New Today -- 22 March 2017

Perspective

The return of the US-German conflict

President Trump's refusal to shake German Chancellor Angela Merkel's hand during their photo-op in the Oval Office expressed the deepening tensions between the US and Germany.

News & Analysis

Wealth of world's billionaires soars amid stock market surge

In 2016 the combined wealth of the world's richest individuals rose 18 percent to a staggering $7.67 trillion.

French presidential debate: Political establishment shifts far to the right

US threatens more sanctions, military build-up against North Korea

Fighting flares in Damascus as US escalates air war in Syria

Germany's new president to accelerate militarist foreign policy agenda

As Caterpillar-UAW contract vote nears, Deere workers warn of union betrayal

Trump's voucher plan and the right-wing campaign to destroy public education

Trump budget proposes to end heating assistance, slash housing program

Florida prosecutors cover up murder of Darren Rainey, inmate boiled alive

Rising food and fuel prices driving millions more Britons into poverty

UK: Bournemouth Intermediate Care Services axes staff

New Australian union head feigns concern for workers' rights

New Zealand Labour Party installs new deputy leader

Free the Maruti Suzuki workers!

The key facts of the Maruti Suzuki workers' case

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Germany: Great interest in upcoming screening of Tsar to Lenin at Leipzig Book Fair

Commentary

The New York Times demands a Trump special prosecutor

IYSSE

IYSSE defends immigrant rights at Eastern Michigan University

Workers Struggles

Vote "no" to the ASLEF sell-out deal at UK's Southern GTR rail!