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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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More than half of Miami-Dade residents struggling to get by, according to report - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
MIAMI (WSVN) - A new report from United Way Miami says more than half of residents across Miami-Dade County are struggling to afford their monthly<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/ne...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension
The Walt Disney Company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Death of the Holocaust Industry
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Death of the Holocaust Industry - Read by Eunice Wong
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Baseline Communism www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Universal Benefits Are Actually Cheaper Than Means-Tested Ones
The argument that means-tested welfare programs reduce inequality and poverty more than non-means-tested programs is based on an accounting trick. Universal benefits are the best and cheapest way to a...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Chris Hedges Confronts the N.J. State Assembly on Dangerous Antisemitism Bill open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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Chris Hedges Confronts the N.J. State Assembly on Dangerous Antisemitism Bill
The bill would accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of the state of Israel and Zionism with antisemitism.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p...
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How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty
Episode 2594: The Religious Origins of Money from Temple Scribes to Bitcoin
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Healthcare Workers Stand Strong 11 Days Into Open-Ended Strike - PopularResistance.Org
Duluth, MN – On Friday, July 19, striking workers were on the picket line at Essentia Health, Duluth Clinic 2nd Street. Friday marked the 11th day of an open-ended strike by around 700 Registered Nurs...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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New Report: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes
A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on key issues and how they differ from wealthier Americans. The message is clear: economic p...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Michael Hudson: How the Global Majority can free itself from US financial colonialism - Geopolitical Economy Report
Economist Michael Hudson: China created alternative to Western neoliberal order, how Global South can challenge rent extraction of US financial colonialism.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Bitcoin hits $120,000: A fever chart of the capitalist crisis
Legislation now going through the House of Representatives has the aim of drawing billions of dollars more into the Ponzi scheme, which is the crypto market, as Bitcoin hit $120,000.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Against the Logic of the Guillotine
Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Rojava’s economic vision and cooperative model under self-governance - I
The Rojava Revolution, which began in Kobanê on 19 July 2012 and later spread across all of Northern and Eastern Syria, is now in its thirteenth year and continues to draw attention with its econom...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Zohran Mamdani, a political response to Donald Trump’s country
If New York City elects the winner of the Democratic primary as mayor in November, it will do something even more necessary than choosing a politician with progressive credentials. It will demonstrate...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Township Rebellion: The Zapatista Movement, Three Decades Later
This piece assesses the future of the Zapatista movement in the context of crises that threaten to alter the fabric of Mexican politics—thirty years after the EZLN uprising and over a century after th...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Weapons of Capitalism | Countercurrents
The dominant narratives around the invincibility of capitalism continue to undermine all other available alternatives by employing various tools and strategies of governance that domesticate not only…
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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America’s Brutal Capitalist Class Tamed Its Labor Movement
Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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The quiet violence of peace deals
Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
As the Bombing of Iran Took Center Stage, Israeli Forces Deployed Deeper Into the Occupied West Bank www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-...
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As the Bombing of Iran Took Center Stage, Israeli Forces Deployed Deeper Into the Occupied West Bank
"They are dealing with the West Bank as if the war is right here."
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Trump sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese are illegal and represent further U.S. complicity in genocide mondoweiss.net/2025/07/trum...
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Trump sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese are illegal and represent further U.S. complicity in genocide
The Trump administration’s sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese show how far the U.S. is willing to go to ensure impunity for Israel as it commits genocide.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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The rise, rise and rise of capitalism (XXVII) - The Nation Newspaper
The Nation Newspaper The rise, rise and rise of capitalism (XXVII)
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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Inequality has risen from 1970 to Trump − that has 3 hidden costs that undermine democracy
The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the social fabric as well as the economy.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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How Unequal Exchange Shapes Our World - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Jason Hickel on the persistent inequalities of the post-colonial order
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
A Different Revolution consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/a...
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A Different Revolution
There were two original sins that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin. By Ace Thelin Special to  Consortium News  It...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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The “Magabundance” Agenda Is Creating Strange Bedfellows
Supply-side progressivism is forging unexpected alliances between populist Democrats, business-friendly centrists, and MAGA Republicans around militarized growth. The result is a post-neoliberal polit...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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The Radical Past and Future of Christian Zionism
When supporting Israel is a matter of religious faith.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Donald Trump’s big, beautiful mess
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Profiting From Genocide open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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Profiting From Genocide
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Iran: The Things It Won’t Do to Say www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...
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Iran: The Things It Won’t Do to Say | Common Dreams
If Thomas Friedman’s fairytale world of light-versus-darkness were to evaporate, less noble motives for U.S. and Israeli actions might be revealed.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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US Approves $510 Million Arms Deal for Israel - News From Antiwar.com
The Trump administration has approved a new arms deal for Israel that will provide the country with $510 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS), kits that turn bombs into precision-gui...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Senate advances Trump plan to gut social programs to benefit the super-rich
A 51-49 near-party line vote opened debate on a so-called “reconciliation” bill that will extend Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy while cutting more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and food stamps.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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What the Supreme Court Ruling Against ‘Universal Injunctions’ Means for Court Challenges to Presidential Actions
The Supreme Court just made it harder for judges to block presidential policies nationwide, but lawmakers hold the key to changing that.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Thousands protest at Paris Air Show over Israeli participation mondoweiss.net/2025/06/thou...
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Thousands protest at Paris Air Show over Israeli participation
Demonstrators marched against the arms trade on the final days of the 55th edition of the major aerospace exhibition. The protests called for a boycott of Israel and an end to the arms trade.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Protest Ramstein Air Base: 'Young And Old Will Suffer The Consequences' - PopularResistance.Org
With the slogan "Stop Ramstein Air Base," the anti-war movement will protest against the US's war-making this Saturday. What is the reason for this rally against the military base near Kaiserslautern?...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want? - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
In this lecture, Alperovitz starts to formulate a response to the simple yet unnerving question: "what do you want?" He argues that the decay of the labor movement in the United States calls for new f...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
NATO's 5% Pledge: An Obscene Betrayal of Global Needs www.commondreams.org/opinion/nato...
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NATO's 5% Pledge: An Obscene Betrayal of Global Needs | Common Dreams
Presented as a historic step, in truth this increased level of military spending represents a major step backwards for humanity and the common good.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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What Mamdani’s Win Can (and Can’t) Teach Us
Zohran Mamdani’s astounding triumph shows the power of bread-and-butter economics and the bankruptcy of the Democratic establishment. But how many of its lessons can be applied nationally?
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
After The National Day of Action for Single Payer, the Best Defense Is a Good Offense www.commondreams.org/opinion/day-...
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After The National Day of Action for Single Payer, the Best Defense Is a Good Offense | Common Dreams
To eliminate impending Medicaid cuts and other threats to coverage, enact a national, single-payer healthcare system free from all profit, including in the provisioning of care.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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After National Day Of Action For Single Payer; Best Defense Is A Good Offense - PopularResistance.Org
Activists on May 31 made bold demands, refusing to believe the wealthiest country should have a separate healthcare system for the poor, or that we should wait until we are 65 to access a public healt...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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fightbacknews.org
Breakthru Beverages strike enters third week
Tampa, FL - The picket line outside the Breakthru Beverages warehouse near Tampa, Florida stood strong Monday, June 23, despite intense...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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An Illegal and Indefensible Attack
War propaganda never changes, no matter who the enemy of the day is. But the facts are clear: the attack on Iran was illegal and wrong. Trump should be expelled from office over this.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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syracuse.com
Medicaid cuts will devastate NY’s rural hospitals (Your Letters)
These already fragile hospitals serve a captive population and are often the largest employers in their communities, writes retired healthcare consultant.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Total razing of Khuza’a further evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Amnesty International’s analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza’a in the southern occupied Gaza S...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Israel ’disappeared’ 377,000 people in Gaza, half are children
Over 377,000 people, half of them children, are missing in Gaza since Oct 2023, says Harvard-linked report, pointing to a far higher death toll than reported.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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The US Started Both the Old and New Cold Wars
In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the US desire for global dominance was responsible for the Cold War — and why the United States is inflaming new rivalries with Russia and Chi...
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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“They’re Using Megaphones”
In the first issue of The Drift, we kicked off our interview series with Wendy Brown, one of the foremost political theorists in the United States.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Grassroots Assemblies Empower People to Fight Back Against Trump&#8217;s Agenda truthout.org/articles/gra...
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Grassroots Assemblies Empower People to Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda
People’s assemblies across the country are committed to building people’s power beyond the electoral system.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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The Return of Shameless Shareholder Capitalism
Christopher Marquis thinks the US Business Roundtable's April report should serve as a wake-up call to Democratic lawmakers.
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william pettus @wspettus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
NYT Gave Green Light to Trump's Iran Attack by Treating It as a Question of When - fair.org/home/nyt-gav...
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NYT Gave Green Light to Trump’s Iran Attack by Treating It as a Question of When
The ultimate goal of the New York Times editorial was to promote the idea that war with Iran could potentially be desirable—and certainly justifiable.
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