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May 16, 2024

Tidbits – May 16 – Reader Comments: Trump Trial, Arms to Netanyahu, Campus Protests – Impact on Gaza War, Colleges, Society, Elections; Palestine, Gaza, Israel; Haiti; Kenya; Sing in Solidarity; Song Nights for Social Change; Cartoons; More …

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Reader Comments: Trump Trial, Arms to Netanyahu, Campus Protests - Impact on Gaza War, Colleges, Society, Elections; Palestine, Gaza, Israel; Haiti; Kenya; Sing in Solidarity; Song Nights For Social Change; Cartoons; more ....

April 3, 2024

Global Left Midweek – April 3, 2024

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All we have is our movements and the power we build together

March 6, 2024

Global Left Midweek – March 6, 2024

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Feminists against dictatorship of the dollar

December 27, 2023

Global Left Midweek – December 27, 2023

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Looking back/Looking ahead

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December 17, 2023

Twenty Years Ago, the Shield Captured the Brokenness of American Policing

Joe Mayall Jacobin

No ordinary cop show, The Shield starred the LAPD’s corrupt anti-gang unit, which itself functioned and behaved like a gang. The show vividly captured the failures of American policing that would animate the George Floyd protests 20 years later.

August 10, 2023

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel

Brett Murphy and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica

And the grift that just keeps giving (or is it taking?) The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

July 2, 2023

The AMLO Project

Edwin F. Ackerman Sidecar/New Left Review

Whatever the shortcomings of AMLO’s answers, his attempt to break with neoliberalism cannot easily be dismissed.

June 26, 2023

Have Billionaires Outfitted Justices With Golden Handcuffs To Stop “Liberal Drift”?

Thom Hartman The Hartmann Report

The GOP & the billionaires who fund them learned their lesson. Never again would they allow a rightwing justice to stray beyond the rigid ideological boundaries set at that justices’ confirmation.

April 14, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | April 14, 2023

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Clarence Thomas' Secret Life of Luxury. Teach Your Children | Playing For Change. Tennessee Republicans Met With Devastating Response. What Is Working-Class Environmentalism? How Solar Energy Got So Cheap.

Clarence Thomas' Secret Life of Luxury

April 14, 2023

ProPublica reporter Joshua Kaplan and Editor-in-Chief Steve Engelberg discuss how the bombshell report came together and what it means for our justice system.

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