New Today -- 7 September 2018

Perspective

New York Times covers up Google's censorship

The Times' report on allegations that Google is censoring the Internet is a white-wash, echoing the company's self-serving denials without any serious examination of the facts.

News & Analysis

Amazon market capitalization surpasses $1 trillion

Amazon's soaring profits, like those of Apple, are the direct result of the brutal exploitation of its workforce.

Striking Tacoma, Washington, teachers demand better pay, funding for education

Trump administration to abandon court settlement prohibiting indefinite detention of immigrant children

In wake of credit downgrade huge job cuts looming at Ford

UK "identifies" Russian agents in attempted Skripal assassination

Pompeo visits Pakistan to demand "reset" in support for Afghan war

May's Africa visit highlights Britain's decline

Saxony's minister president declares solidarity with far-right protests in Chemnitz

German Left Party leader launches right-wing nationalist movement

French ministers resign as Macron government plunges in polls

Leader of breakaway republic in Ukraine assassinated

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces he will not seek reelection

CIA Democrat complains of political spying by Republicans

Many Japanese schools fail to meet earthquake-resistant standards

Home loan stress threatening millions of households in Australia

Australia: Factory fire sends toxic smoke over western Melbourne

Workers Struggles

Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) forum reviews lessons of nursing union sellout

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

Science

Waste plastics poison the food chain and contribute to global warming