New Today -- 28 December 2017

Perspective

Socialism and the problem of the super-rich

It is impossible to seriously address a single major social issue without breaking the political and economic stranglehold of the financial oligarchy over society.

News & Analysis

Russia charges Pentagon with training ex-ISIS fighters

The report that the US is training former ISIS militants is one more indication that Washington is preparing a new phase of the war in Syria.

Months after hurricane, Puerto Rican workers face worsening jobs crisis

Up to three times more immigrants die crossing US-Mexico border than previously reported

VW colluded in torture of militant workers during military dictatorship in Brazil

Was the 2016 terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market an "intelligence operation with deadly collateral damage?"

Profiteering by insulation industry central to Grenfell Tower fire in London

UK: Thousands to see in the New Year sleeping rough on the streets

No decline in Michigan poverty since the Great Recession

Typhoon ravages southern Philippines

Amazon begins operations in Australia

Anti-Chinese witch-hunt against New Zealand MP intensifies

Commentary

The petition against Matt Damon and the "erasing" of Kevin Spacey: The fiercely antidemocratic character of the sexual misconduct campaign