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  • Chavez calls for Israeli leaders to face trial

    VENEZUELA: Chavez calls for Israeli leaders to face trial On August 24, several thousand people gathered on the Calvary Steps in the Caracas suburb of El Silencio to hear speakers call for justice for the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples, and to

  • VENEZUELA: The Bolivarian Revolution will not be defeated

    Leonel Vivas Since President Hugo Chavez won five years ago a national election with an overwhelming majority, a revolution is developing in my country — a very original revolution is being made by peaceful and democratic means, without violence,

  • 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

  • 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

  • MEXICO: Opposition reject Calderon as president-elect

    Doug Lorimer On September 10, the Chamber of Deputies, the Mexican Congress's lower house, recognised Felipe Calderon as the nation's president-elect, but members of parties that supported his main rival in Mexico's contested presidential election

  • UNITED STATES: Huge turnout for abortion rights rally

    Nicole Colson, Chicago "There are just so many people." — Tawana Evans was overwhelmed by the estimated 1 million turnout for the April 25 march for women's lives in Washington, DC. Travelling from Houston with a Planned Parenthood contingent of

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • IRAQ: Resistance grows into mass revolt

    Doug Lorimer "There have been 98 [US troop] deaths [in Iraq] by hostile fire so far this month, more than in the opening two weeks of the invasion, when 82 Americans were killed in action", the April 17 San Jose Mercury News reported, adding 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

  • 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