Last week, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency was appointed chairperson of a "trilateral commission" to save the Middle East "peace process". While the appointment is apparently acceptable to both Palestine Authority head Yasser Arafat
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Ask yourself this: what has a government budget surplus ever done for you?
Has it given you good quality, prompt, free dental care?
If you're a parent, has it provided free, around-the-clock child-care?
Has it given you high quality public
PRAGUE — In the city of Kafka, hundreds of international visitors have been left wondering about the precise name of their crime, after the Czech police began a policy of random arrest following the global day of action against the World Bank and
As Israel's military forces continue to use indiscriminate and excessive force against Palestinian civilians, protests against Israel's crimes and in solidarity with the Palestinian people have been taking place around the world.
In Europe, daily
JOHANNESBURG — As part of the global protests to coincide with the September 26 (S26) protests in Prague against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, more than 300 activists from numerous South African political and community
BY GEOFF FRANCIS & PETER HICKS
Tasmanian nurses are fighting back after the state Labor government, under Premier Jim Bacon, closed another hospital, costing 50 jobs. Labor health minister Judy Jackson has announced that she will personally cross
Competition, heart of the market
Corel is a Canadian company that produces software for the publishing
industry. Some of its products, such as CorelDraw and Ventura (a product
it bought rather than invented), are among the best in the
By Erin Cameron
ROCKHAMPTON — The Reclaim the Night committee and Green Left Weekly held a successful joint feminist film afternoon on October 1, part of a series of events organised in the lead-up to this year's Reclaim the Night march.
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Fiji's military-backed interim administration plans to impose draconian new laws to counter the Fiji trade union movement's appeals for international solidarity for the democracy struggle. The regime, placed in power by the military during the coup
Ginsberg: A BiographyBy Barry MilesVirgin, 2000627 pp., $24.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
He "ruined a great many young people" with his 1956 poem, "Howl", with its "glorification of madness, drugs and homosexuality, and its contempt and hatred
The nurse holds the X-ray up to the light, and the bullet that lodged in Mohammed Abu Faress' chest comes into focus, along with bright shards of shattered bone. "A few inches either way and he would have been dead", says Ahmed al-Jabali.
Amid the
BY CHRIS SPINDLER
MELBOURNE — As the picket line at the Arrowcrest-owned Brownbuilt factory here entered its fourth week, community activists and other unionists supporting the Brownbuilt workers targeted other sites owned by Arrowcrest.
At ROH
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