GLW issue 594, published 2004-08-18.

Been brown so long

Been brown so long Been Brown So Long it Looked Green to Me: The Politics of NatureBy Jeffrey St ClairCommon Courage Press, Monroe, 2004410 pages, US$13Order from <http://www.commoncouragepress.com>. REVIEW BY OWEN RICHARDS

Afghan elections: the US agenda

Jenny Francis, Kabul Washington has a dream: following a large turnout at the polls in Afghanistan on October 9, US-backed interim president Hamid Karzai will win free and fair elections, and US President George Bush will claim credit for bringing

Write on: Letters to the editor

Brainwashed It's great to see that John Howard hasn't let his long tenure as prime minister change him in any way. He's still as slimy and as slippery as an eel. According to him, the debate before invading Iraq was about whether old Saddam would

Challenging Peter Garret

One of the most famous writings in the history of socialism is the Junius Pamphlet, written by German socialist Rosa Luxemburg in 1915 while she was in prison for opposing the first world war. Obviously, many things have changed in the world

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Australian News

UWA academic board rejects full-fee plans

Ben Cavalli& Fred Fuentes, Perth The highest decision making body of academics at University of Western Australia (UWA), the academic board, narrowly voted on August 11 to recommend that the UWA senate reject the current proposal to introduce

Korean troops out of Iraq!

SYDNEY — Thirty people attended a protest outside the South Korean consulate on August 14 in opposition to Korean troops in Iraq, organised by the Sydney Korean Progressive Alliance. Speakers included representatives of the Stop the War Coalition,

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International News

SUDAN: Western powers allow thousands to die every day

Norm Dixon Despite their public "resolve" and "care" for the people of western Sudan, Western governments are allowing more than 2000 hungry and sick Darfuris to die every single day for want of urgently needed food, medicines and shelter. The

CHINA: Pensioners paying the price for profit

Eva Cheng Although only a small fraction of China's numerous protests in the last decade have been documented by media, from those reports we have, the willingness of aged pensioners to defend their rights stands out. According to a 2002 China

Further International News

Editorial

Another con from James Hardie?

On the last day of the NSW government inquiry into building products firm James Hardie's asbestos compensation fund, the barrister representing the company at the inquiry made an anouncement implying that James Hardie would pay full compensation to

Cultural Dissent

Challenging Western media 'objectivity'

Control RoomDirected by Jehane Noujaim83 minutes Distributed in Australia by Rialto Entertainment REVIEWED BY VANNESSA HEARMAN Control Room is a moving account of life inside the Qatar-based Aljazeera satellite television station, during the

The sinking of SIEV X: new book reveals scandal

BY SARAH STEPHEN If you try to recall the Coalition government's most outrageous attacks on asylum seekers, chances are you would recall the Tampa Affair, the children overboard incident, and the isolated, madness-inducing, detention centres. But

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