BY
DICK NICHOLS
Since it was initiated several weeks ago by the Socialist Alliance,
the petition campaign to call on the opposition parties in the Senate to
block the 2003 federal budget by voting against all its military provisions
has
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There have been many theories floated in Australia's newspapers as to why federal Labor leader Simon Crean is doing so badly in the polls. Two polls in as many days indicated most Labor supporters prefer former PM Kim Beazley to lead the party. The
BY DOUG LORIMER
After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US
Since 9/11, thanks
to the implicit and explicit government and media propaganda that Islam
is the new enemy of the West, those Australians who are most visibly
Muslim women who wear a headscarf (hijab) or full body covering
(chador)
BY
NEIL SAMMONDS
The world's most efficient secret manufacturer of weapons of mass
destruction was not Iraq, nor is it Syria it is Washington's closest
ally and partner in the Middle East, Israel.
In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY — More than 100 people attended the launch of ATTAC (Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen) Australia on April 9 at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. The Tobin Tax is a 1% levy on all international currency transactions
BY ROBERTO JORQUERA
At an April 8 press conference in Havana, Cuban foreign
minister Felipe Perez Roque presented vouchers, bank receipts and photos demonstrating the truth behind the charges against 75 dissidents found guilty of conspiring with
Protesters say 'no' to US submarine
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
FREMANTLE — On April 19, activists gathered at the entrance to Stirling Naval Base on Garden Island, near Rockingham, to protest the presence of the US submarine Key West.
USS Key West was
BY RIK WILSON
Even as the administration of US President George Bush was waging war with Iraq in order to "disarm" its regime of as-yet-discovered chemical and biological weapons, Washington continued to implement a US$6 billion-plus expansion of
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