Syria 'Shoots Down Turkish Fighter Jet'
By David Blair
Syrian air defences had shot down the plane, allegedly while it was flying over the country's territory. Continue
The Fed’s Forthright Admission About Our Messy Economic Situation: . A variety of measures were announced, including an extension of an arcane but consequential policy of buying hundreds of billions of dollars of Treasury bonds ($267 billion to be exact) in order to keep interest rates low, on top of the $400 billion the Fed has already purchased since last September.
America’s long slope down: A broad swath of official economic data shows that America and its people are in much worse shape than when we paid higher taxes, higher interest rates and made more of the manufactured goods we use.
Chicago Teachers Union Takes the Upper Hand with Overwhelming Strike Vote: A whopping 89 percent of teachers voted on June 11 to authorize a strike come fall (actually late summer) as highly contentious contract negotiations stretch on. Chicago teachers last went on strike in 1987.
By the Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry: The detention business goes beyond just criminal prisoners.
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