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Archive: August 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.

1 August 2006

• SEP candidate for US Senate from New York: “The war in Lebanon is a world historic crime”
• US professor arrested and held in Israel
• A travesty of democracy
  SEP campaign in Illinois proceeds to records examination
• Ireland’s unions cement 10-year pay and public spending agreement
• The Pope and the Catholic Church mobilise against the Spanish government
• 53rd Sydney Film Festival--Part 5
  Three serious, but unchallenging, films from Eastern Europe
• Bush seeks to extend Guantánamo procedures to American citizens
• Turkey: privatised oil-refinery firm slashes 800 jobs
• Following Qana massacre
  Israel escalates Lebanon offensive with US backing

2 August 2006

• Letters on the Queens and St. Louis blackouts
• China’s “overheating” threatens economic instability
• Letters on the Israeli war against Lebanon
• Bad-faith Democratic Party effort further exposed
  Examination of SEP petitions begins in Illinois
• Slaughter in Lebanon enters fourth week
  What way forward in the struggle against war?
• Over a million march to demand recount in Mexican election
• A letter from Morocco on the Qana massacre
• Blair, Murdoch and the oligarchy
• Tel Aviv and the Qana massacre: anatomy of a propaganda campaign
• Fierce fighting escalates in Sri Lanka
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

3 August 2006

• US steps up provocations against Cuba amid speculation on Castro’s health
• German doctors strike raises fundamental political questions
• Manoeuvres and appeasement: Europe’s response to the US-Israeli war against Lebanon
• SEP surpasses number of valid signatures needed to be placed on Illinois ballot
• Democratic Party leaders rally behind pro-war Senator Lieberman
• 25 years since the PATCO strike: A historical turning point in the class struggle
• “To encourage people to think more deeply about this social tragedy”
  An interview with Olivier Meyrou, director of Beyond Hatred
• 53rd Sydney Film Festival--Part 6
  The Archive Project and Beyond Hatred—two documentaries
• US-Israeli onslaught on Lebanon intensifies

4 August 2006

• Germany joins US, British, Israeli axis of aggression
• Human Rights Watch catalogues Israeli war crimes in Lebanon
• Ballot access specialist, Green Party members speak out against Democrats in Illinois
• Sri Lankan SEP to hold march and meeting against US-Israeli aggression in Lebanon
• Fighting in eastern Sri Lanka spreads to the town of Muttur
• A reply to a reader on the Vaxholm builders’ dispute in Sweden
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

5 August 2006

• California: SEP candidate to participate in Spanish-language radio program
• Letters from our readers
• Congressional Democrats on Iraq: New tactics, more war
• German government expands political espionage powers
• Iraq faces civil war and sectarian partition
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• US-Israeli war aim is to annihilate Lebanon
• Sucesos en California: Candidato del PSI se presentará por la radio en español
• Sri Lankan military attacks drive thousands from Muttur
• US minimum wage remains at $5.15 an hour
  Failed Republican bill tied increase to inheritance tax cuts

7 August 2006

• 25 years since PATCO
  US air traffic controllers face renewed assault
• Antiwar vigil in Berlin against Israeli aggression
• Canada engaged in colonial intervention in Afghanistan
• Israel tightens the siege of Gaza
• Lebanon and Kosovo: an instructive comparison
• UN resolution on Lebanon: blueprint for intensified war and colonial occupation
• London: Tens of thousands protest against slaughter in Lebanon
• Socialist Equality Party (Australia) to hold meetings on US-backed Israeli war against Lebanon
• Sri Lankan government rejects LTTE proposal to end fighting
• Ukraine: “Orange Revolution” leader Yushchenko accepts coalition with pro-Russian rival

8 August 2006

• Death toll rises as NATO expands operations in Afghanistan
• Behind Bush’s “truce” plan: the drive towards a wider Middle East war
• Huge protest in Baghdad against US-Israeli war in Lebanon
• Mexico: Election court rejects Lopez Obrador’s demand for full recount
• Protests in New Zealand against proposed probationary employment bill
• Woody Allen’s Scoop: The decline is nothing to gloat about
• Más de un millón marcha para exigir recuento de votos de las elecciones mexicanas
• In climate of wartime hysteria
  Sri Lankan businessman dies after being arrested and tortured
• Turkey: Protests in Istanbul against Israeli aggression
  Islamic organizations seek to dampen opposition to government
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

9 August 2006

• Australian construction workers face huge fines for striking
• SEP California campaign: Elections board declares nearly one half of signatures invalid
• Canada: Conservative government unconditionally defends Israel’s assault on Lebanon
• Letters from our readers
• German doctors strike: Verdi trade union continues its strike-breaking role
• After records examination failure
  Illinois Democrats make last-ditch effort to bar SEP candidate from ballot
• Crisis atmosphere builds in Israel
• GDP growth down, housing sector suffering
  Only 113,000 jobs added in US in July
• Israeli war crimes aimed at “cleansing” south Lebanon
• Pro-war Democrat Joseph Lieberman defeated in Connecticut primary
• Poland: The coming to power of the Kaczynski brothers
• Sri Lankan government leaves migrant workers stranded in Lebanon

