New Today -- 8 October 2016

Perspective

One month to the US presidential electionwhat lies ahead

The next president will oversee a deepening global crisis of capitalism, mounting attacks on jobs, living standards and social services at home, and the escalation of military conflicts in the Middle East and against Russia and China.

News & Analysis

Kerry charges "war crimes" as US escalates tensions with Russia

The US secretary of state charged Moscow with "war crimes" as US-backed, Al Qaeda-affiliated "rebels" appeared close to defeat in Aleppo.

Pentagon paid British PR firm $500 million to create fake al-Qaeda recruiting videos

Australian Labor Party restates call for military challenge to China

British pound plummets over "hard Brexit" fears

Unifor President Dias attempts to "whipsaw" Canadian auto plants

Boone County, West Virginia students lack textbooks

Germany: Kaiser's Tengelmann supermarket chain threatened with closure

Pakistani elite rattled by "strategic isolation" following Indian attack

Australian union imposes 10 percent pay cut on steelworkers

Australian politicians hold sham hearings on banks' "unethical behaviour"

Book Review

Leon Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution, by Kenneth D. Ackerman

SEP 2016 US Election Campaign

The class issues exposed by Hurricane Matthew

Science

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for discoveries about condensed states of matter

Arts Review

Exploring the origins and impact of the Internet

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific