Archive: 01/2016
2016-01-04
- This week in history: January 4-10
- Justice Scalia repudiates separation of church and state
- America’s richest 400 households paid a 16.7 percent tax rate in 2012
- Right-wing Polish government takes control of public media
- The mass beheadings in Saudi Arabia
- Death toll rises to 24 in Mississippi River floods
- Massachusetts: New attacks on public transportation and transit workers
- Lulu: A new production of a challenging 20th century opera
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US threatens new sanctions on Iran
- Monopolisation of wealth by UK super-rich accelerates
- German political establishment calls for faster remilitarization
- UK government opens vast areas to fracking firms
- Worker crushed to death after wall collapses at Chicago Ford plant
- Australia: Over 100 houses destroyed in Victorian bushfires
- Large numbers of refugees brutally deported from Germany
- 2016 will be a year of escalating class struggle
- Chicago Mayor Emanuel’s police “reform”: Increased repression and cover-up
- Ukrainian government officials celebrate Nazism, anti-Semitism
2016-01-05
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Vietnam accelerates military build-up, plans for war
- Trump pushes racist attack on immigrants, Muslims
- Condemnations of Chinese flight in South China Sea
- Middle East tensions escalate in wake of Saudi mass beheadings
- Russia names United States, NATO as threats to its national security
- Puerto Rican government will not pay portion of its debt
- The New Year stock sell-off
- Right-wing militia members occupy federal building in rural Oregon
- Michigan officials, rating agencies move against cash-strapped schools
- The failure of David O. Russell’s Joy, or, what any “sensible” person should know about modern society
- Indian prime minister visits Russia to consolidate relations
- UK Tories step up attacks on school education
- Police agent-provocateurs exposed at Montreal anti-austerity demonstration
- UAW local publishes blacklist of workers who opt out of dues payment
2016-01-06
- Student accommodation costs rocket in UK
- Spain: Elections anticipated after CUP refuses to back Catalan government
- Bernie Sanders poses as an opponent of Wall Street in New York speech
- German Luftwaffe joins the Syrian war
- Deepening social crisis in New Zealand
- Obama administration rings in new year with deportation of children
- Germany: Poverty of welfare recipients increases
- Obama announces executive measures for gun control
- Freightliner announces nearly 1,000 layoffs at North Carolina plant
- French government considers deprivation of nationality as possible sentence to all citizens
- UK: Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd residents describe flood destruction
- Michigan governor declares state of emergency over Flint lead poisoning
- US-armed Saudi coalition cancels ceasefire, renews military onslaught in Yemen
- CDC report: Worsening drug abuse epidemic across US
- Sri Lankan government moves to criminalise “hate speech”
- Frank Capra: The Early Collection—The American filmmaker’s most ambitious and honest work
2016-01-07
- Venezuela’s Maduro declares “economic emergency” as opposition takes control of legislature
- Official PR campaign sought to present Ukrainian oligarch Julia Tymoshenko as martyr
- Australian government seizes on trade union report to attack workers’ conditions
- Syriza presents plan for drastic pension cuts
- 190 Muslim workers fired from Colorado meatpacking plant
- Residents speak on social crisis in San Bernardino, California following mass shooting in December
- Crocodile tears from the commander-in-chief
- North Korea conducts fourth nuclear test
- Racism and revenge: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
- Australian electronics retailer placed in receivership, threatening thousands of jobs
- Global financial turmoil continues on fears of slower growth
- UK: Resignations follow Labour shadow cabinet reshuffle by Corbyn
- Chicago attorney resigns after judge rules he concealed evidence in police shooting case
- Toronto Star report outlines alarming police Taser use
- Conductor and avant-garde composer Pierre Boulez (1925–2016)
2016-01-08
- Twenty five years of the World Wide Web
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UK: Sonae Industrial gets slap on wrist for deaths of two workers
