New Today -- 8 July 2017

Perspective

The oligarchs assemble in Hamburg

Ringed by tens of thousands of heavily-armed police, the representatives of the global financial oligarchy gathered in Hamburg to hurl recriminations at one another.

News & Analysis

US B-1 bombers challenge Chinese claims in South China Sea

The bomber flight is the latest US provocation ahead of the G20 summit aimed at pressuring China to take stronger action against North Korea.

Japan using North Korea as pretext to acquire offensive weapons

Trump-Putin meeting deepens divisions in US establishment on Russia policy

Virginia Democratic governor defies international protests to oversee execution of mentally ill prisoner

California: Immigrants go on hunger strike at Adelanto Detention Facility

London's Grenfell fire: Salford housing associations discontinue cladding removal

Haringey social cleansing exposes Labour's hypocrisy over Grenfell Tower fire

Fed stress test results unleash "party time" for US banks

Trump escalates US drone war in Somalia

Missouri rolls back minimum wage increase in St. Louis

Police kill Iraq veteran who held up bank to demand VA disability payment

Sears announces the closing of 43 more stores in the US and Canada

Court rejects Trump's delay of methane rules

Backed by Greens, NDP to form British Columbia's government

Rifts widen in the Australian Greens

Commentary

Hamburg under police lockdown

New study shows Clinton lost election because of growing working class opposition to war

International Amazon Workers Voice

Virginia and Maryland Amazon workers denounce speed-ups as company profits from millions in government giveaways

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific