New Today -- 9 April 2018

Perspective

CIA stages gas attack pretext for Syria escalation

The rhetoric of the Trump administration indicates that preparations are being made by the Pentagon for stepped-up military operations in Syria.

News & Analysis

Facebook intensifies censorship ahead of congressional testimony by Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg announced Friday that his company will "require people who manage large pages to be verified," i.e., they must provide the company, and by extension the US government, with their real names and locations.

Trump administration officials try to calm trade war fears

Britain piles on lies to shore up Skripal poisoning accusations against Russia

Spain responds to German court decision on Puigdemont with threats of stepped-up repression

French rail workers, students resume strike action against Macron

Bogus anti-Semitism campaign attacks Corbyn while Labour reveals its Zionist agenda

Isle of Wight Council continues to cut services

New York police release video and transcripts from shooting of unarmed man in Brooklyn

Nashville parents, teachers and students decry public school cuts

Lawsuit accuses Washington, D.C. of destroying personal belongings of the homeless

India: Modi government accelerates anti-worker privatization drive

Bangladesh garment workers jailed on bogus attempted murder charges

Australian tertiary education union imposes cuts to wages and conditions at Murdoch University

Commentary

Unions seek to hijack, shut down Oklahoma teachers strike as support for expanded struggle grows

Arts Review

Restored version of Fassbinder's working class drama Eight Hours Don't Make a Day showing in US

This week in history

This week in history: April 9-15

Autoworkers Struggles

Chicago Ford workers speak out against treatment of temporary part-timers