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Archive: August 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 August 2006

• Bush seeks to extend Guantánamo procedures to American citizens
• Ireland’s unions cement 10-year pay and public spending agreement
• Following Qana massacre
  Israel escalates Lebanon offensive with US backing
• A travesty of democracy
  SEP campaign in Illinois proceeds to records examination
• SEP candidate for US Senate from New York: “The war in Lebanon is a world historic crime”
• The Pope and the Catholic Church mobilise against the Spanish government
• 53rd Sydney Film Festival--Part 5
  Three serious, but unchallenging, films from Eastern Europe
• Turkey: privatised oil-refinery firm slashes 800 jobs
• US professor arrested and held in Israel

2 August 2006

• A letter from Morocco on the Qana massacre
• Blair, Murdoch and the oligarchy
• China’s “overheating” threatens economic instability
• Bad-faith Democratic Party effort further exposed
  Examination of SEP petitions begins in Illinois
• Fierce fighting escalates in Sri Lanka
• Letters on the Israeli war against Lebanon
• Letters on the Queens and St. Louis blackouts
• Over a million march to demand recount in Mexican election
• Tel Aviv and the Qana massacre: anatomy of a propaganda campaign
• Slaughter in Lebanon enters fourth week
  What way forward in the struggle against war?
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 August 2006

• 25 years since the PATCO strike: A historical turning point in the class struggle
• “To encourage people to think more deeply about this social tragedy”
  An interview with Olivier Meyrou, director of Beyond Hatred
• Democratic Party leaders rally behind pro-war Senator Lieberman
• German doctors strike raises fundamental political questions
• Manoeuvres and appeasement: Europe’s response to the US-Israeli war against Lebanon
• SEP surpasses number of valid signatures needed to be placed on Illinois ballot
• 53rd Sydney Film Festival--Part 6
  The Archive Project and Beyond Hatred—two documentaries
• US steps up provocations against Cuba amid speculation on Castro’s health
• US-Israeli onslaught on Lebanon intensifies

4 August 2006

• A reply to a reader on the Vaxholm builders’ dispute in Sweden
• Ballot access specialist, Green Party members speak out against Democrats in Illinois
• Fighting in eastern Sri Lanka spreads to the town of Muttur
• Germany joins US, British, Israeli axis of aggression
• Human Rights Watch catalogues Israeli war crimes in Lebanon
• Sri Lankan SEP to hold march and meeting against US-Israeli aggression in Lebanon
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

5 August 2006

• California: SEP candidate to participate in Spanish-language radio program
• Congressional Democrats on Iraq: New tactics, more war
• German government expands political espionage powers
• Iraq faces civil war and sectarian partition
• Letters from our readers
• Sri Lankan military attacks drive thousands from Muttur
• Sucesos en California: Candidato del PSI se presentará por la radio en español
• US minimum wage remains at $5.15 an hour
  Failed Republican bill tied increase to inheritance tax cuts
• US-Israeli war aim is to annihilate Lebanon
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

7 August 2006

• Antiwar vigil in Berlin against Israeli aggression
• Canada engaged in colonial intervention in Afghanistan
• Israel tightens the siege of Gaza
• Lebanon and Kosovo: an instructive comparison
• London: Tens of thousands protest against slaughter in Lebanon
• Socialist Equality Party (Australia) to hold meetings on US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon
• Sri Lankan government rejects LTTE proposal to end fighting
• UN resolution on Lebanon: blueprint for intensified war and colonial occupation
• 25 years since PATCO
  US air traffic controllers face renewed assault
• Ukraine: “Orange Revolution” leader Yushchenko accepts coalition with pro-Russian rival

8 August 2006

• Behind Bush’s “truce” plan: the drive towards a wider Middle East war
• Death toll rises as NATO expands operations in Afghanistan
• Huge protest in Baghdad against US-Israeli war in Lebanon
• Mexico: Election court rejects Lopez Obrador’s demand for full recount
• Más de un millón marcha para exigir recuento de votos de las elecciones mexicanas
• Protests in New Zealand against proposed probationary employment bill
• In climate of wartime hysteria
  Sri Lankan businessman dies after being arrested and tortured
• Turkey: Protests in Istanbul against Israeli aggression
  Islamic organizations seek to dampen opposition to government
• Woody Allen’s Scoop: The decline is nothing to gloat about
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 August 2006

• Australian construction workers face huge fines for striking
• Canada: Conservative government unconditionally defends Israel’s assault on Lebanon
• Crisis atmosphere builds in Israel
• German doctors strike: Verdi trade union continues its strike-breaking role
• After records examination failure
  Illinois Democrats make last-ditch effort to bar SEP candidate from ballot
• Israeli war crimes aimed at “cleansing” south Lebanon
• Letters from our readers
• GDP growth down, housing sector suffering
  Only 113,000 jobs added in US in July
• Poland: The coming to power of the Kaczynski brothers
• Pro-war Democrat Joseph Lieberman defeated in Connecticut primary
• SEP California campaign: Elections board declares nearly one half of signatures invalid
• Sri Lankan government leaves migrant workers stranded in Lebanon

10 August 2006

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation attacked for “biased” program on Israel’s aggression
• Australian government ignores growing social disaster in East Timor
• Buffalo, New York: Law-and-order crackdown masks social decay
• Lieberman’s defeat and the state of American politics
• Rang De Basanti from India: Revolution in the air?
• SEP march in Sri Lanka against US-Israel assault on Lebanon
• The conflict in Lebanon and the standpoint of the working class
• US Congress moves to sanction domestic spying

11 August 2006

• Antiwar protesters arrested at Scottish airport
• Arab League offers its services to Washington in Lebanon crisis
• Australia: Government MPs defy Howard over refugee law
• Britain’s airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered
• Sri Lankan government intensifies military offensive against LTTE
• William Jennings Bryan and the rise and decline of the Progressive Era
  A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

12 August 2006

• Aid workers murdered execution style in Sri Lanka
• Australian government to deploy 150 extra troops to Afghanistan
• Behind India’s near-total silence on the Israeli assault on Lebanon
• In wake of London arrests: Another attempt to terrorize the American people
• Montreal: Thousands protest Israeli war on Lebanon
• Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center: a crude and dishonest work
• SEP campaign in California turns in remaining signatures for ballot status
• Social inequality in Germany reaches record levels
• War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war
  Part one
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

14 August 2006

• After Heathrow: What accounts for the threat of terrorism?
• German Socialist Equality Party election meeting in Berlin
• Letters from our readers
• On eve of Lebanon ceasefire deadline: US, Israel face political debacle
• Sydney marchers denounce US-Israeli violence
• Thousands march in Germany to protest US-Israeli war against Lebanon
• War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war
  Part two
• War spreads to the north of Sri Lanka

15 August 2006

• Africa: Reports expose fraud of G8 pledges of aid and debt relief
• Arroyo administration abandons 30,000 Filipinos trapped in Lebanon
• Bush administration seeks changes to War Crimes Act
  Moves to shield government officials from prosecution
• 53rd Sydney Film Festival-Part 7
  Jean-Pierre Melville—a minor but intriguing figure
• Sri Lankan air force bombing kills scores of students
• The politics of the latest terror scare
• The “European Left” calls on European powers to intervene in Lebanon
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

16 August 2006

• African leaders agree to European demands for tough anti-immigration measures
• Australia: Howard’s backflips highlight growing government crisis
• Detroit public school workers face new concessions threat
• Italy prepares to send troops to Lebanon
• Letters on the London terror arrests
• Recriminations erupt in Israel in aftermath of Lebanon ceasefire
• The US media and the London terror scare
• The president gives a press conference

17 August 2006

• After defeating pro-war incumbent Lieberman, Lamont reassures Wall Street
• Bush administration dismantling remaining bans on military relations with Indonesia
• Canada to press ahead with Afghanistan intervention despite mounting casualties
• Contradictions, anomalies, questions mount in UK terror scare
• European powers press to intervene in Lebanon
• Fred Breinersdorfer, writer of Sophie Scholl-The Final Days, speaks with the WSWS
• Pentagon orders 300 returned troops back to Iraq
• Sri Lankan government justifies the massacre of school students

18 August 2006

• German company profits explode
• Indian flood deaths highlight government indifference to recurring social calamity
• Northwest Airlines to laid-off workers: rummage through the trash
• On-the-spot report from Sri Lanka’s war-torn Jaffna peninsula
• Refugees flood back to devastated southern Lebanon
• Warnings of a US recession and global slowdown
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

19 August 2006

• An officially induced panic: UK terror scare sparks wave of mini-scares
• China joins US in freezing North Korean bank accounts
• Election board to rule on ballot status of Illinois SEP candidate
• European Union ministers use terror scare to justify more anti-democratic measures
• Günter Grass and the Waffen SS
• US media disgraces itself once again
  Rush to judgment in the JonBenet Ramsey case
• Sri Lankan president demands media toes the line on the war
• US court rules NSA spying program unconstitutional
  Bush appeals decision and denounces judge
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

21 August 2006

• SEP campaign for state Senate
  American “democracy” on display in Oregon’s new ballot access law
• An outlaw state: Israel breaks ceasefire, threatens to assassinate Hezbollah leader
• Australia: Electoral bill blocks registration of new parties
  A new assault on democratic rights
• Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq mount political, legal challenge to Blair government
• Ford production cuts foreshadow more plant closures, layoffs
• Tensions between Georgia and Russia escalate
• War in Sri Lanka creates a flood of refugees

22 August 2006

• A damning admission: New York Times concealed NSA spying until after 2004 election
• A new week: US media frenzy over JonBenet murder carries on
• Australian court overturns “terrorist” conviction based on torture
• Is the US planning a coup in Iraq?
• Sri Lankan government prepares to suppress the struggles of workers
• UK terror scare: Airlines threaten legal action against British government
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 August 2006

• A passionate exposure of the David Hicks case, with one glaring omission
  Honour Bound, co-designed and directed by Nigel Jamieson
• Britain: Eleven charged in alleged airplane bomb plot
• Bush press conference on Iraq: “We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president.”
• Despite president’s denials, Sri Lankan military continues offensive war
• Honour Bound director Nigel Jamieson speaks with WSWS
• Michael Mann’s Miami Vice: Why this film?
• Recent letters from our readers
• Tug of war over Lebanon intervention force
• US policy threatens war in Horn of Africa

24 August 2006

• Britain: Labour government proposes punitive welfare reforms
• Bush authorizes recall of Marine reservists to Iraq
• Japan: Koizumi’s provocative visit to the Yasukuni shrine
• Letters on US politics, history and the media
• SEP submits petitions for US Senate candidate in New York
• US administration rejects Iran’s offer of “serious negotiations”
• Wadeye: a case study of the Australian government’s Aboriginal agenda

25 August 2006

• Amnesty International details Israeli war crimes in Lebanon
• John Updike’s Terrorist
• Run-off ballot in the Congo
• SEP/WSWS meetings in Australia oppose Israeli-US aggression in Lebanon
• The aftermath of the US-Israeli offensive against Lebanon
• Turkey: Police brutality intensifies along with the political crisis
• US-installed regime begins second Saddam Hussein show trial
• WSWS speaks to families of soldiers killed in Sri Lanka’s war
• West Bengal Stalinists sign deal with firm tied to ex-Indonesian dictator
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

26 August 2006

• Britain: questions remain over alleged terror plot
• Bush reaffirms support for Pakistani dictator
• To fight wage cuts and defend public education
  Detroit teachers need a new political strategy
• Little Miss Sunshine: High anxiety
• One year since Hurricane Katrina: the rebuilding of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
• SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis demands inclusion in Illinois election debates
• Spain defies European Commission on energy company sell-off
• Statements, letters demand ballot status for Illinois SEP candidate
• Support the Socialist Equality Party 2006 campaign!
• The political foundations for the struggle against militarism and war
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

28 August 2006

• Australia: The torture of Jack Thomas
• Bush administration intervenes to block Northwest flight attendants’ strike
• Detroit teachers strike against concessions
• Germany: Democratic rights under attack following arrest of alleged bombers
• Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
• Sri Lankan government negotiates with JVP ally on program for all-out war
• US spy agencies pressed for “intelligence” to justify war against Iran

29 August 2006

• Australia: Job insecurity increases, despite falling official unemployment rate
• FBI arrests in US and Canada signal Washington’s backing for war against LTTE
• Guantánamo prisoner released
  Role of Germany’s former SPD-Green government in Murat Kurnaz’s detention
• Illinois hearing examiner recommends SEP candidate be placed on ballot
• Israel maintains offensive in Gaza and the West Bank
• Mass protests by Turkish farmers
• Mexico’s election tribunal denies Lopéz Obrador’s challenge to July vote
• New threats against Detroit teachers as strike begins
• One year since Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans left to rot
• SEP Senate candidate Bill Van Auken addresses antiwar meeting in New York
• The Gulf Coast one year later: Indices of a social disaster
• What the debate in India over the US nuclear pact shows

30 August 2006

• Alarm in Washington over deepening disaster in Afghanistan
• Australia’s first “control order” imposed on Jack Thomas
• Egypt: a social and political tinderbox
• Letter on Katrina disaster relief
• Letters from our readers
• No evidence to press murder charges vs. John Mark Karr
  Media frenzy over JonBenet “killer” ends in fiasco
• One year after Katrina disaster: No accountability for US political elite
• Spain: A decade of economic boom and stagnant wages
• Sri Lankan military launches new offensive in strategic Sampur area
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

31 August 2006

• A timely reminder of America’s Enlightenment origins
• Britain: More indicators of inequality
• Europe to send 7,000 troops to Lebanon
• Illinois SEP candidate issues statement on eve of ballot status ruling
• Russian shooting of Japanese fisherman heightens tensions over Kuril islands
• Sellout danger in Detroit teachers strike
• Fifty years since the death of German playwright Bertolt Brecht
  The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards on stage in Berlin
• US military escalates confrontation with Shiite militia in Iraq