Новости за 17.05.2016

The WSWS spoke to Babak Jalali during the recent San Francisco International Film Festival.

Radio Dreams is a pleasurable experience. Other films at the San Francisco festival––The Event, No Home Movie, Counting, Five Nights in Maine––fared less well.

Keri Webber, whose family still suffers serious health issues as a result of the lead contamination of Flint’s water, says those affected by the disaster have been left to fend for themselves.

The predictions indicate a deflationary “vortex” of falling prices, business investment and living standards.

According to eyewitness reports published by Human Rights Watch, at least five people were shot or beaten to death by Turkish border guards on the country’s border with Syria in March and April.

Even though this illegitimate and regressive law has technically been passed, a majority of the French people want protests against it to continue.

No explanation has yet been provided by Manchester United, the police or the company that left a dummy explosive device in a football stadium, of Sunday’s extraordinary events.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s lofty pretence at being above personal insults would carry more weight if it was not routinely employed to justify his latest political capitulation to the right wing.

The White House is intent on wrapping up the Verizon strike as soon as possible by helping the CWA impose a settlement on management’s terms.

The slump in major chain store sales reflects the impact of a vast reordering of class relations in the US with devastating consequences for the working class.

While media attention has focused on Obama’s swipes at Donald Trump, more significant was his chastisement of young people for supporting the campaign of self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders.

The recent activation in Romania of the first land-based element of the NATO missile defense system has provoked a harsh reaction from Moscow.

The president-elect has vowed to restore hangings and not to back down on the country’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The month-long strike by 40,000 workers at Verizon Communications in the eastern United States is at a critical juncture.

While the Venezuelan president said that the decree was aimed at “international and national threats,” the most pressing challenge to his government comes from the working class.