book of memorial poems about the valiant men and women who …
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March 7, 2024 at 7:30 AM

The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll

The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll     Ralph Nader March 6, 2024 Common Dreams With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading especially among infants, children, the infirm, and the elderly, can anybody be…
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March 7, 2024 at 7:15 AM

Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients

Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients     Matthew Cunningham-Cook March 6, 2024 The American Prospect As UnitedHealth racks up unprecedented profits, the people it insures battle for care. , PATRICK SISON/…
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March 7, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Votes To Become First College Team To Unionize

Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Votes To Become First College Team To Unionize     Brian Niemietz March 5, 2024 New York Daily News Their initiative follows a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s restrictions on student-at…
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March 7, 2024 at 6:40 AM

The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden’s Election Hopes

The Saudi & Putin Scheme for Screwing Biden’s Election Hopes     Thom Hartmann March 5, 2024 The Hartmann Report So, get ready: it’s coming this fall. And unless the administration acts quickly, there will be nothing they can do about it. Gas at $6 a gal…
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March 7, 2024 at 3:10 AM

Rethinking “Civilization”

Portside Culture Rethinking “Civilization”     Steven Poole February 28, 2024 The Guardian A radical new history of the ancient world that challenges modern chauvinism. ,   How the World Made the West A 4,000-Year History Josephine …
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March 7, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – March 6, 2024

Global Left Midweek – March 6, 2024     March 6, 2024 xxxxxx Feminists against dictatorship of the dollar , La Via Campesina   Parties and Movements Putin, Navalny and Kagarlitsky For International Women’s Day: La Via Campesina Declaration…
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March 6, 2024 at 1:40 AM

France Makes Abortion a Constitutional Right in Historic Versailles Vote

France Makes Abortion a Constitutional Right in Historic Versailles Vote     Kim Willsher March 4, 2024 The Guardian The French parliament has enshrined abortion as a constitutional right at a historic joint session at the Palace of Versailles. A m…
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March 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM

A Rebuttal to Racial Hierarchies

A Rebuttal to Racial Hierarchies     Sujata Gupta February 24, 2024 Science News February 24, 2024 Anthropologist Anténor Firmin wrote a critical race theory book in 1885 A photo of Anténor Firmin in black and white overlayed on a tan background. …
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March 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM

Thousands March in Cambridge for Cease-Fire in Gaza

Thousands March in Cambridge for Cease-Fire in Gaza     Laura Crimaldi March 2, 2024 The Boston Globe Demonstration organizers encouraged the crowd to use Tuesday’s presidential primary election in Massachusetts to choose the “no preference” option on the De…
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March 6, 2024 at 1:35 AM

The Supreme Court Once Again Reveals the Fraud of Originalism

The Supreme Court Once Again Reveals the Fraud of Originalism     Adam Serwer March 4, 2024 The Atlantic The justices did not want to throw Trump off the ballot, and so they didn’t. , Illustration by The Atlantic, Eric Lee / Bloomberg via Getty Ima…
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March 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Pan African Film Festival 2024: “One Love” Bob Marley

Portside Culture Pan African Film Festival 2024: “One Love” Bob Marley     Ed Rampell February 24, 2024 Hollywood Progressive Set against the tempestuous politics of post-colonial Jamaica, through flashbacks, "One Love" portrays the rise of the belov…
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March 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – March 5, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – March 5, 2024     March 5, 2024 xxxxxx Michael Klare on AI The entrance to the New York Times as pro-Palestine activists denounce the paper's coverage of Gaza destruction. Credit, Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images   A…
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March 5, 2024 at 8:30 AM

Segregation Academies Still Exist

Segregation Academies Still Exist     Christopher Young March 1, 2024 LA Progressive Despite the law of the land, lawmaker’s find workarounds to maintain segregation funding through charter schools ,   Sometimes you just have to go see for …
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March 5, 2024 at 1:55 AM

