New and Noteworthy 2025

We will be reading and discussing Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth pdf here
We will be discussing Chapter 2 : on June 22

Current Topics (June 22 – June 28, 2025)

1. Michigan Is Turning an Entire Prison Into a College Campus (text)
2. Why is Iran’s nuclear programme so essential to its identity? (text)

Topics (June 15 – June 21, 2025)

1. The Business Model of Police Brutality (text)
2. Trump’s coup and how to stop it (video)
3. Trump’s Corporate Oligarchs: Billionaires Cash In While Working People Pay the Price (text)
4. ACLU Report Details Exploitation of Prisoners for Forced Labor (text)
5. Radio War Nerd EP #528 — Sudan & South Sudan Wars, feat. Joshua Craze
6. Astroturf has Overrun Student Loan Activism. (text)
7. White House Says Trump To Decide On Attacking Iran ‘Within Next 2 Weeks’ (text)
8. Blatant example of BBC News Bias (text)
9. Blatant example of CNN Bias (text)
10. The Cognitive Dissonance of Ted Cruz (text)
11. EPA will revisit Biden-era ban on the last type of asbestos used in US (text)
12. the death of 24 hour america — why nothing stays open late (video)

Topics (June 8 – June 14, 2025)

1. 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life (text)
2. Disappeared in America: The Faces of Trump’s Immigration Dragnet (web site)
3. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : War For War’s Sake. (video)
4. Scott Ritter: US Used Nuclear Talks to Set Up Israeli Strike on Iran (video)
5. Mohammed Marandi & Larry C. Johnson: Israel Strikes Iran — Iran to HIT BACK HARD! (video)
6. Noem, the FBI & Trump Just Sent a Message to America: the Police State is Not Coming—it’s Here (text)
7. To Defeat Trump’s Fascism, We Must Confront Militarism (text)
8. ICE’s War on Home (text)
9. Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back (text)
10. US Regime Deploys Troops, Arrests Citizens, and Detains Opposition Amid Mass Pro-Democracy Protests (text)
11. Right-wing media call for “overwhelming force” and arrests in LA protests (text)
12. A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism (text)

Topics (June 1 – June 7, 2025):

1. Henry Wallace on the Danger of American Fascism (1944) (text)
2. Pizza Goeth Before a Fall? Changes in Americans’ Eating Habits Foretell a Deep Recession (text)
3. A Truth-Based Relationship With Reality Requires Courage (text)
4. French dock workers block arms shipment to Israel (text)
5. Tell Carrefour: stop supporting Israel’s illegal occupation. (text)

Topics (May 25 – May 31, 2025):

1. Hundreds of Millions Are Dying of Hunger (text)
2. A Dangerous Feminist Path Against the Grain of Capital. (text)
3. The world recognizes Trump’s racism, while U.S. media rarely call it out (text)
4. Forensic failures: 36 police-custody deaths should have been ruled a homicide, audit finds (text)
5. Black Workers Will Suffer Under Trump’s Budget (text)

Topics (May 18 – May 24, 2025):

1. Stop the torture of Rashid for exposing prisoners’ self-immolation (text)
2. Urgent: Prison Officials Shutting Down Reporting from Inside (text, audio)
3. Massachusetts unions, companies hail Trump go-ahead for N.Y. wind farm (text/audio)
4. ‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’: An Interview With Naomi Klein (text)
5. Trump’s Plan for Workers: Make America a Sweatshop Again (text)
6. Best of the Left: The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Race, Religion, Culture and the Stories we Tell (audio)

Topics (May 11 – May 17, 2025):

1. A Progressive Vision for a Just, Equitable, and Sustainable Future (website)
2. MSNBC Reveals TRUTH About Israel Then Retracts It! (video)
3. NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Calls For A Mass Protest Movement! (video)
4. Union Leader, Founder of Trader Joe’s United, Illegally Fired (text)
   • Earlier Trader Joe’s sanctions:
     NLRB Says Trader Joe’s Illegally Fired Union Supporter
5. Syria After Assad (text)
6. Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined. (text)

Topics (May 4 – May 10, 2025):

1. Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” (text)
2. The greatest threat to democracy in 80 years: Stop the billionaire coup (text)
3. Trump’s Newest Executive Order “Unleashes” the Cops—and Flirts with Martial Law (text/audio)

Topics (April 27 – May 3, 2025):

1. Capitalism Hits Home: Why Some Americans Still Support Trump (video)
2. Venezuela Denounces US Government ‘Abduction’ of Two-Year-Old Migrant Girl (text)
3. Israel’s Backers Keep Whining That They’re Losing Control Of The Narrative (text/video)

Topics (April 20 – April 26, 2025):

1. The rise of end times fascism (text)
2. As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press (video)
3. Trump Is Creating a Deportation Army of Local Cops (text)
4. DEA Caught Red-Handed: Airport Intimidation (video)
5. Black people may be mostly absent at anti-Trump protests, but they aren’t sitting on their hands, leaders say (text)
6. What would a general strike in the US actually look like? (text)
7. ‘Dystopian’ Trump Plan for Massive Expansion of ICE Detention Centers Exposed (text)

Topics (April 13 – April 19, 2025):

1. Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film (text)
2. “The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process” Fed. Appeals Court Judge Wilkinson in order (text)
3. Unjust law helps prison officials muzzle incarcerated journalists (text)
4. Don’t blame China for your problems (video)
5. Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk (video)

Topics (April 6 – April 12, 2025)

1. Joy Reid on Black America’s Resistance reluctance (video)
2. Trump’s Hammer, Our Hope: An Emergency Town Hall (video)
3. Statement by Within Our Lifetime is a Palestinian-led community organization (text, links)

Topics (March 30 – April 5, 2025):

1. NY Community Land Trusts (web site)
   • Interactive map
2. ICE Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (video)
3. Black Agenda Report Interview with Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (text)
4. We Detailed Mayor Adams’ Embrace of an Abuse-Ridden NYPD Unit. Now Lawmakers and Advocates Demand Change. (text)

Topics (March 23- March 29, 2025):

1. Resistance is alive and well in the United States (text)
2. ‘ICE kidnapped our neighbor’: Outrage at arrest of Tufts student spreads as lawmakers demand answers
   • Thousands Protest ICE Abduction of Tufts Student as Trump Attacks at Universities Intensify
3. For Labor, Caution Is Fatal (text)
4. New report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025, shows prisons and jails continuing to lock up more people after a decade of consistent declines (report)
5. Trump Abandons Ukraine, and Wages a War Against the Free Press (text)
6. What to Know About El Salvador’s Mega-Prison After Trump Sent Hundreds of Immigrants There (text)
7. The Worst Wing: National Security Group Chat (video)
8. ACLU Responds to Trump’s Anti-Voter Executive Order (text)

