BY LEE SUSTAR
PORTO ALEGRE — At the first World Social Forum (WSF) in 2001, delegates assembled to challenge the elite World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a live debate via videoconference.
"[T]he best gift that the 2000 corporate
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BY NORM DIXON
The Global Security Newswire on January 28 revealed that the US Army trained 19 Iraqi military officers in the United States in offensive and defensive chemical, biological and radiological warfare from 1957 to 1967. The information
SYDNEY — At 8am on January 31, Dean Jefferys and Marlene Obeid scaled the Sydney Opera House to display three huge banners in protest at the Australian government's support for a US attack on Iraq. The banners read: "No war against Iraq, No
BY KELLIA RAMARES
Even as US President George Bush threatens to invade Iraq, claiming that Saddam Hussein is hiding biological weapons, Washington is hypocritically expanding its own biowarfare research programs.
The US government plans to
BY LACHLAN MALLOCH
SYDNEY â In an historic local action that reminded participants of the anti-Vietnam war movement, six-hundred people gathered on a Saturday evening to march through the Norton Street caf strip on February 1, showing their
BY BILL MASON &TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — In an extraordinary move against food-irradiation protesters, the Queensland Labor government, through its Department of State Development, has taken out charges in the Supreme Court against an individual
Or had one too many?
"[Author David] Frum describes a meeting in the Oval Office last September with five clergymen... 'You know', Bush told them, 'I had a drinking problem. Right now I should be in a bar in Texas, not the Oval Office. There is
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