Alas, radio and television programming that does not, one program at
a time, promote the life and cohesive development of the entire human family,
destroys it. Irving Elmer Bell.
The mind boggles when faced with the stark reality of what
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BY IGGY KIM
At the invitation of the United Auto Workers, a delegation of South Korean trade unionists visited the United States on June 1-8 to try to stop the sale of Daewoo Motors to US auto giant General Motors.
The delegation was made up of
BY FRANZ VANDERPUYE
ACCRA — The campaign by individuals and non-governmental organisations to halt the government of Ghana's policy of privatising the water supply has been intensified, with the formation of the Ghana National Coalition Against
Prescription Games: Money, Ego and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical IndustryBy Jeffrey RobinsonSimon & Schuster, 2001343 pages $45 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Up there with the banks in the sheer unadulterated greed stakes would have to be
The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality
By Reg Whitaker
Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2000
195 pages.
REVIEW BY ALEXANDER DEL SOL
In The End of Privacy, Reg Whitaker charts the development
of surveillance
One of those detained by authorities after the June 8 raid on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in Jakarta was Auckland city councillor Maire Leadbeater.
BY DANI BARLEY
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — The headline on the front page read in big bold letters, "8.14 am. It was over". The US federal government has executed Timothy McVeigh, the man who committed the worst act of terrorism on US soil.
The raid by the police at an international conference in Sawangan near Jakarta on Friday [June 8], and the arrest of 40 of the participants, including 32 foreigners, was bizarre, if not disturbing to the conscience.
You could be forgiven thinking
The raid by police on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in Jakarta
on June 8, the brutal militia attack which followed it and the detention
of 32 foreign participants has revealed two disturbing returns to the past.
It has revealed that
BY STEPHEN MARKS
NEWCASTLE — More than 40 people attended the launch of the Newcastle Socialist Alliance on June 15. Participants included students who had taken part in the M1 stock exchange blockades, trade unionists, Latino workers,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Ten years is the maximum penalty for escaping a detention centre
and being unlawfully at large and it is what faces Parviz Eftekhari,
who escaped from Woomera detention centre on June 9.
The escape followed a
Glowing in the dark is also handy
"If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good." — US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, quoted in the June 12 New York Times.
No snuggles for Little Johnnie
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