Views From The Left For August 13, 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. 5 Ways 'Parasite-In-Chief' Trump Is Turning America Into A 'Pale Lifeless Husk': Analyst
2. '1929 All Over Again': Trump Warns Of New 'Great Depression' If Judges Overturn Tariffs
3. 'Walking A Tightrope': Here's What The Smithsonian Now Says About Trump's 2nd Impeachment
4. 'Grim': Top Economist Says Americans In For A 'Nasty Shock' On Inflation Thanks To Trump 

• Common Dreams 
1. 'Cowards': Ramirez Hits Back At Republicans Who Threatened Her With Deportation
2. Texas AG Paxton Files 'Baseless' Lawsuit To Unseat 13 Democratic State Lawmakers
3. 'Kleptocracy In Action': Bernie Sanders Hammers Apple For Swaying Trump With 'Gold Statue'
4. In Swipe At UK, Huckabee Cites Allied Bombing Of Dresden To Defend Israel's Gaza Genocide
5. 'Horrifying Escalation': Global Outcry As Israeli Cabinet Approves Military Takeover Of Gaza City

• Democracy at Work 
1. Capitalism Hits Home: Epstein — A Marriage Of Capitalist Corruption And Misogyny
2. Economic Update: Best Of Series Part 2: The Most Viewed Updates

• Democracy Now
1. “They Poisoned The World”: The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS, “Forever Chemicals”
2. Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: Victims Want “Accountability & Justice,” Not Political Grandstanding
3. “War In Perpetuity”: M. Gessen Warns Putin Won’t Make Peace With Ukraine Because It Risks His Own Survival
4. From India To Brazil, Trump Intensifies Trade War Against BRICS Nations As New Tariffs Take Effect
5. “Tightening The Chokehold”: Amjad Iraqi On Israel’s Plans To “Empty Out” Gaza And Annex West Bank

• Jacobin 
1. Gaza Exposes The Bankruptcy Of Western Liberalism
2. How The UAW Became The First Big Union To Back Zohran Mamdani
3. The Iraq War Playbook, Now For Iran
4. Childcare Is Not Just An Economic Fix. It’s A Social Good
5. Democrats’ Gerrymandering Flip-Flop Erodes Their Credibility

• Mother Jones
1. Why Evangelicals Couldn’t Care Less About Trump’s Epstein Scandal
2. “It’s Not Just A Texas Problem. It’s An American Problem.”
3. Relentless Climate Disasters Are Wiping Out Local Businesses
4. “What They Did There Was Torture Us”
5. A Doctor In Gaza Describes The Horror Of Starvation
6. The Nation’s Landmark Voting Rights Law Just Turned 60. It May Not Survive Trump

• The Real News Network 
1. Leaked Drafts Show Trump Administration Scrubbing Out Human Rights Violations Of Favored Nations
2. Corporations And The Government Are Turning The USA Into One Giant ‘Sacrifice Zone’
3. 80 Years After Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Are We On The Verge Of Another Nuclear War?
4. Anti-Immigrant Agenda Means ‘Unprecedented Growth Opportunities’ For Geo Group
5. Top US Firm Modeled Economic Scenario for Relocating Palestinians From Gaza

• Socialist Worker 
1. Tube Workers Facing Deportation Will Fight State Racism
2. Hundreds Of British Jews Slam Labour’s Ban Of Palestine Action
3. Defend Our Juries Will Defy State Ban
4. Leading Figures Call To End The Ban On Palestine Action
5. Don’t Forget The Horror Of Hiroshima

• ZNetwork 
1. The Verdict Of History: How Political Calculations Betrayed Gaza
2. Fast Food Nation Revisited: Vietnamese Immigrant Writes About Low-Wage Work In U.S.
3. The Trump Death Cult, Part 2
4. More About AI? This Is Getting Serious
5. The Hidden Cost Of Integrity: Environmental Commitment In The Global South

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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