Topics (March 16- March 22, 2025):

1. LIVE:Israeli attacks overnight on Gaza described as nonstop (text, audio)
2. Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From an ICE Detention Center (text)
3. Columbia Professor Is Secret Israeli Spy And She’s At The Heart of Mahmoud Khalil Scandal (video) <–why we will probably never be allowed back in the SIPA
4. Chuck Schumer CAUGHT Spreading DEBUNKED Behe*ded Babies Lie On The View (video)
5. Israeli Comedian Jokes About Baby Murder (video)
6. IDF Soldier ADMITS Israel Uses Human Shields Six Times a Day (video)
7. The DC Professor Who Came Up With The Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan! (video)
8. Criminal Israeli Extremist To Get Nobel Peace Prize? probably not (video)
9. The Leader of a Major Government Union Outlines Their Strategy To Battle Trump Federal Cuts (text or audio)
10. He audited the Pentagon; here’s where the waste really is (video)
11. Oligarchs Understand Power. Do We? Unions make us strong
    • GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Ban Federal Labor Unions
      
12. FTC Commish says he was fired to enable Bezos and Musk corruption
13. lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’ (text)
14. The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Constitutional Crisis (video (transcript and audio also available)

Topics: March 9 – March 15, 2025

1. IRANIAN PROFESSOR MARANDI ENDS PIERS MORGAN’S CAREER! – HEATED ISRAEL-PALESTINE DEBATE (video)
2. Working Through the Pain at Tesla (podcast)
3. The Larger, Chilling Significance of the Mahmoud Khalil Case (text)
   • Mahmoud Khalil and the Criminalization of Anti-Zionism (audio)
4. Analysis Details How Trump’s Circle Could Be Profiting From White House Crypto Policies (text)
5. Israeli still has no evidence of 7 October rapes, with Ali Abunimah (video)
6. How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war (text)
7. Israel’s Sexual Violence EXPOSED By Hideous New Report (video)
8. Anti-Genocide Activists ARRESTED, War Criminals Walk Free – w/. Palestine Action (video)
9. Americans Support For Israel Hits RECORD LOW!– Here’s Why! (video)
10. Trump can’t deport half of all Americans. (text)

March 2 – March 8, 2025

1. How a Guards’ Strike Plunged New York Prisons Into Turmoil and Why the Timing Is Curious (text)
   • 4th man’s death in custody raises further questions on NY prisons amid officer strike
     Write Gov. Hochul or call 1-518-474-8390 (business hours)
2. ICE awards $1B contract to private prison firm for major immigrant detention center (text)
   ICE plans to add 17,000 in for-profit facilities for migrants this year
3. Gaza is a testing ground (video)
4. SHOCK: Here’s How Many Israel Killed On Oct 7th! (video)
5. Trump: ARREST Gaza Protesters – “FREE SPEECH” Lies Exposed (Ivideo)
6. Abby Martin explains Palestinians have a LEGAL right to armed resistance (video)
7. Trump and the Press (text)
8. US designates Yemen’s Houthis as ‘foreign terrorist’ organization (text)
9. Argentina’s $4.6 Billion Crypto Scandal; Largest-Ever Crypto Theft (text)
10. 4 things to know about Trump’s plan for a ‘crypto strategic reserve’ (text)
11. The Strategic Crypto Swindle (text)

February 23 – March 1, 2025

1. Judge Denies Request From 14 States to Temporarily Block DOGE Actions
2. Unions Challenge Musk’s Order for Federal Employees to Justify Weekly Work or Face Firing (text)
3. ‘An undemocratic move’: Former WaPo Chief Marty Baron on Bezos’ moves at WaPost (video — took a while to load)
4. Federal Trade Commission Request for Public Comments Regarding Technology Platform Censorship (web form, you can enter comments anonymously, you can attach a pdf or type in a box)
5. Musk Wants to Delete the CFPB to Enrich Himself. (text)
   It gives a green light to all corporate scammers

Topics February 16 – February 22, 2025

1. One Of Israel’s VILEST War Crimes Yet – Where Is The Media Outrage? (video)
2. Official Gaza Death Toll COMPLETELY WRONG: Devastating New Study (video)
3. Resistance From Within: US Military Members Oppose War Crimes (audio)
4. Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership (text)
5. U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test (text/audio)
6. Malcolm X: 60 Years Later, the Fire Still Burns (text)
7. Tesla Takeover: How the Protests Against Elon Musk Signal a National Turning Point (text)
8. Prison Guards Charged in Beating Death of Robert Brooks (text)
   • Former Prisoners Say Deadly Robert Brooks Beating Is Sadly Routine (text)
9. Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct (text)
10. White House escalates racist, dictatorial assault on education with crackdown on DEI and civil rights protections (text)
11. Economic Black Out called for Feb. 28 (text)
12. MAGA plan for America (CPAC) (video)
    Runs late: Stephen Miller is on at 11:37 am (scheduled for 11:10)
13. Trump Can’t Be Allowed to Hide the Dangers of His Deportation Agenda at Guantanamo Bay (text)

Topics (February 16 – February 22, 2025

1. One Of Israel’s VILEST War Crimes Yet – Where Is The Media Outrage? (video)
2. Official Gaza Death Toll COMPLETELY WRONG: Devastating New Study (video)
3. Resistance From Within: US Military Members Oppose War Crimes (audio)
4. Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership (text)
5. U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test (text/audio)
6. Malcolm X: 60 Years Later, the Fire Still Burns (text)
7. Tesla Takeover: How the Protests Against Elon Musk Signal a National Turning Point (text)
8. Prison Guards Charged in Beating Death of Robert Brooks (text)
   • Former Prisoners Say Deadly Robert Brooks Beating Is Sadly Routine (text)
9. Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct (text)
10. White House escalates racist, dictatorial assault on education with crackdown on DEI and civil rights protections (text)
11. Economic Black Out called for Feb. 28 (text)
12. MAGA plan for America (CPAC) (video)
    Runs late: Stephen Miller is on at 11:37 am (scheduled for 11:10)
13. Trump Can’t Be Allowed to Hide the Dangers of His Deportation Agenda at Guantanamo Bay (text)

