Archive: 09/2005
2005-09-01
- Arroyo clings to Philippines presidency amid growing economic crisis
- Letter from New Orleans: tragedy at stranded hospital
- New Orleans police ordered to stop saving lives and start saving property
- Bush rules out significant federal aid to hurricane victims
- Paris: 48 African immigrants die in apartment block fires
- Studies link CEO compensation to fraud, mismanagement
- Australia: another Senate committee whitewash of government lies on Iraq
2005-09-02
- Lo que el escándalo de Pat Robertson revela
- US military sniper kills Reuters soundman in Baghdad
- Increased media coverage of PSG candidates in German federal elections
- Washington tries to evade political responsibility for Katrina’s devastating impact
- Hurricane’s victims left to die on New Orleans streets
- Close to 1,000 dead in Baghdad tragedy
- Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- The PSG (Socialist Equality Party—Germany) election spot
- One-third of Detroit’s population lives below poverty line
- Bush White House suppresses information, whistle blowing
2005-09-03
- Racist attacks on Tamil newspaper in Sri Lanka
- An angry letter from New Orleans
- New Orleans and Baghdad—two sides of the same policy
- Retired Scottish police official says Lockerbie evidence was planted
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Bush postures while hurricane death toll skyrockets
- Europe reacts to US hurricane disaster
- Egypt: President Mubarak dominates fake election campaign
- Letters on Hurricane Katrina
- Lockout at the CBC—“Canada’s public broadcaster”
2005-09-05
- Britain: “Fear on the Streets” art installation removed from Selfridges’s window
- Letters and replies on the assassination of Sri Lankan foreign minister
- Soldier returned from Iraq: “The rich don’t fight wars in America”
- William Rehnquist (1924-2005): Key figure in Washington’s rightward trajectory dies at 80
- Staying the course in Iraq justified in television series
- Research reveals link between tiny genetic structures and cancer
- As hurricane disaster mounts, Bush scapegoats state, local officials
- Germany’s Left Party adopts a reformist program
2005-09-06
- Telstra sale—a political minefield for the Australian government
- Hurricane Katrina disaster shows the failure of the profit system
- Prison population in Britain reaches record levels
- Eyewitness to the New Orleans disaster: report from a WSWS reader
- Something’s rotten...
- Letters on the US hurricane disaster
- Chinese government preparing for greater social unrest
2005-09-07
- After New Orleans disaster: human misery and the profit principle
- Hurricane disaster shows the failure of the profit system
- Sri Lankan military heightens tensions in the North and East
- US ruling elite rejects policy shift to confront disaster
- Astrodome refugees report hellish conditions in New Orleans
- Paris: As authorities launch murder enquiry into Vincent-Auriol fire, thousands march in anger and solidarity
- German elections: Conservative opposition meets in Dortmund
- Australia: state opposition leader resigns amid media furore
- The crisis of the Lula government: the end of an era in Brazil
- State of emergency declared in Arizona and New Mexico
2005-09-08
- Turkey: corruption scandal erupts in Tek Gida-Is trade union bureaucracy
- Readers report on Katrina disaster
- “The Massacre” by 50 Cent sells 4 million copies: Why does social backwardness achieve such success? Part 1
- Democratic-controlled Minneapolis City Council rejects resolution against Northwest Airlines union-busting
- New Orleans becomes a war zone
- Democracy and the “rule of law:” An exchange on the British police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Is the US military preparing another massacre in Tal Afar?
- Relative of 9/11 victim: “The Bush administration is only concerned with empire, oil and corporate profits”
2005-09-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Socialist Equality Party stands in Sri Lankan presidential election
- Estados Unidos pasa del desastre a la humillación
- “The Massacre” by 50 Cent sells 4 million copies: Why does social backwardness achieve such success?
- Over 1,000 demonstrate for New York University graduate student employees
- New York City police continue arrests of bicyclists
- Britain: rally for sacked Gate Gourmet workers addressed by Socialist Equality Party
- Bush administration snubs Cuban hurricane relief offer
- Letters on the US hurricane disaster
- Report documents runaway American CEO pay and war profiteering
- British media fears political consequences of Hurricane Katrina
- Bush rejects responsibility in Hurricane Katrina disaster
2005-09-10
- Laurence Tribe’s paean to Rehnquist: a liberal pays tribute to reaction
- Lively discussion at German Socialist Equality Party election meeting
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- World Bank President Wolfowitz pledges $9 billion in loans to India
- New Orleans: the specter of military dictatorship
- Israel: Gaza pullout paves way for further West Bank land grab
- Tory leadership challenger Ken Clarke lambasts Blair on Iraq and democratic rights
- Laura Bush takes umbrage: racism and the Republican Party
- EU states downplay risk as bird flu spreads toward Western Europe
- German government to privatize air traffic control
2005-09-12
- Wage-cutting and profit-gouging in the midst of the Katrina disaster
- Australian government unveils legal framework for police state
- High oil prices undermine Indonesian government
- British SWP covers for union betrayal of Gate Gourmet workers
- More letters on Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane Katrina and the meaning of September 11
2005-09-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Studies link global warming with increased hurricane intensity
- “Bring them home now” tour holds rally in Detroit
- A scientific milestone: mapping of rice genome
- Socialist Equality Party (Germany) holds election rally
- Court upholds power of White House to jail citizens as “enemy combatants”
- Iraq: US military lays waste to Tal Afar
- US media hails martial law general in New Orleans
- Germany: TV debate reveals electors have no real choice
2005-09-14
- Australian government to deport American antiwar activist
- Danger of war at centre of Sri Lankan election campaign
- The exploitation of Hurricane Katrina: remaking New Orleans for the rich
- New Orleans and poverty: a damning admission from the New York Times
- Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Michigan: “They ordered the evacuation, but there were no buses, nothing”
- The lessons of the July 7 London bombings and the state murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Forty-five bodies recovered at New Orleans hospital
- British MP Michael Meacher suggests Security Services are shielding July 7 bomb plotters
2005-09-15
- Profit system, not nature, main obstacle to rebuilding New Orleans
- Britain: police chief insists “shoot-to-kill” policy remains in force
- Koizumi’s “landslide” win in Japan’s election
- Israeli soldiers reveal official “shoot to kill” policy towards Palestinian civilians
- Rapid increase in child poverty in Germany
- What is the meaning of Bush’s “responsibility?”
- Delta and Northwest airlines declare bankruptcy
- Germany expands army presence in Afghanistan
2005-09-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- UN Human Development Report pleads for reform as poverty and misery deepen
- Big business agenda dominates New Zealand election campaign
- Indonesian air crash points to declining safety standards
- Letters from our readers
- On the Hurricane Katrina disaster
- Bush’s vision for New Orleans: a profiteer’s paradise
- Recovering New Orleans’ dead subordinated to profit and politics
2005-09-17
- The New York Times and Bush’s New Orleans speech
- Sri Lankan rail union shuts down protracted strike
- German government bans Kurdish paper and Palestinian association
- Microsoft anti-phishing software raises Internet privacy concerns
- US: courts deny right to challenge Medicaid violations
- Iraq’s libraries: what recovery from “a national disaster beyond imagination”?
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German elections: Vote Socialist Equality Party on September 18
- British media backs Merkel in German elections, but fears instability
- Increasing tensions between Belarus and Poland
2005-09-19
- SEP presidential candidate speaks on Sri Lankan radio
- Catholic Church steps up campaign to oust Spanish government
- Religion, science and Hurricane Katrina
- Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies
- Northern Ireland: loyalist riots point to unresolved social and political tensions
- Tax cuts to continue, social programs to be slashed in wake of Hurricane Katrina
- Mubarak wins Egypt’s stage-managed presidential election
2005-09-20
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- The decline and decay of Britain’s trade unions
- An honest look at the lives of Italian inmates
- Families of fallen US soldiers: “We are on a mission—we don’t want any more dead”
- New Zealand election stalemate exposes deep social divisions
- New storm threat forces resumed evacuation from New Orleans
- German election: a clear rejection of right-wing policies
- Afghanistan election: a mockery of democracy
2005-09-21
- Could we cover our ears to keep from screaming?
