Thursday, August 7, 2014

August 7 News Update


In Gaza, scale of destruction creates a deepening humanitarian crisis
Conflict Leaves Gaza Industry in Ashes *

Never mind the border — President Obama should visit Honduras
Review: Private Equity Pillages the Economy
‘It stops today!’ — Eric Garner, NYPD victim
Cost, not science, has delayed viable Ebola vaccine for years
Yosemite threatened by climate change
The Death of Doctors Medical Center
'Dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico is the size of Connecticut
International Support Enables Victory of Egyptian Union
From Front-Lines of Climate Crisis, Gathering Calls for 'New Economy'
Labor union, NAACP allege racial disparity in airport jobs
Washington farm labor group seeking apple workers
Small cities near Albany, New York emerge as battlegrounds for health care unions
Mexican Senate approves opening of oil sector
Imperial Metals could face $1M fine in B.C. mine-waste spill
What's behind Lake Erie's algae explosion
CN Rail blockade 'only the beginning' of escalating fight over land
Snowden can stay in Russia
Russia Responds to Western Sanctions With Its Own *
Decades After Rule, Leaders of Khmer Rouge Are Convicted *
$11 Billion Later, High-Speed Rail Is Inching Along *

Stories from the New York Times will be followed with a *. The Times pay wall policy allows free access to only about ten articles a month.

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