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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."

The searchers, in an area about 1,150 miles west of Perth, have stumbled onto the eastern edge of a garbage gyre in the Indian Ocean.

Carl Levin's subcommittee on investigations says the equipment-maker routed money through a Swiss subsidiary.

Eight proposals to jump-start the incomes of workers.

Big Oil seems to be using veterans to push its Keystone XL agenda.

Campaigns to raise the minimum wage, such as the "Fight for $15" campaign among fast food workers, are not just about raising the minimum wage. They are about changing the social relationships and balance of power embodied in the wage. Through opening this struggle, low-wage workers compel us to rethink again who is a "breadwinner." The campaigns also push us to revisit past campaigns that fought for living wages and also for work to have social value.