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Cedric de Leon
3 days ago
Thx to Tami Lee,
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& Cameron Black for todayâs conversation on the last century of Black labor activism
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. I talked to workers & activists from all walks of life, signed copies of my book, & built more community than I had yesterday
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Bill Fletcher Jr
KPFA Radio
7 days ago
âTrump wants to provoke something ugly â to justify repression.â â Bill Fletcher Jr. on The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari. Hear more:
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Why Venezuela? Why Now?
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Why Venezuela? Why Now?
The self-proclaimed âanti-war presidentâ gins up war against the Venezuelan peopleâand beyond
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Trumpâs Politics of Defecation -
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13 days ago
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From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces
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From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces
A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trumpâs effort to criminalize âantifa.ââŚ
https://truthout.org/articles/from-1920s-italy-to-1930s-palestine-to-1980s-ska-scenes-antifa-has-many-faces/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
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Carlâs LeftLinks Newsletter
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Carlâs LeftLinks Newsletter | Carl Davidson | Substack
Weekly socialist news digest. Click to read Carlâs LeftLinks Newsletter, by Carl Davidson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
https://carldavidson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=pub&utm_medium=web
26 days ago
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Rutgers professor leaving U.S. after death threats over Antifa book
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Rutgers professor leaving U.S. after death threats over Antifa book | Video | NJ Spotlight News
Historian Mark Bray has written multiple books, including "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook"
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/rutgers-professor-leaving-u-s-after-death-threats-over-antifa-book/
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Strategic Response to Duterte-Model Authoritarian Escalation
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Strategic Response to Duterte-Model Authoritarian Escalation
Urgent Recommendations for Movement Defense Against Legalized Violence
https://open.substack.com/pub/antiauthoritarianplaybook/p/strategic-response-to-duterte-model?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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Isaac Hayes III
about 2 months ago
Jimmy Kimmel is back on ABC, but he can still sue Sinclair and Nexstar Media for refusing to air his talk show. Attorney Thelma Anderson @lawyerbaeesq breaks it all down on the latest episode of Invested.
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In These Times
about 2 months ago
"The trade union movement is in a fight for its very existence, and for the existence of even a semblance of democracy and economic justice." For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism. Read this powerful piece by
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The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat
For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-unions-trump-fascism-democracy
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Bargaining (and Striking) for the Common Good Works!
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Bargaining (and Striking) for the Common Good Works!
Local unions in four Massachusetts communities wield the power of social justice unionism for the good of educators, students, and communities
https://open.substack.com/pub/liberationroad/p/bargaining-and-striking-for-the-common?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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NEWS: Trump Spreads Unfounded Conspiracies on Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Autism
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NEWS: Trump Spreads Unfounded Conspiracies on Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Autism
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists blasted the Administration's decision today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronparnas/p/news-trump-spreads-unfounded-conspiracies?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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Iryna Zarutska Was Not A âWhite Womanâ
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Iryna Zarutska Was Not A âWhite Womanâ
Terrell J Starr Official is a reader-supported publication.
https://terrellstarr.substack.com/p/iryna-zarutska-was-not-a-white-woman?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Hit the Streets: We Need the First Amendment To Defeat ICE, Stop Gaza Genocide, and Fight for All the Rest
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Hit the Streets: We Need the First Amendment To Defeat ICE, Stop Gaza Genocide, and Fight for All the Rest
By Carl Davidson
https://open.substack.com/pub/carldavidson/p/hit-the-streets-we-need-the-first?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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1,800 Men Went Into Alligator Alcatraz. Only 600 Came Out?
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1,800 Men Went Into Alligator Alcatraz. Only 600 Came Out?
They were not released. They were not deported. They have simply vanished from the camp, and no one will say where they went.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dissentinbloom/p/1200-men-went-into-alligator-alcatraz?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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Immigrant Defense is the Frontline of the Fight for Democracy
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Immigrant Defense is the Frontline of the Fight for Democracy
Fascism Rises, but Multiracial, Worker-Led Resistance Can Defeat It
https://open.substack.com/pub/liberationroad/p/immigrant-defense-is-the-frontline?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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An Israel-Funded Campaign to Link Qatar to Campus Antisemitism
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An Israel-Funded Campaign to Link Qatar to Campus Antisemitism
ISGAP is attempting to shape policy in Washington, at a time when the Trump administration is looking to justify a broader crackdown on opposition to the war on Gaza.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/qatar-funding-campus-antisemitism-israel-isgap?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
about 2 months ago
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George Takei
2 months ago
The pettiest man alive.
