New Today -- 25 February 2017

Perspective

Capitalism and America's addiction epidemic

The precipitous rise in drug overdoses is among the sharpest expressions of the profound social crisis gripping the United States.

News & Analysis

Trump attacks media in diatribe to Conservative Political Action Conference

Trump's remarks before the ultra-right gathering of Republican Party activists reprised many of the "America First" themes in his inaugural address delivered one month ago.

One dead, two injured in anti-immigrant shooting in Kansas

UK Labour Party by-election defeat prompts new moves against Corbyn

Far-right Front National surges in French presidential election polls

Italy: Pseudo-left founds Italian Left Party

Lurid claims that North Korea used VX poison to kill Kim Jong-nam

Pentagon prepares for bigger, bloodier war in Iraq and Syria

Detroit GM workers speak on layoffs as deadline draws near

US retail chain J.C. Penny announces over 130 store closures

Chicago: Seven fatal shootings in one day, Trump threatens federal intervention

Tens of thousands evacuated from floods in Northern California

Sordid inter-union dispute over Toronto transit union's dues-stream

Ongoing investment plunge in Australia

Arts

Russian revolutionary art exhibition in London excises Trotskyand, more generally, historical truth

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific