Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday [November 5], defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives, Reuters reported that same day.
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On November 3, Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf initiated an intensified crackdown against all opposition to his increasingly unstable regime, with the decleration of a state of emergency. While the militarys spin doctors have attempted to make a distinction between this state of emergency and martial law, it has seen thousands of people put into preventative detention, mobile phones jammed, all non-government broadcasting stations taken off air and the abandonment of what pretence of rule of law still remained under Musharraf, who seized power in a coup in 1999.
Resistance stands in solidarity with the Pakistani people fighting for democracy and the removal of the Musharraf regime. Thousands of people have defied the ban on demonstrations to protest against emergency rule and the dictatorial regime.
The following statement was issued by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) on November 8.
Four days after the October 17-21 17th Congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), the country’s government body dealing with public petitions and complaints — the State Bureau for Letters and Calls (SBLC) — held a national conference to map out new strategies to step-up its role in managing China’s escalating social conflicts.
On November 7, the Israeli High Court of Justice gave Israeli PM Ehud Olmerts government one week to present data to back up its assertion that its newest economic sanctions against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip planned electricity supply cuts in particular will not cause unreasonable harm to its 1.5 million residents.
I tell them turn on the water
I tell em turn on the heat
Tells me All you ever do is complain
Then they search the place when Im not here
But we can, you know we can
Lets lynch the landlord man
Dead Kennedys
I tell em turn on the heat
Tells me All you ever do is complain
Then they search the place when Im not here
But we can, you know we can
Lets lynch the landlord man
Dead Kennedys
On November 4, Mikhail Saakashvili, the pro-US president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, accused Russia of fomenting mass protests against him. Saakashvilis remarks were his first response to three days of protests in the capital Tbilisi in which some 100,000 people a tenth of the citys population demanded his resignation.
General Pervez Musharraf would have not expected the political scenario that has emerged after five days of martial law, imposed on November 3. His hopes for achieving normality have been dashed, despite using the most vicious repression against the advocates (lawyers) and political activists. More unpleasant surprises are still to come for the military regime, which was used to relatively stable political control until now.
Hugo! The Hugo Chavez Story From Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
By Bart Jones
Steerforth Press, 2007
570pags, $US30 (hb)
By Bart Jones
Steerforth Press, 2007
570pags, $US30 (hb)
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