Archive: 02/2007
2007-02-01
- Desperate manoeuvres give Sri Lankan government a thin majority
- Deadly house fire in Petersburg, Virginia: the human cost of social inequality
- Britain: Members of Blair’s inner circle arrested in “cash for honours” inquiry
- Stepped up US preparations for war against Iran
- House majority leader lays out Democratic position on Iraq
- Who runs Germany?
2007-02-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- El significado de las nacionalizaciones en Venezuela y Ecuador
- Congressional Democrats embrace Republican resolution on Iraq
- Iraq: Who did the US military massacre near Najaf?
- Letters from our readers
- Munich, Germany: Arrest warrants issued against 13 CIA agents
- A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
- “Australian values” attack on rock concert organisers
2007-02-03
- Australia: Police officer faces charges for killing Aboriginal prisoner
- Big oil companies post record profits for 2006
- The Libby perjury trial and the Washington media establishment
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- India’s judiciary seeks to burnish its reputation with some belated guilty verdicts
- Britain: Government seeks compromise with Church over same-sex adoption
- Two films based on novels: Notes on a Scandal and The Painted Veil
- Germany: Wide divisions among Christian Democrats
- Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran?
- Canadian actors on strike—but still working
2007-02-05
- Bush to propose record US war budget
- Britain: SAS military forces unit to be permanently stationed in London
- France: Nicolas Sarkozy goes to London
- Democrats’ “Out of Iraq” caucus puts on a show for its radical friends
- New year begins with more coal miners’ deaths in US
- David North addresses public meeting in Sydney on political implications of Iraq war
- Scientists report rampant political interference in climate research
- Jimmy Carter’s book on Israel and Palestine touches a raw Zionist nerve
2007-02-06
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Germany: Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz and the politics of the SPD
- US presses African Union to send troops into Somalia
- Unanswered questions about the Karbala raid
- Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima: Remarkable, in many ways
- The Bush administration’s campaign of lies and misinformation against Iran
- Huge bomb blast in Baghdad inflames sectarian tensions
- Ottawa’s “apology” to Maher Arar
2007-02-07
- Bush wants to make tax cuts for the rich permanent
- Sri Lankan journalists protest against attacks on media
- Sinn Fein endorse Police Service of Northern Ireland and MI5 operations
- Tensions mount between US and Europe over war threat against Iran
- Dreamgirls: Motown mythologized, obscured
- Presidential candidates strike antiwar pose at Democratic National Committee meeting
- Bush administration stokes trade tensions with China
- Bush’s budget priorities: war and the wealthy
2007-02-08
- La relación entre el juicio de Libby por perjurio y la prensa convencional de Washington
- Labor leader promises Australian corporations “a competitive business environment”
- Netherlands: the grand coalition and the role of the Socialist Party
- US signs up Poland and Czech Republic for missile shield
- Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad: another US provocation?
- Anger over Detroit plan to close 51 schools
- Senate Republicans call Democrats’ bluff on Iraq war resolution
- Letters on Zbigniew Brzezinki’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- US Federal Reserve chairman issues warning on social inequality
2007-02-09
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US Army court martial against war resister lieutenant ends in mistrial
- Sri Lankan Independence Day: a celebration of war and militarism
- US refuses to sign UN ban on renditions and secret detention
- Germany’s Left Party holds student congress to promote reformist politics
- God Grew Tired of Us: “The quality of mercy is not strained”
- Iraq and Darfur: the politics of war crimes
- Democrats back massive hike in military spending
2007-02-10
- Scientists conclude global warming is “unequivocal”
- Australia: the socialist alternative in the New South Wales state election
- Russian President visits India to reinvigorate Indo-Russian alliance
- Pentagon report admits fabricated intelligence used to justify Iraq war
- Former SS officers sentenced for massacre in Marzabotto, Italy
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Blaming the Iraqis: A new cover-up for American militarism
- Britain: Failure to suppress video of “friendly fire” killing of British soldier by US pilots
- Tornado strike kills 20 in Central Florida
2007-02-12
- German cabinet agrees to deploy Tornado fighter planes in Afghanistan
- More right-wing proposals from the American labor bureaucracy
- The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
- New York loses out in world financial markets
- International Students for Social Equality and SEP to hold emergency conference against war
- The Bush administration’s economic war on Iran
- Egypt: Textile workers protest trade union collaboration with employers
- Letters on film and socialism
- Hugo Chávez, Marx and the “Bolivarism” of the twenty-first century
- “It’s lonely out in space”: The desperate astronaut and the unreality of official American life
2007-02-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Russian President Putin lambastes US foreign policy
- US Senator Barack Obama and the war in Iraq
- Police stops skyrocket in New York City
- The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
- Bush administration concocts a “dossier” for war against Iran
- Dixie Chicks sweep Grammy Awards
- Letters from our readers
2007-02-14
- NSW state election: SEP candidate speaks at Newtown forum
- US Securities and Exchange Commission moves to further limit liability for corporate fraud
- Obama’s The Audacity of Hope: Portrait of a modern American political operative
- The historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism
- Stop the US war drive against Iran!
- The short, sad, sordid life of Anna Nicole Smith
- Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment—Part 1
2007-02-15
- Shakespearean gravitas in political satire: British actor Ian Richardson dead at 72
- Cheney aide abruptly ends defense in perjury trial
- The implications in Iraq of Bush’s military “surge”
- US “diplomacy” on Iran: thuggery and threats of military aggression
- The strange case of the Australian PM and the American Senator
- Chrysler cuts 13,000 North American jobs
- Hu rejects accusations that China has colonial ambitions in Africa
- At White House press conference, Bush escalates war threats against Iran
- Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment—Part 2
2007-02-16
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- WSWS arts editor David Walsh to speak at Virginia Commonwealth University
- US and UK worst places in developed world to be a child
- US-North Korean nuclear agreement: clearing the decks for Iran
- The Bush administration prepares for war against Iran
- Canada transferring Afghan detainees to “self-confessed torturers”
- Canada’s Afghan intervention—three probes launched into prisoner abuse
- Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment-Part three
2007-02-17
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- After House vote on non-binding resolution: Democrats won’t cut Iraq war funding
- The Bush administration prepares for war against Iran
- German Interior Minister Schäuble advocates police state measures
- Letters from our readers
- Is the Bush administration behind the bombings in Iran?
- Britain’s cash for honours scandal nears end game
- UK government steps up assault on asylum-seekers
2007-02-19
- France: Royal’s campaign falters as Sarkozy consolidates support of big business
- Socialist Equality Party (Australia) public meetings
- Join the International Students for Social Equality! Build an ISSE chapter at your college or high school!
- Demands grow for release of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, David Hicks
- Kenny and Suburban Mayhem from Australia: two sides of the same coin
- Italian judge indicts CIA agents for illegal kidnapping
- China’s economic rise destabilises world capitalism
2007-02-20
- US troops terrorize Baghdad in “Operation Law and Order”
- New Zealand government to introduce cheap labour scheme for Pacific Island workers
- Jakarta’s flood exposes government neglect and indifference
- US “coerced” India over Iran
- China’s economic rise destabilises world capitalism
- Portrait of an “antiwar” Democrat: Former Feith aide makes radio reply to Bush
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2007-02-21
- The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands’ riots
- Russian, Chinese, Indian foreign ministers meet on US war threats against Iran
- ISSE exposes hypocrisy of Australian Labor politician at campus meeting
- BBC reports on US military plans to strike Iran
- US appeals court upholds denial of habeas corpus rights to Guantánamo detainees
- Germany: ISSE holds Berlin meeting on US war plans against Iran
- Letters from our readers
- Cheney’s trip to Japan and Australia: the preparation for new war crimes
2007-02-22
- Venus and The Pursuit of Happyness: two films with a little something to say
- The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands’ riots
- Rice’s Middle East visit: Bullying and intimidation dressed up as diplomacy
- Indian security forces murder Kashmiris in phony “encounters”
- Italy: 100,000 demonstrate against expansion of US base in Vicenza
- What is behind Russia’s delay of Iran’s nuclear reactor?
- Chrysler job cuts to hit Detroit area
- Blair announces partial troop withdrawal from Iraq
2007-02-23
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- An ominous silence on Iran from the US vice president
- Gaullist presidential candidate Sarkozy allies with Italy’s post-fascists
- Italian prime minister resigns after losing foreign policy vote
- Seven die in Pennsylvania house fire
- SEP candidate prevented from addressing forum on dental health
- Massive security blanket for Cheney’s Australian visit
- Australian government prepares to introduce de facto universal ID card
2007-02-24
- Who is David Sentelle?
- Padilla suffered brain damage during captivity, experts say
- What the New York Times doesn’t say about the court ruling on habeas corpus
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- US Vice President Cheney menaces Iran with military aggression
- Train atrocity in India targets “peace process”
- The “scramble for Hollywood:” the Democratic Party and entertainment industry liberals
- Gun crime claims three young lives in London
- Egypt: Wildcat strikes and protests continue
- Letters from our readers
2007-02-26
- Fabricated charges dropped against East Timor’s former prime minister
- Four Sri Lankan workers beheaded in Saudi Arabia
- Italy: Communist Refoundation gives Prodi a blank check for right-wing policies
- US war drums beat louder after Iran fails to meet UN deadline
- Anti-imperialism vs. anti-Americanism: an exchange of letters
- Guardian claims report clears London police chief of lying about De Menezes shooting
2007-02-27
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Britain: London antiwar demonstration downplays threat of war against Iran
- Senior lawyers accuse Australian government of war crimes over Guantánamo
- London: Demonstrators express grave concern over Iran
- Nationalism and religion dominate platform at Scottish antiwar protest
- Fiji’s military junta strong-arms its political opponents
- SEP opposes exclusion of Noel Holt from Newcastle candidates’ forum
- Congressional Democrats rule out Iraq war fund cutoff
- Letters from our readers
- Shutdown of Chrysler plant hits Newark, Delaware
- 79th Academy Awards: very removed from life
2007-02-28
- West Bengal Stalinists’ pro-business policies leading to “civil war”
- US Army to retry war resister officer
- Australia: Long-delayed “terrorist” hearings to commence in Sydney
- Global markets slide after China sell-off
- France: Socialist Party attempts “left” re-packaging of Ségolène Royal
- The Bush administration’s new strategy of setting the Middle East aflame
- An exchange on The Pursuit of Happyness
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