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Archive: 02/2006

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.

February 1, 2006

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

February 2, 2006

• Illinois governor outlines continued assault on working class
• US machinations in Iraq delay formation of government
• After the Hamas election win
  Daniel Pipes denounces democracy for Muslims
• Council of Europe report reveals European collusion with US torture flights
• 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

February 3, 2006

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

February 4, 2006

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

February 6, 2006

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

February 7, 2006

• 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
• Senate wiretapping hearing: Democrats bow to police state threat
• Scottish Socialist Party upholds interests of Scottish business
• Uncollected garbage highlights infrastructure breakdown in Sri Lanka
• An American tragedy—the plight of the US war wounded
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

February 8, 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
• Indian union leaders cave in over airport privatisation
• Hypocrisy from Bush, Clinton at funeral of Coretta Scott King
• Saudi Arabia alerted Britain of terror attack prior to London bombings
• Munich Security Conference: Imperialists close ranks
• Woody Allen directs Match Point: No Dreiser

February 9, 2006

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

February 10, 2006

• Afghanistan: anti-Muslim cartoons provide focus for hostility to US-led occupation
• Bush condemns protests against anti-Muslim cartoons
• Denmark and Jyllands-Posten: The background to a provocation
• Australia: New laws to disenfranchise voters and boost corporate donations
• Trial of top Enron officials begins in Houston
• 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
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

February 11, 2006

• Political issues raised by British National Party trial
• The Bolkestein Directive
  The struggle against European Union attacks requires a socialist perspective
• US right responds to anti-Muslim cartoon controversy
  New York Times columnist David Brooks proposes the ‘good crusade’
• 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
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Provocative abductions delay Sri Lankan ceasefire talks
• Volkswagen to cut 20,000 jobs

February 13, 2006

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

February 14, 2006

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

February 15, 2006

• 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
• Letters on the anti-Muslim cartoons
• Darwin: An exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History
• New attack on freedom of expression
  Australian police seize artwork from gallery
• “Made in the USA” election crisis in Haiti
• Britain: Parliament agrees to compulsory ID cards
• Bush appointees censor scientists at government agencies
• German army to deploy 2,000 troops for World Cup
• Large protests call for Thai prime minister’s resignation

February 16, 2006

• Anti-Muslim cartoons published in Australia
• Unresolved questions in the Cheney shooting incident
• Warning of new Haiti intervention
  US troop deployment sparks protests in Dominican Republic
• Germany: Former Green Party leader advocates European military role in the Middle East
• 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
• Philippines: Fatal game-show stampede—an exploitation of social despair

February 17, 2006

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

February 18, 2006

• Cheney “takes responsibility”—without accountability or consequences
• Letters on the Cheney shooting incident
• Verdi trade union expands labour dispute
  German public service strike grows into confrontation with the grand coalition
• 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
• Indian Supreme Court imposes sweeping ban on public debate on toxic warship
• Bush administration seeks funds for regime change in Iran
• Hurricane Katrina and the “war on terrorism”
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

February 20, 2006

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

February 21, 2006

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

February 22, 2006

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

February 23, 2006

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

February 24, 2006

• Australian parliament rubberstamps new military callout powers
• Sectarian violence engulfs Iraq following mosque bombing
• Letters from our readers
• 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
• Financial Times columnist warns about social inequality in US
• Lawrence Summers resigns as Harvard president
• Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

February 25, 2006

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

February 27, 2006

• 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
• David North: Opening report to meeting of WSWS International Editorial Board
• Britain: Special Branch detain documentary actors and former Guantánamo prisoners

February 28, 2006

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