Tim Stewart & Paul Benedek
"My vision is a very simple one: I just want a place where every child born on this land is able to grow up in an environment free from hostility and insecurity, realise his or her potential and make a worthwhile
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John Pilger, Mumbai
The crows beat their wings against the bay windows, waiting to ascend and dive. Their cries are incessant; it is their apocalyptic swarm that is different in India. They dance in the rain and wait in the yellow heat of
Sarah Stephen
On September 13, interpreters and officers from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) made threats of forced deportation to asylum seekers being detained on Nauru who don't agree to return
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
The first day of the Palestinian school year was marked by 1000 children, school students, teachers and peace activists marching against the construction of the Israeli apartheid wall at the Ar'am village junction, 20
Rohan Pearce
On September 9, the US military launched vicious air strikes against two Iraqi cities, Fallujah and Tall Afar, killing more than 40 people and wounding more than 100. These assaults were part of the US occupation forces' effort to
Blaktrax: Gumbainggir Lady — Indigenous music series. Features Emma Donovan, a young Gumbainggir woman whose vocal style is influenced by country, gospel and soul. SBS, Saturday, September 25, 7pm.
Message Stick: Aunty Marg — Coffs Harbour's
Sarah Stephen
Creative energies are being ploughed into a plethora of new websites as the anti-Howard campaign gathers steam ahead of the October 9 federal election. Here is a summary of the best and wittiest of them.
Graham Mathews, Melbourne
"Kodak is shutting its Coburg plant while crying poor, but its share price has jumped nearly 20%", David Glanz, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Wills, said in a media release on September 17. The Kodak
Free enterprise
"Oil refineries, power plants and other large industrial operations in California typically pay fines of a few thousand dollars for exceeding air pollution standards, not enough to deter them from repeated violations." — Los
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Rightby Al FrankenAllen Lane Press, 2003379 pp, $35 (pb)
It's a very old joke — "How do you tell when a politician is lying?" — but the punchline
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