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Headlines from GLW #740, 20 February 2008:


The new climate science: Governments gamble with our survival
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 16 February 2008
Almost universally, governments are refusing to recognise the scope and urgency of the changes demanded by global warming. The menace, however, is real, and the time available for concerted action to combat it is frighteningly brief. »

Venezuela resists ExxonMobil’s blackmail
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 February 2008
VENEZUELA: “This is pure judicial terrorism”, Venezuelan energy minister Rafael Ramirez told reporters in Caracas on February 8, in response to court injunctions obtained by US-based ExxonMobil Corp. — the world’s largest oil corporation — in January. »

Apology only the beginning
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 16 February 2008
“As prime minister of Australia, I am sorry. On behalf of the government of Australia, I am sorry. On behalf of the parliament of Australia, I am sorry.” With these words, on February 13, PM Kevin Rudd opened the first session of the newly elected government and did what the previous Howard government had failed to do for its eleven years in power. »

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Apology is a start — now for justice!
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 16 February 2008
Five Indigenous activists in the Socialist Alliance share their responses to the Australian parliament’s apology to the Stolen Generations on February 13. All five attended the protest against the racist intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, held on the eve of the apology. »

Venezuela: Socialists discuss struggle for revolutionary party
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 15 February 2008
Since January 12, more than 1600 delegates to the founding congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) — along with thousands of local socialist battalions (branches — have been discussing the new party’s program, principles and statutes, and in large part the future of the Bolivarian revolution. »

Venezuelans speak: Revolution changing people’s lives
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 February 2008
The moves by US oil giant Exxon-Mobil to freeze more than US$12 billion in assets in Britain, the Netherlands, the Dutch Antilles and the United States belonging to Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA is just the latest in a long line of attacks led by the US government on the government of President Hugo Chavez — which is seeking to construct a “socialism of the 21st Century”. »

Electricity privatisation - the theory and the reality
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 15 February 2008
The basic argument in favour of the privatisation of electricity generation and distribution is simple — public ownership allows too much bargaining power to electricity workers and their unions (which they will always use to defend “inefficient practices” and “overstaffing”); it also fosters over-investment in generation capacity by engineers concerned to guarantee service reliability (“gold-plating”). »

Rudd government to leave most of Work Choices in place
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 15 February 2008

Thousands protest NT intervention on 'sovereignty day'
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 16 February 2008

United States: Rewarded for crashing the economy
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2008

Standing for justice on the soccer pitch
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2008

Indonesia: Scared of the truth in Papua
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2008

Malaysia: The giant surrenders — workers win 12-year battle
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2008

Iraq: Refugee crisis continues to mount
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2008

El Salvador: Renewed state-sponsored terror
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 14 February 2008

United States: Writers’ strike wins gains
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 15 February 2008

East Timor: More Australian troops sent after shootout
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 15 February 2008

Drop the charges against ‘Pine Gap Four’
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 15 February 2008

South Australia extends moratorium on GM crops
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 15 February 2008

Sri Lanka: Peace and justice for Tamils needs international action
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 16 February 2008

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