Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell YouBy Norman Soloman and Reese ErlichContext Books, 2003188 pages, $31 (pb)
BY PHIL SHANNON
"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip", wrote George Orwell of journalists under dictatorships,
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BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — Before the US-led invasion of Iraq, the US and British governments made it clear that they were planning for an immediate resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and a rapid implementation of the US "road map" to
BY DOUG LORIMER
The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought to surface the conflict that has been immanent between the US capitalist rulers and their French and German rivals since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold
Sydney: M1 targets Halliburton
SYDNEY — Chanting "Halliburton OUT! Troops OUT! US imperialism OUT! OUT! OUT!", 150 people held a spirited May Day march to the office of Halliburton after a rally in Martin Place on May 1.
Halliburton was the
BY ALEX SALMON
PERTH — The WA branch of the mining division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union picketed the opening of Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on May 1. The unionists were protesting the company's attacks on workers
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — After a two-year struggle, the Australian Nurses Federation (ANF) has successfully forced the Tasmanian state government to pay a postgraduate allowance to all qualified nurses.
On May 1, the Federal Court ordered
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — Iraqi and Afghan refugees who now face the threat of forcible return to their "liberated" home countries addressed a forum held on April 29 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, organised by the RMIT Refugee
BY RUPEN SAVOULIAN& DOUG LORIMER
While the world's attention is focused on Iraq, the US-led war in Afghanistan is still raging. US and British elite troops are battling Afghan guerrillas, making a mockery of Washington's claim that its military
BY DON MONKERUD
APTOS, California Despite staunch backing from fundamental religious groups, the Bush administration continues to face opposition over the war in Iraq from mainstream religious leaders. Many wonder how religious groups that claim
BY LEIGH HUGHES
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) will lose control of its funding powers under a new government plan.
Following its implementation on July 1, all funding decisions concerning programs delivered by ATSIC
BY IGGY KIM
The United States has created a real mess for itself in Korea. Washington's strategy of incessantly stirring up confrontation would be less risky if it wasn't also accompanied by a doctrine of permanent, global, pre-emptive war: For the
BY MICHAEL FRANTI
SAN FRANCISCO — "We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace", this best sums up my opinion on militarism. The line came to mind at an organising meeting for a mass concert and rally we put on in San
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