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June 22, 2024 at 3:05 AM

Lessons From Europe: The Left Can’t Win by Running to the Right

Lessons From Europe: The Left Can’t Win by Running to the Right     Chris Mills Rodrigo June 18, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus The far right showed disturbing strength in the European Parliament elections, but there’s nothing inevitable about a far right wave…
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June 22, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Cooling California Could Heat Up Europe

Cooling California Could Heat Up Europe     Jonathan Watts June 21, 2024 Guardian Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening that may cool one region in the short term but have negative impact elsewhere Wildfire…
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June 22, 2024 at 2:25 AM

The Christian Right Is Coming for Divorce

The Christian Right Is Coming for Divorce     Anna North June 13, 2024 Vox A counter-revolution is brewing: Conservative commentators and lawmakers are calling for an end to no-fault divorce, arguing that it has harmed men and even destroyed the fabric of so…
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June 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Sweet Rain

Portside Culture Sweet Rain     Teresa Pham-Carsillo May 1, 2024 Catamaran Literary Reader California poet Teresa Pham-Carsillo opens the reader to summertime; show some gratitude! ,   Sweet Rain  By Teresa Pham-Carsillo Like dazed…
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June 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM

How Much More Proof Does Biden Need That Netanyahu Is Not a U.S. Ally?

How Much More Proof Does Biden Need That Netanyahu Is Not a U.S. Ally?     Alon Pinkas June 19, 2024 Haaretz Benjamin Netanyahu's eye-rolling video, in which he accused the Americans of holding up an arms shipment and yet again evoked Winston Churchill, is h…
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June 21, 2024 at 1:15 AM

Let’s Examine the Link Between MAGA and the Old South – Battling the Second Great Insurrection

Let’s Examine the Link Between MAGA and the Old South – Battling the Second Great Insurrection     Thom Hartmann June 19, 2024 The Hartmann Report We face a second insurrection today, and most people have no idea how closely it’s modeled on the first one. Th…
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June 21, 2024 at 12:55 AM

The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., 1928–2024

The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., 1928–2024     Peter Dreier June 13, 2024 The Nation The “greatest teacher of nonviolence in America” was a mentor to generations of activists, from Martin Luther King Jr. to today’s union organizers and immigrant rights campaign…
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June 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Jamaal Bowman Primary Challenger Shares Dozens of Donors With Republicans Who Sought Santos’ Seat

Jamaal Bowman Primary Challenger Shares Dozens of Donors With Republicans Who Sought Santos’ Seat     Michelle Bocanegra and Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky June 13, 2024 Gothamist What does a Long Island Republican who ran to replace George Santos have in common wi…
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June 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 20 – Reader Comments: Campaign Biden Needs To Wage Against MAGA Trump Fascists; UN Commission Finds Israel Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity; Denmark’s Euro Football Squad Refused Pay Raise To Ensure Women’s Team Receives Equal Pay;

Tidbits – June 20 – Reader Comments: Campaign Biden Needs To Wage Against MAGA Trump Fascists; UN Commission Finds Israel Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity; Denmark’s Euro Football Squad Refused Pay Raise To Ensure Women’s Team Receives Equal Pay;     June 20, 202…
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June 20, 2024 at 4:20 AM

As Boycott Grows, Ocasio-Cortez Says Netanyahu Invitation ‘Should Be Revoked’

As Boycott Grows, Ocasio-Cortez Says Netanyahu Invitation ‘Should Be Revoked’     Jake Johnson June 19, 2024 Common Dreams "This man should not be addressing Congress," said the New York Democrat. "He is a war criminal." Democratic members of the U…
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June 20, 2024 at 4:05 AM

On Juneteenth: Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

On Juneteenth: Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America     Interview of Clint Smith by Amy Goodman June 19, 2024 Democracy Now "If we don't fully understand and account for slavery's history in this country, we won't understand how it shaped the…
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June 20, 2024 at 3:40 AM

