Archive: 10/2016
2016-10-01
- Michigan attorney general asserts right to close dozens of Detroit schools
- Loving, The Birth of a Nation: Distinct approaches to historical events
- Sri Lankan president at the UN prostrates himself to Washington
- Nationwide strike continues by US and state prison labor
- El Cajon, California police release video showing fatal shooting of Alfred Olango
- Philippine President Duterte declares end to joint war games with the US
- Deutsche Bank and the global financial crisis
- Shimon Peres (1923-2016)
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italian Prime Minister Renzi announces constitutional referendum for December
- Sri Lankan regime, Tamil nationalists reject ex-LTTE members’ poisoning allegations
- US backs India’s military strikes on Pakistan
- Australian state government to privatise five hospitals
- Research team hikes estimate: At least half of Flint, Michigan homes have lead pipes
- US media steps up campaign for Clinton
- SEP Vice Presidential candidate Niles Niemuth speaks about the presidential debate and the danger of war
2016-10-03
- This week in history: October 3-9
- US transit agency launched safety probe before fatal New Jersey train crash
- Amnesty International documents torture by Thai junta
- Russia responds to US threats with blunt warning over use of force in Syria
- Spanish Socialist Party leader resigns to allow formation of right-wing government
- Brazilian teachers speak out on education cuts and social attacks
- Philadelphia and Pittsburgh orchestra musicians on strike
- The “major and deadly” wars to come
- Pasadena police kill father of eight during help call
- Death toll mounts in US police killings
- India and Pakistan teeter on the brink of war
- Hungary’s anti-refugee referendum fails after low turnout
- Adam Hochschild’s Spain in Our Hearts: A deeply felt work on the Spanish Civil War marred by its perspective
- Police state preparations in Dresden for German Unity Day
- Worker killed at US Steel mill in Indiana
- Protests continue in El Cajon, California over the police killing of Alfred Olango
- The pseudo-left’s role in the defeat of the British junior doctors’ struggle
- UK Prime Minister announces timetable for UK exit from European Union
- Thousands of teachers strike in Brazil as government prepares attack on education
- Australia: Strike continues at Anglo American’s German Creek coal mine
- Mobilize the working class behind the Minnesota nurses strike!
2016-10-04
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Growing opposition from Canadian autoworkers to Unifor-backed sellout contracts
- US defence secretary announces “third phase” of military build-up against China
- US suspends talks with Russia as danger mounts of escalation in Syrian war
- Australia: Dean of arts college quits amid student protests
- Spanish Socialist Party coup exposes Podemos
- Trump’s taxes: Capitalist corruption and class privilege
- SEP Presidential candidate Jerry White speaks to students and workers in Northern Virginia
- Minnesota nurses reject sellout contract, continue strike
- UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson maps out post-Brexit agenda
- Italy: Strikes and protests against the Renzi government’s “Jobs Act”
- Amid war crisis, Pakistani actors hounded out of India
- Deutsche Bank crisis: Germany and US accuse each other of economic warfare
- Colombia votes against peace accord between the FARC and government
- Unifor sets stage for Fiat-Chrysler sellout
- Job cuts threatened at New Caledonia nickel plant
- UAW lines up behind Trump’s call for trade war
2016-10-05
- The development of public water systems and the crisis in Flint
- Vice presidential candidates agree on US military escalation in Syria
- Sami Blood from Sweden, Werewolf from Canada, Park from Greece: Society’s cruelty to its youngest members
- Ma’ Rosa from the Philippines: Small-time drug dealers set upon by the police
- Threat of US-Russia clash grows after Washington cuts off Syria talks
- Poland: Tens of thousands protest proposed anti-abortion bill
- Sanders’ campaign for Clinton: A “political revolution” in defense of the status quo
- Los Angeles police kill second man in two days
- France’s sale of Rafale jets to India stokes Indo-Pakistani war tensions
- Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti and heads north
- Syriza government assaults Greek retirees
- Video raises questions in 2012 New York police killing of Ramarley Graham
- One month until the US elections: the political issues facing the working class
- Billions for infrastructure and health care not war!
- UK Labour Party attacks Greater Manchester firefighters
- IMF cuts growth forecasts for major economies
- Opposition grows to GM Canada pattern contract
2016-10-06
- Yahoo spied on “hundreds of millions” of email accounts on behalf of US spy agencies
- Workers struggles mount in run-up to US election
- UK: May dresses up policies of austerity and militarism in the language of fairness and opportunities
- Tunisian men reveal new details of torture at CIA black sites
- Escalating war games in the South China Sea
- Philippine President Duterte tells Obama to “go to hell”
- Beating the drums for war with Russia
- Faculty set October 19 strike date at Pennsylvania universities
- Nazi propaganda during German Unity celebration in Dresden
- India’s military calls for more strikes on Pakistan
- Harvard dining hall workers strike over health insurance, wages
- German media steps up drumbeat for war and militarism
- Ford Australia’s closure demonstrates need for a global auto workers’ strategy
- One year since the exposure of the Flint water crisis
2016-10-07
- West Virginia: Seven Fayette County schools to be shuttered
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Coventry University in UK attacks teaching staff wages, terms and conditions
- Political lessons from the Canadian auto “bailout”
- Lady Macbeth, John Coltrane, Mali Blues and more: What makes a film festival interesting?
- Germany: IG Metall and works council agree to 1,700 more job cuts
- Clinton calls for National Service
- Poland: PiS government beats retreat on antiabortion law
- Sri Lankan plantation workers’ struggle: Build action committees, fight for socialist policies
- Video of summary executions exposes Peruvian police death squads
- Fifteen years of the war in Afghanistan
- Residents ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Matthew approaches US East Coast
- Germany: Common ground between Left Party leader Wagenknecht and the far-right AfD
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White on war and the 2016 elections
- IMF warns of record high global debt
- US Fortune 500 firms use tax havens to avoid $717.8 billion in taxes
- Thousands of Caterpillar workers protest plans to close Belgium plant
- Bernie Sanders stumps for Clinton in Michigan
- After rejection of contract at Allina, Minnesota nurses call for expanded struggle
2016-10-08
- Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution, by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Kerry charges “war crimes” as US escalates tensions with Russia
- British pound plummets over “hard Brexit” fears
- One month to the US presidential election—what lies ahead
- Nobel Prize in physics awarded for discoveries about condensed states of matter
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: Kaiser’s Tengelmann supermarket chain threatened with closure
- Pakistani elite rattled by “strategic isolation” following Indian attack
- The class issues exposed by Hurricane Matthew
- Exploring the origins and impact of the Internet
- Unifor President Dias attempts to “whipsaw” Canadian auto plants
- Boone County, West Virginia students lack textbooks
- Pentagon paid British PR firm $500 million to create fake al-Qaeda recruiting videos
- Australian politicians hold sham hearings on banks’ “unethical behaviour”
- Australian Labor Party restates call for military challenge to China
- Australian union imposes 10 percent pay cut on steelworkers
2016-10-10
- Thousands protest Saudi bombing that killed and wounded over 700 in Yemen
- This week in history: October 10-16
- Toxic smog over South East Asia killed over 100,000 in 2015
- Russia warns US strikes against Syria may lead to war
- The Trump scandal and the US gutter election
- Meeting in India discusses war and the fight for socialism
- More than 30 injuries in Long Island Rail Road collision
- German Supreme Court rejects compensation for Kunduz bombing victims
- Join and Build the IYSSE at University of Melbourne!
- Opposition grows in Indo-Pakistan borderlands to India’s warmongering
- Hurricane Matthew kills 19 in southeastern US
- Harvard dining hall workers continue strike
- Hundreds of preventable deaths caused by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti
- Greetings to Chennai meeting from SEP (Sri Lanka) general secretary
- France calls for its own “pivot to Asia” amid US war drive against China
- Ethiopian government massacres ethnic minorities in Oromia region
- US seals military basing deal with Australia
- UK: Dalzell steelworks reopened by commodities trader Liberty House Group
- Secret Clinton speeches and emails reveal systematic corruption
- German government urges tougher action against Russia and Syria
2016-10-11
- Yemeni war intensifies following Saudi bombing of funeral
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP vice presidential candidate Niemuth discusses war, 2016 elections, with students in Detroit
- Unifor thwarts strike by Canadian Fiat-Chrysler autoworkers
- Striking Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians and supporters speak out
- New data on poverty in the UK reveals mass pauperisation
- Billionaires back Black Lives Matter
- New attacks on Oregon public pension plan
- New Zealand doctors vote for nationwide strike
- Merkel promotes the return of German militarism to Africa
- “Existential crisis” dominates IMF meeting on world economy
- UK Labour’s right wing mounts pro-EU, anti-immigrant offensive against Corbyn
- Colombian president receives Nobel Peace Prize for rejected accord with the FARC
- Chicago Teachers Union announces concessions agreement to avert strike
2016-10-12
- Leaked Clinton email admits Saudi, Qatari government funding of ISIS in Syria
- Vote “no” on the Unifor-FCA agreement!
- Trump escalates conflict with congressional Republicans
- Marija, Past Life, Ember: Facing life, in different ways
- Britain and France prepare military escalation in Syria
- UK: Southern GTR railworkers strike
- US police kill thirty people in ten days
- Philippine President Duterte tilts toward China
- The November 5 conference, “Socialism vs. Capitalism and War,” and the building of a new movement against imperialist war
- France’s New Anticapitalist Party denounces opposition to NATO escalation in Syria
- SEP presidential candidate Jerry White campaigns in New Orleans
- Minnesota nurses’ union seeks to ram through concessions contract
- Sri Lanka: Chauvinist response to large Tamil protest
- An interview with Michael Koch, director of Marija
- Turkey and Russia seal pipeline deal
- Chomsky in Chicago: The thin gruel of lesser-evil politics
- Chicago teachers denounce contract sellout
- New revelations detail Canada’s complicity in torture
- Brazil’s Temer government pushing labor, pension “reforms”
2016-10-13
- Washington threatens military intervention in Yemen following reported missile attacks on US warship
- Justice Department announces investigation into Alabama prisons as US prison strike continues
- Sri Lankan plantation workers defy government to continue protests
- Haiti’s hurricane devastation: A tragedy rooted in capitalist oppression
- Military units established in UK state schools
- German Chancellor Merkel backs oppressive Ethiopian regime
- US death toll rises in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew
- French President Hollande cancels Paris meeting with Russian President Putin
- Trump and Clinton brawl in the gutter
- The International Socialist Organization and the Chicago teachers contract betrayal
- The Bellingcat research collective: War propaganda masquerading as “citizen journalism”
- Canadian autoworkers react to Fiat Chrysler sellout
- Australian tax department seeks to fast-track sackings
2016-10-14
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Polish film and theatre director Andrzej Wajda dead at 90
- Fiat-Chrysler workers must demand to see Unifor-FCA sellout deal in full
- Unions at Germany’s TUIfly airlines act as strikebreakers
- Thai king’s death foreshadows instability
- Australia: Arrest of two boys used to ramp up terrorism scare campaign
- Samsung abruptly drops Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to dangerous overheating
- Rosetta spacecraft completes mission with crash landing into comet
- US launches missile strikes against Yemen
- UK: Bernard Matthews pensioners fleeced by liquidators
- Obamacare open enrollment: Consumers face premium hikes, narrowing networks
- Minnesota nurses’ union claims contract ratification amidst opposition
- Indian Stalinists aid BJP’s bellicose anti-Pakistan campaign
- The political crisis in the US and the 2016 presidential elections
- Donald Trump’s campaign takes a fascistic turn
- Chinese soldiers protest over benefits in central Beijing
- German government expands military operations in the Middle East
2016-10-15
- Citigroup chose Obama’s 2008 cabinet, WikiLeaks document reveals
- Build rank-and-file committees to resist company-union concessions
- Tamil People’s Council provides political cover for pro-US Sri Lankan regime
- Podemos prepares to become the official bourgeois opposition in Spain
- The great diversion: Democrats focus on sex scandal as conflict with Russia escalates
- German think tank warns of growing nuclear war danger
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Western foreign ministers to meet in London to discuss Syria intervention
- Australian IYSSE holds Inaugural General Meeting at the University of Melbourne
- Healthcare costs a growing barrier to treatment for Australians
- Food safety concerns as Harvard dining workers’ strike enters second week
- Are German authorities covering up for the death of Jaber al-Bakr?
