On January 10, acting defence minister Daryl Williams announced that an Australian officer had assumed tactical command of the maritime Multinational Interception Force (MIF) in the Persian Gulf.
The MIF was set up at the end of the Gulf War in
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How does fire hurt
wire?
It slides down
and slams its face
right up close: this island
is a heart attack, the rocks
are weeping
tears
from where they cannot come.
The throat slows down
and the words sit
for days —
the
BY EDWARD SAID
Since it began 15 months ago the Palestinian intifada [uprising] has had little to show for itself politically, despite the remarkable fortitude of a militarily occupied, unarmed, poorly led, and still dispossessed people who has
BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
DURBAN — On December 14, Justice Chris Botha of the Pretoria High Court found in favour of the Treatment Action Campaign's (TAC) action to force the South African government to make the anti-AIDS medicine nevirapine available
BY EVA CHENG
"We followed him like lemmings into the sea", said Deborah De Fforge, one of the bankrupt Enron Corporation's 22,000 employees, as she recounted how the workers' trust in Enron CEO Kenneth Lay's sweet words had been bitterly betrayed.
BY JON LAND
As East Timor's Constituent Assembly draws closer to finalising the nation's constitution there is increasing debate over whether fresh elections should be held for the proposed Legislative Assembly. Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri is
BY JOHN McGILL
ADELAIDE — The Socialist Alliance will be contesting the seat of Adelaide in the February 9 South Australian election, providing a anti-privatisation, anti-nuclear and pro-refugee alternative to the Liberal and Labor parties.
The
BY MAX LANE
There have been student demonstrations, involving hundreds of students, in Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Denpasar and Jogjakarta against the fuel price increases announced by the Indonesian government on January 16.
In the
Bloody Sunday commemoration
MELBOURNE — On January 30, SKATV will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday shootings in Ireland.
On Sunday 30th January 1972, British soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians as they participated
BY ERIC RUDER
CHICAGO — If the US government's "war on terrorism" had anything to do with stopping terrorism, the White House would be next in line. On January 11, President George Bush named Otto Reich as his assistant secretary of state for
BY ZANNY BEGG
As of January 20, the death toll of the hunger strike in Turkey's prisons reached 45 with two more prisoners dying in the first weeks of the New Year. More then 300 prisoners — mainly jailed for political offences — and their
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