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  • Amazon peoples take Texaco to court

    Amazon peoples take Texaco to courtQUITO — Representatives of several groups of indigenous peoples from the Ecuadorian Amazon region left for New York on November 3 to begin court action against the US oil company

  • IRAQ: Election result will fuel armed resistance

    Doug Lorimer The final outcome of Iraq's December 15 parliamentary election was announced by the country's electoral commission on January 20. The United Iraqi Alliance, the coalition of Shiite religious parties that dominates the current

  • EAST TIMOR: Canberra threats to cancel Timor Sea talks

    Jon Lamb Australian Labor Party federal leader Mark Latham's comments on July 22 that a government led by him would start new negotiations with East Timor over the maritime boundary in the Timor Sea has provoked a threat from Prime Minister John

  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Resisting illegal logging

    Tim Stewart Indigenous lawyer Anne Kajir from the Environmental Law Centre in Papua New Guinea is one of six recipients of the US$125,000 Goldman Environmental Prize. According to the prize's website, she won this year's award for her tireless work

  • IRAQ: Fierce resistance ends city's occupation

    Rohan Pearce& Doug Lorimer Resistance fighters have forced US troops to abandon their occupation of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, at least temporarily. According to the February 8 Washington Post, US troops abandoned fixed positions in the city,

  • VENEZUELA: More nations back bid for UN seat

    Kerryn Williams Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez condemned Israel's bombing of Lebanon, commenting that "They are bombing entire cities, it is a true genocide. Where will this madness end?", according to a July 21 VHeadline.com report.

  • In brief

    PERU: 300,000 strike Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Peru on July 14 in protest against President Alejandro Toledo's neoliberal economic policies. The 24-hour strike was called by Peru's biggest trade union federation to demand

  • BOLIVIA: A well of hypocrisy

    George Monbiot Civilisation has a new enemy. He is a former coca grower called Evo Morales, who is currently the president of Bolivia. On May 15 he stood before the European parliament to explain why he had sent troops to regain control of his

  • PAKISTAN: How Washington helped create a nuclear 'rogue state'

    Norm Dixon As proof continues to mount that US President George Bush's administration systematically lied about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to justify invading the oil-rich Persian Gulf country, it has been revealed that

  • PALESTINE: Palestinians and Israelis protest war atrocities

    Kim Bullimore Another Palestinian woman and child were killed on August 1, as the Israeli military continued its relentless round-the-clock bombardment of the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Mervat Fayez Abu Sharikh

  • RUSSIA: Congresses and a funeral

    Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow The Communist Party's leaders have always been prone to optimism. When they were told of an impending crisis in their ranks, they confidently replied that nothing of the kind was possible. When forecasts suggested they

  • INDONESIA: Protest condemns Israel's wars

    On July 31, some 200 protesters from Indonesian Solidarity for Palestine and Lebanon held a solidarity march to the US embassy in Central Jakarta to protest Israel's war against Palestine and Lebanon. The action — the first solidarity action since