Archive: 01/2015
2015-01-03
- Australia to be maintenance base for controversial F-35 jet fighter
- SEP presidential campaign underway in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka
- Blood and capital
- Pegida and the rightward shift in German politics
- Palestinian Authority signs up to International Criminal Court
- The global scale of US militarism
- Second migrant ship rescued off coast of Italy
- Forced labor on Mexican farms
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US imposes new sanctions on North Korea
- Jacksonville, Florida residents speak on inadequate minimum wage increase
- US moves closer to direct combat with ISIS
- Tim Burton’s Big Eyes: Kitsch has never helped anyone yet
- European Central Bank president’s interview sends euro to four-year low
- Singer Joe Cocker: 1944-2014
- UK: Thousands of City Link delivery workers sacked on New Year’s Eve
- Senate letter exposes FBI domestic warrantless cellphone data mining
- Oil price fall roils Canadian economy
- Wealth of world’s 400 richest billionaires rose $92 billion in 2014
2015-01-05
- US Post Office to close 82 mail processing centers
- Pseudo-left USP plays double game in Sri Lankan presidential election
- This week in history: January 5-11
- Life in modern Tokyo, and life during the two world wars: Kabukicho Love Hotel, Tsili and Theeb
- New Year’s Eve stampede in Shanghai kills 36
- 2014–2015: Results and prospects
- Second New York cop funeral provides platform to muzzle opposition
- Lithuania adopts the euro
- How the British workers’ movement helped end slavery in America
- Japan: New laws to loosen restrictions on the military
- New agreement opens assault on welfare and public sector in Northern Ireland
- German army and intelligence service complicit in US drone killings
- British nurse in critical condition with Ebola
- US military preparing new generation of drones for urban combat
- Maryland workers speak out in support of striking sanitation employees
- New York Governor Cuomo’s second term to continue assault on public education
- Mario Cuomo and the decay of American liberalism
- Washington resumes work on right-wing agenda
2015-01-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Jury selection begins in trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- The New York Times and Washington’s “propaganda bubble” on Ukraine
- Germany: Ten years of Hartz IV welfare cuts
- Syriza’s programme for the rescue of Greek and European capitalism
- JVP campaigns for pro-US opposition candidate in Sri Lankan presidential election
- Police kill man holding toy gun in California
- The state of American society as 2015 begins
- North Korea condemns new US sanctions
- Israel blocks funds of Palestinian Authority
- Gentrification of downtown Detroit producing huge profits for the rich
- General Motors recalls more vehicles for ignition defects
- Australian bushfires underline impact of global climate warming
- German government threatens to force Greece out of euro zone
- Sharp market falls over euro and oil price slump
- Australian prime minister visits Iraq to promote US-led war
2015-01-07
- Unbroken: Mediocre Hollywood fare in the service of … what exactly?
- US Steel to close plant in Lorain, Ohio and lay off 756 workers
- Tamil nationalists support US-backed opposition in Sri Lankan election
- House Republicans re-elect Congressional whip with ties to neo-Nazi group
- Saudi Arabia destabilised by high-risk move on oil production
- Australian state government calls snap election
- The international significance of the Sri Lankan presidential election
- Pakistan parliament authorizes military courts
- Mozambique health care workers speak on struggle to control tuberculosis
- Legal attack on Minnesota protest against police murders
- Obama backs beleaguered Mexican president
- IYSSE at Humboldt University begins seminars on the return of German militarism
- Ferguson grand juror seeks to speak out against rigged procedure
- Political instability and global slump intensify financial turmoil
- UK: Oppose rationing of vital health services!
- One in seven Detroiters threatened with eviction in wave of home foreclosures
- Tensions rise over Arctic after Denmark lodges territorial claim
- Evidence mounts of safety violations contributing to AirAsia plane crash
2015-01-08
- Tsipras urges Greek pseudo-left groups to rally behind SYRIZA
- US military admits civilian deaths in Mideast air war
- Sri Lankan opposition parties line up behind US regime-change agenda
- Washington buries the CIA torture report
- At Michigan auto factory, Obama says more “sacrifice” needed for economic turnaround
- Missoula, Montana police accused of fabricating story after officer kills man “execution style”
- Two New Orleans charter schools vote to return to local oversight
- Leading Nazi worked for Germany’s post-war intelligence service for 13 years
- “Governments want a history that reflects their agenda”
- Twelve dead in terrorist shooting at Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo
- BBC attacks Russell Brand to defend a discredited political setup
- Australian budget reviews reveal impact of plunging commodity prices
- New Congress targets Social Security disability benefits
- Boko Haram seizes key multi-national military base in northern Nigeria
2015-01-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Cleveland, Ohio woman’s death at hands of police ruled a homicide
- Sri Lanka: President Mahinda Rajapakse concedes defeat in election
- Oldest known example of abstract symbolic representation discovered in Indonesia
- Police brutality and impunity in Ontario
- “Free Speech” hypocrisy in the aftermath of the attack on Charlie Hebdo
- Pegida and the German government’s campaign for militarism
- New York police continue counteroffensive with arrests of protesters and work slowdown
- India’s Modi regime imposes big business “reforms” by executive fiat
- Unions scuttle half-million strong Coal India strike
- Massive police mobilization in France
- Euro zone officially tips into deflation
- Doctor Who turns toward militarism
- Homemade bomb explodes outside NAACP offices in Colorado Springs
- Freezing temperatures lead to dozens of deaths in the US
- Gunmen were “probably followed” by French police before Paris massacre
- Brazilian auto workers strike over job cuts
- Thousands of UK apprentices paid below minimum wage
2015-01-10
- Leading German historian Hermann Weber dies
- Postal workers speak out against plant closures and speed-up
- Maithripala Sirisena sworn in as Sri Lankan president
- Sony hacking allegations used to push antidemocratic “cybersecurity” laws
- Cleveland police gave 12-year-old Tamir Rice no medical aid after shooting him
- Le Pen at the Elysée Presidential Palace
- French Muslims targeted by revenge attacks after Charlie Hebdo shootings
- France preparing military strikes against southern Libya
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Headline figures in December jobs report mask worsening conditions for US workers
- Germany’s Social Democrats announce new round of social attacks
- French paramilitary police gun down three Islamist gunmen
- Funding cuts produce crisis in UK Accident and Emergency services
- The economic and political implications of deflation
- Czech president condemns Nazi demonstration in Kiev
- Australian government exploits Paris attacks
2015-01-12
- Yemen moving towards civil war
- This week in history: January 12-18
- Australian state government drafts anti-free speech defamation laws
- White House rejects petitions to fire prosecutors who drove Internet activist Aaron Swartz to suicide
- Obama to host global terrorism summit
- Union shuts down strike, pushes sellout of Maryland sanitation workers
- The outcome of the Sri Lankan election and its international implications
- The Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union: Part one
- Five years since the Haiti earthquake
- Goya: Order and Disorder: A comprehensive view of the work of the Spanish genius
- German reaction to Paris shootings: State build-up and anti-Muslim agitation
- Millions march in France after Charlie Hebdo shooting
- Millions in Britain cannot afford to eat properly
- Drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan
- Boko Haram escalates offensive in Nigeria’s Borno State
- Australian special forces working with sectarian Shiite troops in Iraq
2015-01-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Elizabeth Warren speaks at AFL-CIO meeting
- Verizon union gears up for sellout at US telecom
- UK uses Charlie Hebdo attack to justify repressive powers
- Leaked information confirms police refused to negotiate with Sydney siege gunman
- Swedish deal to avert early elections
- Labor pledges to match budget cutting in Australian state election
- Justice Department considering felony charges against Petraeus
- Who is responsible for the French terrorist attacks?
- Netherlands: Groningen rocked by earthquakes from natural gas extraction
- The Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union: Part two
- Violence intensifies in Mexico as authorities unearth 10 headless bodies
- SEP (UK) public meetings: Socialism and the fight against austerity and war
- South Korea deports Korean-American woman accused of supporting the North
- The IYSSE’s campaign against war and historical falsification at Humboldt University
- Italy strengthens state in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack
- Obama defends GM cover-up of deadly ignition defect
- France deploys 10,000 troops in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack
- Ezekiel Emanuel’s latest advice: “Skip Your Annual Physical”
- Germany: Daimler screening workers for terrorist links
- Coal mine closures and layoffs continue throughout US
2015-01-14
- Obama administration continues to block report on Saudi financing of 9/11 attacks
- New Sri Lankan president appoints his cabinet
- European powers implement police state measures in wake of Charlie Hebdo attack
- Imperialist war, the “war on terror” and the end of democracy
- A Potemkin gathering of world leaders in Paris
- Pennsylvania’s new Democratic Party governor prepares austerity measures
- Australia: New state Labor leader installed to push business agenda
- Washington, DC subway disaster kills one, injures 84
- Well-attended meeting at Berlin’s Humboldt University on attempts to downplay the crimes of Nazism
- Top secret report details FBI mass surveillance
- Egyptian court overturns last remaining conviction against Mubarak
- Oil prices and bond yields continue their decline
- Downton Abbey: A rose-tinted depiction of class relations
- Chinese President Xi Jinping targets CCP party factions
- Murder charges filed against Albuquerque cops who killed James Boyd
2015-01-15
- UK puts military on standby after Charlie Hebdo attack
- US and EU press ahead with secretive new trade agreement
- SEP wages powerful campaign in Sri Lankan presidential election
- Racist provocation and the “war on terror”
- 100,000 protest against Pegida in Germany
- Hundreds of thousands of US layoffs expected as oil boom unravels
- California mental health care workers strike
- Indonesian president abolishes fuel subsidy
- French government carries out mass arrests
- Who is Richard Fadden, Canada’s new national security adviser?
- Obama administration pushes cybersecurity law to expand corporate-government collaboration
- Obama announces pro-business community college plan
- Canada’s Harper promotes new police powers and war
- World Bank lowers its growth forecast
- One day after Albuquerque cops charged with murder, another fatal police shooting
2015-01-16
- To End All Wars: An anthology of antiwar comics about World War I
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Financial markets rocked by decision to abandon ceiling on Swiss franc
- Who is Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena?
- Germany: Refugee murdered after anti-immigrant demonstration
- Detroit area police caught on video beating handcuffed suspect
- Charlie Hebdo and the specter of Vichy: From Laval to Hollande
- SYRIZA’s “anti-oligarch” policy: A call to global finance to raid Greece
- Australian government in disarray over doctors’ fees
- Japanese government boosts military spending
- White House to draft Iraq-Syria war resolution
- New York City’s housing and homelessness crisis intensifies under de Blasio
- Obama, Cameron discuss war and state repression following Charlie Hebdo attack
- FBI accuses Ohio man of terror plot to attack US Capitol
- New Year executions: Oklahoma, Florida and Georgia
- December sales slump reflects precarious economic conditions facing US households
2015-01-17
- Spending by outside groups in US Senate elections has doubled since 2010
- Spanish government uses Paris terror attack to clamp down on democratic rights
- Arrests follow terror raids across Europe
- Closure of coal mines in Poland threatens 5,000 jobs
- Europe’s terror attacks: The blowback from Western intervention
- New York City Mayor de Blasio vows to veto law outlawing police chokeholds
- Hunger strike in Australian refugee detention camp on Manus Island
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indian elite welcomes change of government in Sri Lanka
- Top French policeman investigating Charlie Hebdo shooting found dead
- Fourteen cold-related deaths in Chicago region since November
- CIA panel whitewashes spying on US Senate
- Behind whitewash of CIA spying: The trail leads to the White House
- Canada’s finance minister postpones budget as economic turmoil deepens
- Federal judge cuts BP oil spill fine by billions of dollars
2015-01-19
- Ukraine premier’s pro-Nazi version of World War II: USSR invaded Ukraine, Germany
- This week in history: January 19-25
- Police crackdown after Charlie Hebdo attack spreads across Europe
- Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War
- Scottish National Party prepares for a coalition role at Westminster
- More than half of US public school students living in poverty
- The coming fight over wages in the US
- Striking California mental health workers denounce attacks on health care
- Military contractor pleads guilty in US Navy corruption scandal
- German Chancellor Merkel backs police state measures and militarism
- Indonesian president speeds up executions of prisoners
- 160 people killed in US home fires during first two weeks of January
- Michigan governor names 4th emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools
- US drug enforcement agency acknowledges longstanding warrantless wiretapping program
- Australian PM condemns magistrate for bail decision in bogus “terror” case
2015-01-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Ukraine opens offensive against pro-Russian separatists in the east
- New York Times publishes new “revelations” on North Korea
- UK to launch enhanced “anti-terror measures” and domestic use of troops
- Sri Lankan government discusses phony “100-day work program”
- The historical and political issues in Selma
- Labor vows to outdo “debt reduction” in Australian state election
- The legitimization of Marine Le Pen
- Mexico’s state oil company sacks thousands of workers
- Media magnate Péladeau seeks Parti Québécois leadership
- Kerry presses Pakistan to intensify anti-Taliban war
- Oxfam: Richest one percent set to control more wealth than the bottom 99 percent
- Violent crackdown on hunger strikers in Australian refugee camp
- US rejects North Korea overtures
- Widespread disaffection in Queensland election
- Haiti earthquake relief funds unaccounted for amid pervasive human misery
- German city plans to accommodate refugees in former concentration camp
- US education secretary promises no let-up in standardized testing
2015-01-21
- The murder of Akai Gurley and police repression in New York City public housing
- Pseudo-left groups in Greece line up behind SYRIZA
- Evidence of India’s involvement in regime change in Sri Lanka
- Delusion and deception in Obama’s State of Union
- German TV documentary on the hunt for Edward Snowden
- Capitalism and the global plutocracy
- German media and politicians promote right-wing, anti-Muslim Pegida movement
- New Orleans mayor announces “end” to veteran homelessness
- Reports on deadly Metro accident show poor maintenance and negligence in Washington, DC transit system
- Mass layoffs follow election of new right-wing mayor in Lima, Peru
- Syria strike caps Israel’s provocations in Middle East
- IMF cuts growth forecast amid warnings of rising global unemployment
- German IYSSE meeting series ends with discussion on historical falsification and the universities
- Humboldt University discussion: “The Charlie Hebdo campaign is being used to suppress freedom of speech”
- European Central Bank appears set to introduce quantitative easing
- Unions, Democrats and Republicans form school privatization group
- Canadian Special Forces engage in ground combat in Iraq
- China records lowest growth in 24 years
- Canada’s foreign minister greeted by protests on Mideast tour
2015-01-22
- Houthi insurgents seize Yemen’s presidential palace
- Obama’s State of Delusion
- Proposed New York reactor closing puts 700 jobs at risk
- US agencies rank 2014 as Earth’s warmest recorded year
- Miami begins “virtual policing” of residents
- North Korean defector recants prison camp claims
- IYSSE wins seat in Humboldt University Parliament
- Israeli strike in Syria threatens wider war
- Workers, youth in Athens discuss upcoming election
- Boko Haram and the return of German imperialism to Africa
- After Charlie Hebdo attack, France announces draconian anti-terror law
- New Zealand opposition parties seize on “illegal” fishing to promote militarism
- Report: No federal charges against Ferguson, Missouri cop who killed Michael Brown
- EU foreign ministers discuss attacks on democratic rights, provocations against Russia
- Cincinnati bridge collapse kills one worker, injures another
- Amid a worsening Australian government crisis, Labor pledges to impose austerity
2015-01-23
- Yemeni president resigns as Houthi insurgents consolidate control over capital
- Australia: Murdoch newspaper denounces universities for “over-educating” students
- US announces plans to deploy military advisers to Ukraine
- Australian authorities issue another bogus “terror” alert
- New York Times columnist advises how to protect pro-US government in Sri Lanka
- Russia and US end collaboration on nuclear disarmament
- St. Louis police gun down another teenager
- 2015 and the rising tide of war
- Fiat-Chrysler boss wants wages tied to profits in new auto contract
- Crisis talks in London over Islamic State
- Unemployed Greek workers face desperate situation
- Influenza reaches epidemic proportions in US
- Texas carries out first execution of 2015
- UK Iraq war inquiry report delayed yet again
- Governor Cuomo pushes casino expansion in Upstate New York
- Video shows New Jersey police killing man as he attempts to surrender
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Financial markets celebrate European Central Bank launch of €1 trillion quantitative easing program
2015-01-24
- After Yemeni regime’s collapse, calls mount for US military escalation across Middle East and Africa
- Detroit regional water authority prepares double-digit rate increases
- New Senate Intelligence Committee chair moves to suppress CIA torture report
- Australian man dies after being tasered by police
- Greek election: SYRIZA leader calls for “new patriotic alliance”
- American Sniper: A wolf in sheep dog’s clothing
- Saudi king’s death threatens to deepen US crisis in Middle East
- The election in Greece and the political tasks of the working class
- Measles outbreak in California spreads to six other states
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Ransom deadline passes for Japanese hostages held by ISIS
- Obama to press India for economic and strategic concessions
- Mounting hunger in western Wisconsin
- Europe faces political “earthquakes,” BBC warns on Democracy Day
- Fate of GM production in Canada uncertain
2015-01-26
- This week in history: January 26-February 1
- Top New York state Democrat indicted for corruption
- Rikers Island officers fired for hog-tying and beating prisoner
- Mass job losses unfold in global oil industry
- Imperialist mourning for King Abdullah
- Pipeline leak spills thousands of gallons of crude oil into Yellowstone River
- ISIS kills Japanese hostage
- Greek students describe social crisis facing youth
- Housing affordability crisis worsens in New Zealand
- Syriza wins Greek elections
- German corporations call for new forms of workplace exploitation
- Japan: Two workers killed at TEPCO nuclear plants in Fukushima
- At least 18 dead as Egyptian military regime violently represses demonstrations
- First round of US-Cuba talks end as restrictions eased
- Spain: Regional Catalan president calls early elections
2015-01-27
- US resumes drone strikes in Yemen
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- State of emergency declared in eastern Ukraine, as US vows more sanctions against Russia
- Mr. Turner brings the great painter to life
- Sri Lankan government promises “devolution pact” to woo Tamil elite
- Australian Productivity Commission launches wage-cutting review
- The significance of the election of Syriza in Greece
- The political struggle facing Detroit teachers
- US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Oklahoma lethal injection protocol
- Pseudo-left groups mislead protests against water charges in Ireland
- Syriza forms coalition government with right-wing Independent Greeks
- New president of Detroit teachers union looks for collaboration with Democratic Party
- Berlin mayor resigns: The end of the era
- Republican presidential campaign begins: A mixture of corporate cash and far-right politics
2015-01-28
- Inherent Vice: Thomas Pynchon’s novel adapted for the screen
- New figures show continued decline in US union membership
- Syriza’s electoral success and the pseudo-left
- Whistleblower who exposed CIA nuclear sabotage operation convicted under Espionage Act
- Mass layoffs at northwest Indiana steel mills
- Xenophobic attacks on foreign shop-owners spread in Gauteng, South Africa
- The 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
- German Social Democratic leader enters into discussions with Pegida
- India, US boost military-strategic drive against China
- US announces plan to ration health care under Medicare
- Snowstorm ‘Juno’ shuts down much of northeastern US
- Japanese government exploits hostage crisis to push remilitarisation
- Who are the Independent Greeks?
- Governments in Eastern Europe intensify attacks on democratic rights and immigrants
- Concerns over Fed tightening as deflation fears grow
- Delinquency rates for auto loans hit highest level since 2008
- The motives behind Australian PM’s knighting of Prince Philip
2015-01-29
- WikiLeaks considers legal action over Google’s compliance with US search orders
- Diesel spill in West Virginia leaves 12,000 without water
- Politically driven hysteria over the New York City snowstorm that wasn’t
- Australian opposition Labor leader visits troops in Iraq
- Obama’s State of the Union and the fraud of Kshama Sawant
- South Africa’s politically connected elites profit amid power outages
- Australian pseudo-left group hails Syriza’s victory in Greece
- Standard and Poor’s downgrades Russia’s credit rating to junk
- Australia: Queensland election reveals wider political crisis
- Mexican government rushes to close case of disappeared students
- Experimental data supports the interactive development of language and technology
- Koch brothers pledge to spend nearly $900 million on 2016 US elections
- Israel threatens war following clashes with Hezbollah
- Syriza hands Greek defence ministry to right-wing nationalist
- Denver police shoot and kill sixteen-year-old girl
- The Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night: Who should pay for the present situation?
- US stock sell-off in response to Fed policy statement on interest rates
2015-01-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- University of California doctors hold one-day strike
- Sydney siege inquest: An exercise in damage control
- Police shoot and kill teenage girl in Longview, Texas police station
- Peruvian government repeals law targeting young workers
- The class character of Syriza revealed
- At least two dead after gas explosion in Mexico City maternity hospital
- No further prosecution for policeman who killed Detroit seven-year-old
- Income inequality soars in every US state
- Indonesian authorities prepare for more executions
- Court sentences two Chileans, indicts US in the 1973 murder of Charles Horman
- Germany moves into deflation as global bond prices point to deepening slump
- German president uses Auschwitz commemoration to justify militarism
- Texas, Georgia execute intellectually disabled death row inmates
- Six million hit with Obamacare penalties for being uninsured
- EU foreign ministers toughen sanctions against Russia
2015-01-31
- Gorbachev warns Ukraine could ignite World War III
- Target CEO’s “golden parachute” exceeds total severance for 17,600 Canadian workers
- US Senator McCain calls police on anti-Kissinger protesters
- Police murders and the criminalization of protest in America
- New pamphlet on police killings from Mehring Books
- Maryland’s new Republican governor unveils austerity budget
- Inquiry into death of Alexander Litvinenko opens in London
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Fate of ISIS’s Japanese and Jordanian captives uncertain
- New Zealand Internet and Mana Parties split following electoral debacle
- UK’s first privatised hospital fails
- Germany to send troops into northern Iraq
- Obama administration moves to open US coastlines to offshore drilling
- Public meeting Tuesday in Dublin, Ireland: The Struggle for Trotskyism in Ireland
- Drug Enforcement Administration tracks movements of millions of Americans
- The controversy surrounding American Sniper
- New England blizzard blamed for numerous deaths
- Australian government plunged into leadership crisis by Murdoch intervention
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