Archive: 05/2013
2013-05-01
- Why I read the WSWS
- UK teaching unions stage token protest in North West
- US pledges to arm Syrian opposition as new terror bombing hits Damascus
- Public meeting in Portland: American democracy in shambles
- What the CIA’s cash has bought for Afghanistan
- Latest disclosures link German state with neo-Nazi terrorists
- Mexico faces political and economic turmoil on the eve of Obama visit
- One million schoolchildren in England to be vaccinated as measles threat grows
- Massachusetts budget debate: More economic distress for workers
- Global slump drives new South Korean stimulus package
- Detroit residents speak out against mass evictions
- US think tank report weighs up “grim future” of nuclear war
- Con Ed lavishes bonuses on top executives
- South Milwaukee Caterpillar workers reject sellout contract
- Bangladeshi government ends rescue operations in collapsed building
2013-05-02
- Tyler, the Creator’s Wolf: Hiding from reality behind a mask of cynicism
- Why I read the WSWS
- Oceanside, California exhibition of painter Arun Prem
- New Zealand: Pike River Coal found guilty of causing mine disaster
- International law and the US war drive in Syria
- UAW chief stabs German Opel workers in the back
- No retreat from austerity in Italy
- American GM worker supports German Opel workers
- Free health screening in Detroit draws thousands
- Guantanamo hunger strike, force feedings continue
- Greek unions hold one-day general strike
- Australia’s Anzac Day and the glorification of militarism
- Euro zone unemployment hits record high for 23rd consecutive month
- Letters from our readers
- Quebec unions mount nationalist campaign against savage cuts to jobless benefits
- University of California medical workers hold strike vote
- Obama hails police lockdown, covers up state role in Boston bombings
2013-05-03
- 350 Ypsilanti, Michigan school workers receive layoff notices
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- French military White Paper plans escalating wars
- Why I read the WSWS
- US defense secretary says Washington weighs arming of Syrian insurgency
- Seventeen arrested at May Day protests in Seattle, Washington
- The failure of capitalism
- Australia: The fraud of Labor’s NDIS and Gonski “reforms”
- Australian warship to join US fleet off Korean peninsula
- California community put on police lockdown
- Libya wracked by protests targeting government and French forces
- German Left Party, Marx 21 group praise “Icelandic Model”
- South Korea protests against Japanese shrine visits
- Two die in northeast Detroit house fire
- Stop the mass evictions in Detroit!
- Canada adopts “anti-terrorism” law that tramples basic rights
- Argentine court sentences rail union officials in the murder of Mariano Ferreyra
2013-05-04
- Why I read the WSWS
- A crass apology for imperialist intervention in Syria
- HBO’s Phil Spector: David Mamet’s mythological tale
- Iraq war resister, a pregnant mother of four, sentenced to 10 months in prison
- Australia: Queensland government offensive against public sector
- Obama administration appeals ruling on emergency contraceptives
- Violence in the Philippines as election approaches
- Police buildup in Pittsburgh in lead-up to marathon
- The social crisis in America
- Pakistan staggers toward elections amid civil war and impending economic collapse
- Netherlands unemployment at record level
- Election marks seismic shift in Malaysian politics
- US Steel locks out 1,000 workers in Nanticoke, Ontario
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Low-wage, part-time jobs dominate tepid rise in US payrolls
- Tensions rise in India-China border stand-off
- Athens mayor bans fascist demonstration
- German Green Party congress adopts election programme
- France: What is Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s May 5 protest?
- America’s revolutionary founding document
- Letters from our readers
2013-05-06
- This week in history: May 6-12
- Why I read the WSWS
- The Israeli strikes on Syria
- Obama visits Mexico and Central America to push for economic integration
- Malaysian opposition leader refuses to concede election defeat
- Japanese retail giant introduces Third World wages
- German defence and interior ministers visit the US
- Austerity policies heighten national divisions in Europe
- Australian Defence White Paper commits to US “pivot”
- Campaign teams for D’Artagnan Collier exceed signature goal in Detroit mayoral race
- Caterpillar announces more layoffs in Illinois and Canada
- Wildfires break out in Southern California
- Obama nominates billionaire backer as commerce secretary
- California governor Brown travels to China
- Crisis deepens for US occupation in Afghanistan
2013-05-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Why I read the WSWS
- UN says US-backed opposition, not Syrian regime, used poison gas
- Australian SEP launches 2013 election campaign
- Europe on the eve of mass working class struggles
- Obama warns against “cynicism” at Ohio State commencement address
- Germany: Verdi union accepts cuts to real wages at Lufthansa
- Australia: Opposition steps up pro-austerity campaign
- US concerns about Japanese nuclear reprocessing
- Youth and workers comment on the SEP election campaign
- The end of the Herschel Space Observatory mission
- US preexisting conditions health plan closed for enrollment
- Guatemala imposes state of siege against mine protests
- Obama education secretary, Michigan governor promote school “reform”
- Bangladesh building disaster death toll nears 700
- French unions back closure of PSA Aulnay auto factory
2013-05-08
- British imperialism’s return to “East of Suez”
- Why I read the WSWS
- Australian military stages “anti-terrorist” exercise in Sydney
- US shrugs off Syrian opposition’s chemical weapons use, presses for war
- Russian authorities put opposition blogger Alexei Navalny on trial
- Global corporations and the Bangladesh building collapse
- Patriot Coal bankruptcy threatens thousands of US miners, retirees
- Trial of neo-Nazi terrorist group begins in Munich
- Left Front’s offer to serve in France’s pro-austerity government unnerves NPA
- Detention of ex-dictator Musharraf adds to tensions in Pakistan
- David North addresses London meeting on the 15th anniversary of the WSWS
- Worldwide outrage as Guantanamo hunger strike enters fourth month
- Mississippi death row prisoner granted reprieve, another executed in Texas
- Australian Education Union convenes delegates’ meeting to ram through sell-out agreement
- Seniors face eviction in Detroit gentrification plan
- Steelworkers union exposes workers to lockout threat as talks resume at South Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
- Australian central bank cuts base interest rate to record low
2013-05-09
- Obama administration to back wiretap law for social media
- Walled Lake, Michigan school bus drivers hold sickout
- Sri Lankan SEP holds May Day meeting
- Six months since Superstorm Sandy
- The 15,000 Dow
- Pentagon accuses China of cyber attacks
- Contractors, Bloomberg step up attack on New York City school bus workers
- US surpasses other industrialized countries in infant death rate
- New pamphlet on 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation
- Large opposition rally against Malaysian election result
- Lufthansa: Verdi union agrees to 30 percent pay cut for airline workers
- Left Unity: Director Ken Loach fronts initiative of Britain’s pseudo-left groups
- New York City workers speak out on conditions six months after hurricane
- Obama’s budget calls for restrictions on public housing recipients
- Letters from our readers
- Michigan school district shuts down for lack of funds
- Thousands of job cuts in UK financial sector
2013-05-10
- Two Michigan school districts consolidate, shed 187 teachers
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Why I read the WSWS
- US prepares war with Syria as pro-US opposition loses ground
- White House seeks to shorten sentence of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling
- Top Indian official threatens Pakistan with nuclear annihilation
- Romanian pseudo-lefts praise Hungary’s right-wing government
- Australian government rejects damning media report on refugee camps
- Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia
- Minnesota: Sequester cuts hit education and state’s most vulnerable
- IMF demands further austerity in Greece
- HBO’s production of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones unfolds a violent, complex tale
- Detroit’s emergency manager prepares anti-working class financial plan
- Washington, DC schools chancellor unveils new scheme to defund public schools
- Growing signs of a financial crisis in China
