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Facing a wave of anger over concessions—and with the 2016 election fast approaching—Teamster brass are taking aim at members' right to vote.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has banned a radio advertisement from B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, which listed the names of children killed in Gaza. The IBF ruled the human rights organization's advertisement was 'politically controversial' and banned it. B'Tselem's appeal to the IBF was rejected July 23rd. It will petition Israel's supreme court on Sunday, July 27th, to get the ban overturned.

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, a right-wing Republican, has found allies among former President Bill Clinton's team in his efforts to reap super profits by squeezing the economic life out of Argentina. Argentina is but the latest victim of "Wall Street vultures," who prey upon economically distressed countries by buying up the bonds of debt-strapped countries for "pennies on the dollar" and then demand payment in full.

India ranks an abysmal 101st in progress towards bridging the gender gap among the 136 nations surveyed by the World Economic Forum in 2013. This is due, in part, to the fact that 160 million Indian women are confined to their homes performing so-called household duties. While women comprise only 14-15 percent of the formal labor economy, women are increasingly forced to manufacture garments and handmade items in the home, as part of an unregulated "informal economy."

The small San Francisco Bay Area city of Richmond is no longer a company town, but the giant Chevron Corporation is attempting to use its tremendous wealth and influence to return the city to the days when its City Council majority was commonly known as the "Chevron Five."

Israel's attack on Syria shows how volatile this conflict is. A political solution is now urgent.

In light of the report that the economy contracted in the last quarter of 2012 due partly to cutbacks, Ezra Klein notes that one man's big government socialism is another man's premature and destructive fiscal retrenchment.

Most Greeks want an end to austerity; they also want real reform. The worst outcome for Greece would be the further rollback of workers' rights and the social safety net without a purge of the corrupt elites and their clients in the media, in business and in the unions-a nightmare of exploitation policed by the lads from Golden Dawn. Greece,

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland, calls for support for Julian Assange. His only crime is that he embarrassed the U.S. and other powerful governments with WikiLeaks' release of documents in which the U.S. military appear to have deliberately killed civilians.