Headlines from GLW #720, 8 August 2007:

The end of wedge politics?

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 3 August 2007

When it emerged that Kafeel Ahmed, one of the men implicated in the June 30 botched terrorist attack in Glasgow, had a second cousin working in the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland, it must have seemed to the Howard government that its election worries were over. Racism, xenophobia and the manufactured threat of terrorism have served Howard well in previous elections. However this time it backfired, with more public anxiety about the frame-up of Dr Mohamed Haneef than about supposed terrorists in our midst. »

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Michael Moore exposes Bush's "Sicko" system

REVIEW, 3 August 2007

REVIEW: Sicko
Written, directed and produced by Michael Moore
In cinemas nationally from 9 August »

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'Too precious to pulp'

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 4 August 2007

Hundreds of people packed out the State Cinema in Hobart to watch the premiere of The Wilderness Society’s (TWS) pulp mill film Tasmania’s Clean Green Future: Too Precious to Pulp. The short film was made by award-winning film-maker Heidi Douglas, who is one of the “Gunns 20’’ defendants being sued by Gunns for previous films. It aims to counter the Tasmanian government’s latest propaganda campaign supporting the proposed pulp mill in the Tamar Valley, which consists of television and newspaper ads and large glossy brochures. »

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Venezuela: Station not closed, but attempting to dodge law

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 August 2007

VENEZUELA: Venezuelan private television station RCTV, owned by multi-millionaire Marcel Granier, began broadcasting via cable and satellite television inside Venezuela on July 16, according to a July 31 Wall Street Journal article. RCTV had previously been broadcasting via the government-owned Channel 2 airwaves, however the station’s 20-year concession to use Channel 2 expired on May 27. The government decided not to renew the concession, citing the role played by RCTV in helping to organise the 2002 US-backed military coup that briefly overthrew the elected government, as well as more than 600 violations of Venezuela’s broadcasting law. »

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Join the next solidarity brigade to Venezuela

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 3 August 2007

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The importance of stopping Bush: The power of young people

RESISTANCE!, 4 August 2007

RESISTANCE!: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting will be held in Sydney in September. Twenty-one nations are represented, from both the First and Third Worlds. It describes itself as the “premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region”. In reality, it works to ensure that the Third World nations attending further open their markets. This makes it easier for multinational corporations, along with First World nations, to strip the poorer countries’ natural resources with no regard for the environment and to further exploit their work forces. »

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Inside Washington's Iraqi ministry of terror

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 August 2007

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Ecuador: The indigenous movement and Correa

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 4 August 2007

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Who are the climate leaders?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 August 2007

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Two-week issue

GENERAL, 4 August 2007

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