New Today -- 18 August 2018

Perspective

Former CIA Director John Brennan's brief for dismantling democracy

The view advanced by Brennan, the intelligence agencies and their allies in the Democratic Party can be summed up as: "It is necessary to destroy democracy in order to save it."

News & Analysis

CEO pay up 17 percent while US workers' wages stagnate

The typical CEO of a large firm in the US makes in a single day almost as much as the typical worker earns in an entire year.

Google employees protest plans to build censored search engine in China

Mass grave revealed at Arizona Air Force bombing range

London: Ecuador embassy vigil marks six years since Julian Assange granted asylum

Taliban attack on Afghan city deepens crisis of US puppet regime in Kabul

UK: Westminster "terror incident" remains unclear

Amidst Turkish crisis Indian rupee falls to all-time low

Lessons of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation's sellout: Build rank-and-file committees! Unite the working class against the Labour government!

Pentagon chief promotes anti-China agenda in Latin America

Presidential slates chosen for Brazil's general elections: a warning to the working class

Mexican farmers blame Volkswagen for drought near assembly plant

Sixty-one year old worker dies in horrific fall into vat of oil near Disney World

Australian police killed mentally ill young woman seconds after arriving at scene

Alcoa workers strike in Western Australia

Arts Review

Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)A tribute to the Queen of Soul

Workers Struggles

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific