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Archive: December 2004

The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.

1 December 2004

• A million textile jobs at risk worldwide
• Did the Indonesian military murder human rights activist Munir?
• Letters from our readers
• Power struggle in Ukraine: what do Yushchenko and Yanukovich stand for?
• The Governor-General’s speech: a wish list for Australia’s corporate elite
• Two years after the Prestige disaster, new sea pollution measures blocked

2 December 2004

• Britain’s Home Secretary Blunkett under attack
• International Red Cross charges systematic abuse
  Bush’s “Torture Inc.” at Guantanamo
• Crisis in Ukraine: rival camps await Supreme Court verdict on election
• Perhaps a step backward
• Ridge to step down as US homeland security chief
• Sacked German Opel worker: “Dismissals are aimed at intimidating the work force”
  Interview with Turhan Ersin
• The creation of the Ukraine “democratic” opposition
• Tragic mine explosion adds to China’s grim toll of death and destruction

3 December 2004

• After Fallujah’s destruction: US occupation force to reach 150,000
• Al Jazeera journalist among 10 jailed in Spain
• America’s super-rich look forward to a merry Christmas
• Australia: Aboriginal death in custody triggers Palm Island riot
• Britain: government rejects public inquiry into brutality at Deepcut barracks
• To fawning applause from Canada’s elite
  Bush pledges to wage unending war
• French right elects new leader
• LTTE leader’s speech points to danger of renewed war in Sri Lanka
• New Jersey study indicts jailing of mentally ill youth

4 December 2004

• Front man for a police state
  Bernard Kerik to head US Homeland Security Department
• More than 750 dead after tropical storms batter the Philippines
• New Jersey study indicts jailing of mentally ill youth
• The Madrid bomb inquiry: Aznar continues his lies
• US jobs and sales figures indicate weakening economy
• Ukraine Supreme Court orders new presidential run-off election
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa

6 December 2004

• Britain: court quashes unlawful killing charge against police officers
• Bush rules out any delay in bogus Iraqi election
• Exit NBC anchor Tom Brokaw: A nonentity in the service of wealth and power
• Study details economic distress facing Oregon workers
• UK has fastest growth of psychotropic drugs for children and adolescents

7 December 2004

• Attackers storm US consulate in Saudi Arabia
• Kennedy Center awards: Hollywood, theater “lefts” rub shoulders with Bush
• New push to privatise Australian university system
• Interview with WSWS correspondent
  Rich and poor in twenty-first century China
  Part One
• US and Britain implicated in Equatorial Guinea coup attempt
• Ukraine: ultra-right groups active in Ukrainian opposition
• What price an American empire?
  Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3

8 December 2004

• Interview with WSWS correspondent
  Changing political attitudes in twenty-first century China
  Part Two
• Letters from our readers
• Power struggle in Ukraine continues
• Question mark over US dollar’s global role
• Spain’s foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup
• The social mosaic attempted: the photographs of August Sander
• Another step toward a police state
  US Congress passes bill to restructure intelligence agencies
• What price an American Empire?
  Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 December 2004

• Fatah lines up behind Abbas and threatens Barghouti
• Inadequate radiation protection endangers Sri Lankan health workers
• India: political posturing over oil price hikes
• Not taken from life
• US troops confront Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
• US war criminals hail new puppet regime in Afghanistan
• What US-backed “democracy movements” have produced in Serbia and Georgia
• What price an American Empire? Part Three
  Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3

10 December 2004

• “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedoms’...they hate our policies”
  Pentagon report exposes lies of Bush administration
• Political lessons of the US and Australian elections
• Spain’s foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup
• Sydney meeting reviews Australian, US election results
• US media ignores damning Pentagon report
• US sailor refuses deployment to Iraq in protest against war
• Ukraine power struggle: constitutional settlement favors opposition leader Yushchenko
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

11 December 2004

• Britain: cover-up of chemical warfare tests on servicemen exposed
• Chile’s ex-dictator Pinochet tied to multi-million-dollar payoffs
• Taiwanese election dominated by dispute over relations with China
• The Scott Peterson case: a new American tragedy
• “Any act of violence in an unjustified conflict is an atrocity”
  US soldier seeks refugee status in Canada
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

13 December 2004

• Kerik declines Homeland Security nomination: why Bush lost his hand-picked henchman
• Lord Butler belatedly comes out against Blair
• Razing of Fallujah fails to break Iraqi resistance
• Sri Lankan government rejects LTTE call for peace talks
• The Daschner case and the rehabilitation of torture in Germany
• US budget bill freezes spending, implements right-wing social agenda

14 December 2004

• Court panel calls for billions in new spending for New York City schools
• Official documents vindicate Red Cross report on US torture
• Pinochet arrested in Chile on “Condor” killings
• The death of Pat Tillman: military mythmaking and the “war on terror”
• The victims of Operation Condor
• Tutu, COSATU and the “powder keg” of South Africa
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 December 2004

• Germany: Opel to destroy 10,000 jobs
  Cuts announced after union sell out
• Letters on “The Scott Peterson case: a new American tragedy”
• Martin Jacques: embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left”
• Sexual pioneer
• Sri Lankan court jails senior opposition politician for contempt
• US caught wiretapping UN atomic energy head ElBaradei