- Arresting officer in Sandra Bland death charged with perjury
- Papua New Guinea government ejects Australian “advisors”
- Lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan
- New Zealand court approves Kim Dotcom’s extradition to the US
- How banks, privatizers and politicians bankrupted the schools
- US, South Korea discuss deploying “strategic weapons”
- Survey: One in four US adults burdened by medical debt
- Turkey and Arab states line up with Israel over Syria, repression of Palestinians
- Iran claims Saudis “deliberately” struck embassy in Yemen
- Worker killed in Ohio Honda plant
- Stock markets continue to plunge amidst growing signs of economic crisis
- State officials, Wall Street target Detroit schools for bankruptcy restructuring
- Police gun down youth in poor Paris neighborhood
- Carol and The Danish Girl: Real problems, but the danger of exclusivism
- UK regulator abandons banking inquiry
2016-01-09
- Federal prosecutors claim two US Palestinians are linked to terrorism
- Survey finds a majority of Americans unable to pay for major unexpected expenses
- Obama seeks Silicon Valley aid to spy on social media
- South Korean union leader charged with sedition
- FBI arrests mentally ill Rochester man in fabricated ISIS plot
- Chicago police accused of threatening witnesses of Laquan Mcdonald shooting and falsifying accounts
- The lottery and social despair in America
- UK public parks face perilous future
- UK: Oppose introduction of student nurse tuition fees and scrapping of bursaries
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US, China tensions sharpen after North Korean nuclear test
- US jobs report: Employment numbers obscure deeper social crisis
- Jörg Baberowski’s appeal for dictatorship and war
- Florida carries out first US execution of 2016
- Global markets continue to fall
- German government party steps up its anti-refugee agitation
- The assaults in Cologne and the call for a strong state
- Canada: Liberals repackage Harper’s aggressive foreign policy
2016-01-11
- Walter Energy bankruptcy threatens thousands of workers and retirees
- This week in history: January 11-17
- Tamil National Alliance backs austerity, pro-investor policies in Sri Lanka
- One year of Sri Lankan President Sirisena’s rule: Propaganda and reality
- Podemos considers forming government with Spanish social democrats
- Obama rejects pleas to halt deportations
- Thousands of student nurses, midwives and junior doctors demonstrate in London
- US flies B-52 strategic bomber close to Korean border
- Boston: Museum of Fine Arts victimizes veteran worker
- Mentally ill man arraigned for shooting Philadelphia police officer
- German government votes to expand military interventions in Mali and Iraq
- The refugee tragedy and the European Union: The balance sheet for 2015
- Teacher sickouts spread in Detroit
- German media and politicians demand increased state powers in response to Cologne assaults
- Thirty-eight percent of Australia’s large companies paid no tax in 2013-14
- UK military returns to Afghanistan
2016-01-12
- Yemen: Five medical staff dead in third bombing of Doctors Without Borders facilities
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The New York Times and “human rights” imperialism in Syria
- Teacher sickouts shut two-thirds of Detroit schools
- The US in 2016: No money for social programs, cash to burn for the military
- German politicians and media agitate against Poland
- German media incites racist hysteria
- Gang warfare continues to infest Mexican politics
- Israel’s shoot-to-kill policy against Palestinians
- Outraged Flint residents protest water contamination
- Two dead, scores of homes destroyed in Western Australian bushfire
- Australian stocks fall sharply on China and global fears
- Supreme Court hears arguments in union dues case
- UK: Junior doctors strike against new contracts
- Spain: CUP supports a pro-austerity, separatist Catalan government
- House Republican committee chairman attacks climate change scientists
- Chinese markets continue to fall, amid mounting concerns over growth
- New Catalan premier installed on pro-austerity platform of secession from Spain
2016-01-13
- Turkey and Western powers escalate war rhetoric in response to Istanbul attack
- Obama’s final State of the Union: Lies, evasions and threats
- New Year’s message for refugees in Berlin: It will get worse!
