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Today in labor history: U.S. tries to overthrow workers’ government in Russia

September 4, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On Sept. 4, 1918, U.S. troops landed at Archangel, in northern Russia, seeking to overthrow the new workers' government that had ousted the czar a year earlier.

“Humanitarian intervention” in Syria is a hoax

September 4, 2013 By Emile Schepers

The language the administration is using to argue for an attack on Syria is morally bankrupt power politics, not humanitarianism, and would violate international law.

To ease or not to ease, that is Fed’s question

September 4, 2013 By John Case

The Jackson Hole conference attended by many of the world's top economists, central bankers and policy makers revealed divisions over current Fed stimulus policy.

Sequester sends San Jose, Calif., rents through roof

September 3, 2013 By Henry Millstein

Some 17,000 tenants on the Federal Section 8 housing program in Santa Clara County recently received rent hikes of 10 percent or more. The area has very nearly the highest housing cost of any place in...

Rim Fire the latest record-breaker in year of unrelenting disasters

September 3, 2013 By Blake Skylar

As the changing climate continues to trigger disaster and disruption, California's Rim Fire, which has burned 235,841 acres, is the latest to be added to this year's list of brushfires.