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Untangling the truth about Haiti

Damning the Flood: Haiti, Aristide & the Politics of Containment
By Peter Hallward
Verso, 2008
442p, US$29.95

Venezuela: \'Media terorrism\' condemned

Journalists, communications specialists and other participants in a Caracas conference during the March 29-30 weekend demanded that political leaders in the region put the issue of 鈥渕edia terrorism鈥 on the agenda of all international forums and meetings in which they participate.

NT intervention \'entrenching racism\'

At least 100 Indigenous people were arrested in Alice Springs during 鈥渕ilitary-style鈥 police raids on the evening of April 3, according to an April 4 media release issued jointly by Vince Forrester, an elder of the Mutitjulu community at the base of Uluru, Greg Eatock from the Sydney-based Aboriginal Rights Coalition and Marlene Hodder from the Alice-based Intervention Rollback Working Group.

The bubble world of the super rich

Richistan, A Journey through the 21st Century Wealth Boom & the Lives of the New Rich
By Robert Frank
Piatkus, 2007
263 pp.

Venezuela: A party in transition for the transition to socialism

Venezuela will not be the same after the formation of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 鈥 whose founding congress concluded in March. Nor will Latin America.

Melbourne print workers occupy factory

Printing company SEP Print sacked its work force without notice after the business was put into receivership on March 20. Sixty-five workers occupied the company鈥檚 factory in south-eastern Melbourne over Easter in an attempt to secure entitlements the company owes them that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Bastards, the lot of them

Fridge Magnets are Bastards: An A-Z Rant About Annoying People & Useless Things in the Modern World
By Mark Dapin
HarperCollins, 2007, 262 pp, $24.99 (pb)

Burmese protesters imprisoned

According to an April 2 AFP article, Amnesty International have reported that at least 40 protesters in Burma, including seven Buddhist monks, have been jailed after secret trials over last year's pro-democracy marches. Officially, more than 3000

Peru: Arrests for participating in Bolivarian conference

Human rights group Rights Action, in a March 22 statement, said it was 聯extremely concerned about the current violations of fundamental human rights in Peru, particularly the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right of peaceful assembly and association聰.

Remembering the 1917 general strike

In 2007, the 90th anniversary of the New South Wales general strike was ignored by mainstream politicians and media sources 鈥 a silence that contrasted markedly with the extensive coverage allotted to the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing in 2005.

Carbon offset schemes mostly hot air

A new British government 聯kitemark聰 suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us.

Unions rally to save WorkCover

After a spirited march through the Adelaide CBD, 1500 unionists rallied on the steps of the South Australian parliament on April 1 to protest the state Labor government鈥檚 plans to dismantle the workers鈥 compensation laws.