The decision to make public a presidential order in July authorising US strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and on the periphery of, the Bush administration.
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Relative calm has returned to Bolivia following a three-week offensive of violence and terrorism launched by the US-backed right-wing opposition denounced by Bolivian President Evo Morales as a 鈥渃ivil coup鈥.
As I write this column the newspapers report that United States, Canadian, European and Japanese banks have combined to inject an extra US$180 billion (A$225 billion) into global financial markets. It is the latest desperate measure to try to stem the year-old global financial crisis commonly 鈥 and misleadingly 鈥 labelled the US subprime mortgage crisis.
Union Solidarity activists blockaded the Dandenong mail distribution centre overnight on September 19 in response to Australia Post鈥檚 proposed transfer of a union delegate who took strike action three months ago.
Max Phillips, a newly elected Greens councillor in Marrickville and the Greens聮 campaign coordinator for the September 13 NSW local government elections, puts the swing to the Greens down to the state Labor government聮s implosion.
On September 17, the Thai parliament elected a candidate from the People聮s Power Party (PPP), Somchai Wongsawat, to be the next prime minister.
Four retired and one active Venezuelan military officials have been arrested, a further 33 questioned and the US ambassador expelled in the wake of the September 10 revelation of a planned coup and assassination attempt against President Hugo Chavez.
People power came to Gunnedah in north-west NSW on September 15 as more than 300 farmers and their supporters rallied outside the Gunnedah Basin Coal Conference. They were protesting against a coalmining project in the agriculturally rich Liverpool Plains that was given state government approval in 2006.
Amid growing tensions between the United States and Latin America, nearly 1200 young people 鈥 representing thousands more 鈥 met in the Venezuelan city of Puerto Ordaz on September 11-13 to found the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV).
The Australian Services Union (ASU) Victorian secretary, Ingrid Stitt, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly that Labor聮s new Interim Transitional Employment Agreements are a 聯wolf in sheep聮s clothing聰. The ITEAs were introduced by the Rudd government to replace the notorious Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs <17> individual contracts).
The below sign-on statement, 聯In Support of Cuba: Worldwide call to artists and intellectuals聰, has been issued by the Cuban government. To add your name, visit .
Beauty myth
I am writing in response to Pam Rankin's questions (Write On #767) regarding the way women dress and treat their bodies. To find the answer to who "forces" Western women to wax, pluck, chemical peal and worse, we don't have to look
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