- Sri Lanka: the JHU-Rajapakse deal and the reactionary role of Buddhist supremacism
- New York City police attack Cindy Sheehan at antiwar rally
- Hurricane Katrina: a public health and environmental disaster
- Mamdouh Habib, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, speaks with the WSWS
- International press pours scorn on German voters
- British troops in pitched battle in Basra
2005-09-22
- The Bush administration backtracks on North Korea
- General Motors slashes jobs in Australia
- What next after the German election?
- US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates
- Letters on the SEP/WSWS Summer School
- British government announces new attacks on civil liberties
- Canadian government defends intelligence extracted through torture
2005-09-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- World cinema and the world’s problems
- Katrina, the Iraq war and the struggle for socialism
- Sri Lankan presidential candidate condemns Bush’s treatment of hurricane victims
- War protesters tried on federal conspiracy charges in New York
- Democrats cave on reactionary chief justice: Senate panel rubberstamps Roberts nomination
- Texas and Louisiana coast menaced by Hurricane Rita
- Canada: Parti Québécois thrown into unexpected leadership race
- Blair and Murdoch defend Bush over Hurricane Katrina
2005-09-24
- Arrest of Bush official sheds light on corruption and cronyism
- Hurricane Rita slams Texas and Louisiana, reflooding New Orleans
- Australia: NSW by-elections another sign of political volatility
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- German Green leader clears way for collaboration with the right
- Australian voters speak of concerns and discontent
- US airlines follow bankruptcy filings with mass layoffs
- On the Hurricane Katrina disaster
- Britain: asylum detainee commits suicide
2005-09-26
- US atrocities in Vietnam documented: Winter Soldier re-released three decades later
- Massive Washington march demands end to war in Iraq
- Hurricane Rita causes widespread damage but few deaths
- Tens of thousands march in London against Iraq occupation
- Iraq: a reactionary call for “war” on Shiites
- Letters from our readers
- Chinese leadership plans to honour ousted party “reformer”
- Schwarzenegger announces 2006 run for governor
2005-09-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government rams through Telstra privatisation
- FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure
- “Liberating the wealthy”: the legacy of New Zealand Labour leader David Lange
- German court declares Iraq war violated international law
- Down in the hole
- Bush administration to expand military powers, attack social programs
- An exchange on the German Greens
- German election result causes consternation in the French political establishment
- California National Guard investigated for domestic spying
- South Africa: factional warfare within ANC coalition
2005-09-28
- After September 24 protest: What way forward in the struggle against war?
- Valuable films from France
- An interview with Alain Tasma, director of October 17, 1961
- Sri Lankan military threatens antiwar filmmakers
- War protestors acquitted on federal conspiracy charges in New York
- US military intensifies campaign of intimidation prior to Iraqi referendum
- Indian prime minister cements relations with Afghanistan’s puppet regime
- Germany: SPD and union parties prepare for grand coalition
- What was the British SAS doing in Basra?
2005-09-29
- Posada Carriles to stay in US: Washington shields CIA terrorist from prosecution
- Britain: de Menezes’ parents demand police stand trial for murder
- Sri Lankan SEP presidential candidate to address Colombo election meeting
- Former Australian Labor leader’s recriminations expose deep political decay
- US and EU-3 make another provocative move against Iran
- One-day general strike in India exposes need for socialist-internationalist strategy
- German election data highlight social divisions
- Court case hits attack on evolution in Pennsylvania
- House Republican leader indicted in campaign finance conspiracy
2005-09-30
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Lurid reports of rape, murder in Katrina’s aftermath exposed as frauds
- Rapper Kanye West on the cover of Time: Will rap music shed its “gangster” disguise?
- Pentagon dismisses new report on US military torture in Iraq
- US to resume Guantánamo trial of David Hicks
- The coming grand coalition in Germany: illegitimate and undemocratic
- Britain: Gate Gourmet strike betrayed by Transport and General Workers Union
- Jobless claims, an end to the housing bubble: storm signals for US economy
- Chinese government crackdown exposes fraud of local elections
- Hurricanes’ destruction deepens US farm crisis
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