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June 13, 2024 at 6:20 AM

Could Your First EV Be the Last Car You Ever Buy?

Could Your First EV Be the Last Car You Ever Buy?     Matteo Wong June 8, 2024 The Atlantic An electric car capable of running for 1 million miles is within reach--if car companies allow it. , Illustration by The Atlantic   In April, a grou…

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June 13, 2024 at 6:10 AM

New Republican Plan for Voter Suppression

New Republican Plan for Voter Suppression     Hansi Lo Wang June 11, 2024 NPR A bill has been introduced that would require proof of citizenship for registration to vote in Federal elections while 1 in 10 voters say they can't easily show proof of citizenshi…

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June 13, 2024 at 5:50 AM

News of Chomsky’s Ill Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’

News of Chomsky’s Ill Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’     Brett Wilkins June 12, 2024 Common Dreams "So many thousands of people have stories about how he has changed their lives," said one admirer. "He certainly changed mine." …

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June 13, 2024 at 5:30 AM

If Not in New York, Then Where?

If Not in New York, Then Where?     David Wallace-Wells June 12, 2024 New York Times Governor Kathy Hochul's indefinite pause of a proposed congestion pricing program for lower Manhattan is “a generational setback for climate policy in the United States." …

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June 13, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Inequality Without Class

Portside Culture Inequality Without Class     Simon Torracinta April 5, 2024 Dissent This book surveys how leading economists, over the last two and a half centuries, have accounted for wealth and income inequality. ,   Visions of …

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June 13, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 12, 2024

Global Left Midweek – June 12, 2024     June 12, 2024 xxxxxx More election season news and views Samsung workers declare their strike at corporate headquarters in Seoul, May 29. Credit, Yonhap   India, Modi and Europe Early EP Election Rep…

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June 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Europe’s Decelerating Drift

Europe’s Decelerating Drift     Robert Kuttner June 10, 2024 The American Prospect How serious is the continuing appeal of the far right? Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally party addresses the crowd at a rally before the European Parliament e…

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June 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

‘People Are Dying’: Air in ‘Cancer Alley’ Louisiana More Toxic Than Previously Thought

‘People Are Dying’: Air in ‘Cancer Alley’ Louisiana More Toxic Than Previously Thought     Edward Carver June 11, 2024 Common Dreams Ethylene oxide, a carcinogenic gas, is nine times more prevalent than the EPA estimated, a study shows. And inside petrochemi…

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June 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Fallacy of the ‘Wrong Side of History’ Narrative

The Fallacy of the ‘Wrong Side of History’ Narrative     Gerald Nesmith Jr June 9, 2024 Aljazeera Waiting on history to deliver karmic justice for war crimes is a useless exercise, especially at a time when urgent action is needed. President Joe B…

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June 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

A Democrat, Siding With the G.O.P., Is Removing Limits on Political Cash at ‘Breathtaking’ Speed

A Democrat, Siding With the G.O.P., Is Removing Limits on Political Cash at ‘Breathtaking’ Speed     Shane Goldmacher June 10, 2024 The New York Times An ascendant new bloc of three Republicans and one Democrat is voting together to roll back limits on how p…

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June 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – June 11, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – June 11, 2024     June 11, 2024 xxxxxx A crisis moment for media A vigil in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2022 for British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Credit, André Penner/AP   The Media Mome…

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June 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM

There’s Still Tomorrow Shows Women’s Fight for Freedom

Portside Culture There’s Still Tomorrow Shows Women’s Fight for Freedom     Stefanie Prezioso June 4, 2024 Jacobin Paola Cortellesi’s film There’s Still Tomorrow offers a striking portrayal of working-class women fighting gendered violence in late 19…

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June 11, 2024 at 6:30 AM

Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lies

Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lies     Veronica Riccobene June 3, 2024 The Lever While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts. , AP Photo/…

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June 11, 2024 at 2:20 AM

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

This Week in People’s History, June 11–17     xxxxxx A Very Unusual Strike (1894), A Bad Day for the African National Congress (1964), Nazi Germany’s Secret Weapons (1944), Sticking it to Robert E. Lee (1864) ,   Due to technical difficulti…

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June 11, 2024 at 1:25 AM

How Israel’s Illiberal Democracy Became a Model for the Right

How Israel’s Illiberal Democracy Became a Model for the Right     Suzanne Schneider June 1, 2024 Dissent Israel maintains a system of unequal citizenship system for Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. This version of democracy has long prevailed in Israel, and …

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June 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Sonic Seasoning

Portside Culture Sonic Seasoning     Andrew Coletti May 18, 2024 Atlas Obscura A developing field called “sonic seasoning” suggests a possible link between our experience of sound and taste. In a Oxford University study, subjects consistently connect…

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June 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Far-Right Surge in Elections Shakes Up European Parliament

Far-Right Surge in Elections Shakes Up European Parliament     Ana Vračar June 10, 2024 Peoples Dispatch Far right gains means European policies will likely shift in direction of security, austerity, and migration restrictions, despite hundreds of thousands …

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June 11, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Time for the Fed To Meet the FTC

Time for the Fed To Meet the FTC     Robert Kuttner June 5, 2024 The American Prospect The real source of too many price hikes is concentrated market power, not macroeconomic overheating. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news con…

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June 10, 2024 at 4:50 AM

Sunday Science: With All This Bird Flu Around, How Safe Are Eggs, Chicken or Milk?

Sunday Science: With All This Bird Flu Around, How Safe Are Eggs, Chicken or Milk?     Enzo Palombo June 5, 2024 The Conversation Recent outbreaks of bird flu – in US dairy herds, poultry farms in Australia and elsewhere, and isolated cases in humans – have …

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June 10, 2024 at 3:40 AM

Betrayal, It’s Not the Sunrise Movement, It Is the Governor of New York

Betrayal, It’s Not the Sunrise Movement, It Is the Governor of New York     Bill McKibben June 6, 2024 The Crucial Years A plea not to be angry with the youth. ,   I had another piece planned for today, and I will get back to it soon—it wil…

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June 10, 2024 at 3:10 AM

For the Rich, One Nation Isn’t Rolling Out the Red Carpet

For the Rich, One Nation Isn’t Rolling Out the Red Carpet     Sam Pizzigati June 6, 2024 Inequality.org Norway, now maybe more than any other nation, is really working to share the wealth. , Getty Images   So you think the rich have life ea…

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June 10, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Welcome to the Era of Garbage Film and Television Streaming

Portside Culture Welcome to the Era of Garbage Film and Television Streaming     David Moscrop June 6, 2024 Jacobin Private equity and monopoly capitalists will destroy anything to make a buck, and they’ve turned their sights on TV and film. If you h…

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June 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Rise of Poverty Inc.

The Rise of Poverty Inc.     Anne Kim June 1, 2024 The Atlantic How helping the poor became big business , Adam Maida for The Atlantic   In 1964, president lyndon b. johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty,” and since then, federal s…

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June 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM

A Just-Released Watchdog Report Makes the Case for Eliminating Land-Based Nuclear Missiles

A Just-Released Watchdog Report Makes the Case for Eliminating Land-Based Nuclear Missiles     William D. Hartung June 4, 2024 The Nation Land-based missiles are redundant and dangerous. A protester holds a sign at a vigil outside the United States…

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June 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Elon Musk Wants $50 Billion or He’ll Walk

Elon Musk Wants $50 Billion or He’ll Walk     Harold Meyerson June 6, 2024 American Prospect Unless Tesla shareholders grant him this tidy bonus, he’s threatened to take his marbles elsewhere. Elon Musk arrives at an event in Los Angeles, April 13,…

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June 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Mexico Elects First Woman President

Mexico Elects First Woman President     Jeff Abbott June 7, 2024 The Progressive In an election marred by violence, Mexico has chosen its first ever female leader. Claudia Sheinbaum, Fred Ramos/Bloomberg via Getty Images   Claudia Sheinba…

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June 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Migrating Workers Provide Wealth for the World

Migrating Workers Provide Wealth for the World     Vijay Prashad June 7, 2024 CounterPunch If the migrants of the world—all 281 million of them—lived in one country, then they would form the fourth largest country in the world. Yet, migrants receive few soci…

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June 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM

How African States Are Resisting Pressure From the North in Trade Agreements While Failing To Assert Their Priorities

How African States Are Resisting Pressure From the North in Trade Agreements While Failing To Assert Their Priorities     Julie Chaudier June 4, 2024 Equal Times The history of African relations and investment governance with the North is far more disadvanta…

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June 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Roger Corman’s 1962 Film ‘The Intruder’ and the Crisis of National Values

Roger Corman’s 1962 Film ‘The Intruder’ and the Crisis of National Values     Luca Celada May 30, 2024 Il Manifesto Global Disinformation and innuendo are weaponized. “Intruders” abound as well, even if they no longer need to take the Greyhound to the backwo…

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June 8, 2024 at 4:05 AM

Friday Nite Videos | June 7, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | June 7, 2024     June 7, 2024 xxxxxx Elon Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package. "Unconvictable" | Nat King Cole "Unforgettable" Parody. The Other Side of Gaza. Putin Like Hitler 'Crossed the Line', Zelenskiy Tells French Parliament. Jim Henson…

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June 8, 2024 at 3:10 AM

The Sunrise Movement’s Critics Really Don’t Get Climate Activism

The Sunrise Movement’s Critics Really Don’t Get Climate Activism     Kate Aronoff June 5, 2024 The New Republic Just because the youth group hasn’t endorsed Biden doesn’t mean it’s handing the presidency to Trump. Chicago Sunrise Movement Rallies f…

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June 8, 2024 at 3:00 AM

Where AI Predictions Go Wrong

Where AI Predictions Go Wrong     Kelsey Piper June 7, 2024 Vox How close are large language models to achieving general intelligence? Observers offer diametrically opposed answers. But both skeptics and boosters may be too sure of themselves. Arti…

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June 8, 2024 at 2:45 AM

A Slippery Slope to World War III?

