BY SARAH STEPHEN
At the start of a new century, the world has entered a new and frightening "age of terror", the world's ruling elite tells us. The attack on Manhattan's Twin Towers supposedly "changed everything".
There is a "real and present
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BY DALE MILLS
The Australian government has shown that it cares as little about the civil rights of Australians abroad as it does for the civil rights of Australians at home.
Australian citizen Jack Thomas has been held in detention in Pakistan
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON, June 3 — Such a high crime does not, and will not, melt away; the facts cannot be changed. Prime Minister Tony Blair took Britain to war against Iraq illegally. He mounted an unprovoked attack on a country that offered no
BY PIP HINMAN & STUART MUNCKTON
As news of Indonesian military atrocities in Aceh — including girls as young as six being raped — spreads, so does the solidarity with the Acehnese people's struggle for democracy.
On June 5, 33 people gathered
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — The local campaign against the Blackshirts chalked up a victory on May 23 when a judge upheld a five-year intervention order taken out by Brunswick woman Paula Pope against Blackshirt leader John Abbott. Abbott
North Korea and nuclear weapons
Justin Tutty (Write On, GLW #539) disagrees with my statement that "we should defend North Korea's right to develop whatever weapons it feels it needs to defend itself against the very real threat it faces" (GLW
BY RIHAB CHARIDA
Ghada Karmi's recent book, In Search of Fatima, is a very significant Palestinian narrative. Karmi takes the reader through the Palestinian experience of life interrupted, colonisation and dispossession. Karmi's book talks about
BY DON MONKERUD
The US administration announced Monday that former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair will replace Ari Fleischer as White House press secretary.
Known as a cautious and calculating press secretary who constantly ducks tough
BY SIMON MILLAR & GRAHAM WILLIAMS
MELBOURNE — The landmark 100th day of strike by 25 Electrical Trades Union members at Smorgon Steel was marked with a solidarity breakfast, provided by other unionists, on June 4.
Contingents from Australian
BY RAY HAYES
DARWIN — On June 5, five members of the Network Against Prohibition (NAP) were given jail sentences of between 16 and 21 months for "deliberately disrupting the Legislative Assembly" last year. The maximum penalty for this "crime" is
BY BARRY SHEPPARD& CAROLINE LUND
We met Heinrich Fleischer by accident, at a retirement home in Minneapolis while visiting Caroline's father. Fleischer was born in Germany in 1912, where he studied to be an organist. His lifelong profession was as
BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
Thousands of Peruvians are continuing to strike, despite a state of emergency having been imposed by the government on May 27. Strikes and protests have spread like wildfire across the country. On June 3, more than 30,000
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