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Headlines from GLW #795, 20 May 2009:
John Pilger on Sri Lanka's brutal war: Distant voices, desperate lives
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 May 2009
In the early 1960s, it was the Irish of Derry who would phone late at night, speaking in a single breath, spilling out stories of discrimination and injustice. Who listened to their truth until the violence began?
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Afghanistan: US soldier says sorry for occupation’s crimes
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 May 2009
At an April 5 anti-NATO protest in Strasboug, Matthis Chiroux apologised to Afghan feminist Malalai Joya for the crimes of the US-led occupation of Joya’s country.
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Football scandal: sexual abuse and society
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: On May 11, ABC’s Four Corners screened an interview with a young woman from New Zealand. She recounted an alleged 2002 sexual assault in a Christchurch hotel room by at least 12 players and staff from the Cronulla Sharks.
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Labors budget work until you drop
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 17 May 2009
AUSTRALIA: Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered the Labor governments second budget on May 12. Swans bleak message was clear: for those with a job, its a matter of work until you drop.
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Statement against war on Tamils initiated by World at the Crossroads participants:
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 20 April 2009
The statement below was initially circulated at the World at a Crossroads conference hosted by Green Left Weekly in Sydney, April 10-12. A selection of the much larger number of names that signed on are included below. To add your name to the statement, email stuartmunckton@gmail.com
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Greens win historic Freo vote
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 16 May 2009
The Flame, March 2009 -- Arabic-language supplement
GENERAL, 15 March 2009
Read the March edition of the Flame here
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Hugo Chavez speaks to GLW bureau: 'Socialism will save world'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 16 May 2009
The blood on Rudd’s hands
EDITORIAL, 16 May 2009
GLW Fighting Fund: Standing on thin ice
GENERAL, 17 May 2009
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