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Headlines from GLW #695, 24 January 2007:


Government policies killing aboriginals
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 January 2007
On January 18, the Australian ran a story on a leaked report commissioned by the Peter Beattie Labor state government on the shocking living conditions for Aborigines in Queensland (see accompanying article). Green Left Weekly asked Sam Watson, Murri leader and member of the Socialist Alliance, about this and the ongoing struggle for justice for Indigenous people in Australia. »

John Pilger: Cruelty and xenophobia shame and stir the 'lucky country'
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 January 2007
The Australian writer Donald Horne meant the title of his celebrated book, The Lucky Country, as irony. “Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck”, he lamented in 1964, describing much of the Australian elite as unfailingly unoriginal, race-obsessed and in thrall to imperial power and its wars. »

Venezuela: Chavez calls for united socialist party
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2007
UNITED STATES: When supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rallied in the Teresa Carrena theatre in Caracas on December 15 to celebrate their presidential election victory, “there were cheers in the back half of the theatre”, wrote Caracas-based Marxist writer Michael Lebowitz in Venezuelanalysis.com, “but few in the high-priced seats”. »

Right wing in Bolivia moves to destabilise indigenous power
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 January 2007

US warns Iraqi PM 'living on borrowed time'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2007
IRAQ: Testifying to a January 12 US Senate hearing on President George Bush’s new Iraq war strategy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Nuri al Maliki, Washington’s puppet Iraqi prime minister, that he was “living on borrowed time”. »

Why the rich hate Hugo Chavez
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 January 2007
VENEZUELA: “Venezuela’s Leap Backwards” was the headline verdict of the January 10 Washington Post editorial, which attempted to throw doubt on the legitimacy of the December 3 presidential election in Venezuela that returned socialist President Hugo Chavez to office with a record 7.3 million votes (63% of the total vote cast). »

Report on Indigenous disadvantage suppressed
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 19 January 2007

Justice for Mulrunji campaign grows
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 20 January 2007

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Other Headlines


Sudanese communists discuss prospects for peace
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 January 2007
Late last year, Green Left Weekly’s Kerryn Williams spoke to the assistant secretary of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP), Suleman Hamid El Haj, in Khartoum about political developments in Sudan since the January 2005 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). The CPA ended the two-decade-long war between Sudan’s central government in Khartoum and the south. »

Somali leader: 'Bombing is US policy all over the world'
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 January 2007
Sheikh Isse Musse, Imam of the Virgin Mary Mosque and spiritual leader of Melbourne’s Horn of Africa Muslim community, condemned the US bombing of his native Somalia and its instigation of the invasion by Ethiopian troops inlate December. He also expressed hope that out of the current conflict Somalia might regain its sovereignty and national unity after years of anarchy and violence. »

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