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Strike Shuts Down Third-Biggest U.S. Port

Robert Hennelly CBS
According to some reports, longshore workers are fed up with the NY Waterfront Commision's refusal to hire full-time workers, excessive drug testing and outsourcing of work.

Dangerous Regulatory Duet

Corporate Europe Observatory
How transatlantic regulatory cooperation under TTIP will allow bureaucrats and big business to attack the public interest.

UN Experts Catalog Seemingly Endless List of Racial Discrimination in US

Andrea Germanos Common Dreams
"Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights of African Americans today,"

Austerity Unbroken

Alp Kayserilioglu & Jannis Milios Jacobin
Syriza was elected a year ago today, only to retreat in the face of European pressure. Is there a way forward for the Greek left?

The Re-Emergence of Social Cleansing in El Salvador

Carlos A. Rosales and Ana Leonor Morales OpenDemocracy
El Salvador is now the most violent country in the world. Youth is killing youth, the state is in turmoil, death squads and extrajudicial killings are on the rise. More than 6,670 people were killed in 2015, primarily in clashes between rival gangs and between gangs and the security forces. And the U.S., which exported the gang culture to El Salvador, including the most violent gangs and most hardened gang members, owes El Salvador yet another “moral debt.”

Friday Nite Videos -- January 29, 2016

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Stephen Colbert Moderates An All-Trump Debate. Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation. Planned Parenthood Indictments: Seth Meyers. Sesame Street With Donald Grump. An American Disaster: The Crisis in Flint.

Sesame Street With Donald Grump

Given Mr. Trump's recent, ahem, "popularity," this Sesame Street episode about Donald Grump has renewed relevance.