Topics (February 9 – February 15, 2025)

1. Former NYC Fraud Investigator Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Homeless Victims’ Identities to Apply for Unemployment Benefits (text)
2. A $1,250 2 bedroom in NYC? Here’s why it’s been empty for 16 months. (text)
3. Ash Sarkar Tears Apart Politicians Over Media Complicity (video)
4. Israel Plots To DESTROY CEASEFIRE – Then Finish Gaza Off With Trump’s Support (video)
5. How Capitalism K*lls Millions (The Black Book of Neoliberalism) (video)
6. Tennessee MAGA Just Made Voting Against Trump A FELONY?! (video)
7. What the Tuberculosis Outbreak in Kansas Means for Public Health (text)
8. Family Farms and Small Businesses are the “E” In DEI (video)
9. Getting rid of the penny introduces a new problem: nickels (video/text)
10. The Reason Why Encyclopaedia Britannica Refuses To Rename The Gulf Of Mexico Is Going Viral (text)
11. Donald Trump’s AP Ban Puts the Media in a Bind

Topics (February 2 – February 8, 2025)

1. The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai (text)
   • ‘We’ll Own It’: Trump Floats US Takeover of Gaza—After Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians
2. Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base (text)
3. White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest (article is paywalled, posted for the headline)
4. Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink’s Contracts in Ukraine (text)
5. Trump and Musk Want the U.S. to Become a Corporatocracy [even more so than it is already] (text)
6. How private equity conquered America | The Chris Hedges Report (video)
7. Psst, RFK Jr.: Black People Don’t Need a Different Vaccine Schedule (text)
8. Is the New “Good billionaire” DNC Chair any better? (video)
9. One Hundred NYC Immigrants Arrested in Week One of Trump ICE Raids (text)
10. Memos sent to hospitals’ staff: Do not help undocumented patients hide from ICE (text)
11. FTC Report Shows Big Pharma Middlemen Jack Up Prices by Up to 7,736% (text)
12. Memos sent to hospitals’ staff: Do not help undocumented patients hide from ICE (text)

Topics (January 26 – February 1, 2025)

1. SHOCK New October 7th Report DESTROYS All Of Israel’s Lies! (video)
2. Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome? (text)
3. Meteorologist FIRED for Calling Musk a “Nazi,” News Station Faces SEVERE Backlash Afterwards (video)
4. Breaking: Kamala Robbed of 3,565,000 Votes | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
5. US President Trump to transfer 30,000 undocumented immigrants to Guantanamo (text)
6. NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, Asian Legislative Caucus: People’s Budget (text)
7. Gov. Hochul proposes $5 billion in tax cuts, how much for housing? (text)
8. Gov. Hochul gives cops $77 million MORE in overtime in next six months. (text)
9. 4 were shot Police shoot suspect, two bystanders and an officer in NYC subway station when police say they tried to subdue man with knife (text/audio)
10. They’re Trying To Deport VIGILS For MURDERED Palestinian Kids (video)
11. Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies: Raz Segal on Gaza & 80 Years After Auschwitz Liberation (video)
12. Biden LIED To You About New Jersey Drones All Along! (video)
    

Topics (January 19 – January 25, 2025)

1. Trump Vows To ‘Expand’ US territory, Invokes Manifest Destiny (text & video)
2. ICE can raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants under new policy (text)
3. Immigration Raids: An Anatomy of Racist Intimidation (text)
4. What’s Gonna Happen on the Border in 2025? (podcast)
5. As Trump Nominees Back SNAP and Medicaid Work Requirements, Report Shows Harms (text)
6. Trump uses mass firing to remove inspectors general at a series of agencies (text)

Topics (January 12 – January 18, 2025)

1. Gaza Deal Exposes Biden As MONSTER (video)
2. The US ADMITS Israel Has LOST In Gaza (video)
3. Israelis Protest AGAINST Peace Deal In Gaza! (video)
4. Ceasefire Charade by Chris Hedges (text)
5. Economists dropped $10M in rural Africa (Siaya County, Kenya). It changed economic science forever. (video)
6. Video and text excerpts, then the full text of MLK, Jr. speech The Three Evils of Society
   • Racism, Militarism and Capitalism

Topics (January 5 – January 11, 2025)

1. Jimmy Carter Presidency SCORCHED By Chomsky & Chris Hedges! (video)
2. Writer Who TALKED To LUIGI MANGIONE Was BEWILDERED After CEO’s Death (video)

Topics (December 21, 2024 – January 4, 2025)

1. The Failure, Fear, And Frenzy around Luigi Mangione (video)
2. We are SO CLOSE to Class Consciousness (video)
3. America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal (text)
4. Outrage as BBC representative called Netanyahu’s spokesperson on fake narrative | Janta Ka Reporter (video)
5. Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison (text)
6. How (And Why) The New York Times Lies (video)
7. The Official Unofficial Record (podcast)
8. Why Is Elon Musk Like That? (video)
9. The SHOCKING TRUE Death Toll In Gaza With Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa (video)
10. The Tiananmen Square “Massacre” Never Happened (video)
11. BOMBSHELL Report: Israeli Spies Are Writing the News (w/ Alan MacLeod) (video)
12. Newly published footage shows Israeli forces directly targeting an ambulance in Gaza (video)
13. Israel’s Secret Extermination Order: Soldiers Told to Murder Gaza Civilians En Masse (video)
14. Vietnam defeated fascism. So can YOU! (video)
15. Every Dictator the US Supported (and Why) (video)

Topics (Dec. 14 to Dec. 20, 2024)

1. Native American Patients Are Sent to Collections for Debts the Government Owes (text)
2. More Californians Are Freezing to Death. Experts Point to More Older Homeless People. (text)
3. Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: The US Empire facing devastating defeat (video)
4. Live from Amazon Workers’ Christmas Strike (video)
5. The Fall of the Syrian Arab Republic: What it means for Syria, Palestine, the Region and the World (video)

Topics (Dec. 7 to Dec. 13, 2024)

1. How New York’s Maximum-Security Women’s Prison Has Failed to HALT Solitary Confinement (text)
2. Is U.S. Martial Law NEXT? | The Danielle Moodie Show (video: should start at about 14:00, pertinent section is about 20 minutes)

Topics (Dec. 1 to Dec. 6, 2024)

1. How One Man Got the DOJ to Investigate His Arizona Prison (text)
2. Police Crime: Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime (text)
3. Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes (video)
4. Many Drug Offenders Still In Prison Despite Hunter Biden Pardon (text)
5. The Tragic Optimist’s Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism (video)
6. Eric Adams’s Swagger Is Back—And It’s Ugly (text) (note: not a paywall but required to sign up for newsletter to read (you can then unsubscribe)
7. Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail (and it worked) (text)
8. 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won (text)
9. U.S. Is Closing California Prison Plagued by Sexual Abuse (text)

Topics (Nov. 24 to Nov. 30, 2024)

1. An America Without Police is Safer Than You Think (audio)
2. Author Arundhati Roy lambasts ‘US and Israel’s genocide in Gaza’ at London award ceremony (video)
3. Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict (podcast)
4. Writer Hisham Matar on James Baldwin’s Patience (podcast)
   • one of a series on James Baldwin on 100th anniversary of his birth

Topics (Nov. 17 to Nov. 23, 2024)

1. Democrats, It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Our Neoliberal Era (text)
2. Indianapolis police officer charged after recording sexual acts in full uniform, voyeurism (text)
3. Biden apologizes to Native Americans for abusive government-funded boarding schools (text)
4. Trump’s Oligarchy Is Temporary But What’s Coming Is Worse… Unless We Act Now (video)
5. Why Trump’s Energy Secretary is the Most TERRIFYING Trump Cabinet Pick Yet! (video)

Topics (Nov. 10 to Nov. 16)

1. Don’t Get Scared Get Organized! Dhoruba Bin-Wahad (video)
2. Trump 2.0: Gerald Horne on the Future of White Supremacy, Imperialism & the Rise of Third-Worldism (video)
3. Debunking “Ancient Israel” (video)
4. Owen Jones: I Challenged Israeli Onslaught Apologist On TV. Then This Happened. (video)
5. How Trump Will Go After The Press, How We Can Protect Them (video)
6. ACLU Attorney Lee Gelernt on How Rights Groups Are Preparing to Fight Trump’s Mass Deportations (video)
7. The GOP Is Set to Roll Back a Raft of Consumer Protections (Text)
8. There is a crime wave, but the criminals are not the ones Trump claims
   How Lincare Became a Multibillion-Dollar Medicare Scofflaw (text or audio)
9. The economy continues to roll on after the election (text)

Topics (Nov. 3 to Nov. 9)

1. Malcolm X Didn’t Dish Out Free Bean Pies (text)
2. Trump proposed big Medicaid and food stamp cuts. Can he pass them? (text)
3. 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won (text)
4. Dems going after trans people this week should be ashamed of themselves (text)
5. Project 2025: A Hellish Legal Vision For America (video)
6. How will Project 2025 affect me? (interactive web site)
7. ELECTION ALERT: Still Too Early To Know Which Minority To Scapegoat | Onion News Network (video)

Topics Oct. 27 to Nov. 2

1. The 2024 [Economics] “Nobel” Laureates Are Not Only Wrong About China, But Also About the West (text)
   • The Economics Nobel Isn’t Really A Nobel (text)
2. The offensive rhetoric used at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally (text/audio)
3. Billionaire Blowback on Housing (text)

Topics (Oct. 20 to Oct. 26)

1. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Building BRICS Around the West (video)
2. BRICS summit: Key takeaways from the Kazan declaration (text)
   • Full declaration (text)
3. The True, Massive Cost of Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans (text)
4. Trump campaign’s anti-trans ads are ‘very disgusting’: Trans activist (video)
5. The Only Good Thing About This Nightmare Is That It’s Exposing The Monsters For Who They Are (text / video)
6. Trump makes vulgar comments about Arnold Palmer at Pennsylvania rally (text)
7. Cops in Riot Gear Storm Penn Students’ House in Month-Old Vandalism Case (text)

Topics Oct. 13 to Oct. 19

1. Is Taiwan ‘a US sucker’? Weapons price gouging revealed on National Days (text)

Oct. 6 to Oct. 12

1. The incredibly high price of staying safe in a hurricane (text)
2. Petition: Demand Urgent International Protection Force For Palestine (text)
3. Rideshare drivers seek federal intervention against ‘lockouts’ by Uber, Lyft – claiming collusion between giants (text)
4. How insurance companies could stiff the victims of Hurricane Milton (text)

Sept. 29 to Oct. 5

1. Master Plan: Legalizing Corruption (podcast series)
   
2. Amazon: Built on Welfare (text)
   Note: this is an analysis of Amazon from an investment perspective. But the facts it portrays are pretty damning if you take a moral, rather than investment perspective.
3. Maybe We Should Give Homeless People Homes (text)
   It should be obvious but apparently it needs to be said.
4. The Planet’s Begging for Mercy — Why Aren’t We Listening? (text) (audio)
5. The menstrual police are coming: Inside the GOP’s plan for total control over women (text)
6. How a New Bill Would Help Stop AI Discrimination (text)

Current Topics (Sept 22 to Sept 28)

1. Master Plan podcast: legalizing corruption
   • The Powell Memo (podcast)
2. Israeli Bulldozers Flatten Mile After Mile in the West Bank (text)
3. A Jury Found Them Not Guilty. They’re Still Serving Life (text)
   • While the case is now more than two decades old, former Innocence Project lawyer Jarrett Adams is giving it a new life.
4. Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite pleas from prosecutor and victim’s family (text)
5. monthly newspaper written by those incarcerated at Central CA Women’s Facility Prison
   (web site)

Topics (Sept. 15 to Sept. 21)

1. Rupert Murdoch Tries To Cut Three Of His Kids Out Of The Family’s Trust, Give Control Of Right-Wing Media Empire To Son Lachlan (Text)
2. The End of Libraries as We Know Them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney (podcast)
   • Transcript here, if you prefer that
3. World demands end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, in landslide UN vote (text, if it asks you to subscribe, you can say “no thanks” and see text)
4. Reposting for Yanis Varoufakis / Technofeudalism discussion:
   • New Books Network: Technofeudalists by Yanis Varoufakis (podcast interview)
   • Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism interview of Yanis Varoufakis (text)
5. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Perils of Black Liberalism (podcast)
6. Barbie doll AOC is a preposterous fraud (video)
7. ‘AOC Has LOST TOUCH With Reality’ – Independent Journalist Jordan Chariton (video)
8. What Has Gone Wrong With AOC?! (video)
9. Jill Stein Proves the Democrats are not the ‘Party of Democracy’ (video)
10. Biden’s Zionism Cost Him The Election (video)
11. Israels’ FORGED Documents Exposed – The Lies Never End (video)
12. Kamala Harris CALLED OUT Over Hostage HYPOCRISY (video)
13. Kamala Harris Is Terrible on Israel! (Watch for Yourself) (video)
14. BBC presenter objects to Palestinian journalist’s criticism (video)
15. US reaction to Israeli incursion into West Bank amid Gaza ceasefire talks addressed by Caroline Rose, Director of the News Lines Institute (video)
16. Human Rights Lawyer Explains Legal Precedent For Prosecuting Genocidal Media (video)
17. Jake Tapper Cries ‘Antisemitism’ To Justify Dana Bash’s Dehumanization of Palestinians (video)
18. The Breakfast Club: Are they earning your vote? (video)
19. Sabby Sabs analysis of Breakfast Club interview of Stein and Ware: Jill Stein’s Surge TRIGGERS The Breakfast Club & AOC (video)
    

Topics (Sept 8 to Sept 14)

1. New Books Network: Technofeudalists by Yanis Varoufakis (podcast interview)
   • Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism written interview of Yanis Varoufakis
   • Reposting Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism (podcast) or (text)
2. Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Perils of Black Liberalism (podcast)
3. What Actually Makes a San Francisco Liberal Dangerous (video)
4. What happens when you surrender entirely to the 1%: Puerto Rico (video)
5. Barbie doll AOC is a preposterous fraud
6. ‘AOC Has LOST TOUCH With Reality’ – Independent Journalist Jordan Chariton
7. What Has Gone Wrong With AOC?!
8. Jill Stein Proves the Democrats are not the ‘Party of Democracy’
9. Biden’s Zionism Cost Him The Election
10. Israels’ FORGED Documents Exposed – The Lies Never End
11. Kamala Harris CALLED OUT Over Hostage HYPOCRISY
12. Kamala Harris Is Terrible on Israel! (Watch for Yourself)
13. BBC presenter objects to Palestinian journalist’s criticism
14. US reaction to Israeli incursion into West Bank amid Gaza ceasefire talks addressed by Caroline Rose, Director of the News Lines Institute
15. Human Rights Lawyer Explains Legal Precedent For Prosecuting Genocidal Media
16. Jake Tapper Cries ‘Antisemitism’ To Justify Dana Bash’s Dehumanization of Palestinians
17. The Breakfast Club: Are they earning your vote?

Topics (Sept 1 to Sept 7)

1. California Investigates Attack by Guards at Scandal-Plagued Women’s Prison
2. Feds Raid Homes of Top Eric Adams Deputies, Seize Police Commissioner’s Phones
3. Humana to Pay $90 Million to Settle False Claims Charge
4. Black Co-ops In the US Building Steady Momentum
5. Billionaires discuss how to shut down Columbia protests in group chat: Report

Topics (Aug 25 to Aug 31)

1. Reposted: Capitalists Hate Capitalism (podcast) or (text)
2. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (Yanis Varoufakis, podcast interview) or
   Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism (written interview)
3. Socialist Manifesto (podcast)
4. U.S. accuses RealPage of helping landlords collude to raise rents
5. Support for Unions Hits 70-Year High as US Workers See Power of Organized Labor

Topics (Aug 18 to Aug 24)

1. How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients
2. Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
3. Capitalists Hate Capitalism (podcast) or (text)
4. Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why
5. The poor people versus the PoLice – Poor Peoples Army at the demiCONvention 2024
6. Corporate Crime Wave: New York’s Rampant Wage Theft Goes Unpunished
7. Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia

Topics (Aug 11 to Aug 17)

1. Medicare Advantage patients get less home health care: study
   • How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients
2. ‘Corporate Greed Is Out of Control’: Warren Slams Kroger’s AI Pricing Scheme
3. NYC journalist who documented pro-Palestinian vandalism arrested on felony hate crime charges
   • Repost: Climate Activist Arrested For Playing His Cello Outside Citibank Faces 7 Years In Prison
4. Speaking Plainly About Who Is Robbing You
5. Kahanism and American Politics

Topics (Aug 4 to Aug 10)

1. The WSJ Shows Its Hatred Of Workers (blog)
2. Relentless for climate justice (podcast)
3. Can Capitalism Solve the Climate Crisis? (video discussion)
4. Progressives reckon with massive campaign spending deficit after Cori Bush defeat
5. Not Another Brick in the Walz
6. Climate Activist Arrested For Playing His Cello Outside Citibank Faces 7 Years In Prison

Topics (July 28 to Aug 3)

1. Mayor Adams issues order to overrule law limiting solitary confinement at NYC jails
2. Do Children Have a “Right to Hug” Their Parents?
3. Stop Cop City Protesters Are Facing Felony Charges As Atlanta Authorities Crack Down
4. Why So Many Congestion Pricing Critics Change Their Tune
5. Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute 2024 (note: deadline Aug. 3 but perhaps will extend it as they just sent out notices
6. Thousands were arrested at campus protests. For students, the fallout was only beginning.
   

Current Topics (July 21 to 27)

1. LA Times reporter was leaked list of problem deputies. The Sheriff’s Department investigated her
2. Chair of Police Oversight Board Resigns After Mayor Adams Pushes Her Out
3. Trump’s $48 billion corporate giveaway
4. If Trump wins, what would hold him back?

Bastille Day to July 20

1. Landmark ICJ ruling says world must act to end Israel’s illegal occupation
2. Rights Group Urges DOJ to Investigate US-Bound Netanyahu for Genocide
3. Watchdogs Blame Corporate Concentration for Global IT Outage
4. A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
5. KNOW YOUR FIGHTS! Using Public Records Laws in Abolitionist Organizing
6. ‘Spiritual,’ ‘Serene,’ ‘Chosen by God’: An Assassination Attempt and the Death of Accountability Journalism

July 7 to July 13

1. The Supreme Court’s Billionaire Buddies Just Made Your Life Worse
2. How to defeat the rig

June 30 – July 6

1. “Designed to be Cruel”: How Grants Pass Will Ramp Up the Policing of Homelessness
2. Where have all the midwives gone? The campaign against Black midwives and its impact on Black maternal outcomes
3. Biden’s fast food problem (text)
4. This Civilization Is Deeply Unnatural (text)
5. Saying Democracy Is In Jeopardy In America Is Like Saying Beaches Are In Jeopardy In Wyoming (text)
6. The ‘Bloodless Coup’ Has Started…with the Court (text)
7. Conservative Leader Issues Cryptic Threat to Liberals, Says ‘Second American Revolution’ Will Be ‘Bloodless If the Left Allows It to Be’ (text)

(June 16 – June 22)

1. Central Indiana nonprofits relieve medical debt of more than 100,000 residents (text)
2. NYPD Shotspotter wastes time and money, audit finds (text)
3. Europe’s Rightward Lurc
   • France’s New Popular Front Has a Plan to Govern
   • Don’t blame voters for a far right surge in Europe. Blame the far right’s mainstream copycats (text)
   • Shifting Populations, Shifting Politics: The European elections show a marginal shift toward the hard right over fears of immigration and scarcity (Best of the Left podcast compilation)
   • Greens are drubbed in EU elections, leaving climate policies in jeopardy (text)
   • Smaller, Diverse, United: Greens after the European Elections (text, chart)
4. UN chief warns: Lebanon cannot become another Gaza (text)
5. Is forced prison labor a form of modern-day slavery? (text)
6. Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (video)
7. Israel Would Be Crazy to Launch An All-Out War On Lebanon. Here’s Why, w/ Elijah Magnier
   

Topics June 9 – June 15

1. We Tracked 3,000 Pro-Palestinian Campus Arrests. Here’s How Prosecutors Are Responding (text)
2. Inside Vermont’s Radical Approach to Helping the Formerly Incarcerated Succeed (text)
3. Chiquita Held Liable for Deaths During Colombian Civil War (text)
4. These wrongly arrested Black men say a California bill would let police misuse face recognition (text)
5. Why a Rochester Credit Union Wants the Local Government To Create Its Own Bank (text)
6. An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence and alarming rationale behind covert efforts to control the most vital resource on the planet. (trailer and movie)
7. Democracy Will Not Come through Compromise and Fear: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2024)
8. Brazil’s Flood of Austerity and Climate Catastrophe: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2024)
9. Statement of Solidarity with the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment & CUNY Community Members Subject to Brutal Police Violence, Arrest and Detention
10. Queens College president had police waiting at gates of commencement (text)

Topics June 2 – June 8

1. John Oliver on Corn (video)
2. Unapologetic:Episode 1: Munther Isaac: Palestinian pastor speaks about his life, Gaza, Christian Zionism, Palestinian Christians, and the future (podcast)
3. Unapologetic Episode 4: Youmna El Sayed’s harrowing journalistic account of what is unfolding in Gaza (podcast)
4. The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration (podcast)
5. 5 states account for half of 123,962 requests to sponsor Ukrainian refugees in U.S.(text)
6. Israel kills more than 200, rescues 4 hostages (text)

Current Topics (May 26 – June 1)

1. The People’s Plan NYC: organizing against Mayor Adams Budget (web site)
2. Georgia parliament overturns veto on foreign agents law
3. Al Jazeera Investigations: October 7 (video)
4. What’s going on with Left Forum / No War But Class War events?
5. The New Sundown Towns (text)
6. Brazil’s Flood of Austerity and Climate Catastrophe (text)

May 19 – May 25

1. Why a Decade of Revolts Didn’t Bring the Revolution (Bevins Interview)
2. Build a United Front Against Fascism, Imperialism, White Supremacy and Oppression of Working Class People section starting at 1:00:42 pertinent to book discussion. (video)
3. Palestine Solidarity Encampments Are a Rehearsal for Liberatory Self-Governance (text)
4. Putin & Xi, preparing for big sanctions war w/ Alex Krainer (Live)
5. Haiti: An Anatomy of Invasion
6. I Was Shot in Vermont. What if It Had Been in the West Bank?

Current Topics (May 12 – May 18)

1. Corporate “Banks are still lighting the fuses of carbon bombs” — Report on global banks financing new fossil fuel development (text)
2. An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis (text)
3. Unraveling the Fabric: Gaza’s Impact on Western Civilization (video)
4. Israel’s Psychotic Display At The UN Is An Assault On Reality (video)
5. Reporter FED UP With Israeli Spokesperson’s Lies (video)
6. Israeli settlers assault Palestinian truck driver mistakenly believing he is delivering aid (video)
7. Ana Kasparian: BIDEN IS A DISGRACE! (video)
8. America’s Support for Israel is ONE BIG SCAM (video)
9. Ex-US soldier says Israel targets Gaza civilians on purpose (video)
10. Suella Braverman HUMILIATED By Gaza Protesters (video)
11. Morning Joe HUMILIATED During Israel-Palestine Debate (video)
12. Zadie Smith Is WRONG: WORDS Are Not VIOLENCE, Zionism Is: (video)
13. How Jill Stein SAW THROUGH Zionism (video)
14. What will make them listen? Confronting Harriet Hageman (video)
15. UN experts denounce that Palestinians were “buried alive” by Israeli forces in Gaza graves (text)
16. The History of Jewish Opposition to Zionism (video) [over an hour long, but worth listening to]

Current Topics (May 5 – May 11)

1. Corporate Crime Report: Addiction treatment center billed taxpayers for 203 hours of work by one employee in single day (text)
2. Origins of the [Nigerian] Scam (podcast)
3. Universal Basic Income News Hub (web site)
4. Report on the Investigation of the Implementation of the “60-Day Rule” for Asylum-Seeker Families [by NYC]
5. From Harlem to Palestine: Globalize the Intifada
6. In Africa They Say, ‘France, Get Out!’: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2024)
7. You Can Help Protect Journalists (blog post)

Current Topics (April 28 – May 4)

1. Exclusive: Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza (text)
2. Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management (text)
3. Will there be another uprising in Egypt? (podcast)
4. Our Campus. Our Crisis. Inside the encampments and crackdowns that shook American politics. A report by the student journalists of the Columbia Daily Spectator. (text)
5. In Georgia, a Basic Income Program’s Success With Black Women Adds to Growing National Interest (text)
6. What 10 Years of U.S. Meddling in Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) (text)
7. The Origins and Growing Dangers of U.S. Anti-terrorism Law (text)

Current Topics (April 21, 2024 – April 27, 2024)

1. Seven juveniles with alleged ‘violent extremist ideology’ arrested in Sydney counter-terror raids (text)
2. Opinion: Failure to hold accountable a president who instigated a violent insurrection is dangerous to the future stability of American democracy. (text)
3. Violent Arrest of Emory Professor Spotlights Brutality of Police Crackdown on Campus Protests (text)
4. Kenya’s Quest for Progressive Drug Laws (text)

