World Socialist Web Site

 

Archive: February 2006

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 February 2006

• 78th Academy Award nominations: realities begin to sink in
• France exports toxic waste in defiance of international law
• Indian PM threatened to resign to ensure success of Indo-US military exercise
• On-the-spot report from a Sri Lankan fishing village
• Oregon Democrats, GOP join forces against independent candidates
• Poland: More than 60 dead following roof collapse in Katowice
• The State of the Union speech: Bush repeats litany of lies on Iraq war
• The legacy of US Fed chairman Greenspan
• US tax agency targets poor

2 February 2006

• At Bush’s State of the Union: Cindy Sheehan arrested for wearing antiwar message
• Bush’s State of the Union address ignores social crisis in America
• Council of Europe report reveals European collusion with US torture flights
• After the Hamas election win
  Daniel Pipes denounces democracy for Muslims
• Illinois governor outlines continued assault on working class
• US machinations in Iraq delay formation of government

3 February 2006

• Australia: Howard’s ministerial reshuffle ignites Coalition tensions
• Indian airport workers strike against privatisation
• One hundredth British military death in Iraq
• Two more West Virginia coal miners killed
• US budget slashes social spending to fund war and tax cuts for the rich
• With cabinet changes, India’s UPA government tilts still closer to Washington
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
• World Socialist Web Site Review: February-May 2006 issue now available

4 February 2006

• Another exposure of Australian government involvement in citizen’s torture
• European media publish anti-Muslim cartoons: An ugly and calculated provocation
• French Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire turns further to the right
• Heavy losses feared amongst 1,400 passengers of sunken Egyptian ferry
• Spain: Ban on Basque separatist party extended
• The Super Bowl in Detroit: the manufacturing of a “national event”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

6 February 2006

• Cut-throat wheat war behind Australian “oil-for-food” scandal
• Fight vs. CPE requires independent political struggle by French workers
• Las nominaciones para los Premios de la Academia: al fin ciertas realidades comienzan a penetrar
• Survivors speak of horrific events leading to Egyptian ferry sinking
• Turkey: Court drops prosecution of writer Orhan Pamuk
• US Senate hearings set to cover up domestic spying
• US bullies IAEA into reporting Iran to the UN Security Council

7 February 2006

• An American tragedy—the plight of the US war wounded
• Bush proposes $2.8 trillion budget to boost military spending and slash social programs
• Egypt: Relatives of victims sack offices of ferry firm
• Google’s China censorship sets dangerous precedent
• Peter Jackson’s King Kong
  A colossal triviality
• Scottish Socialist Party upholds interests of Scottish business
• Senate wiretapping hearing: Democrats bow to police state threat
• Uncollected garbage highlights infrastructure breakdown in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

8 February 2006

• Canada: Harper’s Conservative cabinet—a roster of reaction
• Death toll mounts in worldwide protests against anti-Muslim cartoons
• Ford job cuts will devastate working class communities
• German engineers kidnapped in Iraq
• Hypocrisy from Bush, Clinton at funeral of Coretta Scott King
• Indian union leaders cave in over airport privatisation
• Munich Security Conference: Imperialists close ranks
• Saudi Arabia alerted Britain of terror attack prior to London bombings
• Woody Allen directs Match Point: No Dreiser

9 February 2006

• An account of the attack on science in the US
• Australia: Labor attacks Howard from the right over “oil-for-food” scandal
• Child malnutrition in the Indian state of Maharashtra
• Germany: Biggest public service strike for 14 years
• Letters from our readers
• Pentagon spells out strategy for global military aggression
• Russian gas supplies resume, but relations with Georgia and Armenia remain tense

10 February 2006

• Afghanistan: anti-Muslim cartoons provide focus for hostility to US-led occupation
• Australia: New laws to disenfranchise voters and boost corporate donations
• Bush condemns protests against anti-Muslim cartoons
• Denmark and Jyllands-Posten: The background to a provocation
• France: Hundreds of thousands protest against the CPE
• India’s role in US-led gang-up against Iran inflames debate over Indo-US ties
• The New World’s terrible paradox
• Trial of top Enron officials begins in Houston
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

11 February 2006

• Bush details “terror plot” to deflect NSA spying furor
• Testimony at Senate hearing
  Former FEMA head says White House had early knowledge of Katrina’s devastation
• US right responds to anti-Muslim cartoon controversy
  New York Times columnist David Brooks proposes the ‘good crusade’
• Political issues raised by British National Party trial
• Provocative abductions delay Sri Lankan ceasefire talks
• The Bolkestein Directive
  The struggle against European Union attacks requires a socialist perspective
• Volkswagen to cut 20,000 jobs
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

13 February 2006

• Australia: A widening gap between CEO salaries and average wages
• Berlin and Strasbourg protests oppose the EU-Bolkestein Directive
• Billionaire investor demands General Motors slash jobs, health care, pensions
• Bush budget targets 141 programs for elimination or drastic cutbacks
• Eclectic and lifeless—My Life as a Fake
• FBI stages violent raids in Puerto Rico
• Letters from our readers

14 February 2006

• Cheney’s hunting accident: a bizarre and sinister episode
• Congressional report condemns government response to Hurricane Katrina
• Egypt: Further revelations of gross negligence in ferry disaster
• FBI stages violent raids in Puerto Rico
• Haiti: mass protests erupt over vote count
• Indian government launches rural employment guarantee
  Band-aid for a social calamity
• New version of Google Desktop threatens user privacy
• Pentagon prepares for military strikes against Iran
• South Indian villagers speak about rural crisis, job guarantee
• US trade gap hits another record
• Video shows British Army brutality in Iraq
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

15 February 2006

• New attack on freedom of expression
  Australian police seize artwork from gallery
• Britain: Parliament agrees to compulsory ID cards
• Bush appointees censor scientists at government agencies
• Darwin: An exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History
• German army to deploy 2,000 troops for World Cup
• How governments, bankers, secret services, Masonic lodges, the Vatican and the Mafia impacted international politics in the 1970s and 1980s
• In their own words: the politics behind the anti-Muslim cartoons
• Large protests call for Thai prime minister’s resignation
• Letters on the anti-Muslim cartoons
• “Made in the USA” election crisis in Haiti

16 February 2006

• Anti-Muslim cartoons published in Australia
• Australian TV airs more photos of US torture at Abu Ghraib
• Britain: Why did it take so long to bring Abu Hamza to trial?
• Farcical municipal elections intensify political instability in Nepal
• Germany: Former Green Party leader advocates European military role in the Middle East
• Philippines: Fatal game-show stampede—an exploitation of social despair
• Warning of new Haiti intervention
  US troop deployment sparks protests in Dominican Republic
• Unresolved questions in the Cheney shooting incident

17 February 2006

• Bankruptcy court approves Delphi executive bonuses
• Britain: Parliament approves police state measures in Terrorism Bill
• Intrigues continue to stall new Iraqi government
• Pregnant immigrant miscarries after being abused by federal agents
• The Abu Ghraib photos and the anti-Muslim “free speech” fraud
• UN report denounces US torture and calls for closure of Guantánamo prison camp
• US auto union pressures Delphi workers to accept concessions deal
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
• “Progressive” Australian film critics denounce Spielberg’s Munich

18 February 2006

• Bush administration seeks funds for regime change in Iran
• Cheney “takes responsibility”—without accountability or consequences
• Verdi trade union expands labour dispute
  German public service strike grows into confrontation with the grand coalition
• Hurricane Katrina and the “war on terrorism”
• Indian Supreme Court imposes sweeping ban on public debate on toxic warship
• Letters on the Cheney shooting incident
• US and Israel plot overthrow of Hamas-led Palestinian Authority
• University of Illinois student newspaper publishes anti-Muslim cartoons
  Students for Social Equality holding public meeting on controversy
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

20 February 2006

• Assam: Police kill at least 10 during protest against Indian Army murder
• Australian government responsible for “Bali Nine” death sentences
• Democrats force antiwar candidate out of Ohio Senate race
• Germany: New attempt to impose radical tax reform
• Letters from our readers
• Letters on recent films
• Nearly 2,000 feared dead as huge mudslide hits Philippine village
• US Congress prepares legal sanction for spying program
• Why the government spying is illegal: a reply to the US Department of Justice

21 February 2006

• 2005: The Year for Africa—Results and Prospects
• Racism, religious obscurantism and hypocrisy
  Australian parliament’s “vote of conscience” on RU486
• Bird flu sparks emergency measures in India, Europe, Africa
• IMF measures wreak havoc on Iraqi people
• Letters on the anti-Muslim cartoons
• Palestinian parliament sworn in as US and Israel step up destabilisation drive
• Sri Lankan government makes provocative preparations for Geneva talks
• Anti-Muslim caricatures, anti-Islamic sentiments and press freedom
  The controversy over a cartoon in the German Tagesspiegel
• US media drops Abu Ghraib torture issue
• Washington reluctantly concedes Préval is Haiti’s president-elect
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

22 February 2006

• Australia: former minister fans anti-Muslim prejudice and racism
• French government forced to recall ship laden with toxic waste
• Indian government opens retail sector to foreign corporations
• Mexico: miners trapped after explosion
• Right-wing posturing from Congress on Arab firm’s role at US ports
• Spain: 1981 coup leader accuses Socialist Party government of national betrayal
• Sri Lankan housemaid tells of systematic abuse in Saudi Arabia
• New television show explodes myths
  “In Justice” dramatizes reality of US criminal justice system

23 February 2006

• Canada to greatly expand its military presence in the Arctic
• Human Rights First report documents deaths of Iraqis and Afghans in US custody
• Italian election campaign begins with anti-Berlusconi opposition backing austerity candidate
• Last-minute reprieve for California death row inmate
• Millions facing drought and famine throughout Africa
• Pakistani protests over anti-Muslim cartoons threaten Musharraf’s rule
• Zionists witch-hunt Australia’s leading cartoonist

24 February 2006

• A novel look at life’s unfolding diversity
  A review of The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins
• Australian parliament rubberstamps new military callout powers
• Financial Times columnist warns about social inequality in US
• Lawrence Summers resigns as Harvard president
• Letters from our readers
• Sectarian violence engulfs Iraq following mosque bombing
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

25 February 2006

• German public workers strike
  A discussion with Hamburg strikers: “It is much more serious than 14 years ago”
• Bush administration shields corporations from safety rules, lawsuits
• Ford Motor charged as accomplice in Argentina’s “dirty war”
• Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian revenues: a brazen violation of international law
• Sri Lankan peace talks stagger on to another round
• What the ports controversy says about Washington’s “war on terror”
• White House report on Katrina: no blame, no accountability for hurricane disaster
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

27 February 2006

• Britain: Special Branch detain documentary actors and former Guantánamo prisoners
• David North: Opening report to meeting of WSWS International Editorial Board
• Letters from our readers
• Mexican government suspends search for trapped coal miners
• Philippine president imposes state of emergency after alleged coup attempt
• Two dead, 100 injured in Los Angeles County jail riots

28 February 2006

• A letter and reply on Spielberg’s Munich
• Acusan a la Ford motor Company de ser cómplice en la "guerra sucia" de Argentina
• Ahead of Bush’s visit, Chirac pushes French interests in India
• Bush travels to South Asia in pursuit of key strategic “partnership” with India
• German Constitutional Court strikes down Aviation Security Act
• Iraq occupation makes possible record profits for British private military contractor
• WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
  Nick Beams: Report on the world economy in 2006
  Part One
• The Australian Wheat Board scandal and the Iraq war
• Workers Struggles: The Americas