Headlines from GLW #769, 1 October 2008:

Wall Street crisis: Poor to bail out the rich again

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 27 September 2008

“Rich people got it good in this country”, said African-American comedian Wanda Sykes on the September 24 Tonight Show with Jay Leno. “We refuse to let them not be rich. Think about it. Broke people are about to bailout rich people. This is what is going on.” »

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Pakistan: USA's next war zone

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 September 2008

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Publication schedule

GENERAL, 27 September 2008

Green Left Weekly is taking a break. The next issue will be dated October 15. »

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Is Venezuela taking the Cuban road?

REVIEW, 26 September 2008

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Bolivia: 'This is a fight between rich and poor'

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 September 2008

BOLIVIA: Speaking from within the belly of the beast, Bolivia’s indigenous President Evo Morales announced at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly that the world today is paying witness to a “fight between rich and poor, between socialism and capitalism”. »

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Burma: Political prisoner released but thousands remain

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 September 2008

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Venezuela: Truth suffers in Human Rights Watch report

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 September 2008

VENEZUELA: On September 18, Human Rights Watch released a report titled “Venezuela: Rights Suffer Under Chavez”. The report contains biases and inaccuracies, and wrongly purports that human rights guarantees are lacking or not properly enforced in Venezuela. »

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Nepalese Maoists set ambitious targets in budget

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 September 2008

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United States: Their desperate gamble

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 September 2008

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Terror trial: criminalising speech

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 27 September 2008

A dangerous precedent for an ambiguous anti-terrorism law has been set by the conviction of a majority of the 12 Melbourne Muslim men accused of constituting a terrorist cell. Almost all the charges were based on a law that turned on the definition of a “terrorist organisation”. »

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How Europe underdevelops Africa (but how some fight back)

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 September 2008

In even the most exploitative African sites of repression and capital accumulation, sometimes corporations take a hit, and victims sometimes unite on continental lines instead of being divided and conquered. Turns in the class struggle might have surprised Walter Rodney, the political economist whose 1972 classic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa provided detailed critiques of corporate looting. »

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Aboriginal policies: Rudd's hollow words

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 27 September 2008

On September 24, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert tabled legislation that would establish a fund to compensate members and families of the Stolen Generations, but the Rudd Labor government is unlikely to support it. »

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Disaster assistance urgently needed in Haiti

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 September 2008

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After the surge in Iraq: has the US won?

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 September 2008

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When the Feds go marching in: Behind the bailout

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 September 2008

UNITED STATES: On the fateful evening of September 18, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Bank Chair Ben Bernanke pulled together a closed-door meeting to discuss the rapidly unfolding crisis plaguing the financial system, congressional leaders feigned shock and horror at its severity. »

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An open letter to Professor Ross Garnaut

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 27 September 2008

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Catholic hospitals: women's lives a...

Electricity 'cancer' in WA

Farmers stand strong against BHP

How Europe underdevelops Africa (bu...

Terror trial: criminalising speech

Unions short changed in Labor's 'ne...

United States: Their desperate gamb...

Wall Street crisis: Poor to bail ou...

When the Feds go marching in: Behin...

Letters: Letters to the edit...

Resistance!: Speaking out ag...

Resistance!: Women's and que...

Our Common Cause: We won't b...

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'Make the '60s look like a rehearsa...

Aboriginal activists slam Rudd

Australia Post delegate reinstated

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Cuba's inspiring 'medical globalisa...

Desalination: a potential disaster

Graffiti artists protest unjust law...

Health workers strike for fair wage...

Journalist tours with revolutionary...

Newcastle Council: a shift to the r...

Rations for injured workers

Red gum rescue

Residents defend Illawarra escarpme...

Rudd urged to act for Tamil justice...

Still shooting the messenger

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