GLW issue 545, published 2003-07-09.

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John Pilger: Bush's Vietnam

BY JOHN PILGER America's two "great victories" since September 11, 2001, are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without US guns. Al Qaeda has not been defeated, and

WA prostitution control bill dumped

BY CHANTAL CARUSO The Western Australian Labor government has conceded that its contentious Prostitution Control Bill will not be passed by the upper house, and has therefore decided to shelve the bill. Through the bill, police minister Michelle

ASIO's new laws an Orwellian nightmare

BY SARAH STEPHEN It is ironic that a new law giving the ASIO secret police agency draconian powers was passed on June 26, a day after the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell. If he were alive today, Orwell would have had some great

Solomons: Troops should not go

BY CHRIS LATHAM In the lead-up to PM John Howard's announcement that Australia would send troops to the Solomon Islands, the mainstream media was filled with the lurid descriptions of violent criminal gangs terrorising the Solomons' population, and
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