BY DANNY FAIRFAX
Imagine this: you've had a bad day at school, bullies have pestered you, and your teachers don't do anything to prevent it. Finally the bell rings and you can go home, where you decide to vent your rage — by writing a revenge
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"... there's an assumption that we're an American company that exports things everywhere else to make a lot of money... Sure, we're everywhere, but so too is ... NBC and CNN." — McDonald's CEO Jack Greenberg.
Balanced
BY DAVID BACON
OAKLAND, California — Last month 14 men and women left their coffee farms in Veracruz, Mexico, and began the journey north. Within days, their bodies were found on the hardpan of the Sonora desert. At first glance, they died of
"Best wishes to the Socialist Alliance and your campaign. So serious is the domination of the transnational corporations and economic rationalist ideology, all socialists and environmentalists must fight harder to link economics and ecological
The Big AnimalDirected by Jerzy StuhrStars Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dynna2000 Sydney Film Festival
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
The big animal of the title is not one often found in small towns in Poland. A circus camel has been left behind and attached
The Cuban government has announced the capture of three Cuban-American terrorists from Miami, a small victory in its efforts to stop ongoing terrorist attacks against the revolutionary island country.
State security official Manuel Hevia told a
BY DAVE MURPHY & RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN — Police will have the power to stop any behaviour they interpret as "anti-social", under new laws introduced into the Northern Territory parliament on June 7. The legislation will also widen police powers
It has now been six years since a federal Liberal-National Coalition government was elected.
During these six years, the government, aided and abetted by the Australian Democrats, has:
introduced anti-union legislation so severe that workers need
BY VANYA TANAJA
LIQUICA, East Timor — Amidst the rubble of government offices which the jungle is starting to reclaim stands a flagpole flying, not the Indonesian red and white, but the red flag, the flag of the Socialist Party of Timor.
This
Public need not corporate greed: Fund Medicare and end government funding of private schools, hospitals and health insurance
Axe the GST, tax the rich: Introduce a highly progressive tax on incomes, profits and wealth of the rich.
Jobs not
101 ReykjavikDirected by Baltasar KormakurStars Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir2000 Sydney Film Festival
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
101 Reykjavik is the postcode for the part of Iceland's capital that is off the
Sex slavery is one of the ugliest and cruellest aspects of migrant trafficking, a trade which booms as the gap between rich and poor widens and the walls go up around rich countries.
Trying to escape hardship for a new life, or to make money to
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