New Today -- 23 December 2017

Perspective

Democratic Party witch hunters target Green Party candidate Jill Stein

The Socialist Equality Party condemns the targeting of Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate in the 2016 election, by Democrats in the Senate Intelligence Committee.

News & Analysis

Pentagon admits presence of US troops in Yemen as cholera cases top one million

Washington is deepening the catastrophe in Yemen as part of its war preparations against Iran, threatening the lives of millions.

US considers splitting immigrant children from parents in immigration jails

Corporate America begins campaign to sell Trump tax bonanza

Bexar County Police shoot and kill six-year-old boy

Political turmoil in Spain following Catalan election

UN imposes harsh new sanctions on North Korea

Japan's cabinet approves draft budget that boosts the military

Trump authorizes $41.5 million sale of lethal US weaponry to Ukraine

Amazon worker dies after vomiting blood at Sacramento, California fulfillment center

Family, co-workers want truth about Kentucky Ford worker's death

Massive job cuts at Opel and Vauxhall

Trump administration congratulates "re-election" of police-state regime in Honduras

Virgin Care: A case study in how private corporations loot the UK's National Health Service

Nashville, Tennessee: Homelessness at record levels despite pledges from politicians and business leaders

US fire death toll in 2017 reaches 2,152

First "foreign fighter" arrest in Australia

Workers Struggles

Engineering workers occupy three BiFab yards in Scotland

Wildcat strike stops production as workers eject union leaders at Ford Romania

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

Arts Review

Downsizing: Alexander Payne's take on climate change, overpopulation, social inequality and more

Commentary

Social inequality and Germany's government crisis

The contradictions of the bitcoin-blockchain frenzy

Socialist Equality Party

Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) stands for local government elections