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Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81

Nikki Giovanni, as a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

Legalized Murder

I do not want to live in a world where the rich are dragged from their limos and beaten. But I do think that world is a lot more likely to be realized because of the modus operandi of UHC and its cohort.

Hostage Family Leader Became Loud Anti-War Voice

After Ayala Metzger's relatives were kidnapped from Nir Oz and abandoned by the government, she had no choice but to become an ‘anti-regime dissident’ — and insist on a shared Israeli-Palestinian future.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, December 12, 2024

Reader Comments: Trump Plan - End Citizenship, Mass Deportations; It Was Close Election; Health and Death as Profit Industry - $1.39 Trillion in Profits; Syria - A Caution; New Resource - Elections and Health Policy; Take Action

Hospitals' Pin New Mothers with False Drug Tests

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.

Manchin, Sinema Block Biden NLRB Nominee

"These two senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins," noted one observer.

How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare

Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?

Global Left Midweek – December 11, 2024

As the world churns

Activists Call on Biden To Clear Death Row

The series of open letters from human rights activists and former corrections officials aligned with a larger push from Democrats for sweeping clemency action for those in prison.

How Health Insurance Became a Boon for Business

Health insurance companies are a center-piece in a deeply corrupt, inhumane, and deleterious health system that allows business people to reap lofty profits even if it brings premature death, disability, and pain onto millions of families every day.
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Grave New World

David Klion Bookforum
This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a growth surge that was slowly but surely running out of steam."

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Toronto Film Festival Goes Around the World

Bill Meyer Hollywood Progressive
A favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was by far M - Son of the Century directed by the talented UK filmmaker Joe Wright. It’s actually an Italian TV mini-series about the founder of fascism himself, Benito Mussolini.

food

Will Congress Force This Controversial Alcohol Study To Stop?

Esther Mobley San Francisco Chronicle
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, co-wrote a letter to two federal agencies calling for the suspension of an alcohol review. The upcoming revision of U. S. Dietary Guidelines is unfolding amid a shifting global sentiment toward drinking. Members of Congress are calling for a suspension of a controversial committee that could recommend Americans reduce alcohol consumption.

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Say Nothing Turns the IRA’s Secret History Into TV Drama

An interview with Josh Zetumer Jacobin
The new FX TV show Say Nothing dramatizes one of the most controversial stories in modern Irish history, with characters that include former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. Showrunner Josh Zetumer spoke to us about the challenges of producing the serie

poetry

Postscript

Marie Howe Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems
Poet Marie Howe shows us the frightening consequences of "what we did to the earth."

Labor

labor

Sabotage as a Tool of Solidarity

Shaun Richman In These Times
Photo of men in suits and coats standing in front of the union building. Workplace sabotage has historically been a powerful organizing tactic. Is the time ripe again?

Friday nite video

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Trump Goes to War With Allies and Partners

Canada. Mexico. Great Britain. Before assuming office, Trump is launching attacks on the closest partners of the United States, and is meeting with embarrassing rebuffs.

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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales

The story of the 1948 plane crash that took the lives of 32 passengers told by Woody Guthrie's poem Deportee, performed with guttural vocals, hard-edged, stripped down, foot-stomping acoustic instrumentation