End Legal Slavery in the United States

End Legal Slavery in the United States     Andrew Ross, Tommaso Bardelli and Aiyuba Thomas June 19, 2024 New York Times Some historians have described the South's convict leasing system as “worse than slavery,” because there was no incentive to avoid working…
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June 20, 2024 at 3:30 AM

How Donald Trump Worked To Destroy America’s Labor Unions

How Donald Trump Worked To Destroy America’s Labor Unions     Lawrence Wittner June 17, 2024 Forward Kentucky Trump says he is a “friend of the working class” – but he’s anything but. Read on to learn why. ,   Although Donald Trump has been…
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June 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM

How To Be a Nonviolent Second-Wave Feminist

Portside Culture How To Be a Nonviolent Second-Wave Feminist     Eleanor J. Bader June 14, 2024 The Indypendent In 47 essays written from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, prominent Second Wave feminists question how nonviolence might be applied to …
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June 20, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – June 19, 2024

Global Left Midweek – June 19, 2024     June 19, 2024 xxxxxx Can a left electoral front beat the far right in France? Crowds have gathered daily in France to protest since President Macron called parliamentary elections earlier this week after surg…
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June 19, 2024 at 4:05 AM

How I Saw the TV Glow Shows a Trans Side of Horror

Portside Culture How I Saw the TV Glow Shows a Trans Side of Horror     Mey Rude May 16, 2024 Out Director Jane Schoenbrun and stars Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine talk bringing trans horror to the big screen. Director Jane Schoenbr…
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June 19, 2024 at 12:10 AM

UN Commission Finds Israel Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

UN Commission Finds Israel Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity     Bashir Abu-Manneh June 18, 2024 Jacobin A new report by a UN commission finds that Israel intended to murder civilians en masse, inflict wide-scale civilian destruction, and collectively punish…
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June 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Tax Policy Is a Part of the Black American Story

Tax Policy Is a Part of the Black American Story     Brakeyshia Samms June 18, 2024 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Policymakers can only make sensible decisions when they understand what the tax system’s shortcomings have done to Black communitie…
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June 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Clowns, Reverse Boycotts, and Involuntary Walkathons: How Communities Are Making Political Violence Backfire

Clowns, Reverse Boycotts, and Involuntary Walkathons: How Communities Are Making Political Violence Backfire     Maria J. Stephan June 5, 2024 Just Security Confronting the normalization of political violence and stopping it from undermining the practice of …
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June 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM

A National Climate Action Plan, Why We Need It and How To Do It

A National Climate Action Plan, Why We Need It and How To Do It     John J. Berger June 18, 2024 Tom Dispatch It could hardly be clearer that the world is already in the throes of a climate catastrophe. That means it’s high time for the U.S. to declare a nat…
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June 19, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 18, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – June 18, 2024     June 18, 2024 xxxxxx Life in Brooklyn Chispa NV joined community leaders from Iowa and Nebraska in calling on Berkshire Hathaway, the parent company of Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific Power (NV E…
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June 18, 2024 at 2:45 AM

This Week in People’s History, June 18–24

This Week in People’s History, June 18–24     xxxxxx CIA Carries United Fruit’s Water (1954), “Radical Plot” Gets Saber-Rattling Response (1919), A Deadly Managua Roadblock (1979), Murders Most Foul (1964), DC Metro Cover-Up (2009), Mournful Gallery of Loss …
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June 18, 2024 at 1:10 AM

France’s New Popular Front Has a Plan To Govern

France’s New Popular Front Has a Plan To Govern     Harrison Stetler June 15, 2024 Jacobin France’s snap elections are widely seen as an opportunity for Marine Le Pen’s far right. But the left-wing parties’ Nouveau Front Populaire has a real possibility of s…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:05 AM

An Amish-Chinese Mushroom Collaboration

Portside Culture An Amish-Chinese Mushroom Collaboration     Laura Reiley June 2, 2024 Ambrook Research A business born of necessity and the pandemic, Amish Agriculture Inc and its mushrooms are finding fertile ground. The collaboration, rooted in ur…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Parole Commission: It’s Long Past the Time to FREE Leonard Peltier

Parole Commission: It’s Long Past the Time to FREE Leonard Peltier     Levi Rickert June 9, 2024 Native News Online "We are hoping and praying that the parole commission will grant Leonard parole so that he can go back to his people on the Turtle Mountain Re…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Du Bois Doctrine

The Du Bois Doctrine     Zachariah Mampilly September 6, 2022 Foreign Affairs Du Bois is rightly venerated for his work on civil rights. But by discarding him, the American foreign policy establishment robbed itself of one of the twentieth century’s most per…
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June 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM

No. Seriously. What if Trump Wins Again?

