New Today -- 25 September 2017

Perspective

The rise of the AfD and the rightward lurch of official politics in Germany

For the first time since the fall of the Nazis, a right-wing extremist party is entering Germany's national parliament.

News & Analysis

As Trump threatens North Korea, most Americans oppose war

An opinion poll revealed the majority of Americans oppose a US attack on North Korea, fear it will lead to a wider war and do not trust Trump as commander-in-chief.

In defiance of Trump threats, US athletes protest police repression

Authorities withheld DNA evidence in St. Louis police killing

Brutal video depicts Huntington Beach, California officer killing Navy veteran

Iraqi Kurdish referendum stokes Mideast war tensions

Turkey threatens war over Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum

In Paris, Mlenchon calls on trade unions to control opposition to austerity

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale quits

No clear winner in New Zealand election

Social anger grows after Mexico earthquakes

Stephen Bannon's Southern strategy and the Alabama Republican primary

US autoworkers express support for CAMI strikers in Canada

San Diego death toll from hepatitis A outbreak rises to 16

Immigrants arrested by plain-clothes ICE agents outside Brooklyn courthouse

Sri Lanka: JVP leader assures business that it defends capitalism

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

September 25 October 1: Lenin urges Bolshevik leaders to prepare for the seizure of power

When Will the Wretched Slaughter End?

Commentary

New York Times, Democrats lead push for Facebook censorship

Puerto Rico confronts the devastation wrought by hurricanes and Wall Street

The Fed's quantitative easing: A class assessment

Book Review

The "disease" of social inequality sends thousands to a premature death