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Green Left Weekly issue #743, 12 March 2008
John Pilger: Bringing down the new Berlin Walls

PALESTINE The breakout of the people of Gaza in late January provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall. » Colombia: Destablising the ‘new Latin America’

COLOMBIA Just weeks after the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan governments called on Colombia to respect the need for peace and negotiation with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), the Colombian of President Alvaro Uribe launched an extensive armed air and l... » Colombia retreats as Correa and Chavez stand firm

ECUADOR Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced the Colombian state as a “terrorist state”, and said it had become “the Israel of Latin America”, following the Colombian military’s bombing of Ecuadorian territory on March 1 that killed up to 21 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colom... » United States: Soldiers raise their voices against occupation

UNITED STATES More than 200 US military veterans and active-duty troops from Iraq and Afghanistan will participate in a four-day event in Washington, to shed light on the atrocities committed by US occupation forces. » Raul Reyes and Colombia’s tragedy

COLOMBIA On March 1, Raul Reyes, a central leader of the 18,000-strong left-wing guerrilla army, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was killed in an illegal midnight attack by the Colombian army. The attack targetted a FARC encampment three kilometres south of the border in the Putumayo provi... » Britain’s global power empire

BRITAIN When is a private company not a private company? Answer: when it’s wholly owned by the British government and forms part of Britain’s overseas aid program. » The failure of Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti

HAITI The way US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right to overthrow democratic governments. » West supports Israel’s Gaza holocaust

PALESTINE On March 4 and 5, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a brief visit to Israel, ostensibly to advance a “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians, launched in the US resort of Annapolis last November. » Iraq: No more blood for oil

IRAQ US chief of staff operations director General Carter Ham told a February 25 press briefing that the Pentagon plans to keep its occupation force in Iraq at 140,000 troops after the end of the 30,000-strong US troop “surge” in July. » Afghanistan: US spy chief admits war going badly

IRAQ While the Western corporate media was swooning over the tour of army duty in war-torn Afghanistan by Prince Harry, the third in line to the British crown, scant coverage was given to US national intelligence director Vice-Admiral Mike McConnell’s admission that the situation facing the US and i... » Indonesia: Peasant activist assassinated

INDONESIA Below is a statement released by the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas). » Panama: Unionist murdered, repression stepped-up

PANAMA @intro2 =Below is a February 29 statement by the International Trade Union Confederation, which represents 168 million workers in 155 countries and territories and has 311 national affiliates. Visit <http://www.ituc-csi.org>. » Repression intesifies in Peru

PERU Below is a March 4 statement released by Hugo Blanco, a veteran revolutionary and campesino (peasant) leader. He is currently the director of the magazine Lucha Indigena. This statement was translated by Philip Stuart Cournoyer, and is reprinted from international socialist e-journal Links, http://l... » People protest Uribe’s war policy

VENEZUELA “We defend our sovereignty, and support the Ecuadorian people against imperialism, and for peace”, Aida Guitierrez told Green Left Weekly at a protest outside the Colombian Consul in Merida on March 6. » West Papua: Students rally for self determination

WEST PAPUA According to a March 3 Radio New Zealand International report, a series of demonstrations calling for a referendum on Papuan self-determination took place on the same day in several main towns in Indonesian-occupied West Papua. »


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