Archive: 10/2013
2013-10-01
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- French Interior Minister Manuel Valls proposes mass deportation of Roma
- UK unions promote Labour at health care march in Manchester
- Australia: Telstra announces 1,100 more job cuts.
- US shutdown targets workers and poor people
- Syria, Iran and the geopolitics of American militarism
- The Obamacare fraud and the case for socialized medicine
- Obama, Netanyahu stress war against Iran “still on the table”
- Minnesota Orchestra hangs in the balance as management rejects contract offers
- South Korean government threatens to ban teachers union
- Banks and European Union demand further austerity in Irish budget
- Coalition negotiations in German state of Hesse
- Millions in consultancy fees paid out by Detroit emergency manager
- Workers speak out against threat to sell off the DIA
- Support grows for campaign to defend the DIA
- Indonesian and Australian leaders tone down refugee dispute
2013-10-02
- Thirteen thousand hospital operations cancelled in Wales
- Maduro expels US officials as Venezuela’s economic crisis deepens
- An interview with Dyana Gaye, director of Under the Starry Sky
- A filmmaker sees and does something important
- Australia: Fair Work tribunal rubberstamps pay-cutting at Brisbane meatworks
- Sri Lanka: Mullaivaikkal residents face desperate plight
- SEP and IYSSE in Southern California hold public meetings on US war drive
- Germany: Siemens to cut 15,000 jobs
- US government shutdown hits social services
- SEP and IYSSE hold press conference to announce October 4 rally to defend the DIA
- Amid government shutdown, US officials push “pivot to Asia”
- US shutdown: A bipartisan war against the working class
- Social inequality widens in New Zealand
- New York City Opera announces bankruptcy
- Minnesota Orchestra musicians mark anniversary of lockout with large demonstration
- Priory Hall housing scandal impacts Irish government
- Greek pseudo-lefts support state ban on fascist Golden Dawn
- German Greens shift further to the right after federal election
- More endorsements of the “Defend the DIA” campaign
2013-10-03
- Amid government shutdown, Obama cancels trip to Malaysia, Philippines
- Inspectors arrive amid revelations of Syrian opposition atrocities
- Second stage in civil trial over BP oil spill opens
- US shutdown a smokescreen for assault on Social Security, Medicare
- New York City throws Hurricane Sandy victims out on the street
- The Detroit Institute of Arts and the defense of culture in the US
- Australian filmmaker condemns moves to sell DIA collection
- Visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art condemn the sale of DIA artwork
- Two years after US-NATO war, torture rampant in Libya
- Italian government survives confidence vote
- Diego Rivera’s “Battle of Detroit”
- Australian government meets General Motors executives amid closure threat
- German critic of NSA surveillance denied entry to US
- Socialist Party officials call for drone patrols inside France
- Video: Press conference held for “Defend the DIA” demonstration
- Detroit area residents speak against sale of DIA art and budget cuts
- Staggering growth of billionaires in China
2013-10-04
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Washington DC chase ends in shooting death of driver
- Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space
- US-Japan ministerial meeting strengthens military stance against China
- Downtown Detroit tenants facing eviction support demonstration to save the DIA
- UK teachers in regional strikes as unions seek accommodation with government
- Syrian “rebel” factions battle each other on Turkish border
- Migrant laborers building 2022 World Cup facilities worked to death in Qatar
- Fighting in Southern Philippines creates humanitarian crisis
- The return of the Euro crisis
- Detroit emergency manager escalates threats against DIA art
- University of Minnesota students speak out in defense of locked-out orchestra musicians
- The Minnesota Orchestra lockout and the defense of culture in the US
- More than 130 dead after boat capsizes off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa
- Fearing war and social unrest, Iran’s bourgeois regime seeks rapprochement with Washington
- Reputed head of Iran’s cyberwar program assassinated
- Greek authorities release three fascist Golden Dawn deputies from custody
- Tensions over the formation of new German government
- Endorsements flood in on eve of DIA demonstration
- Revealed: Australian Labor government’s record spending cuts
- UK regional teachers strike provides no answers
- Day three of US shutdown: Talks focus on cuts to Medicare and Social Security
2013-10-05
- Western Australian credit downgrade signals greater austerity
- Video: Excerpts from the demonstration to defend the DIA
