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Headlines from GLW #779, 21 January 2009:


John Pilger: Holocaust denied
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009
“When the truth is replaced by silence”, the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, “the silence is a lie”. »

War on Gaza, war on reality
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009
“We want to believe we are safe here … but the bottom line is that I’ve lost confidence in the Israeli side and that needs to be restored urgently, and it is their duty to restore this confidence”, United National Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) head John Ging told AP on January 13. »

History of Indigenous resistance
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 January 2009
AUSTRALIA: January 26 is the first Invasion Day (Australia Day) since the federal Labor government made the official apology recognising the wrongs suffered by the Stolen Generations - the Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families and lands. »

Fifty years of the Cuban Revolution
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009
On January 1, 2009, the small island nation of Cuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of a revolution that overthrew a brutal dictatorship and set Cuba on its long and often complicated road towards socialism. »

Venezuela, Bolivia break relations with Israel
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009
The statement below was issued on January 15 by the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN). For more information, visit http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org. Since this statement was released, the Ecuadorian government of President Rafael Correa has condemned Israel's "crimes against humanity" and advocated sanctions be applied. In the Arab world, Qatar and Mauritania have suspended diplomatic and economic ties with Israel. »


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Squeezing the Third World
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009
According to recent Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) figures, another 40 million people were pushed into poverty and hunger in 2008 as a result of spiralling food prices. he total number of people suffering hunger and malnutrition has reached 963 million worldwide. »

Rosa Luxemburg: revolutionary hero
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 January 2009
Rosa Luxemburg, one of the great figures of the socialist movement, was callously murdered in Berlin on January 15, 1919. »

Climate change: new science, same old politics
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 January 2009
If authoritative, peer-reviewed science suddenly found obesity or smoking to be twice as lethal as earlier believed, would the news be all over the media? Of course it would. »

Sri Lanka: Genocide against Tamils
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009
The January 14 announcement by the Sri Lankan government that its forces had completed the capture of the Jaffna Peninsular, effectively bringing all of the historic Tamil nation in Sri Lanka’s north-east under military occupation, was a grim reminder that the Israeli assault on the Gaza ghetto is not the only holocaust at the start of the new year. »

Venezuela: ‘Socialism, not consumerism’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009
“Say what they like, the new Sambil is not going ahead”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on December 23. »

Australia — world’s biggest climate vandal
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 18 January 2009
Australia is already the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases per capita in the world. Even more worrying is that the nation’s emissions continue to spiral out of control. »

Garrett gives mill go ahead
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 17 January 2009

Israel — the case for a union boycott
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 17 January 2009

Thailand: Activist arrested for ‘insulting’ monarch
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 17 January 2009

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  • El Salvador: Two leftists killed be...
  • Fifty years of the Cuban Revolution...
  • Germany: Massive commemoration for ...
  • Israel: Criminal and wretched
  • John Pilger: Holocaust denied
  • Squeezing the Third World
  • Sri Lanka: Army captures Kilinochch...
  • Sri Lanka: Genocide against Tamils
  • Thailand: Activist arrested for ‘...
  • US attacks on Pakistan kill hundred...
  • Venezuela, Bolivia break relations ...
  • Venezuela: ‘Socialism, not con...
  • Venezuela: Campaign for constitutio...
  • Venezuela: US subversion continues
  • War on Gaza, war on reality

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  • A town like Alice: alcohol and the ...
  • ALP and big business push to reduce...
  • Climate change: new science, same o...
  • Green Left Weekly Fighting Fund: Ba...
  • History of Indigenous resistance
  • Indigenous community staying put at...
  • Rosa Luxemburg: revolutionary hero
  • Stop the Tillegra Dam
  • Letters: Letters to the edit...
  • Editorial: Peace requires ju...
  • Resistance!: Students resist...
  • Our Common Cause: Israel —...

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  • Climate Action Summit to meet in Ca...
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  • Forest activists arrested at Camp F...
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