New Today -- 10 August 2017

Perspective

Trump's nuclear war threat against North Korea

With the staggeringly reckless statements of Trump and his aides, a fuse has been lit that can lead to the eruption of a nuclear war in Asia with incalculable global consequences.

News & Analysis

US health catastrophe: Drug overdose deaths approach 60,000 a year

More Americans have died from drug overdoses since 2000 than in all the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries combined.

Thousands attend free health care event in Detroit

FBI raid on home of former Trump campaign chairman

British government backs US war drive against North Korea, China

US to launch drone bombing campaign in the Philippines

Danger of India-China border war grows

After Levallois attack, French government whips up law-and-order hysteria

Grenfell Tower: How the warnings of cladding dangers were ignored

German automaker VW collaborated with Brazilian dictatorship

An anti-democratic witch-hunt in Australia over dual citizenship

Government of crisis installed in Papua New Guinea

New Zealand: Inland Revenue Department to axe nearly 2,000 jobs

Arts

Another reactionary attack on artist Dana Schutz, this time in Bostonand a healthy response

Commentary

The hacking of HBO and the "Russian meddling" campaign

Irish nationalism versus socialist internationalism: A reply to a readerPart two

International Amazon Workers Voice

Working life at a Pittsburgh Amazon warehouse