[DEBATE] : Hands off Iran! - Green Left Weekly #656, February 15, 2006

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Green Left Weekly #656, February 15, 2006

Hands off Iran! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p17.htm>

Following two years of intense lobbying by the US government, an
emergency meeting of the governing board of the UN's Vienna-based
International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution on February 4
requesting IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei to report on Iran's
nuclear program to the UN Security Council after the next regular IAEA
board meeting, scheduled for March 6. [Full article]
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p17.htm>

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Racist cartoons: Why Muslims have a right to be angry
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p24.htm>

The Danish government's defence of the publication by a right-wing newspaper
of caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, including one with the leader
wearing a turban with a bomb attached to it, has provoked widespread
protests by justifiably angry Muslims around
the world. [Full article]
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p24.htm>

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International News

# IRAN: US war drive makes diplomatic advance
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p17.htm>
# IRAQ: How the corporate media promotes war
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p16.htm>
# VENEZUELA: 'Another television is possible'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p12.htm>
# Lawyer claims US special forces infiltrating Venezuela
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p13.htm>
# VENEZUELA: US aggression against revolution grows
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p14.htm>
# SOUTH AFRICA: The real state of the nation
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p19.htm>
# SOUTH AFRICA: Left candidate targeted
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p15c.htm>
# SOUTH AFRICA: Staff and students strike
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p19b.htm>
# CUBA: Chavez wins Jose Marti award
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p14b.htm>
# PALESTINE: Hamas leader offers Israelis long-term truce
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p15.htm>
# NEPAL: Elections 'deepen crisis for king'
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p18.htm>
# SOUTH KOREA: Court awards US$62m to Agent Orange victims
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p18b.htm>
# IRAN: Bus drivers demand union rights
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p18c.htm>
# VIETNAM: Workers fight foreign bosses and win
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p20.htm>

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In Brief

# BRITAIN: Victory for Palestine solidarity activists
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p15b.htm>
# PERU: BHP Billiton forced out
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p15d.htm>
# WESTERN SAHARA: Australian oil company withdraws
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p15e.htm>
# CZECH REPUBLIC: Communist Youth Movement banned
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p15f.htm>
# UNITED STATES: Amnesty raises concerns over Cuban 5 treatment
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p15g.htm>
# UNITED STATES: Katrina victims to march against war
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p13b.htm>
# UNITED STATES: New detention camps
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p13c.htm>
# WESTERN SAHARA: Calls for urgent refugee aid
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p13d.htm>

Regular Features

# Loose cannons <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p10b.htm>
# Write On: Letters to the Editor
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p8.htm>

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and Vietnamese roads")
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Cultural Dissent

# War and a tale of two satirists
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p21.htm>
# Pro-Palestinian or pro-Zionist?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p22.htm>
# Politicising Glasgow's pavements
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p22b.htm>

Comment and Analysis

# Racist cartoons: Why Muslims have a right to be angry
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p24.htm>
# AWB, the Iraq war and the Howard government
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p3.htm>
# Campaign against art censorship
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p3c.htm>
# Howard targets minimum wage and welfare benefits
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p10.htm>
# Venezuela and south-south links
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p11.htm>
# Should Chavez have helped Kirchner pay the IMD?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p11b.htm>
# RU486: women should decide
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p5.htm>
# Macquarie Fields: new year, same problems
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p7.htm>
# Our Common Cause: Reefer madness
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p7b.htm>
# Survey reveals racism growing in high schools
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p8b.htm>
# Parkin deported for peanut butter sandwiches?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p8c.htm>
# Vale Betty Goldstein, aka Betty Friedan
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p9.htm>
# Controversial desalination plant axed?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p9b.htm>

Australian News

# Interest building in Venezuelan MP's tour
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p2.htm>
# PKK terrorist tag criticised
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p2b.htm>
# Troops out of Iraq! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p3b.htm>
# Firefighters demand safe uniforms
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p4.htm>
# Union leaders slam racism at public forum
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p4c.htm>
# MUA picket in defence of sacked unionist
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p4d.htm>
# Women, not politicians, should decide
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p5b.htm>
# Another peace activist detained by ASIO
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p5c.htm>
# NSW police to trial Taser stun guns
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p6.htm>
# Socialists to contest WA by-election
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p6b.htm>
# Who would best represent working class people?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p6c.htm>
# Campaign over Recherche Bay scores win
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p6d.htm>

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