Archive: 01/2018
2018-01-03
- Kansas police kill unarmed man after false emergency call
- More low-income Michigan workers set to lose food assistance
- Tensions between South Korea and Japan reemerge over “comfort women”
- Short films considered for Academy Award nominations: Emmett Till, a Jack London story and an isolated child
- Seattle councilperson Kshama Sawant targeted by defamation lawsuit for calling police “murderers”
- Record low temperatures kill at least nine people in US
- The bicentenary of Marx’s birth, socialism and the resurgence of the international class struggle
- North and South Korea propose to hold talks
- India: Fourteen die in Mumbai fire
- Strikes against austerity throughout Israel’s public and private sector
- Mass protests against austerity and social inequality shake Iranian regime
- Incoming German government plans massive military rearmament
- Head of Britain’s NHS demands national roll-out of drunk tanks
- Democrats looking for deal with Trump on social cuts, increased military spending
- Second Bronx fire in less than a week injures 23
2018-01-04
- Lessons of the fight against Obama’s “school reform”—Part 1
- Romanian Ford workers defiant as company seeks to impose blackmail contract
- Working class opposition erupts in Iran: A harbinger for the world in 2018
- An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel: “A film is like a historical document, it should be solid enough to endure”
- New Zealand government prepares attack on foreign students
- Trump threatens North Korea with nuclear war
- Germany’s “Network Enforcement Law” goes into effect: A move to censor the Internet
- President-elect George Weah opens Liberia for plunder
- Deaths continue to mount amid freezing temperatures across much of the US
- More Britons than ever forced into homelessness due to rent increases
- Facebook deleted accounts at the behest of US, Israeli and German governments
- Australian Council of Trade Unions launches cynical campaign against casual employment
2018-01-05
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- An interview with Mark Flessner, attorney for Davino Watson, US citizen illegally imprisoned by ICE for more than three years
- Australian government promotes racist diversion over so-called “African gangs”
- Sulzbergers pass gilded baton at the New York Times
- America’s poor and homeless freeze in winter storm
- Russia: Siberian shoe factory fire kills 10 workers
- Australia continues punitive treatment of refugees on Manus Island
- The Dow at 25,000: The bonanza for the oligarchy continues
- All the Money in the World—above all, the “expunging” of Kevin Spacey—and The Shape of Water
- UC Berkeley student arrested by border patrol
- British National Health Service faces escalating crisis due to chronic underfunding
- Trump administration to roll back regulations on offshore drilling
- Chinese president orders troops to be “ready to fight”
- Berlin Senate authorises brutal deportation of refugee family before Christmas
- Bannon attack on Trump White House fuels Washington political warfare
- AT&T and other US telecoms begin wave of layoffs
2018-01-06
- December US jobs report reveals weaker than expected growth
- Tell-all book on Trump White House intensifies US political crisis
- Lessons of the fight against Obama’s “school reform”—Part 2
- German conservatives and Social Democrats prepare formation of far-right government
- New Zealand government seeks to contain outrage over Pike River mine disaster
- Governments and corporations escalate Internet censorship and attacks on free speech
- Trump threatens Palestinian aid cut-off
- US suspends security aid to Pakistan as part of Afghan War push
- Talks between North and South Korea to proceed
- Australia: Ex-general agitates for stepped-up war preparations
- The New York Times’ reactionary sexual harassment campaign runs into opposition
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The working class unrest in Iran: The WSWS replies to an apologist of the Iranian regime
- Britain’s National Health Service is being deliberately brought to the brink of collapse
- Foxconn tax subsidies to build Wisconsin plant reach over $4 billion
- Gentrification fueling eviction crisis in New York City
- Over 20 dead in winter storm as US cold wave continues
2018-01-08
- Zimbabwe graphite miners strike at former German-owned mine
- Trump “defends” the right to protest in Iran, criminalizes protest in Washington
- Volkswagen plans to dismiss all temporary contract workers in German plants
- South Australian Labor government slashes public sector jobs
- The decline and fall of Russian protest art—“Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism”
- UK rail workers continue strikes against Driver Only Operated train plans
- Puerto Rico, more than 100 days after Hurricane Maria: The class issues
- Australian rail union collaborating with Pacific National to impose sell-out agreement
- The campaign over the “unfitness” of Donald Trump
- US President Trump backs meeting between two Koreas
- UK workers confront rising job losses in 2018
- Iran: Anti-government protests abate in face of mass repression
- Motel 6 sued for passing on guest information to ICE immigration officials
- Rising rents put low income US renters in severe jeopardy
- German foreign minister demands aggressive assertion of great power interests
- French chemical industry unions back contract violating minimum wage laws
- Bangladeshi teachers end “fast-unto-death”
2018-01-09
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Billionaire warns of growing class conflict in US
- Local government election in Sri Lanka: Support SEP campaign against austerity and war! Fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government!
