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Green Left Weekly issue #767, 17 September 2008
The Wall Street ‘socialists’ save the rich again

UNITED STATES The Wall Street “socialists” are at it again — with another big-government takeover of privately owned firms, aimed at protecting the rich by extorting money from working people. » Haiti: Human-made humanitarian disaster follows storms

Below is an abridged transcript of an interview with progressive US radio program Democracy Now!, an independent program broadcast on over 700 radio stations. Visit http://www.democracynow.org for more information and the full transcript. » Venezuela: New coup plot exposed, US ambassador expelled

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the US ambassador in Caracas, Patrick Duddy, to leave the country within 72 hours on September 11. » Celia Hart — 1963-2008

Progressives and supporters of the Cuban and Latin American revolutions all over the world were shocked to hear of the death in a car accident of Celia Hart Santamaria and her brother, Abel Hart Santamaria, in Havana on September 7. It is believed that conditions resulting from Hurricane Gustav may ... » Papua New Guinea: Australian mining companies destructive role

The below statement is from the Mineral Policy Institute, http://www.mpi.org.au. » United States: Protests support the Cuban Five

Below is an abridged report from http://cubanfive.org. The Cuban Five are five Cuban men in jail in the United States for their role in infiltrating far-right terrorist groups based in Miami, in order to attempt to prevent attacks against Cuban territory and people. For these anti-terrorist activiti... » Western Sahara: Australian superphosphate not so super

Below is an abridged September 5 statement by the Australia Western Sahara Association, visit http://www.awsa.org.au. » John Pilger: Western media justify Iraq, Afghan bloodshed

Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play. » Bolivia: Fascist right launches ‘civic coup’

“[Today] a civil-prefectural coup against the unity of the country and democracy has been initiated”, Bolivian minister of government Alfredo Rada declared on September 9, as a growing wave of violence by small gangs of fascist youth engulfed the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. » Palestine: Israeli water policies leave West Bank dry

Below is an abridged August 19 statement by Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem. » Paraguay: New government faces elite resistance

PARAGUAY Barely two weeks after being sworn in on August 15, a coup plot to oust newly elected Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo was exposed on September 2. » South Africa: The state, xenophobia and nationalism

While the violent intensity and geographical spread of the recent attacks on immigrants across South Africa certainly surprised most of us, we should not have been surprised that such attacks happened — or at the state’s response. » Sri Lanka: Airforce bombs civilian settlement

The below article is abridged from http://www.tamileelamnews.com. » Swaziland: Pro-democracy movement gains momentum

Abridged from a September 8 report on http://www.irinnews.org. » Walden Bello: ‘World needs a vacation from US’

Speaking at the inaugural Ted Wheelwright Memorial Lecture for the Sydney University Department of Political Economy on September 1, Filipino anti-globalisation activist and academic Walden Bello, founding director of Focus on the Global South, contrasted the recent Beijing Olympics with the US Demo... »


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