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November 24, 2023

Argentina’s Labor Leaders Warn of Resistance to President-Elect

Daniel Politi Associated Press

Argentina’s unions and social organizations are vowing pushback and protests if Right-wing populist President Javier Milei makes good on his promises to slash the size of the state and privatize companies

November 24, 2023

The Pinochet Dictatorship Declassified: Confessions of a DINA Hit Man

National Security Archive National Security Archive

"I accuse the government of Chile of my death,” wrote DINA agent Michael Townley in March 1978, as FBI agents pursued him for the September 1976 car bomb assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt in Washington, D.C.

November 24, 2023

New Gene Editing Treatment Cuts Dangerous Cholesterol in Small Study

Gina Kolata New York Times

The trial involved only 10 patients, but it suggests cholesterol can be permanently reduced with a single treatment for patients at risk of heart disease

November 24, 2023

Argentina Is Not for Sale: Unions Respond to Privatization, Regional Solidarity Is Rising

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)

Argentinian President-Elect Milei Moves to Privatize Energy… and Everything Else

November 24, 2023

Their Feet Cross the Threshold

Esther Kamkar

California poet Esther Kamkar speaks about Immigrants, refugees, their perilous conditions In a world of displacement.

November 23, 2023

Haaretz Editorial: Netanyahu Knew. Netanyahu Ignored. Netanyahu Is Responsible

Haaretz Editorial Haaretz

Benjamin Netanyahu was given updates from the IDF concerning the possibility of a Hamas attack. He is responsible and also to blame for what happened on that Black Saturday. He failed in his most important duty, to ensure the security of Israelis.

November 23, 2023

Bernie Sanders: Justice for the Palestinians and Security for Israel

Bernie Sanders New York Times

How do we balance our desire to stop the fighting with the need to address the roots of the conflict? For 75 years, diplomats, well-intentioned Israelis and Palestinians and government leaders around the world have struggled to bring peace...

November 23, 2023

Indigenous Resistance, From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock

David Barsamian - An interview with Nick Estes The Progressive Magazine

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of a historic event in Native America, the action at Wounded Knee. What was its significance, and why it still resonate with Native peoples. How it connects with the resistance at the Dakota Access Pipeline.

November 23, 2023

The World Is Careening Toward 3 Degrees of Warming, UN Says Ahead of Climate Conference

Naveena Sadasivam Grist

A new U.N. report sets the stage for high-stakes negotiations at COP28 this month. This is the first-ever “global stocktake” since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016. When countries signed on to the international treaty...

November 23, 2023

Tidbits – Nov.23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Thanksgiving; Stop Calling It a Conflict, It’s…; Ceasefire; Trump’s Calling Opponents Vermin, Repeats Language of Hitler; the Real Bayard Rustin; Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Dangerous Conflations; Cartoons

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Reader Comments: Thanksgiving; Stop Calling It a Conflict, It's...; Ceasefire; Trump's Calling Opponents Vermin, Repeats Language of Hitler; The Real Bayard Rustin; Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations; Cartoons; and more....