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January 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM

Has Political Correctness Gone Mad?

Portside Culture Has Political Correctness Gone Mad?     Sean Sayers December 11, 2024 Marx & Philosophy Review of Books This new book offers an analysis of one of the right wing's main talking points. ,   Has Political Correctn…

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January 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – January 1, 2025

Global Left Midweek – January 1, 2025     January 1, 2025 xxxxxx The big picture ,   Jayati Ghosh on Democracy Civil Society Trends for 2025 Saving the Planet Cuba: Yet Another Special Period New Formations Capital – The Cold Case Neoliber…

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January 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM

Top 2024 Victories for People and Planet To Inspire Next Year’s Activism

Top 2024 Victories for People and Planet To Inspire Next Year’s Activism     Caroline Wagner, Francesca Cresta, Tan Lee Kuen December 19, 2024 Greenpeace Across the globe, people took bold steps to care for the planet; 2024 showed us the strength of coming t…

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January 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power     Lawrence S. Wittner December 24, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus The rich are growing astronomically richer while poverty reduction has ground to a standstill. ,   In today’s …

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January 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM

A Palestinian Year in Review: Genocide, Resistance and Unanswered Questions

A Palestinian Year in Review: Genocide, Resistance and Unanswered Questions     Ramzy Baroud December 30, 2024 Counterpunch The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the …

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January 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Teachers Turn To Study Groups for Anti-Racist Learning as History Is Whitewashed

Teachers Turn To Study Groups for Anti-Racist Learning as History Is Whitewashed     Jesse Hagopian, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca December 30, 2024 Truthout Amid right-wing attacks on classrooms, study groups light a “fire of hope” among anti-racist educators. …

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January 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM

The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane

Portside Culture The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane     Bill Meyer December 12, 2024 Hollywood Progressive An opening scene in the documentary shows Dane flipping through the pages of a massive looseleaf binder that contains her entire FBI Red Squad file…

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January 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 31, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 31, 2024     December 31, 2024 xxxxxx Cold culture wars heating up ,   Democrats’ Political Grief  The Climate of Fear The Art World Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity Rating Murderers: Mangione a…

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December 31, 2024 at 5:15 AM

A Class in Politics

A Class in Politics     Edwin F. Ackerman December 29, 2024 Jacobin How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution. Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador whose policies during his tenure…

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December 31, 2024 at 2:40 AM

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

This Week in People’s History, Jan 1–7     xxxxxx Too Good To Be True (1950), What’s Worse Than One Palmer Raid? (1920), Protest Genocide and Go To Jail (1895), Great Society=Great Hypocrisy (1965), The Big City's Calling (1920), A Writing Star Is Born (1935…

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December 31, 2024 at 1:05 AM

The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation

The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation     Timothy Noah December 30, 2024 The New Republic Elon Musk emerged victorious in Trumpworld’s first fight over foreign-born tech workers. But underneath Laura Loomer’s hateful rhetoric lies a legitimat…

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December 31, 2024 at 1:00 AM

2024 Word of the Year: Genocide (As In, Gaza)

2024 Word of the Year: Genocide (As In, Gaza)     Juan Cole December 29, 2024 Informed Consent Genocide does not necessarily mean the destruction of a nation accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended to signify a coordinated pl…

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December 31, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Ecuador Hands Over Galapagos Islands To Build U.S. Military Base

Ecuador Hands Over Galapagos Islands To Build U.S. Military Base     Edited by Ed Newman December 17, 2024 Radio Havana Cuba The decision of the Noboa government to hand over these islands goes against what the Ecuadorian people decided in the referendum to …

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December 30, 2024 at 1:10 AM

The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship

The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship     J.C. Hallman December 27, 2024 The Nation A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old chess champion. Ding Liren, top right, and Gukes…

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December 30, 2024 at 1:10 AM

Sunday Science: The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds

Sunday Science: The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds     Carl Zimmer December 28, 2024 New York Times A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the …

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December 30, 2024 at 1:05 AM

A Portside Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator

Portside Culture A Portside Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator     Portside Moderators December 29, 2024 Portside Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mob…

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December 30, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Trump Confronts a Rising China

Trump Confronts a Rising China     Michael Klare December 17, 2024 TomDispatch Can He Manage U.S.-China Relations Without Precipitating World War III? Donald Trump, Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0   Gaz…

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December 30, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Hopping Across the Line

Hopping Across the Line     John Washington December 19, 2024 The New York Review In Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León uses the anthropological method of “deep hanging out” to offer a complicated portrait of migrant smugglers. No puedo pasar (Perfo…

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December 30, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Woody and Pete on Fascism