The Hidden Dissent in the SCOTUS Metadata

The Hidden Dissent in the SCOTUS Metadata     Mark Joseph Stern March 4, 2024 Slate We can guess that the bulk of this hidden dissenting opinion, which in the final version appears only a a concurrence, was authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "Son…
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March 5, 2024 at 1:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Mar 5–11

This Week in People’s History, Mar 5–11     xxxxxx If This Be Treason (in 1774), War Is Such an Ugly Word (1919), U.S. Thumbs Nose at International Law (1984), International Women's Day! (1914), Joe McCarthy's Dam Cracks (1954), Whose Streets? Our Streets! (…
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March 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Ironies of Drinking Fluid Milk

Portside Culture The Ironies of Drinking Fluid Milk     Marion Nestle March 1, 2024 Food Politics Today’s mega-milk-industry stems from a lack of scientific perspective that turned milk into a supposed daily necessity for children and, to a lesser ex…
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March 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Netanyahu Was Right: Israel Acts Like a US Aircraft Carrier

Netanyahu Was Right: Israel Acts Like a US Aircraft Carrier     Alan Wagman March 3, 2024 Common Dreams Netanyahu likened Israel to a mighty American aircraft carrier. That is how Israel, as a military colony, serves its imperial master A Palestini…
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March 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Remembering the 1932 Ford Hunger March: Detroit Park Honors Labor and Environmental History

Remembering the 1932 Ford Hunger March: Detroit Park Honors Labor and Environmental History     Paul Draus March 1, 2024 The Conversation When the Ford workers Hunger March to deliver a list of 14 demands to Henry Ford became the Ford Massacre . . . and ulti…
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March 4, 2024 at 8:35 AM

Sunday Science: On the Trail of the Denisovans

Sunday Science: On the Trail of the Denisovans     Carl Zimmer March 2, 2024 New York Times DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands. Researcher…
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March 4, 2024 at 8:15 AM

Harris County Sends 15 Times More Black Men to Death Row Than White

Harris County Sends 15 Times More Black Men to Death Row Than White     Michelle Pitcher February 22, 2024 Texas Observer Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says. 1910 Harri…
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March 4, 2024 at 7:55 AM

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of the Urban Black Experience – Sociologist Elijah Anderson Tells Why It Should Be on More Reading Lists

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of the Urban Black Experience – Sociologist Elijah Anderson Tells Why It Should Be on More Reading Lists     Elijah Anderson February 28, 2024 The Conversation W.E.B. Du Bois is widel…
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March 4, 2024 at 7:25 AM

Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022

Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022     Kevin Morris, Coryn Grange March 2, 2024 Brennan Center for Justice The gap is increasing nationwide, especially in counties that had been subject to federal oversight until the Supreme Court invalid…
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March 4, 2024 at 6:30 AM

Major Strike Activity Increased by 280% in 2023

Major Strike Activity Increased by 280% in 2023     Margaret Poydock, Jennifer Sherer February 21, 2024 Economic Policy Institute Many workers still need policies that protect their right to strike Striking workers listening to a speech by US Presi…
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March 4, 2024 at 6:10 AM

Netflix’s Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Everything Fans Hoped It Would Be

Portside Culture Netflix’s Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Everything Fans Hoped It Would Be     Aja Romano February 22, 2024 Vox Avatar remains one of the most unapologetically antifascist shows ever made. It’s not even generically pacifis…
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March 3, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Fed Is Behind the Credit Card Merger

The Fed Is Behind the Credit Card Merger     Matt Stoller March 1, 2024 The Lever If Capital One is allowed to acquire Discover, it’ll gain access to a government loophole allowing it to raise prices and reduce competition. A Discover credit card a…
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March 3, 2024 at 1:05 AM

How Private Equity Conquered America

How Private Equity Conquered America     Chris Hedges and Gretchen Morgenson March 2, 2024 Scheerpost Blackstone, Apollo, and a handful of other firms are demolishing the US economy for short-term gain, and leaving workers and communities in the wreckage. …
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March 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

American Media Keep Citing Zaka — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited in Israel

American Media Keep Citing Zaka — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited in Israel     Arun Gupta February 27, 2024 The Intercept “The entire state of Israel was engaged in framing the narrative that Hamas is equal to ISIS.” Voluntee…
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March 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Has the Global Healthcare Workforce Crisis Finally Reached a Tipping Point?

