The Latin America-wide satellite television station Telesur is set to increase its broadcasting five-fold in 2006, reaching 10 million people worldwide, Telesur president Andres Izarra said on January 26 at the World Social Forum in Caracas. As well
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On January 11, Ernest McQueen, who served in the military for nearly two years until he left his unit in 1969, was arrested by police in Fort Worth, Texas. "The Marines are trying to send a message to their troops in Iraq that deserters will always
Harrison Healy, Ramallah
In East Jerusalem in the days leading up to the Palestinian election you could be forgiven for not knowing that there was an election going on. You could not find a single poster in the city. There was no information on
Racism
In your recent article "Racism: who's stirring it up?" (GLW #653), which demonstrated effectively the role of the mass media in encouraging racist attitudes, it was suggested that racism was the "ideological basis" for the war on terror and
Jon Lamb
The recent arrival of West Papuan asylum seekers in northern Australia and the restricted release of the United Nations-commissioned report from the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation on human rights abuses in East Timor
Andrew Hall
The national leadership of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), under Stephen Jones and Margaret Gillespie, was returned in the union's national officers elections held at the end of last year. It was one of the closet results
Dale Mills
Closed-circuit video cameras in every bank, on every shopfront, and in every shopping mall and train station, all centrally linked, along with every local government and private business security camera, many with live feeds to police
Doug Lorimer
The US and three of its European Union allies — Britain, France and Germany (the so-called EU-3) — managed to get an emergency meeting of the 35-member board of governors of the UN's Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency
Amanda Zivcic, Melbourne
On January 25 and 27, Union Solidarity organised a community picket outside the Fitzroy Postal Delivery Centre. The picket was called in solidarity with shop steward Peter Vining, who was sacked last year.
"Peter was
Renfrey Clarke, Adelaide
The January 18 meeting of the South Australian branch of the Socialist Alliance decided to stand a candidate in the seat of Port Adelaide in the March 18 state election. The Port Adelaide community has some of the strongest
On January 24, more than 1 million people demonstrated outside the US Interest Section in Havana against US aggression. Days earlier, a screen was installed on the USISH building to display continuous provocative messages. The following is abridged
Kim Bullimore
In a stunning victory, the Islamic Palestinian resistance group Hamas claimed 76 of the 132 seats in the second Palestinian Authority (PA) election on January 25. This was the first election for the Palestinian Legislative Assembly
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