BY ROBERT PARRY
Al Gore was the choice of Florida's voters — whether one counts hanging chads or dimpled chads. That was the core finding of the eight news organisations that conducted a review of disputed Florida ballots.
Gore won even if one
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Lockheed Martin is the largest producer of weapons in human history, the product of a 1995 merger of the world's two largest defence corporations.
Their lines of business include government satellites, information technology base systems and launch
BY LIAM MITCHELL
SYDNEY — If unions hope to really represent working people, they have to break into, regulate and organise the labour hire sector, militant union leader Craig Johnston told a gathering on November 13.
Fresh from marching in an
In the November 10 federal election the Socialist Alliance averaged 1% in the 15 House of Representatives seats in which it stood candidates. How good is this result? What does it mean when the Greens nearly doubled their vote from 2.4% to 4.7%? What
BY JIM GREEN
Delegations from more than 160 countries have finalised rules on the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions at a conference from October 29 to November 9 in Marrakech, Morocco. The treaty commits 38 industrialised countries to
BY PETER BOYLE
While the Howard Coalition government was returned with a comfortable majority of seats in the November 10 federal election, there was a significant shift of votes to the left of the traditional parties.
This shift was driven by
BY EMA CORRO
MELBOURNE - Young Arab women have hit out at the stereotypes of Islam and the racism they're subjected to.
"As an Arab I feel that my race is feared, not trusted and not liked and this is growing. But if the myths being promoted
They placed on a growing heapAll the goods they had broughtLater we would each takeWhat we wanted
Rosario BaluyotPosthumously famousTen years oldEyes blue as eyeshadowRaw mouthSplit like a tomatoBody not cookedBreasts just starting to riseNo
Private thoughts
In the aftermath of September 11 a press "debate" has begun on the value of privacy. Support is being canvassed for a thinly disguised version of George Orwell's Big Brother.
The September 13 Washington Post electronic edition,
'Die-in' highlights war casualties
BRISBANE — Around 50 people gathered in the Queens Street Mall on November 16 for a "die-in" to show solidarity with the Afghan people killed by US bombs. Chalk lines were drawn around their bodies to
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