Headlines from GLW #699, 21 February 2007:

Venezuela's revolution - giving power to the poor

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 February 2007

VENEZUELA: “We, and millions of people around the world … believe another world is possible, a world free from war, poverty and hunger. Here in Venezuela the [government of socialist President Hugo Chavez] along with the majority of the people in our country are fighting hard to build this new world, despite the attempts of the old elite and the US government to prevent us from succeeding.” This is what 25-year-old university student Germania Fernandez told Pablo Navarrete, according to a December 1 article on Venezuelanalysis.com. »

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Chain up Cheney! Free David Hicks!

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 February 2007

On February 16, ABC News featured the US military prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis vilifying Adelaide father of two David Hicks as a war criminal. Davis would not specify when Hicks would be brought before a military tribunal of the type that was ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court last June but reinstituted by Congress a few months later. »

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New US spy facility to be built in WA

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 16 February 2007

On February 15, PM John Howard’s government announced that it had agreed to the construction of a new US spy-satellite ground station at the Kojarena intelligence base 30 kilometres east of Geraldton. The new facility will transmit data to and from two US geostationary spy satellites focused on the Middle East and Asia. »

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Garrett gives US forces the nod

BRIEF, 16 February 2007

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The global battle for control of women's bodies

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 16 February 2007

“I voted yes and will always vote yes”, Reuters quoted Laurinda Duarte as saying. “Abortions will always take place so why not vote to allow women to carry them out under decent conditions? I am a Catholic but that does not mean I am not free to vote.” »

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The tyranny of facts: Where Costello went wrong on Chavez

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 16 February 2007

“For two days now in parliament Treasurer Peter Costello has attacked ALP signatories of our sign-on invitation for Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to visit Australia”, Kiraz Janicke from the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network told Green Left Weekly on February 15. “But Costello’s attacks have been both ridiculous and factually inaccurate.” »

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