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Archive: 02/2007

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, 2007

• Who runs Germany?
  The intersection of politics and business interests
• Steny Hoyer at the Brookings Institution
  House majority leader lays out Democratic position on Iraq
• Stepped up US preparations for war against Iran
• Britain: Members of Blair’s inner circle arrested in “cash for honours” inquiry
• Deadly house fire in Petersburg, Virginia: the human cost of social inequality
• Desperate manoeuvres give Sri Lankan government a thin majority

February 2, 2007

• “Australian values” attack on rock concert organisers
• A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
  Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran
• Munich, Germany: Arrest warrants issued against 13 CIA agents
• Letters from our readers
• Iraq: Who did the US military massacre near Najaf?
• Congressional Democrats embrace Republican resolution on Iraq
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

February 3, 2007

• Canadian actors on strike—but still working
• Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran?
• Germany: Wide divisions among Christian Democrats
• Two films based on novels: Notes on a Scandal and The Painted Veil
• Britain: Government seeks compromise with Church over same-sex adoption
• India’s judiciary seeks to burnish its reputation with some belated guilty verdicts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• The Libby perjury trial and the Washington media establishment
• Big oil companies post record profits for 2006
• Australia: Police officer faces charges for killing Aboriginal prisoner

February 5, 2007

• Jimmy Carter’s book on Israel and Palestine touches a raw Zionist nerve
• Scientists report rampant political interference in climate research
• David North addresses public meeting in Sydney on political implications of Iraq war
• Safety improvements stall since Sago disaster
  New year begins with more coal miners’ deaths in US
• Democrats’ “Out of Iraq” caucus puts on a show for its radical friends
• France: Nicolas Sarkozy goes to London
• Britain: SAS military forces unit to be permanently stationed in London
• Bush to propose record US war budget

February 6, 2007

• Ottawa’s “apology” to Maher Arar
  A fig-leaf for the assault on democratic rights
• Huge bomb blast in Baghdad inflames sectarian tensions
• The Bush administration’s campaign of lies and misinformation against Iran
• Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima: Remarkable, in many ways
• Unanswered questions about the Karbala raid
• US presses African Union to send troops into Somalia
• Germany: Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz and the politics of the SPD
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

February 7, 2007

• Bush’s budget priorities: war and the wealthy
• Bush administration stokes trade tensions with China
• Presidential candidates strike antiwar pose at Democratic National Committee meeting
• Dreamgirls: Motown mythologized, obscured
• Tensions mount between US and Europe over war threat against Iran
• Sinn Fein endorse Police Service of Northern Ireland and MI5 operations
• Sri Lankan journalists protest against attacks on media
• Bush wants to make tax cuts for the rich permanent

February 8, 2007

• US Federal Reserve chairman issues warning on social inequality
• Letters on Zbigniew Brzezinki’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Senate Republicans call Democrats’ bluff on Iraq war resolution
• Anger over Detroit plan to close 51 schools
• Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad: another US provocation?
• US signs up Poland and Czech Republic for missile shield
• Netherlands: the grand coalition and the role of the Socialist Party
• Labor leader promises Australian corporations “a competitive business environment”

February 9, 2007

• Democrats back massive hike in military spending
• Iraq and Darfur: the politics of war crimes
• God Grew Tired of Us: “The quality of mercy is not strained”
• Germany’s Left Party holds student congress to promote reformist politics
• US refuses to sign UN ban on renditions and secret detention
• Sri Lankan Independence Day: a celebration of war and militarism
• US Army court martial against war resister lieutenant ends in mistrial
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

February 10, 2007

• Lack of affordable housing has deadly consequences
  Tornado strike kills 20 in Central Florida
• Britain: Failure to suppress video of “friendly fire” killing of British soldier by US pilots
• Blaming the Iraqis: A new cover-up for American militarism
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Former SS officers sentenced for massacre in Marzabotto, Italy
• Pentagon report admits fabricated intelligence used to justify Iraq war
• Russian President visits India to reinvigorate Indo-Russian alliance
• Australia: the socialist alternative in the New South Wales state election
  Support the SEP campaign
• Scientists conclude global warming is “unequivocal”

February 12, 2007

• “It’s lonely out in space”: The desperate astronaut and the unreality of official American life
• Hugo Chávez, Marx and the “Bolivarism” of the twenty-first century
• Letters on film and socialism
• Egypt: Textile workers protest trade union collaboration with employers
• The Bush administration’s economic war on Iran
• Oppose the occupation of Iraq! No to war against Iran!
  International Students for Social Equality and SEP to hold emergency conference against war
• New York loses out in world financial markets
• The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
  Part one
• Andrew Stern’s Getting America Back on Track
  More right-wing proposals from the American labor bureaucracy
• German cabinet agrees to deploy Tornado fighter planes in Afghanistan

February 13, 2007

• Letters from our readers
• “That’s interesting”
  Dixie Chicks sweep Grammy Awards
• Bush administration concocts a “dossier” for war against Iran
• The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
  Part two
• Police stops skyrocket in New York City
• US Senator Barack Obama and the war in Iraq
• Russian President Putin lambastes US foreign policy
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

February 14, 2007

• Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment—Part 1
• The short, sad, sordid life of Anna Nicole Smith
• Stop the US war drive against Iran!
• The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
  Part three
• Obama’s The Audacity of Hope: Portrait of a modern American political operative
• US Securities and Exchange Commission moves to further limit liability for corporate fraud
• NSW state election: SEP candidate speaks at Newtown forum

February 15, 2007

• Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment—Part 2
• At White House press conference, Bush escalates war threats against Iran
• Hu rejects accusations that China has colonial ambitions in Africa
• Chrysler cuts 13,000 North American jobs
• The strange case of the Australian PM and the American Senator
• US “diplomacy” on Iran: thuggery and threats of military aggression
• The implications in Iraq of Bush’s military “surge”
• Is there a Bush pardon in Lewis Libby’s future?
  Cheney aide abruptly ends defense in perjury trial
• Shakespearean gravitas in political satire: British actor Ian Richardson dead at 72

February 16, 2007

• Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment-Part three
• Canada’s Afghan intervention—three probes launched into prisoner abuse
• Canada transferring Afghan detainees to “self-confessed torturers”
  An interview with Dr. Amir Attaran
• The Bush administration prepares for war against Iran
  Part one
• US-North Korean nuclear agreement: clearing the decks for Iran
• US and UK worst places in developed world to be a child
• WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

February 17, 2007

• UK government steps up assault on asylum-seekers
• Britain’s cash for honours scandal nears end game
• Is the Bush administration behind the bombings in Iran?
• Letters from our readers
• EU conference in Dresden
  German Interior Minister Schäuble advocates police state measures
• The Bush administration prepares for war against Iran
  Part two
• After House vote on non-binding resolution: Democrats won’t cut Iraq war funding
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

February 19, 2007

• China’s economic rise destabilises world capitalism
  Part one
• Italian judge indicts CIA agents for illegal kidnapping
• Kenny and Suburban Mayhem from Australia: two sides of the same coin
• Demands grow for release of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, David Hicks
• Join the International Students for Social Equality! Build an ISSE chapter at your college or high school!
• New South Wales state election
  Socialist Equality Party (Australia) public meetings
• France: Royal’s campaign falters as Sarkozy consolidates support of big business

February 20, 2007

• Workers Struggles: The Americas
• Portrait of an “antiwar” Democrat: Former Feith aide makes radio reply to Bush
• China’s economic rise destabilises world capitalism
  Part two
• US “coerced” India over Iran
  Former Bush appointee boasts
• Jakarta’s flood exposes government neglect and indifference
• New Zealand government to introduce cheap labour scheme for Pacific Island workers
• US troops terrorize Baghdad in “Operation Law and Order”

February 21, 2007

• Cheney’s trip to Japan and Australia: the preparation for new war crimes
• Letters from our readers
• Germany: ISSE holds Berlin meeting on US war plans against Iran
• US appeals court upholds denial of habeas corpus rights to Guantánamo detainees
• BBC reports on US military plans to strike Iran
• ISSE exposes hypocrisy of Australian Labor politician at campus meeting
• Russian, Chinese, Indian foreign ministers meet on US war threats against Iran
• The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands’ riots
  Part 1

February 22, 2007

• Blair announces partial troop withdrawal from Iraq
• Chrysler job cuts to hit Detroit area
• What is behind Russia’s delay of Iran’s nuclear reactor?
• Italy: 100,000 demonstrate against expansion of US base in Vicenza
• Indian security forces murder Kashmiris in phony “encounters”
• Rice’s Middle East visit: Bullying and intimidation dressed up as diplomacy
• The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands’ riots
  Part 2
• Venus and The Pursuit of Happyness: two films with a little something to say

February 23, 2007

• Australian government prepares to introduce de facto universal ID card
• Massive security blanket for Cheney’s Australian visit
• New South Wales state election
  SEP candidate prevented from addressing forum on dental health
• Seven die in Pennsylvania house fire
• Italian prime minister resigns after losing foreign policy vote
• Gaullist presidential candidate Sarkozy allies with Italy’s post-fascists
  “Show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are”
• Cheney’s speech in Sydney:
  An ominous silence on Iran from the US vice president
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

February 24, 2007

• Letters from our readers
• Egypt: Wildcat strikes and protests continue
• Gun crime claims three young lives in London
  Cameron pontificates, Blair shrugs
• The “scramble for Hollywood:” the Democratic Party and entertainment industry liberals
• Train atrocity in India targets “peace process”
• US Vice President Cheney menaces Iran with military aggression
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• What the New York Times doesn’t say about the court ruling on habeas corpus
• Padilla suffered brain damage during captivity, experts say
• Who is David Sentelle?

February 26, 2007

• Guardian claims report clears London police chief of lying about De Menezes shooting
• Anti-imperialism vs. anti-Americanism: an exchange of letters
• US war drums beat louder after Iran fails to meet UN deadline
• Italy: Communist Refoundation gives Prodi a blank check for right-wing policies
• Four Sri Lankan workers beheaded in Saudi Arabia
• Fabricated charges dropped against East Timor’s former prime minister

February 27, 2007

• 79th Academy Awards: very removed from life
• Shutdown of Chrysler plant hits Newark, Delaware
• Letters from our readers
• Congressional Democrats rule out Iraq war fund cutoff
• NSW election campaign
  SEP opposes exclusion of Noel Holt from Newcastle candidates’ forum
• Fiji’s military junta strong-arms its political opponents
• Nationalism and religion dominate platform at Scottish antiwar protest
• London: Demonstrators express grave concern over Iran
• Senior lawyers accuse Australian government of war crimes over Guantánamo
• Britain: London antiwar demonstration downplays threat of war against Iran
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

February 28, 2007

• An exchange on The Pursuit of Happyness
• The Bush administration’s new strategy of setting the Middle East aflame
• France: Socialist Party attempts “left” re-packaging of Ségolène Royal
• Global markets slide after China sell-off
• Australia: Long-delayed “terrorist” hearings to commence in Sydney
• US Army to retry war resister officer
• West Bengal Stalinists’ pro-business policies leading to “civil war”
  Prominent left-wing intellectuals warn