Archive: 05/1999
1999-05-01
- US, NATO escalate bombs and propaganda
- Some interesting films on US television, May 1-7
- Yugoslavia war intensifies political tensions in Spain
- South Africa police violence caught on film
- Ireland: Charges mount of police collusion in murder of civil rights lawyer
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- More Tamil mass graves found in Sri Lanka
- Australian government shuts door on aged parents seeking to immigrate
- "Not all the citizens of the USA are in agreement with the powers-that-be"
1999-05-03
- No joy in Washington over Yugoslavia prisoner release
- Irish government sells off state telecom company
- As it orients towards the Caspian, Washington modifies sanctions against Iran
- India to hold mid-term elections
- Sydney hail storm victims face months of misery
- Greece: Antiwar protests intensify
- Dutch police fire on football fans
1999-05-04
- Anthology charts Springsteen's musical journey
- Thai garment workers appeal for support
- School shooting in Canada, wave of "copy-cat" threats in US follow Columbine tragedy
- Australian government makes Kosovar refugees as unwelcome as possible
- New Zealand government prepares to boost teachers' workload
- London nail-bomber arrested--What shapes the psychology of hate?
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Philadelphia teacher considers causes of Colorado school shooting
1999-05-05
- Wall Street celebrates stepped-up bombing of Serbia
- New Welsh Assembly designed to promote regional competition rather than democracy
- Julie Hiatt Steele obstruction of justice trial opens in US District Court
- The state attorney general and the fate of the Russian president
- May Day rallies hit IMF austerity, Yugoslavia bombing
- What are the reasons for the war in Yugoslavia?
- New fossil find provides important clues to man's prehistory
- California executes mentally ill Vietnam veteran
- Former Klan leader Duke narrowly misses runoff in Louisiana congressional vote
1999-05-06
- Clinton, NATO generals discuss expansion of Yugoslavia war
- Victims of tornadoes or victims of bombing?
- Scottish Socialist Party sows national divisions
- The anatomy of melancholy
- Jury hears tale of torture, brutality by New York City police
- Workers Struggles: Europe and the Middle East
- Health workers falsely blamed for hospital deaths
- Indonesian military shoots 31 people dead in Aceh
1999-05-07
- Coronial inquest reveals deadly conditions in Australian trucking industry
- Owner of bombed pharmaceutical plant wins release of assets, Sudan demands compensation
- Question of investment underlies Scottish election contest
- Playwright Harold Pinter presents a powerful case in opposition to NATO bombardment of Serbia
- The manslaughter trial of a young New York mother--who are the real criminals?
- A Conservative Lord warns of global turmoil
- Former SPD chairman's May Day speech creates problems for German government
- The Art of the "Dreaming"
- Irish document reveals suspicion of RUC collusion in loyalist killings
- Military seize power in Comoros Islands
1999-05-08
- US escalates terror-bombing of Yugoslav cities
- Some interesting films on US television, May 8-14
- Timor agreement leaves military in charge of "consultation"
- Conversations with three filmmakers
- Riverside California police cleared of wrongdoing in murder of teenage black girl
- Socialist principles and the war in the Balkans
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The IMF in Yugoslavia: A question and reply
- An open letter to Clinton from a reader in Greece
- NATO's holy war
- Wider European upheavals will follow NATO attack on Yugoslavia
- Coalition rule likely in Scotland and Wales
- Unanswered questions in NATO-Russia agreement
1999-05-10
1999-05-11
- Embassy protests reflect deeper currents
- How is value determined: an exchange with a reader
- Some films from the Balkans and Africa
- Reader describes impact of NATO bombing on Yugoslavia
- London demonstration against the war in the Balkans
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Africa starvation warning from UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
- UK government proposes longer working hours for junior doctors
- German protests condemn NATO onslaught against Serbia
1999-05-12
- Chinese refugee forced to have abortion after deportation from Australia
- Newspaper documents abuses by federal prosecutors
- New York Times' venom over release of Yugoslavia POWs
- Sri Lanka: LSSP splinters in three as People's Alliance ship begins to sink
- Mistrial declared in Julie Hiatt Steele case
- A rising toll of industrial deaths and injuries
- A reactionary brief for English cultural nationalism
- US media denounces Chinese protests
1999-05-13
- UN threatens to call off East Timor poll
- Tamil plantation youth recount brutal torture by Sri Lankan police
- Cancer and social life
- US to train Indonesian police in riot control
- Rising cost of Britain's war drive to fall on working people
- A "Goldilocks" budget for the wealthy
- Chinese embassy bombing escalates political tensions in Britain
- Actor Dirk Bogarde dead at 78
- Indonesian garment workers suffer shocking conditions and victimisation
1999-05-14
- What really has happened in Kosovo
- First bananas, now beef fuels US-EU trade war
- US Treasury Secretary Rubin's legacy: the unfettered rule of Wall Street
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- Kandinsky and the development of a visual language
- New figures show wider than ever pay gulf between US workers and corporate executives
- Congo War Drags On—Uganda and Chad pull out
1999-05-15
- Some interesting films on US television, May 15-21
- Young Tamil plantation workers arrested on false bombing charges
- Sixteen films, briefly
- Labour-Liberal coalition formed in Scotland
- Vadim Rogovin's contribution to Russian social sciences
- New York City workers demand better wages and conditions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- NATO cluster bombs kill 100 Albanians in Kosovo: Where is the outrage?
