REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE
Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American CenturyBy Stan GoffSoft Skull Press, New York 2004243 pages, US$13.95 pbOrder from <http://www.softskull.com>
"For a brief time in 1994 I acted as the
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Sarah Stephen
The US administration suffered a significant defeat on June 28 when the US Supreme Court ruled that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had the right to challenge their detention in the US courts.
The Australian government was
Alex Milne, Melbourne
The 2004 Students of Sustainability conference was held at La Trobe University on July 11-14. Around 500 environmentalists and other activists, from interstate and overseas, attended. As always, there was an impressive
Tim Anderson
In the corporate-media-dominated two-party system that passes for democracy in Australia, there is recurrent confusion over what the Australian Labor Party actually represents.
Is Labor a force for social democracy, an "imperfect"
Andrew Hall & Sarah Stephen
PM John Howard is under major pressure from the broad and growing refugee-rights movement — and some of his own Coalition backbenchers — to change his government's discriminatory refugee policy before the federal
Paul Benedek, Sydney
One-hundred people packed the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre on July to launch the Socialist Alliance's federal election campaign across Sydney.
Compered by Raul Bassi, the Socialist Alliance's Blaxland candidate, the launch
Kay Moore, Lismore
Three-hundred women attended the 16th Network of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference on July 12-16. The conference discussed the impact of sexism, racism, homophobia and war on women.
Guest speakers at the conference
Eric Ruder
With the meltdown of the US occupation of Iraq grabbing the headlines, the Bush administration has been reduced to trumpeting Afghanistan as a model for Iraq. But if Afghanistan represents a victory to the Bush administration, that only
Jim Green, Adelaide
The federal government has been forced to abandon its six-year push to build a national nuclear waste dump near Woomera in South Australia. Polling had shown that the issue could swing marginal seats in South Australia against
Our Common Cause: Poverty: a disease that can be cured
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world. So it's a disgrace that as many as 23% of its people are living below the poverty line, or that after 12 years of 4% GDP growth, the
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