Views From The Left For April 16, 2025

 Views From The Left 

Below is a list of articles from a sampling of leftist websites. Except for the Democracy At Work website, each leftist site listed below has a high reliable reporting rating according to MediaBiasFactCheck.com. The articles listed below express views that will sometimes be divergent from the views of the owner of this blog.

Martin Luther King statement made when speaking against the Vietnam War (click here for source):

'I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.'

• Alternet
1. 'He‘s A Fraud': Far-right Texas AG’s Senate Primary Challenge Sets Off Social Media Firestorm
2. Member Of Congress Picked For Trump Cabinet Threatened Johnson 'Not To Stand In Her Way' 
3. 'Do You Like Being Shackled?' Data Shows 'Trump Slump' Of Foreign Tourists Avoiding The US
4. Rubio Security Detail Arrested In Brussels After 'Behaving Erratically' And Fighting Police
5. 'Clear Choice': Experts Say Trump 'Openly Defying' Supreme Court May Doom Future Elections
6. 'Treasonous': Naomi Klein Reveals How Billionaires Are 'Provoking' Societal Collapse
7. Trump Reforms To Social Security Have Made The Funding Crisis Worse: Economist
8. Trump’s Economic Policies Could Cause 'Something Worse Than A Recession': Wall St. Insider

• Common Dreams
1. Acting IRS Chief Out Over 'Unconscionable' Deal To Share Taxpayer Data With ICE
2. Trump-Appointed Judge Rules White House Can't Retaliate Against AP Over Gulf Of Mexico Dispute
3. US Supreme Court's Right-Wing Majority Sides With Trump On Fired Federal Workers
4. Keystone, 'Safest Pipeline In The World,' Ruptures—Again
5. Trump-Musk Assault On IRS Could Let Wealthy Evade $30 Million In Taxes—Per Day
6. 40+ Groups: Trump Admin Push To Dismantle FEMA A 'Direct Threat' To Millions
7. Sanders And AOC Draw Crowd Of 20,000+ In Utah—A State Trump Won By Over 20 Points

• Democracy at Work
1. ECONOMIC UPDATE: UNLEARNING MARKET IDOLATRY
2. DIALECTIC AT WORK: THE WORKING DAY AND THE PRODUCTION OF SURPLUS VALUE

• Democracy Journal
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• Democracy Now
1. A War On The First Amendment: David Cole On Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & Journalists
2. Elon Musk Stands To Get Even Richer As Trump Backs $1 Trillion Budget For Pentagon
3. “What About The Capitalists?”: Autoworkers In U.S., Mexico Call For Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs
4. “Detained Without Evidence”: Maryland Father Remains In El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling
5.  “Black Americans Are Not Surprised”: Christina Greer On Trump’s Attacks On Students, DEI & History
6. Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawyer: Trump Admin Is Delaying In Federal Court While Racing To Deport Activist
7. Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador’s “Dictator” Key To Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia
8. “The Teacher”: Palestinian Drama Filmed In The West Bank Examines Impact Of Israel’s Occupation On Children

• Jacobin
1. Donald Trump Is Doubling Down On All Of Joe Biden’s Failures 
2. Capitalist Disorganization Has Enabled Trump’s Dominance
3. Marxism, An American Tradition
4. Like The Gun Industry, Big Oil Wants Legal Immunity
5. The Method In The Far Right’s Madness
6. Putting Tariffs On Your Nose To Spite Your Face

• The Real News Network
1. TRAINWRECK IN ‘TRUMP COUNTRY’: PARTISAN POLITICS HASN’T HELPED EAST PALESTINE, OH (DOCUMENTARY) 
2. BIRJU DATTANI LOST HIS JOB FOR CRITICIZING ISRAEL—BUT HE’S FIGHTING BACK
3. ‘PEOPLE ARE HIDING IN THEIR APARTMENTS’: INSIDE TRUMP’S ASSAULT ON UNIVERSITIES
4. ‘KILL THESE CUTS BEFORE THEY KILL US’: FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCHERS WARN DOGE CUTS WILL BE FATAL
5. FORMER BLACK PANTHER MANSA MUSA ON HOW TO FIGHT TRUMP: ‘GET ORGANIZED!’

• Socialist Worker
1.  Trump’s Trade War Escalates Ehreat Of Military Confrontations
2. ‘National Interest’ Is Not The Answer To Trump’s Tariffs
3. Birmingham Bin Strikers Reject Pay Deal—Now Build Solidarity
4. Q&A: What Should Socialists Say About Trump’s Tariff Shock?
5. Can Marxism Help Us Understand Nationalism?
6. Alex Callinicos Will Answer tour Questions On Trump’s Trade War
7. Trump’s Trade War Escalates Threat Of Military Confrontations

• ZNetwork
1. Trump’s Tariffs Are Not Unlike Previous US Plan That Ended In Disaster
2. Why Social Democrats In Germany Are Facing Extinction 
3. Israeli Troops Blow Whistle On War Crimes In Gaza ‘Kill Zone’
4. Ten National Unions Call For Anti-Trump Resistance
5. MLK And The Black Freedom Struggle
6. Rural, Red-State Resistance And The Next Step
7. SCOTUS Orders Trump Admin To Return Man Wrongfully Deported To Salvadoran Prison
8. Netanyahu’s Shin Bet Scandal: Who Holds The Power?