- Deadly floods in North Carolina overwhelmingly affect state’s poorest residents
- The Dressmaker, The Girl on the Train: The “return of the native” and other issues
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates: The dystopian vision of racial politics
- Australian government seeks to gag top legal official
- Windsor Fiat Chrysler workers denounce Unifor sellout deal
2016-10-17
- Fed Chair Yellen speaks in Boston: An admission of perplexity and impotence
- Australian government hails New Zealand’s brutal welfare system
- Unifor rams through another sellout deal at Fiat-Chrysler
- This week in history: October 17-23
- Thai military consolidates power as royal succession delayed
- US steps up anti-Russian rhetoric over Syria as EU foreign ministers meet
- US escalating covert war in Somalia
- UK: Self-employed face poverty wages and financial insecurity
- The US-directed assault on Mosul and imperialist hypocrisy
- The Rosenburg Files: Germany’s justice ministry was a stronghold of former Nazis
- Nearly half of all “millennials” lack even $1 of retirement savings
- The ISO and the New America think tank denounce opposition to the war in Syria
- France creates National Guard targeting the working class
- Tensions rise between Poland and France after failed arms deal
- Six-week-old baby girl dies in Brooklyn elevator tragedy
- In secret Goldman Sachs speeches, Clinton explains why the rich should rule
2016-10-18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Syriza agrees to further austerity measures
- US SEP Presidential Candidate Jerry White to speak at two meetings in Toronto this week
- Sri Lankan president warns of autocratic measures
- SEP vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth speaks at election meetings in South Dakota
- National strike needed in Britain to defend striking Southern GTR conductors
- Is the US election rigged?
- Professors and faculty threaten to strike at 14 Pennsylvania universities
- US-backed Iraqi forces tighten noose around Mosul
- DeRay Mckesson and the right-wing character of racialist politics
- Strike continues at Libbey Glass factory in Toledo, Ohio
- Scholarship, not war propaganda!
- US amplifies its support for India’s military strikes on Pakistan
- Harvard students and faculty show support for HUDS strikers
- German media in war mode over Syria
- EU foreign ministers adopt statement denouncing Russia and Syria
- Cleveland teacher denounces sellout contract
- Workers Party suffers major defeat in Brazil’s local elections
- Amnesty report: Australian government running torture detention on Nauru
- Report details widespread and rising poverty in Australia
2016-10-19
- Australia: Large protest against Wyong hospital privatisation
- SEP campaigners speak with Huntington, West Virginia residents
- Trump running mate attacks black voter registration effort
- Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate denounces US escalation of Iraq War
- Philadelphia transit workers vote to strike
- UN committee condemns Australia’s Nauru refugee camp
- Philippine president in China seeks to cement closer ties
- Washington moves to silence WikiLeaks
- Mosul offensive threatens to inflame sectarian conflicts in Iraq and Syria
- Guantánamo Diary author released after 14 years in illegal detention
- UK education funding cuts bring schools to breaking point
- Australia: Five workers killed in industrial incidents within a week
- The International Socialist Organization campaigns for layoffs, school closures in Chicago
- Bremen University student body protests against Professor Jörg Baberowski
2016-10-20
- Amid Mosul offensive, Turkey denounces US policy, stakes claims in Balkans
- The autocratic record of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej
- US Social Security Administration announces effective cut in benefits
- Sanders’ damning silence on Clinton’s Wall Street speeches
- The false friends of Peter Weiss, German dramatist, filmmaker and novelist
- The siege of Mosul and the crimes of US imperialism
- Five thousand faculty strike at Pennsylvania state campuses
- Report documents hunger across the Pacific
- 1937: When Canadian and US autoworkers fought together
- War and the 2016 US elections: SEP candidates launch final election tour
- Ohio glass workers discuss strike with SEP presidential candidate Jerry White
- Over 20 patients die in Indian hospital fire
- One out of two Americans in facial recognition databases
- Egyptian junta cultivates Russia and China as a counterweight to the US
- Final Trump-Clinton debate: A bankrupt political system staggers toward the finish line
- Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates approves concessions contract
- Chicago charter school union announces contract deal
- British press witch-hunt refugee children from Calais
- Red-Red-Green coalition in Berlin state prepares to continue austerity drive
2016-10-21
- Verizon to close five call centers in restructuring
- Police attack demonstration outside US embassy in Manila
- Philippine president declares “separation from the US” during visit to China
- The 2016 elections: American democracy in shambles
- Police killing of mentally ill 66-year-old Bronx, New York woman sparks outrage
