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Venezuela: Creating a new, radical media
was cultural domination as well. Our commercial television was based on the model from Miami, with ... less than 10 years. In the military coup that briefly overthrew Chavez on April 11, 2002, there was ... We call April 11 the first media war. The media told the whole world that Chavez ordered the shooting ...
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Nuclear tests reopen old wound
Asia & the Pacific David Robie Rainbow Warrior anti-nuclear A decade ago, on July 10, 1985, ... a University of PNG journalism lecturer, was on board for the fateful voyage and wrote a book about the ... sinking. His reporting won NZ's Media Peace Prize. Here he writes on the legacy of the nuclear ...
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IRAQ: Iraqis demand: 'Invaders out now!'
arms, events on April 15 proved to be a shock. On that day in Nasiriya, some 20,000 Shiite Muslim Iraqis ... on their country. The Shia, who comprise 60-65% of Iraq's population, were oppressed under ... for the former Iraqi regime's war against predominantly Shiite Iran, plus Washington's ...
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South African student protesters score win; race and class fuse in epic battle
creditors' cruel rating agencies. The class war rages on. Other student demands remain outstanding: free ... Durban Wits students protest in Johannesburg against a proposed tuition fee hike tuition fees on October ... 15. A historic victory over neoliberalism in South Africa was won on October 23, after the most ...
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Time to clean up the temporary visa mess
unintended effect of encouraging more women and children to make the voyage on dangerous boats, since that ... Peter Mares [This article, which first appeared on Australian Policy Online ... 9500 refugees on temporary visas to apply for other migration visas. See the back cover article for ...
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Carlo's Corner: 'If you don't love it' β the patriotic slogan explained
don't love spending billions on a new war, leave... If you don't love paying for visiting the ... Telegraph readers on October 15 found an overwhelming majority believe "If you don't love it, ... ignorant hysteria about βhalalβ food, leave... If you don't love racist abuse on public transport, ...
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Asia-Pacific left stand with the people and government of Greece against austerity
Sonny Melencio, Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM) Philippines Jean Enriquez, World March of Women Focus on the ... they prepare for a referendum on July 5, 2015, on whether to accept the continuation of the program of ... election of the SYRIZA-led government on a program committed to ending the neoliberal austerity policies ...
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John Pilger: Mark the first signs of an Indian spring
during the 1971 war with Pakistan, civil defence units in soup-plate helmets and lungis toured the ... humiliating, this proud new metropolis would surely be enabling. On August 15, 1947, it was the setting for ... Indians than ever are living in poverty than anywhere on Earth, including a third of all malnourished ...
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Nationalise the mines to fund our future
International solidarity Peter Boyle Venezuela This speech was given at a rally in Sydney on April ... on a violent spree. They've already killed more people than in the Boston bombing β but you ... Venezuela, who have embarked on an inspiring people-first revolution that I witnessed for myself on a visit ...
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A biting musical voice for Roma
with World War II roundup of Jews by French police on behalf of the occupying Nazis. Hutz describes ... sterilisation. The Czech Republic apologised last year for enforced sterilisations carried out on Roma as ... eight Romani women who suspected the reason for their infertility might be that they were sterilised ...
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Drowning tragedy provokes fresh refugee-bashing
refugees sank off the coast of Java, Indonesia, on November 1. The boat capsized after taking on water for ... about two hours at about 5am local time, the Herald Sun said. Eight people, including two women and four ... government put pressure on the Coalition to agree to legislation stripping human rights and protections from ...
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Greece: A tradition of revolt
neoliberal assault on job security, pensions and social services has lead to a series of general strikes ... people pay for the global financial crisis it caused. But Greek strikers have drawn on an indigenous ... bases: Isagoras represented the wealthy landowning and commercial elites whereas Cleisthenes drew on the ...
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We have no intention of packing up
refugee-rights movement is organising big demonstrations on the anniversary of the 2001 Tampa events. This ... cities and regional centres. Since August 2001, Tampa Day has been marked on August 26 to affirm public ... Norwegian cargo vessel Tampa answered the distress call and took 438 asylum seekers on board. Many of them ...
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Return of a reggae pioneer
early '70s, as it evolved from ska and rock steady. On almost all the songs recorded by Jimmy Cliff ... and Toots Hibbert in that period, it is Grennan who laid down the beat. It is Grennan's sticks on ... credited on the recordings they played. They were often paid a one-off fee per session, irrespective of how ...
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Spooks at work
and Stephen Murray-Smith have all felt the impact of the security file on their academic career. ... liberal, all the talented and politically radical women novelists of the '30s, '40s and '50s ... others β were spied on. The "elastic, sweeping classification of Communist", however, could ...
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'50 anos bastan!'
are assassins!) was the chant that resounded through the streets of the Spanish capital on October ... International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have had a disastrous effect on the lives of millions in ... and education which centred on the Alternative Forum Γ’ΒΒ the Other Voices of the Planet Conference. ...
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Germany rolls up the welcome mat
spotlight on immigration. The hysterical fashion of the "debate" was exemplified in late July and ... multinational agribusiness, or who have been uprooted by war and oppression by forces largely supported or ... Although the annexation of East Germany has placed big burdens on the economy, it remains among the ...
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Brave New Social Order
hates war and loves working with children. The work is important but, because it is seen as women ... sick, I went to the Social Security office. They kept me waiting two hours, sitting on the floor, before ... account. What did you do about eating for the week? On the strength of their promise that the money would ...
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Letters to the editor
a particular action, was equally asking them to consider to act or even not act on a particular issue. The NCCA ... sends us to kill and be killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to appease American war-mongering ambition. ... United States government in its attacks on myself and our people. "This brings into question what ...
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Scott Poynting: Racism, Arabs and the media
ruling class. So US President George Bush and his associates run the risk, if they push the" war on ... manner of scholarship, they are based on serious research. If you are going to argue against the ... [right-wing tabloid commentator] Piers Ackermans of this world, you can't only rely on the strength of ...
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PALESTINE: Sharon embraces ethnic cleansers
Union's joint platform states that all three parties espouse ΒtransferΒ and Βpopulation exchangeΒ. On its ... To justify its ethnic-cleansing policy, Moledat leader Benny Elon in an undated article posted on the ... schoolchildren were required to study and celebrate his legacy on orders of the Israeli government. The three ...
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Iraqis unite to fight occupation
8 Christian Science Monitor: "We have a war going on in Fallujah with armor and helicopters and ... back the US imperialist war machine's assault on Fallujah. From ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly, April 21, 2004. ... Sadr." Bush presented this account at a heavily stage-managed White House press conference on April 13. ...
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Danish cartoons: racist provocation or 'free speech'?
imperialist "war on terror" β that the "civilised" West must impose its allegedly ... with the Norwegian Christian paper Magazinet on January 10, that led to the upsurge of anger among ... "democratic" principles on the "barbaric" Middle East. Anjali Kamat, writing in the February 9-15 ...
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Israeli settlement push undermines accords
land. Gazan women organised a protest march on August 14. The protesters called on the PA to move ... Palestinian territories. It announced on August 27 that it would construct 900 new housing units in Kiryat ... West Bank before December. On August 2, the Israeli cabinet voted unanimously to cancel restrictions on ...
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Discrimination against Aborigines: the facts
over the last 20 years. During the 1990s on Cape York, women were dying at a younger age than in 1979. ... Court's Wik judgment, the prime minister's 10-point plan to extinguish native title on pastoral ... "natives" by institutionalising them on segregated reserves. Aboriginal people who resided off reserves, and ...