No Surprise: Trump Is a Union Buster at His Own Hotel

No Surprise: Trump Is a Union Buster at His Own Hotel Amid the buffoonery of Donald Trump’s campaign, workers at his Vegas hotel are demanding justice. MICHELLE CHEN

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Today’s Sports News Would Boggle the Mind of a 1965 Sportswriter If a sportswriter from 50 years ago traveled to 2015, they would think the world had been turned on its head. DAVE ZIRIN

August 21, 1940: Leon Trotsky Dies “The blood feud between the two revolutionaries went on to the end.” RICHARD KREITNER

Congress Is Sick of the Secrecy Around the TPP And Senator Sherrod Brown is blocking a key Obama nominee to show it. GEORGE ZORNICK

Iran Is Not the Greatest Threat to World Peace There’s a clear way to ensure a nuclear-free Middle East, but Washington is not interested. NOAM CHOMSKY

Lincoln Chafee Keeps Ripping ‘Delusional’ Neocons and Democrats Who Compromise With Them This Democratic contender is skeptical about wars, enthusiastic about diplomacy. And he has a disruptive sense of history. JOHN NICHOLS

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THE SCIENCE OF WHY THE VIRAL BAD LIP READING REPUBLICAN DEBATE VIDEO IS SO HILARIOUS

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GUN RIGHTS WIN A MAJOR VICTORY IN FEDERAL COURT, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY A GOOD THING		TRUMP HITS A NERVE TALKING ABOUT HIGH-SKILL IMMIGRANT VISAS

EVEN AFTER OBAMACARE, SOME AMERICANS ARE UNINSURED. WHO ARE THEY?		ANTI-PLANNED PARENTHOOD GROUP CAUGHT PASSING STILLBIRTH PHOTO OFF AS ABORTION

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Garnishing California’s Future: New Bill Seeks to Curb Wage Seizures

Garnishing California’s Future: New Bill Seeks to Curb Wage Seizures Bill Raden: SB 501 quickly ran afoul of the powerful California Bankers Association and debt-buyer lobbyists. READ HERE SHARED FROM

FRIDAY, 21 AUGUST 2015 How Broken Windows Policing Keeps People Unemployed Mark Naison: Is it in the national interest to conduct public policy in a way that renders a high proportion of young men of color unemployable? READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Chronic Homelessness Why Is Homelessness Growing in Some Parts of Los Angeles County, Falling in Others? Which Programs Are Working, Which Are Not—and Why? READ HERE The New Republican Machismo Vijay Prashad:Gentleness and humaneness are mistaken for weakness in the Republican Party. The ridiculous exaggerations of manliness on display at the debate are necessary. READ MORE Canned Pleasure: The Thrill of the Kill Walter Brasch: If giraffes are your thing, you can go to South Africa and, like a woman from Idaho, kill the world’s tallest animal, pose with it, and post it onto your Facebook page. READ MORE Garnishing California’s Future: New Bill Seeks to Curb Wage Seizures Bill Raden: SB 501 quickly ran afoul of the powerful California Bankers Association and debt-buyer lobbyists. READ HERE

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Fire at Shell’s Pulau Bukom plant leaves 6 injured, including 3 in critical condition

Fire at Shell’s Pulau Bukom plant leaves 6 injured, including 3 in critical condition

Aug 21st, 2015

by John Donovan. 

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This is not the first time a fire broke out at Pulau Bukom. In September 2011, more than 100 firefighters helped to put out a fire that raged for 32 hours at the Pulau Bukom refinery. Shell was fined $80,000 the following year for lapses in workplace safety that led to the fire.

Lim Yi Han: 21 August 2015

SINGAPORE – A fire broke out at oil giant Shell’s manufacturing site on Pulau Bukom on Friday evening, leaving six workers with burn injuries.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they received a call at around 6.15pm about the fire from the Pulau Bukom Manufacturing Site.

Upon its arrival, the fire had already been extinguished by Shell’s emergency response team.

The six victims were sent to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH).

Three of them are in a “critical condition”, said a SGH spokesman. One is in a stable condition, and two others were discharged after receiving outpatient treatment.

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They're called 'electric highways,' and they might change everything about how we drive.

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A town in Massachusetts decided to stop arresting drug users. 2 months later, here's how it's going.

Wendy's and Publix are the two biggest companies that haven't signed on for 'Fair Food.' What is it?

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Ending “birthright citizenship”

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Ending “birthright citizenship” used to be an idea embraced by far-right whackos. But since Trump trumpeted it, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, and others have joined him. Even Chris Christie now says the current policy needs to be “re-examined.” And Jeb said today he doesn't find the term "anchor babies" offensive in the slightest.

Can we get a grip? The right of anyone born in the United States to be an American citizen lies at the core of the post-Civil War concept of citizenship. It underlies the entire framework of rights and governance built around citizenship -- including the 14th Amendment. It undergirds our entire history of immigration. And it prevents America from having permanent underclass of non-citizens spanning generations, as some other countries do.

For Trump and other Republicans to make this proposal a centerpiece of their campaigns is not just to scapegoat immigrants for the economic anxieties of the middle class but to scapegoat innocent children as well. It is shameful.

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Wisconsin Gets Competitive As Bernie Sanders Closes The Gap On Hillary Clinton

Wisconsin Gets Competitive As Bernie Sanders Closes The Gap On Hillary Clinton A new Marquette Law School Poll of Wisconsin found that Bernie Sanders is closing the gap on Hillary Clinton. The Democratic front-runner's lead has shrunk from 44 points to just 12 in the Badger State.     Read more » shared from

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