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  • IRAQ: Chalabi and the Cheney gang: Thieves fall out

    Doug Lorimer Ahmad Chalabi, who up until a few months ago had been the Bush administration's favourite to head Washington's puppet regime in Iraq, now stands accused of duping the US into invading Iraq. On May 18, US deputy defence secretary Paul

  • UNITED STATES: US plots Cuba invasion

    Stuart Harrison A US$80 million fund has been approved by US President George Bush to help the United States achieve "regime change" in Cuba. The second report from the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, released on July 5, outlines

  • GERMANY: Protesters delay nuclear waste train

    Diet Simon, Bonn While both major parties making up German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new "grand coalition" government — the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats — are committed, on paper, to the gradual closing down of the country's 17

  • BRITAIN: 2000 rally for Palestine

    More than 2000 people rallied in Trafalgar Square on May 15 to demand that the wall built by Israel be halted and dismantled. The rally called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.From Green Left Weekly,

  • SOUTH AFRICA: Protests cause cracks in ANC-led alliance

    Leo Zeilig, Johannesburg The March 1 municipal elections in South Africa have again triggered questioning of the future of the Tripartite Alliance, the coalition led by the governing African National Congress (ANC) that includes the South African

  • RUSSIA: Terrorists, hostages and double-speak

    Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow The number of dead and wounded in the Beslan tragedy was stunning, but so were the authorities' lies. They minimised the number of hostages and casualties. They said there were Arabs and "one black" among the terrorists.

  • East Timor after Alkatiri: nation or protectorate?

    Tim Anderson "We did not expect that the elected leader of a party with an overwhelming mandate could be forced to stand down in this way in a democracy." — Fretilin press release, June 26, 2006. Backed by a foreign army, and with his country's

  • ZIMBABWE: Army mobilised against demonstrators

    Bernie Stephens, Harare Army troops were used to retain control of streets of central Harare after demonstrators mobilised in support of a Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) day of action against poverty on November 8. Police were taken off

  • IRAQ: US generals admit they are 'on road to defeat'

    Doug Lorimer Growing support among Iraqis for the armed resistance against the US-led occupation has led top US military officers to acknowledge that the US is headed for defeat in Iraq. According to the May 9 Washington Post, this "view is far

  • BRITAIN: Radiation reached Britain from Iraq

    The February 19 British Sunday Times featured a new Green Audit report indicating that depleted uranium from the 2003 bombing of Iraq spread across Europe and reached Britain within nine days. Radiation detectors in Britain recorded a quadrupling of

  • SUDAN: Why Washington won't save Darfur villagers

    Norm Dixon On September 21, Salih Booker, the director of the Africa Studies Program at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations ruling-class think tank, argued in the International Herald Tribune that the US government has failed to

  • VENEZUELA: Peasants march against paramilitaries

    Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas The June 20 Diario Vea reported that more than 4000 campesinos (peasants) marched in the town of Guasdualito, in Apure state, near the border with Colombia. The protesters alleged that right-wing paramilitaries