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Letters to the Editor

Tibet 1 Dick Nichols article Let the Tibetans decide their future (Write On #748) argues that it is irrelevant that the Tibetan resistance army up until 1959 was funded and trained by the CIA. This statement is incorrect, as he meant to write 1969 not 1959. More importantly, however, contrary to Nichols opinion, I believe that understanding the reasons why the CIA supported the Tibetans is very significant if one wants to develop a full understanding of the corporate medias ongoing fixation on Tibets struggle for liberation.

Pay deal for Vic teachers

On May 5, Victorian Premier John Brumby and education minister Bronwyn Pike announced that they had struck a deal with the Victorian Australian Education Union (AEU) over teachers pay. While there are several aspects of the agreement to be finalised, the government decided to go public and claimed that Victorian teachers are now the highest-paid teachers in Australia.

Remembering the Palestinian Nakba

Nearly 30 years since she had seen her Northern Galilee home in what she called "48 Palestine", Rasmiya Barghouti was finally given a permit by the Israeli military authorities to visit. She decided to take two of her daughters and four of her

Bipartisan hypocrisy on anti-terror laws

Colonel Moe Davis, former chief prosecutor at the US prison Guantanamo Bay, has finally told the world that David Hicks was never a serious terror threat and that his pursuit was politically driven. Davis has also now said that evidence was obtained through prisoner abuse.

Brumby: Solar leader or solar faker

On May 5, the night before the Victorian budget was released, it was revealed that Premier John Brumby’s government is proposing to pay households with solar power$0.60 per kilowatt hour for electricity that they feed into the grid. However, this $0.60 will only be paid if households are exporting more energy than they are taking from the grid.

Venezuela: Steelworkers win, gold miners fight

The workers feel that what we achieved was a great triumph, said Jose Melendez, the finance secretary for the United Steel Industry Workers Union (SUTISS), on the signing of a new contract for the Sidor steel plants workforce with the Venezuelan government, according to a May 6 Venezuelanalysis.com article.

Rudd pressures ACT to concede on same-sex marriage

[On] the question of [civil unions] legislation its always been our view, as the Labor Party, [that] that lies properly within the prerogative of the states, and that remains our position. This was then opposition leader, now PM, Kevin Rudds view quoted by ABC News on December 7. It was a promise that, unlike the Howard Coalition government, federal Labor would not overturn civil unions legislation in the ACT.

Repeal racist nuclear dump laws

Thirty people participated in a media stunt outside the office of federal resource minister Martin Ferguson on May 7 to demand that he and the ALP keep their election promise to repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Management Act of 2005 and its 2006 amendment. The protest was organised by Friends of the Earth.

Ecuador: 'Executed in cold blood\'

According to a May 7 Prensa Latina report, the Ecuadorian government has denounced Colombia following the release of evidence that the Colombian military had executed four prisoners as part of its infamous March 1 assault on a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that was within Ecuadorian territory.

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