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Doug Lorimer On June 25, the US-backed Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al Maliki, announced before the Iraqi parliament a 24-point "national reconciliation" plan, ostensibly an "olive branch" to Iraqi resistance fighters. At a Baghdad press conference

Pablo Alfonso and Wilfredo Cancio Isla, two of the Miami Herald's most recalcitrant journalists, have been fired in the wake of a scandal involving them receiving US government payments to appear on Radio Marti and TV Marti to transmit anti-Cuba

Ali Abunimah Things must be bad in Palestine, when the United States allows a resolution to pass in the UN Security Council condemning Israeli actions, as it did late on May 19. By 14-0, with the United States abstaining, the council adopted

On February 17, Aceh Referendum Information Centre (SIRA) offices in West Aceh were attacked by militia, who destroyed a typewriter, radio and other office equipment. They also took documents including records of SIRA meetings and pushed SIRA staff

EUROPEAN UNION: Complicity with US torture slammed Human rights group Amnesty International has released a report on the role of European Union nations in the US program of "renditions". The report, published on June 14, documents EU complicity

Coral Wynter&Jim McIlroy, Caracas Around 10,000 people rallied in the Poliedro amphitheatre on June 29 to celebrate the third anniversary of the founding of the Frente Francisco de Miranda. The FFM is the leading organisation mobilising youth in

Rupen Savoulian In a spectacularly defiant act, on May 9, Chechen rebels killed the Russian-sponsored president of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, by remote-controlled bomb in a stadium where dignitaries were gathered to commemorate the 59th anniversary

Doug Lorimer The Washington Post reported on June 18 that it had obtained a copy of a cable sent to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from the US embassy in Baghdad that paints "a starkly different portrait" from the White House's public

Stuart Munckton "To the anger of many in Washington, Citgo Petroleum Corporation, a company controlled by the Venezuelan Government, will supply more than 45 million litres of oil at 40 per cent below market prices" to poor residents in Boston and

Alex Miller In a rally called by the Scottish Socialist Party, 2000 people marched against the council tax in Glasgow on April 24. The SSP is campaigning to have the current system of local taxation replaced by a Scottish Service Tax (SST), based

Percy Ngonyama South African President Thabo Mbeki's "State of the Nation" address, delivered on February 3 in Cape Town at the highly militarised opening of parliament, was a further blow for the country's poor masses. While recommitting to

William Engdahl Curiously and quietly the United States is being outflanked in its now-obvious strategy of controlling major oil and energy sources of the Persian Gulf, Central Asia's Caspian Basin, Africa and beyond. The US's global energy