BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS& NICK EVERETT
There were no spare seats at the Capitol in central Melbourne as 650 people crammed the theatre for an evening with filmmaker and journalist John Pilger on December 15.
The occasion was the big-screen premiere of
476
Last year the governmentCreated 6.8 million secretsRoughly the same numberAs the previous yearBut that doesn't take into accountThe effects of the warSaid an annual reportIssued yesterday
I promised I would never tellBut they cut offA man's balls
BY SEAN HEALY
Argentina's tumultuous December — a general strike by trade unions against a brutal budget led to days of demonstrations, the storming of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, the desperate escape by helicopter of its resident,
BY EVA CHENG
Riding on the back of US President George Bush's "war on terrorism", the Hindu fundamentalist Indian regime led by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's military dictator General Pervez Musharraf are massing troops along
1947: Pakistan invaded Kashmir on the basis that 80% of its population is Muslim. In response, Kashmir's Hindu feudal ruler sought protection from India.
1948: India and Pakistan fought over Kashmir, resulting in each controlling roughly half of
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — Human rights organisations and the Mexican left have long argued that more than 600 political activists were detained by government security forces from the late 1960s to the 1990s and never heard from again. Many
Share ownership
Alison Dellit (GLW #474) is correct to highlight Mark Latham's proposal to subsidise first share purchases.
Latham's scheme would be available to people on twice the median taxable income and, unless regulations prevented it,
BY MONICA MOOREHEADAND LARRY HOLMES
US Federal District Judge William Yohn, in a 272-page ruling issued on December 18, threw out the death sentence imposed on former Black Panther and radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal at his 1982 trial. However,
Holy War Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin LadenBy Peter L. BergenWeidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001$29.95
REVIEWED BY CHRIS SLEE
Despite serious limitations, Peter Bergen's Holy War Inc. is a useful biography of Osama bin Laden. While Bergen
Internet report card
In London internet cafes, ticket machines have displaced staff — just one more sign of cost cutting in the internet industry. Internet investors have had a difficult year making profits, and internet workers have paid: many
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