New Today -- 5 January 2018

Perspective

The Dow at 25,000: The bonanza for the oligarchy continues

Rather than reflecting economic health, the stock market bubble is a mechanism for the perverse and malignant upward redistribution of social wealth.

News & Analysis

America's poor and homeless freeze in winter storm

As in all weather-related disasters, society's most vulnerable are the worst affected, with the poor and homeless bearing the brunt.

British National Health Service faces escalating crisis due to chronic underfunding

Bannon attack on Trump White House fuels Washington political warfare

Russia: Siberian shoe factory fire kills 10 workers

Berlin Senate authorises brutal deportation of refugee family before Christmas

An interview with Mark Flessner, attorney for Davino Watson, US citizen illegally imprisoned by ICE for more than three years

UC Berkeley student arrested by border patrol

Trump administration to roll back regulations on offshore drilling

AT&T and other US telecoms begin wave of layoffs

Australian government promotes racist diversion over so-called "African gangs"

Australia continues punitive treatment of refugees on Manus Island

Commentary

Sulzbergers pass gilded baton at the New York Times

Arts Review

All the Money in the Worldabove all, the "expunging" of Kevin Spaceyand The Shape of Water

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa