Archive: 08/2008
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, 2008
- Government report shows sharp fall in US economic growth
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Australia: The role of Howard and Ruddock in the witch-hunting of Mohamed Haneef
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Letter from South Africa
Xenophobia: A direct result of failed ANC economic policies - Union restricts Lufthansa strike to isolated, limited walk-outs
- French nuclear industry has repeated accidents
- US demands crackdown by Pakistani government along Afghanistan border
- US telecommunications giant Verizon demands job and benefit cuts
August 2, 2008
- California: Schwarzenegger slashes wages and social programs, fires state workers
- Bush speech signals stepped-up troop withdrawals from Iraq
- US unemployment rate rises to four-year high
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Israeli Prime Minister Olmert resigns
- As European car market shrinks, Renault plans mass sackings
- Anthrax scientist and suspect an apparent suicide
- Constitutional Court rules against ban on Turkey’s ruling party
August 4, 2008
- Mounting questions over US anthrax probe and scientist’s alleged suicide
- The politics of community service in the US
- Australian bank debt write-downs reveal deepening economic problems
- Britain: Ombudsman demands government fund for Equitable Life insurance and pension victims
- Spain: Socialist government turns on immigrants as economy heads for recession
- Japan-South Korea tension heightens over disputed islets
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Perle returns to the scene of the crime
Former Bush administration official seeks cut of Iraqi oil deal -
Haltemprice & Howden by-election
Britain: Election official rejects complaint about missing SEP ballots
August 5, 2008
- Pressures mount over Arctic energy resources
- Australia: Labor governments demand tougher censorship laws
- Danish economic problems grow with bailout of regional bank
- Germany: Outrage over Verdi’s sellout at Lufthansa
- The 2008 New Zealand “Rich List”: the super-wealthy profit from recession
- The making and marketing of Barack Obama: Image and identity in US politics
- Dormitory collapse in Turkey kills 18
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
August 6, 2008
- Aid agencies issue warning on Afghanistan as US and Britain prepare to escalate military action
- Famine in East Africa: Catastrophe threatens as food prices rise
- US calls for tougher sanctions on Iran
- Italian government imposes national state of emergency
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Northern Territory intervention
Aboriginal education: a portrait of government discrimination and neglect
Part 6 - Oil giants report massive profits
- US: Oregon workers face major job losses as high-tech firms make cuts
- Turkish courts impose ban on YouTube
August 7, 2008
- Letters from our readers
- Britain: Court decision to electronically tag dementia sufferer
- Guantánamo detainee convicted in rigged military trial
- The human cost of corporate downsizing: an interview with a Vancouver telecom worker
- South Asian leaders meet under shadow of intensifying tensions
- South Africa: General strike against price rises
- Australian Federal Court upholds Kafka-like powers to cancel passports and visas
August 8, 2008
- Germany: SPD leadership rallies behind former minister threatened with expulsion
- Australian income and wealth study shows “a growing gulf”
- Beijing Olympics celebrate the capitalist market and nationalism
- US beef arrives in South Korea amid protests, lawsuits, and crackdowns
- The origins of the subprime market
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Texas executes Mexican and Honduran nationals
US Supreme Court rejects appeals despite international protests - Turkey’s economic indicators worsen
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
August 9, 2008
- Belgium edges closer to split as rival factions fail to agree
- Letters from our readers
- France: Constitutional reform strengthens presidency
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mars Phoenix Lander provides conclusive proof of water ice on Mars
- In response to US demands: Pakistani military attacks Islamist forces
- US-Russian tensions in Caucasus erupt into war
August 11, 2008
- Guantánamo trial sentence stuns Bush administration
- Military coup in Mauritania follows unrest over spiralling food prices
- Military conflict between Russia and Georgia escalates
- Sri Lanka: Colombo under security siege for South Asian summit
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As inflation soars
Real income losses for Turkish workers - Australian higher education review points to further market restructuring
