BY WALDEN BELLO
The unravelling of the reputations of firms that were once the toast of Wall Street continues and the end is not in sight. But one thing is certain: already fragile prior to Enron, the legitimacy of global capitalism as the dominant
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Love is Mighty CloseVika and LindaBullbar records
REVIEW BY MOLLY WISHART
Vika and Linda Bull's latest album, Love is Mighty Close, arguably lacks the joie de vivre of earlier recordings, but the songster siblings nevertheless evoke an
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 KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA On August 11 the Canberra Times printed dramatically incorrect results from a Telepoll on attitudes to refugees. The report claimed that 18% of respondents voted yes and 71% no to the question, "Should children be
BY JODY BETZEIN
In the past few weeks the immigration department has begun sending
letters to those refugees who were first granted temporary protection visas
(TPVs) in late 1999, demanding that they must provide justification for
their
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
BY MATT EGAN & TOM FLANAGAN
LISMORE During the last five years, workers at Telstra's directory assistance call centre in Molesworth Street, Lismore, have repeatedly won recognition as the top performing call centre team in their region. One
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 SARAH STEPHEN
The August 8 High Court decision that the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) had denied two applicants "natural justice" when its members lied about having studied all the material the applicants had submitted with their initial
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO The Bush administration has been parading handcuffed felons from WorldCom, ImClone and Adelphia in front of the TV cameras. But it's getting harder by the day to sell the story that the collapse of corporate giants like
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