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  • IRAN: US and EU push WMD frame-up

    Doug Lorimer In a September 19 statement accompanying his latest report to a meeting of the 35-country board of governors of the UN's nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed ElBaradei declared that "Iran

  • GERMANY: Left Party makes big electoral gains

    Silke Stockle, Freiburg& Norman Brewer, Bremen The results of the September 18 federal election in Germany have opened up heated talks over which parties will form a coalition government. Neither the centre-left government of Chancellor Gerhard

  • In Brief

    The September 19 English online edition of the Baghdad Azzaman daily reported that the Iraqi Red Crescent Society has asked aid groups to provide urgent assistance to former residents of Tal Afar following the massive US military assault on the city,

  • IRAQ: British troops assault Basra's central police station

    Louay Alzaher& Doug Lorimer Tension ran high in southern Iraq on September 20 after British troops attacked the central police station in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, the previous day. The incident was sparked when British soldiers used

  • UNITED STATES: Hundreds of thousands protest against war

    On September 24, huge crowds attended anti-war protests in a number of US cities. In Washington DC, the White House was surrounded by a sea of protesters demanding the return of US troops from Iraq. The ANSWER anti-war coalition estimated that more

  • IRAQ: Tal Afar: Another brutal victory for 'democracy'

    Rohan Pearce According to the September 15 English-language online edition of the Baghdad Azzaman daily, the US military's assault on the city of Tal Afar, 320 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, has displaced large numbers of Tal Afar residents and

  • UNITED STATES: Barbarism and socialism

    Marce Cameron "How could this be happening in the United States?", asked the headline of a September 3 Washington Post article in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "People around the world cannot believe what they're seeing", the Post reported. "From

  • IRAQ: Who was behind the tragedy at Aaimah bridge?

    Louay Alzaher Iraq was plunged into mourning on August 31 after some 1130 Shiite Muslims lost their lives in a stampede in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad the previous day. The stampede was caused by rumours that there were suicide bombers in a

  • ARGENTINA: 20,000 protest against planned Bush visit

    Andrew Hall, Buenos Aires On September 9, at least 20,000 people marched from the congressional building to Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires to protest against the November 4-5 visit for the Summit of the Americas by US President George

  • MALAYSIA: Historic socialist conference

    Eva Cheng, Kajang Two-hundred socialist activists and their sympathisers were joined by socialists and Malaysian political exiles from at least eight countries at Kajang near Kuala Lumpur on September 10-11 to discuss the way forward for socialist

  • VENEZUELA: 'Property is a social right'

    Federico Fuentes, Caracas The right-wing controlled opposition media and big business, both foreign and Venezuelan, have unleashed a wave of condemnation against the recent actions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land (MAT). The editorial in