One of the last favours the Howard government will be asked to perform for the Bush regime will be to attempt to soften the crushing diplomatic defeat the US suffers every year at the United Nations over its ongoing economic blockade of Cuba.
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Che Guevara: The Body And The Legend 鈥 Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the world's most famous revolutionary, was executed in October 1967. SBS, Friday, October 12, 8.30pm.
The Motorcycle Diaries 鈥 In 1952, 23-year-old Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his
In a surprise move, former Northern Land Council chairperson Galarrwuy Yunupingu has reversed his opposition to the Howard government鈥檚 intervention into NT Aboriginal communities and, on September 20, announced that he had made a deal with federal Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough to enter into 99-year leases to Canberra of parts of his traditional land in north-east Arnhem Land.
On September 29, US-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered to meet Taliban leader Mullah Omar and give the Taliban 聴 classified as 聯terrorists聰 by the US and its NATO allies 聴 posts in his government.
More than six months have passed since the inauguration of the new 聯21st Century Sandinista聰 government of Nicaragua after Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) assumed the presidency in January. Jubilant celebrations of that event expressed the excitement of hundreds of thousands of Sandinista supporters. New hopes for an escape from the hell of neoliberal catastrophes breezed across our country聮s mountains, volcanoes, valleys and lakes, from the large cities to the remote hinterlands and coasts.
鈥淚n a very short time, we have begun to advance over all of that which was reversed over the past 80 years鈥 in Latin America, argues Argentine author Luis Bilbao. 鈥淢any revolutionary militants and leaders in Latin America and the world are left perplexed and don鈥檛 understand what is happening in this region today.鈥
The 120,000-strong University and College Union has called off a debate on a possible academic boycott of Israeli universities, as well as a speaking tour of Britain by Palestinian academics. UCU delegates at the union聮s annual Congress in May had voted to circulate and debate a proposal for an academic boycott of Israel issued by Palestinian trade unions, NGOs and community organisations.
As it Happened: Che Guevara 聴 the body and legend
SBS, Friday October 12, 8.30pm
The Motorcycle Diaries
SBS, Saturday October 13, 10.15pm
SBS, Friday October 12, 8.30pm
The Motorcycle Diaries
SBS, Saturday October 13, 10.15pm
According to official figures, over 1 million aspiring members of the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) participated in the election of spokespeople, as part of the latest phase in its construction, which will culminate with a founding congress scheduled to begin on October 27. Congress delegates will be elected from the spokespeople.
聯In a setback for the United States, Iran won a two-month reprieve from new UN sanctions over its nuclear program on Friday. The Bush administration and its European allies ceded to Russian and Chinese demands to give Tehran more time to address international concerns聰, Associated Press reported on September 29.
The federal environment minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has given government approval to the construction of the Gunns pulp mill in the Tasmanian Tamar Valley, planned to be the biggest pulp mill in the world. The decision, announced on October 4, attached an extra the 24 conditions to the approval, on top of 24 conditions previously imposed.
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