Views From The Left For June 4, 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. Trump Taps 'Comically Unfit' Election Denier To Head Key Ethics Office 
2. 'DOGE Has No Statutory Authority Whatsoever': Court Smacks Down Trump Admin's Mass Firings
3. 'Almost Cartoonish': Expert Says 'Trumpy Style' Of MAGA Women About 'Signaling Allegiance'
4. Swing State Voters Beg Their Republican Senator To Protect Them From The Trump Grift-ocracy
5. How Trump Is Using Some Old Tricks To Intimidate His Critics Into Silence
6. 'Who Will Tell Him?' Senate GOP Leader Slammed For Comment About Low-Income Americans
7. The Real Reason Behind Trump's Attack On The American Mind
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• Common Dreams 
1. Musk Might Be Gone, But Watchdogs Warn Trump/DOGE Carnage Will Continue
2. In Dissent, Jackson Warns Of 'Devasting' Impacts As Supreme Court OKs Trump Ending Protections For 500K Migrants
3. GOP's Latest Pitch for Gutting Medicaid And Food Aid? 'Well, We All Are Going To Die'
4. New Illegal Settlements Show Israel Is 'Blatantly Working To Destroy The Palestinian People'
5. The Nuclear Trump Factor
6. Neoliberalism Cannot Be Rehabilitated
7. Amnesty Implores Israel To Stop 'Starvation Of Civilians As A Method Of War'
8. Rev. Barber Leads Moral Monday March Against 'Big Beautiful Bill' Amid Senate Debate
9. Let’s Not Use A Lone Crime To Justify Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity

• Democracy at Work 
1. ECONOMIC UPDATE: WHO WILL LIKELY WIN AND LOSE THE U.S.-CHINA TRADE WAR?

• Democracy Now
1. The Catastrophe In Gaza, 600 Days And Counting
2. “Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker On Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
3. As Courts Battle Trump On Tariffs, Will Right-Wing Supreme Court Rescue The President’s Trade Agenda?
4. Trump’s Abuse Of Pardons Undermines Entire Justice System: Reagan Official Bruce Fein
5. Fear, Repression & Brain Drain: U.S. Campuses Reeling As Trump Freezes, Revokes Student Visas
6. Mosquito Protocol: Ex-Israeli Soldier On Army’s Systematic Use Of Palestinians As Human Shields
7. Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants “Permanent War” In Gaza, Not A New Ceasefire
8. British Surgeon In Gaza Reports On Rafah Massacre As Dozens Of Palestinians Killed Waiting For Aid

• Jacobin 
1. Saskia Esken Failed To Change Germany’s Social Democrats
2. The Surgeon General And The Wellness-Industrial Complex
3. In Syria, Aid Cuts Threaten To Feed The Return Of ISIS
4. A Bill For Trump’s Madness Will Come Due
5. The Second-Class Citizenship Of Palestinian Israelis
6. Democrats Can Avoid Trump’s Culture-War Traps
7. Trump’s Budget Includes A Giveaway To A Chilean Billionaire
8. Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Is About The Future Of Free Speech
9. The Boss Is Right To Talk About Class

• Mother Jones
1. The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Will Make It Easier To Build Stuff, Good And Bad
2. “BS”: Former HHS Secretary Blasts White House Defense Of False Citations In MAHA Report
3. Team Trump Is Poised To Kill A Critical Program It Likely Knows Nothing About
4. The Trump Trick: Pardon Black Celebs, Make It Easier To Imprison Black People
5. How Star Wars Reveals Conservatives’ Authoritarian Fantasies
6. Trump Is Weaponizing The Justice Department To Advance His Voter Suppression Plans

• The Real News Network 
1. HOW ONE PERUVIAN COMMUNITY FOUGHT A MINE AND WON
2. ‘EVEN OUR DREAMS WERE DESTROYED’: GAZA’S LOST UNIVERSITIES
3. VETERANS LAUNCH 40-DAY FAST TO PROTEST ISRAEL’S STARVATION OF GAZA
4. ‘ISRAEL IS THE RELIGION’: ZIONISM, GENOCIDE, AND THE GENERATIONAL DIVIDE IN THE JEWISH WORLD

• Socialist Worker 
1. ‘No Sign Of Respite’ From Scorching Temperatures
2. Western Leaders’ Criticism Deepens Israel’s Political Crisis
3. Why Is Trump’s Ukraine Plan Coming Unstuck?

• ZNetwork 
1. Mental Healthcare Workers Win
2. Defeating Mass Deportations
3. On Socialism, Left Internationalism, And The Climate Crisis
4. From Inner Change To Systemic Change
5. “Make America Healthy Again” Aims To Make Public Health Your Responsibility
6. Trump’s Big, Beautiful Handout To The AI Industry
7. Hamas: The Enemy Israel Cannot Afford To Lose
8. Global Backlash: How The World Could Shift Israel’s Gaza Strategy
9. The Israel Embassy Killings: Wrong In Every Way

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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