Archive: 05/2014
2014-05-01
- NATO boosts military build-up against Russia as protests spread in east Ukraine
- Scottish National Party woos Labour voters
- What is the German army doing in Slavyansk?
- US sequester cuts gut scientific research
- Anti-Semitism and the Russian Revolution: Part three
- US Supreme Court may permit unwarranted search of cellular phone contents
- Spain’s new Podemos party a political fraud—Part two
- State murder in Oklahoma
- Free the NATO 3!
- Australia: Strong support for online May Day celebration
- Libya: Ex-US base now headquarters of Al Qaeda-linked forces
- Australian government in turmoil over budget tax levy
- India: Congress Party trumpets “inclusive growth” in hopes of averting poll debacle
- Egypt’s mass death sentences: A crime made in the USA
- US economic growth grinds to a halt in first quarter
- Strike by Chinese footwear workers shut down
2014-05-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Ukraine reinstates military draft as NATO threatens Russia
- New York teacher exposes how unions helped impose performance evaluations
- New York state unions file phony lawsuits against teacher evaluations
- Washington’s drive for regime change in Venezuela
- May Day marches, clashes around the world
- Fight job losses at Liverpool museums
- More support for May Day rally from Asia, Australia and New Zealand
- Air search called off for missing Malaysia Airlines plane
- Gas explosion at Florida jail kills two, injures 184
- Britain: Anti-Muslim campaign targets Birmingham schools
- German President Gauck visits Turkey—the arrogance of German imperialism
- Florida: Record floods kill two and devastate Panhandle region
- Unions pose as critics as they collaborate with Detroit emergency manager
- Ukrainian nationalists commemorate massacre of Yanova Dolina
- Australian audit report sets out a corporate blueprint for social counter-revolution
2014-05-03
- Swiss workers support ICFI May Day rally
- Washington responsible for fascist massacre in Odessa
- Indian elections: Rival right-wing parties in Tamil Nadu make populist promises
- German government thwarts investigation of NSA scandal
- Sri Lankan public meeting discusses significance of online May Day rally
- US military basing deal sets legal framework for neocolonial rule in the Philippines
- Halt the drive to war!
- Oklahoma execution: Clayton Lockett was tasered by guards before lethal injection
- Appearing with Germany’s Merkel, Obama backs Ukraine crackdown
- New York City mayor and UFT announce nine-year teachers’ contract
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “Positive” US jobs report reflects economic stagnation
- Irish government creates police unit to target social welfare claimants
- Public meetings in Albuquerque attempt to defuse anger over police brutality
2014-05-05
- US puppet regime in Kiev escalates violence after fascist massacre in Odessa
- This week in history: May 5-11
- New York Times covers up fascist atrocity in Odessa
- Union backs California bill expediting teacher dismissal
- Worldwide attendance at ICFI May Day online rally
- PSG campaign: “It is not true that the Western powers stand for democracy and human rights”
- Opening report by David North: The capitalist crisis and the fight for socialist internationalism
- Half a million low-income residents left without health insurance in Pennsylvania
- South Korean subway collision leaves 238 injured
- Iraq election sets stage for protracted civil strife
- Spain: United Left ends differences with PSOE in Andalucía coalition
- Australia: Plunging coal prices herald new mine closures and job cuts
- UK government to sell personal data
- 2,700 feared dead as landslide buries rural Afghan town
2014-05-06
- A bombing in China’s Xinjiang province
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Washington, Ukrainian puppet regime prepare new fascist slaughter in Odessa
- Sri Lankan workers and youth praise International May Day rally
- US Supreme Court backs prayer at town meetings
- Anti-ANC vote campaign initiated in South African general election
- Private contractors take over waste management in Detroit
- An assessment of the International May Day Online Rally
- Ontario voters offered rival big-business austerity agendas
- The German media and the massacre in Odessa
- Nick Beams: May Day 2014 and the breakdown of world capitalism
- SEP (UK) candidate: Oppose attacks on National Health Service workers’ pay
- Maternal death in childbirth up 50 percent in America
- GM presses judge to shut down lawsuits stemming from ignition defect
- Civil war spreads in eastern Ukraine amid attacks by Kiev government
- Wealth, celebrity and decadence in Obama’s Washington
- At least 16 killed in Colombian mine disaster
- Australia: Media leaks outline assault on welfare budget
- Audio of opening report by David North to the 2014 International Online May Day Rally
- Another fatal shooting by Albuquerque police
2014-05-07
- Wije Dias: The international struggles of the working class and the perspective of Permanent Revolution
- US defends role of Kiev regime and fascists in Odessa massacre