- Does Bob Dylan deserve to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- Mosul offensive stirs a cauldron of conflicts
- US SEP presidential candidate Jerry White to address Sri Lankan public meeting via Internet
- Medicare overhauls doctor payment rules
- Massachusetts: Consulting firm hired to begin privatization of transit system
- ExoMars mission has both success and failure
- The right-wing politics of Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson
- Former British special forces soldier investigated for possible war crimes committed in Iraq
- Hungary: Last newspaper critical of government shut down
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- European Central Bank “obfuscation” likely to fuel market volatility
- Putin meets with Merkel and Hollande
2016-10-22
- Public rifts erupt in Australian government
- Turkish bombing in Syria threatens wider war
- UK: NHS official suggests GP surgeries “be allowed to fail and wither”
- Clinton and Trump laugh it up with New York’s aristocrats at Al Smith Dinner
- Report reveals vast scale of US “secret law”
- US navy sends destroyer to challenge China in South China Sea
- SAG-AFTRA video game performers on strike
- Police stage right-wing, law and order protest in France
- What is behind the anti-Russia campaign in the US?
- Union ends strike at Pennsylvania state campuses, pushes concessions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Germany: The liquidation of the Kaiser’s Tengelmann supermarket chain
- Massive cyberattack shuts down large sections of the Internet
- Divisions grow at EU summit over trans-Atlantic trade, war drive against Russia
- Denial and the assault on historical truth
- Latest NYPD killing highlights de Blasio’s history of defending the police
- SEP presidential candidate speaks to Ford workers in Toronto
- Bangladesh government accused of “kneecapping” opponents
2016-10-24
- This week in history: October 24-30
- The TV film “Terror” and the attack on democratic rights in Germany
- Roger Cohen of the New York Times declares that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism
- Clinton and Trump committed to new attacks on public education
- Sri Lankan plantation workers protest union wage deal
- The 2016 elections and the dead-end of “lesser evil” politics
- AT&T-Time Warner merger to expand corporate, state control of media
- The Magnificent Seven: Hollywood remakes and the problem of diminishing returns
- Police murder of two Jaffna University students exposes Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists
- Mosul offensive intensifies regional tensions as Turkish soldiers intervene in Iraq
- Right-wing candidates’ debate advocates austerity, police-state measures
- Liberals impose austerity in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Canada to partner with France in waging war in Africa
- Legal challenge to Brexit threatens constitutional crisis in UK
- Boston: Two excavation workers drown in a 12-foot-deep trench
- Report signals renewed US pressure on Australia to line up against China
2016-10-25
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- SEP presidential candidate speaks in Toronto on struggle against war
- Obama administration split on “Plan B” for Syria intervention
- Scottish National Party pushes for second independence referendum
- Sri Lanka assists India to isolate Pakistan by not attending SAARC summit
- Plans take shape for red-red-green federal coalition in Germany
- Following meeting, leading Black Lives Matter activist endorses Clinton
- Podemos, pseudo-left prepare for political power in Spain
- Social inequality and the fight against capitalism
- Philosophy and Politics in an Age of War and Revolution
- Nick Hedges’s photographs reveal what Britain’s slums were like in the 1960s and 1970s
- Germany: 1.4 million live on welfare for more than eight years
- Hundreds attend lecture by David North in Frankfurt, Germany
- US agency report documents failure to act on Flint water crisis
- Clinton beginning informal talks with congressional Republicans
- Unifor’s Detroit Three “pattern” pact and the ruling class assault on pensions
- French police launch demolition of “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais
- Blue Cross retirees in Michigan to protest health benefit cuts
- Layoffs hit US auto industry as sales slow
2016-10-26
- SAG-AFTRA picketers discuss strike, US elections
- Royal Bank of Scotland accused of corrupt practices with small business investors
- Musicians speak out at concert to support Pittsburgh Symphony strike
- Flight attendants union calls off strikes at Eurowings airline in Germany
- Thomas Piketty in Sydney: Data on social inequality, but no solution
- US “pivot to Asia” in disarray
- Fatal crash near Palm Springs, California leaves 13 dead, 31 injured
- Terror attack on Pakistani police academy kills more than 60
- Government announces huge Obamacare premium rises for 2017
- Making the case for war in Eastern Europe
- General strike in northern Sri Lanka over police killing of students
- Civilian toll mounts as Mosul offensive enters second week
- UK: Durham teaching assistants vote to strike
- Vote “no” on the CPS-CTU concessions contract!