- UK Conservatives set out election agenda of austerity until 2020
- Sri Lankan chief justice backs Colombo evictions
- With US shutdown in fourth day, Wall Street signals concern on debt ceiling
- Washington, DC workers, youth speak out against federal shutdown
- US-Japan talks escalate war preparations against China
- Obamacare to leave 31 million uninsured
- Drug maker Merck announces 8,500 more layoffs
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Strikes and protests break out in Ireland despite sabotage by trade unions
- Workers and young people at demonstration speak out in defense of the DIA
- German Green Party ditch any attachment to social reform
- German President Gauck calls for aggressive foreign policy
- Hundreds rally to oppose sale of art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
- Letters from our readers
- Governing parties suffer losses in Austrian elections
- Obama cancels entire Asia trip as government shutdown continues
2013-10-07
- This week in history: October 7-13
- SEP rallies in Sydney and Melbourne oppose US war drive against Syria
- Raúl Rizik: 1947-2013
- The significance of the rally to defend the Detroit Institute of Arts
- US government shutdown closes the National Park Service
- Public meeting in Paris marks the 15th Anniversary of the WSWS
- Germany: Orchestra musicians protest against job and pay cuts
- The real causes of the New York City Opera bankruptcy
- Youth and workers denounce Syrian war plans
- Downtown Detroit tenants rally to demand decent and affordable housing
- Manoeuvres between Greece’s major parties accompany clampdown on Golden Dawn
- German state intelligence agency spies on journalists
- An additional 25 million Europeans face poverty
- Egyptian junta launches crackdown on protests commemorating 1973 war
- Video: Hundreds rally to defend the Detroit Institute of Arts
- More endorsements for DIA campaign against the sale of art
- Burma struggles to attract foreign investment
- US budget and debt talks to focus on cutting Social Security, Medicare
- US raids Libya and Somalia, capturing alleged Al Qaeda planner
2013-10-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The US raid on Libya and the fraud of the war on terror
- Australian PM dismisses Indonesian human rights abuses
- Germany: Controlled detonation results in death of three miners
- Embittered row between UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and Daily Mail over his father Ralph
- Maintenance accident kills worker on DC subway
- The Defense of Culture and the Crisis in Detroit
- Australia: A rising tide of job losses
- How have artists responded to political and social developments?
- Workers and students speak out in defense of the DIA
- Greek university strike enters fifth week
- General Electric announces 400 layoffs in upstate New York
- US government shutdown reaches second week
- Fears of Asian economic slowdown, US debt default hit APEC summit
- Air France to lay off 2,800 workers
2013-10-09
- Indian cabinet decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh sparks mass protests
- New support for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
- German firm Siemens intensifies job cuts
- The UAW and “21st Century industrial relations”
- Britain: Labour council destroys Newport Chartist uprising mural
- New York museumgoers oppose the threat to sell DIA artwork
- Mass anger builds in Libya after US Special Forces raid
- Protests mount as Lampedusa migrant death toll expected to hit 400
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei issues caution on moves for US-Iran talks
- Egyptian military persecutes filmmaker who witnessed crackdown
- Ed Dorn and the politics of the New American Poetry
- Canada spied on Brazil’s government as part of global commercial espionage campaign
- Amid government shutdown, Obama signals cuts to Social Security, Medicare
- Boston school bus drivers take wildcat action
- China-US rivalry simmers at APEC summit
- Australia: Abbott government starts to impose sweeping austerity agenda
2013-10-10
- Video: Rally participants speak on the demonstration in defense of the DIA
- The bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi
- UK workers and young people discuss Syria and the threat of war
- New Zealand PM re-affirms commitment to war drive against Syria
- Sri Lankan Supreme Court hands land powers to central government
- IMF report points to deepening recessionary trends in global economy
- Right-wing minority government takes shape in Norway
- German defence minister praises German deployment to Afghanistan
- French austerity budget raises taxes on workers
- Foxconn imposes Chinese-style sweatshop conditions in Europe
- Detroit firefighters call for defense of the DIA
- Endorsements for Defend the DIA campaign
