BY AL GIORDANO
While it is front-page news in South America, US President George Bush's half-billion dollar increase in funds for Plan Colombia — complete with a public relations facelift and attempted name change — has flown under the radar of
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On March 6 eight West Australian Liberal MPs wrote a letter calling on Prime Minister John Howard to block the imminent $10 billion takeover of Australia's 12th largest company, Woodside Petroleum, by the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell.
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
On March 12, a group of 70 masked thugs armed with batons, machetes
and bamboo sticks attacked the Jakarta offices of the National Student
League for Democracy (LMND). They smashed the gate, door and windows, then
BY LINDA WALDRON
MELBOURNE — Five East Timorese solidarity activists have been found guilty of "public order" offences for burning the flag of the Indonesian consulate in September 1999, two days after the people of East Timor voted for
BY PETER REID
The presence of mobile phone facilities in built-up areas, particularly near houses, schools and hospitals, often triggers fierce resistance from local residents and community groups, mirroring public disquiet nationwide over the
BY JEREMY SMITH
BALLARAT — The National Tertiary Education Union at the University of Ballarat has voted to back the planned M1 blockade of Melbourne's stock exchange.
The motion, passed by the branch's executive on March 9, follows strong
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS
COPENHAGEN — "We want a totally different agenda", Enhedslisten (Red-Green Alliance) MP Karl Albrechtsen, from Denmark, told the "Europe after Nice" conference held here on March 3-4.
Attended by 160 delegates from 31
BY JEFF HALPER
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon's governing coalition, embracing both Labour's Shimon Peres and hard-line rejectionists, exposes the contradictions in the conventional left-right distinctions in Israeli politics.
Over seven years after
BY NORM DIXON
The United States government, at the urging of the big Western drug corporations, is attempting to prevent Brazil expanding its production of cheap "generic" versions of patented anti-AIDS medicines. If Washington and the drug lords
BY MARIA VOUKELATOS
SYDNEY — One hundred women wheel 1950s prams, wearing neatly styled hair, respectable knee-length dresses and big smiles on their faces. It sounds like a scene from a B-grade documentary from 40 years ago telling women of the
BY KAREN FLETCHER
BRISBANE — The M1 Alliance has issued a call for nominations for "Corporate Scumbag of the Week" in the lead up to the blockade of the Brisbane stock exchange on May 1. The campaign was launched and warmly received at the
Double standards
Despite having witnessed the mass media hoopla around International Women's Day this year — celebrating how far we've come and women who have "made it" — I wasn't overly surprised to be informed at a recent job interview that
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