August 12, 2008
- AIDS conference reflects failure to tackle deepening catastrophe
- Bush escalates confrontation with Russia over Georgia
- Letters from our readers
- A letter on “Court decision to electronically tag dementia sufferer”
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Chicago 2008:The Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Music Festivals
Political and musical perspectives - Worsening youth homelessness in Australia
- Mexico: Energy reform referendum reveals impotence of the PRD
- Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony blacks out most of twentieth century
- Russia responds to American anti-ballistic missile systems in Europe
August 13, 2008
- Inflation, manufacturing contraction and property bubble haunts Chinese government
- Australia: Rudd government modifies immigration detention regime
- After jailing, Detroit mayor faces strong pressure to resign
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As ceasefire takes hold
Imperialist hypocrisy over war in Georgia - Russia develops military forces, strategic alliances to counter US
- Bush administration proposes major cut to endangered species protections
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
August 14, 2008
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In the guise of humanitarian aid
Bush dispatches US military forces to Georgia - US: Retail sales fall as tax stimulus wears off
- Broad rejection of Verdi deal at Lufthansa
- Britain: National Health Service denies kidney cancer drugs to patients
- Pakistani government moves to impeach President Musharraf
- Russia and China settle longstanding territorial disputes
- Rwanda: Government report documents French role in 1994 genocide
August 15, 2008
- Gunman murders Arkansas Democratic Party chairman
- Britain: Policing of climate camp a major attack on democratic rights
- Cambodian ruling party re-elected with increased majority
- US government survey: Most corporations pay no taxes
- EU meeting on Georgia reveals tensions between European powers and US
- Australian teachers’ union conference: bureaucrats block fight against Labor
- Tell No One: An undying love unproven
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
August 16, 2008
- Hundreds dead in fighting along Afghanistan-Pakistan border
- California budget compromise takes from the poor, gives to the rich
- Letters from our readers
- Bank seizures of US homes reach record high
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The New York Times covers for US role in Georgia crisis
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After Georgia conflict
Missile agreement with Poland intensifies danger of US-Russian clash - Zimbabwe: Stalemate over power-sharing deal
August 18, 2008
- Australia: Labor government scapegoats air traffic controllers
- Germany: Divisions widen in the Social Democratic Party
- Irish government prepares public spending cuts, lay-offs
- Malaysia: Anwar contests by-election despite being charged
- The political realities of “democratic” Georgia
- US: Verizon contract cuts benefits and clears way for layoffs
August 19, 2008
- Indian government resorts to armed repression in Kashmir, killing 21 and wounding hundreds
- Exchange of letters on “Belgium edges closer to split as rival factions fail to agree”
- Canada to deport another Iraq war resister to the US
- Obama, McCain vie for support of Christian right
- Washington steps up its anti-Russian rhetoric
- Italy’s phoney “Robin Hood” tax
- Musharraf resigns as Pakistan’s political crisis deepens
- Spain: Economy slumps as unemployment hits ten year high
- Goodyear to shut down its last tyre plant in Australia
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
August 20, 2008
- UK declares its support for Washington’s anti-Russian campaign over Georgia
- Provincial election delay in Iraq heightens ethnic tensions in Kirkuk
- Canadian media covers up the social roots of the Montreal riot
- NATO meeting in Brussels: US steps up pressure on Russia
- Australia: Huge swing against Labor in Northern Territory election
- On eve of Democratic convention, Obama advances agenda of global militarism
- Turkish trade unions oversee sackings of tyre workers
- Jerry Wexler, producer of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, dead at 91
August 21, 2008
- French troops killed in Afghanistan: another sign of an escalating war
- Letters from our readers
- Real wages fall as record price hikes hit US workers
- More claims that Western powers protected Radovan Karadzic
- How the American “free press” toed the government line on Georgia
- Beneath the Olympic glitter, massive police presence highlights China’s social tensions
