Crony capitalism, US-style
"[T]he US air Force has devised an ambitious plan to help Boeing, the world's biggest commercial jet producer, sell a version of its latest jumbo military transport to private cargo companies... the C-17 Globemaster...
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BY JIM GREEN
Rio Tinto chief executive Leigh Clifford said on March 22 that the company was unlikely to proceed with development of the Jabiluka uranium mine on ground excised from the Kakadu National Park without a significant shift in community
Don't be despondent about 'dependency'
BY JOHN TOMLINSON
Some people in Australia are concerned about the painful brain condition
called dependency. However, the only people who contract this condition
are those who believe that the
BY SIMON ROZ
ADELAIDE — A rally and march on March 17 attracted about 700 people supporting the call to ban genetically modified (GM) foods. After hearing speakers outside Parliament House, the protesters marched to the Central Market where they
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Widow of the Revolution: the Anna Larina
BY NORM DIXON
President Fidel Castro on March 18 announced that Cuba has produced versions of anti-AIDS medicines patented by US drug corporations. He said Cuba was prepared to help South Africa, Brazil and other Third World countries to produce
BY NORM DIXON
South African President Thabo Mbeki on March 14 declined to declare South Africa's debilitating AIDS epidemic a national emergency. Such a declaration would have allowed Pretoria to immediately invoke World Trade Organisation
BY SEAN HEALY
The Argentinian government of President Fernando de la Rua is in crisis and its economic plans are in tatters, after protesters took to the streets in anger at a new austerity package which included savage cuts in government
Sabotage of Fair Employment Bill
MELBOURNE On March 20, 150 people protested against attempts by the Liberal
and National parties to block the Fair Employment Bill from passing through
the Victorian parliaments upper house.
The
Rank and file soldiers of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force rebelled on March 23, giving PNG Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta until noon on March 26 to repudiate a cabinet decision to sack more than half of all PNGDF personnel.
The soldiers also
BY PIP HINMAN
The Indonesian military is stepping up its war against the Acehnese people. Jakarta has declared a "limited military operation" to "rid" Aceh of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The Indonesian government has branded GAM a "separatist"
BY SARAH STEPHEN
PERTH Ali Abu Al Chabab, a 22-year-old Palestinian refugee from
Lebanon, will fly back to Beirut on April 4 after his three-year fight
for refugee status in Australia was unsuccessful. Chabab's partner Ana
Kailis will
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