Archive: 07/2014
2014-07-01
- UK: Labour Party targets unemployed youth for benefit withdrawal
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- The Internet’s Own Boy: Documentary about “hacktivist” Aaron Swartz
- Unions, pseudo-lefts strangle strike against French rail privatisation
- US Supreme Court rules against SEIU in union dues case
- America’s paramilitary police
- Obama nominates ex-CEO to head Veterans Affairs
- Australian government report outlines dismantling of welfare system
- Jailed Maruti Suzuki workers in India continue to be denied bail
- Anti-militarism protester sets himself alight in Tokyo
- Israel attacks Palestinian territories after bodies of missing youth discovered
- Obama sends more US troops to Iraq
- Italian comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement joins ranks with the far right
- GM makes minimal offer to crash victims
- US Supreme Court attacks First Amendment, workers’ rights
- Australian Senate pushes through budget appropriation bills
- AFSCME union pushes through deal against Detroit city workers
2014-07-02
- Poroshenko launches bloody assault on eastern Ukraine
- UK unions propose one-day protest strike over pay
- New documents highlight sweeping NSA surveillance powers at home and abroad
- Oppose the witch-hunt against Socialist Alternative
- Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrested in corruption case
- Australia to hand Tamil refugees to Sri Lankan navy
- A deepening global economic and financial breakdown
- NZ government aligns more closely with US amid rising tensions with China
- Jordan deploys troops along border with Iraq
- Israeli government prepares onslaught against Palestinian people
- Green Party hypocrisy over protests by refugees in Berlin
- Documents indicate GM tops knew of ignition defect
- Contract expires for Pacific Coast dockworkers in US and Canada
- Detroit residents call water shutoffs a “crime”
- Fifty years since the Civil Rights Act
- How the charter school racket operates in Michigan
2014-07-03
- New York Times backs Poroshenko’s offensive in Ukraine
- US students and graduates speak on the burden of college debt
- Sri Lankan military warns against exposing its involvement in anti-Muslim violence
- Australia’s Rich List: “Big wealth is back”
- The re-emergence of Japanese militarism
- Ontario’s union-backed government to accelerate austerity drive
- Obama-appointed civil liberties board upholds mass internet data collection by NSA
- Worker killed in chemical explosion at Indiana GM plant
- £40 billion in UK local authority cuts by 2020
- German Left Party defends drive to war
- Murder of Palestinian youth sparks unrest in Jerusalem
- Socialism and the Fight Against Imperialist War
- Chilean court rules US played key role in Pinochet murder of Americans
- Anti-Muslim hysteria surrounds World Cup in France
- Federal student loan interest rates increase by nearly 1 percent this month
2014-07-04
- A revealing speech by US Fed chief Yellen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- A telling incident: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’ exchange with Sen. Elizabeth Warren
- Ukraine: Berlin foreign ministers meeting brings no solution
- A student’s perspective on the testing culture in America’s schools
- Sri Lankan minister confirms Australia’s handover of Tamil refugees
- Equality and the Fourth of July
- NSA targets anyone interested in online privacy
- US Supreme Court denies relief for juveniles sentenced to life in prison
- Israel bombs Gaza Strip, masses army on border
- US general suggests re-invasion of Iraq if “national interests drive us there”
- Greece’s SYRIZA steps up its overtures to big business
- US jobs report shows growth in part-time, low-wage work
- Ten years at Saturn with the Cassini spacecraft
- Al Gore’s strange meeting in Canberra: More at stake than the carbon tax
2014-07-05
- The militarization of American public schools
- UK police make one million stop and searches of young people
- UN appoints panel for inquiry into Sri Lankan human rights violations
- US troops have secretly been deployed to Somalia since 2007
- Former Scottish Socialist Party leader promotes nationalism in referendum campaign
- Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy denies influence peddling charges
- The way forward in the fight against budget austerity and militarism
- Greek power workers threatened with state strikebreaking
- Three Philippine Senators arraigned on corruption charges
- One year since the military coup in Egypt
- Civilians were killed in New Zealand-US raid on Afghan village
- German parliament agrees to minimum wage
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Thousands demonstrate at funeral of slain Palestinian youth
- Australia: Workers and youth oppose war in Iraq
- German army to be equipped with drones
- US Supreme Court backs Christian college against contraception mandate
- Talks to end BC teachers’ strike collapse
2014-07-07
- US-backed regime retakes Slavyansk, threatens bloodbath in eastern Ukraine
- This week in history: July 7-13
- British government planned a 100,000-strong Syrian proxy force
- New revelations shatter US government lies on illegal surveillance
- Dozens of refugees suffocate in boat off the coast of Italy
- Low attendance at Australian anti-budget rallies exposes unions’ role
- Philadelphia house fire kills four children
- The 17,000 Dow: Surging towards a disaster
- Israeli police savagely beat Palestinian-American youth
- Palestinian unrest spreads across Israel
- Financial elites and US envoy back Widodo in Indonesian presidential election
- Obama announces increased border security and stepped-up deportations
- The career of popular songwriter Gerry Goffin (1939-2014)
- US-backed Egyptian junta announces massive electricity, fuel price hikes
- German unions support the government’s war policies
- Detroit residents and water workers speak out against water shutoffs
- California police officer savagely beats great-grandmother
- Tony Blair to advise Egyptian dictator al-Sisi
- Workers and youth denounce Australian budget
- French asbestos scandal: Indictment of Socialist Party’s Martine Aubry quashed
2014-07-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Clinton on Edward Snowden: Who are the real criminals?
- Oppose Australia’s handover of refugees to Sri Lankan navy
- Defend the rights of immigrant workers and youth!
- Obamacare drug benefits block access to vital medicines
- New York City police continue surveillance and repression under Mayor de Blasio
- Family of Tariq Khdeir denounces beating by Israeli police
- Japanese PM unveils “third arrow” of economic agenda
- Israel calls up reserves, threatens to escalate attacks on Gaza
- India’s new government moves to implement big business agenda
- Honduran government suspends gold mine rescue effort
- Edlef Köppen’s Higher Command: An important novel on the First World War
- Greek government outlaws power workers strike
- Australia: Overseas students and workers nearly killed in Sydney fire
- Facebook conducts emotion experiments linked to military research on political opposition
- UK: Former News of the World editor Coulson sentenced to 18 months in prison
- Veteran soul singer Bobby Womack dies, aged 70
- BNP Paribas fine highlights France-US tensions over Ukraine
- Following CIA spy revelations, German politicians turn on the US
- Japan’s Shinzo Abe cloaks militarism in “peace” pledges to Australian parliament
2014-07-09
- Sir Walter Scott and the drama of history
- Video: Detroit residents speak out on water shutoffs
- United Airlines to outsource 630 jobs
- Ukrainian army prepares siege of Donetsk
- Truck drivers on strike at two California ports
- Australian government seeks to lift bar on deporting refugees to face torture
- Australian High Court leaves Sri Lankan refugees detained on high seas
- The US Supreme Court and religion
- German chancellor makes her seventh visit to China
- Chinese president seeks closer ties with South Korea
- Shinzo Abe’s Australian visit: Another step toward war
- Obama calls for $3.7 billion border security “surge”
- Britain’s National Health Service “fraying at the edges”
- Air strikes kill civilians as Israel prepares new Gaza bloodbath
- French National Front threatens to burn an “ovenload” of its critics
- Ebola outbreak spreads in West Africa
- Violence in Chicago: A symptom of social breakdown
- Bulgaria’s financial instability fueled by EU-Russia conflict
- Afghanistan in turmoil over presidential election result
2014-07-10
- Detroit water shutoffs hit families, ill and elderly residents
- Australian Labor Party props up Victorian state government
- Airport security agency bans powerless electronic devices on flights to US
- Sri Lankan government imposes political gag on NGOs
- German Greens justify police action against refugees
- Virginia man coerced into undergoing vasectomy as part of plea agreement
- War drums beat louder against China as Japanese imperialism re-emerges
- New Zealand government backs Japan’s militarist revival
- Snowden documents show NSA spied on prominent Muslim-Americans
- Death toll mounts in Israeli attacks on Gaza
- European governments prepare for military suppression of popular opposition
- HBO’s Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro Sr. and Ida
- Brazil suffers World Cup rout amid mounting social tensions
- Former Spanish anti-evictions leader involved in new political manoeuvre
- French police round up refugees in Calais
- New disability payments system responsible for deaths in Britain
2014-07-11
- Kiev regime pursues east Ukraine offensive, threatens to ban Communist Party
- UK public sector workers hold one-day strike
- German foreign minister Steinmeier and the Civitella massacre
- Sri Lankan government to deport Pakistani and Afghan refugees
- Senate vote ends in fiasco for Australian government
- Obama and the CIA—who runs Washington?
- Detroit mothers die in childbirth at three times national rate
- Israel warns of imminent ground invasion of Gaza
- Indonesian presidential election produces disputed result
- Obama plans deployment of troops, drones along US-Mexico border
- German government demands departure of US spy chief
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Portugal banking crisis sparks global stock selloff
- Detroit Workers Committee meeting discusses strategy to fight water shutoffs
- New York protesters demand end to Israeli assault on Gaza
- Government and corporate officials continue to deflect blame for Lac-Mégantic train disaster
- Trial begins for friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect accused of obstruction
- India: BJP tables right-wing, pro-investor budget
2014-07-12
- The US spy scandal and the return of German imperialism
- Kiev regime launches “total assault” against east Ukraine rebels
- Interesting music in 2014 so far
- Cameron government steps up drive to sell UK public assets
- The toxic crisis of Israeli society
- Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin sentenced to 10 years in prison
- Australian minister whitewashes Sri Lankan repression
- Cargo train derails in Mexico, stranding 1,300 migrants
- London teachers speak on the public-sector strike
- New York transit agency demands concessions from Long Island Railroad workers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean government voices concern over Japanese “collective self-defense”
- Relations collapse between Iraqi government and Kurdish region
- Lowell, Mass: Seven die in apartment building destroyed by fire
- Detroit residents denounce water shutoffs
- For-profit education chain Corinthian College implodes
- Obama administration to shield Citigroup executives in mortgage fraud settlement
- Obama administration drops investigation into CIA spying on US Senate
- California’s whooping cough epidemic
- “Children are being sacrificed to save money”—striking British Columbia teacher
- New analysis of the Detroit Institute of Arts responds to creditors and unions
2014-07-14
- Prasanna Vithanage’s With You, Without You: The human impact of Sri Lanka’s communal war
- Moscow threatens response after Ukraine forces shell Russian border town
- This week in history: July 14-20
- British government rushes through emergency surveillance legislation
- Sri Lankan SEP public meeting on Independent Workers Inquiry into Water Pollution
- Six family members murdered in suburban Houston, Texas
- Edward Snowden seeks asylum renewal from Russia
- Woman jailed under new Tennessee law criminalizing the use of narcotics while pregnant
- Teamsters shut down truckers strike at southern California ports
- The CIA spying scandal and the disintegration of American democracy
- New Zealand Labour Party congress silent on war preparations
- UK public sector workers explain their decision to strike
- Obama aides, Republicans push US border crackdown
- The acquittal of HSH Nordbank: Capitalist class justice in Germany
- Israel escalates attack on Gaza
- Florida carries out its sixth execution of 2014
- Australian parliamentary committee calls for further anti-democratic electoral laws
- Atlantic City, New Jersey casino to close, sign of worsening US jobs crisis
- SEP campaign against Detroit water shutoffs evokes warm response from Chrysler workers
- After string of shootings, Albuquerque Police Department purchases hundreds more assault rifles
2014-07-15
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The Detroit water shutoffs: A social crime
- Metro Washington, DC among the most unequal areas in US
- Ukraine military launches air attacks on Russian-speaking cities in east
- French anti-terrorism law tramples fundamental democratic rights
- Edward Snowden condemns UK surveillance legislation
- Torture and death in America’s prisons
- Why is Stefan Kornelius so angry over the CIA spying scandal in Germany?
- Mine and car job cuts drive up Australia’s unemployment
- Israeli war crimes in Gaza provoke global outrage
- Hundreds demonstrate in Dublin in support of locked-out waste collection workers
- Child immigrants flee violence and poverty in Central America
- Detroit protesters oppose Israeli assault on Gaza
- Pakistani migrant fruit pickers in Greece strike over inhuman conditions
- Cybersecurity bill will expand surveillance powers of US military and intelligence agencies
- SEP campaigns against water shutoffs in Detroit
- California drought hits state economy, pushes US food prices higher
- Australian government covers up CBA bank scandal
2014-07-16
- In congressional testimony, Fed Chair Yellen reassures Wall Street
- US Veterans Affairs agency manipulated disability data
- Subway disaster in Moscow kills 22
- French unions attend government’s anti-worker “social conference”
- Pulitzer Prize-winning immigrant rights advocate detained in Texas
- The bombing of eastern Ukraine
- Australian youth and workers denounce cuts to Sunday pay rates
- Pseudo-left Awami Workers Party cheers on Pakistani offensive in North Waziristan
- Civil war surges in Libya after legislative elections
- Japan’s PM visits Papua New Guinea to promote militarist agenda
- Detroit retirees denounce bankruptcy plan
- US Congress considers legislation to fast-track deportation of children
- US knew of British plans to raid the Guardian for Snowden documents
- German department store Karstadt faces carve-up
- After phony cease-fire, Israel vows to intensify Gaza bloodbath
- George Galloway defends British capitalism in Scottish referendum campaign
- Judge says water shutoffs are bad publicity for Detroit bankruptcy plan
- Sting of the Drone: Richard A. Clarke’s reservations about American war crimes
- Bank for International Settlements chief sounds another warning on financial system
- Election dispute reignites in Afghanistan
2014-07-17
- Who ordered the water shutoffs in Detroit?
- Fascist atrocities mount as US-backed regime assaults eastern Ukraine
- Austrian judiciary persecutes German student protester
- Sri Lankan government intensifies attacks on students
- A crime against humanity on America’s border
- The imperialist debacle in Iraq and the struggle against war
- Netroots meeting in Detroit: “Progressive” cover for right-wing Democrats
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The social crisis in America’s Rust Belt
- Keolis to operate London’s Docklands Light Railway for seven years
- Backed by Obama, Israeli leaders threaten Gaza invasion
- Cabinet reshuffle takes UK closer to exit from European Union
- GM withheld information about crashes tied to defective ignition switch
- Missouri carries out its sixth execution of the year
- Detroit Institute of Arts on track to become wholly owned corporate subsidiary
- Swedish court upholds detention order against Julian Assange
2014-07-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington seizes on Malaysian airliner crash in Ukraine to threaten Russia
- United Nations report: US, UK surveillance programs violate international law
- Newly founded party wins election in Slovenia
- Workers and young people rally against water shutoffs in Detroit
- Three killed in Stockton, California after police open fire on vehicle
- Oppose the Israeli invasion of Gaza
- UK government sets up “overarching” inquiries into child sex abuse
- Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs
- US seeks to extend interim nuclear accord with Iran
- Indonesian election conflict continues, but financial markets set agenda
- Federal Judge rules California death penalty law is unconstitutional
- EU summit fails to elect top officials
- US plans to expand border drone use
- Detroit elites declare: “Water is not a social right”
- Australia: New terrorism scare used to unveil vast surveillance powers
2014-07-19
- The day the US shot down Iran Airlines Flight 655
- UK schools required to actively promote “British values”
- Britain’s parliament rubber stamps police state surveillance law
- Netroots conference applauds Democratic Party demagogy
- European Union spends billions on war against refugees
- Wall Street hails Peru’s economic “reforms”
- The crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine
- New York City man dies after being choked by police
- US networks remove reporters critical of Israeli attack on Gaza
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean auto workers hold first strike of the year
- US to transfer six Guantanamo detainees to Uruguay
- Following Malaysian plane disaster: German media pushes for confrontation with Moscow
- US-backed Israeli invasion of Gaza unleashes death and destruction
- Democratic Party organizations hold rally on water shutoffs
- Illinois lawsuits allege fraud by student debt settlement companies
- BRICS bank decision highlights growing divisions among major powers
- Australian political establishment threatens Russia over MH17 crash
- Australia illegally detains Sri Lankan refugees in prison ship
- Cut in funding for English National Opera
2014-07-21
- US escalates threats against Russia over Ukraine crash
- This week in history: July 21-27
- Israeli forces slaughter hundreds in weekend blitz in Gaza
- Workers and students discuss SEP’s antiwar program
- Opposition grows to Detroit water shutoffs
- United Transportation Union demands historic concessions from train conductors
- Spain: Pseudo-left Podemos party presents “a programme for the country’s salvation”
- The assault on Gaza: A historic crime
- New Orleans firefighters’ pension fund lost 41 percent of value in 2013
- Obama administration added 1.5 million names to US terrorist watch list
- Protests in Israel against Gaza war
- French Socialist Party government attacks anti-Gaza war protests
- London rally draws tens of thousands to protest Gaza invasion
- Canada backs imperialist aggression in Gaza and Ukraine
- Outrage grows over use of police “chokehold” in death of New York man
- UK government, media demand punitive action against Moscow over MH17 crash
- Australia: Demonstrators denounce Israeli invasion of Gaza
2014-07-22
- Video: Detroit residents speak out against water shutoffs
- Film showing of Tsar to Lenin in Los Angeles
- Thai junta seeks more open recognition from Washington
- Russian army data points to Ukrainian role in Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash
- European powers seize on flight MH17 crash as pretext for war
- Texas governor to mobilize National Guard along Mexican border
- Pakistan military’s North Waziristan offensive provokes humanitarian crisis
- UK: Leeds protest against Gaza war condemns BBC blackout
- Workers and students in Australia discuss SEP’s antiwar program
- Obama orders deportation of Honduran child migrants
- Volkswagen CEO announces “painful cuts”
- General Motors CEO says company will use bankruptcy to shield itself from lawsuits
- Gaza death toll doubles in four days
- Detroit officials announce 15-day “pause” of mass water shutoffs
- Seeking to regain credibility, US teachers unions criticize Obama’s education secretary
- UN resolution on Flight MH17: Australia the cat’s paw for US threats against Russia
- Pharmaceutical company Allergan to lay off 1,500 workers
2014-07-23
- Residents of Toledo, Ohio demonstrate against Gaza slaughter
- Anniversary report from 9/11 Commission seeks to bolster “war on terror”
- Friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect found guilty of obstructing justice
- Joseph Stiglitz in Australia: A desperate attempt to promote the illusion of reform
- Australia: Queensland by-election highlights discontent over austerity
- EU foreign ministers announce “forceful” measures against Russia
- New York City settles suit by family of inmate beaten to death at Rikers Island
- US lies and hypocrisy on Gaza and Ukraine
- US courts deliver conflicting rulings on Obamacare subsidies
- US-backed Iraqi regime fails to retake Tikrit from Al Qaeda-linked ISIS forces
- New Indonesian president pledges to please investors
- Report documents government orchestration of US “terror” plots
- How the German Left Party backs Israel’s war against Gaza
- Kerry’s diplomacy aids Israeli bloodbath in Gaza
- Dock workers at Piraeus Port, Greece end strike
- Officials hail anti-democratic vote in Detroit to sanction attack on pension rights
- Below the surface of Louis Theroux’s LA Stories: City of Dogs
- Nearly one quarter of US children in poverty
- Ontario Liberals re-start talks to award more handouts to Fiat-Chrysler
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau fired on after threats from Israeli government
- Australian prime minister lauded over anti-Russian stance and MH17 resolution
2014-07-24
- Dozens killed in renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine
- Spanish and Portuguese imperialism join the new scramble for Africa
- San Diego City Council passes token minimum wage increase
- What are the politics of the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17?
- New York City police sought to cover up use of chokehold in death of Eric Garner
- MH17 crash provokes fresh crisis for Malaysian government
- Sri Lanka: Independent Workers Inquiry presents findings on Weliweriya water pollution
- From El Salvador to the United States: An immigrant teenager’s story
- German media steps up pro-war agitation
- US talks ceasefire as Israel intensifies Gaza slaughter
- American film and television actor James Garner (1928-2014)
- New anti-Gaza war marches held in Paris and across France
- Arizona man dies in horrific two-hour execution
- European Union backs Israel’s Gaza offensive
- Billionaire land speculator witch-hunts teens for graffiti near his property
- Arkansas denies life-extending drug to Medicaid recipients
- Water cannons arrive on mainland Britain
- Contradictions of capitalism underlie monetary policy dispute
- Bangladesh jute workers oppose government’s privatisation drive
- US pressures Balkan countries to cut ties with Russia
2014-07-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington, DC workers speak out against social inequality and rising costs of living
- Ukraine prime minister resigns as NATO, Australia prepare intervention in east
- Australia Post report points to massive cuts to jobs and services
- Two billion poor, one billion hungry
- The Gaza war crimes and the bankruptcy of nationalism
- The Passenger depicts the Holocaust and its aftermath in opera form
- New Zealand parliament backs anti-Russian campaign over MH17 disaster
- Former State Department employee reveals spying on Americans by executive order
- Northampton sale of Egyptian statue: Major assault on art and cultural provision in the UK
- Treasurer’s biography fuels rifts in Australian government
- British unions open door to charges for doctor visits
- SEP rallies workers and youth against Detroit water shutoffs
- On the centenary of WWI: Socialism and the fight against war
- Air Algérie plane crashes in northern Mali
2014-07-26
- Russian media allege flight MH17 shot down by Ukrainian missile unit
- Turkey moves toward talks with Kurdish nationalists
- Steelworkers union covers for death of contract worker at New York aluminum plant
- Arizona’s two-hour execution and the brutalization of America
- Provocative Australian-Dutch push for security forces at MH17 crash site
- New York’s Metropolitan Opera threatens August 1 lockout
- Federal guidelines lay out loose criteria for terrorism watch list
- Long Island Railroad unions accept concessions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Executive pay at German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp swells amid mass layoffs
- The Kill Team: The murderous reality of the US war in Afghanistan
- Interview with US immigrants’ rights activist: “This administration has been terrible for us on many fronts”
- India covers up Israeli war crimes in Gaza
- Obama summit with Central American leaders plans “massive” deportation of immigrants
- Ex-Australian union boss Paul Howes handed top corporate post
- UK tribunal hears evidence of mass surveillance
- Israel rejects Kerry’s Gaza ceasefire
- Canada’s New Democratic Party supports Israeli war crimes
2014-07-28
- Washington threatens to intervene in east Ukraine fighting
- This week in history: July 28-August 3
- Obama administration grants architects of torture sneak peak at Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA programs
- Serbian Parliament passes labour reforms
- Rallies held in the US and around the world against Israeli invasion of Gaza
- The financial bubble economy
- NZ Labour Party plans to reverse burden of proof in rape cases
- New Zealand: Thousands protest against Israel's assault on Gaza
- Court-appointed “monitor” to enforce Detroit bankruptcy plan
- Lost for Life: Children locked away in America
- US evacuates Libyan embassy
- Sri Lanka: Workers and youth speak about Workers Inquiry
- Britain’s “Healthier Together” sets agenda for health cuts in Manchester
- Israel resumes its onslaught on Gaza
- German neo-Nazi trial: Why is Zschäpe silent?
- More New York police violence captured on video
- Protests spread across Europe against Israeli war on Gaza
- Hundreds march in Dearborn, Michigan against Israeli crimes
- Toronto demonstration denounces Gaza assault, Canadian complicity
- CEO says Boeing plans to keep its workers “cowering”
- Egypt leads Arab regimes in facilitating Israel’s assault on Gaza
2014-07-29
- German firm WMF plans elimination of 700 jobs
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- British university system faces collapse
- US, Europe to boost sanctions on Russia
- Right-wing gutter journalism: Der Spiegel rails against Russia
- Tamil refugees offloaded into remote Australian detention camp
- Record-low US primary voting shows mass alienation from two-party system
- Action “unlikely” against police officers involved in UK secret spying operation
- The Libyan catastrophe
- Pakistan’s government mobilises the army in Islamabad
- Thousands in Israel protest against Gaza bombardment
- Gaza braces for new onslaught as Israel vows to expand war
- Ebola outbreak kills hundreds in West Africa
- For a political struggle by Detroit workers against Orr’s bankruptcy plan
- US Centers for Disease Control anthrax investigations reveal widespread safety issues
- Internationally renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim speaks out in sympathy with the Palestinians
- Alabama judges override juries to impose death sentences
2014-07-30
- China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang investigated for corruption
- Bipartisan US veterans’ health deal provides $10 billion for private care
- Ukrainian government offensive blocks MH17 investigation
- British court to hear bulk of terrorism trial in secret
- EU imposes its first sanctions against the Russian economy
- Are you ready for nuclear war?
- New York residents speak out against police violence
- Mad Men, season seven, first half: A step forward for US television?
- ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”
- Israel carries out heaviest bombardment of Gaza war
- Democratic senator boasts NSA “reform” bill vetted by US intelligence agencies
- Unemployed Australians to be forced to apply for 40 jobs a month
- Detroit water workers denounce demands for concessions
- Debt delinquency soars in US
- Australia: Victorian bushfire settlement covers up political culpability
2014-07-31
- US rearms Israel as its war crimes mount in Gaza
- Kiev regime’s assault on east Ukraine blocks access to MH17 crash site
- Former US intelligence personnel challenge Obama to present evidence of Russian complicity in MH17 crash
- US prosecutors routinely violate attorney-client privilege
- Constitutional crisis unfolds in the Philippines
- Gaza, Ukraine and the fraud of “human rights” imperialism
- Australia: Two significant reactions to the MH17 tragedy
- US officials push for closer military-strategic ties with India
- Thousands imprisoned, some executed, based on false FBI lab reports
- Filmmakers, actors, writers and doctors denounce Israeli violence against Gaza
- US economy grew at 4.0 percent in second quarter
- Interview with Professor Ian Duncan on Sir Walter Scott: The novel “as a kind of total environment of human life”
- The politics of the Detroit People’s Water Board
- Detroit water workers reject concession demands
- Deepening water crisis in California driven by drought, wildfires and infrastructure
- General Electric buys up Alstom
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