New Today -- 11 July 2018

Perspective

Mutiny on their knees: The Democratic Party's phony opposition to the Kavanaugh nomination

Despite public posturing, Senate Democrats have no intention of conducting any serious struggle against the confirmation of reactionary federal judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

News & Analysis

US-Europe conflicts erupt in run-up to NATO summit in Brussels

A month after the G7 summit in Quebec broke down over Washington's trade war measures, Trump and EU officials exchanged threats before today's summit.

Trump administration defends missing court deadline to reunite immigrant families

Trump administration freezes "risk adjustment" payments to health insurers

Concerted efforts to save May's government and the chance of a "soft Brexit"

More inconsistencies in account of second UK novichok poisoning

US judge rules literacy is "not a right"

Nicaragua sees bloodiest clashes yet after months of protest

Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) to hold online forum: The way forward for nurses and health workers

Ultra-nationalist US demagogue Stephen Bannon hails Australia's new foreign interference laws

Nauru government bans ABC journalists ahead of Pacific summit

New Zealand defence policy targets China, Russia

SEP 2018 Election Campaign

The impact of the US-backed war in Yemen on Michigan's 12th district

Commentary

Emmanuelle Seigner, Roman Polanski's wife, calls invitation to join movie Academy "insufferable hypocrisy"

Arts Review

Soviet-Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky dead at 87