- South Korea's "second wave" of strikes winds down
- Job figures worsen in Australia—despite economic growth
- German Green party backs Balkan war
1999-05-17
- The evolution of a NATO lie
- Teenage sexual ill-health in Britain linked to broader social malaise
- Lessons of the Spanish-American War, the first US "humanitarian" intervention
- Some older or lesser known films
- The German PDS and the war in Yugoslavia
- Why we defend Mumia Abu-Jamal
- NATO's claim of 100,000 murdered in Kosovo—a rebuttal
- 11-year-old child to stand trial for manslaughter in Australia
1999-05-18
- Further doubt cast on US claims of genocide in Kosovo
- A postmodernist attack on science
- Chernomyrdin, Gazprom and Moscow's role in the Kosovo war
- A comment on the war by British playwright Harold Pinter
- Ontario's June 3 election: a verdict on the Tories' Common Sense Revolution?
- British secret agents named on Internet: Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson accused of leak
- Historian James M. McPherson and the cause of intellectual integrity
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Correspondence on the South Korean strikes
- How the British government failed to suppress list of MI6 agents
- Australian government in disarray after rejection of consumption tax package
- Australian students use Internet to defend threatened media course
1999-05-19
- UNICEF report cites declining levels of education and literacy world-wide
- Petition filed before US Supreme Court for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- "There is a big idea which is at stake"—Corporal in the 105th Ohio, 1864
- An exchange with a Civil War historian
- James McPherson's What They Fought For: When great ideals gripped the American people
- The Civil War, impeachment then and now, and Lincoln's legacy
- UNICEF report cites declining levels of education and literacy world-wide
- New military coup in Guinea-Bissau leaves one hundred dead
- Gambling: a government bonanza in Australia
- Fiji's military strongman voted out in landslide to the Labour Party
- What's behind Blair's calls for ground war in the Balkans?
1999-05-20
- Michigan students charged with attempted murder in alleged school massacre plot
- A revealing report on the super rich
- Observer newspaper targets playwright Harold Pinter for his criticism of NATO
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Election —Conformity, fantasy and "destiny" in middle America
- Beijing accelerates market reforms as economic growth and investment slows
- Yugoslavia estimates $100 billion in damages from NATO bombing
1999-05-21
- NATO resumes bombing of Belgrade
- Unions call off Thai power workers' campaign
- Sri Lankan SEP picket in defence of political prisoners from plantation area
- The Indonesian elections and the struggle for democracy
- "Fantasy is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders"
- 'There are no rules in painting'
- Italian fishermen injured by unexploded bombs dumped by NATO in the Adriatic Sea
- A few recent films from the US, and one from Canada
- Wave of charter bus accidents sheds light on lack of safety regulation
1999-05-22
- War in the Balkans—a bonanza for weapons industry
- Young mother convicted of criminally negligent homicide in her baby's death
- Some interesting films on US television, May 22-28
- Turkey sentences Kurdish leader to death
- Another attack in British press on prominent NATO critic
- Media magnates call for scrapping of ownership restrictions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Signs of disarray in opposition alliance in Indonesian elections
- Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok announces resignation of government
- "Citizenship classes" to become compulsory in English schools
1999-05-24
1999-05-25
- The government crisis in Russia—a comment
- What is behind the dismissal of Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov?
- Los Angeles police kill homeless woman
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain's Home Secretary to curtail right to jury trial
- Likud routed at polls—vote signals deepening of Israeli crisis
- "Disposable students" removed from schools in Australia
- South Africa: the fraud of "black empowerment"
1999-05-26
- US-NATO bombing targets entire Yugoslav population
- Why is Turkey supporting the war against Serbia?
- Kenyan Mau Mau seek compensation from British government
- University students in Mexico and Chile protest attacks on education
- Britain: Why Labour backbenchers oppose changes in disability benefits
- Government intensifies arrests as union calls off strikes
- Exposure of Suharto's billions puts Indonesian regime on the defensive
- NATO's motives: propaganda and reality
- A letter from Indonesia on the upcoming elections
1999-05-27
- Conflict over World Trade Organisation leadership
- Warnings of civil war in East Timor
- Starr drops threat to retry McDougal, Steele
- NATO's public face: Jamie Shea
- The British government and the Kosovar refugees
- Ontario election notebook
- Documentary on Douglas MacArthur raises issues of contemporary importance
- Workers Struggles: Europe
- European elections highlight growth of regionalism
- Sydney Drug Summit recommends legalisation
- Automation, the working class and the extraction of surplus value
- China spy scare: The return of the "yellow peril"
1999-05-28
- World crisis shakes Sri Lankan economy
- Milosevic indictment provides pretext for invasion
- Kissinger exposes lies behind US-NATO war
- A dangerous confrontation between India and Pakistan
- Indonesia's ruling party faces collapse of support
- Artistic and intellectual confusion in Lars von Trier's The Idiots
- No answers from finance capital's "wise men"
- NATO's motives and its spokesman
- British government pledges 18,000 troops for Kosovo
- Human rights in Austria: The brutal death of asylum-seeker Markus Omafuma
1999-05-29
- Some interesting films on US television, May 29-June 4
- European elections could topple British Conservative Party leader
- Snapshots of a brutal society—one week in America
- Sharemarket "madness" boosts Australia's wealthy
- Intellectual integrity and claims of Serb genocide
- How profit equalizes across capitalist industries
- Human rights group charges NATO bombing is war crime
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- New KLA leader was responsible for ethnic cleansing
- Teamsters carhaulers face strike deadline
1999-05-31
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