No. Seriously. What if Trump Wins Again?     Cayden Mak, Daniel Hunter, Katey Lauer June 14, 2024 Convergence Choose Democracy launched a set of online tools and strategy games to help prepare for this election and after. The tools invite participants to exp…
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June 17, 2024 at 6:50 AM

Sunday Science: Signs of Science

Sunday Science: Signs of Science     Dimitri Selibas June 13, 2024 Science CyberTracker, software developed in collaboration with Indigenous trackers, is enabling almost anyone to collect complex biodiversity data Indigenous trackers, preparing her…
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June 17, 2024 at 6:05 AM

Despite Possibility of Ceasefire, U.S. Imperial Ambitions May Doom Palestine

Despite Possibility of Ceasefire, U.S. Imperial Ambitions May Doom Palestine     Edward Hunt June 12, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus The Biden administration’s efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia may make it impossible for Palestinia…
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June 17, 2024 at 4:20 AM

A Legacy of Plunder

A Legacy of Plunder     Francisco Cantú June 2, 2024 The New York Review In its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work is changing how Native people are situated in the arc of North American histo…
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June 17, 2024 at 3:10 AM

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says     Renee Dudley, Doris Burke June 13, 2024 Propublica Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it fe…
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June 17, 2024 at 3:05 AM

US Banana Giant Ordered To Pay $38M to Families of Colombian Men Killed by Death Squads

US Banana Giant Ordered To Pay $38M to Families of Colombian Men Killed by Death Squads     Luke Taylor June 11, 2024 The Guardian Landmark verdict against Chiquita marks first time major US company held liable for funding human rights abuses abroad …
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June 17, 2024 at 12:55 AM

How the Acolyte Wove Queerness — and Lesbian Space Witches — Into Star Wars

Portside Culture How the Acolyte Wove Queerness — and Lesbian Space Witches — Into Star Wars     Abby Monteil June 13, 2024 Them Writer-director Leslye Headland’s new series takes a nuanced approach to representation. , Disney+   Co…
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June 16, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Weapons, Fossil Fuels, Illegal Settlements

Weapons, Fossil Fuels, Illegal Settlements     Dan McGlynn June 12, 2024 The Shoestring UMass’ Investment Portfolio: As UMass backs out of a commitment to consider divestment, a Shoestring investigation reveals its endowment has millions indirectly invested …
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June 16, 2024 at 12:05 AM

President in Mexico To Accelerate Energy Transition

President in Mexico To Accelerate Energy Transition     Trade Unions for Energy Democracy June 14, 2024 Socialist Project Claudia Sheinbaum’s resounding victory in Mexico’s presidential election on June 2nd, 2024, has been welcomed by two of the country’s ma…
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June 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

A ‘Focus on Solidarity’ and Progressive Solutions at Latest Sanders Institute Gathering

A ‘Focus on Solidarity’ and Progressive Solutions at Latest Sanders Institute Gathering     Jessica Corbett and Julia Conley June 14, 2024 Common Dreams Too often when covering advocacy work, the corporate media focuses on "the controversy," O'Meara Sanders …
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June 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Biden’s Border Restrictions Are Stranding Climate Migrants in Extreme Heat

Biden’s Border Restrictions Are Stranding Climate Migrants in Extreme Heat     Ayurella Horn-Muller June 12, 2024 Grist Many people seeking asylum are fleeing climate disasters. Biden's latest border move puts them even more at risk. , (Katie McTie…
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June 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Uncommitted Voters Sending a Clear Message to Biden About Slaughter in Gaza

