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Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad Is Trumpism in a Nutshell

The Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate’s ad against Amy Acton is disqualifying. It’s also precisely what you would expect from a MAGA regime that protects abusers.

Antisemitic Olive Trees and Settler Violence

Three such cunning phrasings help stoke settler attacks on American journalists and European diplomats, keep Palestinian farmers off their land, and portray the Israeli army and civilians in the West Bank as the people in danger.

The Accidental Activists of Data Center Alley

These would-be rebels in Northern Virginia joined the fight against data centers mostly to stop the encroachment on their homes and exclusive private communities. Here is the country’s thickest concentration of data centers—233 centers in all...

For Texas School Kids, Minor Misbehavior Can Mean Jail

More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school. Children ages 10 to 13 were referred for prosecution after incidents in schools more than 47,000 times since 2014...

Reader Comments & Tidbits, Oct. 22, 2026

Reader Comments: Susan Collins - No Friend of Injured Workers; Israel Has Destroyed Gaza, Now Southern Lebanon; New Meaning for Chainsaw Massacre; Trump Has Made Socialism Mainstream; Trump's DEI; Jack Metzgar, Labor Educator - R.I.P.;

Brad Lander After Release From IDF Custody

“These detentions by the IDF are one more attempt to undermine Palestinians’ right to harvest their olive groves, travel on their roads, and live in their homes,” said the US congressional candidate.

A Blue Wave Won’t Wash Away Our Oligarchy Problem

The massive election spending by Elon Musk and other billionaires is a huge problem, even if many of the superwealthy’s favorites lose next month.

Profits Are Soaring. Workers’ Income Share Is Sinking.

Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.

Modi Seeks To Calm Allies by Shackling Gen Z Protests

The “cockroach” youth movement — which began this summer over the failings of the education system and was revived this autumn over accusations that Mr. Modi is manipulating India’s election system — has become bogged down by the enormous powers of

Global Left Midweek — October 21, 2026

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Culture

poetry

Airman

Christine Holland
Poet Christine Holland reminds us of the sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell, who performed a self-immolation outside the Israeli embassy in Washington.

books

Coal Miners and Class War: Review of Matewan Blood & Coal

Kurt Stand Portside
The West Virginia coal wars-fought between the United Mine Workers and coal operators, from 1912 to 1922 -there have been books and films about the conflict, it is little remembered. Kevin Corley’s novel, Matewan Blood & Coal, seeks to bridge the gap

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Exit Strategy

Paige Oamek Dissent Magazine
In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?

Labor

labor

Unions Are the Key to America’s Cost of Living Crisis

Liz Shuler and Heidi Shierholz TIME
A promise of a union is that workers will share in the profit they create. As soon as wealthy executives saw their bottom lines under threat, they attacked unions. The research proves what workers have always known: It's better in a union.

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How To Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

Nancy Folbre Dollars & Sense
How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

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They Asked Themselves: What’s Missing? The Answer: A Union

Roxanne D. Brown, USW International President USW
Inequality isn’t solely measured in money or workers struggling to make ends meet while the rich get richer. It’s just as pernicious in how bosses view workers with disdain, rather than skilled people responsible for the company's prosperity.

Friday nite video

Death by Firing Squad

When the murderer's dead and his head's in a bag, will it help you forget the way that you got had? 

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Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on NAZA

NAZA is the Israeli military's term for "collateral damage," that is, civilian deaths. The film NAZA, now showing in select theaters across the U.S., interviews Israeli military and intelligence officials who participated in inflicting thousands of such deaths in Gaza.

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Dario Amodei Quit OpenAI To Make AI 'Safe.' And Now?

Anthropic is now eying a $2 trillion IPO, potentially the largest of all time. At the same time the company is trying to shield itself from responsibility by saying its AI agents are autonomous, even sentient.