- The havoc at New York’s JFK Airport and the decay of US infrastructure
- US to deport 262,000 Salvadoran immigrants
- US police kill 29 during first week of 2018
- What does Russian “opposition leader” Alexei Navalny represent?
- San Diego homelessness crisis remains after hepatitis A outbreak
- And the Golden Globe award goes to … Witch hunting!
- UK: Social media giants face sanctions if they fail to provide “proof” of Russian interference
- New Zealand police refuse to prosecute over Christchurch building collapse
- Deadly influenza outbreak spreads throughout US, most severe in California
- Britain's Guardian newspaper registers concern at collapse of high-profile rape cases
- Australian aged care workers confront worsening conditions
- American Civil Liberties Union sues DC police for attacking inauguration protests
2018-01-10
- Twitter censors German satirical magazine
- Mass protests against austerity, unemployment shake Tunisia
- Fuel tanker collision in East China Sea
- India: Bus strike cripples Tamil Nadu transport services
- Spanish PM Rajoy seeks to prevent Catalan nationalists from forming government
- Australia: Port Kembla Coal Terminal locks out workers
- Workers must demand new elections in Germany!
- French automaker PSA colludes with unions to prepare mass job cuts
- Two Koreas hold talks amid continuing acute tensions
- At least 13 dead as rainfall in Southern California triggers mudslides and flooding
- Robert Mann (1920-2018), founder of the Juilliard String Quartet
- Louisiana teacher jailed for speaking out at school board meeting
- French artists rebuff #MeToo witch-hunt
- Striking Tamil Nadu bus workers speak out
- An interview with Javier Luengo-Garrido, Coordinator at ACLU-Massachusetts’ Immigrant Protection Project
- Democrats grovel as Trump pledges anti-immigrant attacks in White House meeting
- Right-wing wins Chile election as “left” Broad Front joins the establishment
- Canada: Ontario Liberals impose two-tier employment on autoworkers
2018-01-11
- US Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Mississippi’s discriminatory “religious freedom” law
- El Salvador’s government bows to Washington over threat to deport 262,000
- UK: Cabinet reshuffle leaves May’s government impotent and divided
- Documentarian John Pilger issues statement of support for January 16 webinar, “Organizing resistance to Internet censorship”
- Freedom for Julian Assange!
- Rental costs rising beyond reach in Nashville
- Metropolitan Museum of Art implements mandatory admission charge for non-New Yorkers
- 160,000 industrial workers strike in Germany
- Death toll in Southern California mudslides rises to 17
- “Sexual misconduct” witch-hunt targets conductor Charles Dutoit, director Max Stafford-Clarke and actor Ed Westwick
- The tragic and needless death of Deamonte Driver, a victim of dental disease
- The crisis of dental care under American capitalism
- France’s Socialist Party attacks Catherine Deneuve for opposing #MeToo witch-hunt
- Democrats bray for immigration deal with Trump as judge halts DACA rescission
- Prolonged fall in average Australian living standards
- Upturn in global economy will not last, says World Bank
- Australian minister lashes out at China over Pacific aid
2018-01-12
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Mass protests against unemployment shake Tunisian regime
- Trump’s racist diatribe against “shithole countries” exposes bipartisan conspiracy against immigrants
- Australia: Sydney’s train system in a shambles
- Huntsville, Alabama Toyota-Mazda plant announcement highlights shift in auto production to southeastern US
- Massive outpouring of support for victimized Louisiana teacher
- UK government refuses to pay for essential safety improvements six months after Grenfell fire
- Diego Rivera in the Soviet Union: An exhibition in Mexico City
- Australian government spent $4 billion last year repelling or detaining refugees
- Activist detained and 18 arrested at Manhattan immigrant rights protest
- Teacher’s arrest in Louisiana: Another day, another outrage
- Washington prepares to deploy “usable” nuclear weapons
- Computer systems worldwide exposed to data theft due to CPU design flaws
- Trump officials say states can impose Medicaid work requirements
