Archive: February 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.
1 February 2007
- 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
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Steny Hoyer at the Brookings Institution
House majority leader lays out Democratic position on Iraq - Stepped up US preparations for war against Iran
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Who runs Germany?
The intersection of politics and business interests
2 February 2007
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A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran - Congressional Democrats embrace Republican resolution on Iraq
- El significado de las nacionalizaciones en Venezuela y Ecuador
- Iraq: Who did the US military massacre near Najaf?
- Letters from our readers
- Munich, Germany: Arrest warrants issued against 13 CIA agents
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- “Australian values” attack on rock concert organisers
3 February 2007
- Australia: Police officer faces charges for killing Aboriginal prisoner
- Big oil companies post record profits for 2006
- Britain: Government seeks compromise with Church over same-sex adoption
- Canadian actors on strike—but still working
- Germany: Wide divisions among Christian Democrats
- India’s judiciary seeks to burnish its reputation with some belated guilty verdicts
- The Libby perjury trial and the Washington media establishment
- Two films based on novels: Notes on a Scandal and The Painted Veil
- Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
5 February 2007
- Britain: SAS military forces unit to be permanently stationed in London
- Bush to propose record US war budget
- David North addresses public meeting in Sydney on political implications of Iraq war
- Democrats’ “Out of Iraq” caucus puts on a show for its radical friends
- France: Nicolas Sarkozy goes to London
- Jimmy Carter’s book on Israel and Palestine touches a raw Zionist nerve
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Safety improvements stall since Sago disaster
New year begins with more coal miners’ deaths in US - Scientists report rampant political interference in climate research
6 February 2007
- Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima: Remarkable, in many ways
- Germany: Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz and the politics of the SPD
- Huge bomb blast in Baghdad inflames sectarian tensions
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Ottawa’s “apology” to Maher Arar
A fig-leaf for the assault on democratic rights - The Bush administration’s campaign of lies and misinformation against Iran
- US presses African Union to send troops into Somalia
- Unanswered questions about the Karbala raid
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
7 February 2007
- Bush administration stokes trade tensions with China
- Bush wants to make tax cuts for the rich permanent
- Bush’s budget priorities: war and the wealthy
- Dreamgirls: Motown mythologized, obscured
- Presidential candidates strike antiwar pose at Democratic National Committee meeting
- Sinn Fein endorse Police Service of Northern Ireland and MI5 operations
- Sri Lankan journalists protest against attacks on media
- Tensions mount between US and Europe over war threat against Iran
8 February 2007
- Anger over Detroit plan to close 51 schools
- Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad: another US provocation?
- La relación entre el juicio de Libby por perjurio y la prensa convencional de Washington
- Labor leader promises Australian corporations “a competitive business environment”
- Letters on Zbigniew Brzezinki’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Netherlands: the grand coalition and the role of the Socialist Party
- Senate Republicans call Democrats’ bluff on Iraq war resolution
- US Federal Reserve chairman issues warning on social inequality
- US signs up Poland and Czech Republic for missile shield
9 February 2007
- Democrats back massive hike in military spending
- Germany’s Left Party holds student congress to promote reformist politics
- God Grew Tired of Us: “The quality of mercy is not strained”
- Iraq and Darfur: the politics of war crimes
- Sri Lankan Independence Day: a celebration of war and militarism
- US Army court martial against war resister lieutenant ends in mistrial
- US refuses to sign UN ban on renditions and secret detention
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
10 February 2007
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Australia: the socialist alternative in the New South Wales state election
Support the SEP campaign - Blaming the Iraqis: A new cover-up for American militarism
- Britain: Failure to suppress video of “friendly fire” killing of British soldier by US pilots
- 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
- Scientists conclude global warming is “unequivocal”
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Lack of affordable housing has deadly consequences
Tornado strike kills 20 in Central Florida - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
12 February 2007
- Egypt: Textile workers protest trade union collaboration with employers
- German cabinet agrees to deploy Tornado fighter planes in Afghanistan
- Hugo Chávez, Marx and the “Bolivarism” of the twenty-first century
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Oppose the occupation of Iraq! No to war against Iran!
International Students for Social Equality and SEP to hold emergency conference against war - Letters on film and socialism
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Andrew Stern’s Getting America Back on Track
More right-wing proposals from the American labor bureaucracy - New York loses out in world financial markets
- The Bush administration’s economic war on Iran
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The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
Part one - “It’s lonely out in space”: The desperate astronaut and the unreality of official American life
13 February 2007
- Bush administration concocts a “dossier” for war against Iran
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“That’s interesting”
Dixie Chicks sweep Grammy Awards - Letters from our readers
- Police stops skyrocket in New York City
- Russian President Putin lambastes US foreign policy
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The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
Part two - US Senator Barack Obama and the war in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
14 February 2007
- Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment—Part 1
- NSW state election: SEP candidate speaks at Newtown forum
- Obama’s The Audacity of Hope: Portrait of a modern American political operative
- Stop the US war drive against Iran!
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The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
Part three - The short, sad, sordid life of Anna Nicole Smith
- US Securities and Exchange Commission moves to further limit liability for corporate fraud
15 February 2007
- Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment—Part 2
- At White House press conference, Bush escalates war threats against Iran
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Is there a Bush pardon in Lewis Libby’s future?
Cheney aide abruptly ends defense in perjury trial - Chrysler cuts 13,000 North American jobs
- Hu rejects accusations that China has colonial ambitions in Africa
- Shakespearean gravitas in political satire: British actor Ian Richardson dead at 72
- The implications in Iraq of Bush’s military “surge”
- The strange case of the Australian PM and the American Senator
- US “diplomacy” on Iran: thuggery and threats of military aggression
16 February 2007
- Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment-Part three
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Canada transferring Afghan detainees to “self-confessed torturers”
An interview with Dr. Amir Attaran - Canada’s Afghan intervention—three probes launched into prisoner abuse
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The Bush administration prepares for war against Iran
Part one - US and UK worst places in developed world to be a child
- US-North Korean nuclear agreement: clearing the decks for Iran
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak at Virginia Commonwealth University
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
17 February 2007
- After House vote on non-binding resolution: Democrats won’t cut Iraq war funding
- Britain’s cash for honours scandal nears end game
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EU conference in Dresden
German Interior Minister Schäuble advocates police state measures - Is the Bush administration behind the bombings in Iran?
- Letters from our readers
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The Bush administration prepares for war against Iran
Part two - UK government steps up assault on asylum-seekers
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
19 February 2007
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China’s economic rise destabilises world capitalism
Part one - Demands grow for release of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, David Hicks
- France: Royal’s campaign falters as Sarkozy consolidates support of big business
- Italian judge indicts CIA agents for illegal kidnapping
- Join the International Students for Social Equality! Build an ISSE chapter at your college or high school!
- Kenny and Suburban Mayhem from Australia: two sides of the same coin
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New South Wales state election
Socialist Equality Party (Australia) public meetings
20 February 2007
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China’s economic rise destabilises world capitalism
Part two - Jakarta’s flood exposes government neglect and indifference
- New Zealand government to introduce cheap labour scheme for Pacific Island workers
- Portrait of an “antiwar” Democrat: Former Feith aide makes radio reply to Bush
- US troops terrorize Baghdad in “Operation Law and Order”
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US “coerced” India over Iran
Former Bush appointee boasts - Workers Struggles: The Americas
21 February 2007
- BBC reports on US military plans to strike Iran
- Cheney’s trip to Japan and Australia: the preparation for new war crimes
- Germany: ISSE holds Berlin meeting on US war plans against Iran
- ISSE exposes hypocrisy of Australian Labor politician at campus meeting
- Letters from our readers
- Russian, Chinese, Indian foreign ministers meet on US war threats against Iran
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The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands’ riots
Part 1 - US appeals court upholds denial of habeas corpus rights to Guantánamo detainees
22 February 2007
- Blair announces partial troop withdrawal from Iraq
- Chrysler job cuts to hit Detroit area
- Indian security forces murder Kashmiris in phony “encounters”
- Italy: 100,000 demonstrate against expansion of US base in Vicenza
- Rice’s Middle East visit: Bullying and intimidation dressed up as diplomacy
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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
- What is behind Russia’s delay of Iran’s nuclear reactor?
23 February 2007
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Cheney’s speech in Sydney:
An ominous silence on Iran from the US vice president - Australian government prepares to introduce de facto universal ID card
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Gaullist presidential candidate Sarkozy allies with Italy’s post-fascists
“Show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are” - Italian prime minister resigns after losing foreign policy vote
- Massive security blanket for Cheney’s Australian visit
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New South Wales state election
SEP candidate prevented from addressing forum on dental health - Seven die in Pennsylvania house fire
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
24 February 2007
- Egypt: Wildcat strikes and protests continue
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Gun crime claims three young lives in London
Cameron pontificates, Blair shrugs - Letters from our readers
- Padilla suffered brain damage during captivity, experts say
- 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
- What the New York Times doesn’t say about the court ruling on habeas corpus
- Who is David Sentelle?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
26 February 2007
- Anti-imperialism vs. anti-Americanism: an exchange of letters
- Fabricated charges dropped against East Timor’s former prime minister
- Four Sri Lankan workers beheaded in Saudi Arabia
- Guardian claims report clears London police chief of lying about De Menezes shooting
- Italy: Communist Refoundation gives Prodi a blank check for right-wing policies
- US war drums beat louder after Iran fails to meet UN deadline
27 February 2007
- 79th Academy Awards: very removed from life
- Britain: London antiwar demonstration downplays threat of war against Iran
- Congressional Democrats rule out Iraq war fund cutoff
- Fiji’s military junta strong-arms its political opponents
- Letters from our readers
- London: Demonstrators express grave concern over Iran
- Nationalism and religion dominate platform at Scottish antiwar protest
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NSW election campaign
SEP opposes exclusion of Noel Holt from Newcastle candidates’ forum - Senior lawyers accuse Australian government of war crimes over Guantánamo
- Shutdown of Chrysler plant hits Newark, Delaware
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
28 February 2007
- An exchange on The Pursuit of Happyness
- Australia: Long-delayed “terrorist” hearings to commence in Sydney
- France: Socialist Party attempts “left” re-packaging of Ségolène Royal
- Global markets slide after China sell-off
- The Bush administration’s new strategy of setting the Middle East aflame
- US Army to retry war resister officer
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West Bengal Stalinists’ pro-business policies leading to “civil war”
Prominent left-wing intellectuals warn
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