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World Socialist Web Site Archive: July 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.

31 July 2007
Humanitarian disaster produced by US invasion - Oxfam reports one-third of Iraqis in need of emergency aid
Iraqi team wins Asian Cup, captain condemns US occupation
Global credit crisis fuels stock market turmoil
On Cindy Sheehan and impeachment: a reply to a Stalinist critic
British students jailed for possessing "extremist" literature
German army and air force deployed against G8 summit demonstrators
Talks over North Korea's nuclear programs fail to make any progress
Somare set to win PNG election despite Canberra's smear campaign
Racist frame-up in Louisiana: the case of the Jena Six
Jury finds Drummond Coal not liable in murder of Colombian unionists
Healthcare and two-tier system at issue - Southern California grocery workers ratify new contract
Workers Struggles: The Americas

30 July 2007
US officials tell New York Times - Vast data mining programs behind 2004 dispute within Bush administration over domestic spying
International conference offers no solution to Iraqi refugee crisis
Sarkozy angers European Union over Libya's release of Bulgarian medics
United States warns Spain over Cuba policy
Fiji's nurses strike in defiance of military junta
Sustaining a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)
Letters from our readers

28 July 2007
Standoff between White House and Congress over US attorney purge, domestic spying intensifies
The summer floods in Britain: Outmoded and decayed social infrastructure exposed
Hundreds die in eastern Europe heat wave
US commission on wounded soldiers: stopgap measures for a veterans healthcare system in "meltdown"
Democrat Barack Obama spells out his foreign policy: "I will not hesitate to use force"
Haneef "terrorism" charges dropped: a debacle for the Australian government
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

27 July 2007
Mortgage lending crisis sparks Wall Street plunge
The motives behind the Bush administration's latest terror scare
Sri Lanka: Police stall in Human Rights Commission inquiry into disappearance of SEP member
The political meaning of the conflict between Cindy Sheehan and the Democratic Party
Thousands held in horrific conditions in Iraqi prisons
Bush's international peace conference: A conspiracy against the Palestinian people
Poland: Kaczynski brothers provoke government crisis
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

26 July 2007
The US adopts belligerent posture in Baghdad talks with Iran
US Congressional committee approves contempt citations against White House aides
Britain: Antiwar MP George Galloway suspended from parliament
200 dead in Brazil air disaster: Lula government shows gross indifference
Indonesian prosecutors launch limited civil action against Suharto
Charges dropped against New Orleans doctor in Katrina hospital deaths
Daniel Pearl's tragic death in A Mighty Heart

25 July 2007
Bush delivers rant on Iraq to military audience as poll numbers plummet
Washington, EU welcome AKP victory in Turkish elections
Democrats conceal pro-war policy in South Carolina debate
Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan arrested at Democratic Congressman's office
Sri Lankan police charge farmers over anti-government protest
Britain: No one to be prosecuted over "cash for honours" allegations
Australian government launches unprecedented attacks on lawyers as Haneef case falls apart
A further exchange: Sicko and American politics and cinema

24 July 2007
Democrats' "censure" plan--another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction
Bush orders seizure of assets from those threatening Iraq "stabilization efforts"
US pressure on Iraqi parliamentary factions to enact "benchmarks"
Britain: Iraq Commission rules out setting date for troop withdrawal
Royal Dutch Shell and the struggle for Iraqi oil
Workers Struggles: The Americas
54th Sydney Film Festival--Part 5 - Australian reflections: Boxing Day, The Home Song Stories and Lucky Miles
Sydney Film Festival - "I'm interested in a documentary and fiction hybrid" : filmmaker Kriv Stenders speaks with WSWS
Letters from our readers

23 July 2007
US generals call for extension of Iraq war
Bush sanctions CIA torture program
US and Russia at loggerheads over Kosovo independence
United Auto Workers opens talks with US car companies
Jack Lang and the continuing disintegration of the French Socialist Party
Sri Lankan government celebrates "victory" after army seizes the East
Ford Australia announces axing of Geelong engine plant

21 July 2007
"Executive privilege" claim in US attorneys' case - White House asserts sweeping power to defy the law
Bush administration threatens military intervention in Pakistan
In a stunning rebuke to Musharraf, Supreme Court orders chief justice reinstated
As the Turkish military provocatively shells northern Iraq - Social tensions at the forefront in run-up to Turkish parliamentary elections
British government and BAe Systems revealed as money launderer for Saudi Arabia
FEMA covered up toxic danger in trailers given to Katrina victims
Judge dismisses Plame/Wilson suit against Bush administration officials
Bush plans veto on child health bill
Lawsuits expose conditions in US "guest worker" program
Australian Fair Pay Commission hands down pittance for low-paid workers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