- The falsification of David King’s work
- Trump gives green light for Israeli repression of Palestinians
- German Ford workers express solidarity with their Romanian co-workers
- German politician proposes “final solution” of the refugee question
- US coal mining fatalities nearly doubled in 2017
2018-01-13
- Washington Post columnist goes after Woody Allen’s “lechery”
- Walmart closes 63 Sam’s Club locations, lays off thousands of employees
- Indian unions betray Tamil Nadu bus strike
- Facebook announces major plan to censor news content
- Deadly mudslides in Southern California expose inadequate infrastructure
- German industrial workers continue strikes
- Australian workers, youth speak out against witch-hunt over “African gangs”
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The deadly impact of Hurricane María extends to US hospitals
- Members and supporters of 20 groups banned from entering Israel
- Trump vows to renew all-out economic war on Iran
- Trump’s racist comments trigger international condemnation
- India: Workers defend WSWS supporters against attack by union leaders
- Fraud of official inquiry into Grenfell fire exposed by forced withdrawal of project management adviser
- Greek workers stop work in opposition to Syriza anti-strike and austerity measures
- German conservatives and Social Democrats agree to coalition talks
- House Democrats supply votes to block limits on NSA spying
- Aluminum giants lock out one thousand ABI workers in Quebec
- Court suspends Christmas pardon as Brazil’s jail population reaches world’s third highest
- A significant tremor in the bond markets
2018-01-15
- Virgin Care and other private companies seize another £3.1 billion of NHS contracts
- This week in history: January 15-21
- US AFRICOM blacklists reporter Nick Turse as “not a legitimate journalist”
- Thousands march to mark anniversary of Ben Ali’s overthrow in Tunisia
- Thirty-eight minutes of chaos
- New Zealand spy agency illegally accessed immigration data
- Trump emphasises hostile stance on North Korea
- Educators denounce attack on Louisiana school teacher Deyshia Hargrave
- Malaysian opposition chooses autocratic Mahathir as top candidate
- Kentucky water crisis outrage: Another US worker arrested for criticizing government officials
- Surat terbuka untuk Google: Berhentikan penyensoran Internet! Berhentikan blacklisting politik terhadap World Socialist Web Site!
- After Trump’s racist outburst, Democrats plead for anti-immigrant “compromise” with White House
- Homeless deaths skyrocket in major Canadian cities
- For new elections and a socialist offensive against the grand coalition in Germany
- Facebook blocks sharing of WSWS anti-censorship video
- Cold-related deaths in Wisconsin expose abysmal social conditions
- UK National Archives: Key government files “missing,” and documents on Europe withheld
2018-01-16
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Threat of trade war looming larger
- Vote “No” on union-backed steel contract! Defend all jobs!
- US to set up 30,000-strong “border force” in Syria
- Australia: Continuing chaos on Sydney’s trains
- Mass protests in Peru over pardoning of Fujimori
- Hawaii’s “false alarm” and the advanced preparations for war against North Korea
- Death toll in Southern California mudslides rises to 20
- Martin Luther King Day marked with an open racist in the White House
- #MeToo allegations against 95-year-old Marvel comics legend Stan Lee backfire
- Greek workers strike against Syriza’s imposition of EU austerity “multi-bill”
- Australian media promotes fascists amid growing racist hysteria over “African gangs”
- UK: Election of pro-Corbyn slate to Labour’s National Executive Committee underscores left shift in working class
- UK: Carillion collapse threatens jobs and pensions, exposing plunder of social assets
- Democrats, Republicans resume talks on right-wing budget deal
- Statement by Julian Assange opposing Internet censorship will be read at WSWS “Organizing Resistance” Webinar
2018-01-17
- Stricken Iranian tanker sinks, causing major oil spill in East China Sea
- Romanian prime minister resigns amid rising social tensions
- Steven Spielberg’s The Post: To reveal government secrets and lies or not?
- Bernie Sanders seeks to derail growing working class opposition to capitalism
- Canadian businesses claw back wages from low-paid workers
- Australian government continues deportations of New Zealanders
- False alarm of incoming missile in Japan
- Deportation of 30-year US resident from Detroit sparks outrage
- Former coal miner in Eastern Kentucky speaks about police assault at public meeting
- Cost of hookworm treatment beyond reach of many Alabama residents
- Families and survivors hold seven-month commemoration of Grenfell Tower fire
- German trade unions beat the drums for another grand coalition
- Flu epidemic exposes scandalous state of US health care system
- Trump administration escalates attack on data encryption
- Direct Spanish rule to continue if exiled Catalan leader tries to govern from Belgium
- UK: The political lessons of Carillion’s collapse
2018-01-18
- World Socialist Web Site calls for international coalition of socialist and anti-war websites to counter Internet censorship
- Australia: New South Wales rail workers to strike for 24 hours
- Two key players in UAW corruption scandal to enter guilty pleas
- “Fractures, Fears and Failures:” World’s ruling elites stare into the abyss
- Boston Transit: Control Board fiddles while the Red Line burns
- Budget cuts lead to teacher and student injuries at Massachusetts school
- Indian Trotskyists hold Russian Revolution centenary meeting in Kolkata
- Kentucky becomes first state to impose Medicaid work requirements
- Japan’s working poor
- Twelve arrested outside San Diego for feeding the homeless
- Another bonanza year for highest paid UK CEOs
- Carillion’s collapse in UK and the East Coast bailout: What would ending the “Private Financial Initiative rip-off” entail?
- Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at US Senate hearing
- Canada joins US in stepping up threats against North Korea at Vancouver summit
- As US government shutdown looms, Democrats push punitive immigration deal
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: A vengeful mother stands up to the local “patriarchy”
- Julian Assange calls effort of corporations to control Internet discourse “an existential threat to humanity”
2018-01-19
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Turkish attack on Syrian Kurds marks major escalation in Middle East
- Germany: SPD leadership steps up pressure for coalition with Merkel
- Australia: NSW state government axes longstanding reading program from public schools
- US announces indefinite deployment of military forces in Syria
- Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of Irish rock band The Cranberries, dead at age 46
- German newspaper Die Zeit and SPD back #MeToo witch-hunt
- Macron prepares draconian new French anti-immigrant law
- Flint residents speak out on Kentucky water crisis
- One hundred and fifty attend IYSSE event at Humboldt University on Karl Marx bicentenary
- Protesters denounce social cleansing by Southwark Labour council
- Deadly flu season likely to worsen internationally
- Massive raids threatened against immigrants in California
- The working class moves against Greece’s Syriza government
- Texas carries out first US execution of 2018
- UK: Southwark Labour Council’s gentrification plans meet widespread opposition
- Sri Lanka: SEP holds first local election meeting in plantation area
- US House passes short-term budget bill, but federal shutdown looms
- UK: Labour’s John McDonnell pledges to buy out PFI contracts after Carillion collapse
- Sharp fall in bitcoin price a sign of growing financial turbulence
- With Indo-Pacific tensions rising, Japan and Australia strengthen military ties
2018-01-20
- Students and staff to bear brunt of latest Australian university funding cut
- The Heritage We Defend and other important books by David North and the ICFI published in Turkish
- UK, France boost military, intelligence ties at Sandhurst summit
- UK: Office for Students spearheads privatisation and policing of universities
- Extension of warrantless NSA spying, with bipartisan support, heads to Trump for signature
- Federal agency promotes religious “exceptions” to health care
- Australia: Union officials desperately trying to prevent NSW rail strike
- One year of Democratic sabotage of opposition to Trump
- Pentagon unveils strategy for military confrontation with Russia and China
- DC Metro train derails, passengers stranded for 90 minutes
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- IYSSE secures re-election to student parliament at Berlin’s Humboldt University
- US house fires kill 320 since Christmas, up 50 percent from last year
- US budget charade causes government shutdown
- Immigration agents destroy humanitarian water supplies along US-Mexico border
- Australian power workers vote for industrial action
2018-01-22
- Women’s March promotes Democratic Party, sabotages opposition to Trump
- This week in history: January 22-28
- Turkey invades Syria to attack US-backed Kurdish forces
- US takes aim at China over trade
- German SPD congress agrees to initiate coalition talks with conservatives
- US destroyer intrudes into waters around Chinese-controlled islet
- Australian rail workers, bus drivers and commuters support NSW train strike
- The class issues in the US federal shutdown
