New Today -- 23 March 2016

Perspective

The terror bombings in Brussels

This horrific attack targeted innocent people in no way responsible for the imperialist wars that have devastated the Middle East.

News & Analysis

Attacks on Marine firebase reveal secret US escalation in Iraq

At least 5,000 US troops are now in Iraq, some 20 percent more than the "cap" supposedly set by the Obama White House.

Obama's Cuba speech: "Democratic" veneer for US capitalist invasion

Indonesia accuses China of encroaching on its territory

Germany's Left Party favours coalition with conservative CDU

With support of US Supreme Court, Texas authorities execute mentally ill man

US government delays hearing in Apple iPhone encryption case

St. Louis autoworkers bar UAW vice president from their Facebook page

Northwestern University faculty oppose selection of US general to head global studies institute

Opposition grows to Boston Public Schools budget cuts

West Virginia budget gap widens, economy worsens

Arson attack on witness to murders in Palestinian village of Duma

Hundreds of refugees in Australia face return to offshore camps

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

IYSSE campaigns against war at San Diego State University

Commentary

Qubec Solidaire welcomes suppression of anti-austerity struggle

Arts Review

Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See: All the history the novelist cannot see

The Crisis in Detroit and Flint

Michigan governor's Flint "action plan": A cover for criminality

Workers Struggles

India: Tata workers end strike after being isolated by the unions

Seven-day nurses strike ends at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles