Archive: December 2004
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 December 2004
- Letters from our readers
- The Governor-General’s speech: a wish list for Australia’s corporate elite
- Did the Indonesian military murder human rights activist Munir?
- Two years after the Prestige disaster, new sea pollution measures blocked
- A million textile jobs at risk worldwide
- Power struggle in Ukraine: what do Yushchenko and Yanukovich stand for?
2 December 2004
- Britain’s Home Secretary Blunkett under attack
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International Red Cross charges systematic abuse
Bush’s “Torture Inc.” at Guantanamo - Tragic mine explosion adds to China’s grim toll of death and destruction
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Sacked German Opel worker: “Dismissals are aimed at intimidating the work force”
Interview with Turhan Ersin - Ridge to step down as US homeland security chief
- Perhaps a step backward
- Crisis in Ukraine: rival camps await Supreme Court verdict on election
- The creation of the Ukraine “democratic” opposition
3 December 2004
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To fawning applause from Canada’s elite
Bush pledges to wage unending war - Britain: government rejects public inquiry into brutality at Deepcut barracks
- After Fallujah’s destruction: US occupation force to reach 150,000
- Al Jazeera journalist among 10 jailed in Spain
- New Jersey study indicts jailing of mentally ill youth
- Australia: Aboriginal death in custody triggers Palm Island riot
- America’s super-rich look forward to a merry Christmas
- French right elects new leader
- LTTE leader’s speech points to danger of renewed war in Sri Lanka
4 December 2004
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- US jobs and sales figures indicate weakening economy
- New Jersey study indicts jailing of mentally ill youth
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Front man for a police state
Bernard Kerik to head US Homeland Security Department - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia & the Pacific
- More than 750 dead after tropical storms batter the Philippines
- The Madrid bomb inquiry: Aznar continues his lies
- Ukraine Supreme Court orders new presidential run-off election
6 December 2004
- Exit NBC anchor Tom Brokaw: A nonentity in the service of wealth and power
- UK has fastest growth of psychotropic drugs for children and adolescents
- Bush rules out any delay in bogus Iraqi election
7 December 2004
6 December 2004
- Study details economic distress facing Oregon workers
- Britain: court quashes unlawful killing charge against police officers
7 December 2004
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What price an American empire?
Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3 -
Interview with WSWS correspondent
Rich and poor in twenty-first century China
Part One - US and Britain implicated in Equatorial Guinea coup attempt
- Attackers storm US consulate in Saudi Arabia
- Ukraine: ultra-right groups active in Ukrainian opposition
- New push to privatise Australian university system
8 December 2004
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What price an American Empire?
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3 -
Interview with WSWS correspondent
Changing political attitudes in twenty-first century China
Part Two -
Another step toward a police state
US Congress passes bill to restructure intelligence agencies - Letters from our readers
- Question mark over US dollar’s global role
- The social mosaic attempted: the photographs of August Sander
- Power struggle in Ukraine continues
- Spain’s foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 December 2004
- Fatah lines up behind Abbas and threatens Barghouti
- US war criminals hail new puppet regime in Afghanistan
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What price an American Empire? Part Three
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99615-3 - What US-backed “democracy movements” have produced in Serbia and Georgia
- India: political posturing over oil price hikes
- Not taken from life
- US troops confront Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
- Inadequate radiation protection endangers Sri Lankan health workers
10 December 2004
- US media ignores damning Pentagon report
- Sydney meeting reviews Australian, US election results
- US sailor refuses deployment to Iraq in protest against war
- Political lessons of the US and Australian elections
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“Muslims do not ‘hate our freedoms’...they hate our policies”
Pentagon report exposes lies of Bush administration - Ukraine power struggle: constitutional settlement favors opposition leader Yushchenko
- Spain’s foreign minister claims Aznar government supported Venezuela coup
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 December 2004
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“Any act of violence in an unjustified conflict is an atrocity”
US soldier seeks refugee status in Canada - Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- The Scott Peterson case: a new American tragedy
- Chile’s ex-dictator Pinochet tied to multi-million-dollar payoffs
- Britain: cover-up of chemical warfare tests on servicemen exposed
- Taiwanese election dominated by dispute over relations with China
13 December 2004
- US budget bill freezes spending, implements right-wing social agenda
- Lord Butler belatedly comes out against Blair
- Razing of Fallujah fails to break Iraqi resistance
- Kerik declines Homeland Security nomination: why Bush lost his hand-picked henchman
- Sri Lankan government rejects LTTE call for peace talks
- The Daschner case and the rehabilitation of torture in Germany
14 December 2004
- The victims of Operation Condor
- Official documents vindicate Red Cross report on US torture
- Court panel calls for billions in new spending for New York City schools
- Pinochet arrested in Chile on “Condor” killings
- The death of Pat Tillman: military mythmaking and the “war on terror”
- Tutu, COSATU and the “powder keg” of South Africa
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
15 December 2004
- US caught wiretapping UN atomic energy head ElBaradei
- Martin Jacques: Embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left”
- Sexual pioneer
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Germany: Opel to destroy 10,000 jobs
Cuts announced after union sell out - Letters on “The Scott Peterson case: a new American tragedy”
- Sri Lankan court jails senior opposition politician for contempt
16 December 2004
- Australia: Howard government seeks to provoke “abortion debate”
- Germany: Election Alternative glorifies the state
- Congress-led government offers band-aid to haemorrhaging rural India
- Martin Jacques: Embittered British Stalinist pronounces on death of the “left”
- Britain: paramedics question suicide verdict on whistleblower Kelly
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The Bernie Kerik saga
The war on terror and the rise of the political underworld - Buying silence: Bush awards Medal of Freedom to key figures in Iraq debacle
- A New York City parable: Pale Male, the red-tailed hawk
- Ruling pro-independence party suffers a blow in Taiwan election
17 December 2004
- Britain’s Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns
- Letters from our readers
- Conflict over arms embargo at EU-China summit
- Hungry and homeless ranks swell in US cities
- Michigan school cuts highlight financial meltdown facing US states
- Grenade attack on Sri Lankan music concert kills two
- Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
18 December 2004
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Pennsylvania steel works mural restored: rescuing history from the dustbin
- Egypt deepens its collaboration with Israel
- David Hicks details abuse in Guantánamo Bay
- Britain: High Court clears way for investigation into troop killing of Iraqi citizen
- Anticommunism run amok: the life of Senator Pat McCarran
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Belgium: Opel union councils serve as management’s henchmen
A report from the GM plant in Antwerp - Chile’s arrest of Pinochet and the ”Condor” killers in the US
- Top House Republican becomes chief US drug company lobbyist
20 December 2004
- South East Asian summit seals free trade agreement with China
- US: federal pension insurance program edges toward bankruptcy
- Britain: government treatment of Roma was racist, Law Lords rule
- More casualties of war: US soldiers charged in deaths of Iraqi civilians and fellow servicemen
- Secret evidence used in Australian “terrorist” trial
21 December 2004
- Washington targets United Nations for destabilisation
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Germany: report bares widening gap between rich and poor
SPD-Greens preside over social polarisation - Closed-door court proceedings in Iraq against Hussein’s associates
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Skidmore, Missouri: woman carves fetus from a mother’s womb
A brutal act in a desperate society - Sri Lanka: JVP leads campaign to impose budget burdens
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
22 December 2004
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Out Now
New Release from Mehring Books: The Crisis of American Democracy: the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 - Letters from our readers
- Mosul resistance attack reveals US disarray in Iraq
- Britain: Law Lords terror ruling provokes constitutional crisis
- US crisis in Iraq sparks Republican attacks on Rumsfeld
- Israel: Labour Party to prop up Sharon’s Likud coalition
- Dollar devaluation cannot right the US economy
- Vanuatu government collapses following Australian economic threats
- Post-9/11 memo argued for unlimited presidential war-making powers
23 December 2004
- BBC announces widespread job losses and cuts
- Bush as Time magazine’s “2004 Person of the Year”: why him?
- Israel: soldier admits he knew slain peace activist Hurndall was unarmed
- Tokyo extends troop deployment in Iraq
- US military begins retaliation for Mosul bombing
- The New York Times manufactures support for the Iraq war in aftermath of Mosul bombing
- European Union agrees on terms for membership negotiations with Turkey
- Peak Australian union body seeks alliance with religious right
24 December 2004
- US: new questions about safety of anti-inflammatory drugs
- Louisville, Kentucky: sharp rise in emergency food requests
- Outrage in the Philippines over killing of plantation workers
- Britain: poverty and homelessness rise under Labour
- Sri Lankan reports reveal widening social inequality
- Documents reveal systematic torture by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
- One billion children worldwide suffering deprivation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, the Middle East & Africa
27 December 2004
28 December 2004
- US Airways workers stage Christmas job action
- Britain: Sikh protests force closure of play
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Tidal wave wreaks death and destruction throughout Sri Lanka
- Tidal wave brings death and destruction throughout Sri Lanka
- Yushchenko claims victory in Ukraine presidential election
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
29 December 2004
- US Congress uses Alice in Wonderland logic to sell cuts in college grants
- Italian President Ciampi blocks Berlusconi’s justice “reforms”
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Ukraine election: on-the-spot report from Kiev
A fight between millionaires and billionaires - Spain: Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War
- Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak to the WSWS
- A soaring list of dead and injured on Thailand’s southern coast
- Tsunami death toll rises to 60,000 amid warnings of epidemics
30 December 2004
- Bush’s response to South Asia disaster: indifference compounded by political incompetence
- Letters from our readers
- Fallujah residents return to a destroyed city
- Black fever in India: an epidemic rooted in poverty
- Christmas all year round for Britain’s super-rich
- Prensa de Estados Unidos ignora informe acusador del Pentágono
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"Los musulmanes no 'odian nuestras libertades'. Odian nuestra política"
Informe del Pentágono revela las mentiras del gobierno de Bush -
Amid the devastation
Sri Lankan president issues appeal for “unity”
31 December 2004
- David Walsh picks his favorite films of 2004
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On-the-spot report
Poverty-stricken Hambantota among the worst affected areas in Sri Lanka - Tsunami death toll in Indonesia approaching 100,000
- US: Bush administration targets medical care for the poor
- Britain: Royal Mail to sell off half its business
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A revealing commentary by a German newspaper
The price of Ukrainian democracy - Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
23 December 2004
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