April 14, 2024 – April 20, 2024

1. Behind the Badge: In New York City Homeless Shelters, the Same ‘Peace Officers’ Abuse Residents (text)
2. How to make millions denying health insurance claims (text)
3. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (text)
4. The War on Protest (text)
5. Why are Kenya’s doctor’s on strike? (text)
6. Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Harris County to block program that would give cash to poorest households (text)
   • Harris County wins lawsuit allowing guaranteed income program to proceed (text)
     • Paxton (who should have been convicted last year) continues to fight it (text)

April 7, 2024 – April 13, 2024

1. Investigation DESTROYS Israel’s Narrative On Flour Massacre (video)
2. Watch: Ben Shapiro ATTACKS José Andrés On Gaza War  (video)
3. Details of defence deal with Israel kept under wraps to protect Australia’s ‘reputation’ (text)
4. Aliyev reminds Blinken about “Assange case” and arrests of oppositionists in Armenia (text)
5. No Sign of Greenhouse Gases Rise Slowing as Scientists Confirm Record Highs in 2023 (text)
6. Former LCSO (Tallahassee) deputy arrested on new child solicitation charges while out on bond (text and video)
7. The chronic pain sufferers living with the impacts of failed spinal cord stimulators and surgery (text)
   • JAMA: Corporate Influences on Science and Health—the Case of Spinal Cord Stimulation (text)
8. Burkina Faso signs agreement with Russia for nuclear power plan (text)

March 31 – April 6, 2024

1. The Guantánamo Docket 30 people are still imprisoned there, only one convicted of a crime and that in a military tribunal, not a normal court.
2. Corporate Crime:
   • Inside the mind of criminals: How to brazenly steal $100 billion from Medicare and Medicaid
   • Medicare fraud scams target seniors and expose personal information
   • Boeing Families Race to Unearth Incriminating Documents
3. The IDF is supposed to protect aid workers. Aid agencies say the Israeli military has been attacking them for months.
4. In Georgia, a Basic Income Program’s Success With Black Women Adds to Growing National Interest

March 24 – March 30, 2024

1. U.N. Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza (text)
2. Elon Musk’s scheme to [kill the NRLB and] gut worker protections nationally
3. Alabama IVF ruling is unbelievably frightening, and won’t stay in Alabama (podcast, clip should start 20 minutes into the podcast, when Michele Goodwin is introduced)
   • but there are signs of local counter-mobilization (Text)
4. Cargo Giant in Baltimore Crash Silenced Whistleblowers (text)
5. Now! — Kuba 1965 is a short film created in 1965 by Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez.(video)

March 17 – March 23, 2024

1. Remembering Marty Goodman (1949-2024)
2. ACLU: Advancing the right to observe police, and challenging qualified immunity doctrine, which shields officials from constitutional accountability (text)
3. Good discussion on organizing/ movement building by folks involved in Abolition/Anti-cop city groups (video)
4. In Gaza now, it’s worse than ethnic cleansing (video)
5. Looming famine in Gaza (video)
6. Evil People Have Plans (video)
7. The ACLU Is Attacking Free Speech at the NLRB (text)
8. In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep (podcast)
9. Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work (podcast curation)
10. People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one (text)
11. October 7 Was an Inside Job (video)
12. ‘Hamas Attack Was an Inside Job’: Why Are Wild Conspiracy Theories So Popular? (text)
13. Louis Farrakhan Reveals Why Obama was Foreced By NATO to Assasinate Gaddafi (viseo)
14. Israel’s War Puts Douglas Murray’s Sick Views On Full Show (video)
15. Over 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water- UN report (video)

March 10 – March 16, 2024

1. A Symphony of Resistance [Arab “Spring”] (podcast)
2. In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep (podcast)
3. Keep Eyes on Sudan (text)
4. Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automat
   Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work (podcast curation)
5. Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law (Text)
6. Mathbabe is back: Google’s mistake with Gemini (text)
   Tampon Tax update (Text)
   Gift link for referenced article: This ‘cringy’ term is helping defeat the tampon tax (text)
   

March 3 to March 9, 2024

1. Thomas Sowell Is a Cynical Man (text)
2. Support Sudan’s Revolution, Not an Elite Peace Deal (text)
3. What “Project 2025” Would Do to America (text)
4. What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? (text)
5. NY Times Hired Fake Journalists To Spread Hamas R@pe Lies On FRONT PAGE! (video)
6. U.S. military to set up port on Gaza coast (video)
7. Irish senator says her ‘blood boils’ after hearing Israeli justifications for Gaza deaths (video)
8. Fact Check: ISRAEL Uses Human Shields, not Hamas (video)
9. Shocking CNN Report Puts Israel To Shame (video)
10. Palestinian protesters standing strong against Jewish Defence League in Paris (video)
11. Trump FINALLY Comments On Gaza & It’s Bad | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
12. CNN’s Amanpour FED UP With Netanyahu Advisor’s Flour Massacre Lies (video)
13. Werner Herzog saw the first 30 minutes of Barbie, declares them “sheer hell” (video)

Feb. 25 to March 2, 2024

1. Support Sudan’s Revolution, Not an Elite Peace Deal (text)
2. Toolkit: Defend Haitian Self-Determination After 20 Years of US/UN Coup + Occupation!
3. San Quentin News (web site)
4. What “Project 2025” Would Do to America (text)
5. What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? (text)
6. Follow-ups on last week’s discussions
   
   • Should Biden drop out
     • Ezra Klein argument for Biden to drop out (podcast/transcript)
     • Here’s how an open Democratic convention could work (podcast/transcript)
     • Q&A  If you are going to pick one thing, this discusses pros and cons
       
     • Argument against Biden dropping out Joan Walsh in The Nation (text)
       
     • The “Graying Population” Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security (podcast) (the first 33 minutes are a critique of media/political commentary, an expert comes on at 34:00 to discuss forward-looking prospects for Social Security)

Feb. 18 – Feb. 24, 2024

1. The “Acceleration” of the New Reich (text)
2. More than 1 in 10 people in Japan are aged 80 or over. Here’s how its ageing population is reshaping the country (text)
3. Namibia: ‘Germany first to commit genocide against us, genocide against Palestinians must not be ignored’ (text)
4. Lawsuit Accuses German Leaders of Complicity in Gaza Genocide (text)
5. In 2021, Amnesty International stripped Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status (text)
6. I’m the Mayor of Dearborn, MI, and My City Feels Betrayed (text)
   You can tell the NY Times you support publication of this letter, or express any other opinions, by writing letters@nytimes.com

