New Today -- 21 December 2016

Perspective

Christmas on Wall Street: The Dow closes in on 20,000

The American corporate elite anticipates that Trump will remove all constraints on its ability to plunder American society for personal gain.

News & Analysis

General Motors announces mass layoffs of workers in the US

In its latest layoff announcement, the largest US automaker said it would eliminate the second shift at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, wiping out 1,200 jobs.

Initial "suspect" freed in Berlin terror attack

Turkey, Russia, Iran sign deal on Syria after shooting of Russian ambassador to Turkey

US Army document on urban warfare advances strategy for "contemporary Stalingrads"

Obama threatened war over alleged Russian election hacking

Four prominent officials criminally indicted in Flint water crisis

Pennsylvania budget deficit signals further attacks on teachers, state workers

Irish government defends tax dodging by Apple

UK: Inmates riot at Birmingham prison as conditions deteriorate

Venezuelan government backs off of demonetization scheme after mass rioting

Indian police begin to impose Supreme Court order on national anthem

Professor Marmot's lectures in Australia chart extent of health inequality

Commentary

Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates' love letter to Barack Obama

Mehring Books

HOLIDAY GIFTS AT MEHRING BOOKS

Arts

Rogue One: Does it really "stand alone"?

Socialist Equality Party

Sri Lanka: Political lessons of the Hambantota port strike

The election of Donald Trump

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