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Green Left Weekly issue #694, 17 January 2007
Bushmen returning home in Botswana

BRIEF, BOTSWANA ExxonMobil promotes confusion on global warming

BRIEF, UNITED STATES US May Day mobilisation to support immigrant workers

BRIEF, UNITED STATES Mision Vuelvan Caras - changing lives in Venezuela

VENEZUELA Mision Vuelvan Caras, literally “about-face”, is a social project — or mission — launched by the revolutionary government of Venezuela in 2004 to train and offer employment to thousands of people. It is changing the lives of a large number of the country’s citizens, many of ... » Why Bush's 'new' Iraq strategy will fail

IRAQ On January 10, US President George Bush unveiled his government’s new plan for prosecuting Washington’s almost four-year-old counterinsurgency war in Iraq, which in a December 20 interview with the Washington Post he for the first time acknowledged the US was “not winning”. » Somalia: Death and despair the 'benefits' of war on terror

SOMALIA In what seems to be becoming a signature atrocity of US President George Bush’s “war on terror”, US air strikes hit a Somali wedding ceremony, according to a January 10 BBC Online report. Up to 31 people were killed. The BBC quoted the account of an elder in Banka-Jiira, a grazing area, who to... » Venezuela's revolution accelerates

VENEZUELA Sending shockwaves through the corporate elite, on January 8 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared his government’s intention of reversing the privatisations that had been carried out by previous governments. Declaring “We’re on our way to socialism, and nothing and no-one can prevent it... » Behind Fiji's coup

FIJI On December 5, after weeks of speculation, the commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama announced that he had overthrown the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in Fiji’s third military coup in the past 20 years. On January 4, the military restore... » Fatah moves towards coup against Hamas

PALESTINE More than 30 Palestinians have been killed in the past month in violence between Fatah and Hamas that flared up after Fatah-aligned President Mahmoud Abbas called on December 17 for new presidential and legislative elections. Hundreds more have been wounded in the violence, which intensified in the ... » Rogue state threatens nuke attack against Iran

IRAN It seems like an overly cliched script with a plot so tired that even Hollywood’s dross-marketing machine might think twice about touching it: a Mid-East nation led by an aggressive regime with a record of violating human rights whenever it feels like (which turns out to be often) threatens cou... » Radical party to enter Indonesian politics

INDONESIA Almost nine years since the fall of the dictator Suharto, one word continues to dominate discussions of the widespread social discontent in Indonesia: “fragmentation”. » Saddam Hussein rushed to the gallows

IRAQ Saddam Hussein was rushed to the gallows as 2006 ended — a former dictator put to death under instructions from his one-time supporters in the US government. » Arrests at anti-nuke protest in Faslane, Scotland

SCOTLAND Parliamentarians from the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), the Dutch Socialist Party, the Greens and the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru party were arrested on January 8 following a protest at the Faslane nuclear submarine base on the River Clyde. The protest was organised by Faslane 365, which is prom... »


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