Headlines from GLW #702, 14 March 2007:

Occupation, resistance and sectarianism in Iraq

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 March 2007

IRAQ: Four years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is wracked by ongoing and escalating violence. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died, according to a study published in the respected British medical journal The Lancet in October. »

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Venezuela: ‘A festival of the oppressed’

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 March 2007

VENEZUELA: “Our experience of Venezuela is of a mass people’s revolution. It was something completely different from anything I had experienced in my life … simply the feeling of a mass revolution is something fantastic. It is reminiscent of [Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin’s] phrase that ‘a revolution is the festival of the oppressed’.” »

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Tariq Ali: The case for withdrawal from Afghanistan

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 March 2007

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Hicks injustice prolonged with 'court' hearing

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 March 2007

Adelaide backpacker David Hicks will be arraigned before an illegally constituted military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp on March 20 and face the retrospective and ill-defined charge of “material support for terrorism”. »

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Uranium: Leave it in the ground!

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 March 2007

With global warming increasingly dominating mainstream political discussion, the debate about solutions has intensified. While PM John Howard has thrown his weight behind the lie of “clean, green” nuclear power, the ALP has maintained its opposition to this deeply unpopular option. »

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CIA funds terrorist operations against Iran

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 March 2007

IRAN: “At Iran’s request, the UN Security Council condemned the deadliest terrorist attack in the country in years and extended ‘sincere condolences’ to the Iranian people, but not to their government, at US insistence”, Associated Press reported on February 15. »

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Philippines: Left unity challenges Arroyo regime

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 March 2007

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