Thirty women have been murdered in Algeria in the last few months for not wearing the veil. Other women have been raped or abducted. These crimes followed the circulation of a leaflet by Islamic fundamentalists stating that any woman not wearing
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By David Robie
Romeo Legaspi, an outspoken columnist and publisher of the Voice of Zambales, was last seen by his family on January 11, 1993. After the Filipino journalist vanished, police showed his family photographs of a charred corpse. It
By Irina Glushchenko and Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Every spring since the Chernobyl catastrophe in April 1986, the Russian press has returned to history's worst nuclear disaster. In the first years, the articles focused on the heroism of the
By Andrew B. Rens
CAIRNS — Students have condemned a plan by the Queensland government to sell off rainforest hill slopes surrounding the future James Cook University campus at Smithfield, north of here.
The land, which adjoins World
Baraka
Baraka
A film by Ron Fricke
Reviewed by Andrea Carroll
"Baraka" is an ancient Sufi word meaning a blessing or the breath/essence of life. Through a series of stunning images, the film explores the theme of the essential unity of
Kazakhstan miners need support
The following message was issued by Vassilli Myasnikov, president of the Independent Miners Union of the Western Donbass (Ukraine) on May 28.
The miners of Karaganda from Kazakhstan have been on strike since
By Tom Kelly
The declaration of a whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean is a " major victory", says Greenpeace whale campaigner Robbie Kelman. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) approved the creation of the sanctuary, which excludes
HOBART — The "Pedder 2000" campaign — to restore Tasmania's Lake Pedder to its original condition — has attracted considerable attention since it was launched on April 18 by David Bellamy, Bob Brown and the David Suzuki Foundation. They said it
Fudged definitions
Ron Guignard, in his article "Is Marxism Scientific?" (GLW #145), seems to have fudged both his definitions of Marxism and of science.
Ron's definition of science is constructed in such a way that nothing can be
By Jon Land
SYDNEY — Forty people gathered outside the office of the Philippines Department of Tourism here on May 31, protesting against the attempts by the Philippines government to stop the Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor in Manila
Greenpeace finds 'barbaric forestry' in Russia
VLADIVOSTOK — Greenpeace on May 23 called for an end to destruction of the unique forests of the Russian far east by Russian and multinational logging companies. A three-week expedition based on
By Natalie Moxham
MELBOURNE — Community groups have united once again to fight government plans to increase the traffic capacity of Alexandra Parade.
"There is strong community concern about this plan to push a six-lane freeway through
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