New Today -- 9 January 2019

Perspective

Los Angeles teachers prepare to strike

Teachers in the nation's second-largest school district are engaged in a critical battle to defend the right to public education.

News & Analysis

Trump delivers fascistic White House rant to demand border wall

The government shutdown marks a significant step in the direction of authoritarian rule, directed squarely against the working class.

Millions of Indian workers hold two-day general strike against Modi government

Los Angeles and the billionaires' plan to destroy public education

Actor Kevin Spacey arraigned on indecent assault charge in Massachusetts

US-Turkish tensions rise over Syria withdrawal plan

Election campaign confirms further shift to the right by Israeli political establishment

US-China trade talks extended, amid continuing obstacles

US and Canadian elites demand Trudeau government toughen its anti-China stance

Debate begins in British parliament over May's Brexit deal with EU

Further protests against Orbn government in Hungary

Sears liquidation temporarily averted, thousands more jobs to be slashed

US Navy SEAL accused of war crimes, murder, pleads not guilty

Guatemalan establishment indifferent to deaths of US incarcerated migrant children

Insurgent Gabon soldiers shot dead in foiled coup attempt

New Zealand's public healthcare crisis worsens

Science

Scientific breakthrough promises to increase agricultural productivity by 40 percent

Arts Review

South Park episodes dramatize plight of Amazon workers, ridicule Jeff Bezos