Green Left Weekly <http://www.greenleft.org.au/index.htm> RSS feed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/rss/glw.xml> Green Left Weekly #621, April 6, 2005 John Pilger: `Howard and Bush are war criminals' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p11.htm> `Throughout my career I have re****ted, often undercover, from countries ruled by repressive regimes where dissidents would read me re****ts in the press that were no more servile and false than the re****ting you read every day in the Murdoch papers in this country. In Eastern European states, for example, the papers had tame correspondents in Moscow who would parrot the Kremlin line. Now read the Wa****ngton correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald and there is no difference. The same parroting of Bush's dangerous absurdities, such as his claims of bringing democracy to the Middle East -- when the very opposite is true.' - John Pilger at Sydney's March 20 protest against the occupation of Iraq [Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p11.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here to join the GLW discussion list <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/> Visit the Socialist Alliance website <http://www.socialist-alliance.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free the refugees! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p24.htm> The Easter protests outside South Australia's Baxter immigration detention centre mark almost five years since the movement against mandatory detention began in earnest. [Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p24.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ International News # Pope John Paul II, a reactionary in shepherd's clothing. <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19.htm> # VENEZUELA: Is Wa****ngton planning a bloodbath in Caracas? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p16.htm> # VENEZUELA: Students sup****t education changes <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p16b.htm> # VENEZUELA: Pro Chaves forces propose to present their own candidates <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p16c.htm> # <http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org> # VIETNAM: Thirty years on, victory is celebrated <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p20.htm> # VIETNAM: Dealing with drug addiction <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p20b.htm> # UNITED STATES: Building a movement to bring down an empire <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p12b.htm> # KYRGYZSTAN: What's behind the revolt? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p14.htm> # IRAQ: Child malnutrition doubles under occupation <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p14b.htm> # GUATEMALA: Gold mine sparks murder <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p14c.htm> # IRAQ: Parliament descends into TV farce <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p15.htm> # UNITED STATES: Feeding frenzy over a feeding tube <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p15c.htm> # NEW ZEALAND: Redrawing the political map <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p17.htm> # PALESTINE: Popular movement resists attempts to curb anti-wall campaign <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p18.htm> # PALESTINE: Women's march marks Land Day <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p18b.htm> # CANADA: 150,000 students on strike <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19b.htm> # BRITAIN: Kidney doner refused visa <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19c.htm> # SWAZILAND: 1000 demand reform <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19e.htm> # BOTSWANA: Bushmen oppose BHP-Billiton <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19f.htm> # IRAQ: US soldiers get away with rape? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19g.htm> # SCOTLAND: School students defeat de****tation <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19h.htm> # CHILE: Contraception pressures ruling coalition <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p19i.htm> Regular Features # Write on: Letters to the editor <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p8.htm> # Loose cannons <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p4e.htm> # Cartoon <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/toonz.jpg> # This week in history <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p10c.htm> Comment and Analysis # John Pilger: `They are afraid of you' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p11.htm> # Asia-Pacific Interantional Solidarity Conference: Unity in the face of permanent war <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p12.htm> # Free the refugees! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p24.htm> # Protesters vow to close Baxter detention centre <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p5.htm> # Baxter action inspires Newcastle activists <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p5b.htm> # Bay dredging to cause major environmental damage <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p9.htm> # What is being proposed for ****t Phillip Bay? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p9b.htm> # A woman's place is in the struggle: Women's rights eroding in Latin America <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p8b.htm> # Our Common Cause: Unity needed to reawaken the sleeping giant <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p7b.htm> # Sup****t for ABM Plastics picket `outstanding' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p10.htm> # Greens oppose fee exemption for GLW fundraiser <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p10b.htm> Australian News # Aleida Guevara to tour Australia in May <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p7c.htm> # Union seminar discusses solidarity <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p6g.htm> # NT teachers strike for better deal <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p7.htm> # Construction unionists stop work over VSU <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p6.htm> # UNSW Guild staff strike over redundancy pay <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p6b.htm> # Speak-out condemns VSU <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p6c.htm> # Students protest Nelson <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p6d.htm> # Newcastle students oppose VSU <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p6e.htm> # Greens MP slams Boeing discrimination decision <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p2b.htm> # Lalit demands closure of US base <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p2c.htm> # Delegates vote for IR `reform' protest strike <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p3.htm> # Conference rally demands justice for TJ Hickey <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p3b.htm> # Nuclear sites exposure tour <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p4.htm> # RAR movement continues to grow <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p4b.htm> # Single mothers' group condemns welfare attacks <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p4c.htm> # Stolen wages compo deal `an insult' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p4d.htm> # Jack Thomas case a threat to civil liberties <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p2.htm> Cultural Dissent # A big, working-class heart <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p21.htm> # Bono stage right: Empire moves and co-opts in mysterious ways <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p22.htm> # `Controversial' art gets a hearing in Brisbane <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p22b.htm> # Ear plugs <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/621/621p22c.htm> Activist Calendar # Check out the Activist Calendar here <http://www.greenleft.org.au/calendar.htm> Click here for Green Left Weekly's copyleft details. <http://www.greenleft.org.au/copyleft.htm> About Green Left Weekly <http://www.greenleft.org.au/what.htm> Authorised by K. 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