It’s Time to Put an End to Israel’s ‘Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell’ Nuclear Policy
Common Dreams
The ‘elephant in the room’: Israel and the bomb
REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons
Portside
Unemployment, Shutdown, Inequality, Honduras
Normal
AFL-CIO Now
Back to Normal Cagle
Cagle
NC educators plan job action for Nov. 4
Left Labor Reporter
Fed up with state cuts to public school budgets, a group of North Carolina educators are planning a job action on November 4 to protest the cuts.
Kick the Shutdown Extortionists Out of Office!
Salon
The left needs a Karl Rove to target the 144 House GOPers and 19 senators of the Default Caucus. Look out, Ted Cruz
This Land Is Our Land?
civileats.com
At its best, sensible policies about how land is used, transferred, and owned can make it possible for young people to farm with dignity, a living wage, and a future. It can help poor people stop being poor. It can let young farmers who want to farm break through the barriers to entry. It can provide a secure retirement for America’s older farmers. It can happen and should happen in countries as democratic and as rich as the United States.
My Visit With Edward Snowden
The Nation
Although living in exile from the country he loves, Snowden is warm, centered and engaged and follows debates about surveillance with a keen legal acumen.
AFL-CIO Convention Repositions Unions to Speak for All Workers
Labor Notes
The recent AFL-CIO convention marked a long overdue strategic shift. The shift is to speak for the whole working class.
New Drugs for Old Bugs
We should all be worried by the growing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and we urgently need to develop new drugs. In this discussion with Nobel laureates, researchers propose alternative ways to find drugs; some cutting edge, such as computation, and some ancient, such as searching for chemicals deep in the rain forest.
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