Views From The Left For July 16, 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 Lashes Out At 'Evil' Reporter For Asking About Texas Families Wanting Answers
2. 'We Don’t Want To Be Bought': Flooded TX County Turned Down Biden Funds For Warning System
3. 'Global Financial Conflict': Americans Urged To Start Budgeting ASAP As Trump Ignites Chaos
4. 'Who’s Catching Spies?': Conservative Rips 'Disordered' Trump’s 'Team Of Lib-Owning Trolls'
5. 'Major Clash': White House Reporter Says MAGA Infighting Over Trump Move Is Real
6. Trump Uses Expletive In Front Of Faith Leaders In Unscripted Rant About 'Evil' Democrats
7. 'MAGA Rebellion': Top Trump Ally Says He Isn't 'Addressing The Base's Concerns' On Epstein
8. 'Unprecedented': Republicans Say Trump Is Withholding 'Basic Information' About Spending

• Common Dreams 
1. Trump FCC Chair Accused Of 'Political Theater' To Please Net Neutrality's Foes
2. Rights Group Demands Democrats Push To Censure Randy Fine Over Islamophobic Attacks
3. Judicial Nominee Bove Deemed 'Unfit' Over Answers On Jan. 6, Third Trump Term
4. Trump's GOP Megabill Slams Door On Progress Of The 20th Century
5. Why Israeli Impunity Still Shapes Global Politics
6. Dems Denounce Trump Official For Hiding Social Security Service Metrics
7. In Act Of 'Brutal Sadism,' Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain Of Death
8. Family Demands US Probe Into Israeli Settlers' 'Lynching' Of American Citizen

• Democracy at Work 
1. Capitalism Hits Home: Out With The Old, In With The New: Mamdani’s Win Is For All
2. Economic Update: The Workers' Struggle Within The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
3. Capitalism Hits Home: Out With The Old, In With The New: Mamdani’s Win Is For All

• Democracy Now
1. The Guadalupe River Flood: Blame The Climate Catastrophe
2. Ex-NOAA Official On TX Flood: Trump Breaking “Disaster Response Chain” As Climate Crisis Escalates
3. Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order; DOJ Caught Lying About Men Sent To El Salvador
4. Time Of Monsters: U.N. Human Rights Chief On Gaza, Immigration, Climate Crisis, And Lack Of Solidarity
5. From Agents On Horseback In L.A. To A Chicago Arts Festival, Latino Communities Mobilize Against ICE
6. “Apocalypse In The Tropics”: Brazilian Filmmaker On Evangelicals, Bolsonaro & Trump’s Tariff Threat
7. “Economy Of Genocide”: U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports On Corporate Profits From Israel’s Gaza War
8. “War On Children”: Doctor In Gaza On Massacres, Starvation And Israel’s Plan For Concentration Camps
9. Netanyahu Had Ceasefire Deal In April 2024 But Kept Gaza War Going To Stay In Power: NY Times

• Jacobin 
1. Socialism In Our Time: A Jacobin Conference
2. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Will Deepen Inequality
3. France Risks Following America’s Bad Example
4. Israel’s Parliament Is Silencing Its Palestinian Voices
5. Mark Carney Is Hacking Away At Canada’s Public Sector
6. Donald Trump Is Just Another Republican President
7. Get Ready For Citizens United 2.0 
8. AI-Driven Worker Displacement Is A Serious Threat

• Mother Jones
1. The Big Bad Republican Bill Wasn’t Regressive Enough For The Anti-Tax Crusaders
2. Sheldon Whitehouse: Democrats And Activists “Too Polite” In The Fight Against “Malevolent” Fossil Fuel Giants
3. State Department Employees Brace For Friday Layoffs
4. What We Know About How FEMA Officials Are Failing Texas
5. Texas Republicans Have A Brazen New Plan To Block Democrats From Retaking The House In 2026
6. Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas As A “Green” Fuel

• The Real News Network 
1. Brazil: Thousands Protest Trump’s Tariffs And Interference In Brazilian Courts
2. Trans Inmates Face Rape And Death With Trump’s Executive Order
3. What The Government Can Do To You Without Due Process
4. US Media Ignores Yet Another Unhinged, Racist Attack From GOP Because The Target Is Muslim
5. How Union Organizing Can Change Your Life And The World: A Conversation With Jaz Brisack
6. Fight Ice. Build The Union

• Socialist Worker
1. ‘The Walls Are Crashing Down On Us’: Disabled Child’s Parent Slams Labour Plans 
2. 250 Million Workers Strike In India
3. Do We Need Revolutionary Leadership?
4. ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Spells Big Disaster
5. Israel Ramps Up Attacks In The West Bank
6. What Do Activists Say About A New Left Alternative?
7. Police Arrest 86 People For Opposing Palestine Action Ban
8. How Anti-Fascists Beat The Blackshirts In The 1930s

• ZNetwork
1. Environmental Protection Agency Workers Investigated For Defending Its Mission
2. Breaking The Blockade Of Gaza
3. It’s Fhe Culture, Stupid: Why The Populist Right Will Fail
4. Israel In Palestine And The Collapse Of International Order
5. Naturalize Or Terrorize? ICE Is A Racket – And It’s Costing Too Much
6. Can Israel Survive Without The West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power
7. Between Bombs And Pages: A Student’s Struggle In Gaza
8. Stop Israel’s Dystopian “Humanitarian City” Plan—Before It’s Too Late

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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