Headlines from GLW #718, 25 July 2007:

Haneef frame-up: Why 'terror‘ laws should be repealed

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 21 July 2007

The decision by immigration minister Kevin Andrews to throw 27-year-old Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef into immigration detention — despite a Queensland court granting Haneef bail on charges of “recklessly” (meaning not deliberately) supporting terrorism — has further exposed the Howard government’s utter disregard for civil rights and the judicial system, and the dangers inherent in its “anti-terror” laws. »

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Reject Howard’s climate swindle

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 21 July 2007

On July 17, PM John Howard’s climate change policy was released amidst great fanfare. For most of his political career, Howard has denied the link between climate change and human industry, and the threat that it poses to the planet and society. Now the scientific evidence is irrefutable he has changed tack, and is promoting “solutions” to the climate change threat that avoid threatening the profits of the polluting corporations. »

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Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 Fighting Fund Appeal: Mercenaries and freedom fighters

GENERAL, 20 July 2007

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Pulp mill battle rages

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 21 July 2007

Four thousand timber workers and their families attended a rally in Launceston in support of the controversial Bell Bay pulp mill on July 19. The Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) called the rally as part of a one-day stop-work action aimed at “combating the threat to jobs posed by radical green groups”. »

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France: Sarkozy’s assault and the reshaping of the left

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 20 July 2007

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Who killed Sajida Khan?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 20 July 2007

SOUTH AFRICA: Internationally known environmental activist Sajida Khan passed away on the night of July 15 in her Durban home at age 55. She was suffering her second bout of cancer, and chemotherapy had evacuated her beautiful long hair. »

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Corrections

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