- The Detroit teachers’ fight to defend public education
- Hundreds of Neo-Nazis riot in Leipzig, Germany
- Pentagon calls for “pivot” to target Latin America
- US Navy vessels impounded in Iranian waters
- India-Pakistan talks may be derailed even before they begin
- Cold snap brings fatal house fires to Detroit
- Philippine Supreme Court declares US basing deal constitutional
- Detroit public schools teachers continue sickouts
- China’s deep economic malaise
- Divisions within UK Tory party deepen over EU membership
- Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama police using university students as drug informants
2016-01-14
- Detroit teachers issue demands to defend public education
- Tata Steel sale of Long Products Division means attacks on wages, pensions and conditions
- Tamil nationalists conceal ongoing use of torture by Sri Lankan government
- Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency
- German government moves to loosen restrictions on refugee deportations
- Obama’s State of the Union address and the breakdown of American democracy
- Dramatic spike in Legionnaires’ disease deaths possibly linked to Flint River water
- South Korea’s opposition splits ahead of general election
- Junior doctors strike throughout England
- Iran releases US sailors in run-up to nuclear sanction relief
- Amid state of emergency, French workers jailed for struggle to defend jobs
- Pennsylvania constable shoots dead 12-year-old girl during home eviction
- Michigan governor calls out National Guard over Flint water crisis
- Wave of selling hits US markets
- Concussion: Highlighting the perils of American football
- Canada weighing options to expand its role in Mideast war
- Autoworkers support Detroit teachers’ fight
2016-01-15
- National union leader tries to corral protesting Detroit teachers
- Detroit teachers and the political struggle for public education
- Montreal: Labour board upholds draconian suspension of 2,000 city workers
- Poland placed under EU supervision amid escalating Polish-German tensions
- Flint, Michigan: Portrait of an American city
- New Zealand’s healthcare crisis
- The New York Times backs anti-refugee drive in Germany
- Detroit-area residents protest Marathon Oil request to increase air pollution
- German Left Party joins anti-refugee campaign
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- “Paris-style” terror attacks in Jakarta
- Tamil nationalists stage sham protest vs. Sri Lankan president’s visit to Jaffna
- UK’s floods are the responsibility of the super-rich
- New revelations expose federal cover-up in Flint, Michigan water crisis
- Pentagon chief outlines plan for escalation of Iraq-Syria war
- US auto companies announce big payout to stockholders
- Former city employee sues Albuquerque Police Department officials for obstructing public records requests
- New research reveals effects of the Agricultural Revolution on human evolution
- The 88th Academy Awards nominations
2016-01-16
- Police in Britain illegally arrest thousands of children
- Wal-Mart to close 269 stores worldwide
- The Revenant: Are we all savages? (And Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth )
- Video shows another unarmed youth killed by Chicago police
- BAYAN’s phony opposition to the US basing deal in the Philippines
- Washington invokes hunger to promote war in Syria
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India in talks to open ports, bases to US military
- Fourth IYSSE election meeting at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- German chancellor announces massive expansion of military budget
- Cuts lead to staffing crisis in UK education
- Global stocks plunge amid fears of a new financial crisis
- Republican debate: Deeper into the swamp of bigotry and militarism
- Charlie Hebdo joins racist campaign against refugees in Europe
- David Bowie (1947-2016)
- Cuts and closures intensify in Australian TAFE colleges
2016-01-18
- Illinois professor fired for expressing sympathy for Muslims
- This week in history: January 18-24
- Detroit teachers determined to continue fight
- Democrats and unions scramble to contain Detroit teacher protests
- Opposition candidate wins Taiwan’s presidential election
- European governments adopt Nazi-style measures against refugees
- Picasso’s sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
- US drive to war with China dominates Philippine presidential election campaigns
- What is driving the stock market panic?
- As fighting spreads, Turkey moves to crush pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party
- Netanyahu brands Israel’s Palestinian citizens as criminals
- US and EU lift economic sanctions against Iran
- Michigan workers speak on the poisoning of Flint water
- Obama White House declares state of emergency over Flint water crisis
- French Prime Minister Valls’ district threatens to suspend social spending
- More US drug price hikes in 2016
- Democratic Party demagogy in South Carolina debate
- Bangladesh: 41 belatedly charged over Rana Plaza factory collapse
2016-01-19
- Workers Struggles: the Americas
- The ruling class meets at Davos
- Council of Europe issues report on far-right massacre in Odessa
- Neorealism: We Were Not Just Bicycle Thieves—a documentary on Italian cinema
- Drug overdoses in US drive sharp rise in mortality rates among white young adults
- Massachusetts: MBTA proposes steep public transit fare hikes
- Kentucky Social Security recipients commit suicide after benefits cut
- Finnish government outlines onslaught against working class
- Major companies announce job cuts across Europe
- Union officials work with Obama administration to crush Detroit teacher protests
- Sanders in the Democratic debate: A “political revolution” that stops at the water’s edge
- UK Government announces demolition of council housing
- Bank of Montreal stress testing assets for $25 per barrel oil
- Canada’s slumping economy rattles Liberal government
- Berlin police raid: A civil war exercise
2016-01-20
- Obama thanks Australian prime minister for war efforts
- 30 Americans at the Detroit Institute of Arts: The art of identity politics
- Russian government prepares cuts as poverty surges
- RISE: “Scottish Syriza” seeks alliance with Scottish National Party
- The Flint water crisis and the criminality of American capitalism
- Australian nickel refinery crisis threatens thousands of jobs
- Supreme Court to rule on Obama immigration program
- IYSSE at Berlin’s Humboldt University holds final election campaign meeting
- Video: Workers and youth protest Flint water poisoning at Michigan State Capitol
- China confirms economic slowdown as IMF cuts global growth forecast
- Sri Lankan government tries to woo foreign investors
- Were French intelligence forces complicit in the Charlie Hebdo attacks?
