What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #434 January 31, 2001

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                            Green Left Weekly,
                                 Issue #434
                             January 31, 2001

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Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an

environmental and left perspective.

Featured this week: BUSH -- CORPORATE CROOKS AND RIGHT-WING KOOKS

Newly inaugurated US President George W. Bush has nominated as his
cabinet
members individuals closely connected with the far-right of US politics
--
from "mainstream" to the outright kooky. Green Left Weekly outlines the
background of some of Bush administration's key members.

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COVER STORY

 * UNITED STATES: Corporate crooks and right-wing kooks
 * The best president money can buy
 * J20: `Hail to the thief'
 * `Never trust a son of a Bush'

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * PHILIPPINES: People's power rides again
 * SWITZERLAND: Protesters defy police ban
 * SRI LANKA: Tamils fear war escalation
 * LATIN AMERICA: US to tighten trade screws
 * INDONESIA: Moves towards anti-Golkar alliances begin
 * INDONESIA: Wahid surrenders sovereignty to IMF
 * PALESTINE: `No return, no justice, no peace'

ISSUES

 * M1 alliances plan to `capture the spirit of S11'
 * Did the East Timor intervention kill off `Vietnam syndrome'?
 * Cuba: what is the US scared of?
 * Reconciliation and the Aboriginal rights movement

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * DSP calls for socialist electoral alliance
 * Appeal for Socialist Alliance candidates
 * Sit-in at Maribyrnong detention centre
 * Aborigines protest Invasion Day
 * Socialists to contest Queensland elections

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * Retro Country Joe
 * In defence of Bob Dylan
 * Latest Links magazine: Equip yourself for global dissent
 * Rory McLeod: `unorthodox and brilliant'


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