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On September 19, the third anniversary of the military coup that wrecked Thai democracy, two demonstrations took place.
There is an increasing push for US president Barack Obama to send more soldiers to Afghanistan. The push comes from the top commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal.
Waste: uncovering the global food scandalBy Tristram StuartPenguin, 2009496 pages, $25 (pb)
When I arrived in Australia as a new immigrant in August 2008, I had no job and little money. I'd read about freegans 鈥 people who live on thrown-away food 鈥 so decided to try my luck.
What is commemorated as Timor Leste鈥檚 (East Timor) 鈥渓iberation鈥 is the United Nations-facilitated referendum on August 30, 1999.
It is a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and independence.
Faced with the growing impact of the global economic crisis, Washington鈥檚 intentions to establish seven military bases in Colombia and growing challenges in solving structural problems, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reaffirmed the need to build a new state.
In April, Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru began an uprising to demand the repeal of more than a dozen neoliberal decrees by President Alan Garcia. The decrees opened up vast swathes of indigenous peoples鈥 lands to exploitation by transnational oil, mining and logging companies.
Waste: uncovering the global food scandalBy Tristram StuartPenguin, 2009496 pages, $25 (pb)
When people think of 鈥渞evolutionary art鈥, the usual image is of socialist realism or the propaganda art of the Soviet Union or China. Others may think of the Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera.
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