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New Today -- 11 December 2017

Perspective

Is the United States on the brink of nuclear war?

In the 13 days since North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching large portions of North America, the US has further escalated its war threats.

News & Analysis

Amid "full employment," no recovery in US wages

The jobs report provides further evidence that the much vaunted economic "recovery" in the US has overwhelmingly benefited Wall Street at the expense of the working class.

US-Russia tensions mount after ISIS's defeat in Syria

Alabama Senate election pits corporate Democrat vs. fascistic Republican

Electrician, 41, killed at Ford Kentucky Truck Plant on Saturday

Nevada and Nebraska move to use powerful opioid in state executions

Anti-China witch-hunt in Australia escalates

UK "Magnitsky bill" escalates US-led anti-Russia offensive

Mexico's Interior Security Law: The ruling class prepares for mass uprisings

Spanish ruling elite lays out imperialist ambitions in new National Security Strategy

Mass eviction of rural migrant workers from Chinese capital

Rebels attack UN base in Congo, killing 20 soldiers

Commentary

Australian workers, actors, filmmakers oppose the "trial by media" of Geoffrey Rush

Centenary of the Russian Revolution

December 11-17: White forces capture Rostov

Obituary

Patricia Noonan Jukovsky (1947-2017)

Arts Review

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017), one of opera's greatest baritones