August 19 News Update

Each Monday-Friday, by 9AM Central, we’ll post links to news stories and analytical articles of interest to working people. Sometimes they will be accompanied by editorial commentary. 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.

New NSA revelations stir congressional concern
The NSA's Deep Bag of Tricks
Partner of reporter at center of NSA leak detained

Lawyers for Lac-Mégantic victims pursue CP Rail
Railway in Lac-Mégantic disaster may get operating extension in Canada

Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence
Three-day strike by Hayward city workers ends
US worker productivity up modestly in April-June
Protest on First Nation continues despite injunction
Consumer confidence in startling fall
For some on Martha’s Vineyard, middle-class dreams are out of reach
Layoffs Taboo, Japan Workers Are Sent to the Boredom Room *
Killing of Strikers Alters South Africa Politics *
Shale Gas Company Halts Drilling at British Site *
Greece Set to Allow Home Foreclosures, Risking Rift *
Hyundai, Kia labor unions vote to strike
SF Chronicle Op-ed Scapegoats BART Workers, Ignores Real Problem
Quebec's student tuition protest: Who really won the dispute?
Head Start eliminated services to 57,000 children amid sequester