- Obama’s Federal Reserve pick reassures Wall Street of continued bank bailouts
- Boston school bus drivers end wildcat strike
- Wall Street coalesces around “progressive activist, fiscal conservative” mayoral candidate
- Sixty-day strike ban ending for northern California transit workers
- Washington stokes conflict with China at ASEAN summit
2013-10-11
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Disappointments, blind alleys and other problems
- The Boston school bus drivers’ wildcat strike
- Sydney’s week-long military extravaganza foreshadows new wars
- The German Left Party after the elections
- Libyan prime minister abducted in retaliation for US raid on Tripoli
- Fortress Europe’s rising death toll
- US and Iran at loggerheads over Syria conference
- Hungarian government adopts law against homeless
- Australia: Threat to shut GMH car plants grows
- Millions face loss of day care and food as shutdown drags on
- US moves to cut some of its military aid to Egypt
- US shutdown cripples investigation of salmonella outbreak
- Republicans, White House move toward deal to extend debt ceiling, cut social programs
- Union reps suspended over Boston school bus drivers wildcat strike
- US-China tensions flare over South China Sea
2013-10-12
- Unarmed Connecticut woman killed by police in Washington, DC: Collateral damage of the “war on terror”
- UK: Trafford Council drops challenge to local Accident & Emergency closure
- Report finds US-backed Syrian opposition responsible for sectarian atrocity
- Spanish train companies implicated in rail crash that killed 79
- Australian politician justifies Pinochet’s coup in Chile
- Regional tensions to rise after Obama’s no-show in Asia
- Shakeup continues in US nuclear command
- German technology manufacturer Loewe declares bankruptcy
- Fifty dead as another migrant ship sinks off Italy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: Formation of new government drags on
- New reports warn of mass poverty and social decline in Europe
- Republicans, White House move closer toward debt deal
- 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928): two silent films by Frank Borzage
- Unions delay strike for Northern California transit workers
- Kerry in Afghanistan to salvage US occupation treaty
- New Australian government faces sharp economic downturn
2013-10-14
- This week in history: October 14-20
- Australian Labor Party installs Bill Shorten as leader
- Philippine president consolidates power through corruption scandal
- Behind the US government shutdown
- UK Ministry of Defence seeks to counter growing opposition to war
- Australian meetings discuss US war drive in Middle East
- Shutdown of National Institutes of Health imperils critical medical research
- Watchdog group issues damning report on Obama administration’s war on journalists and whistleblowers
- Edward Snowden and Guardian witch-hunted by UK government, MI5 and media
- Social conflicts intensifying in Greece
- Born again: Gravity directed by Alfonso Cuarón
- Mahalla textile workers strike amid rising opposition to Egyptian junta
- New research sheds light on a key dietary change in early human evolution
- French neo-fascists win Brignoles local by-election
- Australian PM embraces Japanese remilitarisation
2013-10-15
- Workers Struggles, the Americas
- Video: Auto workers defend Detroit Institute of Arts
- Tunisian political parties organize “national dialogue”
- Middle East wars drive refugee flows, Mediterranean migrant deaths
- Britain’s Socialist Workers Party endorses Scottish capitalism
- Obama backs Detroit bankruptcy
- US miners’ union reaches settlement with Patriot Coal and Peabody Energy
- A disastrous start for Obamacare health exchanges
- Washington, DC Metro faces funding shortfall
- US secretary of state hails autocratic Malaysian government
- International talks begin on Iran’s nuclear program
- Military leader of Vietnamese anti-colonial struggle
- Fifty eight million US retirees to receive negligible Social Security COLA increases
- US government shutdown impacts millions of workers
- California Bay Area transit workers strike delayed for at least one more day
- Australia: Business steps up campaign for austerity and restructuring
2013-10-16
- Toyota Australia slashes jobs, demands cost-cutting
- Taiwan’s ruling party mired in political crisis
- NSA “harvesting” electronic address books and contact lists
- CBS “60 Minutes” report on Detroit: An apologia for Wall Street looting
- Washington, DC workers speak out against government shutdown
- US sequestration, shutdown cuts target scientific research
- Obamacare and the assault on workers’ health benefits
- Anti-immigrant pogroms in Moscow
- Lives of the Scientists and U.S. Presidents
- Iran offers “new beginning” in hope of some respite from punitive US-led sanctions
- Indian foreign minister’s unproductive visit to Sri Lanka
- Two films, and the limits of mere sympathy: The Girl and Dragon Girls
- EU tightens barriers against migrants after Lampedusa tragedy
- Detroit emergency manager eliminates retiree health care benefits
- British local councils petition government to sell off art works
- As closures continue, Chicago expands private charter schools
- Main UK parties agree on statutory press control
- Talks continue on deal to fund US government, raise debt ceiling
- Asylum seekers in Berlin on hunger strike
2013-10-17
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak October 24 at Toronto’s York University
- Sri Lankan government bans protests over clean water
- Siemens awards works council chair a handsome salary
- Salinger: Phony stuff
- Lampedusa migrant deaths: The real face of the European Union
- UK unions colluded with police and employers in construction blacklist
- Irish government unveils new austerity budget
- Further talks scheduled on Iran’s nuclear programs
- Australian treasurer pledges austerity during US trip
- German conservative parties and social democrats discuss grand coalition pledged to deeper social attacks
- Letters from our readers
- Chicago mayor announces elimination of retiree health care subsidies
- US budget deal sets stage for intensified assault on social programs
- With BART struggle looming, Democratic governor halts California bus strike
- Emergency manager continues threat to “monetize” DIA art treasures
- Australia: Documents prove former Labor government knew about PRISM
2013-10-18
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- 12 Years a Slave: Unrelenting violence, not real history
- Family of Boston Marathon bombing witness killed by FBI denounces federal harassment
- Australian election results in unstable Senate
- Asylum seekers set up camps in German cities
- Australia: IYSSE anti-war rally wins support in Newcastle
- The US budget deal: A new stage in the attack on the working class
- Major bushfires hit Australia’s most populous state
- NSA surveillance programs facilitate global drone war
- Indian government covers up military’s anti-constitutional activities
- Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations
- French unions secretly financed by millions of euros from business groups
- French students protest deportation of immigrants
- UK firefighters demonstrate against pension cuts
- New Zealand unions mount bogus “Fairness at Work” campaign
- Obamacare “rollout” events held in Detroit
- Closure of coal mine near Ostrava in Czech Republic threatens 3,000 jobs
- BlackBerry, erstwhile Canadian high-tech icon, slashing 4,500 jobs
- Unite the working class behind Bay Area transit workers!
2013-10-19
- Third regional teachers’ strike in UK
- One in two children impoverished after “economic recovery” in upstate New York
- Social inequality in Russia reaches record levels
- Nearly half of US public school children are poor
- UK’s “Plebgate” scandal: Police go unpunished for set-up of Conservative MP
- Captain Phillips: A hijacking drama unfolds
- The political issues in the Bay Area, California transit strike
- Syria, Iran and the geopolitics of American militarism
- US government, media silent on sacking of top nuclear officers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- UK teachers: “Something needs to change in the way we oppose the government”
- Waiting times at five-year high in British National Health Service
- Over 150 dead in earthquake in the central Philippines
- Union-backed mayoral candidate proposes selloff of DIA artwork
- Obama, Democrats offer deeper social cuts in new budget talks
- Bay Area, California transit workers strike against wage, benefit cuts
- Sri Lankan army commander issues threat against “separatists”
- Australian Labor Party infighting erupts after leadership ballot
2013-10-21
- This week in history: October 21-27
- German Social Democrats, conservatives agree on talks to form coalition government
- Sleepy Hollow: A mix of legends and myths punctuated by gunfire
- PQ pushing ahead with implementation of chauvinist Quebec Charter of Values
- Blanket settlement with JPMorgan: A $13 billion cover-up
- Australian agency integrated into NSA spying operations
- The Minnesota Orchestra lockout and the defense of the right to culture
- Hegel, Marx, Engels and the Origins of Marxism
- Germany: The Left Party embarks on a war course
- Italian government adopts austerity budget
- Peter Higgs and François Englert awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Britain: INEOS launches assault on Grangemouth refinery workers
- Grambling State University football program goes on strike
- Australia: Bushfire emergency in New South Wales
- Detroit residents forced to wait hours for buses
- Top Senate Democrat backs Medicare, Social Security cuts
- Two workers killed by management-run train during Bay Area transit strike
- Lancet report supports accusation that Yasser Arafat was poisoned
2013-10-22
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- California truckers close Port of Oakland terminal
- New evidence of NSA spying on France, Mexico
- Spain blocks Argentinian attempts to prosecute Franco-era fascists
- Saudi Arabia turns down UN Security Council seat
- Philadelphia student dies from asthma attack after schools cut nursing staff
- The witch-hunt of Britain’s Guardian newspaper
- Witness in German NSU investigation dies in car fire
- Mass student protests in France against deportation of Roma schoolgirl
- California Bay Area transit workers speak out on strike
- New York City: Hundreds protest city agency’s order that tenants must move
- New fossil skull find may revolutionize view of early human evolution
- Australia: Escalating need for food handouts
- The Fifth Estate: A dishonest film about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
- Obama downplays health exchange debacle
- Driver sickout halts bus service in Detroit
- Letters from our readers
- Unions end Bay Area, California transit strike
- Replacement worker was driving train that killed two workers during California transit strike
2013-10-23
- German Social Democrats’ convention backs coalition talks with conservative parties
- Swedish police collect illegal database of Roma
- California: Study exposes record levels of poverty in Silicon Valley
- Romanian government and unions carve up the health system
- Lessons of the Bay Area transit strike
- Australia: “Red October” bushfires continue in New South Wales
- UK postal workers vote to strike
- Los Angeles museum visitors oppose sell-off of DIA artwork
- Lackluster US jobs report points to ongoing slump
- “The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 1
- Report shows more than half of US fast food workers receive government aid
- Despite $500 million price tag, Obamacare web site still failing
- Netherlands government unites with opposition on austerity budget
- Reports document US slaughter of civilians in drone strikes
- Canada’s Conservatives to intensify assault on working people
- Brazil’s Workers Party government mobilizes troops against striking oil workers
- Australia: Queensland government legislates draconian “anti-bikie” laws
- Australian government unveils budget “audit” to advance austerity agenda
2013-10-24
- Workers World Party: The pseudo-left face of the Democratic Party
- University of Western Sydney academics strike over worsening conditions
- Scottish National Party’s bogus anti-austerity posture
- Seven die in suicide attack in southern Russia
- Political lessons of the Leonarda affair
- Australia: Mining giant Peabody locks out workforce
- Shutdown punishes Native American tribes
- Four coal miners killed during government shutdown
- Protests grow as Western powers, rival militias loot Libyan oil industry
- UK Labour seeks to outdo Conservatives with right-wing policies
- Iran’s government criticised over nuclear talks
- “The struggle to tell the truth through stories”: An interview with British film and television producer Tony Garnett—Part 2
- Trial on Detroit bankruptcy begins
- US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in affirmative action case
- Letters from our readers
- Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations
- Top ten American CEOs take home over $100 million each
- France to intensify military intervention in Central African Republic
- Refugees in Berlin call off hunger strike
- After calling off strike, Bay Area transit unions move to push through concessions contract
2013-10-25
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Study reports growing poverty in San Diego
- Saudi officials vent anger over US failure to attack Syria
- Wealth and poverty in America
- Obamacare premiums higher in rural areas, more costly than quoted in others
- Australia: Blue Mountains fires ignited by power lines and military exercise
- Germany charges US with tapping Chancellor Merkel’s cell phone
- Massachusetts 14-year-old to be tried as adult in slaying of teacher
- Wealth and status under fire: Lorde’s Pure Heroine
- ISO lines up behind Democrats in New York mayoral election
- UK government uses parliament to accuse Guardian newspaper of treason
- The German Green Party: New leadership praises conservatives and big business
- Day two of Detroit bankruptcy hearings: Unions urge liquidation of city assets, including DIA
- The Australian bushfires and the climate change “debate”
- Bay Area, California court imposes 60-day strike ban on bus workers
2013-10-26
- Sri Lankan government prepares for Commonwealth summit
- Trade unions pave way for job and wage cuts at Spain’s largest bakery
- Pakistani prime minister holds talks in Washington
- US stages show of naval force in the South China Sea
- German government talks: A grand coalition of social cuts and imperialist foreign policy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Kansas suicide rate jumps more than 30 percent in one year
- Irish pensioners protest in Dublin
- US food stamp assistance to be slashed next week
- Davis, California firefighters hit by budget cuts
- NSA wiretapping scandal dominates European Union summit
- Top banker, emergency manager testify in third day of Detroit bankruptcy trial
- Letters from our readers
- Australia: Investment figures highlight recessionary trends
2013-10-28
- Chinese premier visits Vietnam
- French unions downplay revelations they are financed by employers groups
- This week in history: October 28-November 3
- Two films from China: One is honest and sympathetic, the other is not
- Mounting government crisis in Slovenia
- Scandal grows over NSA wiretapping of German Chancellor Merkel
- Officer who pepper sprayed UC Davis students awarded $38,000
- NSA head demands end to spying revelations
- Obamacare prompts insurers to drop hundreds of thousands from coverage
- India: Multiple bomb blasts at rally for BJP’s Modi kill five
- Unite union hands victory to INEOS in Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery lockout
- EU border agency Frontex guilty of massive breach of human rights
- Bankruptcy proceedings in Detroit: The looting of an American city
- Chinese court rejects Bo Xilai’s appeal
- House fire caused by utility shutoff kills three young children in the Bronx
2013-10-29
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- David Walsh delivers lecture “Art, Socialism, and the Working Class” at Toronto’s York University
- German press, politicians warn of rupture in US-German relations
- US: Anger on first anniversary of Hurricane Sandy
- Kremlin dismantles Russian Academy of Sciences
- The pseudo-left Russian Socialist Movement and the dead end of the anti-Putin protests
- American musician, performer Lou Reed dead at 71
- Cutting food stamps: The ruthlessness of the American ruling class
- Government demands third year of pay freeze in British health service
- eBook versions of second edition of In Defense of Leon Trotsky now available
- New York mayoral election: The tasks facing the working class
- Japanese PM foreshadows tougher action over disputed islets
- Congressional quota drives US immigration detentions to record highs
- German state parliament persecutes refugees
- Australian state government announces “performance pay” school regime
- Emergency manager, Michigan governor testify in Detroit bankruptcy case
- Canada’s Conservative government sideswiped by Senate expenses scandal
- Fatal Bronx fire exposes appalling social conditions
2013-10-30
- US spy chiefs defend wiretapping of foreign leaders, mass surveillance programs
- Thousands protest police shooting of 13-year-old boy in California
- US-China tensions drive Philippine political opposition
- The global NSA spying scandal
- NATO reform strengthens Germany’s role
- Sydney public housing residents denounce rent rises and poor conditions
- Robert Reich’s Inequality for All: A friendly warning to the powers that be
- Australia: “Market rents” imposed on public housing tenants
- More testimony from Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr in Detroit bankruptcy case
- Unions push for concessions contract for Bay Area, California transit workers
- Bangladesh government suppresses opposition protests
- Australian PM visits Afghanistan to mark troop withdrawal
2013-10-31
- On the death of literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013): A passionate advocate of literature—Part 1
- Two years since the end of the US-NATO war in Libya
- Over 1,000 jobs to be axed at New Zealand Post
- Protest strikes at German department store chain
- Emergency manager and Michigan governor follow Jones Day blueprint to gut pensions
- Irish prime minister denounces “welfare culture”
- US vows to enforce punitive sanctions until Iran brought to heel
- Australian government maintains ban on Chinese telecommunications firm
- President Obama, administration officials defend pro-corporate health care overhaul
- Secret NSA program gains “bulk access” to Google, Yahoo data centers
- Top British educational advisor insists achievement is genetically determined
- Northern Virginia public schools face budget crisis, layoffs
- Diplomatic crisis grows over NSA spying in Europe
- US Federal Reserve continues massive subsidy for financial markets
- Ford, Chrysler and GM rack up profits from wage-cutting
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