When General Suharto, the West鈥檚 man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered 鈥渁 gleam of light in Asia鈥, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million 鈥渃ommunists鈥 was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called 鈥渢he richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in south-east Asia鈥.
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Most people reading or hearing the news story last week about the 12-year-old Aboriginal boy who was taken to court in Western Australia (WA) and charged with receiving stolen goods 鈥 a 70 cent chocolate Freddo 鈥 would have thought this was a sick joke.
Ignoring calls from the Washington-based Human Rights Watch to tie the granting of further money to the Sri Lankan government to demands such as resettling the more than 250,000 Tamils imprisoned in detention camps, the International Monetary Fund has granted the regime a further $329.4 million.
Eighteen former South African workers who suffer from silicosis or silico-tuberculosis are bringing a test case against the mining giant Anglo American South Africa (AASA), a subsidiary of the British-based Anglo American Corporation, the British Guardian said on November 17. The workers were employed by AASA between the 1970s and 1998.
I'm Sorry Mr. Okoye 鈥 and Mr. Nguyen too
For the abuse you suffered at the hands
Of those who should have better things to do;
There are evils done under the cover of night
Or in distance and desert, hid from our sight
You know we mistreat
More than 200 activists, including a large proportion of youth and women, packed Kuala Lumpur鈥檚 Chinese Assembly Hall for the first day of Socialism 2009, an annual conference organised by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM).
Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose wholly-owned subsidiary Tetley makes the world famous Tetley Teas, has taken 6500 people hostage through hunger, IUF.org said on November 12. The se include 1000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India. The workers have been locked and denied wages for all but two days鈥 work since early August
Becoming Muhammad Ali 鈥 The story of Cassius Clay, a charismatic black boxer from Kentucky, who defied the personal and political restraints of his time, to emerge a global hero. SBS2, Sunday, November 29, 11am.
Living Black 鈥 Australia's only
Seventy years ago in New York City, a combination of outraged political radicalism and artistic grandeur derived from wounded humanity produced a song that struck to the heart of racism in the US.
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