- US oil pipeline politics and the Russia-Georgia conflict
- US exploits Georgia crisis to push through Polish missile deal
- Sydney man faces “terrorist” trial for compiling book
August 22, 2008
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After 10 soldiers are killed
French government, media scramble to contain opposition to Afghan deployment - Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Bush administration steps up war of words with Russia
- How the American “free press” toed the government line on Georgia
- Democrats and Obama prepare platform of war and reaction
- Australian Labor government presses neo-colonial agenda at Pacific Islands Forum
- Sri Lankan government intimidates voters in two provincial council elections
- Britain: Economy hit by inflation and threat of recession
- More threats of international intervention amid continuing Burmese cyclone disaster
August 23, 2008
- Propane worker cites cost-cutting as cause of massive Toronto explosion
- Public pressure on Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang highlights rise of Chinese nationalism
- Letters from our readers
- France: Stalinist paper l’Humanité on verge of bankruptcy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New York state legislature passes draconian budget cuts
- Military offensive displaces 300,000 in north-west Pakistan
- Madrid plane crash: Pilot’s union warned months before that cut-backs placing passengers at risk
August 25, 2008
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An exchange
Russia-Belarus talks signal renewed cooperation against US - Obama selects Biden to reassure the US ruling elite
- Bush administration widens domestic spy agency powers
- Germany: Stunned silence following the war in Georgia
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Northern Territory intervention
The need for a socialist strategy
Part 7 - Pakistan’s ruling coalition on brink of collapse
- Britain: SATs fiasco highlights Labour’s failed education policies
August 26, 2008
- US air strike massacres civilians in western Afghanistan
- Scotland: Massive public health failings responsible for CDAD deaths at Vale of Leven hospital
- Control: The fate of Joy Division's Ian Curtis
- Democrats convene in Denver amid police state security and a sea of corporate cash
- US continues to ratchet up tensions with Russia
- A letter and reply on Mars landing
- Sri Lankan army advances into key LTTE areas
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
August 27, 2008
- Australia’s “tax review”: Rudd seeks to deliver corporate agenda
- Democratic convention meets with Obama campaign in crisis
- Police repress protesters at Democratic National Convention
- Casting about for the truth of 9/11: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
- The Nation and the Obama campaign
- Pakistan’s ruling coalition splits amid continuing political uncertainty
- Census report shows rising poverty in US
- 350 immigrant workers arrested in raid on Mississippi factory
- Lawyers plead for wounded Pakistani woman facing “terror” trial in New York
- Britain: Security Service “facilitated” torture of Guantánamo detainee
August 28, 2008
- Letters from our readers
- Police continue repressive tactics in Denver
- Finnish government outlines major tax cutting proposals
- US, Europe denounce Russian support for Georgian provinces’ independence
- Australian media attacks Germaine Greer over essay on Aboriginal violence
- 12 deaths in Canada linked to listeria outbreak in meat products
- Anwar’s landslide win: a further blow to Malaysian government
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At Democratic National Convention
Union bureaucrats attack their own members as “racist” for failing to back Obama
August 29, 2008
- Democratic National Convention outlines policy of wider war
- Repression in Denver highlights assault on democratic rights in US
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Labour ministers quit Fiji’s military regime
- Tropic Thunder and Vicky Cristina Barcelona: The unfocused and the flat as a pancake
- Military officers testify that US soldiers murdered Iraqi detainees
- Australia: Damning evidence surfaces in Beaconsfield mine inquest
August 30, 2008
- Unemployment and poverty on the rise in Berlin
- Letters on the Democratic National Convention
- Australia: Labor government accelerates right-wing offensive against public education
- Three years since Hurricane Katrina
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Obama’s Denver speech: Populist demagogy in the service of militarism
- McCain’s VP pick: A sign of deepening crisis in the Republican Party
- Britain: Labour government proposes huge increase in state surveillance