- New revelations about filmmakers’ collaboration with CIA on Zero Dark Thirty
- Death toll in Bangladesh factory collapse reaches 950
2013-05-11
- Video: Detroit tenants denounce mass evictions
- Why I read the WSWS
- Massachusetts high school student charged as terrorist for Facebook post
- Sri Lankan police detain Muslim leader under terrorism laws
- Seattle transit agency proposes deep cuts in service
- Australian PM defends stripping refugees of welfare payments
- Britain’s Queen’s speech: Anti-immigrant rhetoric in support of austerity
- Unions, ministers organize protest in Detroit over fast-food worker pay
- The political fraud of the Pakistani elections
- Germany: Opel Bochum workers denounce union sellout
- Ontario: NDP preparing to support another Liberal austerity budget
- SEP Election 2013 campaign meetings: A socialist program to fight the drive to war
- Contract talks break down at S. Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
- Marx 21 Congress: Anti-Marxists meet in Berlin
- German Left Party’s Oskar Lafontaine calls for return to national currencies
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria
- Irish Labour Party in deep crisis
- D’Artagnan Collier turns in petitions for Detroit mayoral campaign
- SEP announces candidates for 2013 Australian election
- FBI, Homeland Security withheld information on Boston bombing suspects from local, state police
- Karzai reveals US plan for permanent Afghanistan bases
2013-05-13
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach new heights
- This week in history: May 13-19
- Bombings rock Turkish-Syrian border
- The political issues in the fight to defend education
- UK holds international conference as major powers deepen intrigues in Somalia
- Capitalism and the crisis facing young people
- Pakistani voters trounce parties that waged Washington’s AfPak war, imposed austerity
- Spending on medicine dips in 2012 as Americans cut back on health care
- Millions of BP settlement funds go to tourism industry
- Greek government outlaws teachers strike
- Australian PM presses for closer military, police ties with Papua New Guinea
- British Columbia NDP courts big business in run-up to provincial vote
- Divisions between major powers dominate G-7 meeting
- SEP Detroit mayoral campaign wins support from workers
- US Supreme Court attacks right to a speedy trial
- New York City: Students protest Cooper Union’s plan to charge tuition
- Thousands protest over migrant worker’s death in Beijing
2013-05-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- California hospital workers vote overwhelmingly to strike
- Reports suggest Syrian opposition involvement in Turkish bombings
- Why I read the WSWS
- Obama, Cameron hold Syria war summit in Washington
- Philippine coast guard kills Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters
- Pontiac, Michigan school crisis provokes outcry from parents, teachers
- Philadelphia mayor threatens elimination of school programs, staff
- The criminalization of political dissent in America
- Mother’s Day shooting in New Orleans injures 19 people
- Twenty-four dead in Mexican truck explosion
- Malaysian opposition stages more mass protest rallies
- India: We Tamils Party promotes communalism in Tamil Nadu
- Greek protests against ban on strikes
- A new film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- Detroit’s emergency manager outlines slash and burn “restructuring” plan
- Letters from our readers
- Anger mounts as death toll exceeds 1,100 in Bangladesh building collapse
2013-05-15
- Why I read the WSWS
- Australia: University students and staff demonstrate against Labor’s education cuts
- Rival factions of ruling class fight it out over Scottish independence referendum
- South African Marikana miners stage wildcat strike
- SEP (Germany) election statement
- Detroit’s emergency manager throws down the gauntlet
- Ontario teachers to face pension cuts under union-promoted deal
- New South Korean president commits to Obama’s “pivot to Asia”
- The rotten foundations of the Italian coalition government
- Health and Human Services secretary solicits corporate funds to implement Obama health care plan
- Stephen Hawking and the academic boycott of Israel
- Attacks on Greek teachers intensify
- Former guard in Nazi concentration camp arrested in Germany
- At least 40 killed in two coal mine explosions in China
- Australian Labor budget sets up permanent cuts to social spending
- Obama Justice Department secretly seized Associated Press telephone records
- New revelations of torture and murder of Afghan civilians by US Special Forces
2013-05-16
- Video shows US-backed opposition fighter cannibalizing Syrian soldier
- Russia: Deputy Prime Minister Surkov resigns
- The Kill Team: The murderous reality of the US war in Afghanistan
- France: Three die in fire at Roma squat
- Benghazi and the deepening crisis of the Obama administration
