BY DOUG LORIMER
While preaching "non-proliferation" of weapons of mass destruction to underdeveloped countries — and using allegations of WMD development as a justification for invading Iraq and threatening to attack North Korea, Iran and Syria
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On July 23, Indigenous leaders from around the country were invited to Canberra to attend a round-table discussion on Indigenous violence. While Prime Minister John Howard has received praise from the mainstream press and sections of the Indigenous
BY EVA CHENG
To get Third World countries to agree to a new round of global talks on trade rules, in November 2001, at the Doha ministerial summit, US President George Bush's administration supported a declaration that reaffirmed the right of
BY JOHN NEBAUER& RENFREY CLARKE
ADELAIDE — Strike action planned for August 4 by 600 bus drivers employed by the Serco bus company has been deferred while the workers wait for representatives of the state Industrial Relations Commission to visit
BY ROHAN PEARCE
In the end, it took a US$30 million bribe, six hours, several hundred troops, and more than 20 missiles fired from helicopter gunships for the US military to kill two armed thugs, a bodyguard and a 14-year-old boy. Fittingly for
SYDNEY — "Afghanistan has become a forgotten story once again", said Tahmeena Faryal, a representative of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), during her recent speaking tour of Australia.
"A lot was promised by the
BY ROHAN PEARCE
In its weekly situation update of July 22, the United Nations Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq revealed that the progress of its Emergency Mine Action Survey is "slower than expected".
Between June 28 and July 16,
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — Dr Fikret Baskaya is a 63-year-old Turkish intellectual who has been imprisoned twice for criticising the strategy of the Turkish state in dealing with the issue of Kurdistan. Baskaya spoke at packed public
On July 27, 300 junior officers and soldiers staged a mutiny. They condemned conditions for troops in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and charged the government and military with corruption and state terrorism. Green Left Weekly's NICK
BY JOHN PILGER
The conscious nature of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's lies and distortions over Iraq is now clear. Collectors will have their favourites. Mine is his statement in parliament on January 29 that "we do know of links between al
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