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New Yorker revokes Bannon festival invitation after boycott threat from ‘howling online mob’
The New Yorker magazine invited nationalism ideologue and former Trump campaign figure Steve Bannon to its festival to confront him in a live interview, but changed its mind after other guests threatened to boycott.
rt.com/news/437602-new-yorker-invitation-bannon/

Amazon joins $1 trillion club, on pace to overtake Apple
Amazon on Tuesday joined Apple Inc in the $1 trillion club, becoming the second member of the group after its stock price doubled in 15 months.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-amazon-com-trillion/amazon-joins-1-trillion-club-on-pace-to-overtake-apple-idUSKCN1LK1ZJ

Seattle Education Association orders teachers to work without contract vote
The Seattle Education Association (SEA), the local affiliate of the Washington Education Association (WEA), is sending teachers to work on the first day of school Wednesday after reaching a tentative agreement Friday with Seattle Public Schools (SPS), which meets none of the teachers’ demands.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/04/seat-s04.html

ELN to Release 'Prisoners' Without Government Assurances
The National Liberation Army says it will hold the state responsible for any harm that befalls the group of nine detainees.
outline.com/aTbEpf

Incurable’ & drug-resistant: Deadly superbug colonizing hospitals across globe
Doctors are warning of a potentially fatal and “formidable” pathogen which has spread to hospitals across the globe and is resistant to all known antibiotics.
rt.com/news/437571-antibiotic-resistant-superbug-discovery/

Ha’aretz joins witch-hunt against UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz has now joined this despicable witch-hunt
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/04/haar-s04.html

1,600 Refugees Die, Disappear on Way to Europe So Far in 2018
Over 1,600 migrants have died or disappeared en route to Europe, a study from the United Nations Refugee Agency said, warning that the statistics are growing.
outline.com/6gCpBU

Greece is done with the bailout. Young people say crisis not over
outline.com/TjfnxS

Israel signals it could attack Iranian weaponry in Iraq
Israel signaled on Monday that it could attack suspected Iranian military assets in Iraq, as it has done with scores of air strikes in war-torn Syria.
reuters.com/article/us-israel-iran-iraq/israel-signals-it-could-attack-iranian-weaponry-in-iraq-idUSKCN1LJ0QG

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rt.com/op-ed/437506-crisis-2008-bankers-collapse/
latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-meyerson-labor-question-20180903-story.html
reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds/syrias-kurdish-led-northeast-to-be-treated-like-rest-of-country-syrian-minister-idUSKCN1LK2FN
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Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism: the Invidious Conflation
I and others have warned that enactment of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act now before Congress would threaten free speech and free inquiry on America’s college campuses and beyond
counterpunch.org/2018/09/04/anti-israelism-and-anti-semitism-the-invidious-conflation/

Fear and Loathing — Mostly Loathing — with Chris Hedges at the Harvard Club
I met Chris Hedges to discuss his new book America: The Farewell Tour
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/09/fear-loathing-mostly-loathing-chris-hedges-harvard-club.html

Ken Livingstone: Decade after 2008 crisis, no changes made, richest get richer, inequality growing
This month marks 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers created the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, but governments have failed to make changes necessary to prevent a similar collapse.
rt.com/op-ed/437506-crisis-2008-bankers-collapse/

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Like frogs in a slowly boiling pot, Americans are finally realizing how dire their labor situation is
latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-meyerson-labor-question-20180903-story.html
Full article copy-pasted due to LA Times being surveillance-capitalist assholes and not complying with GDPR
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The Labor Question is back, big-time. The term came into use around the turn of the 20th century; it was a shorthand way of asking: What should be done about the working class’ smoldering discontent in the wake of industrialization? The anger was palpable, made manifest in waves of worker revolts that stretched from the nationwide rail strike of 1877 through the general strikes of 1919.

Not all the battles were fought in the plants and in the streets. Progressive state legislatures in the early 20th century enacted laws setting minimum wages and limiting the hours women and children could be compelled to work; the courts routinely struck them down, and just as routinely short-circuited strikes by imposing jail sentences on strikers.

It was the New Deal, and the rise of unions that the New Deal facilitated, that rendered the Labor Question seemingly moot. In the three decades following World War II, when unions were strong and prosperity broadly shared, the term receded into the history books alongside other phrases – like, say, “slaveholder” – that evoked a dark and presumably buried side of America’s past.

The economic inequality that preceded the New Deal is back with us; the Labor Question has returned.

For the last several decades, however, it’s the largely egalitarian spirit of the New Deal that has receded into the shadows. The economic inequality that preceded the New Deal is back with us; the Labor Question has returned.

At the core of the problem is the imbalance of economic power, which takes the form of booming profits and stagnating wages. The Financial Times recently reported that the share of company revenues going to profits is the highest in many years, which necessarily means that the share going to the main alternative destination for company revenues – employees’ pockets – has shrunk.

Nor is this a short-lived phenomenon brought about by the Republican tax cut. In 2011, the chief investment officer of JP Morgan Chase calculated that three-quarters of the long-term increase in U.S. companies’ profit margins was due to the declining share going to wages and benefits. A study last year by Simcha Barkai, an economist at the University of Chicago’s Stigler Center, found that labor’s share of the national income has dropped by 6.7% since the mid-1980s, while the share of the nation’s income going to business investment in equipment, research, new hires and the like has dropped by 7.2%. Correspondingly, the share of the nation’s income going to shareholders (the lion’s share to the very wealthy, among them the CEOs who are compensated with shares) rose by 13.5%. That shift has put American workers at a double disadvantage, as their wages and the private-sector investment that creates jobs and boosts productivity have both hit the skids.

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Like slowly simmering frogs, Americans have required some time to grasp just how dire their situation has become. On Labor Day 2018, however, it’s clear that most of them now realize the need to reshuffle the power structure. A Gallup Poll released on Friday showed support for unions at 62%, the highest level in 15 years, with majority backing from every demographic group except Republicans, and even they are evenly split, 45% to 47%.

The overwhelming public support for striking teachers this spring in such red states as West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona was no fluke; another recent poll, this from the venerable education pollster PDK, found 73% support for teachers’ strikes, and a remarkable 78% support from parents of school-age children. The two-to-one rejection of a right-to-work law this summer by Missouri voters is further evidence of a pro-labor shift in public opinion, as are the successful unionization campaigns over the past year of such not-easily-fired workers as university teaching assistants and journalists (including those at such venerable anti-union bastions as the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times).

Enter the Fray: First takes on the news of the minute from L.A. Times Opinion » As was the case during the years when the Labor Question was first before the nation, the chief instrument the right relies on to diminish worker power is the courts. The Supreme Court’s decision in June in the Janus case, which was meant to reduce the membership and resources of public-sector unions, was just the latest in a string of rulings to advantage corporate and Republican interests. During the past year, however, progressives have put forth some of the most far-reaching proposals in many decades to rebalance economic clout, including bills from two Democratic senators – Massachusetts’ Elizabeth Warren and Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin – that would require corporations to divide their boards between representatives of workers and representatives of shareholders.

Since conservatives and business interests began pecking away at the New Deal’s handiwork in the 1970s, class conflict in America has been largely one-sided. On this Labor Day, however, it’s clear that the battle has finally been joined. The Labor Question is before us and remains to be resolved.

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This country won't survive another 5 years.

All these irrelevant "news"
1000 years of gulag

Being a bit new to this and not knowing a lot of news sites, i encourage people to give me links to news sites they like and ways to get around thing like archives block.

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Best i can do. most news about it right now is either people getting pissy about bombing idlib or turks getting pissy over wrath of olives.
reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds/syrias-kurdish-led-northeast-to-be-treated-like-rest-of-country-syrian-minister-idUSKCN1LK2FN