- US Defense Department to furlough 650,000 civilian workers
- Incoming Pakistani prime minister pledges loyalty to Washington
- Union seeks sellout deal at South Milwaukee Caterpillar plant
- Japanese government promotes “Sovereignty Restoration Day”
- Nationwide protests against austerity in Israel
- Indian minister visits China after patch-up of border dispute
- Greek teachers defy military mobilisation orders
- Euro zone contracts for sixth consecutive quarter
- SEP candidate D’Artagnan Collier on ballot for Detroit mayor race
- Letters from our readers
- Lawsuit in California targets workers’ rights
- Schools in Buena Vista, Michigan may reopen after board approves cuts
- Gillard Labor’s budget: The class issues
- David North speaks in Berlin on the 15th anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site
- House hearing whitewashes US government seizure of AP phone records
2013-05-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK Conservatives shaken by revolt over European Union referendum
- Tornadoes rip through northern Texas
- Taiwan stages naval drills as tensions mount with Manila
- South African miners mount new wave of wildcat strikes
- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby versus Prince Harry and his polo-playing American friends
- President Aquino’s Liberal Party coalition consolidates power in Philippine election
- The AP spying scandal and the crisis of American democracy
- OECD reports growing inequality worldwide
- Unions sabotage Irish bus workers strike
- Sharp increase in US jobless benefit claims
- Austrian Social Democrats suffer massive losses in local elections
- Hundreds of New York City Access-a-Ride workers lose their jobs
- Australian opposition leader adopts Labor’s social spending cuts
2013-05-18
- 15 years of the WSWS: Public meeting in Zurich
- Why I read the WSWS
- Spanish government rejects unions’ pleas for anti-crisis pact
- Pew report shows decline in retirement security for most Americans
- Four children and two adults killed in Pennsylvania house fire
- Philippines man killed by store security for alleged theft of sandals
- The betrayal of the Greek teachers’ strike
- China challenges Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa
- The NSU neo-Nazi gang and the German intelligence service
- Seattle: Hundreds condemn Metro Transit service cuts
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German unions agree on engineering industry contract
- Federal judge rejects lawsuit opposing Washington DC school closures
- SEP mayoral candidate outlines socialist program at Detroit election forum
- Chicago Teachers Union files lawsuit alleging school closings are racist
- Canada’s NDP denounces China, signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”
- Sao Paulo teachers’ strikes confront union betrayal
- FBI director continues cover-up of contacts with Boston bombing suspects
- Pentagon tells US Senate wars will continue for decades
2013-05-20
- Why the SEP does not endorse the WikiLeaks Party
- This week in history: May 20-26
- Why I read the WSWS
- European powers fund Al Qaeda looting of Syrian oil
- More Michigan schools on the brink of insolvency
- UK: Rotherham Hospital spends £3 million on consultants advising on cuts
- Tens of thousands march in Rome against austerity
- Connecticut commuter rail collision injures 72
- The decomposition of American democracy
- Ontario elevator technicians continue strike action
- On network news show, Nation editor rushes to the defense of Obama
- Washington endorses Malaysian ruling party’s election “victory”
- US Supreme Court rules for agribusiness giant Monsanto
- The Left Party: A party of German imperialism
- Big business demands lower wages in South Korea
- Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A clash of rival “fundamentalisms”
- Detroit mayoral candidate D’Artagnan Collier campaigns at Eastern Market
- Workers must reject emergency manager’s plan for Detroit
- Thousands of mining jobs in Scotland in danger
- Stalemate after elections in Bulgaria
- Buffalo, New York students and teachers face attack
2013-05-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The crisis of Venezuela’s “Bolivarian” revolution and the political independence of the working class
- Union limits UC Medical workers to two-day strike
- Tsar to Lenin to be shown at UK’s National Media Museum and at Cornerhouse cinema
- New revelations of US government spying on the press
- Spain’s Popular Party faces wave of strikes and demonstrations
- Slovenian government adopts another austerity programme
- Guatemala’s high court overturns dictator Rios Montt’s genocide conviction
- Financial bubbles creating conditions for new crash
- New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific
- Devastating tornado kills dozens in Oklahoma City
- Obama to college graduates: “No room for excuses”
- Germany: Parliamentary inquiry into neo-Nazi murders concludes
- US seeks defence agreement with Maldives
- Hedge funds eye Detroit for “hostile takeover”
- Washington’s hacking charges escalate pressure on China
- Letters from our readers
- Employers to offer bare-bones coverage under health care law
- Bangladeshi police attack garment workers’ protest
2013-05-22
- Lack of shelters a factor in Oklahoma tornado death toll
- Israel, US threaten war with Syria as sectarian fighting spreads across region
- Let the Fire Burn and The East: The MOVE bombing in 1985 and present-day anarchism
- Argentina’s General Videla and the “war on terror”
- Protest opposes London-wide National Health Service cuts
- Canada: NDP suffers debacle in British Columbia election
- ThyssenKrupp to slash 3,000 jobs
- Britain’s victims during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising expect compensation
- Hundreds killed in upsurge of terror bombings, sectarian attacks in Iraq
- Beppe Grillo agitates against immigrants
- Six million suffer fuel poverty in UK
- Australian Education Union pushes sell out through delegates’ meetings
- Emergency Meeting: A workers program to answer the crisis in Detroit
- Apple CEO defends multi-billion-dollar tax dodge
2013-05-23
- Argentina’s ex-dictator Videla dead at 87
- UAW and Fiat battle over union’s multi-billion dollar stake in Chrysler
- Behind Syria peace talks proposal, US prepares regional war
- Poverty skyrockets in US suburbs
- Low turnout in Sri Lankan strike reflects no confidence in the unions and opposition
- The SPD celebrates its 150th anniversary
- Popular Party government honours Spanish fascists in Hitler’s army
- Milestone Films’ Mary Pickford: Rags and Riches Collection: The inventor of movie acting
- The social disaster in Tornado Alley
- Far-right Japan Restoration Party defends wartime abuse of “comfort women”
- Iran blocks presidential campaign of pro-US candidate Rafsanjani
- A fraudulent campaign for “climate justice”
- The European Commission, French President Hollande accelerate austerity
- Emergency manager to decide on Detroit bankruptcy within six weeks
- DC mayor to offer closed schools to charter operators
- California nurses go on weeklong strike
- Chicago officials release final list of 49 school closures
- Australian budget reports pave way for deeper austerity offensive
- Witness tied to Boston bombing suspect killed by FBI
2013-05-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Reports on Australian “terrorism” laws call for streamlined police powers
- Security forces fire rubber bullets at striking South African miners
- Museum Hours and The Artist and the Model: In defense of art and the artistic personality
- US housing distress deepens for renters
- Apple’s tax dodge: The case for public ownership
- Caterpillar CEO defends wage-cutting
- Works council in Bochum seeks to stifle opposition to GM-Opel plant closing
- Global stock markets fall after 7 percent collapse in Japan’s Nikkei index
- UK soldier killed in London in reprisal for Afghanistan and Iraq wars
- Libya’s General National Council passes Political Isolation Law
- More revelations of Justice Department crackdown on the press
- An interview with Jem Cohen, director of Museum Hours: “Art is something people do like breathing.”
- SEP campaigners oppose Detroit home evictions
- Los Angeles: Newly-elected mayor promises more cuts and privatization
- Ford Australia announces shut down of car production
- Obama offers tortured defense of targeted killings
- White House welcomes Burmese president as new ally in “pivot to Asia”
- University of California medical workers strike
2013-05-25
- Far-right figure commits suicide in Paris’ Notre Dame to protest gay marriage
- Split on gay marriage and Europe, UK Tories rescued by Labour Party
- Why I read the WSWS
- US and allies step up war preparations against Syria, Lebanon, Iran
- Traumatic brain injuries increase risk of veteran suicides
- Rioting hits Stockholm after police shoot Portuguese immigrant
- The Skagit River Bridge collapse: Another example of decaying infrastructure
- Quebec unions silence criticism of PQ welfare cuts
- Government of, by, and for the banks
- German Socialist Equality Party campaign wins support among Opel workers in Rüsselsheim
- Mental disorders increasing among US children
- Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, dead at 74
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese officials secretly visit North Korea
- An international political strategy for Ford Australia workers
- Emergency manager considers selling off Detroit Institute of Arts collection
- Sequester cuts shut down four government agencies for one day
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese Premier Li signals new pro-market reforms before European tour
- Amazon workers strike in Germany
2013-05-27
- MI5 and the Woolwich killers
- Federal, state officials stonewall investigation of West, Texas plant explosion
- This week in history: May 27-June 2
- US, EU poised to escalate intervention as Syrian war spreads to Lebanon
- The plight of African boat people in The Pirogue, and other films
- Senators forgive Penny Pritzker’s $80 million “mistake”
- Japanese share sell-off a sign of growing financial instability
- New Zealand budget drives deepening austerity
- Germany: The NSU investigation committee and the Left Party
- Twin bomb attacks in Niger signal wider conflict in West Africa
- Muskegon Heights charter schools fail to meet state standards
- Mali donors’ conference finances imperialist scramble for Africa
- Taliban mounts “spring offensive” in Afghanistan
- IMF to have power over Irish healthcare spending
- Indian business whets Hindu communalist’s prime ministerial ambitions
- US farm bill proposals include huge cuts to food assistance
- Workers, students speak on plans to sell Detroit Institute of Art masterpieces
- Washington, DC health firm buyout leaves thousands without medical coverage
- SEP candidate speaks to workers about Ford closure
2013-05-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Toronto elite seeking to jettison right-wing populist mayor
- Victimized Illinois teacher denounces attack on education in YouTube video
- European powers lift embargo, move to arm Syrian opposition
- PSG campaigns in Berlin to stand in federal elections
- California: Police confiscate cellphones of witnesses after beating man to death
- The war on terror and the fate of US democracy
- Soldier attacked while on security patrol in Paris
- China tells North Korea to resume talks on nuclear program
- Settlements authorised as Kerry tries to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks
- Socialist Equality Party holds election campaign meetings in three states
- German city gives municipal clinic away to private operator
- Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown leads Labour’s intervention in Scottish independence referendum
2013-05-29
- More questions about MI5’s relations with Woolwich killers
- Syria escalation poses growing risk of regional war
- UK’s “Bedroom Tax” drives grandmother to suicide
- Train derails, explodes outside Baltimore, Maryland
- US military bases in Australia: The role of Pine Gap
- Armed stand-off, mounting tensions, in the South China Sea
- The threat to sell off the works in the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Thousands of New York City school bus workers face job cuts in June
- Job seekers camp out for applications in New York
- Indian state to intensify counter-insurgency war after Maoist ambush
- Washington steps up hacking allegations against China
- Australian coal loader workers strike to defend conditions
- Visiting Europe, Chinese premier demands Japan return “stolen” territories
- Deadly fungal disease outbreak in California prisons
- Trade unions in alliance with management against Berlin transport workers
2013-05-30
- Top UK universities call for cuts to funding for poorer students
- Trillions hidden in tax havens by super-rich, corporations
- Spanish government imposes more austerity measures
- La Sirga and In the Fog: When will the “fog of war” settle?
- Guatemalan high court upholds overturning of Rios Montt conviction
- The Chicago school closings and the way forward to defend public education
- First US drone strike in Pakistan since Obama’s drone speech kills seven
- Australian ruling elite prepares further military interventions into South Pacific
- Nine of Louisiana’s ten public hospitals to be privatized
- Kenyan president moves to slash wages, continue war in Somalia
- US officials cover up evidence of radioactive leak in Washington
- Defend the DIA! Culture is a social right!
- Letters from our readers
- Germany’s Left Party supports austerity in Bulgaria
- US banks post record profits in first quarter
- Sham “safety” deal on Bangladesh garment factories
- Greek government divided over “anti-racist” law
2013-05-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The FBI murder of Ibragim Todashev—the man who knew too much?
- Imperialist powers threaten to escalate intervention as Assad beats back opposition
- Furloughs of civilian defense department workers begin in the US
- Imperialism, Syria, and the threat of world war
- Malaysian government arrests opposition protest leaders
- Obama official who oversaw BP oil spill hired as Apple’s environmental fixer
- Obama’s attorney general admits approving search warrant for news reporter
- Health care overhaul will leave millions of poor Americans uninsured
- Florida moves to speed up execution process
- Buena Vista, Michigan teachers still without pay
- Britain illegally detained Afghans at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan
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