Has the Global Healthcare Workforce Crisis Finally Reached a Tipping Point?     Veronica Nilsson January 24, 2024 Equal Times Richer countries facing staff shortages in the health sector often recruit staff from poorer countries – leaving those countries’ he…
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March 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Gary Tyler’s Journey From Death Row to the Art World

Gary Tyler’s Journey From Death Row to the Art World     Steve Appleford March 1, 2024 Capital & Main Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair’s Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison: "If my artwork is able to give people an unders…
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March 2, 2024 at 3:10 AM

Friday Nite Videos | March 1, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | March 1, 2024     March 1, 2024 xxxxxx The Paradox of an Infinite Universe. 'Night Thunder': Slide Guitar and Native American Flute. Dulcé Sloan Creates Black Women's History Day | The Daily Show. God & Country | Movie Trailer. Steph…
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March 2, 2024 at 1:45 AM

PhRMA Funnels Millions to Groups Fighting Drug Pricing Reforms

PhRMA Funnels Millions to Groups Fighting Drug Pricing Reforms     David Moore March 1, 2024 Sludge The pharma lobby gave more than $16 million in 2022 to advocacy groups, many of them ostensibly “grassroots,” that are battling the Medicare drug price negoti…
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March 2, 2024 at 1:35 AM

Einstein’s Postwar Campaign To Save the World From Nuclear Destruction

Einstein’s Postwar Campaign To Save the World From Nuclear Destruction     Lawrence Wittner March 1, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus The scientist's efforts helped create the movement for arms control and disarmament. Einstein: 'Life is like a bicycle…
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March 2, 2024 at 1:25 AM

Israeli Settlers Cross Into Gaza, Build ‘Symbolic’ Outpost

Israeli Settlers Cross Into Gaza, Build ‘Symbolic’ Outpost     Oren Ziv March 1, 2024 972 Magazine Dozens of settlers and right-wing activists stormed Erez Crossing, building two wooden structures while soldiers and police stood aside. Israeli sett…
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March 2, 2024 at 1:15 AM

What Is Left?

What Is Left?     Rebecca Solnit February 23, 2024 Literary Hub Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American Left: “It should be a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of authoritarian regimes.” ripped paper, Image by …
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March 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Presidential

Portside Culture Presidential     Carol Kanter In this presidential election year, poet Carol Kanter issues an elegant warning of a certain candidate “assuming, accruing power.” ,   Presidential By Carol Kanter Should our highest o…
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March 1, 2024 at 3:45 AM

Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape

Open Letter to the Israeli and U.S. Governments and Others Weaponizing the Issue of Rape     February 28, 2024 Stop Manipulating Sexual Assault All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing …
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March 1, 2024 at 3:15 AM

US Refuses To Assure UK Judges That Assange Won’t Be Executed if He’s Extradited

US Refuses To Assure UK Judges That Assange Won’t Be Executed if He’s Extradited     Marjorie Cohn February 27, 2024 Truthout British law prohibits extradition to a country that may impose capital punishment. The indictment would punish conduct that national…
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March 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Victory! – Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union

Victory! – Starbucks Stops Opposing Its Baristas’ Union     Harold Meyerson February 27, 2024 The American Prospect In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together. In a joint announcement Starbucks and Workers United agr…
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March 1, 2024 at 1:00 AM

‘We Are Very Close to an Eruption Taking Place in Israel’

‘We Are Very Close to an Eruption Taking Place in Israel’     Ehud Olmert February 28, 2024 Haaretz Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on this week's Haaretz Podcast says for Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and Netanyahu, Gaza is only the beginning - they are aiming for "…