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Rioting has occurred nightly in the suburbs of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, after police shot and killed a 69-year-old immigrant man on Sunday.

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Not content to merely buy off politicians, banks in the US are increasingly writing the laws that are supposed to regulate them.

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The United States and its allies continue to escalate their military aggression against Syria, behind the smokescreen of a proposed international peace conference scheduled for June in Geneva.
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A truss bridge built in 1955, the Skagit River Bridge, had been evaluated as “Somewhat better than minimum adequacy to tolerate being left in place as is.”

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The IRS, EPA, and Department of Housing and Urban Development all closed on Friday, sending employees home on unpaid furloughs as part of the sequester cuts.

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In 2012, 349 US military personnel killed themselves, compared to less than 300 who died in battle in Afghanistan.

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A CDC) report shows that as many as a fifth of US children experience a mental disorder within a given year.

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The reforms aim to force productivity increases and reduce the size of the state sector, moves that will inevitably further impoverish the Chinese working class.

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As social services are slashed allegedly because there is “no money,” Apple, the most profitable company in history, has avoided paying taxes on over $70 billion in income.

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Obama defended drone killings, while essentially acknowledging their illegality and the illegality of much of what the US government has done over the past decade.

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Thein Sein is the first Burmese leader to be hosted in the White House since former junta leader General Ne Win’s visit in 1966.

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The Obama administration’s investigation into a leak to James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent of Fox News, extends well beyond what was originally thought.

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The one-day 7.3 percent drop in Japan’s Nikkei stock index came amid signs of a growing global slump and demands for attacks on the working class in Japan.

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The killing of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, London on Wednesday was the horrific result of the crimes committed by British imperialism in North Africa and the Middle East.

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Police fired volleys of rubber bullets at striking South African miners at a mine owned by Lanxess Chrome Mining Ltd on Tuesday, near the city of Rustenburg.

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Armed Islamist militias forced parliament to pass the Political Isolation Law, outlawing officials who had worked for Gaddafi from holding office.

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Iranian authorities announced Tuesday that the Islamic Republic’s Guardian Council has approved eight candidates to contest the June 14 presidential elections.

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The financial oligarchy’s stranglehold on social life ensures that tragedies such as the one still unfolding in Moore, Oklahoma will be repeated.

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The FBI claims that Todashev had implicated both himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the grisly murder of three men in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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While touring the Middle East ostensibly to discuss joint US-Russian peace talks on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry met with US allies to prepare for region-wide war.

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According to a new report by the Brookings Institution, poverty rose more than 64 percent in US suburbs from 2000 to 2011.

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The City of Chicago announced the closing of more than 49 public schools, facilitated by the Chicago Teachers Union and its political allies, including the International Socialist Organization.
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The stoppage was limited to a token protest against the government’s decision to increase electricity prices by up to 60 percent.

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The District of Columbia possesses the highest concentration of charter schools of any city in the United States save for New Orleans.

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Israeli and Syrian forces exchanged fire in the Golan Heights yesterday, amid rising US and Israeli threats of direct intervention in the US-led proxy war in Syria.

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