New Today -- 14 September 2017

Perspective

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and the fraud of human rights imperialism

The desperate plight of Rohingya Muslims demonstrates that the US never had the slightest interest in promoting democratic rights in Burma, but cynically exploited the issue to advance its own economic and strategic aims.

News & Analysis

A social crime: Eight elderly dead in Florida nursing home after days without air conditioning

Police evacuated 115 remaining residents from a nursing home north of Miami after they spent days in suffocating heat after the power was knocked out by Hurricane Irma.

Evacuees, volunteers describe inadequate services, police harassment at Houston convention center

After Irma, Wall Street pushes for austerity and privatization in Puerto Rico

As official Grenfell Tower inquiry opens, UK fire safety provisions under attack

Australian television program highlights flammable cladding crisis

Juncker's State of the EU speech: Europe readies for war with the world

Trump administration threatens further clampdown on refugees

Sanders health care bill: A cover for Democratic Party deals with Trump

Department of Justice clears officers in death of Freddie Gray

UK: Pay cap for majority of public sector workers to continue, despite government defeat

Corruption crisis engulfs all major parties in Peru

More warnings of Australian property market crash

Commentary

Germany's Left Party: A party of militarism and war