Middle East 'road map'
The article by Ahmad Nimer in GLW #537 does not present any solution to the Middle East crisis at all. His claim that, "The overriding priority of the road map is clearly ... a return to the status quo that existed prior to
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BY DANNY FAIRFAX
CANBERRA — Anti-war and anti-corporate activists in the ACT have begun organising protests to take place against the Defence and Industry 2003 conference, which will be held in the National Convention Centre on June 24-26.
The
During a national phone hook-up on May 24, refugee rights activists decided to launch a campaign against the threatened deportation of Iranian refugees.
On April 29, Iranians in the Baxter detention centre were told by the immigration department
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PARIS — Following the success of the massive one-day general strike on May 13, the government of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is in deep trouble.
The May 13 strike, the largest since 1995, was in response to the
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Now should be the best time ever for a Hollywood drama that exposes the barbarity of the death penalty in the
BY DOUG LORIMER
US President George Bush met with 11 "exiled Cuban activists" (as the US corporate media described them) at the White House on May 20 — the 101st anniversary of the adoption by Cuba of a constitution which guaranteed Washington
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Recently, the US anti-war coalition Not In Our Name issued a leaflet,
Most rational response
"Russian President Vladimir Putin openly mocks America's failed efforts to find chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq... It doesn't matter... even if Iraq proves utterly free of WMD — or if it merely possesses a
BY MARCUS PABIAN
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