New Today -- 29 May 2017

Perspective

The rift between Germany and America: A "watershed" moment

While there have been divergences at previous G7 meetings, this year the participants were unable to paper over their differences in the final communiqu.

News & Analysis

British intelligence received warnings that Manchester bomber was plotting attacks

The suicide bomber was allowed to move around the globe without hindrance, despite British intelligence receiving information that he was planning to assassinate a political figure.

As Labour rises in UK polls, Blairite breakaway party plans gather pace

North Korea tests missile as US deploys third aircraft carrier

New eruption of political warfare in Washington focuses on Jared Kushner's meetings with Russians

Trump education budget calls for dismantling core programs, promotes vouchers and charter schools

Trump administration grants brief extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants

Mass water shutoffs continue for Detroit households

Two men stabbed to death in Portland, Oregon anti-Muslim incident

India's boycott of China's Belt and Road summit highlights deepening tensions

Over 150 dead and half a million displaced in Sri Lankan floods

Australia's billionaires celebrate a "wealth boom"

Obituary

Zbigniew Brzezinski, architect of the catastrophe in Afghanistan, dead at 89

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

May 29 June 4: Lenin and Trotsky move toward unity as calls for Soviet power spread

International Amazon Workers Voice

Ex-worker: I almost died of heatstroke and Amazon forced me to keep working

Workers Struggles

Quebec construction strike: Defeat strikebreaking laws and concessions! Defend public services!

Arts

Artists who were harassed at the US border speak out