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Friday Nite Videos | August 25, 2023

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Billy Bragg | Rich Men Earning North of a Million. Georgia Prosecutor and Judge Call Trump Ally’s Bluff. Watch a Climate Scientist Fact Check an Alarming PragerU Video. The Day Women Shut Down Iceland. A Storm Foretold | Roger Stone Documentary.

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Reader Comments: Donald Trump, Mob Boss; Georgia Indictment Speaks to History; Biden Climate Bill Leaves Workers Behind; German Left Debates Putin’s War; Sept 17 Join March to End the Era of Fossil Fuels; Cartoons; Resources; Announcements; more;...

Niger Revolution Takes Bonapartist Turn

M. K. Bhadrakumar Indian Punchline
The 4-week old turmoil in the West African state of Niger is taking a curious turn that no longer allows a binary vision of “neo-colonialism and imperialism” versus “national liberation”.

What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes

David Dayen The American Prospect
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention. The one-two punch of simultaneous WGA and SAG strikes, for the first time in 60 years, has stalled out virtually all productions.

The GOP Debate – Trump and the MAGA Party

Harold Meyerson DSA North Star
Even without Donald Trump on stage, in the first GOP debate, the treatment the crowd gave Trump’s critics made it vociferously clear - this is a MAGA Trump Party.

6 Biased Tropes in Israel/Palestine Reporting

Lara-Nour Walton Common Dreams
As stories about Israel/Palestine continue to bombard our screens and daily papers, readers and journalists alike need to remain aware of the pro-Israel pitfalls that pockmark establishment news coverage.

Anti-Trans Bills Are Sweeping the US Despite, Not Because of, Public Opinion

Interview with Erin Reed by Doug Henwood Jacobin
The coordinated attack on trans rights in state legislatures across the US is built on a foundation of hateful paranoia and right-wing lies. But however unpopular anti-trans bills are, the human costs are real: thousands are migrating from anti-tran