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- Israel Must Not Get Away with Pager Terrorismwww.currentaffairs.org Israel Must Not Get Away with Pager Terrorism
If we allow the haphazard bombing of civilian electronics, the world will become a vastly more dangerous place.
- Surely New York Politics Doesn’t Have to Be This Badjacobin.com Surely New York Politics Doesn’t Have to Be This Bad
Two things are happening in New York City at once: the Eric Adams administration is mired in police and corruption scandals, and New Yorkers are suffering greatly under austerity. It’s a perfect opportunity for a mayoral challenger from the Left.
- Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds. The U.S. Is Sending More Bombs.theintercept.com Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds. The U.S. Is Sending More Bombs.
Weapons used in earlier Israeli strikes into Lebanon that have killed civilians have been found to be U.S.-made.
- No Party Is Standing Up for Immigrants Right Nowjacobin.com No Party Is Standing Up for Immigrants Right Now
Republicans are doubling down on mendacious, racist insanity over Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. But the incident is also a window into how many top Democrats have all but abandoned immigrant rights.
- In Alabama, Officers Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executionstheintercept.com In Alabama, Officers Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions
As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation raises questions about how prisoners are treated in their final moments.
- Copyright Keepers Just Destroyed a Huge Digital Libraryjacobin.com Copyright Keepers Just Destroyed a Huge Digital Library
In a troubling blow to public access, a US appeals court sided with big publishers, erasing half a million books from the Internet Archive’s lending library. This case isn’t just about books; it’s also about who controls the digital commons.
- CNN’s Tapper Smears Tlaib With Baseless Charge of Biasfair.org CNN’s Tapper Smears Tlaib With Baseless Charge of Bias
CNN's Jake Tapper took a baseless accusation made on X and elevated it to a national story, smearing Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib as antisemitic.
- Killed by a Vigilante Who Received No Prison Time: The Murder of AJ Stewartunicornriot.ninja Killed by a Vigilante Who Received No Prison Time: The Murder of AJ Stewart - UNICORN RIOT
The murder of AJ Stewart and the conviction and sentencing of Brian Kjellberg provides a look at how racial dynamics played a favorable role for the killer within the criminal justice system.
- Media Throw Everything But the Facts Against Harris’s ‘Price Control’ Proposalfair.org Media Throw Everything But the Facts Against Harris’s ‘Price Control’ Proposal
Debates over whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s economic proposals constitute Communist price controls or merely technocratic consumer protections are obscuring a more insidious thread within corporate media. In coverage of Harris’s anti-price-gouging proposal, it’s taken for ...
- Prison Banned Books Week: Being in Jail Shouldn’t Mean Having Nothing to Readwww.eff.org Prison Banned Books Week: Being in Jail Shouldn’t Mean Having Nothing to Read
Across the United States, nearly every state’s prison system offers some form of tablet access to incarcerated people, many of which boast of sizable libraries of eBooks. Knowing this, one might assume that access to books is on the rise for incarcerated folks. Unfortunately, this is not the case......
- ‘Genocide Can and Should Never Be Just a Normal Story’ CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Palestinian genocidefair.org ‘Genocide Can and Should Never Be Just a Normal Story’CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Palestinian genocide
"It's got very little to do with religion and everything to do with geopolitics and capitalism and colonialism."
- Rail Giants Score Another Win Against Workersjacobin.com Rail Giants Score Another Win Against Workers
After months of tense negotiations, Canadian rail companies enlisted the government to block a strike, shutting down railworkers’ fight for safer conditions and better hours. The federal intervention sets a troubling precedent for future union talks.
- Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes --- Citations Needed Podcastsoundcloud.com Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes
In this public News Brief, we examine rightwing media's shameful incitement campaign against Haitian migrants and J.D. Vance's smarmy, grating rhetorical tactic of blaming nameless "constituents" for
- Keir Starmer Is Sucking Up to the Far Rightjacobin.com Keir Starmer Is Sucking Up to the Far Right
Visiting Rome this week, Keir Starmer might have been expected to signal political differences with Giorgia Meloni. Instead he endorsed her approach to repressing migration, showing how much liberals have swallowed the far right’s agenda.
- What the DNC Looked Like From Insidewww.currentaffairs.org What the DNC Looked Like From Inside
Kat Abughazaleh on how the Harris campaign courted creators and the ethics of influencing.
- Ronald Reagan and the First MAGA Momentwww.currentaffairs.org Ronald Reagan and the First MAGA Moment
Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump are two of the greatest con men of the age. Both successfully convinced many people to do immense harm to themselves and their country.
- Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of controlclimateandcapitalism.com Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of control | Climate & Capitalism
Four years on, nothing has been learned from COVID-19…
- Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.theintercept.com Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.
But the U.S. voted against a U.N. resolution that sets a 12-month timeframe to end Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
- There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Othertheintercept.com There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other
A police shooting that injured three people and one officer is the result of New York Mayor Eric Adams’s enforcement-first mentality.
- WSJ Calls for Keeping Judiciary in Shadowsfair.org WSJ Calls for Keeping Judiciary in Shadows
The Wall Street Journal comes out against journalism that exposes how powerful institutions function.
- Study: To US Papers, ‘Identity Politics’ Is Mostly a Way to Sneer at the Leftfair.org Study: To US Papers, ‘Identity Politics’ Is Mostly a Way to Sneer at the Left
A FAIR study of US newspapers found the overwhelming majority of times the vague term “identity politics” was mentioned, it was referring to Democrats and the left.
- The UAW May Strike to Reopen a Shuttered Stellantis Factoryjacobin.com The UAW May Strike to Reopen a Shuttered Stellantis Factory
With their Big Three strike last year, the United Auto Workers made Stellantis agree to reopen its recently closed Belvidere, Illinois, plant. UAW members at other Stellantis factories across the US may have to strike to force the company to keep its word.
- Raymond Williams Transformed Marxist Cultural Theoryjacobin.com Raymond Williams Transformed Marxist Cultural Theory
The term “cultural Marxism” has become a touchstone for far-right conspiracy theorists. Raymond Williams showed us what Marxist cultural analysis should really involve in a series of brilliant works.
- Amazon Drivers in Queens Are Joining the Teamstersjacobin.com Amazon Drivers in Queens Are Joining the Teamsters
Yesterday hundreds of Amazon drivers at a delivery station in Queens, New York, announced they are unionizing with the Teamsters. It’s evidence of growing momentum for the Teamsters’ effort to unionize Amazon, now the largest private parcel carrier in the US.
- What Doesn't Get Saidwww.currentaffairs.org What Doesn't Get Said
Commentary around the first Harris-Trump debate focused on Harris’s impressive performance. But both candidates accepted dangerous right-wing premises on climate, immigration, economics, and foreign policy.
- The Enduring Influence of Marx’s Masterpiecewww.thenation.com The Enduring Influence of Marx’s Masterpiece
No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works.
- “I Know My Worth”: What it Takes to Unionize the Service Industryworkdaymagazine.org “I Know My Worth”: What it Takes to Unionize the Service Industry
Despite the popularity of unions being at a record high, workers in the food service industry face an uphill battle when it comes to fighting for collective bargaining rights. Hospitality unions and workers are trying to change that.
- Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care.theintercept.com Most Americans Want to Stop Arming Israel. Politicians Don’t Care.
The number of Americans opposed to sending arms to Israel has grown, month after month, as the brutal war on Gaza grinds on.
- They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.theintercept.com They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.
The FBI filed a Stop Camp Grayling protest in a terrorism investigation file — then did physical surveillance on a demonstration.