16 December 2004

• A New York City parable: Pale Male, the red-tailed hawk
• Australia: Howard government seeks to provoke “abortion debate”
• Britain: paramedics question suicide verdict on whistleblower Kelly
• Buying silence: Bush awards Medal of Freedom to key figures in Iraq debacle
• Congress-led government offers band-aid to haemorrhaging rural India
• Germany: Election Alternative glorifies the state
• Martin Jacques: embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left”
• Ruling pro-independence party suffers a blow in Taiwan election
• The Bernie Kerik saga
  The war on terror and the rise of the political underworld

17 December 2004

• Britain’s Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns
• Conflict over arms embargo at EU-China summit
• Grenade attack on Sri Lankan music concert kills two
• Hungry and homeless ranks swell in US cities
• Letters from our readers
• Michigan school cuts highlight financial meltdown facing US states
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

18 December 2004

• Anticommunism run amok: the life of Senator Pat McCarran
• Belgium: Opel union councils serve as management’s henchmen
  A report from the GM plant in Antwerp
• Britain: High Court clears way for investigation into troop killing of Iraqi citizen
• Chile’s arrest of Pinochet and the ”Condor” killers in the US
• David Hicks details abuse in Guantánamo Bay
• Egypt deepens its collaboration with Israel
• Pennsylvania steel works mural restored: rescuing history from the dustbin
• Top House Republican becomes chief US drug company lobbyist
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

20 December 2004

• Britain: government treatment of Roma was racist, Law Lords rule
• More casualties of war: US soldiers charged in deaths of Iraqi civilians and fellow servicemen
• Secret evidence used in Australian “terrorist” trial
• South East Asian summit seals free trade agreement with China
• US: federal pension insurance program edges toward bankruptcy

21 December 2004

• Closed-door court proceedings in Iraq against Hussein’s associates
• Germany: report bares widening gap between rich and poor
  SPD-Greens preside over social polarisation
• Skidmore, Missouri: woman carves fetus from a mother’s womb
  A brutal act in a desperate society
• Sri Lanka: JVP leads campaign to impose budget burdens
• Washington targets United Nations for destabilisation
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

22 December 2004

• Britain: Law Lords terror ruling provokes constitutional crisis
• Dollar devaluation cannot right the US economy
• Israel: Labour Party to prop up Sharon’s Likud coalition
• Letters from our readers
• Mosul resistance attack reveals US disarray in Iraq
• Out Now
  New Release from Mehring Books: The Crisis of American Democracy: the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004
• Post-9/11 memo argued for unlimited presidential war-making powers
• US crisis in Iraq sparks Republican attacks on Rumsfeld
• Vanuatu government collapses following Australian economic threats

23 December 2004

• BBC announces widespread job losses and cuts
• Bush as Time magazine’s “2004 Person of the Year”: why him?
• European Union agrees on terms for membership negotiations with Turkey
• Israel: soldier admits he knew slain peace activist Hurndall was unarmed
• Peak Australian union body seeks alliance with religious right
• The New York Times manufactures support for the Iraq war in aftermath of Mosul bombing
• The power struggle in Ukraine and America’s strategy for global supremacy
• Tokyo extends troop deployment in Iraq
• US military begins retaliation for Mosul bombing

24 December 2004

• Britain: poverty and homelessness rise under Labour
• Documents reveal systematic torture by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Louisville, Kentucky: sharp rise in emergency food requests
• One billion children worldwide suffering deprivation
• Outrage in the Philippines over killing of plantation workers
• Sri Lankan reports reveal widening social inequality
• US: new questions about safety of anti-inflammatory drugs
• Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa

27 December 2004

• Devastating tidal wave kills more than 13,000 in southern Asia

28 December 2004

• Britain: Sikh protests force closure of play
• Tidal wave brings death and destruction throughout Sri Lanka
• Tidal wave wreaks death and destruction throughout Sri Lanka
• US Airways workers stage Christmas job action
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Yushchenko claims victory in Ukraine presidential election

29 December 2004

• A soaring list of dead and injured on Thailand’s southern coast
• Italian President Ciampi blocks Berlusconi’s justice “reforms”
• Spain: Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War
• Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak to the WSWS
• Tsunami death toll rises to 60,000 amid warnings of epidemics
• US Congress uses Alice in Wonderland logic to sell cuts in college grants
• Ukraine election: on-the-spot report from Kiev
  A fight between millionaires and billionaires

30 December 2004

• Black fever in India: an epidemic rooted in poverty
• Bush’s response to South Asia disaster: indifference compounded by political incompetence
• Christmas all year round for Britain’s super-rich
• Fallujah residents return to a destroyed city
• "Los musulmanes no 'odian nuestras libertades'. Odian nuestra política"
  Informe del Pentágono revela las mentiras del gobierno de Bush
• Letters from our readers
• Prensa de Estados Unidos ignora informe acusador del Pentágono
• Amid the devastation
  Sri Lankan president issues appeal for “unity”

31 December 2004

• Britain: Royal Mail to sell off half its business
• David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2004
• On-the-spot report
  Poverty-stricken Hambantota among the worst affected areas in Sri Lanka
• A revealing commentary by a German newspaper
  The price of Ukrainian democracy
• Tsunami death toll in Indonesia approaching 100,000
• US: Bush administration targets medical care for the poor
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa