North America
Cancer and class
By Kate Randall and Barry Grey, November 19, 2009
Monday’s recommendation by a US government panel that women under the age of 50 not undergo annual mammogram screenings should serve as a warning on the future of health care in America.
As US debt tops $12 trillion, Obama calls for austerity
By Bill Van Auken, November 19, 2009
As the Treasury Department revealed that the US public debt has passed the $12 trillion mark, President Barack Obama issued a call for fiscal austerity, warning that without cutbacks, the economy coul...
Obama blocks climate change agreement
By Stefan Steinberg, November 18, 2009
Last Sunday, Obama gave his consent to a plan worked out at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore which effectively blocks any decision on concrete steps to combat global warming a...
US bailout inspector general faults windfall for AIG’s creditors
By Barry Grey, November 18, 2009
A report released Tuesday by Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), criticizes Bush administration bank regulators and officials for agreeing to pay...
US workplace injuries underreported, study shows
By Tom Eley, November 18, 2009
he number of workplace accidents and illnesses in the US is vastly underreported, according to a survey by the Government Accountability Office.
Single mother arrested for refusing deployment to Afghanistan
By Hiram Lee, November 18, 2009
A 21-year-old single mother serving in the US Army will likely face charges for refusing deployment to Afghanistan when she could not find care for her infant son.
UN abandons hunger reduction target
By Barry Mason, November 18, 2009
The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation abandoned its hunger reduction targets in advance of the World Food Summit on Food Security that opened in Rome on November 16. Instead, it will now aim ...
Once again: The New York Times and Obama’s attack on health care
By Kate Randall, November 17, 2009
The New York Times has stepped up its campaign in support of the Obama administration’s drive to overhaul the US health care system, providing arguments in defense of rationing and a class-based sys...
Illinois teaching and research assistants strike
By Tom Mackaman and Clement Daly, November 17, 2009
Graduate student employees at the University of Illinois went on strike on Monday against the university’s demand that it be allowed the right to impose tuition on teaching and research assistants.
Sharp rise in birth defects in Iraqi city destroyed by US military
By David Walsh, November 17, 2009
As a likely result of the weaponry unleashed on the Iraqi city of Fallujah by the US military in 2004, doctors are discovering a horrifying increase in birth defects and deformities.
Washington’s crisis over Afghanistan deepens
By Bill Van Auken, November 17, 2009
The increasingly public dissension within the Obama administration over the proposed escalation in Afghanistan reflects the reality that US imperialism has no good options in the war that it launched ...
A record 49 million Americans faced hunger in 2008
By Barry Grey, November 17, 2009
A yearly survey on hunger released Monday by the United States Department of Agriculture reported that a record 49.1 million Americans in 17 million households lacked dependable access to adequate foo...
