Archive: 08/2007
2007-08-01
- Germany: As private equity companies boom, social democrats advise the “locusts”
- Northwest pilot shortage highlights growing airlines crisis
- Adding fuel to the Mideast fire: US unveils huge arms package
- Two novels about America’s future: writers need a new perspective
- Australian government issues new “terrorist” smears against Haneef
- Bush-Brown summit: Tensions but no policy shift by Britain
- Australia: State Labor premier and deputy depart for greener pastures
- American passenger rail system plagued with endemic delays
2007-08-02
- Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims no cover-up in Pat Tillman death
- Sri Lankan police stall on disappearance of SEP member
- Britain: Oxford residents tell of flood’s impact
- Rupert Murdoch takes over Wall Street Journal
- Dozens missing, four confirmed dead in Minnesota bridge collapse
- Pratibha Patil becomes India’s 13th president
- Bursting of credit bubble underlies stock market turbulence
- Michelangelo Antonioni—a flawed legacy
2007-08-03
2007-08-04
- The Minnesota bridge collapse: One more indictment of the profit system
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japanese government suffers major defeat in upper house elections
- Democrats back down on ending tax windfall for hedge-fund billionaires
- Letters from our readers
- The music of Richard Buckner
- Brazil: government intervenes against workers at occupied factories
2007-08-06
- Congress authorizes vast expansion of domestic spying
- Turkish films: mostly serious but lacking lasting impact
- Washington discusses plans for covert action against KurdishPKK in Iraq
- Another cover-up of the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
- Australian government recruits high-profile public servant to sell unpopular IR laws
- Catholic Church to construct monument to clergy killed during Spanish Civil War
2007-08-07
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- US: Six coal miners trapped underground in Utah
- The collapse of London Underground’s privatisation: Ken Livingstone to the rescue
- Red Cross confirms Bush administration, CIA used torture in interrogations
- John Huston: a prolific filmmaker with some brilliant works
- Iraq: Kurdish leader threatens civil war over Kirkuk
- Geopolitical concerns behind United Nations intervention in Darfur
2007-08-08
- The Utah mine disaster: A tragic consequence of government-industry collusion
- Germany: train drivers vote by huge majority for strike action
- Fiji: Public sector workers strike against junta’s austerity measures
- Delphi’s exit from Spain to be followed by other relocations
- Mark of Cain: Behind the British Army’s “detainee abuse scandal”
- Australian government rams bills through parliament to take over Aboriginal communities
2007-08-09
2007-08-10
- Workers Struggles: Europe and Africa
- Military administration imposed in eastern Sri Lanka
- Credit fears spark stock market plunge
- Britain: government site responsible for foot and mouth outbreak
- Gusmao appointed East Timor’s prime minister
- Canadian military spies on liberal war-critic
- Britain: Injunction granted against environmental protest at Heathrow Airport
2007-08-11
- Fifty-five years after founding, Turkish union confederation a bureaucratic shell
- France: Sarkozy government introduces law restricting right to strike
- Three miners killed in Indiana
- India: Congress uses lethal violence against Andhra Pradesh land agitation
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Iraqi government on brink of collapse following cabinet walkouts
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946): realism and reformism
2007-08-13
- Turkey: Textile firms demand wage freeze, layoffs
- Australian High Court radically expands scope of military power
- Italian government pushes through pension “reform”
- Worldwide market panic compels central banks to intervene
- Ethiopia accused of using white phosphorus bombs in US-backed occupation of Somalia
- Four British soldiers killed in Basra
- Bangladeshi regime arrests former prime minister
2007-08-14
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Bush political aide Karl Rove resigns
- Solomon Islands government rebuts Canberra’s child sex allegations against attorney-general
- Ireland’s “Green” coalition: Environmentalists and Fianna Fail unite
- The new and unimproved Hairspray
- French higher education law opens way for privatisation
- Afghanistan: mounting attacks on US/NATO troops
2007-08-15
- Workers at Utah mine disaster said owner put “profits before safety”
- Sri Lankan police break up student protests over deteriorating university education
- Judge orders release of New York City police spying files
- Former Malaysian deputy PM challenges ruling party
- New York Times defends military escalation in Iraq
- Britain: Guantánamo detainee details years of torture
- The political way forward for the German train drivers’ struggle
- Bush’s war czar floats call for military draft
2007-08-16
- Millions of toxic toys recalled: The nightmarish reality of global capitalism
- Jurors begin deliberations in Jose Padilla trial
- US military launches offensive against “Iranian-backed” militia in Iraq
- Bush to brand Iranian force as “terrorist”
- Indian prime minister calls Left Front’s bluff over Indo-US nuclear accord
- Britain: Police use anti-terror powers against environmental protest
- Australia: Labor joins Howard government in blocking Haneef inquiry
- German Social Democrats and Greens seek increase in Afghanistan troop levels
2007-08-17
- Hundreds killed in bombings targeting Iraqi minority group
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- US federal officials cover up deadly conditions in Utah mine
- Sri Lankan navy commander stonewalls inquiry into disappearance of SEP member
- A travesty of justice: Jose Padilla found guilty
- Mehring Books publishes “Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness” by David North
- Wild gyrations on world markets
- Letters on the Utah mine disaster
- Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007): An appreciation and a lament
2007-08-18
- Three rescuers killed at site of Utah mine disaster
- New Somare government formed in PNG despite Australian interference
- Hundreds dead in massive earthquake in Peru
- New York Times on Iran: Neo-colonialism with a liberal twist
- Fed moves to halt market meltdown
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Brutal French government policy on undocumented immigrants leads to tragedy
- Tensions mount between Georgia and Russia
- Letters from our readers
2007-08-20
- US Army suicides at 26-year high
- Details emerge of vast scope of US domestic spying law
- Drummer Max Roach dies: Last of the bebop pioneers
- A new race for the North Pole
- Australia: Howard and Labor leader in censorship bidding war
- Germany: “Human Rights in Times of Terror” by Rolf Gössner
- Credit crisis claims another bank
2007-08-21
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- No Sri Lankan legal aid for young maid facing death sentence in Saudi Arabia
- British SWP covers for sell-out of postal workers strike
- The widening gulf between official German politics and the electorate
- Peruvian president sends troops into earthquake-ravaged region
- Australian government wages two-year vilification campaign to justify takeover of Mutitjulu
- Relatives of trapped Utah miners denounce mine owner, safety officials
- Immigrant detainees dying in US custody
- Leading Democratic presidential candidates disavow rapid Iraq withdrawal
- Chinese miners feared dead in flooded coal mines
2007-08-22
- University education in Australia and the impact of “free market” reform
- Spate of massive recalls highlights failure of the free market
- Britain: Riot police attack Heathrow Airport protest
- Foreclosures soar, layoffs mount in US mortgage industry crisis
- Workers, students speak out against closure of Los Angeles hospital
- US Attorney General Gonzales to wield new death penalty authority
- Fiji: Union leaders end strike against military regime’s austerity measures
- US court hears suit against AT&T’s collaboration with domestic spying program
- Serious water shortage in Turkey
- New York Times calls for escalation of the “good war” in Afghanistan
2007-08-23
- The Nation urges Cindy Sheehan not to run for Congress against Nancy Pelosi
- Scottish National Party publishes policy document on independence
- New Zealand government introduces secretive new immigration and security laws
- Behind Mbeki’s sacking of South Africa’s deputy health minister
- Amid calls from Clinton and Levin, US moves to oust Iraqi prime minister
- 14 US soldiers killed in Iraq helicopter crash
- Right-wing mob attacks group of Indians in eastern Germany
2007-08-24
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Utah mine to be sealed, entombing missing miners
- Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
- Washington continues propaganda barrage against Iran
- Australian judge overturns government cancellation of Dr Haneef’s visa
- Hurricane Dean inflicts devastating blow to Caribbean agriculture, infrastructure
- World economy: Credit crunch fallout begins to spread
- CIA 9/11 “accountability” report released: A whitewash that only raises more questions
- President Bush’s history lesson
- The Bourne Ultimatum—Action-packed, and it pays the price
2007-08-25
- Arctic sea ice at record low due to global warming
- Solomon Islands government defeats no-confidence motion
- Central Asian military exercises highlight rising great-power tensions
- Right-wing parties dominate in run-up to Polish elections
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Increasing numbers of German children live in poverty
- Flooding displaces thousands in US Midwest
- US fears of British pullout from Basra raise transatlantic tensions to new pitch
- British Army facing worsening situation in Afghanistan
2007-08-27
- US intelligence report points to Iraqi government’s removal
- Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
- US occupation fuels ethnic cleansing and mass repression in Iraq
- Recent tax data shows widening gap between rich and poor in US
- Three British soldiers killed by US friendly fire in Afghanistan
- Australian troops carry out provocations against East Timor’s Fretilin
- Letters on Cindy Sheehan and the Nation
- California Republicans seek to rig 2008 presidential vote
- Berlin sociologist detained for three weeks
2007-08-28
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Scientists warn Spain could see mass spread of deserts
- Russia: The political significance of the strike at the auto plant in Togliatti
- Ohio floods: another example of America’s failing infrastructure
- French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visits Baghdad
- Sri Lankan SEP letter to JVP demanding end to threats of violence
- Over 60 die as forest fires sweep Greece
- US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigns
- The firing of Ward Churchill: Attack on academic freedom in US escalates
- Bangladesh regime imposes curfew to suppress student protests
2007-08-29
- US military bombards targets inside Pakistan
- US Congress receives warning of China’s growing influence in South Pacific
- Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
- Hurricane Katrina two years on
- Letters on President Bush’s history lesson
- Bush threatens to militarily “confront” Iran
- Albanian government introduces flat tax
- Britain acquires thermobaric weapons for Afghanistan
2007-08-30
- White House wants $50 billion more for Iraq war
- Sustaining a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)
- World economy: Financial crisis exposes market myths
- Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
- Military court acquits Abu Ghraib interrogations director of prisoner abuse
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- Another US provocation: Iranian officials arrested in Baghdad
- US census report shows falling earnings, rise in uninsured
- Founding conference of German Left Party in Hessen
- No End In Sight: An establishment view of what went wrong
- Bush visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary: returning to the scene of the crime
- Britain: Brown rules out Iraq troop withdrawal as top general speaks of a “generation of conflict”
2007-08-31
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
- Thai military junta suffers setback at national referendum
- Prison officers strike in England and Wales in defiance of High Court injunction
- New Zealand: Iraq charter flights underline Labour’s “antiwar” hypocrisy
- Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
- New Orleans: a scene of devastation and blight
- 160 immigrant workers arrested in raid on Ohio poultry plant
- The social toll of the US home mortgage crisis
- German politicians deny responsibility for racist attack
- Bush administration attacks child health insurance program
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