New Today -- 24 August 2017

Perspective

The "military-industrial complex" in power

The ruling elite has used the crisis surrounding the president's endorsement of the neo-fascist rampage in Charlottesville, Virginia to consolidate the grip of the military over the White House.

News & Analysis

US threatens Pakistan as part of new Afghan war drive

Trump's threats include closer cooperation with Pakistan's arch-rival India, which has repeatedly boasted of its readiness to mount military raids inside Pakistan even if they risk provoking all-out war.

German government backs Trump's military escalation in Afghanistan

Saudi airstrike on motel in Yemen kills at least 41

Trump continues far-right agitation in Phoenix speech

Facebook, Youtube, other tech giants launch joint, state-backed censorship programs

CIA contractors settle ACLU torture lawsuit

Trudeau vows immigration crackdown as thousands of Haitians flee to Canada

Podemos joins Spanish Socialist Party in regional coalition

Pine Gap base automatically involves Australia in US wars

Australian High Court sanctions illegal detention of refugees in Papua New Guinea

The Grenfell Fire

Remarks by Jerry White of the SEP (US) at Grenfell Tower fire public meeting in London

Worker at SEP public meeting on the Grenfell Tower fire: "We are working class and we always suffer. A few people who are rich, they call the shots."

History

1917: The Great Strikean engrossing exhibition about mass walkouts in wartime Australia

Arts

Randy Newman and the problems of Dark Matter

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: the Americas