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Because Israel has staked first its survival and ultimately its growth into a dominant regional power on the disunity of its neighboring nations, it comes as no surprise that, faced with a winding-down of the Syrian conflict, it is now moving to escalate the war.
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It’s almost as if the glorification and praise for Charlie Hebdo that became morally mandatory in 2015 had nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with love of the anti-Islam content of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons. theintercept.com/
Mexican farmworkers in northern Washington state struck Sarbanand Farms on Aug. 4 to protest the death of Honesto Silva Ibarra, who died of overwork and heat exhaustion in the blueberry fields. workers.org/
Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist, publisher and outspoken critic of right-wing groups, was shot dead by unknown attackers in front of her home in the southern city of Bangalore on Tuesday aljazeera.com/
Following a long-running campaign by the international trade union movement, violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work is on the agenda of the International Labour Conference in June 2018. industriall-union.org/
When the colleagues of Ali Gharavi and Peter Steudtner heard that they had been detained in Turkey, along with representatives of six renowned Turkish NGOs, they assumed there had been a misunderstanding. motherboard.vice.com/
More than two dozen education start-ups have enlisted teachers as brand ambassadors. Some give the teachers inexpensive gifts like free classroom technology or T-shirts. A math-teaching site owned by Amazon, offered Amazon gift cards to teachers who acted as company advisers. nytimes.com/
The kingdom’s privatisation plans dwarf those of Thatcher or even the post-Soviet ‘Wild East’. And they will change the country out of all recognition. theguardian.com/
 We will strike at the McDonald’s store in Crayford, South East London. At the same time, McDonald’s workers in Cambridge will strike too. All we’ll be asking for is that our billionaire employer does enough to put food on our own tables. inews.co.uk/
Tyrone works for a McDonald’s branch in Cambridge, UK. He left his unhappy family home a few months back. However hard he slogs, the wages he earns from McDonald’s do not put a roof over his head, or enough food on the table. The restaurant worker often has to skip meals. theguardian.com/
 Larry Williams Jr. at age 29 is doing his best to resuscitate labour unions in the U.S.. He has created a digital platform called UnionBase, which he’s positioning as both a social network for union members and an organizing tool for unions. fastcompany.com/
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The war on truth has reached a fever pitch as Google has made it their mission to annihilate the independent media. Many independent news sites across the political spectrum will have an uphill battle when it comes to getting their content in front of readers. Google has announced they will be making stories disappear from their monopolistic search engine. 
