Archive: 12/2004
2004-12-01
- Power struggle in Ukraine: what do Yushchenko and Yanukovich stand for?
- A million textile jobs at risk worldwide
- Two years after the Prestige disaster, new sea pollution measures blocked
- Did the Indonesian military murder human rights activist Munir?
- The Governor-General’s speech: a wish list for Australia’s corporate elite
- Letters from our readers
2004-12-02
- The creation of the Ukraine “democratic” opposition
- Crisis in Ukraine: rival camps await Supreme Court verdict on election
- Perhaps a step backward
- Ridge to step down as US homeland security chief
- Sacked German Opel worker: “Dismissals are aimed at intimidating the work force”
- Tragic mine explosion adds to China’s grim toll of death and destruction
- Bush’s “Torture Inc.” at Guantanamo
- Britain’s Home Secretary Blunkett under attack
2004-12-03
- LTTE leader’s speech points to danger of renewed war in Sri Lanka
- French right elects new leader
- America’s super-rich look forward to a merry Christmas
- Australia: Aboriginal death in custody triggers Palm Island riot
- New Jersey study indicts jailing of mentally ill youth
- Al Jazeera journalist among 10 jailed in Spain
- After Fallujah’s destruction: US occupation force to reach 150,000
- Britain: government rejects public inquiry into brutality at Deepcut barracks
- Bush pledges to wage unending war
2004-12-04
- Ukraine Supreme Court orders new presidential run-off election
- The Madrid bomb inquiry: Aznar continues his lies
- More than 750 dead after tropical storms batter the Philippines
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- Bernard Kerik to head US Homeland Security Department
- New Jersey study indicts jailing of mentally ill youth
- US jobs and sales figures indicate weakening economy
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
2004-12-06
- Britain: court quashes unlawful killing charge against police officers
- Study details economic distress facing Oregon workers
- Kennedy Center awards: Hollywood, theater “lefts” rub shoulders with Bush
- Bush rules out any delay in bogus Iraqi election
- UK has fastest growth of psychotropic drugs for children and adolescents
- Exit NBC anchor Tom Brokaw: A nonentity in the service of wealth and power
2004-12-07
2004-12-08
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Spain’s foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup
- Power struggle in Ukraine continues
- The social mosaic attempted: the photographs of August Sander
- Question mark over US dollar’s global role
- Letters from our readers
- US Congress passes bill to restructure intelligence agencies
- Changing political attitudes in twenty-first century China
- What price an American Empire?
2004-12-09
- Inadequate radiation protection endangers Sri Lankan health workers
- US troops confront Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
- Not taken from life
- India: political posturing over oil price hikes
- What US-backed “democracy movements” have produced in Serbia and Georgia
- What price an American Empire? Part Three
- US war criminals hail new puppet regime in Afghanistan
- Fatah lines up behind Abbas and threatens Barghouti
2004-12-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Spain’s foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup
- Ukraine power struggle: constitutional settlement favors opposition leader Yushchenko
- Pentagon report exposes lies of Bush administration
- Political lessons of the US and Australian elections
- US sailor refuses deployment to Iraq in protest against war
- Sydney meeting reviews Australian, US election results
- US media ignores damning Pentagon report
2004-12-11
- Taiwanese election dominated by dispute over relations with China
- Britain: cover-up of chemical warfare tests on servicemen exposed
- Chile’s ex-dictator Pinochet tied to multi-million-dollar payoffs
- The Scott Peterson case: a new American tragedy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US soldier seeks refugee status in Canada
2004-12-13
- The Daschner case and the rehabilitation of torture in Germany
- Sri Lankan government rejects LTTE call for peace talks
- Kerik declines Homeland Security nomination: why Bush lost his hand-picked henchman
- Razing of Fallujah fails to break Iraqi resistance
- Lord Butler belatedly comes out against Blair
- US budget bill freezes spending, implements right-wing social agenda
2004-12-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Tutu, COSATU and the “powder keg” of South Africa
- The death of Pat Tillman: military mythmaking and the “war on terror”
- Pinochet arrested in Chile on “Condor” killings
- Court panel calls for billions in new spending for New York City schools
- Official documents vindicate Red Cross report on US torture
- The victims of Operation Condor
2004-12-15
- Sri Lankan court jails senior opposition politician for contempt
- Letters on “The Scott Peterson case: a new American tragedy”
- Germany: Opel to destroy 10,000 jobs
- Sexual pioneer
- Martin Jacques: Embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left”
- US caught wiretapping UN atomic energy head ElBaradei
2004-12-16
- Ruling pro-independence party suffers a blow in Taiwan election
- A New York City parable: Pale Male, the red-tailed hawk
- Buying silence: Bush awards Medal of Freedom to key figures in Iraq debacle
- The war on terror and the rise of the political underworld
