New Today -- 10 July 2018

Perspective

Allies no more: Trump escalates threats against Europe

This week's NATO summit, planned as a showcase of European rearmament, has been overshadowed by increasingly unbridgeable divisions between the US and Europe.

News & Analysis

Trump chooses second ultra-right Supreme Court justice

Brett Kavanaugh is a reactionary in the mold of Trump's first high court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigns to prepare possible Conservative leadership challenge

"Nerve agent" death of Dawn Sturgess raises fresh questions over UK Skripal affair

New Zealand nurses reject union-backed sellout, prepare nationwide strike

Trump administration misses deadline to reunite immigrant children with parents

Germany: Tens of thousands demonstrate against inhumane anti-refugee policies

Famed geneticist Francisco Ayala resigns following unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment

Violent Haitian protests triggered by IMF austerity measures

US provocatively sends two warships through Taiwan Strait

Amnesty International denounces Australia's "foreign interference" laws

National Grid cuts off healthcare for locked-out workers in Massachusetts

Ontario's new Tory government slashes social spending, scapegoats refugees

Floods and landslides in Japan leave more than 100 dead

Australian unions' bogus campaign over sacking of Longford maintenance workers

Commentary

The Thailand cave rescue and the humanitarian hypocrisy of imperialism

The Guardian's Marina Hyde accuses actress Susan Sarandon of being Trump's "asset"

Autoworkers struggles

Workers honor young Ford worker who died at Detroit-area plant

SEP 2018 Election Campaign

SEP candidate Niles Niemuth extends support to family and friends of Jacoby Hennings

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: The Americas

Arts Review

Punk bassist Steve Soto dead at 54