New Today -- 24 October 2017

Perspective

New reports document declining life expectancy and worsening health of US workers

Middle-age workers are being forced to retire later, even as they confront poorer health and a lower life expectancy than their older peers.

News & Analysis

US prepares to put nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert

Amid a standoff with North Korea and tensions with Russia and China, Washington is preparing to return its fleet of B-52 nuclear bombers to 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991.

Trump, Pentagon shaken by mounting crisis over Niger deaths

Catalan government in turmoil over Spain's suppression of autonomy

China faces growing debt problems, says central bank governor

Puerto Rico power blackout the biggest in US history

Weeks after hurricanes in Texas and Florida: Government aid scarce, tens of thousands still displaced

Tillerson calls for "dramatic deepening" of Indo-US alliance

Thousands demonstrate in Berlin against ultra-right Alternative for Germany

Airbnb and eBay paying virtually no tax in the UK

Australian spy agency promotes anti-China witch-hunt

Sri Lanka: Phony moves toward democratic constitutional change

Australian government tries to force refugees from one prison camp to another

Book Review

Immigration and socialist strategy in America, past and present

Commentary

Move to Spanish military rule in Catalonia exposes bankruptcy of Podemos

Behind the New York Times' concern about Washington's "forever wars": Plans for new war authorization and conscription

The six-day rise and fall of "democratic socialist" Ramirez-Rosa for Illinois lieutenant governor

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

Why Study the Russian Revolution?

Google Censorship

Google: The new face of internet censorship

Arts Review

Mississippi school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird from curriculum

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: The Americas