Archive: 06/2014
2014-06-02
- Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
- This week in history: June 2-8
- Turkey: Massive police operation against protesters
- Support for Portugal government nosedives
- Woman and six children killed in fire in tent city in Philippines
- The drive to privatize US veterans’ health care
- NSA collects facial images of hundreds of millions of people
- Suspect in Brussels shooting linked to Western-backed Syrian opposition
- FBI arrests acquaintance of Boston Marathon bombing suspect
- Pentagon pressures South Korea to join anti-missile system
- US defense secretary menaces China at Singapore forum
- Emergency manager threatens Detroit retirees at policy conference
- New US coal dust standards leave thousands of miners at risk for black lung
- Thousands more layoffs imminent for New York school bus workers
- Sixteen-year-olds recruited to British Army
2014-06-03
- New York’s Working Families Party once again backs Democrat Cuomo
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Obama heads to Europe for week of meetings directed against Russia
- Thai junta puts off elections for at least 15 months
- German firm Siemens to eliminate a further 11,600 jobs
- SEP meetings in Australia discuss budget attacks and drive to war
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal by New York Times reporter James Risen
- Washington boasts of military buildup against China
- Migrant workers face brutal conditions at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus
- UK referred to International Criminal Court for war crimes in Iraq
- Students and workers consider SEP’s analysis
- Indonesian presidential election campaign gets underway
- US auto union meets to install new president
2014-06-04
- Twenty-five years since the Tiananmen Square massacre
- Spanish King Juan Carlos abdicates amid growing unpopularity of the monarchy
- Sri Lankan president seeks improved relations with India
- UK SEP National Secretary interviewed on BBC Daily Politics
- Police violence and the American gulag
- New Orleans Recovery School District set to convert entirely to charter schools
- Obama escalates NATO confrontation with Russia
- Striking Holcim workers in Sri Lanka occupy cement plants
- Fascist propaganda on the front page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- US economy contracts as tens of thousands are laid off
- Obama administration global warming regulation incorporates shift already underway
- UK Chilcot Inquiry: cover-up continues over war against Iraq
- Australian “exceptionalism”, the budget and the demands of finance capital
- So Bright is the View: A serious film from Romania
- US media campaign targets released Afghan war POW Bowe Bergdahl
- Austria: Far-right FPÖ gains support in European elections
- Bankruptcy court approves new appraisal of Detroit Institute of Arts collection
2014-06-05
- Wisconsin youths charged as adults in attempted murder case
- Obama backs state terror against eastern Ukraine
- Global electronics giant NXP sacks union officials in the Philippines
- The US media and the release of POW Bowe Bergdahl
- NZ opposition parties wage xenophobic campaign against Asian immigrants
- The Medical Research Future Fund: A hand-out to corporate Australia
- Medical co-payments and the assault on public health in Australia
- Fighting between militias intensifies in Libya
- International Labor Organization details impact of global austerity
- German foreign intelligence service plans real-time surveillance of social networks
- Michigan Senate passes Detroit “Grand Bargain” package
- No replacement jobs for most workers laid off from Bochum plant in Germany
- US auto union installs long-time wage-cutter as new president
2014-06-06
- Australia: Three-fold rise in long-term youth unemployment since 2008
- Bipartisan deal on US veterans’ health care includes step toward privatization
- Leadership tensions erupt in Australian government
- Michigan steel worker crushed to death on the job
- One year of Edward Snowden’s revelations
- Workers at Detroit retiree meetings voice anger over pension cuts
- Ontario NDP and unions in spat over what rightwing road to follow
- Widespread disaffection in South Korean regional elections
- Internal GM report shields top executives for cover-up of deadly car defects
- G7 unity shows cracks on Russia sanctions
- European Central Bank cuts interest rate below zero
- Teachers and transit workers ratify New York City contract deals
- California governor Jerry Brown calls for raising teachers’ pension contributions
