New Today -- 27 October 2016

Perspective

The Obamacare swindle

The Obama administration's "signature" domestic legislation is a reactionary fraud, aimed at increasing corporate profits by gutting the health benefits won by workers over the course of decades of struggle.

News & Analysis

US-Russian war tensions mount over Eastern Europe and Syria

NATO countries meeting in Brussels have promised to deploy troops and heavy weapons on Russia's borders in the biggest buildup since the height of the Cold War.

Refugee deaths surge in the Mediterranean

Clinton preparing a bipartisan government of austerity and war

Philippine President Duterte says he wants US troops out of the country in two years

China: CCP plenum on tightening party discipline signals inner crisis

China growth on target but debt concerns mount

EU crisis deepens as trade deal with Canada stalls

Surveillance requests expand by 500 percent in Washington, DC

Unifor prepares pattern sellout for Ford Canada workers

Report finds that more than 40 percent of British housing is substandard

New Zealand: The US warship visit and the fraud of Peace Action

Legal bid to obtain palace letters on Australia's 1975 "constitutional coup"

Arts Review

Michael Moore in TrumpLand grovels in praise of Hillary Clinton