Woody and Pete on Fascism     Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger January 4, 2009 UnAmerican Bandstand This a radio program recorded in the 1940s in which Woody Guthrie sings accompanied in that performance by Sonny Terry on harmonica, Pete Seeger on banjo and Cisco …

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December 30, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How Black Doves Subverts the Gay Best Friend Stereotype

Portside Culture How Black Doves Subverts the Gay Best Friend Stereotype     Ryan Gilbey December 16, 2024 The Guardian Ben Whishaw is Keira Knightley’s gay bestie in pulpy Netflix thriller Black Doves but he’s playing more than mere sassy sidekick …

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December 29, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Article America’s Health Insurance Grinches

Article America’s Health Insurance Grinches     Lynn Parramore December 20, 2024 Institute for New Economic Thinking A Scathing Indictment of “Market” Economics , Institute for New Economic Thinking   The country’s flawed insurance model, …

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December 29, 2024 at 1:05 AM

MAGA Civil War Erupts

MAGA Civil War Erupts     Emily Brooks and Julia Shapero December 27, 2024 The Hill A war between High Tech Corporate leaders and the anti-immigrant MAGA base. Elon Musk, Andrew Harnik/GETTY   A Trump World civil war has erupted over visas …

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December 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Infant Revolution in Bach’s Christmas Music

The Infant Revolution in Bach’s Christmas Music     David Yearsley December 20, 2024 CounterPunch "Consider this exchange, you who can think of it; The King becomes a subject, The Lord appears as a vassal and is for the human race – o sweet word in every ear…

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December 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Looking Backward Autobiographically

Looking Backward Autobiographically     Victor Grossman December 22, 2024 MR OnLine I still retain sparks of hope that 2025 will not see more gains for the biblical Four Horsemen—War, Pestilence, Famine and Devastation—but rather more struggle, at least a li…

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December 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Chanukah Is a Choice Between Life and Death: Choose Life

Chanukah Is a Choice Between Life and Death: Choose Life     Alan Wagman December 9, 2024 xxxxxx We need not surrender Chanukah to Zionism’s dark vision. As rabbis refocused Chanukah more than a millennium ago, we can honor the instruction in Deuteronomy, “.…

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December 28, 2024 at 1:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 27, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | December 27, 2024     December 27, 2024 xxxxxx The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam. The Real Reason Polio Is So Dangerous. Nickel Boys | Movie. Kurt Vonnegut's Letter to the Future. 25 Million Stitches: A Refugee Exhibit. …

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December 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM

An Open Letter to Elon Musk

An Open Letter to Elon Musk     Stephen Engelberg December 11, 2024 ProPublica I have little doubt that ProPublica will write stories in the coming years that will enrage people you know. Some of our work may even focus on you or your companies. With immense…

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December 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM

An AI System Has Reached Human Level on a Test for ‘General Intelligence’

An AI System Has Reached Human Level on a Test for ‘General Intelligence’     Michael Timothy Bennett and Elija Perrier December 24, 2024 The Conversation While scepticism remains, many AI researchers and developers feel something just changed. For many, the…

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December 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM

mRNA Technology: Four Decades in the Making

mRNA Technology: Four Decades in the Making     Jess Steier December 23, 2024 Unbiased Science mRNA technology took 40 years to perfect. Here's the story, briefly. So if you’re sitting around the holiday table and someone tells you the mRNA technology is “to…

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December 28, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How a US President and JP Morgan Made Panama and Turned It Into a Tax Haven

How a US President and JP Morgan Made Panama and Turned It Into a Tax Haven     Ed Vulliamy April 9, 2016 Guardian In 1903 the US bullied Colombia into giving up the province that became Panama. The plan was to create a nation to serve the interests of Wall …

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December 28, 2024 at 1:00 AM

peeling potatoes

Portside Culture peeling potatoes     Nels Goñi Christianson California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength. ,   my mother who was born in Susanville, Ca…

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December 27, 2024 at 2:15 AM

Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men

Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men     Clara Jeffery November 15, 2024 Mother Jones Women are not okay. We’re furious...Trump’s margin of victory was powered by men, who voted for him by 55 percent—a few points more than went for him in 2020. Trump made gains with a…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:45 AM

How Trump and the GOP Plan To Dismantle the U.S. Pro-Palestinian Movement

How Trump and the GOP Plan To Dismantle the U.S. Pro-Palestinian Movement     Ben Samuels December 23, 2024 Haaretz Aggressively anti-Palestinian appointees, who tend to describe all campus protesters as Hamas supporters, will soon steer both foreign and dom…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:15 AM

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power     Lawrence S. Wittner December 24, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus The rich are growing astronomically richer while poverty reduction has ground to a standstill. In today’s world of widespread pov…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:05 AM