2014-06-07
- Wealth report shows deepening social polarization in US
- Labour embraces UK Independence Party’s right-wing nationalism
- Thai opposition forms overseas anti-coup organisation
- Infant still in critical condition after Georgia police raid
- D-Day anniversary: Commemorating the Second World War and preparing the Third
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Collapse of Kosovo government leads to early elections
- Tepid employment report masks depth of US jobs crisis
- New Zealand historian discusses government’s book glorifying World War I
- Australian industrial watchdog goes after West Australian construction workers’ homes
- Detroit’s Catherine Ferguson Academy to close by end of June
- Washington DC veterans and residents speak out against privatization of VA health care
- British care home scandal deepens
2014-06-09
- The Value of Water Coalition: Corporate greed masquerading as activism
- Vodafone privacy report reveals state access to its networks
- This week in history: June 9-15
- Newly installed President Poroshenko pledges to militarise Ukraine and crush rebellion in the east
- The UAW vs. the auto workers
- Massive cuts to education, pensions and social services expected in Pennsylvania state budget
- Death toll of migrants seeking to enter Europe via Mediterranean mounts
- Closure of UK colliery exposes role of miners’ union
- Nationalism and fascism in Ukraine: A historical overview
- A crude celebration of Australian militarism
- Right-wing campaign intensifies against family of American POW Bergdahl
- US prepares to fine major French bank
- Immigrant children held at Arizona detention center in deplorable conditions
2014-06-10
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian minimum wage ruling grants a pittance
- Seattle’s $15-an-hour minimum wage of little benefit to workers
- Appeals court backs executive branch whitewash of Wall Street
- Freedom of speech and the debate over Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act
- ILO report: A world blighted by poverty and inequality
- Australian mining companies push for suppression of port workers’ dispute
- New research documents heightened social inequality in Britain
- Nationalism and fascism in Ukraine: A historical overview
- Federal judge blocks rule lowering drug prices for poor hospitals
- Head of US Chamber of Commerce visits Cuba
- Austerity forces British children into record levels of poverty
- Brazilian workers clash with police on eve of World Cup
2014-06-11
- Australian Senate committee discusses threat of US-China war
- VA audit shows nearly 60,000 US veterans face delays receiving health care
- Obama signs executive order on student loans
- The Australian budget and the fight for social equality
- Pakistan’s largest airport attacked by Taliban group
- Fifty years since the LSSP’s Great Betrayal in Sri Lanka
- Italy after the European elections
- Al Qaeda offshoot ISIS captures Mosul from Iraqi government forces
- Warehousing of Central American children in Arizona continues
- Relatives of GM crash victims hold Detroit protest
- Budget cuts threaten scientific and cultural projects at London’s Kew Gardens
- The diary of Lena Mukhina: An important document on the Leningrad blockade
- US air strike kills five special operations troops in Afghanistan
2014-06-12
- UK schools witchhunted by government to foster anti-Muslim sentiment
- Satchmo at the Waldorf in New York: The life and times of jazz great Louis Armstrong
- Australia: Queensland government backflips on pensioner concessions
- Detroit officials agree at DIA press conference: Workers must pay for bankruptcy
- The fall of Mosul and the crimes of imperialism
- Unrest grows as Mexico’s economy goes into slump
- New Zealand: Socialist Aotearoa endorses Mana-Internet Party alliance
- British NHS patients left without medications by private contractor
- Ten years since the neo-Nazi attack in Cologne, Germany
- Fight budget austerity! A socialist perspective for Australian workers
- California court ruling signals nationwide attack on teacher tenure, seniority rights
- More Detroit schools threatened with closure
- Illinois Democrats gut Chicago city worker pensions
- US House Republican leader defeated in primary election
2014-06-13
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Global private financial wealth surges by 14.6 percent in 2013
- Thai junta holds talks with Chinese military, investors
- Survey finds huge disillusionment with capitalism in Serbia
- One quarter of people in San Diego cannot make ends meet
- The California teacher tenure ruling and the war against public education
- New round of job cuts in New Zealand
- Million Dollar Arm and Words and Pictures: Two Australian directors in Hollywood, for better or worse
- Millions in US fall into Medicaid gap
- Iraq crisis threatens to ignite regional war
- Federal judge allows US government to destroy evidence in suit against NSA
- Washington drives escalating tensions in South China Sea
- Crisis of low-cost housing affects a million families in California
- Australia: Thousands protest against budget
- On opening day of the World Cup, protests continue in Brazil
2014-06-14
- Ukraine regime claims control of key port city
- Luxury apartment complex in London uses spikes to deter homeless
- One quarter of people in San Diego cannot make ends meet
- Ruby Dee, American actress and activist, dead at 91
- The debacle in Iraq
- Ontario: Liberals regain majority with union support
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- China seeks to woo India’s new right-wing government
- Obama administration says child immigrants are “priorities for removal” from US
- Greece faces more austerity, while EU professes its reliance on the unions
- Internal report details GM ignition cover-up
- EU torn by conflict over European Commission president
- Colombian left backs Santos in election’s second round
- Beyoncé, the new album
- Australia, Japan forge closer military ties
- Australian PM intensifies commitment to US war preparations
2014-06-16
- US-backed rightists attack Russian embassy in Kiev
- This week in history: June 16-22
- Classic jazz from Detroit’s Royal Garden Trio
- Obama administration halts Philadelphia railway strike
- Obama responds to Iraq debacle with military escalation
- Pennsylvania: Mother of seven dies while jailed for unpaid fines
- Militarization of police in America
- Sri Lankan students’ union promotes illusions in protest campaign
- Civil war escalates in Iraq amid reports of sectarian massacres
- Australian treasurer defends austerity budget as “fair”
- French rail workers, artists protest social cuts
- Germany: Ford works council agrees to flexible working and job cuts
- Bank of England governor warns of threat to capitalism
- Instability set to continue after Afghan presidential election
2014-06-17
- Sri Lanka: Sinhala-Buddhist mobs unleash violence against Muslims
- Australia authorities violently suppress refugee hunger strike
- The US media and the debacle in Iraq
- House fire in Newark, New Jersey kills six family members
- September 11 Museum: An exercise in historical falsification
- Murder trial of Sewol captain begins in South Korea
- Washington seeks alliance with Tehran as civil war in Iraq intensifies
- Hungarian government intensifies attack on press freedom
- The German president’s call to arms
- IMF cuts projection for US economic growth
- Australian general blames 2003 invasion for Iraq civil war
- Pentagon begins Bergdahl investigation
- Detroit retirees denounce plan to raid city workers’ savings accounts
- Workers killed on the job at online retailer Amazon
2014-06-18
- Ukrainian military kills Russian journalists in assault on rebel-held town
- 200,000 Cambodians flee Thailand amid military crackdown
- Socialist Party government ignores mass protest to attack French culture workers’ jobless benefits
- CIA planned rendition of Edward Snowden
- Mentally ill in the US: Ten times more in prisons than in hospitals
- Australia Post slashes 900 jobs in preparation for privatisation
- Facing a debacle in Iraq, the US turns for help to Iran
- 1928-2014: Maya Angelou, writer, performer and participant in the civil rights movement
- Obama orders nearly 300 US troops to Iraq
- Jürgen Habermas—Germany's state philosopher turns 85
- German media clamours for a new Iraq war
- Timothy Geithner’s Stress Test: Confessions of a Wall Street bag-man
- French president backs generals’ revolt against cuts to military budget
- Ford announces 250 forced redundancies in Australia
- Executions in Georgia, Missouri and Florida
- Iraq’s civil war provokes UK political crisis
- Detroit city worker union pushes bankruptcy restructuring plan
2014-06-19
- The crisis in Iraq and the response of the Turkish ruling class
- Sri Lankan government tries to whitewash anti-Muslim attacks
- Saudi Arabia warns of civil war in Iraq with “unpredictable consequences”
- A damning exposure of the assault on public education in the US
- Workers speak out against privatization of French railways
- Defend Julian Assange!
- Australia: NSW budget to sell off $20 billion in public assets
- A further comment on The Cranes Are Flying
- Irish Labour Party members hold ballot for new leader
- General cites official request from Iraqi government for US air strikes against Sunni insurgents
- US appeals court rules defendant has no right to secret surveillance documents
- Retired Detroit bus mechanics denounce cuts to pensions and transportation services
- No more war! The anti-war message of The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
- Charter school companies in US face corruption charges
- Bulgaria suspends construction of South Stream pipeline
- More questions than answers after US commandos seize Benghazi attack suspect
- New York’s Metropolitan Opera cancels broadcasts of The Death of Klinghoffer
2014-06-20
- Ukraine regime launches military blitz after floating ceasefire plan
- German foreign minister Steinmeier agitates for war
- A new wave of US school shootings and other violent acts
- Roma boy attacked by lynch mob in northern Paris
- Low-income UK residents pay higher tax rates than the wealthy
- Australian High Court sanctions indefinite offshore refugee detention
- Dilapidated, overcrowded public schools in the Philippines
- Economy slumps, Wall Street booms
- Netflix’s Orange is the New Black: Humanity inside a US women’s prison
- IG-Metall holds bogus “youth protest” at GM-Opel in Rüsselsheim, Germany
- Obama exploits Iraq crisis as pretext for war against Syria
- Growing social inequality in Australia
- UK: Hillsborough disaster inquest reveals safety violations by stadium operator
- US Congressional committee gives GM a pass on deadly ignition defect
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Greek public building cleaners defy police repression, demand reinstatement
2014-06-21
- Pakistan military and US drones pound North Waziristan
- Vote “no” in the Scottish referendum—Fight for a socialist Britain
- South Australian Labor’s budget imposes “cruel” federal cuts
- More than 50 million displaced persons worldwide
- The Metropolitan Opera’s censorship of The Death of Klinghoffer
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- South Korean president carries out cabinet reshuffle
- Washington escalates intervention in region-wide Middle East war
- Iraq crisis exacerbates divisions within Iranian elite
- Poll spotlights British economic insecurity
- Obama administration steps up attacks on undocumented immigrants
- Study ranks US health care system last among 11 nations
- Former Goldman trader involved in fraudulent activities says $8 million bonus too low
- German militarism and the US debacle in Iraq
- German interior minister warns of threat of lethal attacks by Islamists
- Making sense of human suffering: Francis Bacon and Henry Moore — Terror and Beauty
2014-06-23
- Government military offensive in eastern Ukraine continues
- This week in history: June 23-29
- Every Internet user in the UK can be spied on without a warrant
- Oppose the attacks on Muslims in Sri Lanka
- Democracy and the debacle in Iraq
- Australia: Sunday penalty rates slashed for hospitality workers
- GM-Opel: Union “social wage contract” splits German auto workers
- Sri Lankan Muslims protest Buddhist extremist attacks
- Fifty years since the murder of the Mississippi civil rights workers
- Mass graves of undocumented migrants found in Texas
- Detroit workers oppose return of US forces to Iraq
- US moves inciting sectarian warfare throughout the Middle East
- US workers speak on gas prices related to renewed conflict in Iraq
- Entre Nos (Between US) and Red Father: Aspects of US life and history
- Kerry affirms US support for Egyptian junta
2014-06-24
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- China-Vietnam talks fail to end tensions over oil rig
- Prolific composer and master jazz pianist Horace Silver dies at 85
- Washington’s persecution of immigrant children
- UK’s People’s Assembly stages anti-austerity protest
- New Zealand forestry inquiry into workers’ deaths
- In Baghdad, Kerry threatens US military action
- Journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks in California
- China’s premier signs major trade deals with Greece
- Growing social inequality in Germany
- Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists after show trial
- Memo on drone killings of US citizens makes case for presidential dictatorship
- Supreme Court limits federal regulation of greenhouse gases
- British Columbia teachers’ strike enters second week
- US Supreme Court backs hedge fund against Argentina
2014-06-25
- New revelations of neglect and coverup at US veterans health care facilities
- Australian government plans new citizenship and surveillance powers
- Bugging affair unleashes government crisis in Poland
- The Obama drone murder memo
- ISIS offensive in Iraq exposes French pseudo-left’s support for Syria war
- Energy Department report calls New Mexico radiation leak “preventable”
- Kurdish region rebuffs US appeals for unity with Iraqi government
- Jobs losses at Kellogg’s UK part of global profit drive
- Australian shift on East Jerusalem provokes diplomatic furore
- Israel stoking conflict in Iraq, Iran, Syria and the Occupied Territories
- “Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
- New reports confirm economic stagnation in Europe
- Multi-millionaire Hillary Clinton denies she is part of the “truly well-off”
- Albuquerque, New Mexico rally to protest police brutality
2014-06-26
- Hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan to release “secret” album to highest-paying bidder
- Recent report confirms: US depleted uranium weapons targeted civilian areas in Iraq war
- Sister of man fatally shot by Albuquerque Police: “They treated him like a terrorist”
- The imperialist debacle in Iraq and the struggle against war
- US primary elections show low level of popular interest
- The fiasco of Kerry’s Middle East tour
- Australian government’s phony defence of journalist jailed in Egypt
- New studies reveal further details of Higgs particle
- German Social Democrats, Greens, Left Party support German war policy
- Recall delayed because General Motors refused to call power steering failure a safety issue
- EU summit in Ypres: The end of the European Union in its current form
- US economic output tumbled by 2.9 percent in the first quarter
- Child labour: A global scourge
- US Supreme Court rejects unlimited warrantless cell phone searches
- Sri Lankan Muslims describe brutal communal violence
2014-06-27
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Pennsylvania school district contract to cut 15 percent of teachers
- South African platinum miners return to work
- Detroit water shutoffs violate human rights
- Anti-Chinese campaign backfires on New Zealand Labour Party
- US, NATO deliver fresh ultimatums to Russia over Ukraine
- New York’s Metropolitan Opera demands major givebacks from thousands of employees
- Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys: The story of The Four Seasons on screen
- Region-wide war threatens as Iraqi state disintegrates
- Inequality doubles in the US between 2003-2013
- News of the World hacking trial ends: Scandal still poses threat to Britain’s ruling elite
- The return of the state secret police in Germany
- Eli Wallach (1915-2014): Major character actor of stage, screen and television
- Chicago Public Schools lays off 1,150 workers
- Australian government faces parliamentary logjam over austerity budget
- ACLU report exposes US federal government’s role in creating “paramilitary police”
2014-06-28
- Ukraine’s EU Association Agreement a prelude to further bloodshed
- US escalates intervention in Mideast crisis
- SNP presents draft constitution for independent Scotland
- Puerto Rico’s governor seeks to placate bond markets with austerity measures
- “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video” at New York’s Guggenheim Museum
- One hundred years since Sarajevo
- Education “reform” group to file lawsuit against teacher tenure in New York State
- Australia: Western Sydney residents denounce budget assault on health care
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Official Japanese report whitewashes wartime sexual slavery
- Kiev deploys fascists against political opponents
- Union-sponsored bill to fast track the firing of teachers signed by California governor
- Blackwater mercenaries on trial in US court for 2007 Iraq massacre
2014-06-30
- Ukraine’s economic crisis to intensify
- This week in history: June 30-July 6
- UK journalist threatened with arrest under Terrorism Act for filming protest
- Sri Lankan president warns against protests over anti-Muslim attacks
- Workers on Detroit water shutoffs: “They are making it so you can’t live”
- Oppose police sabotage of SEP workers’ inquiry in Sri Lanka
- … And Then You Shoot Your Cousin: The Roots satirize the hip hop world
- Who is responsible for the catastrophes in the Middle East?
- Pennsylvania budget: Layoffs, cuts to education and pensions
- Maryland governor blocks strike by Johns Hopkins Hospital workers
- Regional powers drawn into Iraq civil war
- Obama seeks $2 billion to speed up deportation of child immigrants
- German automaker BMW reports record sales, prepares attacks on workers
- German politicians, media seek to criminalize opponents of war
- EU summit in Ypres: National conflicts and militarism
- Another global financial crisis in the making, Bank for International Settlements warns
- US Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic “buffer zone”
- How Bill Clinton cashed in after leaving White House
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