Intelligence only an option
"We will look at all options and we will consider all technologies available to us, and diplomacy and intelligence." George "The Crusader" Bush, August 22, discussing his plans to launch a war on Iraq.
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CARACAS, August 18 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today initiated a protest caravan against an August 14 Supreme Court ruling that absolved four senior army officers charged with having participated in the April coup d'etat against him.
To
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE The corporate media may have imposed a total blackout on the picket imposed by members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) against the union's national officials, but thousands of
Students protest against Nelson
PERTH Around 100 students rallied outside a meeting to discuss federal minister for education Brendan Nelson's proposed changes to higher education. The meeting on August 20 was billed as a "public
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BY ALFREDO CASTRO
BOGOTA Although it has gone unreported in the mainstream media,
paramilitary death squads working with the Colombian security forces have
continued assassinating hundreds of civilians in recent weeks.
Among the dead
BY JEFF HALPER
BEER SHEVA For the past six years, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been working on the issue of house demolitions. Every time we think: "OK, we've exhausted the subject, let's go on to other, perhaps
BY KATIE NEVILLE
& ADAM BOTTOMLEY
MELBOURNE Sydney Afghan temporary protection visa holder Riz Wakil
spoke to an audience of 120 people at an August 14 campus meeting organised
by the La Trobe University Refugee Action Collective.
Museworthy: Life, Related to 'Nest'
I had thought this nestwas mine,now they tell meit is leavesand bits of rubbishcollectedwith enough care onlyto protect a lifetime.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the
On November 14-15, Sydney will host a meeting of World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade ministers from some 25 countries to discuss the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations.
The meeting will evaluate the progress that has been made since
Bastardry
Every so often there occurs an act of political bastardy so transparent that it fair takes your breath away. Such an act is the decision to exclude Greens Senator Bob Brown from the Australian delegation of 50 to the Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG On August 17, about 100 members of the Soldiers Forum
(SF), an affiliate of the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), were arrested
and thrown into jail, where they still remain, for no other reason than
the fact that they wanted to
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