New Today -- 20 December 2018

Perspective

A closer look at American "democracy"

The population is given the opportunity every two or four years to go to the polls and vote for one or the other corporate-controlled party. This is what is called "democracy."

News & Analysis

Trump's Syrian withdrawal order sparks political firestorm in Washington

The announcement follows discussions between Trump and Erdogan, who has threatened to send Turkish troops into the northeastern Syrian region where US troops are based.

Turkey threatens to invade Syria amid tensions with Washington

Sharp fall on Wall Street in response to Fed interest rate decision

The New York Times targets McKinsey for doing business with China and Russia

At meeting on GM plant closings, DSA covers for UAW and Democrats

Trump intervenes on behalf of confessed war criminal Mathew Golsteyn

US Senate passes bipartisan criminal justice bill

Steelworker killed at plant in Granite City, Illinois

Columbia College faculty union convenes secret tribunal to discipline members

The US hails Wickremesinghe's reinstatement as Sri Lankan prime minister

Brutal crackdown on West Bank as Netanyahu pledges stepped-up land grab

UK workers' wages slashed by as much as a third in last decade

Ontario Conservatives ban impending power workers' strike

Australian union leader warns of eruption of working class struggle

Featured Commentary

New York Times: Back to the good days before Edward Snowden!

Neo-Nazi network in the German police force

Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race

History

The bicentenary of Frederick Douglass

Arts Review

French Romantic painter Eugne Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum in New York