Twenty thousand heavily armed police, six navy warships and a two-kilometre nautical exclusion zone may have allowed the world leaders, including United States President Bill Clinton, attending the G8 summit in Okinawa to rest easy, but it wasn't
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Globalisation's myths revealed
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
CANBERRA — The real "globalisation" battle was not to defend the rights of the nation-state against international institutions but to defend peoples' rights against neo-liberal governments and
BY SUE BOLAND
In 1964, only 29% of people in the United States agreed with the statement, "The government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking after themselves". By 1984, that figure had increased to 55%, and by 1998 to 63%. In
Wanted: your videos of protest
Undercurrents, the British-based alternative media group, wants your videos for a new series of programs, Undercurrents Global Views 2000, focussing on "international direct action and diverse global issues". "Get
The puppet in Pakistani politics
BY DAVE RILEY
Right-wing thugs disrupted and closed the showing of a political satire, Jhoot ke Palende (Bunch of Lies), at Lahore's Al-Hamra Arts Council on June 16. The play, scheduled to run from June 15-19,
Bougainville shows its courage and community
An Evergreen IslandFrontyard FilmsMade by Mandy King and Fabio Cavadini Showing Tuesday, August 1, 7pm at the Side On Café, 83 Parramatta Road, Annandale, Sydney REVIEW BY MARK ABBERTON
In 1989,
Memo — Re: Globalisation
Over there, people live in garbage tips. Over there, you work for next to nothing. Over there, life is cheap. The root problem over there is (a) there's too many of them over there, or (b) they're not over here.
A few hours with me
"It was a delightful visit ... [but] much too short." — Jane Austen 1775-1817 While reading bits and pieces of Jane Austen's work, the quote above impressed itself upon me. I agree with her; a visit is much too short. In
Networker: Negative for capitalists
Negative for capitalists
Investment guru Warren Buffet is used to making large sums of money for investors in his Berkshire Hathaway company. At the company's annual meeting at the end of April he announced:
International news briefs
Rio Tinto workers resume blockade
JAKARTA — Coalmining company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) stopped operations on July 18 for a second time in less than five weeks after striking workers resumed their blockade in the
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