GLW issue 591, published 2004-07-28.

Will Fahrenheit 9/11 bring down Bush and Howard?

Rohan Pearce "I have long thought Michael Moore a liar, and should not have been shocked when I saw his 'documentary' Fahrenheit 9/11. Even so, I was horrified. This film — breaking box-office records in America — is so deceitful that it makes

Neo-Nazis launch weekend of racist vandalism

Virginia Brown, Perth A spate of racist graffiti and vandalism in Perth over the July 17-18 weekend has been linked to Jack van Tongeren's neo-Nazi Australian Nationalists Workers Union (ANWU). Racist stickers have been plastered over lamp-posts

Write on: Letters to the editor

Iraq I John Howard assures us that the Flood report on Australia's intelligence services absolves the government of political interference. However, the decision to wage war on Iraq was a foregone conclusion. 9/11 enabled the Bush administration to

Imagining honesty in government (a novel idea!)

Susan Connolly One of the splendid things about human beings is our capacity to imagine an alternative future. This is part of the backbone of hope — hope in the conviction that life contains promise and some growth. We are at a time where we are

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Australian News

Stop killer Coke!

Stop killer Coke! MELBOURNE — On July 22, "International Stop Killer Coke day", 100 people gathered at Federation Square in solidarity with workers in Colombia. Photo from <http://melbourne.indymedia.org>. From Green Left Weekly,

News briefs

DARWIN — A Timor Sea Justice Campaign public meeting and video night on July 21 heard the latest developments in the campaign to stop the Australian government's theft of East Timor's oil and gas resources. Solidarity activist Robyn Waite, who

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International News

BOLIVIA: Was referendum result a victory for Mesa?

Federico Fuentes Nine months after the popular revolt that ousted the previous president, the Bolivian and international media are trumpeting the result of the July 18 referendum on Bolivia's natural gas industry as a win for President Carlos

Paul Foot 1937 - 2004

Chris Harman Paul was a brilliant socialist writer, a speaker more able than any other to make people see what was wrong with capitalism, a tireless campaigner against injustice, and an investigative journalist whose revelations caused the

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Editorial

Flood report whitewashes Iraq WMD lies

Former Australian spy chief Philip Flood presented a report on July 22, which found that the intelligence provided by Australia's spy agencies on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction was "thin", "ambiguous" and "incomplete". Like the Butler

Cultural Dissent

Queer As Fuk

Heard about boy who wanted to be girl.Pretended til reality beat her dead on topof barbed wire fence. brandon astor. no longer.He got laughed at, she got teasedfor looking at the same sex withlust, longing, defiant and pleasejust understand and hold

Rumours, innuendo and deceit

REVIEW BY PIP HINMAN Axis of DeceitBy Andrew WilkieBlack Inc. Agenda, 2004200 pages, $29.95 (pb) Andrew Wilkie rose to global prominence as the only spook working for a "coalition of the willing" government to resign in protest against the

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