World News
Foreclosures rise, consumer sentiment falls in US
By Joe Kishore, November 14, 2009
Recently released data show a sharp increase in home foreclosures in the US from a year ago, while falling wages and job cuts take their toll on consumer spending.
Sri Lanka: “Independent” public sector unions kowtow to Rajapakse
By W. A. Sunil, November 14, 2009
The “independent” PSSRTUC union leaders objectively line up with the Rajapakse government in helping to suppress any struggle by the working class over deteriorating pay and conditions.
Detroit job fair draws thousands
By Naomi Spencer, November 14, 2009
Thousands of Detroit area residents lined up downtown Friday at a jobs fair, waiting in long lines to apply for some 400 positions.
India: Union calls off militant Rico strike
By Deepal Jayasekera, November 14, 2009
A militant strike by more than 3,000 workers at a Rico plant in India’s principal auto parts producing center came to an end last week, only hours before tens of thousands of workers were to walk of...
Germany: Chancellor Merkel follows the lead of employers and the FDP
By Dietmar Henning, November 14, 2009
In her first government statement following re-election as German chancellor, Angela Merkel has made a sharp turn to the right. She has given way to pressure from the pro-market FDP, the big business ...
As vaccination shortage continues, US swine flu deaths mount
By Tom Eley, November 14, 2009
The US Centers for Disease Control now estimates that 4,000 Americans, the vast majority under the age of 64, have died as a result of the H1N1 virus.
After years of detention and torture
Ten Guantánamo prisoners to face US trial
By Patrick Martin, November 14, 2009
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that ten of the prisoners now held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp would be transferred to US locations and placed on trial on terrorism charges.
Australia-Sri Lanka deal for joint crackdown on Tamil asylum seekers
By Richard Phillips, November 13, 2009
By reaching a deal with Colombo—that is, with the regime responsible for the oppression of Tamils—the Australian Labor government is legitimising its police state measures and nullifying the basic...
Former US diplomat Peter Galbraith grabs hundreds of millions in Iraqi oil money
By Alex Lantier, November 13, 2009
Peter Galbraith stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money by cashing in on his links to the Kurdish regional leadership in Iraq.
US-China tensions overshadow Obama’s trip to Asia
By Peter Symonds, November 13, 2009
US President Barack Obama arrives today in Tokyo at the start of his first trip to Asia. While he will also stop off in South Korea and the APEC summit in Singapore, the central focus of the tour is C...
Trial by media in Australian terrorism case
By Mike Head, November 13, 2009
Despite objections by defence lawyers, highly-prejudicial and untested prosecution evidence was released to the media in Australia’s latest large-scale terrorist trial.
Abbas threatens resignation and collapse of the Palestinian Authority
By Chris Marsden, November 13, 2009
President Mahmoud Abbas’s threat to resign is a desperate gamble made necessary by the Obama administration’s undermining of its leading Palestinian ally.
