New Today -- 29 October 2016

Perspective

The FBI intervenes in the 2016 election

The FBI's announcement of new "investigative steps" related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, made only 11 days before the election, is both extraordinary and unprecedented.

News & Analysis

UN warns US-Saudi war threatens mass starvation in Yemen

After 18 months of bombardment, the catastrophe unfolding in the poorest nation in the Middle East constitutes a war crime of historic proportions.

US-backed Islamist rebels launch offensive in Syria

Italy: Another earthquake and an impending political crisis

Violent police attack on anti-oil pipeline protest in North Dakota

US mergers set new record in October

The gig economy: More than 160 million in US and EU rely on "independent work"

Strikes end at Libbey Glass in Ohio and Jim Beam in Kentucky

Report documents Canadian government's abuse of immigrant and refugee children

Ruling Venezuelan party cuts off recall petition drive, provoking protests

Australia: Murdoch columnist blames young people for inability to purchase homes

Samoan car component plant to shut, eliminating 740 jobs

SEP 2016 US Election Campaign

SEP candidates hold successful meetings in run-up to November 5 anti-war conference

Sri Lankan students and workers discuss US SEP's election intervention

Arts Review

American Pastoral: A film version of Philip Roth's novel

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific