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Headlines from GLW #813, 14 October 2009:


Climate change, poverty and ‘natural’ disasters
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 October 2009
People in the Philippines are struggling to rebuild after Typhoon Ketsana caused widespread flooding and landslides. »

NT walk-off: Indigenous community defies racist intervention
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 October 2009
In early October, Green Left Weekly visited the Alyawarr people’s walk-off camp, three hours north-east of Alice Springs. »

John Pilger: The lying game — media lies and the war drive against Iran
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 October 2009
In 2001, the London Observer published a series of reports claiming an “Iraqi connection” to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being made as a weapon of mass destruction. »

Can we survive the ‘recovery’?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 October 2009
On October 6, the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted the official interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 3.25%. Explaining the bank’s decision, RBA governor Glenn Stevens said “the risk of serious economic contraction in Australia” had now “passed”. »

Honduras: ‘Nothing will be the same again’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11 October 2009
What began as a coup aimed at deposing a millionaire landowner president, whose “crime” had been to gradually shift Honduras away from US control and implement mild pro-people reforms, has spurned on a mass resistance movement with the potential to revolutionise the country. »

War is peace? How Obama could earn his peace prize
EDITORIAL, 10 October 2009
EDITORIAL: One of the infamous “double-speak” slogans of the nightmare totalitarian regime in George Orwell’s 1984 was “war is peace”. The Nobel jury appears to have based itself on this principle of inverting reality with its decision to grant this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama. »

NT walk-off: solidarity needed
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 October 2009
On October 9, 100 people gathered at the Manning Clark Centre at the Australian National University, to hear about the Northern Territory intervention and the inspiring Alyawarra people’s walk-off at Ampilatwatja in the NT. »

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Other Headlines


Sri Lanka’s internment nightmare
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 October 2009
The Sri Lankan government has continued to use “emergency” measures justified by Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war against the pro-independence Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to severely limit democratic rights, despite declaring a final victory in the war in May. »

Venezuela: Peasants march against killings
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11 October 2009
Thousands of peasant rights’ activists marched in Guarico, Venezuela on Thursday to demand an end to impunity for the killings of 220 farmer organizers since the 2001 Land Reform Law was passed. The march was sparked by two recent attacks presumed to have been planned and paid for by large estate owners against well-known land reform activists. »

Theatrical mockery of refugees
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 October 2009
In a sick mockery of the rising boatloads of refugees coming to Australia, the federal government will pay one of the world's biggest advertising agencies to spread fear and propaganda among Tamils escaping genocide in Sri Lanka. »

Afghan feminist: The ‘war on terror’ is a war on the Afghan people
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 October 2009
Outspoken anti-war and democracy campaigner Malalai Joya was suspended from the Afghan parliament in 2007 for speaking out against corruption and the domination of the country by warlords. US current affairs weradio show Democracy Now has called her “the bravest woman in Afghanistan”. Below is an abridged statement from Joya to Australian anti-war campaigners. The statement was read out at the national protests against the Afghanistan war on October 7. ***** »

Roman Polanski’s friends
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 October 2009

Nepal: Maoists prepare for new upsurge
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 October 2009

Workers to rally for Ark Tribe
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 10 October 2009

Afghanistan: Rallies call for troops out of Afghanistan
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 10 October 2009

Anti-drunk laws noticeably hypocritical
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 October 2009

Germany: Left makes big gains in poll
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 October 2009

Portugal: Government punished, left gets boost
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 October 2009

Also in #813:


read »International News

  • Climate change, poverty and ‘natu...
  • Ecuador: Indigenous, government cla...
  • Germany: Left makes big gains in po...
  • Honduras and the battle for the Ame...
  • Honduras eyewitness; One-hundred da...
  • Honduras: ‘Nothing will be the sa...
  • John Pilger: The lying game — med...
  • Malaysia: ‘Give plantation worker...
  • Nepal: Maoists prepare for new upsu...
  • Philippines: A call for grassroots ...
  • Portugal: Government punished, left...
  • Roman Polanski’s friends
  • Sri Lanka’s internment nightmare
  • Venezuela: Peasants march against k...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • SMH ignores US double stan...
  • Afghan feminist: The ‘war on terr...
  • Anti-drunk laws noticeably hypocrit...
  • Can we survive the ‘recovery’?
  • Climate ‘hell’ predicted if act...
  • Hugo Throssell, V.C. — a red Anza...
  • NT walk-off: Indigenous community d...
  • NT walk-off: solidarity needed
  • Queensland workers clean up with ne...
  • The influence of the religious righ...
  • Theatrical mockery of refugees
  • Western Sahara plundered by Norway...
  • Letters: write on
  • Resistance!: Australia’s o...
  • Resistance!: SA Climate Camp...
  • Editorial: War is peace? How...
  • Resistance!: Young steelwork...
  • Our Common Cause: Cancer med...

    • read »General

  • A harrowing two weeks in our region...

    • read »Australian News

  • Activists plan hunger strikes for c...
  • Afghanistan: Rallies call for troop...
  • Black Panther artist launches exhib...
  • Memorial marks Aboriginal death in ...
  • SOS for Parra ferries
  • Study: most support abortion rights...
  • Sydney plays host to world march fo...
  • Sydney uni vote rejects CPRS
  • Workers to rally for Ark Tribe

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: Steaming along the t...
  • Green Left Weekly appoints...
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