Feb. 11 – Feb. 17, 2024

1. Illusions of Safety by Mariame Kaba (text)
2. Why we have to talk about Zionism (video with transcript)
3. Nakba Peace (text)
4. Rebirth of the U.S. Labor Movement? (text)
5. The Politics of Cruelty (text)
6. Disillusioned” Author: American Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme (video)
7. Prison Radio: Mumia Abu-Jamal (audio and text)

Feb. 4 – Feb. 10, 2024

1. Housing solutions
   • New York needs more housing. There’s a real solution on the horizon (text)
   • Atlanta wants to build affordable ‘social’ housing on public land (text)
   • New York’s tenant unions are playing the long game (text)
   • The Scarlet E: Eviction — solutions begin after 33 minutes (podcast)
2. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (text)
3. Marjorie Kelly on the Capitalism Crisis: “Wealth Supremacy” is Killing Us (podcast)
4. ‘Hell No’: Trump Allies’ Plan to Privatize Medicare Draws Alarm and Outrage (text)
5. Warn Voters About the Radicalism Beyond Trump (text)
6. Biden & Netanyahu React To ICJ: ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now (Genocide Remix)’ (Video: May be inappropriate for some viewers)
7. Israel’s campaign in Gaza ‘plausibly’ amounts to genocide, US court finds (text)
8. The Israel Project’s 2009 GLOBAL LANGUAGE DICTIONARY (text)
9. Students on hunger strike call for Brown University to divest from pro-Israel companies (text)
10. Inside Meta, a debate over when the word ‘Zionist’ is hate speech (text)
11. Readings on El Salvador:
    • El Salvador’s Bitcoin Paradise Is a Mirage, Nelson Rauda, NYT
    • Behind Bukele’s Revolution, Juan Rojas & Geoff Shullenberger, Compact
    • On Security, Bukele and Petro Have a Problem in Common, Juan Rojas, Americas Quarterly
    • In response to killings, El Salvador’s bitcoin president attacks civil liberties, Nelson Rauda, LA Times
    • The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President, Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker
    • Chaos in Ecuador, Guillaume Long, Sidecar/NLR
    • ¡Viva la ‘eficracia’!, Martin Caparrós, El País

January 28 to February 3, 2024

1. China is ‘world’s sole manufacturing superpower’, with 35% of global output (text/video)
2. ICJ Israel decision: A new world order in the making
3. Jeffrey D. Sachs – Israel cannot hide from the International Court of Justice
   (text) (video)
4. SPEECH: Haiti: A Black Revolution Will Repeat Itself, 1966 (text)
5. Negroes Steppin’ and Fetchin’ for Imperialism (text)
6. Russia warns Niger as Africa rises in BRICS, G20 (video)
7. Capitalism, Apathy and the Rise of Authoritarianism (podcast)
8. “The World is Watching”: Witnesses Report Kenneth Smith Appeared Conscious, ​“Shook and Writhed” During First-Ever Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution (text)
9. Why the world’s biggest EV maker is getting into shipping (text)
   Note: when it asks about cookie settings, click “reject all cookies”. Default OKs sale of personal data. This is probably true on many sites but they are unusually clear about it.
10. Haiti Government Still Hopeful After Ruling Against Kenya Support Mission
11. What is ECOWAS and why have 3 coup-hit nations quit the West Africa bloc?
12. Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger withdraw from ECOWAS, accusing Bloc of ‘Inhumane’ Sanctions

January 21 to January 27, 2024

1. America and Iran step closer to the brink of wars (text)
2. Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plans for ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism‘ (text)
3. International Coalition To Stop Genocide In Palestine Welcomes World Court’s Order (text)
4. High school journalists are fighting back against censorship (text)
5. Kenyans Protest Their Government’s Participation in the Latest Haiti Occupation (audio)

January 14 to January 20, 2024

1. People’s Forum did a screening of the International Court of Justice proceedings. 
   If you are not up to watching the entire screening, you might want to watch Craig Mokhiber’s excellent, opening presentation.
   • https://www.youtube.com/live/aQkE4VtkWdo?si=OFDl2aVTOFd8jzqG
     Also, you can download pdfs of both days’ presentations at the ICJ from the UN’s website.
     https://www.icj-cij.org/index.php/case/192
2. Inequality Inc.How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action (text)
3. Reformist Arevalo sworn in as Guatemala president after opponents delay inauguration (text)
4. Michael Hudson: US imperialism, Krugman, de-dollarization, socialism, Palestine, China (video)
5. The Eric Adams Table of Success (web site)
6. Harry Belafonte speaking to Congressional Black Caucus in 2005 (video clip)

January 7 to January 13, 2024

1. Elon Musk’s Odious One-Man War Against Labor Law Just May Succeed (text)
   Note: Musk is odious and may be leading it, but it is by no means a “one-man” war.
2. San Quentin News (web site)
3. U.S. launches new strikes on Yemen’s Houthis as conflict escalates (text)
   Who are the Houthis? A simple guide to the Yemeni group (text)
4. Housing Cannot be a Fundamental Human Right and a Commodity at the Same Time (podcast)
5. Martin Luther King, Jr.
   The Three Evils of Society (speech): War, Racism and Poverty
   Beyond Vietnam (transcript and audio)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Jan. 1, 2024 – Jan. 6, 2024

1. John Pilger, campaigning journalist, dies aged 84
   Celebrated Australian journalist and documentary film-maker covered conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Biafra
2. How Yemen changed everything (text)
3. This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City (text)
4. Proposed Baltimore police and fire training facility has hefty price tag: $330 million (text)
5. Why Is Nobody Talking About the [Nashville} Law Enforcement Training Academy? (text)
6. A fraying coalition: Black, Hispanic, young voters abandon Biden as election year begins (text)
7. “All Static and Noise” is an anti-China propaganda film about the Uyghurs (text)

Past Years’ Posts:

2023

Jan. – Dec. 2022

Jan. – Dec. 2021

Jan. – Dec. 2020

July – Dec. 2019
Jan. – June 2019

July – Dec. 2018
Jan. – June 2018

July – Dec. 2017
Jan. – June 2017

July – Dec. 2016
Jan. – June 2016