- Britain: paramedics question suicide verdict on whistleblower Kelly
- Martin Jacques: Embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left”
- Congress-led government offers band-aid to haemorrhaging rural India
- Germany: Election Alternative glorifies the state
- Australia: Howard government seeks to provoke “abortion debate”
2004-12-17
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Grenade attack on Sri Lankan music concert kills two
- Michigan school cuts highlight financial meltdown facing US states
- Hungry and homeless ranks swell in US cities
- Conflict over arms embargo at EU-China summit
- Letters from our readers
- Britain’s Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns
2004-12-18
- Top House Republican becomes chief US drug company lobbyist
- Chile’s arrest of Pinochet and the ”Condor” killers in the US
- Belgium: Opel union councils serve as management’s henchmen
- Anticommunism run amok: the life of Senator Pat McCarran
- Britain: High Court clears way for investigation into troop killing of Iraqi citizen
- David Hicks details abuse in Guantánamo Bay
- Egypt deepens its collaboration with Israel
- Pennsylvania steel works mural restored: rescuing history from the dustbin
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
2004-12-20
- Secret evidence used in Australian “terrorist” trial
- More casualties of war: US soldiers charged in deaths of Iraqi civilians and fellow servicemen
- Britain: government treatment of Roma was racist, Law Lords rule
- US: federal pension insurance program edges toward bankruptcy
- South East Asian summit seals free trade agreement with China
2004-12-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Sri Lanka: JVP leads campaign to impose budget burdens
- Skidmore, Missouri: woman carves fetus from a mother’s womb
- Closed-door court proceedings in Iraq against Hussein’s associates
- Germany: report bares widening gap between rich and poor
- Washington targets United Nations for destabilisation
2004-12-22
- Post-9/11 memo argued for unlimited presidential war-making powers
- Vanuatu government collapses following Australian economic threats
- Dollar devaluation cannot right the US economy
- Israel: Labour Party to prop up Sharon’s Likud coalition
- US crisis in Iraq sparks Republican attacks on Rumsfeld
- Britain: Law Lords terror ruling provokes constitutional crisis
- Mosul resistance attack reveals US disarray in Iraq
- Letters from our readers
- New Release from Mehring Books: The Crisis of American Democracy: the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004
2004-12-23
- Peak Australian union body seeks alliance with religious right
- European Union agrees on terms for membership negotiations with Turkey
- The New York Times manufactures support for the Iraq war in aftermath of Mosul bombing
- US military begins retaliation for Mosul bombing
- Tokyo extends troop deployment in Iraq
- Israel: soldier admits he knew slain peace activist Hurndall was unarmed
- Bush as Time magazine’s “2004 Person of the Year”: why him?
- BBC announces widespread job losses and cuts
2004-12-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
- One billion children worldwide suffering deprivation
- Documents reveal systematic torture by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Sri Lankan reports reveal widening social inequality
- Britain: poverty and homelessness rise under Labour
- Outrage in the Philippines over killing of plantation workers
- Louisville, Kentucky: sharp rise in emergency food requests
- US: new questions about safety of anti-inflammatory drugs
2004-12-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Yushchenko claims victory in Ukraine presidential election
- Tidal wave brings death and destruction throughout Sri Lanka
- Tidal wave wreaks death and destruction throughout Sri Lanka
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Britain: Sikh protests force closure of play
- US Airways workers stage Christmas job action
2004-12-29
- Tsunami death toll rises to 60,000 amid warnings of epidemics
- A soaring list of dead and injured on Thailand’s southern coast
- Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak to the WSWS
- Spain: Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War
- Ukraine election: on-the-spot report from Kiev
- Italian President Ciampi blocks Berlusconi’s justice “reforms”
- US Congress uses Alice in Wonderland logic to sell cuts in college grants
2004-12-30
- Sri Lankan president issues appeal for “unity”
- Informe del Pentágono revela las mentiras del gobierno de Bush
- Prensa de Estados Unidos ignora informe acusador del Pentágono
- Christmas all year round for Britain’s super-rich
- Black fever in India: an epidemic rooted in poverty
- Fallujah residents return to a destroyed city
- Letters from our readers
- Bush’s response to South Asia disaster: indifference compounded by political incompetence
2004-12-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- The price of Ukrainian democracy
- Britain: Royal Mail to sell off half its business
- US: Bush administration targets medical care for the poor
- Tsunami death toll in Indonesia approaching 100,000
- Poverty-stricken Hambantota among the worst affected areas in Sri Lanka
- David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2004
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