- Thai PM in court on trumped-up charges
- Workers reject employers’ offer in South African platinum mining strike
- Peter Schwarz: The European Union and the United Socialist States of Europe
- Europe’s 9/11
- After merger, pay cuts, Office Depot closing 400 stores in US
- Study: Obamacare could save US businesses $3.25 trillion through 2025
- Brutalized by cops, convicted Occupy protester faces seven years in jail
- Australian students speak about online May Day rally
- Australia: Storm of corporate protest against deficit levy
- Kathryn Davron: March 2, 1950—May 1, 2014
- French Left Front makes hypocritical criticisms of Hollande's policy in Ukraine crisis
- The significance of the arrest of Gerry Adams
- Bankruptcy judge approves final revision of Detroit restructuring plan
- Out Among the Stars, a “new” album from Johnny Cash
- US military intensifies training for a war with China
2014-05-08
- Fed Chief Yellen reassures Wall Street on interest rates
- Tensions flare between China and Vietnam in South China Sea
- Uli Rippert: The struggle against militarism and war
- Russia seeks fresh accommodation with US over Ukraine
- RMT union sabotages London Underground strike
- Melbourne public meeting examines role of Australian imperialism in East Timor
- Thai court removes PM and nine cabinet ministers
- World Health Organization declares public health emergency over spread of polio
- Detroit’s “plan of adjustment”: A declaration of war against the working class
- ICFI meeting in Paris on May 11 for the European elections
- Washington sends military personnel to Nigeria
- Interviews on the May Day Rally from the US and Europe
- Video shows police gunning down unarmed man in Long Beach, California
- German Greens incite conflict with Russia
- French government set to impose wage cuts demanded by the banks
- Chris Marsden: Ukraine crisis—A turning point in world history
- Australian budget levy will seek to mask deep welfare cuts
- Obama nominates author of drone memo for appellate court judge
- India: Modi reiterates pledge to expel “Bangladeshi” Muslims in wake of communal massacre
2014-05-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- US, Kiev puppet regime escalate Ukraine conflict after Russian concessions
- The fraud of the official campaign against the United Kingdom Independence Party
- CIA stalling release of Senate report on torture
- Thailand: Ex-PM faces impeachment on bogus “negligence” charge
- Obama in talks with “rebel” leader on escalating Syrian war
- Sri Lankan president boasts of economic growth
- European election: Hessian Rundfunk interviews PSG candidate
- Capital punishment and the brutality of the American ruling class
- German politicians, media support build-up of NATO forces in Eastern Europe
- Letter to Kathryn Davron from WSWS Chairman David North
- Julie Hyland: The socially criminal consequences of austerity in Europe
- Mobilize the working class to defend the Johns Hopkins Hospital workers!
- James Cogan: The US pivot and the threat of war in Asia
- Obama administration’s phony crackdown on the banks
- Australia: Fairfax journalists strike over job cuts
- Detroit City plumber denounces bankruptcy
- Australian corruption inquiry could ensnare prime minister
2014-05-10
- Australia: Victorian government promotes another pro-business austerity budget
- US Congress debates sanctions amid clashes in Venezuela
- Mariupol killings: US backs Ukrainian regime’s reign of terror
- Britain: Anti-terror legislation used to pursue whistleblower
- Protests force Condoleezza Rice to skip Rutgers University commencement speech
- Thailand’s judicial coup
- By its silence, New Anti-capitalist Party supports Odessa massacre
- Nigeria: Boko Haram kidnappings used to justify US military build-up in Africa
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Joseph Kishore: May Day and the American working class
- Jurors urge no prison for convicted Occupy protester in New York
- New Zealand government poaches senior Labour Party MP
- British actor Bob Hoskins (1942-2014): “When you’ve got something to give, give it without hesitation”
- Harper attacks head of Canada’s Supreme Court
- How the revival of German militarism was prepared
- New legislation to extend oversight of Detroit finances for next 20 years
- Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez: An uninspired film on farm workers’ leader
- Barclays to cut 19,000 jobs worldwide
- Andre Damon: Young people must fight for the socialist future
- Albuquerque police account of latest deadly shooting reinforces suspicions
2014-05-12
- Arizona veterans’ hospital scandal: Forty patients died awaiting treatment
- US, Europe issue further threats over self-rule referenda in eastern Ukraine
- This week in history: May 12-18
- Attorneys for accused Boston bomber move to suppress statements taken by FBI
- Police gun down 93-year-old woman in central Texas city
- Syracuse, New York housing in shambles
- Australian columnist lauds World War I as a “just war”
- Part one: There is realism, and then there is realism
- What are the political forces behind Seattle’s minimum wage proposal?
- The criminalization of political opposition in America
- Leaked plans highlight China’s fear of a new Korean war
- Tamil Nadu workers speak to WSWS about Indian elections
- European Elections: SEP candidate Robert Skelton speaks at hustings in Manchester, UK
- PSG election campaign gains significant support in Berlin
- Japan: Fukushima worker sues TEPCO over radiation exposure
- European election debate: Conservative, social democratic leaders praise austerity, sanctions vs. Russia
2014-05-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Democrats turn further to the right in Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign
- Australia: Budget to cut youth off welfare
- Vibrate: How good is the best of singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright?
- NATO, Kiev escalate threats after eastern Ukraine referendums
- Thai opposition calls for Senate, courts to appoint new government
- Vietnam and Philippines escalate maritime disputes with China
- US media steps up espionage slander against Edward Snowden
- Slovenian prime minister resigns
- Hospital workers rally in downtown Baltimore
- Britain has more than 100 billionaires, says Sunday Times Rich List
- Australia: The politics of Socialist Alternative’s protest on ABC’s “Q&A”
- The Detroit model: Permanent rule by the banks
- What took place in Odessa on May 2?
- Sri Lankan ex-radical calls for a JVP presidential candidate
- India signals support for Vietnam in South China Sea dispute
- US climate report points to human activity as primary cause of climate change
- Detroit firefighters speak out against Plan of Adjustment
- Chicago teachers union president offers to negotiate cuts in teacher pensions
- Blackwater mercenaries direct Kiev regime’s crackdown in Ukraine
2014-05-14
- Kiev regime spurns German foreign minister’s call for “round table” talks with pro-Russian separatists
- Explosion at Turkish coal mine kills at least 238
- US-aligned Human Rights Watch indicts Syria for gas attack
- Serbia pleads with Europe to respect its ties to Russia
- Resolution 1: Australian imperialism and the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia”
- Threat of closure held over heads of San Diego Opera musicians, workers
- ANC’s parliamentary majority reduced amid worsening economic conditions
- The Wall Street bonanza
- US security mission arrives in Nigeria
- Two West Virginia coal miners killed in roof collapse
- Gabriel García Márquez: A giant in the literature of the Americas
- SEP European election campaign: Manchester and Salford residents speak out
- Sri Lanka: Pro-government forces issue death threats against Jaffna university teachers and students
- Iran slashes price subsidies, auctions off public assets to European capital
- Geopolitical tensions harm international research
- Texas death row inmate granted last-minute stay of execution
- PSG holds European election rally at Alexanderplatz in Berlin
- Corruption revelations shake Michigan education authority
- An overview of the Australian budget’s austerity measures
- Study warns of “unstoppable” West Antarctic ice shelf melting
- Further warnings on Chinese property markets
- Australian budget targets workers and youth
- The Benghazi diversion
2014-05-15
- Corporate, government profiteering caused Soma mining catastrophe
- Protests erupt across Turkey as death toll in Soma mine disaster tops 274
- Amid diplomatic offensive against Syria, France presses for war
- Sweden strengthens military in response to Ukraine crisis
- SEP Australia public meetings: A socialist program to fight war and austerity
- Resolution 2: The social counter-revolution in Australia and the political tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- SEP candidates interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside
- Australian budget ends “Age of Entitlement”
- German PSG and British SEP present their European election programme at Paris meeting
- Italy: “Tsipras List” defends the EU
- Participants at Paris meeting speak on SEP European election campaign
- Family alleges GM withheld evidence in wrongful death case
- In Between Worlds: A conformist view of the German military
- Sri Lankan think tank criticises mass evictions in Colombo
- Vote ‘No’ on Detroit Plan of Adjustment
- German undercover agent dies in mysterious circumstances
- Child labor widespread on American tobacco farms
- US Vice President Biden’s son, Kerry fundraiser take positions with Ukrainian gas firm
- Amnesty International report details worldwide torture
2014-05-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Anti-Chinese protests erupt in Vietnam’s industrial zones
- Despite round table talks, Ukrainian regime escalates crackdown
- FBI killer of Ibragim Todashev revealed as ex-Oakland cop accused of cover-up and abuse
- Mining disaster in Turkey: Anger with the government grows
- UK parliament attempts to restore confidence in intelligence agencies
- Australian Labor leader postures as opponent of budget austerity
- Part two: Tamako in Moratorium, Standing Aside, Watching, Three Letters from China: Greater urgency from Japan, Greece and China
- Video report: PSG holds antiwar rally in Berlin
- The Turkish catastrophe and the global mining slaughterhouse
- Insurance CEO: Obamacare consumers need to break the “choice habit”
