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  • EL SALVADOR: Venezuelan pact provides low-cost oil

    On March 5, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government announced a new joint venture to help reduce transport costs in FMLN-governed municipalities. Part of the alternative Latin American

  • Venezuelan leader: 'The enemy is imperialism'

    Federico Fuentes During the swearing-in of more than 300,000 people to the "battalions" of the Miranda Command on September 9, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez, who is seeking re-election through a massive grassroots effort led by the

  • INDONESIA: Military still on guard against communists

    Detik.com reported on March 21 that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) continue to keep guard against the "danger" of communism. "The TNI is still continuing to monitor the communist movement. We are constantly keeping on guard", Rear Admiral

  • IRAQ: US loses control of Anbar province

    Dahr Jamail & Ali al Fadhily, Ramadi The US military has lost control over the volatile Anbar province, Iraqi police and residents say. The area to the west of Baghdad includes Fallujah, Ramadi and other towns that have seen the worst of the US

  • ECUADOR: Washington frets over 'Bolivarian' candidate

    Duroyan Fertl The small oil-rich Andean country of Ecuador goes to the polls on October 15 to elect a new president. Normally, the US isn't too worried about who wins the presidential sash, as they usually end up dancing to Washington's tune. But

  • SUDAN: Africa's hidden war

    Esther Anderson "The scale of the tragedy in Darfur would be difficult to believe if it were not for the terrible fact that it is a reality. More than 1 million Sudanese from Darfur are existing — barely — in desperate circumstances ... This

  • SOUTH AFRICA: Tripartite Alliance reaping what it has sown

    Dale T. McKinley, Johannesburg The alliance is dead! Long live the alliance! That about sums up the politics of the organisational marriage between the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of

  • IRAQ: Australian military lawyer helped conceal torture

    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

  • BRAZIL: Killings of Indians investigated

    On November 29, Brazilian federal police arrested 18 people for crimes against Indians and the environment. During the past decade, an uncontacted tribe known as the Rio Pardo Indians have had their land invaded by land grabbers and loggers. Despite

  • BRITAIN: The de-fanging of the Mirror

    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

  • RUSSIA: Repression in lead-up to G8

    According to a July 11 statement issued by the Trade Union Solidarity Action Committee of St Petersburg and Leningrad region, activists planning protests against the July 15-17 G8 summit in St Petersburg are facing a wave of violence and repression.

  • TANZANIA: British water company sues impoverished country

    British water company Biwater has taken legal action against the Tanzanian government after the company was kicked out of Tanzania earlier this year, two years into a US$100 million water privatisation contract. Biwater had failed to meet the