Thousands of Red Shirt supporters rallied at a concert in the Thailand seaside resort city of Pattaya on September 4, in what was one the biggest mobilisations since the military bloodily dispersed their mass protest camp in Bangkok on May 19, 2010, killing 91 and injuring thousands more.
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鈥淎n inquiry into the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, a corruption finding against a NSW Maritime lawyer and, to top it off, the resignation of a cabinet minister who admitted accessing adult and gambling websites on his parliamentary computer. 鈥淓ven by the standards of the eternally scandal-ridden Labor government, yesterday was a bad day for public administration in NSW.
NSW Christian Democrat Senator and right-wing Christian fundamentalist Fred Nile, who has built a career as a 鈥渕oral crusader鈥, was caught in a NSW parliamentary audit that revealed his parliamentary computer had been used to access pornographic sites.
A huge transformation of agriculture is taking place in Venezuela, a transformation that has lessons for every other country in the world. I had the opportunity in July to visit the country and see the changes that are taking place first hand.
Venezuela鈥檚 Law of the Land and Agrarian Development, the Law of Food Sovereignty and Security, and the Law of Integrated Agricultural Health set out the agenda.
The Obama administration seems to believe that the president has the authority to order the assassination of anyone, including US citizens, if they meet certain as-yet-undisclosed criteria.
One US citizen, accused terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, has been widely reported to be on a US government 鈥渒ill list鈥 鈥 making him just one of several US citizens the government is reportedly trying to kill without charge or trial.
Good and evil is back in vogue with the US far right.
Former president George W. Bush and the Republican Party attacked opponents of his invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan as aiding the 鈥渆vil doers鈥. And such evil should be tackled by whatever means necessary, no matter what the US constitution or international law says.
This tactic sent the many liberals and Democratic Party politicians running to the corners and lining up behind the war mongers.
A series of problems and challenges are facing the Bolivian government of President Evo Morales, the country鈥檚 first indigenous head of state, and the process of change it leads has emerged. There has been a range of commentary on these challenges. 91自拍论坛 Weekly publishes these two pieces as part of our ongoing coverage of the Latin American revolution. The article below is by Eduardo Paz Rada, editor of Bolivian-based magazine Patria Grande. It has been translated by Federico Fuentes.
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Many analysts have rushed to give their opinions regarding the 鈥渃risis of the MAS鈥 and its consequences.
Yet, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS 鈥 the party of President Evo Morales) has always been in crisis 鈥 if by crisis we mean internal disputes for power and the existence of personal interests.
Despite this permanent 鈥渃risis鈥, the MAS was able to cohere the majority of plebeian sectors through a kind of corporative alliance.
The world of international cricket has been rocked by allegations of a betting scandal involving players in Pakistan鈥檚 national cricket team. British tabloid News of the World published allegations that Pakistan players had bowled 鈥渘o-balls鈥 at an exact moment in the game in return for money from bookmakers. The scandal has also raised speculation of Pakistan players being involved in match-fixing on behalf of bookmakers. Three Pakistani players have been suspended from international cricket and charged by the International Cricket Council over their alleged role in the scandal.
A multi-party conference in Lahore on August 29 has launched a campaign to cancel Pakistan's crippling foreign debt and to organise mass rallies in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. The first rally took place on September 2 in Islamabad.
The Labour Relief Campaign, in association with Oxfam Pakistan, called the conference to discuss the issue of debt repayment in the post-flood scenario. It was chaired by Aman Kariaper and Ammar Ali Jan.
Senator Hasil Bezinjo vowed to take the issue to Pakistan鈥檚 Senate and present a resolution to demand that government refuse to pay the foreign debt.
鈥淲e won. It鈥檚 over, America. We brought democracy to Iraq.鈥 Those were the words of a soldier from the 4th Stryker Brigade, supposedly among the last US combat soldiers to leave Iraq, quoted in the August 20 www.DailyMail.co.uk two weeks ahead of President Barack Obama鈥檚 August 31 deadline for withdrawal.
The Obama administration is claiming the withdrawal of combat soldiers represents a new day for the country. 鈥淧olitics, not war, has broken out in Iraq鈥, US Vice-President Joe Biden told an August 23 convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, www.CSMonitor.com said that day.
鈥淭he Iowa egg producer that federal officials say is at the center of a salmonella outbreak and recalls of more than a half-billion eggs has repeatedly paid fines and settled complaints over health and safety violations and allegations ranging from maintaining a 鈥榮exually hostile鈥 work environment to abusing the hens that lay the eggs. 鈥淚n the past 20 years, according to the public record, the DeCoster family operation, one of the 10 largest egg producers in the country, has withstood a string of reprimands, penalties and complaints about its performance in several states 鈥
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