20 July 2007
Democrats halt Senate debate on Iraq war
The political issues posed by the German train drivers' struggle
New York City: steam pipe blast kills 1, injures dozens
Peru's President Garcia faces nationwide protests
China executes former food and drug administration chief
The London bombing trial: How much did the security services know?
Sarkozy government plans to extend strikebreaking law to entire public sector
Australian government's "terrorist" case against Dr Haneef unravels
War economy weighs heavily on Sri Lankan workers
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa

19 July 2007
Bush administration releases report on terror threat - A new pretext for American militarism and domestic repression
Diplomatic tensions worsen after Britain expels Russian diplomats
Iraq: Carnage in Kirkuk amid conflicts over city's future
Harper commits billions to build Canada an Arctic navy
The way forward in the Polish doctors and nurses strike
US: Testimony in Drummond Coal lawsuit on murders of Colombian union leaders
Report predicts environmental disaster for US Northeast
New Zealand: asylum seeker faces secret "security risk" hearing

18 July 2007
Bush prepares new Iraq escalation as congressional Democrats blather on
An insight into the White House debate over military action against Iran
Tensions between NATO and Russia escalate
Reports show impact of climate change in Africa
US: Public television airs discussion on presidential impeachment
US: More immigrant deaths in desert border crossings
House passes meager "College Cost Reduction Act" - Tuition rates continue to skyrocket at US colleges
Aboriginal people condemn police-military intervention in Northern Territory
Australian police officer acquitted of manslaughter of Palm Island Aborigine
Letters from our readers

17 July 2007
An unpalatable truth for Bush: most foreign insurgents in Iraq are Saudis
US forces kill Iraqi civilians every day
Georgia parole board issues 90-day stay of execution for death row inmate
Former surgeon general describes Bush administration's interference on science and health issues
Australian government unilaterally detains doctor after court agrees to bail
Hessian culture minister calls for creationism to be discussed in German schools
Wales: Nationalist party in government for the first time
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Privatising the rain - The Big Sellout--a documentary film by Florian Opitz
A letter on academic ethics in response to David North's "Leon Trotsky and the post-Soviet school of historical falsification"
A letter on a forum with Norman Mailer and Günter Grass in New York

16 July 2007
Bush's assertion of executive power: The logic of presidential-military dictatorship
Japan's defence minister resigns over remarks on US dropping of atomic bombs
Further suicides in French workplaces
The human cost of the June floods in Britain
Sheffield: Residents tell of losses caused by flooding
New Zealand threatens to cut aid to the Solomon Islands

14 July 2007
Fighting rages across Iraq as Bush claims military "progress"
US Senate unanimously passes threatening measure against Iran
New French law treats juvenile offenders as adults
South Africa: COSATU calls off public service strike
Supreme Court term marks shift to the right
Amnesty International report on Turkey: failure to punish perpetrators of torture
Australia: British terrorist attacks used to detain doctor without trial
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
An exchange on Michael Moore's Sicko

13 July 2007
White House press conference - Bush rejects any US military pullback in Iraq
Musharraf lauds Lal Masjid massacre
US attorneys firing probe - White House invokes broad executive privilege claims to block congressional testimony
"From the streets to the suites": NAACP holds annual convention in Detroit
France: Sarkozy names Socialist Party's Strauss-Kahn to head IMF
"Green" capitalism: German Greens adopt new economic programme
Young Sri Lankan maid faces execution in Saudi Arabia
Britain: "Celtic coalition" demands London slash tax on big business
Australia: Protests against Howard's takeover of Aboriginal communities
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

12 July 2007
Democrats, White House agree: Iraq war will rage on regardless of Senate debate
Britain's terror plot: What drove a doctor to become a suicide bomber?
German rail dispute: two unions act as strike-breakers
British postal workers face political struggle against Brown's Labour government
World Wealth Report: a census of the global oligarchy
Sri Lankan military intensifies offensive in the East
54th Sydney Film Festival--Part 4 - 12:08 East of Bucharest and Beauty in Trouble: mixed results from Eastern Europe

11 July 2007
Mosque massacre: Washington's "war on terror" shakes Pakistan
German minister calls for internment and assassination of terror suspects
A not-so-quiet American: New York Times reporter writes on Central Asia
Turkish army intervenes ever more openly in political life
Solomons Islands' government defies Canberra, reappointing Julian Moti as attorney-general
Pennsylvania state workers return to work after one-day furlough
Two summer movies: Live Free or Die Hard and Evan Almighty
54th Sydney Film Festival--Part 3 - Some documentaries from China, Israel and Australia
Letters from our readers

