Status quo
"Conservatives and Liberals do not read books. They don't buy books and they're not changers and thinkers. They are there to maintain the status quo." — Tim Curnow, managing director of publishing agents Curtis Brown, on why there is a
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By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
US hostage
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — The FSLN congress held here May 20-22 made important advances in strengthening the largest party in Nicaragua and one of the largest left-wing organisations in Latin America. Called last year with the agenda of
By Petra Roith
[The Nicaraguan Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Marena) launched a campaign in 1993 to protect the sea turtle, an endangered species. The program's actions are focused on the dry tropical forests of Chacocente,
By Brandon Astor Jones
[African-Americans] ... must not make the mistake of the German Jews, who assumed that if the German nation received some of them as intellectual and social equals, the whole group would be safe. It took only a
Directed By David Cronenberg
Screenplay by David Henry Hwang
Featuring Jeremy Irons, John Lone and Ian Richardson
Reviewed by L. Pradhan
M.Butterfly opens in Beijing in 1964, where Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons) is a lowly accountant in
Fascist danger
Good to see his Holiness, the pope, rush out his new encyclical Periculum Urgentum Neo-Fascistorum Italianorum, warning the world of the Fascist danger.
Well done, Wally Wolodja!
Denis Kevans
Wentworth Falls NSW
East
By Anthony Brown
Seventeen Filipina women and four children have died violently in Australia since 1980. In most cases, their Australian partners were implicated.
A national Filipina women's organisation, the Centre for Philippine Concerns
By Jackie Coleman
MANAGUA — Increased participation of women in the FSLN was a focal point of discussions before the party's recent extraordinary congress. One woman delegate, Lucy Gonzalez Picado, told Green Left, "There is no other party in
By Jose Ramos Horta
Ninoy Aquino was gunned down on the tarmac of the airport now honouring his name. I first met Ninoy in the early 80s when he addressed a human rights meeting at Colombia University in New York. I was most impressed and
Paving over Pyrmont?
Concrete City, a documentary film about Pyrmont, the small urban Sydney community which is to host the world's largest gambling casino as part of a huge urban consolidation, will be launched at the Mandolin Cinema on June
Lawyers picket over watch-house scandal
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "If these men in the City Watch-house were dogs, the RSPCA would close it in 12 hours", commented Salvation Army courts chaplain Major Bruce Buckmaster on June 10. "The
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