A lack of skepticism toward official US sources has led prominent US corporate news networks into making embarrassing errors in their coverage of the US invasion of Iraq, particularly in relation to US claims that proof had been found that Iraq
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BY DAVE
ANDREWS
FREMANTLE As the quadrennial elections for all full-time position
in the Maritime Union of Australia looms, a serious challenge to the incumbents
has emerged from the ranks of the union.
The MUA Rank and File team is
[The following statement was issued on March 27 by the Sydney Books Not Bombs anti-war group.]
The Books Not Bombs student activists, who faced severe police violence in Sydney and Perth yesterday, need your help. They have appealed for support for
BY PETER BOYLE
SYDNEY — The racist hysteria and red-baiting by the pro-war media were to be expected after the police aggression during Sydney's Books Not Bombs protest on March 26. The following resolution, however, adopted on March 27 without a
BY OSCAR JUKES
DARWIN — Two-hundred people attended a March 23 public forum to discuss the federal government's plans to deport 84 East Timorese refugees living in the Northern Territory.
Organised by the East Timor Action Network, the forum
JOHANNESBURG On
March 23, 1000 anti-war campaigners gathered near Wanderers Stadium, the
venue for the one-day cricket World Cup final between Australia and India.
The anti-war protesters condemned the Australian government's participation
Parents for Peace
I am writing as a parent who attended the student peace march on March 26th in Sydney.
Upon arriving at Town Hall I was horrified by the overbearing police presence which included sniffer dogs, lines of riot police and dozens of
By John Percy
Visits to Green Left Weekly's web site continue to surge. In March, individual visits are now more than 70% above the level in February and still rising. In the third week of March, there were 7825 visits per day (with 36,470 hits and
BY ROHAN PEARCE
The US rulers have been keen to portray their army's invasion of Iraq as aimed at "liberating" its people from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. However, US propaganda appears to have had little impact on the Iraqi population.
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BY BEN COURTICE
MELBOURNE — Victorian Peace Network organisers estimate between 35,000 and 40,000 people attended the March 29 protest against war. The rally stretched for more than three city blocks, led by protesters waving Palestinian and
BY
SARAH STEPHEN
The war against Iraq, the US government and its allies say, is being
waged for a just and moral cause to free the Iraqi people from a despotic
and brutal dictator, to allow the people of Iraq to build a free and democratic
Chrissie Hynde: "Let's get rid of the economic screwing this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!" — at a March 1 Pretenders concert in San Francisco.
Danny Glover: "A nation that continues, year after year, to spend more
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