GLW issue 687, published 2006-10-18.

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Israeli academic condemns ethnic cleansing

Israel’s war on Gaza, its continued colonisation of the West Bank, and its construction of the apartheid wall represent the third wave of ethnic cleansing in Palestine since the establishment of Zionist state, Israeli academic Tanya Reinhart told 250-strong meeting in Melbourne on October 12.

Behind Fast Food Nation

ERIC SCHLOSSER was in Australia in September for a publicity tour to launch Fast Food Nation. Green Left Weekly’s BELINDA SELKE interviewed him about the film.

Justice for Mulrunji!

The report handed down by Queensland deputy coroner Christine Clements on September 27 found that Palm Islander Mulrunji not only died in police custody on November 19, 2004, but died at the hands of the arresting police officer.

International News

Besieged and divided

In a September 25 appeal to the international community to act to end the humanitarian disaster in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the UN envoy on Palestinians’ human rights, John Dugard, pointed out: “In effect, the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions — the first time an occupied people has been so treated.”

Washington's terror hypocrisy

George Bush’s administration claims it is waging a “war against terrorism”. But since April 2005 Luis Posada Carriles, who worked for the CIA and engaged in brutal terrorist acts including the bombing of a Cuban airliner, has resided in the US, and Washington has resisted pressure to deport him to Venezuela, where he escaped from jail, to face justice. Posada Carriles is currently in “immigration detention” for entering the US illegally. Even a court filing by the US Justice Department described him as “the admitted mastermind of terrorist plots and attacks”. The following letter, among the signatories of which are four Nobel laureates, was issued on October 6.
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