Uncommitted Voters Sending a Clear Message to Biden About Slaughter in Gaza     Phyllis Bennis June 10, 2024 Albuquerque Journal Uncommitted voters, tens of thousands of students protesting in encampments, millions more protesting in the streets and in the h…
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June 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM

Friday Nite Videos | June 14, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | June 14, 2024     June 14, 2024 xxxxxx Deep-Sea Mining | John Oliver. They Might Incarcerate Me: The Ballad of Donald Trump. Hitler and the Nazis | Documentary. Dear Mamma: a Transgender Journey in Letters. Why Do So Many Americans Suppo…
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June 15, 2024 at 1:25 AM

The Speech FDR Would Give

The Speech FDR Would Give     David Dayan June 14, 2024 The American Prospect As economic royalists ally with Trump, we have already seen an example of a rhetorical counter that tells it like it is. ,   A first-term president is presiding o…
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June 15, 2024 at 12:55 AM

Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise

Messenger RNA Therapies Are Finally Fulfilling Their Promise     Drew Weissman March 1, 2022 Scientific American Instructing our cells to make specific proteins could control influenza, autoimmune diseases, even cancer ,   Editor’s Note (10…
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June 15, 2024 at 12:35 AM

What Gantz’s Exit Reveals About Israel’s Failed Gaza Strategy

What Gantz’s Exit Reveals About Israel’s Failed Gaza Strategy     Meron Rapoport June 11, 2024 972 Magazine October 7 collapsed Israel’s decades-old ‘separation policy' toward Gaza. Gantz and Gallant know it; Netanyahu and the far right still won’t admit it.…
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June 15, 2024 at 12:25 AM

Will the Revolution Be Funded?

Will the Revolution Be Funded?     Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry June 11, 2024 The Forge Organizers and researchers Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry examine how movements can build power by working within, without, and against philanthropy , …
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June 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Juneteenth

Portside Culture Juneteenth     Peter Neil Carroll Enslavers typically insisted that Africans lacked "civilization," culture, religion until scholars like P. Sterling Stuckey showed beyond doubt the rich complexity --and survival-- of African traditi…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:10 AM

What Did We Know – and When Did We Know It?

What Did We Know – and When Did We Know It?     Rebecca Gordon June 11, 2024 TomDispatch This capacity to predict the future is beginning to feel a bit déjà-vu-ish. It’s not too hard to foresee the approaching catastrophe in Gaza. In our presidential electio…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist?

Can Democracy and Billionaires Coexist?     Sam Pizzigati May 30, 2024 Inequality.org Not on this planet. The wealthiest of our wealthy, a just-released report from Americans for Tax Fairness points out, are doing their best to keep these good times — for Am…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

How the Media Failed the College Student Encampments

How the Media Failed the College Student Encampments     Sarah Baum June 6, 2024 he Progressive Magazine The focus on Columbia University has overshadowed the extent of protests—and police brutality—at public schools. Those charged with occupying a Columbia …
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June 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Remembering the Holocaust While Gaza Starves

Remembering the Holocaust While Gaza Starves     Ariel Dorfman June 6, 2024 New Lines Magazine A ceremony at an old food market in Amsterdam prompts reflections on tragedy, indifference and survival. How could so many Israelis feel indifferent to such grief …
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June 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – June 13 – Reader Comments: Billionaires Captured Trump; Criminalization of Solidarity; Slippery Slope to World War III?; Pride Month Event – Telling the Stories of Lincoln Brigade LGBTQ Volunteers; Cartoons; More…

Tidbits – June 13 – Reader Comments: Billionaires Captured Trump; Criminalization of Solidarity; Slippery Slope to World War III?; Pride Month Event – Telling the Stories of Lincoln Brigade LGBTQ Volunteers; Cartoons; More…     June 13, 2024 xxxxxx Reader Co…
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June 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Israel’s Descent

Portside Culture Israel’s Descent     Adam Shatz June 20, 2024 London Review of Books Exterminationist violence is almost always preceded by other forms of persecution, which aim to render the victims as miserable as possible, including plunder, deni…