Views From The Left For June 11, 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. Outrage As 'Disgraceful' Trump Abruptly Fires Longtime Official With 'No Explanation'
2. Former Trump lawyer Says MAGA 'Knife-Fighting' Is About To Get A Lot Uglier
3. 'He'll Turn On You': George Conway Explains Why Trump Is Raging Against More Right-Wing Allies
4. How 'Absurd' Trump's 'Obsession With' Biden Could Pave The Way For Greater Abuses
5. 'Emotional Rollercoaster': How The Resistance To Trump Is Missing The Mark — Badly
6. 'The Times Call For Some Anger': Retiring AMA President Rips The GOP — And Insurance Companies
7. Revealed: Trump's 'Top Priorities' Are On The Chopping Block — Thanks To Key Republicans

• Common Dreams 
1. 'This Is What Fascism Looks Like': Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested
2. 'Dangerous Power Grab' As Supreme Court Sides With DOGE On Social Security Data
3. Rubio, Trump Accused Of Criminal Obstruction For Sanctioning ICC Judges
4. Despite Trump-Musk Feud, CO2 Milestone Is The 'Important News Of The Day'
5. Universalism, Not Abundance, Is The Only Real Defense Against Authoritarianism
6. The Next 48-140 Hours Are Critical For The Movement To End The Gaza Genocide
7. Trump Is Dragging America Back To Pre-Civil Rights Norms
8. Sanders Warns RFK Jr.'s Purge Of Vaccine Experts 'Will Lead To Preventable Illness And Death'
9. Is The US On The Path To Becoming A Failed State?

• Democracy at Work 
1. DIALECTIC AT WORK: THE MYSTERY OF MARX’S CAPITAL VOLUME 2
2. ECONOMIC UPDATE: EUROPE DECLINES FASTER THAN THE UNITED STATES

• Democracy Now
1. Trump’s New Travel Ban Widens His War On Immigrants
2. Musk Vs. Trump? Quinn Slobodian On The Risks Of Billionaire Rule
3. Trump Budget Bill Would Lead To 51,000 More Deaths Each Year, As Health Experts Urge Medicare For All
4. High Seas Update From Aid Ship Sailing To Gaza: Activists Vow To “Win Through Solidarity”
5. Fired Over Gaza? Dr. Rupa Marya Sues UCSF, Says She Was Targeted For Speaking Up For Palestine
6. “Absolutely Unprecedented”: Trump Deploys National Guard To L.A. & Hegseth Threatens To Send In Marines
7. Trump Budget Bill Would Lead To 51,000 More Deaths Each Year, As Health Experts Urge Medicare For All

• Jacobin 
1. With Trump Vs. Musk, Capitalist Democracy Reaches A New Low
2. Zohran Mamdani’s Canvassing Operation Is What Democracy Looks Like
3. The Muslims Who Are Leaving France
4. Trump Mania Has Turned Democrats Into Confused Flip-Floppers
5. Inside Syria’s Fight To Keep Patients Alive
6. Inside Syria’s Fight To Keep Patients Alive
7. The Crime Of Treating Housing As A Commodity
8. Donald Trump Manufactured The Crisis In Los Angeles
9. Flotilla Member Rima Hassan: Israel Is Breaking The Law, Not Us

• Mother Jones
1. “No,” Trump Says, He Does Not Want to Repair Relationship With Musk
2. The Trump White House Is A Giant National Security Red Flag
3. The ICE Policy That Set Off Chaos In LA
4. This Obscure But Powerful “Dark Roof” Lobby May Be Making Your City Hotter
5. Will Trump Force America To Break Up?
6. ICE Agents Concealing Their Faces: Can They Really Do That
7. Tech Moguls Want To Build A Crypto Paradise On A Native American Reservation
8. The “Twisted” History Of Trump’s Legal Theory For Using Troops Against Protesters

• The Real News Network 
1. SEBASTIÃO SALGADO: CAPTURING HUMANITY IN PICTURES
2. THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA: SAILING TO BREAK ISRAEL’S SIEGE OF GAZA
3. ‘IT’S POLITICAL PERSECUTION’: HOW THE US IS HELPING ECUADOR’S RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT PERSECUTE POLITICAL OPPONENTS
4. TORONTO JUST CAVED TO ZIONIST ATTACKS ON THE RIGHT TO PROTEST 
5. TRUMP CUTS LEAVE VA HOSPITAL NURSES AND VETERAN PATIENTS IN A CRISIS
6. LOS ANGELES RESISTANCE: STANDING AGAINST ICE
7. KEY DEMOCRAT: TRUMP-MUSK FEUD EXPOSES GOP PANIC, COULD DERAIL ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’
8. TRANS INMATES FACE RAPE & DEATH WITH TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER
9. SEBASTIÃO SALGADO: CAPTURING HUMANITY IN PICTURES

• Socialist Worker 
1. Anger At Labour’s Austerity And Militarism On Streets Of London
2. ‘Oxford University Is Victimising Sy son For Opposing Israel’s Genocide’
3. What’s Behind The Musk-Trump Bust Up?
4. Zia Yusuf Return Shows Reform UK United In Racism
5. Why Riots Are The ‘language Of Unheard’
6. Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About The LA Protests
7. Behind The blaze: A history Of Protest In Los Angeles
8. Protests Burst Onto Streets Of France After Israel Hijacks Aid Flotilla

• ZNetwork 
1. Time For Non-violent Civil Disobedience
2. Don’t Fund The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: It’s A Genocidal Smokescreen
3. The Resistance That Is Rising
4. Zohran Mamdani’s Canvassing Operation Is What Democracy Looks Like
5. Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Work, Housing People Does
6. Building Real Student Power
7. Displaced Again And Again, Gazans Ask: Where Do We Go?
8. Trump’s Police State

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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