Views From The Left For May 14, 2025

Views From The Left For May 14, 2025 

Articles:

Below is a list of articles from a sampling of leftist websites. The articles listed below express views that will sometimes be divergent from the views of the owner of this blog. Reliability ratings of each source will be in parentheses.

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. The 'MAGA Base Isn't Piling On' As Trump Now Criticizes Putin 'In Starker Terms'
2. 'Absolute Disgrace': Outrage As Trump Fires 'American Hero' With 2-Sentence Email
3. 'Never Before': Trump Just Took 'Even Greater Control' Over 'GOP Big Money'
4. 'Appalling And Lawless': Trump Faces Court Battle As He Fires 3 Dems
5. Trump Protecting 'Most Privileged People' Makes 'Mockery' Of Refugee System: NYT Reporter
6. Expert Says Trump's Jet Scandal 'Only The Beginning' Of Plan To 'Enrich Himself' In Office
7. 'Cult-like': How MAGA Sycophants Like Karoline Leavitt Feed Trump's 'Narcissism'

• Common Dreams 
1. Federal Judge Halts Trump And Musk's Illegal Overhaul Of US Government
2. India And Pakistan Agree To 'Full And Immediate' Cease-Fire After US Talks
3. Warning Of Grave Threat To Free Speech, Judge Frees Rümeysa Öztürk
4. Democrats' Bill Would Extend Social Security And Medicare Solvency 'As Far As The Eye Can See'
5. Warnings Grow Over US And Israel-Backed Plan For Gaza Aid
6. Climate Policy On Thin Ice: A Lesson From Canada
7. Critics Decry Trump-GOP Tax Bill As 'Trickle-Down Economics On Steroids'
8. The Extinction Order: Trump’s Executive Order 14270 Doesn’t Deregulate; It Dismantles

• Democracy at Work 
1. GLOBAL CAPITALISM: ON THIS MAY DAY
2. ECONOMIC UPDATE: TWIN CRISES OF HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS
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• Democracy Now
1. Leo XIV: First U.S.-Born Pope Criticized Trump/Vance On Deportations, Lack Of Compassion For Immigrants
2. Black Lives Matter: Challenging Police Impunity
3. Priest Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability From New Pope: “Open Up Those Archives”
4. “We Are Not Living. We Are Enduring.” Gaza Mother On Struggle For Food, Safety Under Israeli Blockade
5. Trump’s Newest Grift: Molly White On First Family’s Cryptocurrency Empire & Gutting Of Regulations
6. “Un-American”: Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman On DHS Threats To Arrest Her For Visiting ICE Jail In Newark
7. Rep. Rashida Tlaib On Gaza: Why Does U.S. Have Money For “War And Genocide” But Not For Healthcare?
8. Leo XIV: First U.S.-Born Pope Criticized Trump/Vance On Deportations, Lack Of Compassion For Immigrants

• Jacobin       
1. The Left Has To Speak To Average American Values — Or Perish
2. Free Speech Is Under Attack In Texas
3. Germany’s New Chancellor Is A Man Without Qualities
4. Will Pope Leo XIV Confront MAGA?
5. Trump Wants To Let Price-Fixing Oil Execs Off The Hook
6. Trump’s Budget: Starving Everything Except The Military
7. The Democrats Actively Expedited Class Dealignment
8. Democratic Workplaces Make Economies Stronger

• Mother Jones
1. A Leaked Memo Reveals Details About Trump’s War On Science At The NIH
2. White South African “Refugees” Will Soon Arrive In The United States
3. Is The New Pope MAGA Or Woke? Depends Whom You Ask
4. Trump’s DOJ Stripped Lifeline Legal Services From The Most Vulnerable Detained Immigrants
5. “The Children Are Being Used As Bait”
6. GOP Unveils Sweeping, Brutal Medicaid Cuts
7. “They’re Trying To Kidnap Someone”

• The Real News Network 
1. CORI BUSH: ‘AIPAC DIDN’T MAKE ME, SO AIPAC CAN’T BREAK ME’
2. THIS LITHIUM COMPANY IS TRYING TO SUE INDIGENOUS LAND DEFENDERS INTO SILENCE
3. A HOPKINS PROFESSOR SAYS AMERICA’S DESCENT INTO AUTHORITARIANISM MAY HAVE STARTED WITH POLICING IN BLUE CITIES. IF THAT’S TRUE, WE’RE IN BIG TROUBLE
4. CONFLATING ANTI-ZIONISM WITH ANTISEMITISM MAKES JEWS LESS SAFE, NOT MORE
5. ‘BLOOD MIXED WITH RUBBLE’: GAZA AND THE CEASEFIRE THAT WASN’T
6. THE SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: SHELTERING MIGRANTS AGAINST DEPORTATION
7. THE ‘FREE SPEECH’ ORG SILENT AS TRUMP DISAPPEARS DISSENTERS OVER GAZA
8. ‘LIKE BEING TORTURED’: TEXAS RESIDENTS LIVING NEXT TO BITCOIN MINE ARE GETTING SICK AND BEING IGNORED

• Socialist Worker 
1. Women Asylum Seekers Forced Into Dangerous Work By Racist Laws
2. Private Water Companies Leak Sewage On An Unknown Scale
3. VE Day And The myth Of National Unity
4. Where Does Gender Come From?
5. Starmer Pushes Racist Lie That Migrants ‘Damage Britain’
6. Kashmir: Divided By Empire
7. Palestinian ‘Freedom Struggle Will Win’: Interview With Author Phil Marfleet

• ZNetwork 
1. BRICS Nations And Israel: Hype, Hope And Helplessness
2. End Times Fascism
3. Israeli Plan To Occupy All Of Gaza Could Open The Door For Annexation Of The West Bank
4. An Autopsy Of Opaque Persecution In A Democracy
5. The Left’s Contribution?
6. Trump Tariffs And US Imperialism
7. The US Is In Free Fall, But We Can Turn Things Around By Valuing Our Neighbors Over Money
8. The Obscenity Of Collective Punishment In Gaza

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Factual Reliability Rating

    I am using two websites that rate the factual reliability of news sources used by this feature. In comparing the two ratings, Mediabiasfactcheck gives more 'High' scores for various news sources while Adfontesmedia gives reliability ratings that are based more on bias. Also, while some news sources, none of these are listed below, will receive the highest factual reporting rating by Mediabiasfactcheck, that is not the case with Adfontesmedia.

I find that the best way to choose a news source reliability rating is to use the trial and error method. Here, one should count how many times a news information source site posts an article that is eventually shown to be false and compare that count with the factual reliability rating given by sites like Medeabiasfactcheck and Adfontesmedia.

• Alternet  
1. Mediabiasfactcheck   : High
2. Adfontesmedia           : Generally Reliable

• Common Dreams 
1. Mediabiasfactcheck :    : High
2. Adfontesmedia.           : Generally Reliable

• Democracy at Work 
1. Mediabiasfactcheck.    : Not rated
2. Adfontesmedia.            : Not rated

• Democracy Now
1. Mediabiasfactcheck.     : High
2. Adfontesmedia              : Mixed Reliability

• Jacobin 
1. Mediabiasfactcheck        : High
2. Adfontesmedia.               : Mixed Reliability

• Mother Jones
1. Mediabiasfactcheck.         : High
2. Adfontesmedia.                 : Generally Reliable

• The Real News Network 
1. Mediabiasfactcheck          : High
2. Adfontesmedia                  : Generally Reliable

• Socialist Worker 
1. Mediabiasfactcheck.        : High
2. Adfontesmedia                   : Mixed Reliability

• ZNetwork 
1. Mediabiasfactcheck            : High
2. Adfontesmedia                    : Not Rated