We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy

We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy     Timothy Noah December 23, 2024 The New Republic Your stock portfolio may grow. But say goodbye to next year’s raise—and maybe even your job. Donald Trump’s election provides a useful occasion t…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Dec.26 – Reader Comments: Trump’s Pick for Attorney General: Rapist Gaetz; Democrats’ Path Back To Power; Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election; Second Ku Klux Klan; Stop Blaming People for Wanting To Afford the Basics of Living;

Tidbits – Dec.26 – Reader Comments: Trump’s Pick for Attorney General: Rapist Gaetz; Democrats’ Path Back To Power; Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election; Second Ku Klux Klan; Stop Blaming People for Wanting To Afford the Basics of Living;     December 26, …

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December 26, 2024 at 8:00 AM

Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Protests Continuing Gaza Genocide

Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Protests Continuing Gaza Genocide     Interview by Amy Goodman December 23, 2024 Democracy Now Reverend's Christmas sermon titled "Christ is Still in the Rubble" given while Christmas celebrations were canceled in the West Bank and the c…

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December 26, 2024 at 7:40 AM

‘I Probably Could Have Flipped Over a Few More Tables’

‘I Probably Could Have Flipped Over a Few More Tables’     Nicholas Wu December 25, 2024 Politico Outgoing Rep. Cori Bush gets candid about her time in Congress and how progressives should respond to 2024. Rep. Cori Bush, Francis Chung/POLITICO …

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December 26, 2024 at 7:25 AM

Think Biden’s Unpopular? Check Out His Fellow Leaders.

Think Biden’s Unpopular? Check Out His Fellow Leaders.     Harold Meyerson December 23, 2024 The American Prospect If floundering leaders and ineffectual democracies are the new norm, we’re in a very dangerous time. From left, U.K. Prime Minister K…

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December 26, 2024 at 7:10 AM

The Walmart Effect

The Walmart Effect     Rogé Karma December 24, 2024 The Atlantic New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices. , Marie Eriel Hobro for The New York Times  …

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December 26, 2024 at 1:00 AM

A Soundtrack of Irrationalism

Portside Culture A Soundtrack of Irrationalism     Blaire Briody December 12, 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America." , …

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December 26, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Women Confront Society

Global Left Midweek – Women Confront Society     December 25, 2024 xxxxxx It’s worldwide Credit, Vidushi Yadav and Medhavini Yadav   Global Economy: Listen to Women Video: Kenyans Against Femicide Report on Pelicot Verdicts and Aftermath W…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Trump Wants To Bring Back the American Imperium

Trump Wants To Bring Back the American Imperium     Timothy Noah December 23, 2024 The New Republic Don’t worry, the president-elect's plans to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal aren't serious. But they sure are weird. Graffiti is drawn on the s…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Octopuses and Their Relatives Are a New Animal Welfare Frontier

Octopuses and Their Relatives Are a New Animal Welfare Frontier     Rachel Blaser December 20, 2024 The Conversation Here’s what scientists know about consciousness in these unique creatures Octopus cyanea or Day Octopus near Kona, Big Island, Hawa…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

No, Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election

No, Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election     Isaac Rabbani, Domenico Siravo December 24, 2024 Jacobin Over the course of her campaign, with all the wrong people in her ear, Kamala Harris rejected the type of economic populism that could have salvaged…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Reimagining Socialism: An Interview With David Kotz

Reimagining Socialism: An Interview With David Kotz     C.J. Polychroniou December 24, 2024 Common Dreams "The biggest problem with regulated capitalism is that it is simply not sustainable in the long run," said the economist. Economist and profes…

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December 25, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – December 24, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – December 24, 2024     December 24, 2024 xxxxxx How strong is the First Amendment? Credit, Rob Rogers   Trump 2.0 Lowers the Boom Goliath vs Goliath Crypto Crisis Coming? Carding Pornhub Users Rightist Podcasting: Fro…

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December 24, 2024 at 11:15 PM

"A Complete Unknown" Review – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Is an Electric Revelation

Portside Culture "A Complete Unknown" Review – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Is an Electric Revelation     Peter Bradshaw December 10, 2024 The Guardian James Mangold’s biopic "A Complete Unknown" follows the rise of the era-defining star Bob Dylan w…

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December 24, 2024 at 2:10 AM

This Week in People’s History, Dec 25–31

This Week in People’s History, Dec 25–31     xxxxxx No Free Speech on Christmas (1919), Killing Babies Is the Ugliest War Crime (1969), Can the Media Help Defend Democracy Again? (1974), Young Lords Speak Truth to Power (1969), A Highway to Nowhere (1949), R…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Trump’s Pick To Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts To Aid the Poor

Trump’s Pick To Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts To Aid the Poor     Jesse Coburn and Andy Kroll December 23, 2024 ProPublica As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted agains…

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