Tomas Freitas is the director of Luta Hamutuk (Fight Together), a research and advocacy institute focusing on economic issues, including East Timor's Petroleum Fund. The Petroleum Fund is a mechanism to regulate the expenditure of East Timor's oil
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Rohan Pearce The exposure of the brutal policy of torture carried out by the US occupiers in Iraq is just the latest political debacle for the governments of the US-British-Australian invasion coalition. Just like the scandal over Iraq's
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Barry Sheppard, San Francisco The October 28 indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, US Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury are the latest blow to the already reeling administration of US
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Trevor Ngwane is a well-known campaigner against the ANC government's privatisation and commercialisation of basic services, like power and water. Ngwane lives in Pimville and thanks to an electricity connection provided by grassroots campaigners, he
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Stuart Munckton In a step forward for the goal promoted by Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez of increasing the economic integration of Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia have signed another round of important economic
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John Pilger Piers Morgan, the editor of the Daily Mirror, Britain's most famous mass-circulation newspaper, was sacked on May 14 because he ran the only English-language popular paper to expose the "war on terror" as a fraud and the invasion of
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Max Lane It has been almost a month since the Indonesian government increased the retail price of petrol by 126% and of kerosene by 300%. The increases are a part of the Jakarta government's commitments made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Jon Lamb Journalists and human-rights organisations within East Timor and internationally are increasingly concerned about the consequences of a new penal code on defamation, which includes the penalty of up to three years' imprisonment for
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Rohan Pearce Riots broke out in the Afghan capital of Kabul on May 29 after a US military truck crash. The truck crushed dozens of cars during peak-hour traffic, reported anti-imperialist group Left Radical of Afghanistan. According to LRA, 56
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Roberto Jorquera On May 6, US President George Bush announced new measures to tighten the 43-year US economic embargo against Cuba, based on recommendations made in a 450-page report to Bush from the presidential Commission for Assistance to a Free
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Harrison Healy, Ramallah In East Jerusalem in the days leading up to the Palestinian election you could be forgiven for not knowing that there was an election going on. You could not find a single poster in the city. There was no information on
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On May 19, former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo, now chairperson of the left coalition Laban ng Masa (Struggle of the masses), denounced the murder of Movement for National Democracy (KDP) leader Analiza Gandia in Balanga,