New Today -- 22 March 2016

Perspective

Obama in Cuba

Obama's "human rights" masquerade is aided and abetted not only by the slavish US media, but also by the Castro government itself.

News & Analysis

European Union-Turkey deal to expel refugees comes into force

The same powers that have routinely invoked "human rights" to justify war in the Middle East are denying refugees the right to seek protection from the disaster these wars have produced.

Australian government threatens a "double dissolution" election

US accelerating military encirclement of China

US presidential candidates give warmongering speeches backing Israel at AIPAC conference

Resignation of UK work and pensions secretary divides Conservative government

UK super-rich seize 26 percent of all new wealth since 2000

Spanish officer corps hears lecture justifying Franco coup and dictatorship

Hunger stalks US campuses

Coal giant Peabody Energy on verge of bankruptcy

New York City affordable housing programs designed to benefit developers

Boston-area mass transit: Fare increases, service reductions and attacks on pensions

Peru's electoral board bars two presidential candidates before first round of elections

Socialist Equality Party

Hundreds attend meetings in Leipzig, Germany on the danger of war and the politics of the pseudo-left

David North addresses Sri Lankan SEP launch of Sinhala edition of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century

Colombo meeting launches Sinhala translation of The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century