John Bonsai (a very small bush) Howard is morally bankrupt, and cannot be trusted. While Saddam Hussein was a nasty bit of work, all of Bonsai鈥檚 arguments for war were lies.
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'Welfare cheats'
The Howard government has spent the past decade misrepresenting the facts to justify frequent "crackdowns on welfare cheats". There are around 3000 convictions for welfare fraud per year, or 0.05% of the total number of
A March 9 press release by the Washington-based Venezuela Information Office (VIO) pointed out that a US State Department report released on March 6 聯reveals that Venezuela strives to guarantee human rights and in fact, is beefing up measures to provide accessible avenues for lodging complaints and holding violators accountable聰.
It seems the Howard government鈥檚 relentless attempts to blast opposition leader Kevin Rudd for meetings last year with disgraced former WA Labor premier and current 鈥減olitical lobbyist鈥 Brian Burke have missed their target, or even backfired. A poll, published in the March 12 Sydney Morning Herald, showed Labor鈥檚 potential vote and approval for Rudd continuing to climb, with support for the Coalition and PM John Howard鈥檚 ratings declining further.
A March 9 Venezuelanalysis.com article reported that the previous day Venezuelan authorities had arrested two National Guard officers over an alleged plot to assassinate Hugo Chavez, the country聮s socialist president. Agents from Venezuela聮s Military Intelligence Directorate took retired General Ramon Guillen Davila and his son, Capitan Tomas Guillen, into custody. They will be tried for instigating rebellion.
The federal Coalition, some state Labor governments and the corporate media have been justifying racist policies by claiming they are defending women鈥檚 rights. This argument has been one of several 鈥渏ustifications鈥 for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for why we should all be worried about refugee arrivals.
Morris Iemma聮s calculatedly boring 聯I聮m-so-predictable-so-vote-for-me聰 campaign has virtually put NSW to sleep. More than ever before, interest in the NSW state elections has dwindled to the point where even the Fairfax-owned Sydney Morning Herald is desperately trying to generate interest by running the hapless opposition聮s election campaign for it.
Tens of thousands of people continue to suffer the effects of the world鈥檚 worst industrial disaster 鈥 the chemical explosion and leakage of deadly gasses in 1984 at the Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical) pesticide manufacturing plant in Bhopal, which killed thousands of people. Survivors have launched a hunger strike to demand urgent assistance from the Madhya Pradesh government, including decent health care, uncontaminated drinking water, jobs, and pensions for those who are too ill to work. Wells in Bhopal are poisoned by toxic chemicals leaking from the abandoned factory 鈥 which Dow refuses to clean up 鈥 including agents known to cause cancer and birth defects. Survivors are also demanding reparations from the company. While the victims and their families continue to suffer, Dow corporate executives have not been brought to justice and continue to live in luxury in the US. Send a message of solidarity to the survivors at . For more information visit .
On March 16 police arrested Satur Ocampo, a member of Congress from the left-wing Bayan Muna party list. Ocampo, who had been in hiding for eight days, was taken into custody shortly after he filed a court petition to quash the arrest warrant. He faces charges of killing military spies in the 聮80s, according to a March 17 Philippine Daily Inquirer report.
A True Person
Written by Gabiann Marin
Illustrated by Jacqui Grantford
New Frontier Publishing, 2007
27 pages, $24.95
Written by Gabiann Marin
Illustrated by Jacqui Grantford
New Frontier Publishing, 2007
27 pages, $24.95
Ugly Betty
With America Ferrera & Eric Mabius
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