I firmly believe the left and progressive forces have made a serious error in viewing and equating Libya with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Libya is not the same situation; there has been a popular people's uprising.
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In April 1915, in the midst of a stalled military campaign on the Western Front, Britain and its allies attacked Turkey鈥檚 Gallipoli Peninsula in an attempt to gain control of the Dardanelles Straits and take German-allied Turkey out of World War I.
This impressively researched volume, which relies extensively on unpublished first-hand accounts from soldiers of all sides of the conflict, is a detailed account of this 鈥渄oomed鈥 and 鈥減ointless鈥 campaign.
Europe鈥檚 biggest polluters have made billions out of the European Emissions Trading System (ETS). But a new briefing by Carbon Trade Watch (CTW) says the scheme will ensure industry will not have to cut its emissions until at least 2017.
The ETS sets a cap, or upper limit, on total emissions for 11,000 power stations and industrial plants in 30 European countries. Each company receives permits to pollute, which can be traded with other companies.
In another important step towards winning Bolivia鈥檚 national sovereignty, the country鈥檚 Plurinational Assembly has announced the expulsion from Bolivia of USAID鈥檚 Environment and Economic Development (EED) program.
USAID is funded by the US government and on its website says one of its aims is 鈥渇urthering America鈥檚 foreign policy interests鈥. The agency has come under fire for its role in funding pro-US right-wing organisations in Bolivia and the region.
Sixty-two protesters had been killed by Syrian security forces on April 29, Al Jazeera reported that day. This was the second Friday in a row that Syrian authorities had used lethal forces against protesters 鈥 100 protesters were killed in Deraa on April 22.
The United States responded by imposing sanctions on three leading figures in the regime 鈥 including President Bashar al-Assad鈥檚 brother, but not the president 鈥 and the Syrian intelligence agency.
The sixth congress of the Communist Party of Cuba ended on April 19. Not by accident, the date chosen for the meeting coincided with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the victory of Playa Giron [Bay of Pigs 鈥 at which the Cuban people defeated a US-sponsored invasion in 1961].
A request by the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, to visit alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower, United States soldier Bradley Manning, was denied in April.
At the time, Manning was being held in solitary confinement at Marine Corps Brig, Quantico in Virginia.
Speaking through his lawyer, Manning accused the guards at Quantico of treating him differently to other prisoners and reported he had been forced to strip naked by guards every night.
Mendez said US authorities had 鈥渘ot been receptive to a confidential meeting鈥 with Manning.
Since January, tens of thousands of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) militants, together with activists from other left parties and social movements, have been debating the future of Venezuela鈥檚 revolution.
Their sights are set on the crucial 2012 presidential elections.
This years鈥 pro-revolution May Day march will be the platform to officially launch Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez鈥檚 re-election bid.
The US-funded right-wing opposition is yet to decide its candidate, but the election will be critical to the future of a country undergoing a profound process of change.
The release of secret US Department of Defense files on prisoners held by the US as part of the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 confirms, in the US government鈥檚 own words, the shoddy and unreliable nature of the 鈥渆vidence鈥 used to condemn prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay torture camp.
The files released by WikiLeaks also show the mentality of the US government in its attempts to prosecute and gather information about 鈥渢errorists鈥 to justify its wars of aggression. Apart from those known to be innocent by their US captors, many others were condemned on the flimsiest of pretexts.
Forty refugee rights activists travelled by bus from Perth to Curtin Detention Centre in the remote Kimberley region of WA over the Easter long weekend. Several others joined the convergence at nearby Derby.
This was the latest convergence on a refugee detention centre organised by the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN).
Most refugee detention centres are located in remote locations to create a physical divide between refugees and the broader population. The convergence aimed to bridge this divide.
East West 101
Created & produced by Steve Knapman & Kris Wyld
Directed by Peter Andrikidis
Starring Don Hany, Susie Porter & Matt Nable
Wednesdays, 8.30pm, SBSONE
www.sbs.com.au/shows/eastwest101
The makers of critically acclaimed Australian crime series East West 101 say the third season, now airing Wednesday nights on SBS, is about the devastation wars in the Middle East have on Muslim and non-Muslim people in Australia.
It is a bold aim untouched by any other Australian network.
A number of left groups in Venezuela and solidarity groups internationally have expressed concern over the April 23 decision by Venezuelan authorities to arrest well-known Colombian journalist and supporter of the Venezuelan revolution, Joaquin Perez Becerra.
Perez Becerra was arrested when he tried to enter the country through Caracas Airport. He was deported two days later to neighbouring Colombia to face trial for supposed 鈥渢errorism鈥 charges in Colombia.
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