Just as a five-month-old campaign to oust him was losing momentum, President Chen Shui-bian was rocked on November 3 when the public prosecutor indicted his wife, Wu Shu-chen, and three other people for allegedly embezzling US$450,000 from a special diplomatic fund.
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For most of us, if you lose your job you鈥檙e in serious financial trouble. Not so for recently sacked US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
A fundraising appeal by the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) to raise US$4200 to continue publishing the weekly magazine, Mazdoor Juddojehad (Workers鈥 Struggle), has been successful.
Who Killed the Electric Car? exposes the scandal involving oil companies, car manufacturers and the US government in killing the EV1 - the battery-powered electric car produced by General Motors in 1996. The EV1 was clean, non-polluting, cheap and efficient, and could have contributed to saving the environment.
On November 9, for the 15th year in a row, the UN General Assembly called on the US government to lift its 44-year-old 鈥渆conomic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba.鈥. The non-binding resolution was approved by a record 183 votes, with only four countries (the US, Israel, Marshall Islands and Palau) voting against, and only one (Micronesia) abstaining.
Somehow
"Somehow it seeped in to [US voters'] conscious[ness] that my attitude [to the war in Iraq] was just simply stay the course. Stay the course means let's get the job done鈥 I truly believe the only way we won't win is if we leave before
On November 1, Venezuela and Guatemala announced they would both support Panama as the Latin American country to fill the vacant position on the United Nations Security Council, according to a November 2 Venezuelanalysis.com article. The two nations had been competing for the seat, with Washington campaigning strongly for Guatemala, which has one of the worst human rights records in the region.
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Scottish Socialist Party MP Rosie Kane was released from Cornton Vale women鈥檚 prison on November 8 after serving half of a 14-day jail sentence. The sentence was imposed when Kane refused to pay a 拢300 fine for participating in a 2005 anti-nuclear weapons protest at the Scottish parliament
North Korea
The imposition of sanctions on North Korea by the United Nations is another small victory for John Bolton, United States' ambassador to the UN, in his avowed campaign to either make the UN a mouthpiece for the US or to destroy its
A five-kilometre-long 鈥渕ega-march鈥 of hundreds of thousands of protesters took place in the state of Oaxaca on November 5. It demanded the resignation of the hated state governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (known as URO). Only a few days earlier, on November 2, there was a battle to keep control of Benito Juarez University from federal troops that occupied the city of Oaxaca, the state鈥檚 capital, on October 29. These were just the latest events in a popular revolt in the southern Mexican state aimed at ousting the governor after he used savage repression to curb a teachers鈥 strike in July.
The arrival of the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers in Australia in January forced Australians to confront two blights on this country鈥檚 history: the government鈥檚 appalling treatment of refugees and the same government鈥檚 ongoing support for the Indonesian occupation of West Papua. The nation held its breath (and some of us kept up the protests) while Canberra sent the West Papuans off to Christmas Island and decided on what to do next.
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