10 August 2006

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation attacked for “biased” program on Israel’s aggression
• Buffalo, New York: Law-and-order crackdown masks social decay
• Australian government ignores growing social disaster in East Timor
• Lieberman’s defeat and the state of American politics
• The conflict in Lebanon and the standpoint of the working class
• US Congress moves to sanction domestic spying
• Rang De Basanti from India: Revolution in the air?
• SEP march in Sri Lanka against US-Israel assault on Lebanon

11 August 2006

• Arab League offers its services to Washington in Lebanon crisis
• William Jennings Bryan and the rise and decline of the Progressive Era
  A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin
• Australia: Government MPs defy Howard over refugee law
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
• Britain’s airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered
• Sri Lankan government intensifies military offensive against LTTE
• Antiwar protesters arrested at Scottish airport

12 August 2006

• Australian government to deploy 150 extra troops to Afghanistan
• SEP campaign in California turns in remaining signatures for ballot status
• Social inequality in Germany reaches record levels
• Behind India’s near-total silence on the Israeli assault on Lebanon
• War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war
  Part one
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Montreal: Thousands protest Israeli war on Lebanon
• Aid workers murdered execution style in Sri Lanka
• In wake of London arrests: Another attempt to terrorize the American people
• Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center: a crude and dishonest work

14 August 2006

• German Socialist Equality Party election meeting in Berlin
• Letters from our readers
• Sydney marchers denounce US-Israeli violence
• Thousands march in Germany to protest US-Israeli war against Lebanon
• On eve of Lebanon ceasefire deadline: US, Israel face political debacle
• War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war
  Part two
• War spreads to the north of Sri Lanka
• After Heathrow: What accounts for the threat of terrorism?

15 August 2006

• Africa: Reports expose fraud of G8 pledges of aid and debt relief
• Bush administration seeks changes to War Crimes Act
  Moves to shield government officials from prosecution
• The “European Left” calls on European powers to intervene in Lebanon
• Arroyo administration abandons 30,000 Filipinos trapped in Lebanon
• 53rd Sydney Film Festival-Part 7
  Jean-Pierre Melville—a minor but intriguing figure
• Sri Lankan air force bombing kills scores of students
• The politics of the latest terror scare
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

16 August 2006

• African leaders agree to European demands for tough anti-immigration measures
• Australia: Howard’s backflips highlight growing government crisis
• The president gives a press conference
• Letters on the London terror arrests
• Detroit public school workers face new concessions threat
• Recriminations erupt in Israel in aftermath of Lebanon ceasefire
• Italy prepares to send troops to Lebanon
• The US media and the London terror scare

17 August 2006

• Canada to press ahead with Afghanistan intervention despite mounting casualties
• Bush administration dismantling remaining bans on military relations with Indonesia
• Pentagon orders 300 returned troops back to Iraq
• After defeating pro-war incumbent Lieberman, Lamont reassures Wall Street
• European powers press to intervene in Lebanon
• Fred Breinersdorfer, writer of Sophie Scholl-The Final Days, speaks with the WSWS
• Sri Lankan government justifies the massacre of school students
• Contradictions, anomalies, questions mount in UK terror scare

18 August 2006

• German company profits explode
• Indian flood deaths highlight government indifference to recurring social calamity
• Refugees flood back to devastated southern Lebanon
• Northwest Airlines to laid-off workers: rummage through the trash
• On-the-spot report from Sri Lanka’s war-torn Jaffna peninsula
• Warnings of a US recession and global slowdown
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

19 August 2006

• European Union ministers use terror scare to justify more anti-democratic measures
• Günter Grass and the Waffen SS
• Election board to rule on ballot status of Illinois SEP candidate
• China joins US in freezing North Korean bank accounts
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• US court rules NSA spying program unconstitutional
  Bush appeals decision and denounces judge
• US media disgraces itself once again
  Rush to judgment in the JonBenet Ramsey case
• Sri Lankan president demands media toes the line on the war
• An officially induced panic: UK terror scare sparks wave of mini-scares

21 August 2006

• Australia: Electoral bill blocks registration of new parties
  A new assault on democratic rights
• Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq mount political, legal challenge to Blair government
• Ford production cuts foreshadow more plant closures, layoffs
• Tensions between Georgia and Russia escalate
• An outlaw state: Israel breaks ceasefire, threatens to assassinate Hezbollah leader
• SEP campaign for state Senate
  American “democracy” on display in Oregon’s new ballot access law
• War in Sri Lanka creates a flood of refugees

22 August 2006

• Is the US planning a coup in Iraq?
• Australian court overturns “terrorist” conviction based on torture
• A damning admission: New York Times concealed NSA spying until after 2004 election
• A new week: US media frenzy over JonBenet murder carries on
• Sri Lankan government prepares to suppress the struggles of workers
• UK terror scare: Airlines threaten legal action against British government
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

23 August 2006

• Bush press conference on Iraq: “We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president.”
• Recent letters from our readers
• A passionate exposure of the David Hicks case, with one glaring omission
  Honour Bound, co-designed and directed by Nigel Jamieson
• Tug of war over Lebanon intervention force
• Michael Mann’s Miami Vice: Why this film?
• Honour Bound director Nigel Jamieson speaks with WSWS
• US policy threatens war in Horn of Africa
• Despite president’s denials, Sri Lankan military continues offensive war
• Britain: Eleven charged in alleged airplane bomb plot

24 August 2006

• Letters on US politics, history and the media
• US administration rejects Iran’s offer of “serious negotiations”
• Japan: Koizumi’s provocative visit to the Yasukuni shrine
• Bush authorizes recall of Marine reservists to Iraq
• SEP submits petitions for US Senate candidate in New York
• Wadeye: a case study of the Australian government’s Aboriginal agenda
• Britain: Labour government proposes punitive welfare reforms

25 August 2006

• Amnesty International details Israeli war crimes in Lebanon
• Run-off ballot in the Congo
• US-installed regime begins second Saddam Hussein show trial
• West Bengal Stalinists sign deal with firm tied to ex-Indonesian dictator
• The aftermath of the US-Israeli offensive against Lebanon
• SEP/WSWS meetings in Australia oppose Israeli-US aggression in Lebanon
• WSWS speaks to families of soldiers killed in Sri Lanka’s war
• Turkey: Police brutality intensifies along with the political crisis
• John Updike’s Terrorist
• Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

26 August 2006

• The political foundations for the struggle against militarism and war
• To fight wage cuts and defend public education
  Detroit teachers need a new political strategy
• Support the Socialist Equality Party 2006 campaign!
• One year since Hurricane Katrina: the rebuilding of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
• SEP candidate Joe Parnarauskis demands inclusion in Illinois election debates
• Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
• Statements, letters demand ballot status for Illinois SEP candidate
• Bush reaffirms support for Pakistani dictator
• Spain defies European Commission on energy company sell-off
• Little Miss Sunshine: High anxiety
• Britain: questions remain over alleged terror plot

28 August 2006

• Detroit teachers strike against concessions
• Germany: Democratic rights under attack following arrest of alleged bombers
• US spy agencies pressed for “intelligence” to justify war against Iran
• Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
• Bush administration intervenes to block Northwest flight attendants’ strike
• Sri Lankan government negotiates with JVP ally on program for all-out war
• Australia: The torture of Jack Thomas

29 August 2006

• SEP Senate candidate Bill Van Auken addresses antiwar meeting in New York
• New threats against Detroit teachers as strike begins
• Israel maintains offensive in Gaza and the West Bank
• Guantánamo prisoner released
  Role of Germany’s former SPD-Green government in Murat Kurnaz’s detention
• The Gulf Coast one year later: Indices of a social disaster
• Illinois hearing examiner recommends SEP candidate be placed on ballot
• What the debate in India over the US nuclear pact shows
• Australia: Job insecurity increases, despite falling official unemployment rate
• One year since Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans left to rot
• Mexico’s election tribunal denies Lopéz Obrador’s challenge to July vote
• FBI arrests in US and Canada signal Washington’s backing for war against LTTE
• Mass protests by Turkish farmers

30 August 2006

• Alarm in Washington over deepening disaster in Afghanistan
• One year after Katrina disaster: No accountability for US political elite
• Letters from our readers
• Egypt: a social and political tinderbox
• No evidence to press murder charges vs. John Mark Karr
  Media frenzy over JonBenet “killer” ends in fiasco
• Letter on Katrina disaster relief
• Spain: A decade of economic boom and stagnant wages
• Sri Lankan military launches new offensive in strategic Sampur area
• Australia’s first “control order” imposed on Jack Thomas
• Workers Struggles: The Americas

31 August 2006

• Britain: More indicators of inequality
• Sellout danger in Detroit teachers strike
• Europe to send 7,000 troops to Lebanon
• Illinois SEP candidate issues statement on eve of ballot status ruling
• US military escalates confrontation with Shiite militia in Iraq
• Russian shooting of Japanese fisherman heightens tensions over Kuril islands
• Fifty years since the death of German playwright Bertolt Brecht
  The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards on stage in Berlin
• A timely reminder of America’s Enlightenment origins