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REVIEW BY SHUA GARFIELD Living in these TimesDavid RovicsAvailable at <http://www.davidrovics.com> It is certainly unorthodox to begin a cd with a song about a firefighter being crushed and burned to death by the collapsing World Trade
BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — Since September 11, the "war on terrorism" has provided a pretext for the rich countries, led by the United States, to further their dominance over world affairs. By spreading "fear and respect", as a Washington Post
BY JIM GREEN The NSW bushfires came with a predictable media script: "Heroes", most of them volunteers from the Rural Fire Service, battling fires started by "villain" arsonists. Important issues - such as inadequate resources for fire prevention
BY MAX LANE The Indonesian economy is in a truly parlous state. The combined public and private foreign debt is US$150 billion, standing at 110% of GDP, and more than 40% of the government's revenues are devoted to interest payments on foreign
January 22, 2002, marks the 29th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision by the US Supreme Court. The decision provided for legal abortion in the United States. Supporters of women's liberation still celebrate this landmark. But neither in the US,
Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican RevolutionBy Frank McLynnPimlico, 2001459 pages, $38 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON It was an extraordinary moment in Mexico's history. In elegant teahouses in Mexico City, startled young waitresses
BY SARAH STEPHEN "The articles ... seek to erode the pride that we as a nation are entitled to feel about the hand we extend to those in such great need" — that's what immigration minister Philip Ruddock had to say about two feature stories in
BY NORM DIXON At every turn since the fall of Kabul and Kandahar, Washington has justified its prolonged bombing and steadily increased military presence in Afghanistan and surrounding countries with claims that the US military's sophisticated
BY SARAH STEPHEN The UN High Commission for Refugees on January 8 expressed the view that a significant proportion of asylum seekers being housed on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru will be found to be refugees, and that Australia has a special
BY DANIEL JARDINE SYDNEY — Ten thousand tonnes of toxic hexachlorobenzene are stored at the Orica plant in Botany, in Sydney's eastern suburbs. The HCB is the by-product of more than 30 years of the production of chlorinated solvents by both

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