WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Draft of Trans-Pacific Partnership

Alex Hern and Dominic Rushe The Guardian
Treaty negotiated in secret between 12 nations 'would trample over individual rights and free expression', says Julian Assange. WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world's GDP.

Was Election Day Drug Bust an Attempt to Intimidate Black Voters in NC?

By Brentin Mock Facing South
Allsbrook said he believes the bust was done to affect the outcome of several races -- two involving African Americans running for town hall commissioner seats and the re-election of Mayor Patty Almond, a white woman who had the support of the black community.

All in for Inequality for All

By Kathy M. Newman Working-Class Perspectives
Inequality for All might convert a few, but, more importantly, it will give strength to all of us who are on the front lines of reversing income disparity in the U.S. and beyond.

Race, Class, Labor, and the (Not So) Incognito Controversy

By Clarence Lang Labor and Working-Class History Association
The fact that the principals involved in this saga are all elite male athletes engaged in blood sport should not blind us to the fact that everyone, regardless of salient identities, is deserving of safe workspaces.

Chile: The Right Choice

Editorial The Guardian
Michelle Bachelet will approach a second term with an agenda which is more radical and progressive than that of her first.

We Are All Wounded Veterans

David McReynolds, Edge Left Portside
War, for those who actually experienced it ... is hell. Those who saw combat do not return whole. Their dreams reek of death, of comrades torn apart, of foreign children shot by accident.