- Carillion collapse in UK leaves pension scheme deficit of £2.6 billion
- Ohio police kill 16-year-old in courthouse
- Germany: Sharp conflicts inside the Left Party
- Kentucky residents told it may take a decade to get clean, safe water
- Jeep workers demonstrate at Detroit auto show against job cuts
- Craig McLachlan accused as Australian media steps up #MeToo witch-hunt
- Twitter warns users: We’re watching you
- #MeToo censors French filmmaker Brigitte Sy for signing Le Monde appeal
- Explore the complexities and beauty of Earth’s oceans in Blue Planet II
- Republicans and Democrats co-sponsor bill to dismantle Dodd-Frank bank regulations
2018-01-23
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Union in India organises hunger strike to block industrial action by Volkswagen workers
- Fighting rages as Turkey advances on Syrian Kurdish enclave
- Federal shutdown ends as Democrats cave in to Trump
- Russia’s presidential election campaign unfolds amid rising social discontent
- Australian rail accident causes 16 injuries
- Sri Lankan president threatens to end ruling coalition
- For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
- Oxfam: Bottom half of world’s population received none of the wealth created in 2017
- Five missing after Oklahoma drilling rig explosion
- Indian Prime Minister Modi to tout pro-business record at World Economic Forum
- Celebrated author Margaret Atwood challenges #MeToo’s lynch mob justice
- Germany: IG Metall greets far-right AfD participants at union protest
- Officials begin clearing out homeless encampment in Anaheim, California
- Wave of immigrant arrests, deportations in Michigan
- UK: Private landlords refusing to remedy Grenfell-style flammable cladding
- Opioid overdoses killed over 4000 Canadians in 2017
- Seattle school bus drivers reject second contract proposal by First Student
- Interview with Mohamad Bazzi, NYU professor barred from the UAE
- Amazon narrows rat race for second HQ to 20 cities
2018-01-24
- Hundreds more jobs being cut at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant in UK
- Ankara cracks down on opposition to Turkish invasion of Syria
- Australia: Workers reject union-government attempts to cancel NSW rail strike
- Continuing crisis used to justify sell-off of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid
- Political lessons from the sham US government shutdown
- The 2018 Academy Award Nominations: A few worthy films, and others to fill quotas
- Bodies of five workers recovered at site of Oklahoma gas well blast
- Indian factory fire kills 17 workers
- Fifty-nine defendants await trial for protesting against Trump’s inauguration
- IMF upgrades global growth forecast amid warnings of “fracture points”
- Germany: IG Metall seeks to impose new contract
- Facebook details plans to censor news feeds and manipulate public opinion
- World Economic Forum meets in Davos under shadow of crisis and war
- “Fake news” hysteria set to take center stage in Brazil’s October elections
- Volunteer arrested for giving food and water to immigrants along US-Mexico border
2018-01-25
- Full transcript: “Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship”
- Asia-Pacific trade bloc reshaped, without the US
- Australia: Fair Work Commission bans Monday’s NSW rail strike
- Media frenzy over New Zealand PM’s pregnancy distracts attention from inequality
- Police in Racine, Wisconsin fatally shoot 26-year-old man during traffic stop
- Former Fiat Chrysler negotiator says FCA bribed the UAW to secure passage of 2009, 2015 contracts
- US escalates war for annexation of Syria
- Australian Paper workers strike over wages and conditions
- Ontario unions hold bogus “day of action” over wage clawbacks at Tim Hortons
- As special counsel zeros in on Trump, political warfare in Washington heats up
- Detroit protest against planned deportation of Albanian immigrant
- BlackRock’s Laurence Fink urges CEOs to serve a “social purpose”
- Toys “R” Us, Kimberly-Clark add to job cuts in 2018
- Another American mass shooting, this time in western Kentucky
- Strike by Northern Illinois Bay Valley Foods workers enters ninth week
- German, French parliaments prepare new alliance, 55 years after Elysée treaty
- For new elections and a socialist alternative to Germany’s grand coalition
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra terminates employment of Charles Dutoit over allegations of sexual misconduct
- Democrats demand Facebook and Twitter release information on campaign over spying on Trump
- Catalan nationalists struggle to form government
- British Armed Forces chief prepares for war with Russia
2018-01-26
- UK Independence Party on brink of collapse
- 70 years since the release of John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- B. Traven, the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Australia’s Manus Island refugees blockaded after sewage leaks
- Lockout of Quebec aluminium workers at ABI plant enters third week
- The UAW corruption scandal: The case for workers’ committees
- German Chancellor promotes militarism and great-power politics at World Economic Forum
- Amid state censorship campaign, French media denounce “conspiracy theories”
- Will there be a US nuclear sneak attack on North Korea?
