Today on the WSWS

New Today -- 23 November 2016

Perspective

King Donald meets his media courtiers

Trump gave the media executives and anchors a tongue-lashing, creating an atmosphere that one cowed participant compared to a "firing squad."

News & Analysis

US arms Syrian Islamists with surface-to-air missiles

The portable missiles have been placed in the hands of the so-called "rebels" in an apparent attempt to escalate the conflict in advance of the change in US administrations.

As Trump assembles a war cabinet, the Kremlin hopes for better relations

Merkel to run for fourth term as German chancellor

Former economy minister Macron announces French presidential election bid

UK: Chilcot Iraq War inquiry cover-up confirmed

Over 120,000 British children will be homeless this winter

South Korean opposition parties call for President Park's impeachment

Detroit housing crisis deepens with county tax foreclosure auction

Hundreds killed in US home fires

Sri Lankan president orders arrest of "inciters of racism"

New Zealand's capital caught unprepared for earthquake and flooding

International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Humboldt University Professor Sandkhler's response to the IYSSE: A declaration of intellectual bankruptcy

Mehring Books

MEHRING BOOKS 2016 HOLIDAY SALE

Arts

Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) dies at 82

Workers Struggles

Lessons of the Harvard University Dining Services strike