Headlines from GLW #729, 31 October 2007:

'Clean coal' - a dirty lie

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 October 2007

If you’ve sat in front a TV in the past few weeks, you’ll have seen the message: Australians need to get “climate clever” just like the Howard government, which, we’re told, is encouraging and funding new, environmentally friendly technologies such as “clean coal”. In fact, we’re led to believe, the government has put some $3.5 billion in recent years into new methods for combatting climate change. »

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Cuba defies Bush

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 October 2007

CUBA: On October 24, US President George Bush — a firm defender of freedom and human rights, as any Iraqi tortured by US forces at Abu Ghraib could testify — denounced Cuba as a “tropical gulag”. Bush said that Cuba is characterised by “terror and trauma”. The president also reaffirmed his support for the punishing US economic embargo against Cuba, which has lasted almost half a century and cost the Cuban people some US$89 billion. »

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Victorian nurses defy Work Choices and win

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 26 October 2007

5000 state sector nurses crammed into Melbourne’s Festival Hall and voted unanimously to end their industrial action and accept a four year enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) at an Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) mass meeting on October 25. »

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Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: The Rainbow Connection

GENERAL, 26 October 2007

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Celebrating the life of Gabriela Ngirmang of Palau

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 October 2007

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New Zealand: Police 'anti-terrorism' raids spark protests

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 October 2007

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Labor to fund gimmicks, not services

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 October 2007

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Other Headlines

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read »International News

Afghanistan: the 'other' occupation...

Bolivia: Bombing at Venezuelan cons...

Britain: Union leaders sell postal ...

Call for a greater left unity in Pa...

Cambodia: Washington’s Cuba bl...

Celebrating the life of Gabriela Ng...

CHINA: Private sector gets thumbs u...

Cuba defies Bush

East Timor: Protests call for food ...

Iraq: Kurdish conflict threatens US...

Israel: Talking peace while waging ...

New Zealand: Aboriginal Australia s...

New Zealand: Police 'anti-terrorism...

Venezuela: Opposition rejects const...

read »Comment & Analysis

'Clean coal' - a dirty lie

Afghanistan war no just cause, say ...

Behind the blather

Coalition, Labor procrastinate on c...

Exposing the 'greenhouse mafia'

Labor to fund gimmicks, not service...

On the socialist campaign trail

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Our Common Cause: Same-sex m...

read »General

Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighti...

read »Australian News

Geelong nurses speak out

Japanese visit boosts anti-GM movem...

Joe McDonald fights ALP expulsion

Meeting discusses peace in Sri Lank...

Sydney City Council pushes for free...

Victorian nurses defy Work Choices ...

Brief: Burma forum

Brief: Canberra 'people's fo...

Brief: Deportations of refug...

Brief: Refugee rights protes...

Brief: Venezuelan vice-minis...

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: DiCaprio appeals to ...

Review: God not great? Neith...

Review: Understanding Iraq

A play about 'playing house'

On the Box

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