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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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Official: Britain is 22nd rate
By Frank Noakes
LONDON — Thatcherism, the rule of the market and large scale privatisation have had one major triumph — the rich have gotten richer. Judged by any other standard, Tory ideology has
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.
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
Young people in the Netherlands have been at the forefront of resistance to the government's austerity program. In Amsterdam two leaders of the Dutch radical youth group Rebel, Barend de Voogd and Wilco Altena, talked with Green Left Weekly's
'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 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
Opposition to Mt Wellington plan
By Sarah Stephen
HOBART — A proposal to construct a cable car, revolving restaurant and artificial ski field on Mt Wellington — the beautiful, largely untouched, backdrop to the city — has state
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
By Nick Fredman
LONDON — Key recommendations of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice are not only inadequate, but positively harmful to the rights of the accused, according to supporters of civil liberties here.
The royal