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Headlines from GLW #811, 23 September 2009:


Honduras: Resistance says ‘we wont rest until victory’ as regime ups ante
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 September 2009
Green Left Weekly is planning to run ongoing coverage on the dramatic developments in the struggle for democracy and justice in Honduras over the coming days. Six reports, from September 21-25, are published below. To listen to an inteview with Democracy Now! journalist Andres Conteris, who is inside the Brazilian embassy with legitimate Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, visit LatinRadical »


Videos: Honduran people rise up for democracy,face violent repression
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 September 2009
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Carbon trading — privatising the world’s forests
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 20 September 2009
Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is the name of a World Bank sponsored carbon offset program. The idea is to pay owners of forests in the global South to stop deforestation as a way of reducing carbon emissions. »

How do we fix public transport?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 20 September 2009
The problem is obvious to anyone who uses public transport — in Sydney or any other major city in Australia. Public transport networks, designed in the 1940s, are straining to service growing cities. »

Antony Loewenstein: Time to boycott Israel
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 September 2009
“The war could have finished the day before I arrived”, independent journalist and author Antony Loewenstein told Green Left Weekly of his recent trip to the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza. »

The Caster Semenya case: sports and sexuality
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 20 September 2009
Eighteen-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya has done nothing wrong. Yet she has been accused of deceiving the world about her gender. There is nothing wrong with Semenya’s body. Yet her body has been paraded in front of the world by the mass media as if she were a sideshow freak. »

United States: The great ‘success’ of a carbon trading failure
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 September 2009
It happened in Europe earlier this year — for the second time. And now it has happened again. »

Noam Chomsky: The push to militarise Latin America
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 September 2009
The United States was founded as an “infant empire”, in the words of George Washington. From the earliest days, control over the hemisphere was a critical goal. »

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Other Headlines


Who is really protecting power industry jobs?
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 20 September 2009
Tony Maher, national president of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union, says “green jobs” is a “dopey term”. Quoted in the September 14 Australian, he said: “By mid-century we'll be using twice as much coal and a lot more steel and plastic and concrete that aren't the flavour of the month with environmentalists and green groups.” »

US bases centre of new Latin America struggle
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 September 2009
Washington is continuing to step up its offensive to reestablish dominance over Latin America as South American governments take Colombia to task over the proposed installation of five new US military bases in its territory. »

Peru: The strugle for the Amazon
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 September 2009
An indigenous uprising in the Peruvian Amazon has forced the US-backed government of President Alan Garcia to repeal key decrees that aimed to open the region to greater exploitation by oil and gas corporations. However, indigenous people faced violent repression from security forces as they tried to defend their land and the environment. On June 5, a brutal massacre occurred in Bagua, with dozens of indigenous people murdered by police. »

Hardie: the company that tried to get away with murder
REVIEW, 20 September 2009
In 1978, John Reid, chair of James Hardie Industries, boasted: “Every time you walk into an office building, a home, a factory; every time you put your foot on the brake, ride in a train … the chances are that a product from the James Hardie group of companies has a part in it”. »

Mark Steel: The logic of anti-immigrant racism
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 September 2009
Over the last few years it’s become one of our quaint English traditions that on any day following the announcement of immigration figures, certain newspapers display headlines such as “TEN MILLION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT POLES TO SWARM INTO BRITAIN LIKE PLUMBING LOCUSTS!!! And they plan to BUGGER OUR KITTENS!!!” »

India: A grim outlook for food supply
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 September 2009

Cuba: ‘Almeida is more alive today than ever!’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 September 2009

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  • Cuba: ‘Almeida is more alive toda...
  • Honduras: Resistance says ‘we won...
  • Hypocrisy over Cuba’s ‘politica...
  • India: A grim outlook for food supp...
  • Mark Steel: The logic of anti-immig...
  • Noam Chomsky: The push to militaris...
  • Peru: The strugle for the Amazon
  • United States: The great ‘success...
  • US bases centre of new Latin Americ...
  • Venezuela’s Chavez says hand powe...
  • Video: Democracy Now! repo...
  • Videos: Honduran people rise up for...

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  • Carbon trading — privatising the ...
  • Climate Camp SA — why we’re pro...
  • Climate camp targets most polluting...
  • How do we fix public transport?
  • Refugees: who is putting their live...
  • The Caster Semenya case: sports and...
  • The Mt Victoria to Lithgow ‘white...
  • Uni staff strike for workplace righ...
  • Letters: Write on: Letters t...
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  • Change comes to UQ
  • Important win at Campbell’s Soup
  • Justice for Mr Ward campaign contin...
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