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WSWS : News & Analysis : North America
 
Social Breakdown: Violence in the US

     

6 June 2008
Chicago youth violence: an indictment of the US Democratic Party

18 February 2008
New details on gunman in US university shooting

16 February 2008
Six dead after yet another US school shooting

7 December 2007
US: Nine dead in Omaha, Nebraska mall shooting

13 October 2007
New round of US shootings claims young lives

21 September 2007
The media's obsession with O.J. Simpson

24 April 2007
More letters on the tragedy at Virginia Tech

23 April 2007
An attack on the World Socialist Web Site in the Boston Globe
US media hides behind the Virginia Tech tragedy

20 April 2007
The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia

Letters on the tragedy at Virginia Tech

18 April 2007
The Virginia Tech massacre--social roots of another American tragedy

17 April 2007
More than 30 dead at Virginia Tech
Worst shooting incident in US history

11 January 2007
Collateral damage--Texas child hangs himself after viewing Saddam Hussein lynching

30 August 2006
No evidence to press murder charges vs. John Mark Karr
Media frenzy over JonBenet "killer" ends in fiasco

22 August 2006
A new week: US media frenzy over JonBenet murder carries on

19 August 2006
US media disgraces itself once again
Rush to judgment in the JonBenet Ramsey case

23 March 2005
Minnesota: Ten killed in deadliest school shooting since Columbine massacre

16 March 2005
Violent eruptions in Wisconsin and Georgia: the pathology of a society in crisis

21 December 2004
Skidmore, Missouri: woman carves fetus from a mother's womb A brutal act in a desperate society

11 December 2004
The Scott Peterson case: a new American tragedy

23 November 2004
The Pistons-Pacers brawl and sports violence in America

10 August 2004
Six people murdered in Florida tragedy

4 March 2004
A tragedy born of poverty and unemployment
Fired transit worker kills two supervisors at New York City rail yard

29 October 2003
17,000 violent deaths in Detroit--the social meaning of a horrifying statistic

15 October 2002
Military-style killer on the loose near US capital

9 May 2002
Why the low-key White House, media response to pipe-bomb terrorism?

16 March 2002
The murder conviction of Andrea Yates: a tragic case, a barbaric verdict

22 January 2002
New school shootings in US: social issues once again come to the fore

13 September 2001
The political roots of the terror
attack on New York and Washington

3 August 2001
Another Florida teenager receives harsh adult prison sentence

13 June 2001
Execution Day in America

19 April 2001
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh: the making of a mass murderer

The Oklahoma City bombing
A somber warning to the working class
Republished from the May 8, 1995 issue of the International Workers Bulletin

30 March 2001
McVeigh interview sheds light on the social roots of the Oklahoma City bombing

15 March 2001
A new round of school shootings in the US

24 February 2001
Store guards kill another worker in Detroit

10 February 2001
Another workplace shooting in the US: five dead at Chicago Navistar plant

9 June 2000
Five murdered at Wendy's restaurant in New York City--the brutalization of everyday life

7 June 2000
Prosecutors want 13-year-old tried as adult
Florida middle school student held in fatal shooting of teacher

17 May 2000
Hundreds of thousands protest in Washington against gun violence
The Million Mom March: the social and political issues that were not addressed

2 May 2000
Immigration lawyer in Pennsylvania kills five in racist shooting rampage

28 April 2000
Michigan school shooting: a tragic consequence of US welfare "reform"

30 March 2000
McVeigh interview sheds light on the social roots of the Oklahoma City bombing

29 March 2000
Hostage siege in Baltimore-another American nightmare

16 March 2000
A new round of shootings in the US

4 March 2000
US: What the shootings in Flint and Wilkinsburg have in common

1 March 2000
Six-year-old Michigan girl shot and killed in classroom

4 November 1999
Hawaii, Seattle: latest shooting rampages in the US

17 September 1999
Eight dead in Texas church shooting--the latest eruption of social tensions in America

19 August 1999
"Eyes wide shut": The reopening of Columbine High School

12 August 1999
Fascist gunman attacks Jewish center in Los Angeles

31 July 1999
The Atlanta massacre:
what it says about America

24 June 1999
Social breakdown and the American police mentality
Fourteen-year-olds charged as adults in school shooting plot

24 May 1999
Empty moralizing and tougher juvenile laws follow latest school shooting

20 May 1999
Michigan students charged with attempted murder in alleged school massacre plot

4 May 1999
School shooting in Canada, wave of "copy-cat" threats in US follow Columbine tragedy

27 April 1999
The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral ... American Berserk

23 April 1999
Society, politics and the school shooting in Littleton

21 April 1999
15 dead in Colorado school shooting:
A nation at war ... with itself

27 November 1998
Students arrested in Wisconsin:
why the desperation among young people in the US?

28 July 1998
The Capitol shooting as the symptom of a social crisis

23 May 1998
The shooting in Oregon:
Alienation, adolescence and violence

28 March 1998
The Jonesboro murders: Why?

27 March 1998
In response to shooting deaths at Arkansas school:
Government, media suggest prison or death for child offenders

 

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23 May 1998
The shooting in Oregon:
Alienation, adolescence and violence

28 March 1998
The Jonesboro murders: Why?

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