Views From The Left For May 28, 2025

 Views From The Left 

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. 'Extremely Upsetting': Republican Vets Leaving The GOP Because Of Trump Policy
2. Trump Is 'Re-Envisioning America' In A way That Resembles North Korea: Analysis
3. 'Dear God': Trump Ripped For 'Trophy Wives' Rant During 'Embarrassing' West Point Speech
4. 'We Feel Paralyzed': Expert Details How Trump 'Disempowers' Americans With 'Sadistic Cruelty' 
5. Shock As Trump Official Unleashes 'Direct Attack On Freedom Of The Press' 
6. Alarm Raised Over Trump Admin Corruption Following Trump Media Move
7. 'I Will Not Relent': MAGA Rep Opens Investigation Into Mayor Who Criticized Trump Policies
8. 'People Can Die': Trump's FDA Slammed For 'No Public Communications' Over E. Coli Outbreak

• Common Dreams
1. 'Could Amount To A Bribe': Group Threatens Lawsuit If Paramount Caves To Trump
2. Trump Greenlights US Steel Merger Despite Union Warning Of 'Corporate Sellout'
3. Experts Warn Trump Attack On Nuclear Regulator Raises Disaster Risk
4. Repressive Governments Never Let An Assassination Go To Waste
5. How To Meet With Trump: A South African Masterclass In Diplomatic Strategy
6. The Senate Must Tear Up The Cruel House Budget And Start Again 
7. Head Of US-Backed Gaza Aid Foundation Resigns, Saying Mission Violates 'Humanitarian Principles'
8. Trump Brags That He's 'Not Cutting 10 Cents' From Pentagon As GOP Guts Medicaid
9. Israeli Officer Says 'Nearly Every' IDF Platoon Has Used Palestinians As Human Shields In Gaza

• Democracy at Work
1. DIALECTIC AT WORK: BUT MARX DIDN'T ACCOUNT FOR...
2. ECONOMIC UPDATE: THE CORPORATIZATION OF UNIVERSITIES AND TRUMP'S ATTACKS

• Democracy Now
1. Pomp And Dire Circumstances At Columbia’s Graduation
2. “Theft From On High”: Trump’s Budget Bill Guts Medicaid, Medicare & More To Pay For Tax Cuts
3. Mahmoud Khalil: Jailed Activist Testifies Before Immigration Judge And Holds His Child For First Time
4. “I Can’t Breathe”: Five Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Trump Admin Rolls Back Police Oversight
5. “King Of the North”: New Book Examines MLK’s Fight Against Police Brutality & Racism Outside Dixie
6. “Nothing Can Justify It”: Journalist Gideon Levy Reacts To Killing Of Israeli Embassy Staffers In D.C.

• Jacobin 
1. What Made Malcolm X Dangerous
2. Capitalism Is Changing, But Not Into “Neofeudalism”
3. The Democratic Party Botched The 2024 Election
4. Tony Benn’s Words For Today’s Left
5. The Woke Right Wants To Cancel Ms Rachel
6. Big Tech Wants To Become Its Own Bank
7. Meet Russell Vought’s Foot Soldiers In Trump’s OMB
8. Big Pharma Puppet Groups Are Keeping Your Drug Prices High

• Mother Jones
1. Utah Study On Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient For Politicians Who Ordered It
2. Trump Administration Ordered To Undo Yet Another Wrongful Deportation
3. The Supreme Court Makes Sure The Law Does Not Get Tn The Way Of Trump’s Takeover
4. Judge Rules Trump’s South Sudan Deportations Violate Court Order
5. House GOPers Just Voted For The Biggest Medicaid Cuts In History—After Promising To Protect It
6. Inside The Curious, And Dangerous, World Of US Military Museums
7. IDF Deliberately Targeting Children In Gaza, US Doctors Allege
8. Trump Unleashes Bizarre Commencement Speech At West Point

• The Real News Network 
1. BODYCAM SHOWS UTAH SHERIFFS HARASSING PHOTOGRAPHER FOR DOING HIS JOB—AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE CHARGES
2. OAXACA, MEXICO: FIGHTING FOR TEACHERS
3. ‘WE CAN ECHO THE EMPTINESS OF THEIR STOMACHS’: WHY OREGON STUDENTS ARE HUNGER STRIKING FOR GAZA

• Socialist Worker 
1. Building resistance In Sudan’s Civil War: Interview With Muzan Alneel
2. Thousands Rally In London To Demand A Full Arms Embargo On Israel
3. ‘Starmer Gives Money To Rich, We’re Forced To Rely On Food Banks’
4. Far Right Protests Show ‘There Is No Room For Complacency’

• ZNetwork 
1. Block, Bridge, And Build: A Framework To Forge A More Democratic Future
2. How did The Israeli Supreme Court Legitimise Starvation As A Weapon Of War? An Autopsy Of A Ruling (Part 1) -- Not a ZNetwork Article
3. How Did The Israeli Supreme Court Legitimise Starvation As A Weapon Of War? An Autopsy Of A Ruling (Part 2)
4. Why ‘Nonviolence’ Is More Effective, Even In A Violent World
5. Trump From The Perspective Of A Mental Health Provider
6. Social Self-Defense vs. MAGA: A Strategic Assessment
7. Netanyahu’s Endgame: Isolation And The Shattered Illusion Of Power
8. Famine As A Weapon Of Genocide: Gaza 2025 – Soviet Union 1941
9. Canada: Towards The Renewal Of The Status Quo Ante Or The Desperate Search For An Agreement With Trumpism

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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