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Headlines from GLW #808, 26 August 2009:


Military coups and US bases: The threat to Latin American democracy
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 23 August 2009
This article is from the Australian-Venezuela Solidarity Network broadsheet, published as a supplement in Green Left Weekly 808. »


Video evidence of war crimes committed by Sri Lankan military — executions of Tamil men
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 27 August 2009
The article below is a August 27 statement by the Australian Tamil Congress. Media contact: Dr. Sam Pari – 0433 428 967 »


Why the climate sceptics are wrong
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 August 2009
Family First Senator Steve Fielding returned from a US international climate deniers' conference in June, armed with a shonky graph and some dodgy questions. »

Gillard’s ‘Construction Stasi’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 August 2009
Dare the ALP gaol Adelaide building worker, Ark Tribe? Tribe’s refusal to attend a secret hearing of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC — aka the “Construction Stasi” because of its secret police-type powers) renders him liable to six months in prison or a fine of $22,000. »

No recession for some
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 August 2009
On August 12, Australia’s formerly government-owned telecommunications company, Telstra, announced a $4 billion profit for the 2008-09 financial year. »

A uranium hole in the heart
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 August 2009
A typically dusty drive 25 kilometres south of central Australia’s Alice Springs brings you to an unlocked gate beside the old Ghan railway line. »

The renewable energy scheme that isn’t
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 August 2009
Federal parliament passed a renewable energy bill on August 20. The target is to source 20% of Australia’s energy from renewables by 2020. The reality is that it won’t do what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says it will. »

The Flame — Arabic language supplement, August 2009
GENERAL, 16 August 2009
With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese community in Australia, Green Left Weekly is proud to publish a regular Arabic language supplement. The Flame covers news from the Arabic-speaking world as well as news and issues from within Australia. The August, 2009 edition can be read at Links, international journal of socialist renewal. »


Green Left Weekly taking a one-week break
GENERAL, 23 August 2009
The current issue of Green Left Weekly, #808, is a two-week issue. The next edition will be dated September 9. »

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Other Headlines


Afghanistan: The warlord election
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 August 2009
Afghanistan held presidential elections on August 20 amid a major offensive by US and NATO troops and counter-attacks by a resurgent Taliban. The results are not expected until September. »

Malalai Joya: Why Afghans have no hope in the vote
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 August 2009
The article below was published the day before Afghanstan’s presidential election by Malalai Joya, who was the youngest member of the Afghan Parliament elected in the 2005 elections. Joya was subsequently suspended from parliament for labelling it full of warlords. Joya’s memoir, A Woman Among Warlords (Scribner), will be released in October. This article is abridged from ZNet. »

Students focus on climate emergency
RESISTANCE!, 22 August 2009
From August 10 to 14, the University of Wollongong’s (UOW) Environment Week brought together campaigners and environmentalists for a variety of events. The climate emergency was a central focus. »

Justice finally served in Lockerbie frame-up
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 August 2009
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was found guilty on January 31, 2001, of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in Scotland that killed 270 civilians. »

Gov’t failed to manage bushfire tragedy
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 22 August 2009
The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission interim report was released on August 17. It found government and fire authorities failed to properly manage the deadliest bushfires in Australia’s history. »

Honduras coup, ALBA and the Caribbean
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 August 2009
The military coup carried out by masked soldiers in the early hours of June 28 against the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was a bandit act with differing messages for different audiences. »

United States: The recovery is here — for Wall Street
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 August 2009
Happy days are here again for super-bank Goldman Sachs. »

Panama: Twenty years on from US invasion
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 August 2009
Recent events in Honduras — where a Washington-backed military coup deposed President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 — conform to the historic pattern of United States involvement in Latin American affairs. »

The truth about queer rights in Cuba
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 August 2009

United States: Corporate deal kills health reform
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 August 2009

British firefighters call for boycott of Israel
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 August 2009

Also in #808:


read »International News

  • Afghanistan: The warlord election
  • Bolivia’s Evo Morales: ‘Economi...
  • British firefighters call for boyco...
  • Honduras coup, ALBA and the Caribbe...
  • Honduras: ‘A final offensive is n...
  • Hugo Chavez: Venezuela has a right ...
  • Justice finally served in Lockerbie...
  • Malalai Joya: Why Afghans have no h...
  • Malaysia: People’s power defeats ...
  • Military coups and US bases: The th...
  • Panama: Twenty years on from US inv...
  • Repression reveals Israel not a dem...
  • The truth about queer rights in Cub...
  • United States: Corporate deal kills...
  • United States: Cuba demands freedom...
  • United States: The recovery is here...
  • Venezuela: Poverty almost halves in...
  • Venezuela: providing hope, solidari...
  • Venezuelan environmentalist: `Tomor...
  • Video evidence of war crimes commit...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Green Left Weekly’s $250...
  • A uranium hole in the heart
  • Gillard’s ‘Construction Stasi...
  • Indigenous housing program head sac...
  • Is the methane time bomb about to g...
  • No recession for some
  • NSW National Parks slated for devel...
  • Peace group steps up ‘troops out...
  • Residents demand Coburg high school...
  • TAFE teaching and learning dispute ...
  • The renewable energy scheme that is...
  • Why the climate sceptics are wrong
  • Letters: Write on — letter...
  • Resistance!: Students focus ...
  • Resistance!: Young people an...
  • Our Common Cause: Socialist ...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly taking a...
  • The Flame — Arabic langu...

    • read »Australian News

  • Australian Tamil Congress launched
  • ‘Better Services’ campaign for ...
  • Bible cop on a mission
  • Community rallies against "thief Bl...
  • Gov’t failed to manage bushfire t...
  • Tamils’ walk highlights death cam...
  • UNSW staff “loving their leave”...
  • Vigil for abortion law reform
  • Brief: Funding cuts: art wil...
  • Brief: Gold Coast’s larges...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: What cost conquest?
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