- Scandal erupts over Pentagon’s forcing California National Guard veterans to repay bonuses
- BRICS summit riven by geo-political rivalry
2016-10-27
- Surveillance requests expand by 500 percent in Washington, DC
- Refugee deaths surge in the Mediterranean
- Philippine President Duterte says he wants US troops out of the country in two years
- Obamacare: The reality hits home
- New Zealand: The US warship visit and the fraud of Peace Action
- US-Russian war tensions mount over Eastern Europe and Syria
- Michael Moore in TrumpLand grovels in praise of Hillary Clinton
- Report finds that more than 40 percent of British housing is substandard
- Clinton preparing a bipartisan government of austerity and war
- China: CCP plenum on tightening party discipline signals inner crisis
- China growth on target but debt concerns mount
- EU crisis deepens as trade deal with Canada stalls
- Unifor prepares pattern sellout for Ford Canada workers
2016-10-28
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Queensland university case shows divisive agenda behind Australian “racial discrimination” law
- Aleppo, Mosul and “war crimes”
- Report says New Zealand SAS is fighting in Iraq
- Australia: Maitland residents oppose privatisation of regional hospital
- Berlin exhibition—“Mass Shootings: The Holocaust from the Baltic to the Black Sea 1941-1944”
- Hungary: Right-wing commemoration of 60th anniversary of workers’ uprising
- German welfare recipients threatened with fines of up to €5,000
- Major safety questions emerge after fatal accident at Australia's Dreamworld theme park
- Clinton: “I love having the support of real billionaires”
- Leaked documents detail how Wall Street bought the Clintons
- Certain Women: A certain anger at America’s coldness, loneliness …
- Blue Cross retirees stage picket over health care cuts
- Mexican and US autoworkers face Ford plant shutdowns
2016-10-29
- UN warns US-Saudi war threatens mass starvation in Yemen
- Samoan car component plant to shut, eliminating 740 jobs
- Ruling Venezuelan party cuts off recall petition drive, provoking protests
- US-backed Islamist rebels launch offensive in Syria
- Strikes end at Libbey Glass in Ohio and Jim Beam in Kentucky
- The FBI intervenes in the 2016 election
- American Pastoral: A film version of Philip Roth’s novel
- US mergers set new record in October
- Sri Lankan students and workers discuss US SEP’s election intervention
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Italy: Another earthquake and an impending political crisis
- The gig economy: More than 160 million in US and EU rely on “independent work”
- SEP candidates hold successful meetings in run-up to November 5 anti-war conference
- Violent police attack on anti-oil pipeline protest in North Dakota
- Report documents Canadian government’s abuse of immigrant and refugee children
- Australia: Murdoch columnist blames young people for inability to purchase homes
2016-10-31
- Sixty killed in new US-Saudi war crime in Yemen
- This week in history: October 31-November 6
- Polish government prepares legal action against EU council president Donald Tusk
- Sri Lanka: New anti-terror measures lay foundations for police state
- US SEP presidential candidate addresses Sri Lankan audience
- Political warfare explodes in Washington
- Push for harsher anti-immigrant measures in New Zealand
- UK: Man who appeared on reality TV show “Benefits Street” dies in poverty
- Mexican defense secretary calls for more troops, greater powers in waging “war on drugs”
- Another apologia for Obamacare from the New York Times’ Paul Krugman
- Harvard concedes main demands of dining hall workers to end strike
- Eurowings strike grounds domestic German flights
- Another major earthquake strikes central Italy
- Vote by Chicago teachers on concessions contract begins today, after postponement
- Selloff in global bond markets
- Australia: Widespread exploitation of backpackers and overseas labourers
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