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The Age of AccessBy Jeremy RifkinPenguin Books, 2000$45 (hb), 312 pages REVIEW BY KARL MILLER According to the cover notes to The Age of Access, Jeremy Rifkin makes his living from lecturing to "CEOs and corporate management". That is clearly the
BY AZIZ CHOUDRY WELLINGTON — New Zealand is the most transnationalised economy in the Western world, according to the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2000. Most of New Zealand's productive, financial, energy, retail, transport, media and
SYDNEY — Thirty people packed into the Democratic Socialist Party's new office in Burwood on April 21, to launch the party's new inner-west branch, in the traditional style: with drink and laughter and hope for the future.
BY RUSSELL PICKERING SYDNEY — With song, prose and reflection, 100 supporters of the Cuban Revolution jammed into the Newtown Edge Theatre here on April 21 to commemorate the 40th annivesary of the Cuban people's defeat of the US-backed Bay of
On March 29, a Canadian judge dealt a crushing blow to farmers' rights by ruling that Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation Saskatchewan farmer, must pay Monsanto thousands of dollars for violating the gene giant's monopoly patent on genetically
REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT No LogoBy Naomi KleinHarper-Collins, 2000490pp., A$21.95 "A world united by Benetton slogans, Nike sweatshops and McDonald's jobs might not be anyone's utopian village", writes Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, "but its
BY ANDREW HALL CANBERRA — As well as state governments trying to slash workers rights to fair compensation for injury, the federal government is aiming to push through its own attacks that will affect 285,655 commonwealth public sector and ACT
BY EVA CHENG The state machines of the First World are prepared to go to enormous lengths to crush political dissent — if Canadian police's cold-blooded and calculated attacks on peaceful protesters in Quebec City are anything to go by. But to no
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BY MAX LANE On April 23 a new organisation was established in Jakarta to campaign in solidarity with the Acehnese people. The organisation, Solidarity Movement for the People of Aceh (SEGERA), was formed in response to the issuance of Presidential
BY JIM GREEN The Australian government has been the main accomplice of the United States in its efforts to kill the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. The US government's strategy was spelt out in an April 1 state department cable to US
BY SEAN HEALY The military dictatorship of General Pervaiz Musharraf has arrested hundreds of oppositionists in an attempt to prevent them staging a pro-democracy protest on May Day in Karachi, Pakistan's main port and largest city. Police and