- West Virginia mine had appalling safety record
- Reactions from global participants in May Day Online Rally
- After Indian elections, US to press for greater support for “pivot to Asia”
- Illinois coal miner killed on the job
- French President Hollande visits Caucasus amid Ukranian crisis
- High temperatures and drought cause multiple wildfires in Southern California
- Ras Baraka succeeds Cory Booker as mayor of Newark, New Jersey
2014-05-17
- Western Australian budget imposes new burdens on workers
- Akhmetov and other oligarchs seek role as Ukraine’s policemen
- Turkish mine explosion: 2010 report warned dangerous conditions could produce “disaster”
- “We won’t let anybody fool us”: Tune-Yards’ Nikki Nack
- Toyota in India intensifies repression against workers
- South Africa: Lonmin fails to break 16-week platinum strike
- US military basing deal in the Philippines: A step towards neocolonial rule
- New Zealand budget deepens austerity
- Turkish workers and youth salute the International May Day Online Rally
- Lorry drivers protest across Europe against low wages
- German Left Party consolidates itself as an establishment party
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese PM embraces “collective self-defence”
- Hindu chauvinist BJP sweeps to power in India
- Change in leadership of German trade union confederation
- US government whitewashes GM’s responsibility for deadly ignition defect
- Unions stage one-day fast food protests
- Australia: How to fight the Abbott government’s budget
- German government proposes law to jail asylum-seekers
2014-05-19
- VA scandal in US exposes disastrous state of veteran health care
- This week in history: May 19-25
- After clashes, riot police put Turkish disaster mine under lockdown
- New York teachers voting on nine-year “reform” contract
- UK rail workers vote down union-backed productivity package
- India’s watershed election
- Pennsylvania faces a $1 billion tax shortfall, setting stage for new budget cuts
- Paris security summit steps up military intervention in Nigeria
- Decision by US federal agency opens way to two-tier Internet
- Thousands march in Australian cities against budget
- Workers and youth denounce Australian budget
- SEP campaign in Liverpool: “I think we need a real left wing party, an alternative to the three main parties”
- Two candidates emerge for Indonesian presidential election
- US judge’s ruling on force-feeding of prisoner further exposes torture methods at Guantanamo Bay
- German army conducts biggest military exercises since Cold War
- Inequality fuels Australian budget opposition
2014-05-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US pushes cyber-war confrontation with China
- Political repression mounts in run-up to Ukrainian presidential vote
- Thai army declares martial law
- SEP candidate Chris Marsden speaks to BBC Radio Stoke and Radio Cumbria
- Obama administration whitewashes GM cover-up
- Osram workers in Berlin support PSG election campaign
- Occupy Wall Street protester jailed for three months in case of police beating
- The NSA and the New York Times
- Documentary reviews history of domestic spying under Bush and Obama
- Quebec charges employees, not owners, of railroad in Lac-Mégantic tragedy
- CIA-linked general launches Libya coup bid
- International talks on Iran’s nuclear program stall
- Greek ruling coalition takes losses in local elections
- Australia: Financial ratings agency cracks the whip on budget
- WSWS speaks with workers and youth about Australian budget
- The Balkan floods and the break-up of Yugoslavia
2014-05-21
- WikiLeaks, Assange targets of active FBI probe
- Evidence mounts of criminal negligence in Turkish mine disaster
- A socialist perspective to fight Abbott’s budget
- Part three: Bad Hair, School of Babel, South is Nothing: Struggling in a harsh reality
- Sunday Times rich list: “Astonishing year” for Britain’s most wealthy
- Death toll of refugees in the Mediterranean continues to rise
- Top Democratic advisor calls for nationwide pension cuts and financial restructuring
- A clarification on Detroit’s plan of adjustment vote
- Thailand’s military coup
- NSA records and stores content of all phone calls in two countries
- Terror bombing kills 118 in Jos, Nigeria
- Melbourne workers and pensioners oppose Australian budget
- European elections: PSG campaigns in Leipzig
- Germany: Marx21’s Janine Wissler elected to Left Party leadership
- India’s parliamentary landscape transformed
- General Motors recalls another 2.4 million vehicles
- US public universities: Study finds link between growth of student debt and executive pay
- Australian budget to proceed despite protests by state leaders
- White House promises CIA will stop using fake vaccination programs to spy
- Canadian Labour Congress replaces top bureaucrat with his “number two”
- The firing of the New York Times’ Jill Abramson
2014-05-22
- White House hit by scandal over veterans’ health care
- West promotes election held at gunpoint in Ukraine
- Thailand’s military holds meeting with government and opposition leaders
- Social Democrats outnumbered by opponents at Berlin rally
- Students denounce budget at Day of Action rallies
- Ukrainian regime detains journalists working for Russian media
- Tea Party candidates defeated in Republican primaries
- Vote SEP and PSG in the European elections!
- Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to jail
- Australian students protest against Abbott government’s budget
- The No2EU electoral alliance in the UK: An enemy of the working class and socialism
- NATO urges major military build-up
- Massachusetts: MBTA imposes more fare hikes
- Australia: Labor opposition pledges to match government’s budget austerity
- The Australian budget and the dictatorship of finance capital
- Bangladesh ferry sinks killing at least 54
- Obama administration asserts unlimited war powers without Congressional authorization
- Atmosphere’s Southsiders: New studio album by the Minneapolis hip hop group
2014-05-23
- Orson Welles: An “unfinished artist” in an unfinished century
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Interviews with critics and film historians about Orson Welles
- On eve of election, Ukraine slides toward civil war
- Ten days since the Turkey mining massacre: Government and unions try to evade responsibility
- Thai military dispenses with caretaker government
- Swiss referendum opposes purchase of fighter jets
- California: Police kill two, followed by crackdown on demonstrators in Salinas
- Russian president forges stronger ties in China
- The new aristocracy in Britain
- Retired city workers denounce Detroit pension cuts
- NZ pseudo-left group defends Mana-Internet Party alliance
- New York Times’ vision of Ukrainian “democracy”
- European Union presses for association agreement with Moldova
- Anger erupts at Detroit meetings as unions press for pension cuts
- The Civil War in 1864
- US deploys Air Force troops to Chad
- SEP European election candidate Chris Marsden interviewed on BBC 2’s “Daily Politics ”
- Senate Democrats confirm drone memo author for second-highest US court
2014-05-24
- Tensions mount in Turkey after second death in protests
- Stalinists suffer debacle in Indian elections
- Sri Lankan president glorifies military at victory celebrations
- City workers denounce fraudulent “vote” on benefit cuts
- Pharrell Williams’ Girl troubles
- Fifty years since Johnson’s “Great Society” speech
- NSA “reform” bill would continue to allow for bulk phone record collection
- Mehring Books Spring Sale
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US veteran killed by California Highway Police officers
- European Elections: SEP candidate Robert Skelton speaks at candidates meeting
- Guantanamo: US Government forced to reveal that it recorded forcefeeding
- Video: PSG member speaks in Voices Against War
- The European elections in France
- New Zealand, Australian governments complicit in US drone attacks
- Thai military consolidates its hold on power
- Residents in North West England speak to SEP election campaign teams
- US collecting all cell phone calls in Afghanistan
- Welfare lobby meets with Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey
2014-05-26
- US veterans health care scandal used to push for privatization
- Billionaire oligarch declared winner in Ukraine elections
- This week in history: May 26-June 1
- Part four: Manos Sucias, Freedom Summer and others: Bitter social conflict present and past
- Shooting rampage in Santa Barbara, California leaves 7 dead
- South Africa: Big business demands ANC speedily impose its National Development Plan
- Inmate deaths reveal brutal conditions in New York City’s Rikers Island prison
- Quebec Liberal government to ravage public services
- Report: US targets poor and working class with mass imprisonment
- The US and Thailand’s military coup
- Lively discussions at SEP European election meetings in North West England
- Major UK parties given drubbing in local elections
- More National Football League players file suit over injuries
- South Korean opposition exploits ferry disaster
- Major losses for ruling parties, gains for anti-EU parties in European elections
- Budget shock creates problems for Australian government
2014-05-27
- New Ukraine government launches airstrikes, prepares austerity measures
- Thai king endorses military coup
- Sun Kil Moon’s Benji: Life and death (mostly death) in small-town Ohio
- The Financial Times’ attack on Thomas Piketty
- Government files reveal official campaign of spying against Occupy Wall Street
- Libya plunging towards civil war
- US judge allows for continued force feeding of Guantanamo Bay prisoner
- French neo-fascist victory in European elections exposes bankruptcy of ruling elite
- PSG holds successful final election meeting
- Retail sales slump points to dismal conditions for US workers
- The face of food stamp cuts: Chicago, Illinois
- Unease in UK’s political elite after Prince Charles compares Putin to Hitler
- Australian government to dump refugees in Cambodia
- Labor duplicity exposed on Australian budget
2014-05-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Workers in Sydney’s west speak out against Australian budget
- Video: The plight of migrant workers in Southern California
- The bloodbath in Donetsk
- More private insurers to hop on Obamacare gravy train
- South Korean opposition alliance prepares for regional elections
- Modi takes the reins of India’s government
- UK foodbank organizer says most recipients are working poor
- Egyptian junta extends presidential election due to massive abstention
- Rightist leads Colombian election in which over 60 percent abstained
- Close encounter between Japanese and Chinese military planes
- Four dead after attack on Jewish museum in Brussels
- Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse
- US deploys Special Forces to train military units in North and West Africa
- Announcing Afghan drawdown, Obama pledges military forces for other “priorities around the globe”
2014-05-29
- Obama defends global US interventionism in West Point speech
- Shooting of Spanish politician used to justify Internet crackdown
- South African miners speak: “We are striking so our children don’t also end up with nothing”
- The European elections and the crisis of the EU
- Median CEO pay in US tops $10 million
- Fire in South Korean nursing home kills 21
- Supreme Court issues unanimous decision defending police in fatal shooting
- The European election in Greece
- Supreme Court stops Florida execution, requiring more evidence to assess mental competency
- European election results for the Socialist Equality Party (UK) and Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Germany)
- CNN’s Chicagoland: Propaganda for Mayor Emanuel
- Governor’s revised budget signals renewed attack on California workers
- Police attack immigrant camp in Calais, France
- Detroit “blight” task force calls for demolition of 20 percent of city’s housing stock
- Participants speak at PSG’s eve of poll election meeting
- Arts funding slashed in Australian budget
- Filmmaker, actor and gallery director speak out against arts cuts
2014-05-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Calls mount for VA head’s resignation in wake of damning report on US veteran care
- Ukraine military helicopter shot down as battles flare in the east
- Shedding light on the New York Times shake-up
- Thai military tightens its grip on power
- Spain’s major parties hammered in European elections
- Edward Snowden defends decision to reveal NSA spying in NBC interview
- India-Pakistan tensions remain high, despite Modi’s meeting with Sharif
- Financial Times’ attack on Piketty under fire
- Obama’s West Point speech: A prescription for unending war
- New Zealand’s Internet and Mana parties merge
- No Place to Hide: Glenn Greenwald’s account of the Snowden revelations
- Germany: Leading journalists attempt to censor TV program
- Pressure on GM over death count tied to recall
- US economy contracted by 1 percent in first three months of 2014
- Belle’s moving and enlightened story (and The Immigrant)
- British Columbia teachers mount rotating walkouts
- Detroit abortion rate underscores rising poverty, declining access to contraception
2014-05-31
- VA secretary resigns amid push to privatize US veterans’ health care
- US moves towards sanctions as Venezuela charges coup plot
- Toddler suffers severe burns from Atlanta, Georgia police raid
- South African mineral resources minister seeks end to 18-week platinum miners strike
- Utopia: A confronting but politically flawed documentary
- The New York Times and freedom of the press
- Australian inquiry whitewashes PNG refugee camp crackdown
- US sends assault ship with 1,000 Marines to Libyan coast
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ireland’s governing parties punished in local and European elections
- Education cuts in Fleming County, Kentucky
- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Regional disputes deepen over control of Detroit water system
- French-led peacekeepers shoot protesters in Central African Republic
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