BY STEPHEN MARKS
MANAGUA — “Every pig has its Saturday” is a popular Nicaraguan saying,
which refers to slaughter of fattened pigs on Saturdays for the weekend
cooking pot. For former right-wing president Arnoldo Aleman, Saturday seems
to
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[This letter was received from
Lesley McCulloch via an email from the Acehnese human rights activists
working for her release from Indonesian custody. It was written on September
27.]
Those of you who know me personally can confirm I am
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The immigration detention centre at Woomera in South Australia has been at the centre of the public controversy surrounding the mandatory detention of asylum seekers since it was opened in 1999. The brutal conditions
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — As the Indonesian economy sinks into even deeper crisis, a major social and political crisis has begun to unfold. This crisis began with the September 11 re-election by the Jakarta provincial parliament of retired general
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Last October, in the early hours of the morning, a young expectant mother called Fatima Abed-Rabo awoke with intense labour pains. She and her husband Nasser set out in a friend's car for the hospital in Bethlehem, in
BY JIM GREENThe German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic-Greens coalition government was narrowly re-elected in the September 22 national elections.The Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the conservative Christian Democratic
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Weekly cartoonist Chris Kelly with his collection of sculptures “The
Subterraneans”, modelled on members of the Howard cabinet, and Kelly's
stand-alone piece titled “John Howard — Desert Warrior — the Poor Man's
Napoleon” (above).
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH —
Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's presidential compound has brought the
Palestinian plight back into world headlines alongside the impending US-led
invasion of Iraq.
While the mainstream media has largely
BY ROHAN PEARCE
John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary
Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS
TV at 8.30pm on October 8.
A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
According to independent left-wing Colombian MP Gustavo Montealegre Almario, Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, is the leader of the country's right-wing paramilitary death squads groups.
Montealegre told Â鶹ӳ»
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — Martin Kingham, the Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), faces the possibility of six months' imprisonment. Kingham was formally charged with being in contempt of the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
MELBOURNE —"We want to draw the link between war and corporate globalisation, and win people to the perspective that a movement against neo-liberalism and imperialism in a time of war needs to become an anti-war movement", Kylie
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