Today on wsws.org

The Washington rally organized by right-wing Fox News TV personality Glenn Beck offered a twisted mix of religion, potted American history and the glorification of militarism under the banner of “restoring honor” to the USA.

The floods in Pakistan are a calamity of monumental dimensions. Yet for the rival national bourgeoisies of Pakistan and India, it is business as usual.

The Commerce Department on Friday sharply cut its estimate of US economic growth in the second quarter of 2010.

With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is expanding the role played by both the agency and US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The world looked on in horror as the city of New Orleans was submerged, killing 1,800 and trapping thousands of poor residents for days without emergency provisions or rescue.

Japan is heading for new political turmoil after key powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa announced a bid on Thursday to oust Naoto Kan as prime minister.

The Murdoch press has threatened three independents with political oblivion if they fail to back an Abbott-led minority government.

Whatever form India’s caste census ultimately takes, the mounting of a caste-based census is a retrograde and reactionary step. It will contribute to the further caste-ization of Indian politics and life, serving to split the working class and oppressed toilers on caste lines.

With the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government planning the most drastic attacks on the working class since the 1930s, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) is working to ensure they are imposed without opposition.

Members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, who face massive concession demands, held a free public concert Thursday to build community support

In a major environmental scandal, workers at a factory In the German city of Dortmund were continually exposed to extremely high doses of poisonous chemicals.

The August 28 “March for Jobs, Justice and Peace” is a fraud perpetrated against the people of Detroit, aimed at channeling growing anger over the social and economic crisis behind those chiefly responsible for the devastation of the city.

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific

A selection of letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.

China’s worst flooding in a decade has already left nearly 3,900 people dead or missing. This week, China’s northeast was also hit resulting in the relocation of more than a quarter of a million residents.

These events simultaneously exposed the rot at the core of the new Philippine government, the empty bluster of the news-as-entertainment media, and the taut and tenuous nature of relations between the Philippines and China.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, backed by the Murdoch media, has vowed to proceed with her government’s privatisation program despite Labor’s electoral rout in last Saturday’s federal election.

The cabinet recently approved a plan to evict 66,000 families from shanties in Colombo to clear the way for private developers. Street vendors are also being targeted.

The Australian cited unnamed senior diplomatic analysts who said that “China’s foray into what has been traditionally regarded as ‘Australia’s sphere of interest’ had set alarm bells ringing in Canberra.”