Views From The Left For July 9, 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 White House Lies About Budget Bill’s Tax Cuts As US Public Opposes Giveaway To Rich 

2. Democratic strategist warns Trump could try to impose martial law before 2026 midterms

3. Utterly Deplorable': This MAGA Tactic Against Poltical Rivals 'Sends A Chill Down The Spine'
4. GOP Rep Who Voted For Medicaid Cuts Dumps Stock In Company That Provides Medicaid Coverage

5. Mad King': Analyst Says Trump Is Racking Up Offenses That Caused A Rebellion

6. Trump Fiddles While Rome Burns — And Floods
7. Trump Demands Republicans Be 'Absorbed Into The Borg' Or Face Purge From The GOP: Conservative
8. Trump Won't Need To Cancel The Midterms If This Republican Plot Succeeds
9. 'Trump’s Most Lawless Excesses' Are Only Getting Worse — Thanks To The Supreme Court: Expert

• Common Dreams 
1. Trump-GOP Budget Bill Will Give Top 1% Over $1 Trillion In Tax Breaks: Analysis
2. Starvation Being Used As Weapon Of War As 'Israel's Genocide Has Continued Unabated In Gaza,' Says Amnesty
3. 'People Will Suffer, People Will Die': GOP Nears Final PassaTrump White House Lies About Budget Bill's 
4. Trump White House Lies About Budget Bill's Tax Cuts As US Public Opposes Giveaway To Rich
5. How Medicare Advantage Is Hurting Workers
6. 'This Fight Is Just Beginning': Federal Judge Blocks Trump-GOP Law's Attack On Planned Parenthood
7. 100+ People Dead in Texas—Just 2 Months After Former National Weather Service Chiefs Warned Of 'Nightmare' Scenario
8. When More Hospitals Start Closing, Says Warren, 'Every Single American Needs To Know' Trump's GOP Is To Blame

• Democracy at Work 
1. Economic Update: How Deep Fascist Parallels Run
2. Dialectic At Work: Marx's Capital Volumes 2 & 3
3. Economic Update: How Deep Fascist Parallels Run

• Democracy Now
1. EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed By ICE For 104 Days, In First Live Interview
2. GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid For Millions, Cuts Taxes For The Rich, Funds ICE At Historic Levels
3. GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency In The History Of The Nation”
4. “Arrest Now, Ask Questions Later”: Why Did L.A. ICE Agents Arrest And Jail U.S. Citizen Andrea Velez?
5. “Alligator Alcatraz”: Florida Activists Resist Everglades Migrant Jail As ICE Deaths Rise In U.S.
6. “Most Massive Transfer Of Wealth Upward In American History”: John Nichols On Trump’s Budget Law
7. “Frontal Assault” On Climate Justice: Rolling Stone’s Antonia Juhasz On Trump’s Budget Law
8. “Completely Illegal”: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa On Israel’s “Outrageous” Attacks On Gaza Hospitals & Staff

• Jacobin 
1. Mexico Is Showing the World How To Stand Up To Donald Trump
2. Jacobin’s Summer Reads Guide
3. Shulamith Firestone’s Postmortem For Radical Feminism
4. Christianity And Sex Have Always Had An Awkward Relationship
5. How Canada Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Dysfunction
6. The Palestinian Left Is A Vital Part Of Its Nation’s History
7. Red-Baiting Zohran Mamdani Won’t Work
8. America’s Brutal Capitalist Class Tamed Its Labor Movement

• Mother Jones
1. The Bill Moyers That Obituaries Missed
2. “Self-Inflicted Tragedy”: Washington’s Abrupt Turnaround On Climate Policy
3. “An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React To GOP Medicaid Cuts
4. Here Are The Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply To Trump
5. As Nations Lag On Climate Action, Cities Across The World Step Up
6. We Asked Trump’s Former Prisons Chief How $45 Billion Will Reshape Immigrant Detention
7. Senators Introduce a Bill Requiring Immigration Agents To Show Their Faces
8. As Political Violence Surges, Trump Shuts Down A Top Prevention Program

• The Real News Network 
1. The Missiles Represented Hope’: Palestinians In Gaza React To Iran bombing Israel
2. These Cuts Are Death Sentences’: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Passes Senate
3. ‘There Were Massive Revolts’: The History Of The 1970 Kent State Massacre You Haven’t Heard
4. Democrat Elites Try To Destroy Zohran Mamdani’s Chance At NYC Mayor—Will They Succeed?
5. ‘Call Amy!’: Lawyer For Mahmoud Khalil Reveals How He Won His Freedom
6. Corporate Media Is Trying To Take Down Mamdani. This Is Why They’re Failing
7. Outrage Pours In After House GOP Approves ‘One Of The Most Catastrophic Bills Passed In Modern History’

• Socialist Worker 
1. Labour Minister Backs Wars In Middle East—And Crackdown On People Fleeing Them
2. Resist Crackdown On Palestine Movement
3. Israeli Forces Intensify Their Assaults On Gaza Amid Ceasefire Talks
4. Palestine Protesters Show Solidarity With Ben Jamal And Chris Nineham
5. Corbyn Sets Out Need For ‘Independent Political Voice’ At Marxism Festival

• ZNetwork 
1. A Communist Wins the Left Primary in Chile and Prepares to Battle the Right in the Presidential Election in November
2. Profiting From Genocide
3. Social Self-Defense: From Protest To Contest
4. The Rage Of Billionaires And The Frenzy To Stop Zohran Mamdani From Becoming New York’s Mayor
5. The Oligarchs’ Big Prize In Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill
6. How To Make The Fossil Fuel Powers “Stranded Assets”
7. Sovereignty Or Supremacy?
8. Can Israel Survive Without The West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power

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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