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August 15, 2018

Bold Left-Wing Candidates Score Primary Victories

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"We're just getting started. We're going to change America for hundreds of years. Thank you to everyone who is forcing change."

August 15, 2018

What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

Tom Henry Society of Environmental Journalists SEJ Bookshelf

This book, by pediatrician, scientist and activist Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, is the first-hand account of record of the Flint Water Crisis, written by the person that brought the catastrophe to the public's attention.

August 15, 2018

The Myth of Watergate Bipartisanship

Michael Conway and Jon Marshall The New York Times

The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.

August 15, 2018

Germany: Resisting the Nazis on the Shop Floor

Frederik Blauwhof Morning Star

Social deprivation following neoliberal austerity economics have fed the rise of the extreme right – a development which fascist elements in Germany are keen to exploit. The right-wing Afd won 15% of the union vote in the last elections.

August 15, 2018

In Unprecedented Move, Former Mayor and Ex-legislator will be Running Mates with Lula

Brasil de Fato People's Dispatch

The Workers’ Party and the Communist Party of Brazil develop a joint strategy to make sure that the imprisoned Lula is part of the upcoming presidential elections.

August 15, 2018

UPS Is Flush With Cash. It’s Up to Workers to Demand the Company Cough It Up.

Micah Uetricht In These Times

We should all be rooting for high profits and bull markets, since those are the conditions that lead to the invisible hand delivering better conditions for workers. Yet for some reason, that hand is nowhere to be found at United Parcel Service (UPS)

August 15, 2018

Global Left Midweek - August 15, 2018

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German "Movement of Movements", Bengladeshi Students Protest, Disabled Unite in UK, Colombian Contender, Class in China

November 22, 2013

Friday Nite Videos -- November 22, 2013

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Stephen Colbert: Nuclear Option in the Senate. Woody -- All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose. Siats - A New Mega Dinosaur. Every Nuclear Test. Music Love Army: We Are Not for Sale.

Nuclear Option in the Senate

November 22, 2013

The Colbert Report
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Senate Democrats employ the so-called "nuclear option" in response to an unprecedented series of Republican filibusters.

All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose

November 22, 2013

Woody Guthrie's guitar famously bore the legend, This Machine Kills Fascists. Here are the Woody lyrics (probably dating to the 1940s) that most directly spell out this message, with appropriate pictures of contemporary bad guys. Woody's confidence in the victory over fascism was the flip side of his confidence in the victory of the common people who, he sang, were Bound for Glory.