- In budget talks, Senate Democrats abandon immigrant Dreamers threatened with deportation
- Syriza mounts savage assault on living standards and democratic rights in Greece
- Far-right Alternative for Germany receives cross-party support
- SEP forum rallies opposition against racist “African gangs” campaign in Australia
- Fiji airport workers return after month-long lockout
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Nine “No More Deaths” volunteers face prosecution for attempting to aid immigrants
- Supreme Court issues last-minute stay of execution of Alabama inmate
2018-01-27
- New evidence of mistreatment in Western Australian juvenile prison
- UK Defence Secretary accuses Russia of planning to kill “thousands and thousands and thousands” of Britons
- Unarmed 25-year-old shot nine times at close range by US Park Police
- The “fractured world”: Plutocrats convene in Davos amid war and great-power conflict
- Ontario Tory leader felled by unsubstantiated sexual misconduct allegations
- New York Times cashes in on Facebook’s news censorship
- Nashville mayor tight-lipped on plans to gut services at General Hospital
- Conflict in Washington escalates with report Trump sought to fire special prosecutor
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India: First-ever visit by an Israeli PM used to strengthen strategic ties
- A socialist strategy is needed to defend immigrants!
- Southeast Australian heatwaves signal a horror fire season
- Thousands of students stranded as Ohio cyber charter school suddenly shuts down
- Julian Assange challenges warrant for his arrest as doctors confirm worsening of his health
2018-01-29
- WSWS Chairperson David North interviewed on Chris Hedges’ “On Contact”
- This week in history: January 29-February 4
- Australia: Lack of safety system contributed to injuries in rail crash
- Spain’s Constitutional Court attempts to block Catalan premier’s investiture
- 2018 begins with US police reign of terror
- Actress Dorothy Malone (1924-2018)
- US autoworkers express outrage over latest revelations of UAW bribery
- Accelerating concentration of wealth in Australia
- The media’s guilty silence on Hawaii nuclear war alert
- German industrial workers poised to launch massive strikes
- Senate Democratic leader seeks to protect Special Counsel Mueller, not DACA immigrants
- UK Labour: Corbyn seeks accommodation with Blairites and big business
- Cape Town, South Africa to become first city in the developed world to run out of water
- Contracts signed by corrupt UAW should be nullified: A reply to Dennis Williams
- Anaheim, California: Homeless encampment residents speak on their conditions
- US involvement in enslavement and rape of Afghan children
2018-01-30
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- As Trump, Republicans move to derail Russia probe, Democrats rush to defend FBI
- Four months of life in the dark after Hurricane Maria
- Another rapid rise in Australia’s prison population
- Polish government seeks to criminalize mention of Polish crimes during the Holocaust
- The Economist: Humanity teeters on the brink of world war
- Germany: Why is the SPD youth wing campaigning against a grand coalition?
- Trump unveils sweeping attack on immigrants in reform proposal
- UK NHS faces further attacks with introduction of “accountable care organisations”
- Flint, Michigan court hearings highlight widespread collusion in water crisis cover-up
- Netflix: The Crown Season Two—Apologetics for the monarchy as sun sets on British Empire
- San Diego mayor outlines impending crackdown on homeless
- Questions remain one month after death of auto parts worker in Western Michigan
- Bangladesh government opens apparel factory in prison
- US autoworkers want to overturn contracts UAW signed after corporate bribes
- Renewed push for Australia to build nuclear weapons
2018-01-31
- Fifty years since the Tet Offensive
- Trump’s State of the Union address: A spectacle of reaction and militarism
- Australian government unveils draconian “foreign interference” bills
- Puerto Rican Governor calls for the closing of a quarter of the island’s public schools
- Hundreds of thousands of industrial workers strike in Germany
- Over 100 feared dead in Kiribati ferry disaster
- Indian-Pakistani clashes in Kashmir put South Asia on knife’s edge
- Investigators now claim Hawaii employee who sent false alert thought attack was real
- Harley-Davidson to close Kansas City plant, lay off 800
- In letter to Congress, social media companies outline plans for mass censorship
- London Conference on Intelligence exposes link between academic promotion of eugenics and Conservative right
- Currency conflicts deepen between US and Europe
- Fiat Chrysler workers file class action against UAW demanding return of union dues
- “Scoundrel Time” returns: The neo-Puritan #MeToo censors and their predecessors
- A series of attacks at Russian schools
- Corporate giants announce partnership to cut employer health care costs
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