New Today -- 12 July 2018

Perspective

The class war over wages

In an article published Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal worries that "rising wages are beginning to eat into the profits of some US companies."

News & Analysis

Trump denounces Germany and Europe at NATO summit

A month after the collapse of the G7 economic summit, diplomatic and military ties between Washington and the European Union are rapidly disintegrating.

Trump escalates trade war against China

Iraq war contractor ran US detention centre for immigrant children

Twenty thousand demonstrate in Dsseldorf, Germany against police state attacks on democratic rights

German interior minister's "Master Plan" for refugees: Internment camps and mass deportations

Natural gas explosion kills firefighter in Wisconsin

One worker killed, one injured hours apart at Florida's Walt Disney World

Open letter to NZ nurses' Facebook group: Reverse the ban on WSWS articles and criticisms of the union

Australia's new "foreign interference" laws: A threat to anti-war dissent

Youth mental health problems and suicides rising sharply in UK

The July 3 Whitstable fire and the Grenfell inferno

Defend Julian Assange!

Ecuador's government negotiating Julian Assange's fate with the UK

Prominent whistleblowers and journalists defend Julian Assange at online vigil