- Naval buildup in Black Sea escalates US-Russian tensions
- Prominent German journalist attacks refugees in the New York Times
- To create a genuine artistic “avant garde” means confronting critical historical issues
- Danish and Swedish governments step up attacks on refugees
2016-01-21
- School authorities seek injunction to halt Detroit teacher protests
- Scottish government imposes more cuts
- Illinois Republicans announce Chicago bankruptcy legislation
- Calls for “primary of the left” offer political cover to French ruling party
- The political significance of the global economic turmoil
- Escalating Michigan crisis overwhelms Obama’s visit to Detroit
- Port of Oakland in California to close major terminal
- What is behind the growing criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel?
- German defence minister announces military intervention in Libya
- German IYSSE wins four seats in Humboldt University Student Elections
- “Staggering” violence in Iraq: The legacy of US war and occupation
- Australian government unveils new cuts to health care
- Video: Detroit teachers speak out in protests during Obama visit
- UK: Corbyn offers Labour’s right an olive branch over Trident
- Labor Party in Australia demands “action” against China
- The semi-boycott of the “whites only” Academy Awards
2016-01-22
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- President Maduro to rule by emergency decree as Venezuela heads toward default
- Hearing scheduled to consider injunction against protesting Detroit teachers
- Turkish invasion threat escalates Syrian conflict
- Imprisonment periods lengthening in Australian immigration detention centres
- Financial markets press Portugal to intensify austerity
- The roots of the crisis in Flint and Detroit
- Three US coal miners killed in three weeks
- Emergency meeting January 27 on the crisis in Flint and Detroit
- Job cuts mount as global economy falters
- Japan heightens its profile in the South China Sea
- Indian Stalinists form pro-imperialist Third Front in Tamil Nadu
- IYSSE statement on the student parliament vote at Humboldt University
- General Electric given $145 million in incentives to move headquarters to Boston
- Massive methane gas leak imperils Los Angeles neighborhood
- Jazz album: Crisis by Amir ElSaffar and the Two Rivers Ensemble
- Desert Slaughter: The Imperialist War Against Iraq—an enduring contribution to waging war on war
- Canadian elite seizes on Burkina Faso terrorist attack to push militarist agenda
- UK parliament debates banning Donald Trump—but what about David Cameron?
- Autoworkers speak on Flint water crisis
2016-01-23
- Misery compounds as mass layoffs continue in West Virginia
- Australian prime minister visits US military commander in Hawaii
- Mass protests against unemployment erupt across Tunisia
- Detroit schools’ injunction against teachers: An anti-democratic attempt to crush protests
- Spain: Podemos ready to form government with Socialist Party
- Dozens of refugees drown near Greek island of Farmakonisi
- The end of liberal Europe
- Michigan residents speak on Flint lead poisoning
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Indian Stalinist leaders divided over alliance with big business Congress Party
- Windfall affordable housing tax break for New York developers expires
- Mass protests against pension cuts in Greece
- Evidence mounts that poisoned Flint water caused deaths
- Australian industrial court bans port strikes
- New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany: Growing inconsistencies
- Charlie Kaufman’s often charming, moving Anomalisa (and Michael Moore’s feeble Where to Invade Next)
2016-01-25
- This week in history: January 25-31
- US threatens to withdraw from major Pacific fisheries treaty
- Wave of youth suicides in Oklahoma town
- US blizzard: At least 27 dead, hundreds of thousands without power
- Five years of the Egyptian Revolution
- On eve of Syria “peace talks,” Washington threatens escalation across region
- Left Party steps-up anti-immigrant agitation in Germany
- UK: British Medical Association and Labour isolate junior doctors’ strike
- Democratic state treasurer played key role in Flint water disaster
- Global slowdown to deepen attacks on jobs
- As Detroit teachers head to court, politicians plot further attacks
- CSIS report: A blueprint for US war with China
- Chicago teachers union leader pledges to enforce austerity
- Brazilian government represses Sao Paulo fare hike protests
2016-01-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Victorian-era diseases making a comeback in the UK
- J.M.W. Turner and modern art: Comments on an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario
- France gives €1 billion aid to Tunisia in bid to halt mass protests over jobs
- Detroit judge rules against restraining order over teacher “sickouts”
- Prime Minister Valls pledges permanent state of emergency in France
- US think tank outlines master plan for war with China
- Corporate gas leak in California’s Aliso Canyon to continue for months
- Indonesian authorities seize on Jakarta attack to strengthen detention powers
- Video: Flint residents protest paying for poisoned water
- US: 237 perish in house fires in the new year
- Australian Dulux workers return to work but job cuts loom
- Detroit teachers denounce legal witch-hunt
- Growing support for Sanders highlights US political crisis
- Australia “central” to US plans for war with China
- Berlin town hall meeting protests discrimination against refugees
- Austria closes its borders to refugees
2016-01-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Detroit high school students stage walkouts to support teachers
- New Zealand government arrests alleged student loan defaulter
- Bernie Sanders mobilizes African American celebrities to help “keep hope alive”
- Australian maritime union isolates and betrays Portland seamen
- Podemos pressures Socialist Party to form new government in Spain
- Sanders and socialism
- UK government inquiry purports to link Putin to Litvinenko assassination
- Plight of Syrians on Jordan’s border exposes US and European policy
- Londoners spend majority of their income on housing
- Canada’s prime minister courts global financial elite
- Prominent German journalist beats the drum for nationalism and war
- US planning to keep military forces in Afghanistan for “decades”
- Texas grand jury indicts anti-abortion operatives who doctored videos
2016-01-28
- Over a thousand jobs to go at Welsh steel plants
- A modern Antigone: Son of Saul by László Nemes
- European governments step up offensive against refugees
- Polish government intensifies military build-up
- War and the destruction of social infrastructure in America
- Federal agents kill one, arrest eight in confrontation with Oregon militia leaders
- Large turnout at emergency meeting on the crisis in Detroit and Flint called by SEP
- Latvian Greens and neo-fascists in coalition
- US secretary of state demands China act against North Korea
- Russian arms consignment arrives in Fiji
- Wall Street falls on global growth fears
- Detroit student protest organizers explain issues behind Cass Tech walkout
- Manslaughter trial in police killing of Akai Gurley begins in Brooklyn
2016-01-29
- World Health Organization: Zika virus “spreading explosively” in Americas
- German defence minister demands additional €130 billion for military
- Ten thousand jobs in danger at Volkswagen
- Sweden announces plans to deport up to 80,000 refugees
- Pentagon prepares another war in Libya
- Cameron’s attack on migrants spearheads appeal to far right in the UK
- Emergency meeting on the crisis in Detroit and Flint draws over one hundred workers and youth
- The Rachel Maddow show in Flint: Damage control for Democrats
- Google’s UK tax deal leaves major corporations with nothing to fear
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Questions emerge over motives behind ending Flint’s ties to Detroit water system
- Expedited US drug approvals lack adequate post-market oversight
- Drone, a Norwegian-made documentary: “We just made orphans out of all these children”
- Death toll climbs to 49 in US snowstorm
- Australian Treasury head demands deep spending cuts
- Former army chief named “Australian of the Year”
2016-01-30
- Steelworkers union begins counting ballots in sellout contract at US Steel
- CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
- Republican debate in Iowa promotes war and reaction
- Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
- Longshoremen walk out at New York/New Jersey Port
- Wall Street celebrates mounting signs of US slump
- San Diego officials to fight ruling against pension cutback
- Job cuts and threats of defaults as commodity prices fall
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan moves to negative interest rates
- Washington to escalate US Mideast wars
- Europe joins the economic “gold rush” to Tehran
- Australian state government plans to privatise public housing
- Greek Syriza government colludes with EU in refugee crackdown
- German government restricts right to asylum
- State workers in Flint supplied with bottled water one year prior to acknowledgement of crisis
- Toronto cop found guilty on lesser charge in killing of Sammy Yatim
- Cameron continues EU negotiations amid deepening inner-party divisions
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi—Michael Bay’s mythmaking
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