Friday, August 2, 2013

August 2 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.

Whistleblower Snowden Leaves Moscow Airport
US 'disappointed' as Snowden granted asylum
NSA pays secret funding to GCHQ
Democratic divide over NSA programs could pose Obama political problems
Defiant Russia Grants Snowden Year’s Asylum *

Search for Lac-Mégantic victims ends with 5 still missing
Transport Canada searches MM&A's Quebec offices

TransCanada moves forward with west-east pipeline
All-Canadian conflict over new oil pipeline
Canada's main pipeline network
TransCanada's east-west pipeline not a backup plan, expert says

Chile's rescued miners case dropped
Low-wage workers step up activism
Rally set Tuesday to support Cretex strikers
Obamacare Opens For Business, Shuts Out Labor
New Deal on Student Loans a Mixed Bag
BART Management May Force Bay Area Strike
Laborers Union withdraws three of 12 charges against Alcom
Union Bows Out Of Home Care Election Drive
US Steel workers cast vote on Lake Erie Works labor dispute
Teamsters Ordered to Stop Picketing Funeral Homes
Ontario byelections: Liberals 2, NDP 2, PCs 1
Advocates for Immigrants Up the Ante in a Capitol Sit-In That Brings Arrests *
Florida Nuclear Project Is Dropped *

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