A Slippery Slope to World War III?     John Feffer June 5, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus A closer look at the five assumptions behind the push for a "ceasefire now" in Ukraine Russian flag + Ukrainian flag. Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort, Belek,…

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June 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM

Michael Pollan on His 25-Year Fight With the Food Industry

Michael Pollan on His 25-Year Fight With the Food Industry     Zoe Williams June 6, 2024 The Guardian “It was the tobacco companies, under pressure from the government over smoking, that bought the food industry. So it’s a similar playbook, except now they k…

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June 8, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Before the Gaza Genocide: Thoughts on Hersey’s the Wall

Portside Culture Before the Gaza Genocide: Thoughts on Hersey’s the Wall     Sam Friedman Poet Sam Friedman brings us back to the walls around Gaza before the after. ,   Before the Gaza Genocide: Thoughts on Hersey’s The Wall    By…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:05 AM

NAACP Calls on Biden-Harris Administration To Halt Weapons Shipments to Israel, Push for Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire

NAACP Calls on Biden-Harris Administration To Halt Weapons Shipments to Israel, Push for Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire     NAACP Statement From The President June 5, 2024 NAACP The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the 'red line' and indefinitely en…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Billionaires Have Captured Donald Trump

The Billionaires Have Captured Donald Trump     Alex Shephard June 6, 2024 The New Republic Desperate to avoid prison—and needing cash to win reelection, so he can pardon himself—Trump is selling his administration’s domestic and foreign policy to the highes…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War     Sheera Frenke, Reporting from Tel Aviv June 5, 2024 New York Times Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. l…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions

The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions     Tadhg Larabee and Eva Rosenfeld May 20, 2024 Dissent Magazine Georgia’s sweeping, political application of conspiracy law echoes tactics that shattered the left a hundred years ago, when t…

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June 7, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 6 – Reader Comments: Trump No Longer Invincible; Mexico: ¡Viva La Presidenta!; the Sympathizer on Hollywood’s Vietnam War Stories; Leonard Peltier Parole Hearing June 10; Webinar: Organizing, Collective Action, the NLRB; More…

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June 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM

California Communism and Its Afterlives: On Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds”

Portside Culture California Communism and Its Afterlives: On Robert W. Cherny’s “San Francisco Reds”     Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics May 27, 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books Reviewers Ray and Wranovics call this book "a welcome contribution, and …

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June 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 5, 2024

Global Left Midweek – June 5, 2024     June 5, 2024 xxxxxx Irish reunification in the age of the EU Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum of the leftist Morena party waves to supporters in Mexico City. Credit, Gerardo Vieyra / NurPhoto via Gett…

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June 6, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Republican Id

The Republican Id     Rick Perlstein June 4, 2024 The American Prospect Rather than visiting red-state diners, reporters ought to journey to the venerable conservative message board where the talk after the Trump verdict was nihilistic and bloody. …

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June 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Israel, Russia, and International Law

Israel, Russia, and International Law     Lawrence S. Wittner June 4, 2024 Froeign Policy in Focus National impunity is not inevitable, at least if people and governments of the world are willing to take the necessary actions. , Shutterstock …

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June 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Asylum-Seekers at the US-Mexico Border Worry About Their Next Move: ‘We Cannot Return’

Asylum-Seekers at the US-Mexico Border Worry About Their Next Move: ‘We Cannot Return’     Lorena Figueroa and Amanda Ulrich June 5, 2024 The Guardian People at the border reel after hearing about Biden’s order and consider the CBP One app, where they can go…

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June 6, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Anti-War Left Makes Inroads in Israel

The Anti-War Left Makes Inroads in Israel     Interview by Federico Fuentes June 2, 2024 Links Standing Together’s national field organizer Uri Weltmann discusses the growing peace movement inside Israel, confronting far-right extremists seeking to disrupt h…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:40 AM

200-to-1: Gap Between CEOs and Workers Grew Even Wider in 2023, Analysis Finds

200-to-1: Gap Between CEOs and Workers Grew Even Wider in 2023, Analysis Finds     Edward Carver June 3, 2024 Common Dreams The finding from The Associated Press adds to the evidence of growing inequality—and helps explain worker dissatisfaction with the eco…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM

Southern Worker School Charts Course for Power

Southern Worker School Charts Course for Power     Southern Workers Assembly June 30, 2024 Southern Workers Assembly Nearly two hundred rank and filers who are developing a movement of workers in the South that can build power to make the anti-union politi…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM

The Dangerous Class Consciousness of Donald Trump

The Dangerous Class Consciousness of Donald Trump     Stephen F. Eisenman June 4, 2024 Counterpunch With the 34 guilty verdicts delivered on Thursday by a New York City jury, Donald J. Trump is now shown to have been plucked by a “seductive priestess,” a Maj…

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June 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM

How We’ve Failed the Promise of Making “Genocide” a Crime

How We’ve Failed the Promise of Making “Genocide” a Crime     Noah Lanard June 3, 2024 Mother Jones The lawyer Raphael Lemkin hoped to use international law to curb abuses of power. But his efforts were curtailed from the start. , István Szugyiczky…

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