But as they say, talk's cheap
"Self evidently America is the most powerful country in the world, probably the most powerful country mankind has seen. But, I mean, [Bush] spends a lot of time talking about humanitarian things, about assistance to
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On high schools
across Australia, students are getting together to campaign against war
on Iraq. Green Left Weekly's BRONWYN POWELL spoke to JOCK PALFREEMAN,
a year 11 student at St Ignatius College (Riverview) and a Resistance member,
about
BY GRANT COLEMAN
WOLLONGONG — An anti-war protest on International Women's Day, March 8, could attract numbers similar to or bigger than the 5000-strong February 8 anti-war demonstration.
International Women's Day Collective member and
BY ROHAN PEARCE
US Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the UN Security Council on February 5 added a new twist to Washington's propaganda offensive against Iraq. While he repeated the threadbare claims that Iraq has somehow hidden a
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY Women and children will the ones who will suffer the most
if the war on Iraq goes ahead, said peace activist Win Childs. Along with
Dr Gillian Deakin and actor Genevieve Lemon, Win Childs is organising the
February
BY
NORM DIXON
People throughout the world have thronged to anti-war demonstrations
on February 14-16 in numbers that even protest organisers thought unimaginable.
As Green Left Weekly went to press, it appears, based on conservative
BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI
PERTH — More than 20,000 people crammed in Forest Place in the CBD on February 15 for an anti-war rally organised by the NOWaR Alliance.
Contingents from Fremantle and Midland arrived on "peace trains". From Fremantle, three
BY PIP HINMAN
Lesley McCulloch was freed from prison in Aceh on February 9. McCulloch, along with US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler, was arrested at a military check-point and held for five months. McCulloch was charged with violating her visa.
McCulloch,
REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX
You are G8, We are 6 BillionBy Jonathon NealeVision Paperbacks, 2002262 pages, $27.95
In the last year, books by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Tariq Ali have been prominent in the bestsellers lists. You can
On top of the hundreds of thousands mobilising in Australia's main cities, many thousands rallied in cities and towns across Australia.
From Cairns, Susan Austin reports that 2000 people gathered for a peace picnic. A 500-strong contingent
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