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Remaking New Orleans for the wealthy
Monday, 16 January 2006, 3:45 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Under the plan, the mostly working class and poor residents of the hardest-hit areas—comprising some two-thirds of the city and including more than half of its homeowners—would not be allowed to move back and begin rebuilding their homes for at least four months. More >>
Aust: Labor leader recommends Iraq "exit strategy"
Monday, 16 January 2006, 3:34 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The tactical infighting within the American and British political establishments over how to successfully prosecute the Iraq war has received a belated echo in Canberra, with Labor leader Kim Beazley calling on Australia and its allies to develop an “exit ... More >>
Florida professor & wife arrested as Cuban spies
Friday, 13 January 2006, 4:30 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The arrest of a middle-aged Florida college professor and his wife as alleged spies for the Castro government has all the earmarks of a politically motivated prosecution aimed at diverting attention from Washington’s backing for terrorism directed against ... More >>
Australian terrorist trials face lengthy delays
Friday, 13 January 2006, 4:24 pm | World Socialist Web Site
It is now more than two months since the largest joint federal-state police raids in Australian history resulted in the arrest of 20 Islamic men in Sydney and Melbourne. The heavily-publicised arrests were followed by lurid claims by government leaders, ... More >>
West Virginia mine disaster: official whitewash
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 3:33 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The governor of West Virginia and a spokesman for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced Monday that they will conduct a joint investigation and public hearings into the Sago Mine disaster that claimed the lives of 12 miners ... More >>
Republican Party crisis deepens: DeLay forced out
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 3:28 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announced Saturday he was giving up his effort to resume his position, as congressional Republicans maneuvered in the face of the influence-peddling scandal involving Republican insider Jack Abramoff. The longtime ... More >>
Sharon’s stroke plunges Israel into turmoil
Monday, 9 January 2006, 12:42 am | World Socialist Web Site
A life-threatening stroke suffered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on January 4 has provoked a predictable deluge of hypocritical statements of concern for the fate of a “warrior” turned peacemaker. More >>
Australia: thousands attend funeral for Van Nguyen
Friday, 9 December 2005, 2:03 pm | World Socialist Web Site
More than 3,000 people attended a funeral service yesterday for 25-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van, expressing the deeply felt public opposition to his barbaric execution by the Singapore government last Friday. More >>
Report outlines plans: corporate plunder of Iraq
Friday, 9 December 2005, 1:58 pm | World Socialist Web Site
A report published in November by the London-based environmental and social justice network Platform makes clear that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was, and remains, a war for oil. The document, entitled “Crude Designs: the rip-off of Iraq’s oil wealth”, ... More >>
Bush uses AIDS Day to push Christian right agenda
Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 3:30 pm | World Socialist Web Site
For President George W. Bush, World AIDS Day was another occasion to pander to the Christian fundamentalist right wing that makes up the political base of his administration. More >>
Rice defends illegal “renditions,” threatens EU
Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 3:26 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Rice defends illegal “renditions,” threatens to reveal European complicity. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has responded to Europe’s appeals for information regarding Washington’s illegal practice of rendition by making clear that the practice will ... More >>
U.K. Secrets Act used to silence leak on Blair
Monday, 5 December 2005, 4:38 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Britain: Two charged under Secrets Act for leaking Bush threat to bomb Al Jazeera. Two men have been charged under the Officials Secrets Act (OSA) over the alleged leak of a top-secret government memo. More >>
Aust. government deserts young man to be hanged
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 3:50 pm | World Socialist Web Site
A young Australian man will almost certainly be hanged in Singapore at 6 a.m. this Friday after the Australian government made it plain it was prepared to sacrifice his life to bolster its economic and strategic relations with the anti-democratic ... More >>
Hussein trial: a grotesque display of imperialism
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 3:35 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The second session of the trial of Saddam Hussein convened and closed after barely two-and-a-half hours Monday, ample time to expose the farcical and illegal character of the US-orchestrated prosecution of the deposed Iraqi head of state. More >>
Merkel: grand coalition to implement social cuts
Monday, 28 November 2005, 3:34 pm | World Socialist Web Site
On November 22 Christian Democrat leader Angela Merkel was elected chancellor in the plenary hall of Berlin’s Reichstag. She received 397 votes of the 448 deputies belonging to the grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social ... More >>
Behind LTTE’s boycott of the Sri Lankan election
Monday, 28 November 2005, 3:22 pm | World Socialist Web Site
In the wake of the November 17 Sri Lankan presidential election, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been compelled to issue a statement denying that it organised a boycott of the poll. LTTE political wing leader S. P. Thamilchelvan told the Tamilnet ... More >>
ICFI/WSWS public meetings in New Zealand and Aus.
Friday, 27 August 2004, 2:06 pm | World Socialist Web Site
ICFI/WSWS public meetings in New Zealand and Australia The Iraq War and the 2004 US elections 13 August 2004 More >>