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Trump Ripped After Celebrating Cancellation Of West Point Award Ceremony For 'WOKE' Tom Hanks
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Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians
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Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians
A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/05/pentagon-official-trump-boat-strike-was-a-criminal-attack-on-civilians/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
2 months ago
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That was exactly what I thought when I saw the picture of "Caligula" after the tournament ended.
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2 months ago
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Oval Office Fascism Keeps Lashing Out, Learn How To Defeat It!
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Oval Office Fascism Keeps Lashing Out, Learn How To Defeat It!
By Carl Davidson
https://open.substack.com/pub/carldavidson/p/oval-office-fascism-keeps-lashing?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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âItâs Time for a National Mobilization Against Fascism
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âItâs Time for a National Mobilization Against Fascism | Common Dreams
If we do not rise up in unprecedented, unified, coordinated resistance now, it will very soon be too late.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/national-movement-against-fascism
2 months ago
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Bill Fletcher Jr
The Associated Press
2 months ago
Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trumpâs plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
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Photos capture Chicagoansâ protest against ICE and Trumpâs intervention plans
CHICAGO (AP) â Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trumpâs plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.
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Trump Deporting Russian Asylum Seekers -
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2 months ago
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The Empty Trauma of Whiteness: How Colonialism Stole Europeâs Soul
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The Empty Trauma of Whiteness: How Colonialism Stole Europeâs Soul
Christian ZacaTecho Ortiz
https://open.substack.com/pub/christianortiz/p/the-empty-trauma-of-whiteness-how?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Fascists
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Fascists
Notes from a frontline factory in eastern Ukraine
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2 months ago
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ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and apps
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ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and apps
ICE has reactivated a $2M contract for Israeli spyware Graphite, sparking fears of civil liberties after previous cases of misuse
https://www.newarab.com/news/ice-acquires-israeli-spyware-capable-hacking-phones-and-apps
2 months ago
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DSA's 2025 Convention: Can We Meet the Moment?
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DSA's 2025 Convention: Can We Meet the Moment?
In the face of rising fascism, the nation's largest socialist group is torn between mass politics and sectarian paralysis
https://open.substack.com/pub/liberationroad/p/dsas-2025-convention-can-we-meet?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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What a strange position. Trump is kicking our rear and you want to fabricate reasons we should go it alone? Not a winning strategy.
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2 months ago
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Trump's Labor Day Assault on American Workers
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Trump's Labor Day Assault on American Workers | Common Dreams
This self-anointed man of the working people has waged an all-out attack on the unions that make workersâ lives better, thrashing away at workersâ rights and unionsâ ability to organize.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-s-labor-day-assault-on-american-workers
2 months ago
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Bill Fletcher Jr
George Takei
2 months ago
This says it all.
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MAGA Congressman Caught On Hot Mic Admitting Trump Is In The Epstein FilesâAnd Whoops!
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Self-Determination for Ukraine, Not a Deal Between Trump, Putin, and European Leaders -
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2 months ago
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Chaos Builds a Path to Fascism.
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Chaos Builds a Path to Fascism.
Abolition Democracy Blocks it and Makes a Better Path
https://open.substack.com/pub/carldavidson/p/chaos-builds-a-path-to-fascism?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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The Left and the Question of Defence, by Hanna Perekhoda â 24 August 2025
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The Left and the Question of Defence, by Hanna Perekhoda â 24 August 2025 â Left Renewal Blog
https://leftrenewal.org/articles-en/perekhoda-question-of-defence-en/
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The Fire That Will Never Die
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The Fire That Will Never Die
Poetry to Honor the 1970 Chicano Moratorium
https://open.substack.com/pub/liberationroad/p/the-fire-that-will-never-die?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
2 months ago
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reposted by
Bill Fletcher Jr
Zinn Education Project
2 months ago
"Teaching about the March on Washington presents a series of challenges precisely because it involves counteracting sanitized textbooks & demythologizing not only the march, but also the Black Freedom Struggle." --
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#TeachTruth
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Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington
By Bill Fletcher Jr. August 28 marks the anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Publicly associated with Dr. Kingâs famous âI Have a Dreamâ speech, this march brought mo...
https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/the-1963-march-on-washington/
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BREAKING: Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over Alleged Covert Ops in Greenland â Does This Brush Up Against NATOâs Article 5?
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BREAKING: Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over Alleged Covert Ops in Greenland â Does This Brush Up Against NATOâs Article 5?
Looks like Trump is employing Putin's ENTIRE Playbook...
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-denmark-summons-us-envoy?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 months ago
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The last two recessions have hit low-income families of color hard: Trumpâs economic agenda will expose millions to even more pain when the next recession strikes
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The last two recessions have hit low-income families of color hard: Trumpâs economic agenda will expose millions to even more pain when the next recession strikes
The Great Recession and the pandemic recession hit low-income families of color especially hardâpushing many into unemployment, poverty, and housing insecurity. The swift and bold policy response to t...
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-last-two-recessions-have-hit-low-income-families-of-color-hard-trumps-economic-agenda-will-expose-millions-to-even-more-pain-when-the-next-recession-strikes/
3 months ago
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Meet the MAGA Americans who moved to Russiaâto hilarious results
There is a genre of MAGA conservative so right wing, so brain dead, that they go through the immense hassle of moving themselves and their family to Russiaâwhere gay and transgender people ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/18/2337788/-Meet-the-MAGA-Americans-who-moved-to-Russia-to-hilarious-results
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 Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can HUH?
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Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can
Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access ...
https://apnews.com/article/conservative-christians-sin-of-toxic-empathy-c9ab96faf99605e010f487df61d92d8f?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>Can
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The Paths That Brought Me to Marxism: A âSort Ofâ Response to Michael Albert
It is a difficult task responding my friend, Michael Albertâs recent polemic against Marxism. His lengthy look at the weaknesses of Marxism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-paths-that-brought-me-to-marxism-a-sort-of-response-to-michael-albert/
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Alberta Separatists Say Trump Regime Offered Them $500,000,000 âLoanâ To Break Up Canada
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Alberta Separatists Say Trump Regime Offered Them $500,000,000 âLoanâ To Break Up Canada
Albertaâs separatist circuit is bragging about a half-billion-dollar âtransition loanâ they say was discussed with Trumpworld in Washington. Seditious if true...
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/alberta-separatists-say-trump-regime?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Trumpâs War on Black History: Why the Smithsonian (and Black History) Are in His Crosshairs
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Trumpâs War on Black History: Why the Smithsonian (and Black History) Are in His Crosshairs
From railing that museums dwell âon how bad slavery wasâ to threatening their funding, the White House has turned centuries of suffering into poltical theater
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/trumps-war-on-black-history-why-the?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 months ago
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Morning Briefing: Proud Boys Purchase Billboard Advertisement in Illinois
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Morning Briefing: Proud Boys Purchase Billboard Advertisement in Illinois
In Breese, Illinois, billboard has appeared advertising the far right violent extremist group the Proud Boys, and includes a version of Donald Trump's infamous quote: 'Stand Back Stand By.'
https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-proud-boys-billboard?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
3 months ago
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Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti threatened in cell, Trump meets Putin in Alaska, and mercenary Erik Prince's plans for Haiti.
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Popular Palestinian resistance figure Marwan Barghouti faces down a sadistic threat in jail, Trump goes to Alaska to meet Putin, and mercenary Erik Princeâs plans for Haiti.
Drop Site Daily: August 15, 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/marwan-barghouti-trump-putin-erik-prince-haiti-israel-gaza-genocide-west-bank-prisoners?r=gvv2y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Iâve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry.
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Iâve Seen How the Neo-Nazi Movement Is Escalating. You Should Worry.
After unmasking extremist groups, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how the âmilitant accelerationismâ movement operates.
https://www.theassemblync.com/media/neo-nazi-militant-accelerationism-movement-north-carolina/
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Israel assassinates âvoice of Gaza,â Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif
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Israel assassinates âvoice of Gaza,â Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif
The Israeli army killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues in a targeted strike on a journalistsâ tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. The attack has effectively wiped out a...
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/israel-assassinates-voice-of-gaza-al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sharif/
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Myopia on the Left: Let's Not Do the Billionaires' Work for Them
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Myopia on the Left: Let's Not Do the Billionaires' Work for Them | Common Dreams
Misguided attacks on progressive leaders like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are not only wrong-headedâthey are a-political.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/intra-left-fighting-aoc-bernie-sanders
3 months ago
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Members of Educators Union Say Its Capitulation to ADL Betrays Workers, Students
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Members of Educators Union Say Its Capitulation to ADL Betrays Workers, Students
Member educators who oppose the Anti-Defamation Leagueâs aims plan to resist anti-Palestinian interference in schools.
https://truthout.org/articles/members-of-educators-union-say-its-capitulation-to-adl-betrays-workers-students/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
3 months ago
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Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
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Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope
Some thoughts
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3 months ago
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