A report from the bipartisan US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the costs of the Iraq war released on February 1 revealed that US President George Bush聮s plan, announced on January 10, to deploy an additional 21,500 US troops to Iraq this year could result in up to an extra 48,000 troops being deployed.
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Fifty people heard leading Queensland Aboriginal activist Sam Watson announce at a February 7 public meeting held in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Leichhardt that Queensland Police Sergeant Chris Hurley was formally charged on February 5 with manslaughter and assault occasioning bodily harm for the 2004 death in custody of Palm Island Aborigine Mulrunji Doomadgee.
On February 2, ABC News Online reported the laying off of 110 workers by Melbourne carpet manufacturer Feltex. A spokesperson for Godfrey Hirst, which took over Feltex late last year, said the workers聮 jobs would go with the closure of the Feltex factories in Tottenham and Braybrook in Melbourne聮s west. This 聯vindicated聰 workers and unionists who had resisted attempts by Godfrey Hirst to take away their redundancy entitlements, Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union media officer Tommy Clarke told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
91自拍论坛 Weekly has received a desperate appeal from Papernas (the National Liberation Party of Unity) in Indonesia for emergency solidarity in the wake of severe floods in Jakarta and surrounding heavily populated areas.
The announcement that charges have been laid against 31-year-old Australian man David Hicks, who has now been held in US military custody in Guantanamo Bay for more than five years, has been welcomed by the Howard government, which is unable to charge Hicks with any crime under Australian law.
A man released without charge after a week in detention as one of the latest batch of police 鈥渢error suspects鈥 has branded Britain as 鈥渁 police state for Muslims鈥. Abu Bakr, one of nine men arrested in high-profile raids in Birmingham on January 31, made the comment on the BBC Newsnight program following his release on February 7. One other man was released along with Bakr; another seven are still being held in police custody.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the referendum that acknowledged Aboriginal people as citizens in their own country. Forty years seems like a long time 聴 so how much has really changed?
Prime Minister John Howard created a stir in late November when, in Vietnam for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, he publicly defended the Australian role in the Vietnam War. Howard said, 鈥淚 supported our involvement at the time and I don鈥檛 intend to recant that 鈥 I supported the reasons for Australia鈥檚 involvement and nothing has altered my view that, at the time, on the assessments that were made then, I took that view and I took that view properly.鈥
Following years of a sustained campaign by the ruling elite to vilify Islam, the 2007 federal election is shaping up to be a 聯Muslim聰 election, with the two major parties trying to out-do each other with racist slurs against Arabs and Muslims.
Critics of Venezuela聮s socialist president, Hugo Chavez, 聯finally feel vindicated (again)聰, Venezuelanalysis.com editor Gregory Wilpert wrote in a February 6 comment piece. 聯The Venezuelan dictatorship that they have been predicting for the past eight years has, according to them, finally come to pass 聴 for the sixth or so time.聰
Nepalese PM Girija Prasad Koirala has vowed to amend the country鈥檚 constitution to meet the key demands of Madheshi protesters from the country鈥檚 southern plains, BBC News reported on February 8. He pledged to introduce a federal system of governance and more representation of the southern plains in the parliament.
The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of 聯buying time聰 for its disaster in Iraq. In announcing what he called a 聯surge聰 of US troops in Iraq, George W. Bush identified Iran as his real target. 聯We will interrupt the flow of support [to the insurgency in Iraq] from Iran and Syria聰, he said. 聯And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.聰
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