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Archive: 08/2007

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.

August 1, 2007

• The historical roots of the crisis of Amtrak
  American passenger rail system plagued with endemic delays
• Australia: State Labor premier and deputy depart for greener pastures
• Bush-Brown summit: Tensions but no policy shift by Britain
• Australian government issues new “terrorist” smears against Haneef
• Two novels about America’s future: writers need a new perspective
• Adding fuel to the Mideast fire: US unveils huge arms package
• Northwest pilot shortage highlights growing airlines crisis
• Germany: As private equity companies boom, social democrats advise the “locusts”

August 2, 2007

• Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
  Part 1
• Bursting of credit bubble underlies stock market turbulence
• After an election marred by bitter conflict
  Pratibha Patil becomes India’s 13th president
• Dozens missing, four confirmed dead in Minnesota bridge collapse
• Rupert Murdoch takes over Wall Street Journal
• Britain: Oxford residents tell of flood’s impact
• Sri Lankan police stall on disappearance of SEP member
• Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims no cover-up in Pat Tillman death

August 3, 2007

• Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
  Part 2
• More devastating floods hit China
• Sharp tensions between US military and Iraqi prime minister
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Obama calls for US attack on Pakistan in warmongering address
• German trade unions step up strike-breaking in train drivers’ dispute

August 4, 2007

• Brazil: government intervenes against workers at occupied factories
• The music of Richard Buckner
• Letters from our readers
• Democrats back down on ending tax windfall for hedge-fund billionaires
• Japanese government suffers major defeat in upper house elections
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• The Minnesota bridge collapse: One more indictment of the profit system

August 6, 2007

• Catholic Church to construct monument to clergy killed during Spanish Civil War
• Australian government recruits high-profile public servant to sell unpopular IR laws
• Another cover-up of the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
• Washington discusses plans for covert action against KurdishPKK in Iraq
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 6
  Turkish films: mostly serious but lacking lasting impact
• Congress authorizes vast expansion of domestic spying

August 7, 2007

• Geopolitical concerns behind United Nations intervention in Darfur
• Iraq: Kurdish leader threatens civil war over Kirkuk
• 54th Sydney Film Festival—Part 7
  John Huston: a prolific filmmaker with some brilliant works
• Red Cross confirms Bush administration, CIA used torture in interrogations
• The collapse of London Underground’s privatisation: Ken Livingstone to the rescue
• US: Six coal miners trapped underground in Utah
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

August 8, 2007

• Australian government rams bills through parliament to take over Aboriginal communities
• Mark of Cain: Behind the British Army’s “detainee abuse scandal”
• Delphi’s exit from Spain to be followed by other relocations
• Fiji: Public sector workers strike against junta’s austerity measures
• Germany: train drivers vote by huge majority for strike action
• The Utah mine disaster: A tragic consequence of government-industry collusion

August 9, 2007

• Letters from our readers
• US generals insist on no troop withdrawal from Iraq
• Sri Lanka: JVP student leader physically threatens ISSE campus team
• BBC documentary
  Britain rigged election before Nigerian independence
• Britain: Inequality at 40-year high
• Hope dwindling for trapped Utah miners

August 10, 2007

• Britain: Injunction granted against environmental protest at Heathrow Airport
• Canadian military spies on liberal war-critic
• A regime made in Australia
  Gusmao appointed East Timor’s prime minister
• Britain: government site responsible for foot and mouth outbreak
• Credit fears spark stock market plunge
• Military administration imposed in eastern Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa

August 11, 2007

• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946): realism and reformism
• Iraqi government on brink of collapse following cabinet walkouts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• India: Congress uses lethal violence against Andhra Pradesh land agitation
• Four days after Utah mine collapse
  Three miners killed in Indiana
• France: Sarkozy government introduces law restricting right to strike
• Fifty-five years after founding, Turkish union confederation a bureaucratic shell

August 13, 2007

• Bangladeshi regime arrests former prime minister
• Four British soldiers killed in Basra
• Ethiopia accused of using white phosphorus bombs in US-backed occupation of Somalia
• Worldwide market panic compels central banks to intervene
• Italian government pushes through pension “reform”
  Prodi completes what Berlusconi began
• Australian High Court radically expands scope of military power
  Judges sanction “control order” on Jack Thomas
• Turkey: Textile firms demand wage freeze, layoffs

August 14, 2007

• Afghanistan: mounting attacks on US/NATO troops
• French higher education law opens way for privatisation
• The new and unimproved Hairspray
• Ireland’s “Green” coalition: Environmentalists and Fianna Fail unite
• Solomon Islands government rebuts Canberra’s child sex allegations against attorney-general
• Bush political aide Karl Rove resigns
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

August 15, 2007

• Bush’s war czar floats call for military draft
• The political way forward for the German train drivers’ struggle
• Britain: Guantánamo detainee details years of torture
• New York Times defends military escalation in Iraq
• Former Malaysian deputy PM challenges ruling party
• Judge orders release of New York City police spying files
• Sri Lankan police break up student protests over deteriorating university education
• Workers at Utah mine disaster said owner put “profits before safety”

August 16, 2007

• German Social Democrats and Greens seek increase in Afghanistan troop levels
• Australia: Labor joins Howard government in blocking Haneef inquiry
• Britain: Police use anti-terror powers against environmental protest
• Indian prime minister calls Left Front’s bluff over Indo-US nuclear accord
• New provocation against Tehran
  Bush to brand Iranian force as “terrorist”
• US military launches offensive against “Iranian-backed” militia in Iraq
• Jurors begin deliberations in Jose Padilla trial
• Millions of toxic toys recalled: The nightmarish reality of global capitalism

August 17, 2007

• Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007): An appreciation and a lament
• Letters on the Utah mine disaster
• Wild gyrations on world markets
• New title now available
  Mehring Books publishes “Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness” by David North
• A travesty of justice: Jose Padilla found guilty
• Sri Lankan navy commander stonewalls inquiry into disappearance of SEP member
• US federal officials cover up deadly conditions in Utah mine
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Hundreds killed in bombings targeting Iraqi minority group

August 18, 2007

• Letters from our readers
• Tensions mount between Georgia and Russia
• Brutal French government policy on undocumented immigrants leads to tragedy
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Fed moves to halt market meltdown
• New York Times on Iran: Neo-colonialism with a liberal twist
• Hundreds dead in massive earthquake in Peru
• New Somare government formed in PNG despite Australian interference
• Three rescuers killed at site of Utah mine disaster

August 20, 2007

• Credit crisis claims another bank
• Germany: “Human Rights in Times of Terror” by Rolf Gössner
• Pitching for the right-wing Christian vote
  Australia: Howard and Labor leader in censorship bidding war
• A new race for the North Pole
  Russia plants flag, Canada sends troops
• Drummer Max Roach dies: Last of the bebop pioneers
• Details emerge of vast scope of US domestic spying law
• US Army suicides at 26-year high

August 21, 2007

• Chinese miners feared dead in flooded coal mines
• Leading Democratic presidential candidates disavow rapid Iraq withdrawal
• Immigrant detainees dying in US custody
• Relatives of trapped Utah miners denounce mine owner, safety officials
• Australian government wages two-year vilification campaign to justify takeover of Mutitjulu
• As residents protest lack of aid
  Peruvian president sends troops into earthquake-ravaged region
• The widening gulf between official German politics and the electorate
• British SWP covers for sell-out of postal workers strike
• No Sri Lankan legal aid for young maid facing death sentence in Saudi Arabia
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

August 22, 2007

• New York Times calls for escalation of the “good war” in Afghanistan
• Serious water shortage in Turkey
• US court hears suit against AT&T’s collaboration with domestic spying program
• Fiji: Union leaders end strike against military regime’s austerity measures
• US Attorney General Gonzales to wield new death penalty authority
• Workers, students speak out against closure of Los Angeles hospital
• Foreclosures soar, layoffs mount in US mortgage industry crisis
• Britain: Riot police attack Heathrow Airport protest
• Spate of massive recalls highlights failure of the free market
• University education in Australia and the impact of “free market” reform

August 23, 2007

• Right-wing mob attacks group of Indians in eastern Germany
• 14 US soldiers killed in Iraq helicopter crash
• Amid calls from Clinton and Levin, US moves to oust Iraqi prime minister
• Behind Mbeki’s sacking of South Africa’s deputy health minister
• New Zealand government introduces secretive new immigration and security laws
• Scottish National Party publishes policy document on independence
• The Nation urges Cindy Sheehan not to run for Congress against Nancy Pelosi

August 24, 2007

• The Bourne Ultimatum—Action-packed, and it pays the price
• President Bush’s history lesson
• CIA 9/11 “accountability” report released: A whitewash that only raises more questions
• World economy: Credit crunch fallout begins to spread
• Hurricane Dean inflicts devastating blow to Caribbean agriculture, infrastructure
• “Terrorism” case unravels further
  Australian judge overturns government cancellation of Dr Haneef’s visa
• Washington continues propaganda barrage against Iran
• Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
  Parts 1-3
• Utah mine to be sealed, entombing missing miners
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

August 25, 2007

• British Army facing worsening situation in Afghanistan
• US fears of British pullout from Basra raise transatlantic tensions to new pitch
• Flooding displaces thousands in US Midwest
• Increasing numbers of German children live in poverty
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Right-wing parties dominate in run-up to Polish elections
• Central Asian military exercises highlight rising great-power tensions
• Solomon Islands government defeats no-confidence motion
• Arctic sea ice at record low due to global warming

August 27, 2007

• Berlin sociologist detained for three weeks
  Science under the suspicion of terrorism
• California Republicans seek to rig 2008 presidential vote
• Letters on Cindy Sheehan and the Nation
• Australian troops carry out provocations against East Timor’s Fretilin
• Three British soldiers killed by US friendly fire in Afghanistan
• Recent tax data shows widening gap between rich and poor in US
• US occupation fuels ethnic cleansing and mass repression in Iraq
• Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
  Part 4-7
• US intelligence report points to Iraqi government’s removal

August 28, 2007

• Bangladesh regime imposes curfew to suppress student protests
• The firing of Ward Churchill: Attack on academic freedom in US escalates
• US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigns
• Over 60 die as forest fires sweep Greece
• Sri Lankan SEP letter to JVP demanding end to threats of violence
• French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visits Baghdad
• Ohio floods: another example of America’s failing infrastructure
• Russia: The political significance of the strike at the auto plant in Togliatti
• Scientists warn Spain could see mass spread of deserts
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

August 29, 2007

• Britain acquires thermobaric weapons for Afghanistan
• Albanian government introduces flat tax
• Bush threatens to militarily “confront” Iran
• Letters on President Bush’s history lesson
• Hurricane Katrina two years on
  Part 1: New Orleans—A city in social and economic distress
• Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
  Parts 8-10
• US Congress receives warning of China’s growing influence in South Pacific
• US military bombards targets inside Pakistan

August 30, 2007

• Britain: Brown rules out Iraq troop withdrawal as top general speaks of a “generation of conflict”
• Bush visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary: returning to the scene of the crime
• No End In Sight: An establishment view of what went wrong
• Founding conference of German Left Party in Hessen
  Aged trade unionists, disgruntled Social Democrats and former Stalinists
• US census report shows falling earnings, rise in uninsured
• Another US provocation: Iranian officials arrested in Baghdad
• Join the International Students for Social Equality!
• Join the International Students for Social Equality! Build ISSE chapters at your college or high school!
• Final act in cover-up of US atrocities
  Military court acquits Abu Ghraib interrogations director of prisoner abuse
• Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
• World economy: Financial crisis exposes market myths
• White House wants $50 billion more for Iraq war

August 31, 2007

• Bush administration attacks child health insurance program
• German politicians deny responsibility for racist attack
• The social toll of the US home mortgage crisis
  Part 1
• 160 immigrant workers arrested in raid on Ohio poultry plant
• New Orleans: a scene of devastation and blight
  Hurricane Katrina two years on—Part 2
• Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
  Parts 11-13
• New Zealand: Iraq charter flights underline Labour’s “antiwar” hypocrisy
• Prison officers strike in England and Wales in defiance of High Court injunction
• Thai military junta suffers setback at national referendum
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa