New Today -- 23 March 2018

Perspective

Behind the Facebook data scandal: The drive to censor the Internet

The media, working with the intelligence agencies and leading congressional Democrats, is using the scandal as a cover for a crackdown on political opposition on the world's largest social network.

News & Analysis

US threatens trade war against China

The Trump administration has drawn up a list of more than 1,000 products, and proposed investment bans, targeting 10 key Chinese industries.

US House of Representatives approves record military budget

Confessed Austin, Texas bomber dead in apparent suicide blast

Sacramento police shoot and kill unarmed man in his backyard

Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Justine Damond charged with murder

Trial begins for Border Patrol agent who murdered Mexican teenager

German chancellor's government speech: Anti-refugee propaganda, rearmament and war

NHS FightBack: Reject health trade unions' sellout NHS pay deal!

Peru's president and former Wall Street financier resigns amid corruption scandal

"Financial toxicity" affects poorer cancer patients in Australia

Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship

Detroit autoworkers denounce effort to censor the Internet

Commentary

Washington Post fulminates against Black Panther's white supremacist supporters

Five years since New York City school bus strike

School bus drivers discuss aftermath of the 2013 New York City strike

Arts Review

May Your Kindness Remain from Courtney Marie Andrews

Evolve by Imagine Dragons: Noisy emotion without artistic depth

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa