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The flashing sabers have once again shown their edge in Latin America: the coups d'etat and destabilization processes orchestrated from Washington have succeeded in countries where governments are implementing reform that may be uncomfortable for the digestion of the hemispheric elite-Venezuela

By Nicola Nasser*

 

In his speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a new Israeli “peace plan,” with preconditions that a Palestinian negotiator must first meet before he would “promptly” engage in “unconditional” bilateral talks to meet an international consensus demanding the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Isr

This morning a group of around 15 residents confronted Transport Minster Steven Joyce in protest against the planned state highway 20 extension. Joyce had been intending to walk through Alan Wood Park which would be destroyed by the new motorway but residents who are members of a group “Tunnel or Nothing” had become aware of his visit and were waiting for him when he arrived.

NORML President Phil Saxby donned a white coat and stethoscope in Wellington's Cuba St yesterday, handing out 'prescriptions' describing illnesses which can be treated with cannabis. 'Dr Phil' was part of a lunchtime demonstration organized by local NORML supporters, and Billy McKee of Green Cross, in support of the Metiria Turei's private member's bill on medicinal cannabis.