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Australia Thrashes Bush-ite Coalition: But What Next?
By Dr Gideon Polya

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Australia voted in the 2007 Federal Elections on Saturday November 24, 2007. The result was a Labor party thrashing of the incumbent Bush-ite Coalition Government under the “Little Bush” John Howard, who is likely to lose his seat

Nandigram-III: Lessons And Challenges
By Dipankar Bhattacharya

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The year 2007 will be remembered as the year when the CPI(M) completely unmasked itself in the mirror of Nandigram. If January 2007 was re-enacted in March, November witnessed a brutal replay of the atrocities perpetrated in March 2007. Each time the operation has been more lethal and barbaric than the previous episode

Nandigram: The Cowardice Of Mediocrity
By Aseem Shrivastava

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Nandigram shows that the CPM is just another face of the forces that threaten the polity

Preventing The Impending War On Iran
By Marjorie Cohn

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As we go to the polls in the coming months, it is imperative we scrutinize the candidates’ positions on Iraq and Iran. The security of the United States, as well as the Middle East, is hanging in the balance

Iraq’s Sovereignty Revisited
By Ghali Hassan

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The current state of Iraq is a U.S.-installed colonial dictatorship. The puppet government is a façade legitimising the Occupation and covering-up its murderous crimes against the Iraqi people. There is no sovereignty when 175,000 U.S. troops and some 180,000 foreign mercenaries rampaging through the streets of Iraqi towns and cities and killing Iraqis with impunity. So, what “sovereignty” Mr. Bush was talking about?

Reckoning: The Economic Consequences Of Mr. Bush
By Joseph E. Stiglitz

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When we look back someday at the catastrophe that was the Bush administration, we will think of many things: the tragedy of the Iraq war, the shame of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the erosion of civil liberties. The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be felt beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this page

Darkness Falls On The Middle East
By Robert Fisk

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In Beirut, people are moving out of their homes, just as they have in Baghdad

Tragedy And Travesty At Annapolis
By Stephen Lendman

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November 27 at Annapolis kicks off the latest Israeli-Palestinian Middle East peace process round that may be an historic first. It’s the first time in memory the legitimate government of one side is excluded, and that alone dooms it. Like previous rounds, it’s more pretense than peace

Apartheid In Israel Palestine! Viability In Annapolis?
By Eileen Fleming

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Will Annapolis end with more than handshakes and photo ops? Is a viable Palestinian state even possible?

The Final Battle In Bolivia
By Roger Burbach

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Evo Morales, the first Indian president of Bolivia, is forcing a showdown with the oligarchy and the right wing political parties that have stymied efforts to draft a new constitution to transform the nation. He declares, “Dead or alive I will have a new constitution for the country by December 14,” the mandated date for the specially elected Constituent Assembly to present the constitution

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