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Capital punishment is flourishing in many countries today. The United States of America is one of those countries. More than half of the states in the US are killing their citizens.
America's death rows are morbid,
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For many Australians, Africa conjures up images of famine, war, poverty and helplessness. But now a campaign aims to show Africa's other face — its many achievements and the superhuman efforts that Africans are making to improve their lives.
By Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — A highlight of the Resistance conference earlier this month was Didit T, a student activist from Indonesia. Her eyewitness reports gave a rare insight into conditions there. Didit became politically active when
Rock 'n' Roll Call
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
Bluebird/BMG Records
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
The greatest myth in modern popular music folklore is that what has become known as "rock 'n' roll" was suddenly "invented" by a motley
Land rights issue at WA TLC
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Addressing the Western Australian Trades and Labour Council meeting on July 13, Rob Riley, the executive officer for the Aboriginal Legal Service, told the meeting it was important
Deep sea diving machismo
Dark Side of the Heart
A film by Eliseo Subiela and Roger Frappier
Screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Argentinean Eliseo Subiela, the producer of the
'You eat pesticides'
On June 29, the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released its long-awaited report — "Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children".
The NAS concluded that testing procedures for measuring
By Anne Casey
Three years ago the Australian government put a moratorium on food irradiation and on the import of irradiated food. Today, serious and unresolved questions about the issue remain.
The government commissioned the World
South Korean workers strike
By Michael Chong
On July 8 the workers of the nine largest subsidiaries of the largest corporation in South Korea, the Hyundai Group, began to go on strike.
The strike is in protest against the company's
By Sean Malloy
On July 26, 1953, 131 young Cubans attacked the Moncada military garrison in Santiago de Cuba, while a smaller group attacked army headquarters at Bayamo. The events were the beginning of a mass movement that would end of the
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — A mass meeting of cleaners from the NSW Cleaning Service (a state government department), on a 24-hour strike, filled the Sydney Town Hall to capacity on July 16. Numerous simultaneous meetings in country centres
By Norm Dixon
Moves are under way to begin negotiations between leaders of the independence-seeking Bougainville Interim Government, which controls much of the island, and Bougainvilleans representing those areas under PNG Defence Force
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