First, Elon Musk helped buy the U.S. presidential elections. Now, he is interfering in Germany's elections, by supporting the ultra-rightist party AfD, Alternative for Germany; in German: Alternative für Deutschland. Germany and Europe is protesting.
Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again. Portside will be there every day, and we’re asking you to help. Here’s how.
This a radio program recorded in the 1940s in which Woody Guthrie sings accompanied in that performance by Sonny Terry on harmonica, Pete Seeger on banjo and Cisco Houston on guitar, they sing the chorus together. Also, two short videos with Pete.
Cold culture wars heating up
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I still retain sparks of hope that 2025 will not see more gains for the biblical Four Horsemen—War, Pestilence, Famine and Devastation—but rather more struggle, at least a little forward and upward motion. Inshallah!
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Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again. Portside will be there every day, and we’re asking you to help. Here’s how.
In fact, much (though admittedly, not all) of what we’re witnessing today might simply be considered an escalation of the dire turn that this country took after the attacks of September 11, 2001, nearly a quarter of a century ago.
Being “the right kind” of progressive or feminist or socialist can easily become its own goal, rather than winning concrete victories that match the values and goals behind these labels. Unfortunately this has been a common response in recent decades
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