10 July 2007
As Congress reconvenes - Democrats unveil new plan to "shift mission" in Iraq
Reports indicate over 150 civilians killed in Afghanistan over past week
Spain: ETA ceasefire collapses as Zapatero government seeks unity with Popular Party
New Zealand widens sanctions on Fiji following high commissioner's expulsion
US Social Forum in Atlanta: Identity politics and appeals to the Democrats
Prisons as the new mental asylums: the example of Michigan
Poland: Health workers in confrontation with Kaczynski government
Polish healthcare workers discuss their strike
Workers Struggles: The Americas
54th Sydney Film Festival-Part 2 - "New Crowned Hope" films from Asia: Strengths and weaknesses

9 July 2007
The New York Times and the crisis of American imperialism in Iraq
US unions agree to impose cuts, run benefits program at auto-supplier Dana
Surrender or die - Pakistan's dictator threatens massacre at Islamabad mosque
East Timor: Despite winning election, Fretilin likely to be ousted
Sri Lanka: Military offensive used to clear eastern Special Economic Zone
CIA uses Sudanese intelligence in Iraq

7 July 2007
Faced with the failure of Bush's "surge" - Congressional Republicans, Democrats prepare fallback Iraq war strategy
US appeals court rejects lawsuit against warrentless domestic spying
US troops charged with murders, cover-ups in Iraq
France: Sarkozy prepares strikebreaking law for public transport
Sri Lankan war provokes deep unease in Indian political establishment
Australian Labor leaders shift closer to Howard's IR laws
The Galileo Project: European plans for global navigation supremacy
Man convicted for Lockerbie bombing wins right to appeal
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Michael Moore's Sicko: very limited conceptions, very limited results
Letters from our readers

6 July 2007
Australian defence minister admits oil a key factor behind Iraq occupation
A Fourth of July lesson: Bush hails US war to crush Iraqi independence
Six more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
The German rail strike and the lessons of the Telekom betrayal: Build a mass movement against the grand coalition government!
Britain: Brown's constitutional reform--a smokescreen for right-wing measures
Threat of Australian intervention hangs over Papua New Guinea election
Record flooding forces thousands to evacuate in central US
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa

5 July 2007
Under sustained US pressure, Iraqi cabinet sends oil law to parliament
Britain: Brown seeks support for further attack on civil liberties
UN shuts down Iraq inspection program
Obama raises $32.5 million in three months - Record big business donations flow into 2008 US presidential campaign coffers
Australia: Scepticism mounts towards Howard's Aboriginal intervention
France: Socialist Party feminist joins Sarkozy's cabinet
The assault on Rio's favelas and the growth of state repression in Brazil
New Zealand woman dies after power company cuts off electricity supply

4 July 2007
The freeing of Lewis Libby: Government criminality and the class nature of American "justice"
The July 4th holiday and the state of US democracy
Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission hearing into disappearance of SEP member
The "Canadian Ministers" of Hamid Karzai's Afghan government
Global survey finds growing opposition to US foreign policy
Philippines election result indicates deep hostility to Arroyo government
Prague: thousands protest against cuts in social programs
54th Sydney Film Festival--Part 1 - Uneven responses to real human problems

3 July 2007
Bush commutes prison sentence of convicted perjurer and Iraq war conspirator I. Lewis Libby
Putin, Bush talks fail to dispel mounting tensions
US airstrike leaves over 100 dead in Afghanistan
New US accusations against Iran
Iraq: European think-tank documents occupation failure in Basra
Britain: The government's responsibility for last week's flood disaster
Sri Lankan government blocks Tamil website
Western Australian mine workers protest unsafe conditions
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Mizoguchi's Sansho The Bailiff released on DVD

2 July 2007
Five arrests in London car bomb attempts and Glasgow Airport attack - Britain's terror alert raised to critical
Dozens killed in Shiite neighborhood - US military massacre in Baghdad's Sadr City
US Supreme Court in surprise order sets hearing for Guantánamo prisoners
Britain: Brown forms government including Liberals, ex-Conservatives, business, military and police figures
Sri Lankan defence secretary defends the military's crimes
Antiwar protesters fined for entering US-Australian spy base
Report documents over one million "severely poor" children in UK
US: Local and federal agencies threaten to shut down Los Angeles hospital
An exchange of letters on school integration and affirmative action

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