Archive: 11/2013
2013-11-01
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Romanian trade unions support destruction of health care
- On the death of literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013): A passionate advocate of literature—Part 2
- UK’s Privy Council used to steamroller press regulation
- Obamacare and the “crisis” of an aging population
- Pennsylvania governor seeks to cut Medicaid benefits
- NSA affair strains German-US relations
- Bill Keller defends role of New York Times in concealing government crimes
- Czech legislative elections result in new political impasse
- US budget conference committee meets to slash social spending
- Australia: Sweeping security powers for G20 summit in Queensland
- Australian car workers confront plant closures, job losses
- US, Australia face backlash over spy operations in Asia
- FBI “Suspicious Activity Reports” target political dissent
2013-11-02
- Australia: Winmalee fire survivors told authorities about power line dangers
- New threats against the Guardian newspaper and Snowden in Westminster debate
- UK lecturers and academic staff stage one-day national strike
- Blind Dates from Georgia and Nobody’s Home from Turkey
- Israeli warplanes strike targets inside Syria
- Edward Snowden ready to provide testimony in Germany
- Detroit workers denounce food stamp cuts
- Right-wing campaign against Roma spreads across Europe
- The political implications of the NSA exposures
- US appeals court blocks order against NYPD stop-and-frisk
- US House subcommittee escalates war rhetoric against China
- German Left Party reacts to NSA spying scandal with call for stronger secret services
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US attacks Germany’s economic policies
- European unemployment hits new high
- Global financial system may be heading for another 2008
- Letters from our readers
- Fresh revelations of Canada’s role in NSA’s global spying network
- Argentina’s ruling party suffers losses in congressional election
2013-11-04
- This week in history: November 4-10
- Plans for Geneva II talks on Syria in disarray
- Australia: Government and Labor boast of stopping refugee boats
- Inequality and the political vacuum in the United States
- US drone attack kills Taliban leader in Pakistan
- US, UK governments defend police-state spying
- Los Angeles area residents speak out against food stamp cuts
- Kerry begins Middle East tour with visit to back Egyptian military junta
- Obama holds security talks with Iraqi premier Maliki
- Geneva talks to restart on Iran’s nuclear program
- News of the World phone-hacking trial begins in UK
- European agencies, NSA collaborate on mass spying against European population
- For a Workers Inquiry into the Attack on the DIA and the Bankruptcy of Detroit!
- Australia: Further turmoil threatened over carbon tax repeal
2013-11-05
- UK’s Supreme Court legitimises compulsory workfare
- New report condemns US medical professionals’ role in torture
- UAW bids to set up company union at Tennessee Volkswagen plant
- UK teaching unions call off strike action
- German media, political parties debate granting Snowden asylum
- UK probation officers vote to strike
- Australian spy agencies central to NSA’s “pivot to Asia”
- Obama administration knew insurance companies would drop millions of customers
- Socialist Alternative boasts of Democratic Party, union support in Minneapolis City Council election
- Amid protests, Egyptian court suspends trial of ousted President Mursi
- Detroit Bankruptcy at center of National Bankruptcy Judges conference
- Australian government considers blocking return of Syrian fighters
- Chicago mayor outlines class war budget
- Breton food processing workers, businesses protest French eco-tax
- Emergency Manager Orr to Detroit pensioners: Your “rights are in bankruptcy now”
2013-11-06
- Obama administration pledges to continue illegal spying programs
- Food stamp cuts devastate New York City’s poor
- New York Times: Treat high medical costs as a “serious side effect”
- SAC Capital fined less than one year’s earnings for “pervasive and unprecedented” insider trading
- Mass protests in Portugal against new budget cuts
- Philippine political opposition deepens as Beijing-Manila relations sour
- The NSA spy scandal and the attack on press freedom
- Iranians protest en masse against US aggression
- Greek parliament ends state funding for Golden Dawn
- Golden Dawn supporters killed in drive-by shooting in Greece
- US government exempts new health exchanges from anti-fraud standards
- US study details destruction of labor rights in wake of the 2008 financial crisis
- Split result in US off-year elections
- Former Michigan state treasurer testifies in Detroit bankruptcy trial
- China and Japan hold rival military exercises
- Costa Gavras’s Capital: A critique of “cowboy capitalism”
- NSA spying revelations exacerbate Australian-Indonesian tensions
2013-11-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Administrators demand additional fee hikes in British universities
- Right-wing populist Toronto mayor tries to ride out burgeoning scandal
- New Australian Labor Party leader—a valued enforcer for big business
- The Democratic victory in New York and the crisis of liberalism
- Pennsylvania budget starves higher education
- Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises: Blocking out the rest of the world
- Socialism, Historical Truth and the Crisis of Political Thought in the United States
- London house prices continue inexorable rise
- Italian government crisis remains unresolved
- Greece: Tens of thousands of workers protest against the Troika
- German trade unions push for grand coalition and warn against excessive social spending
- Euro zone officials: No let-up in economic stagnation, mass unemployment
- David Hicks seeks to overturn Guantánamo “terrorism” conviction
- Wayne State University students speak on Detroit bankruptcy
- Los Angeles airport shooting prompts calls for further militarization of airport security
2013-11-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- EU in tug of war with Russia over Ukraine
- UK intelligence defends mass surveillance as Britain is accused of spying on Germany
- Australian election outcome heads for the High Court
- Philippine Senate holds hearing on corruption scandal
- The HealthCare.gov debacle and the fraud of Obamacare
- School District of Philadelphia considers selling off artwork to cut deficit
- CIA pays AT&T to spy on phone data
- Officials signal possible deal in Geneva on Iran’s nuclear program
- Homeland, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: US television increasingly jettisons democratic rights
- U.S. Steel ends iron and steel production at Hamilton, Ontario mill
- Evidence presented against former editors Coulson and Brooks in News of the World trial
- Upsurge of strikes and popular anger in France at mass sackings, tax hikes
- California: Food stamp recipients speak about cuts
- Corporate cost-cutter Mike Duggan elected Detroit mayor
- Chinese Communist Party plenum to unveil “free market” blueprint
- Indo-Pakistani relations fraught after months of border skirmishes
- Governor’s chief operative takes stand in final day of testimony in Detroit bankruptcy trial
- Tests show Yasser Arafat was poisoned with polonium
- Secret report foreshadows closure of Australian car industry
2013-11-09
- Persecution of Roma stepped up after “blond angel” child trafficking allegations
- Widespread child poverty in Germany
- Record typhoon Haiyan hits central Philippines
- The SAC insider trading case and the US financial aristocracy
- Obama touts health care bill in mea culpa over dropped policies
- David Miranda challenges his detention under Terrorism Act at High Court
- Coal miner killed in southern Illinois
- Cholera spreads beyond Haiti as Mexico suffers devastating floods
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australia: Unemployment rises as major companies axe jobs
- Geneva talks on Iran’s nuclear programs extended
- Anger in Indonesia over low wage increases
- Indian Stalinists invoke Hindu-communalist threat
- Nearly one in five hit by food stamp cuts in Michigan
- New study estimates billions of Earth-sized planets orbiting Sun-like stars in the Milky Way galaxy
- Irish unions complete sellout of Dublin Bus workers
- Closing arguments heard in Detroit bankruptcy case
2013-11-11
- This week in history: November 11-17
- Chrysler workers speak on inquiry into Detroit bankruptcy
- Unarmed Iowa teenager fatally shot by police
- Referendum in Switzerland to place upper limit on salaries
- At least 10,000 dead in Philippine typhoon
- Wealth of world’s billionaires doubles since 2009
- France seizes on murder of RFI journalists to intensify Mali war
- International talks stall on Iran’s nuclear program
- Australian treasurer warns of spending cuts, declining living standards
- Greek police storm ERT broadcasting centre to end workers’ occupation
- Pseudo-left groups cover for a rout engineered by Britain’s unions
- Australia: Public housing tenants face evictions
- Thousands of layoffs expected with closure of Chicago supermarket chain
- Detroit Unleaded: “This is the American Dream?”
- Royal Marine convicted of Afghan murder
2013-11-12
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- UK: Campaign for “living wage” conceals falling pay rates
- US Navy intelligence chiefs suspended as bribery scandal spreads
- Snowden revelations lead to decline in support for US in Germany
- Romanian teachers protest austerity policies
- Refugee standoff heightens Australian-Indonesian tensions
- British unions deepen collaboration with glassmaker Pilkington over job losses
- Military curfew imposed as humanitarian crisis engulfs Philippines
- Obamacare lies exposed
- South Korean government demands dissolution of opposition party
- Food stamp cuts in US overwhelm anti-hunger agencies
- Letters from our readers
- US Boeing workers rebel against Machinist union’s sellout contract
- US think tank report: Australia central to American war plans against China
2013-11-13
- A who’s who of the conspirators behind the Detroit bankruptcy
- “Too trapped in a war to be at peace”—the suicide of Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers
- British MP presses for criminal charges against the Guardian newspaper
- BAE Systems shipyard closures in UK threaten nearly 2,000 jobs
- Migrant workers clash with Saudi police amid mass deportation raids
- Portland school board threatens to break looming teachers strike
- A pittance in international aid for Philippine typhoon victims
- The social catastrophe of Typhoon Haiyan
- Enrollment figures underscore Obamacare debacle
- New Zealand pseudo-lefts promote new Labour leader
- Australian business chief demands wage cutting and budget slashing
- Nazi looted art works discovered in Munich
- 75 years since the Kristallnacht pogrom in Nazi Germany
- Cuts to federal food assistance hit Illinois workers
- Reject blackmail by the IAM, Boeing and Democrats!
- For Grynszpan
- Vote of no confidence in Greek government fails
- Chinese Communist Party unveils pro-market “Reform 2.0”
- The significance of British comedian Russell Brand’s call for revolution
2013-11-14
- North Carolina man charged with seeking to join US-backed Syrian opposition
- Madrid garbage collectors strike against lay-offs and wage cuts
- Québec Solidaire lends legitimacy to PQ’s chauvinist Charter
- Portuguese public sector workers strike
- Millions face desperate plight in Philippines
- The Detroit bankruptcy trial
- Unions and Labour Party back New Zealand Post job cuts
- New evidence points to German secret service collaboration with far-right NSU
- New Delhi downplays evidence of extensive NSA spying targeting India
- Obama administration approves merger of airline giants
- Letters from our readers
- UK Prime Minister David Cameron proclaims austerity cuts to be “permanent”
- Detroit’s Belle Isle to be leased to state, ending free access
- Avery County, I’m Bound to You by Barton Carroll: Coming to terms with one’s roots
2013-11-15
- Nominee to head US Federal Reserve reassures Wall Street in Senate testimony
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Boston bombing suspect Tsarnaev’s lawyers protest conditions of his detention
- Western-backed opposition agrees to talks amid defeats in Syria
- Climate scientists warn of more super-typhoons
- The workers’ rebellion at Boeing
- Obama proposes “fix” to pro-corporate health care overhaul
- Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2: Unfortunately, a return to more of the same
- Afghan insurgency leader assassinated in Islamabad
- Firm evicting elderly and disabled from downtown Detroit awarded tax abatement
- What lies behind the drawn-out coalition talks in Germany?
- Europe tilts back towards recession
- Australian debt ceiling conflict a pretext for “massive cuts”
- Canada’s Conservative government targets federal workers’ basic rights
- Boston school bus drivers need new strategy to fight company attacks
- Boeing workers decisively reject sellout contract
- UK Royal Academy of Arts curator opposes sale of Detroit Institute of Arts artwork
2013-11-16
- Die Zeit editor condemns “German pacifism”
- The Rocket: Modest but sympathetic tale about Laotian villagers
- Twelve more migrants die off Greek coast
- UK rail unions deepen collaboration in government transport cuts
- Mounting anger at Philippine president’s response to typhoon disaster
- The assassination of Yasser Arafat
- Dozens of Democrats back Republican anti-Obamacare bill
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s new state secrecy law
- Warning of war, Obama administration presses for talks with Iran
- Contract worker killed, two others injured at Indiana steel works
- Australian car workers strike over treatment of sacked colleagues
- Water and Sewerage Department employees support Detroit Workers Inquiry
- Cuba to eliminate dual-currency system
- Letters from our readers
2013-11-18
- Unrestrained jingoism to characterise UK’s marking of World War I anniversary
- This week in history: November 18-24
- US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in union “neutrality agreements” case
- Two firms selected to privatize Detroit trash collection
- Former Australian PM Rudd quits parliament
- Philippine typhoon victims desperate for aid
- Global deflation, slowing growth fuel economic tensions
- Staggering out-of-pocket costs shock consumers on Obamacare exchanges
- US Defense Contractor Lockheed Martin to close facilities, lay off 4,000 workers
- Washington’s puppet regime in Libya teeters on the brink
- US sequester cuts cause 185,000 families to lose housing assistance
- Irish hospitals warn that spending cuts threaten “quality and safety”
- The SPD party congress and the Left Party
- Billionaire head of SAC Capital prunes his art collection
- Commonwealth summit heightens Western pressure on Rajapakse government
- Mississippi refinery worker killed in explosion
- Brazil’s pseudo-lefts maneuver toward electoral front
2013-11-19
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Far-right parties forge alliance for the European elections
- Sri Lankan SEP announces workers’ inquiry into Weliweriya water pollution
- Deadly storm system hits multiple US states
- 50 dead in plane crash in Russia
- Britain accused of collusion in torture in Somalia
- 150 years since Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
- New Ocean from musician Jake Bellows
- New Zealand-US military exercise rehearses for Pacific war
- US Census: Mobility among young adults at 50-year low
- Two dead, 20 injured in Colorado mining accident
- UK public meetings: Defend Edward Snowden! Oppose Britain’s surveillance state!
- Manhunt in Paris after gunman wounds photographer at Libération offices
- Evolutionary links between the development of language and stone tool technology
- Berlusconi’s party splits in Italy
- Australian spying on Indonesian president provokes diplomatic storm
- Egypt, Russia discuss closer military cooperation
- Detroit Teenager in critical condition from shock from downed power line
- Dow hits new record amid deepening world slump
- A who’s who of the conspirators behind the Detroit bankruptcy: Part two
- Letters from our readers
- Australian PM defends torture, hails Sri Lankan regime
2013-11-20
- Venezuelan legislature grants president power to rule by decree
- Detroit sanitation workers denounce privatization
- Socialist Alternative candidate wins in Seattle City Council election
- US military build-up continues in Philippine disaster zone
- Obamacare exposed: The gutting of health care for workers
- Norwegian government targets immigrants and asylum seekers
- US government lets JPMorgan off the hook for mortgage fraud
- Unions end Madrid cleaners’ strike
- Cuts to legal aid deny hundreds of thousands access to justice in the UK
- Indonesian president threatens “strategic partnership” with US-Australia over spying affair
- US imperialism returns to the scene of a crime
- Greek government threatens university employees with martial law
- A new film version of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations: “Those wretched hankerings after money and gentility”
- Germany: New evidence incriminates the police in death of African refugee
