A very dark cloud has enveloped the Earth,It is the engine of growth driven by greed,The creation of wealth, without concern for human need.
This wealth can be seen As digits on a computer screen,So when there is a virus or computer error,It
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Rohan Pearce
"The smell of burnt flesh filled the air and blood smeared the deserted streets of Najaf's Old City after heavy US air strikes on Shiite militia positions around Iraq's revered Imam Ali shrine", reported Agence France-Presse on August
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Sacco & Vanzetti: Agony and triumph
Ocean Press, 2004119 pages, $18 (pb)
It was just another payroll robbery with murder in the US in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, and the Slater & Morrill Shoe
John Pilger
Most of the US's recent wars were launched by Democratic presidents. Why expect better of their current nominee John Kerry? The debate between US liberals and conservatives is a fake; Bush may be the lesser evil.
On May 6, the US
Working stiffs, as always
"Most rich people are able to avoid taxes, and if you can't raise enough money from taxing the rich, guess who pays the taxes?" — Emperor George Bush II, August 11, defending his tax policy.
Land of opportunity
"The
Terrorism makes many of us feel insecure and concerned. The images of 9/11 and the Bali bombing, the Howard government's "be alert, not alarmed" campaign, Australian participation in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the endless debate between
Eva Cheng
In January 1994, China's State Council announced a plan to lift 80 million households in 592 rural counties out of poverty within seven years. Dubbed the "Eight-seven plan", the scheme targeted counties with an annual per capita income of
Nicola Paris, Perth
Despite overwhelming opposition, Western Australia's Labor government and the Cable Sands mining company are intent on mining the last tall tuart forest in the world, in Ludlow, near Busselton, in WA's south-west. All approvals
Mutiny: The True Story of Red October — Unlike the disaffected captain of a Russian nuclear submarine in Hollywood's version of events in The Hunt for Red October, Captain Valery Sablin was not a defector, but loyal to Communist ideals. Sablin had
Jeff Shantz, Toronto
"The foundation of our movements, often unacknowledged, is our ability to take care of each other." With these words from Sue Collis, a resident of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, and a longtime member of the Ontario
Trade union leaders on August 27 expressed their total disgust at the jailing of their colleague, former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian branch leader Craig Johnston, by the Court of Appeal. The sentence showed just how far
Appalled
I was appalled and disgusted with the lies and attacks in Barry Sheppard's article, "Democrats sabotage Nader-Camejo campaign" (GLW #595), on the Green Party, its processes and its candidates. You, along with the scum at Counterpunch, have
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