Gregory Wilpert, Caracas
Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA took over seven oil fields in early April, which were previously run by foreign oil companies. Five of these fields were ceded to PDVSA intentionally and the others — one run by
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Greg Harris
Twenty-first century technology is making giant strides forward in some key areas. One of these is cinematic special effects. Having already relegated script-writers to a minor role, US movie studios are near the point where they can do
CANBERRA — One-hundred-and-fifty people demonstrated here on April 8 in support of a bill proposed by ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope that would give same-sex couples access to civil unions.
After a noisy march through the city amid a sea of
Murray Smith, Paris
"The executive is in tatters, the ministers squabble, the [parliamentary] majority is rent by divisions". The quotation is not from one of the leaders of the mass movement against the CPE (First Employment Contract) that has
Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter, Caracas
"One important idea that [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez had was to give power to the poor people. In the classic fight between the classes, the rich people have all the money and control of the government.
ARMIDALE — Ten people joined an April 6 protest against Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Peter Hendy, called by Unions Armidale. Hendy had been invited by the local Liberal Party branch to talk about the "merits" of the Work Choices
Trent Hawkins
Since 1996, the Howard government has presided over the cutting of 20,000 government-funded places for students at universities as a result of funding not being properly indexed to inflation, the reduction of untied government funding
SYDNEY — The NSW Labor government has announced that riot police with Tasers, CS gas and police dogs can now be used against children detained in juvenile detention facilities. Juvenile justice minister Tony Kelly is quoted in the April 6 Sydney
Doug Lorimer
"Shiite Muslim religious leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric against the United States during Friday prayers", the April 1 Los Angeles Times reported, adding that "Shiite religious leaders throughout the country ... condemned a March
Tim Anderson
While New Matilda magazine's proposal for a bill of rights in 2006 is far superior to the 1999 republic proposal and failed referendum (to simply impose an appointed president in place of a constitutional monarch), I think it will fail
Jim Green
From the corporate media reports of the uranium export agreement struck between Canberra and Beijing last week, you could be forgiven for not knowing that China need not subject a single gram of Australian uranium to safeguards
The Cuban Revolution and Venezuela and Barrio Adentro and Other Social Missions in the Bolivarian revolutionBy German SanchezOcean Press, 200633 pages
REVIEW BY EMMA CLANCY
German Sanchez, Cuban ambassador to Venezuela since 1994, offers the
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