- Protests intensify in Bangladesh after police kill two garment workers
- China creates new National Security Committee
- Terrorist attack at Iranian embassy in Lebanon kills 23, wounds 140
- Mass conviction of 2009 Bangladesh mutineers
2013-11-21
- European youth unemployment: “A public health time bomb waiting to explode”
- German energy firm RWE to cut 6,700 jobs
- Former UK Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett’s anti-Roma rant
- Philippine Supreme Court declares legislative pork barrel funds unconstitutional
- The US military and the Philippines
- The role of Germany’s Left Party in the coalition negotiations
- Geneva talks on Iran resume while war threat remains
- Indonesia suspends military cooperation with Australia over US-Australian spying
- Stratfor hacker sentenced to ten years in prison
- Pupil support assistants strike against Glasgow City Council
- Geithner moves from US Treasury to Wall Street
- Detroit bankruptcy forum backs attacks on pensions, DIA art
- Directors threaten to reject California transit workers’ contract
2013-11-22
- Australian government unveils tougher anti-strike laws
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Unions spearhead assault on Scottish teachers
- A half-century since the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- German union seals shutdown of GM-Opel’s Bochum plant
- New York Times mourns death of Al Qaeda-linked Syrian opposition fighter
- University of California health care workers hold statewide strike
- Canada’s elite eulogizes union boss Jack Munro
- David Walsh’s The Sky Between the Leaves
- French authorities arrest suspected gunman in shooting at Libération newspaper offices
- Indonesian protests over Australia spying revelations
- In Israel, French President Hollande takes bellicose stance against Iran
- US Congress moves to legalize unconstitutional surveillance programs
- US Senate limits filibuster power
- New report exposes lies used to justify Detroit bankruptcy
- London Mayor Boris Johnson’s paean to the super-rich
- US aircraft manufacturer renews job threats
- Pact provides for permanent US occupation of Afghanistan
- US Supreme Court refuses to block Texas anti-abortion law, declines to hear NSA surveillance case
2013-11-23
- Tribune Company announces 700 layoffs
- Notes on the social crisis in America
- Sri Lankan SEP rejects Frontline Socialist Party invitation for a “dialogue of lefts”
- American think tank envisages blockading China with missiles
- The rise of Europe’s far right
- US expands its drone war on Pakistan
- OECD report: US life expectancy below international average
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Job losses mount in UK
- General Electric rejects union concessions and announces closure of upstate New York plant
- German Grand coalition government is planning austerity budget
- French petty-bourgeois “left” silent on NSA spying scandal
- Detroit emergency manager hands tens of millions of dollars to consulting firms
- Letters from our readers
- China releases sweeping market reform blueprint
- Hidden-camera footage shows police attempt to spy on UK students
- The 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Benjamin Britten
- Grand coalition in Austria plans major spending cuts
- Secret minutes of Argentine military junta found
2013-11-25
- UK Socialist Party mounts its defence of the union bureaucracy
- This week in history: November 25-December 1
- Teamsters push through cuts in pensions for workers at New York supermarket chain
- Alabama posthumously pardons Scottsboro Boys
- German chancellor demands deeper spending cuts as Greek prime minister visits Berlin
- Mehring Books launches 2013 holiday sale
- The 16,000 Dow
- Latvia: At least 54 dead in supermarket collapse
- Interim agreement reached on Iran’s nuclear programs
- Australian officials, economists warn of declining living standards
- UK government moves to clamp down on Internet, citing child pornography
- US prescription drug overdoses quadruple over last decade
- Students, retirees campaign for workers’ inquiry into Detroit bankruptcy
- Dallas Buyers Club: A “cowboy” style of fighting the authorities
- Climate conference ends with UN admission of failure
- China announces “air defence identification zone” in East China Sea
- Australian public broadcaster threatened over Indonesia spying revelations
2013-11-26
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Anti-government protests erupt in Thailand
- Workers protest closure of Spanish cooperative Fagor
- Heightened tensions over China’s air defence zone
- Oxyana highlights prescription drug epidemic in Appalachia
- Obamacare: Nearly a million Californians receive cancellation letters
- NSA strategy document envisions unrestrained global surveillance
- University of Michigan lays off hundreds
- Man charged in killing of 19-year old Detroit resident Renisha McBride
- Momentum builds around US nuclear deal with Iran
- Both sides claim victory in Honduran election
- Japan: Fuel removal begins at stricken nuclear plant
- France: The fraud of Mélenchon’s “Fiscal Revolution”
- Detroit middle schooler dies after being electrocuted by downed power line
- Letters from our readers
- Chile’s former president set to win second-round election
- Obama administration defends NSA against civil liberties lawsuit
2013-11-27
- A who’s who of the conspirators behind the Detroit bankruptcy: Part three
- Ukraine abandons plans for closer ties to the European Union
- Turkey giveaway draws hundreds in southwest Detroit
- Washington uses typhoon aid to push for Philippine military bases
- US ultimatum on permanent occupation of Afghanistan
- California teachers’ pensions sink further into debt
- Obamacare: Employers to cancel plans for millions, shift costs to workers
- Workers at Irish state energy firm vote for strike in pensions dispute
- Indonesia maintains suspended relations with Australia as spying allegations widen
- Australian government moves to gut public education funding
- Egyptian military junta issues anti-protest law
- Cost of UK home ownership pushing people over the edge
- Will The Hunger Games: Catching Fire “stir up” revolution?
- France threatens military intervention in the Central African Republic
- The political implications of the NSA spying revelations
- BART Board of Directors unilaterally amend union-approved contract
- US sends B-52s to China’s air defence zone
2013-11-28
- Wales: Hospital waiting times double
- Sri Lankan budget imposes deeper austerity measures
- Thanksgiving in America
- New Snowden document reveals NSA’s international malware operation
- Paul Keating’s Remembrance Day address: Nationalist myth-making to glorify World War I
- Australia: Tens of thousands of public sector jobs axed
- Claiming nuclear deal “victory,” Tehran signals readiness to ally with US
- Obama heckled during speech on immigration
- German Greens negotiate coalition state government with conservatives
- German grand coalition: A government of social austerity and militarism
- Hunger rises in US capital
- Europa Report: Gripping drama of manned mission to Jupiter’s moon
- Detroit union joins legal action to force sell-off of DIA art
- Supreme Court to hear religious challenge to Obamacare contraceptive provision
- Chinese officials downplay stand-off with US in East China Sea
2013-11-29
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Nearly a billion ocean-dependent people at risk because of global warming
- East Timorese government prepares legal case over Australian spying
- Anti-government protests escalate in Thailand
- New York’s Talking Transition: A phony forum of change
- Indian workers and students defend Edward Snowden
- German grand coalition to intensify austerity policies in Europe
- Vast waste, profiteering in Pentagon operations
- Spanish government strengthens anti-migrant border fence
- Record number of homeless students in the US in 2013
- Left Party supports budget cuts in German city of Duisburg
- UK Prime Minister Cameron plays the anti-immigrant card
- Detroit Blight Task Force surveys neighborhoods in preparation for mass demolition
- Tensions escalate over Chinese air defence zone
- Albuquerque voters reject anti-abortion measure
2013-11-30
- Chinese fighters shadow US/Japanese warplanes in disputed ADIZ
- Spanish government clamps down on public protests
- Remittances from overseas workers under threat from banks’ profiteering
- Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan acknowledges longtime role as Israeli agent
- British PM Cameron’s attack on immigrants
- Obamacare debacle intensifies
- Inequality and poverty on the rise in New Jersey
- Los Angeles moves toward restricting food distributions in public places
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Australian government blocks US takeover of key agribusiness
- US in secret talks with Hezbollah
- Doctor Who at the half-century mark: A brief assessment
- Italian Senate expels Silvio Berlusconi
- Australian government steps up commitment to US “pivot”
- Adjunct professor dies penniless after teaching for 25 years
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