The NSW Labor government鈥檚 cabinet, once again intoning the chant of 鈥渢errorism鈥, has agreed to introduce compulsory DNA testing for anyone arrested for any offence. The leaked cabinet decision was reported in the June 22 Sydney Sun-Herald.
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Psychologists call this 'projection'
"If we were to allow them to gain control of Iraq, they would have control of a nation with massive oil reserves 鈥 which they could use to fund new attacks and exhort economic blackmail on those who didn't
In an attempt to bolster the regime of Fatah leader and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel and the US have proposed a plan to 聯kick start聰 the 聯peace聰 process by rehashing the Olso Accords and the 聯Road Map to Peace聰.
Shortly after midnight on July 29, Indian Muslim doctor Mohamed Haneef boarded a flight in Brisbane to be reunited with his wife in Bangalore and meet his newly born daughter for the first time, as he was trying to do at the time of his arrest at Brisbane Airport on July 2. The previous evening, he had been released from jail, after federal Director of Public Prosecutions Damien Bugg announced he was dropping all charges, conceding that the 鈥渁nti-terrorism鈥 case against the Gold Coast Hospital registrar had collapsed. 鈥淥n my view of this matter a mistake has been made鈥, Bugg told a media conference.
The Socialist Alliance聮s New South Wales state conference, held in Newcastle on July 21, emphasised the struggle against global warming and against the Howard government聮s hated Work Choices legislation.
Dental care funding
麻豆传媒 Weekly renders a great service to the labour movement by publishing news that the millionaire ruling class do not want us to know anything about. One illustration concerns the achievements being made in
聯Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organisations fighting the US occupation in Iraq have agreed to form a public political alliance with the aim of preparing for negotiations in advance of an American withdrawal聰, the July 19 British Guardian reported it was told by leaders of the groups.
Denouncing the congress as 鈥渞ubbish鈥 and a 鈥渘ational disgrace鈥, left-wing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called on the upcoming constituent assembly, for which there will be elections held on September 30, to dissolve the body, which is widely viewed as corrupt. The calls came after the opposition-controlled congress amended a number of recent laws introduced by the executive to curb unprecedented rises in the price of food.
Hard Choices: Unchain My Heart 聴 The story of a Burmese refugee who has voluntarily shackled himself in chains to draw attention to the plight of his suffering homeland. SBS, Friday, August 3, 3.30pm.
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
By Howard Zinn
City Lights Books, 2007
293 pages, US$16.95
By Howard Zinn
City Lights Books, 2007
293 pages, US$16.95
Various leaders of Venezuela聮s primary pro-government labour union, the National Workers Union (UNT), have called on all sectors of the organisation to join together and hold elections later this year. At a press conference on July 17, labour leaders Marcela Maspero and Orlando Chirino invited all sectors of the UNT to a general meeting on July 26 to organise general elections and, in that way, unite the principal labour union of the country that has remained divided in recent years.
The following is abridged from a speech given by Paola Harvey to a people鈥檚 trial of US President George Bush, organised by the Stop Bush committee in Wollongong on June 23. Harvey is a Resistance member and helped initiate last year鈥檚 Walk against Warming rally in Wollongong.
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