Just weeks after the Ecuadorian and Venezuelan governments called on Colombia to respect the need for peace and negotiation with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People聮s Army (FARC-EP), the Colombian of President Alvaro Uribe launched an extensive armed air and land assault against the insurgency movement.
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On March 3, 400 teachers rallied as part of the Australian Education Union聮s campaign for improved wages and conditions. The AEU is calling for a 10% pay rise each year for three years to bring Victorian teachers聮 wages in line with those of New South Wales teachers.
It has to be one of the most unbelievable stories of the century: New Idea, a magazine that trades on gossip about royals and other celebrities, is blamed for exposing Prince Harry鈥檚 deployment in the British military intervention in Afghanistan. It is about as believable as the plot of Mark Twain鈥檚 The Prince and the Pauper, in which a young prince swaps places with a street lad to see what life is like in 鈥淧aupersville鈥.
The breakout of the people of Gaza in late January provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall.
Centrelink is to cut about 2000 of its 27,000 staff over the next financial year as part of new cost-cutting measures by PM Kevin Rudd聮s Labor government.
Venezuela As an Australian person currently living and working in Venezuela, I feel there are many important aspects to the ExxonMobil issue that have been, perhaps deliberately, ignored by the mainstream media in Australia. Legalities aside
As the horror of Israel聮s recent attacks on Gaza spread, UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon could only describe Israel聮s rocket launches as 聯an excessive use of force聰. By contrast, he described a Palestinian homemade rocket, which killed two Israeli soldiers and one civilian, as a 聯terrorist聰 act.
The April 11-13 Climate Change/Social Change conference being organised in Sydney by 麻豆传媒 Weekly aims to promote recognition that radical social change is necessary to solve the global climate crisis. This is a crisis that at threatens to make the Earth uninhabitable for the vast majority of humans and other species.
@intro2 =Below is a February 29 statement by the International Trade Union Confederation, which represents 168 million workers in 155 countries and territories and has 311 national affiliates. Visit .
The way US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right to overthrow democratic governments.
聯We defend our sovereignty, and support the Ecuadorian people against imperialism, and for peace聰, Aida Guitierrez told 麻豆传媒 Weekly at a protest outside the Colombian Consul in Merida on March 6.
On March 4 and 5, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a brief visit to Israel, ostensibly to advance a 鈥減eace process鈥 between Israel and the Palestinians, launched in the US resort of Annapolis last November.
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