Views From The Left For August 6, 2026

 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. 'Huge Political Issue': Workers Outraged As 'Fine Print' Excludes Them From Trump Tax Cut
2. Here's Why This GOP Senator Is Blocking Trump's Pick For Top Military Leadership Position
3. Trump Administration 'Beaten Up Badly' By Judges Doubting His 'Unbounded Power' Over Trade
4. 'Full Decade Of Minority Rule': Analyst Reveals How GOP Aims To 'Erase Democratic Power'
5. 'We Have To Bring Back Joe McCarthy': Fox Host Rages At 'Communist' NYC Mayoral Candidate
6. Economist Robert Reich: Trump Destroying America’s 'Credibility'
7. 'Why Is This So Hard For People?' Ex-RNC Head Tears Into 'Wholly Incompetent' Trump Admin
8. Trump Gets Dire Warning About MAGA 'Insurrection' If He Pardons Epstein Co-Conspirator

• Common Dreams 
1. Report Shows 'Financial Insecurity Is Widespread And Runs Deep' In Trump Economy
2. DOGE Wasted Tens Of Billions While Chainsawing The Government In The Name Of 'Efficiency': Senate Report
3. Deluded Don’s Climate Con
4. Jewish Safety And The Weaponization Of Antisemitism
5. ​Why Is So Much Of Corporate Media Caving To Trump?
6. Jewish-Led Protest Outside Trump Hotel Demands End To US Support For Gaza Genocide
7. Texas House Orders Arrest Of Dem Lawmakers Who Left State To Block GOP Gerrymandering
8. Senior Netanyahu Official: 'We Are Moving To Occupy' Entire Gaza Strip
9. The US Must Understand: The Story Of The Gaza Genocide Did Not Begin On October 7

• Democracy at Work 
1. Economic Update: Best Of Series Part 1: Psychology & Trump
2. Dialectic At Work: Marx: The Business Analyst

• Democracy Now
1. UNRWA Rep Slams “Disaster” Of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Says Aid Must Flow Without Restrictions
2. NY Doctor Just Back From Gaza: Starvation Is Widespread & Undeniable, Despite Israeli PM Claims
3. As Canada, U.K. & France Move To Recognize Palestine, Two-State Solution Remains Taboo Inside Israel
4. 60 Years After LBJ Signed Medicaid & Medicare, GOP Cuts Threaten Lifeline For Millions
5. “The Most Peaceful Man”: West Bank Mourns Odeh Hadalin, Palestinian Activist Killed By Israeli Settler
6. “It Is Our War”: Palestinian American Scholar Rashid Khalidi On U.S. Complicity In Gaza Genocide
7. “A Danger To The Entire Planet”: Amid Deadly Extreme Weather, Trump’s EPA Rejects Climate Science
8. “Unprecedented Power Grab”: Trump & Texas Try To Create 5 More GOP House Seats With New Gerrymander

• Jacobin 
1. German Rearmament Is A Terrible Idea
2. Trump’s SEC Chair Has Scored A Massive Tax Break
3. The Marxism Of Mike Davis
4. The Crypto State
5. DC Voted To Raise Wages. The Restaurant Lobby Said No
6. Belgium’s Arrest Of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment
7. The Big Tech Lobby Has The DOJ In A Stranglehold
8. Trust In The Demos Isn’t Naive — It’s Empirical

• Mother Jones
1. How A Nazi-Obsessed Amateur Historian Went From Obscurity To The Top Of Substack
2. “It’s Abhorrent”: A Whistleblower Contractor Speaks Out As Gaza’s Famine Spreads
3. RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Is On A Collision Course With Trump’s EPA
4. Congressional Dems Sue After Being Turned Away From ICE Facilities
5. Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging A New War On Democracy
6. Brazil’s Key MAGA Ally Linked To Massive Fraud Scheme Involving Jailed Chinese Billionaire
7. Far-Right Militias Adored The Constitution. Then Came Trump
8. Donald Trump And The Deconstruction Of America

• The Real News Network 
1. These Ancient Ruins Prove Our World Today Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
2. How Israel Became The Symbol Of Brazil’s Evangelical And Far-Right Movements
3. America Is Built On Prison Labor. When Will The Labor Movement Defend Prisoners?
4. Latinos In Baltimore Are Living In Fear: ‘I Can Be Stopped Just Because Of My Accent’
5. Israel Is Changing The Legal System Governing The West Bank To Accelerate Annexation: Report
6. 12 Years For Words? Cop Watchers Address The Sentencing Of Controversial Activist Eric Brandt
7. He’s Worked In The US For 30 Years—Then Masked Ice Agents Beat And Kidnapped Him In Broad Daylight

• Socialist Worker 
1. The Battle Is Won—But Not The War
2. Western Leaders Offer False Promises To Palestine
3. Can The Greens Be A Radical Alternative?
4. Can We Reset Our Relationship With Nature?
5. Government Fuels Forest Fires In Greece
6. Sydney Harbour Bridge March Defies Repression Of Palestine Movement
7. Defence Industry Workers At Boeing Start Strike After Rejecting 20 Percent Offer
8. Racism And Oppression: Different Experiences, Same Fight

• ZNetwork 
1. Kathy Kelly On Afghanistan And Gaza
2. Nixon And Watergate, Trump And The Epstein Crisis
3. Europe Shows Yet Again That It Lacks A Backbone To Stand Up To Trump
4. ‘Moral Injury’: Murdered In Gaza, Disappeared In America
5. The Nightmare In Gaza
6. Critical Mass Achieved: Why The World Can No Longer Ignore Palestine

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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