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What were you thinking? Everyone in the family noticed that anti-war status you posted this summer, and the hasbara video they sent that you didn't `like.' Tonight they are going to air it all. The keyword of the evening: ISIS. You're going to hear it a lot. Because the Israeli leftist is a specimen: an object to identify, educate, and if that doesn't work, to chop up and make meatballs out of.

A response to Chelsea Manning's strategy to leave `self contained' enclaves for IS to rule - it is a crude, self righteous, inhuman lack of consideration for the populations involved, on the ground, and for what they want for themselves. (Response to original piece in The Guardian and re-posted on Portside.)

Some of the U.S. corporations most known for their so-called commitment to fighting climate change are actively supporting lobbying organizations and politicians most active in the movement for climate change denial. According to a recent report, "pro-sustainability companies" are pouring millions of dollars into the coffers of the "climate denier caucus" in the U.S. Congress in exchange for support of legislation that benefits their bottom line.

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Brazil's incumbent President Dilma Rousseff has regained a slight lead in her bid for re-election October 5, in one of the most important elections in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil's Workers Party, which has held the Presidency for 12 years, has implemented wide ranging reforms to benefit Brazil's poor. Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served for two terms, and current President Rousseff is seeking election to her second term.

After more than a year of labor protests and strikes, eight major clothing brands committed this week to pay more for goods made in Cambodia in order to guarantee garment workers a higher wage. The eight clothing companies made their pledge on the eve of wage talks between the Cambodian government and the garment workers union scheduled for October. Cambodia's garment sector generates one-third of the country's gross national product.

The rise of precarious labor in Canada, combined with the deliberate creation of fear through constant surveillance, the security apparatus and the demonization and criminalization of dissent, starts to answer the question of why there is no militant resistance to savage capitalism or even sustained social solidarity.

Announcement comes after Ohio grand jury declines to indict the two police officers involved in killing of John Crawford III

The higher hotel wage was the product of two years of organizing by a coalition that included labor unions, more than a dozen neighborhood councils, the ACLU and other nonprofits, which billed the measure as a critical step in addressing poverty.

In the last few years trade unions have led the fight against cutbacks in Greece. These fights, although not stopping these cuts, have changed the political scenery of the country.