The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and his Backyard Nuclear ReactorBy Ken SilversteinFourth Estate, 2004$29.95 (pb) David Hahn could have been taken for a typical US teenager in the 1990s. He loved driving
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Reihana Mohideen, Manila
What should have been a straightforward collective bargaining agreement for a wage increase resulted in the killing of 14 people (including two children) and the arrest of 115 workers on November 16, at Hacienda Luisita, a
Graham Matthews, Melbourne
Six-hundred-and-fifty people packed the Capitol Theatre to capacity on November 26 to hear journalist and film-maker John Pilger speak on the power of the corporate media.
The public forum was organised by Green Left
Jon Lamb, Darwin
Environmentalists, traditional owners and local residents are increasingly concerned over toxic waste and poisonous mine tailings leaching from the abandoned Mt Todd gold mine near Katherine.
Residents on the Edith River,
James Petras
I am reading William Shirer's Berlin Diary, a journalist's account of Nazi political propaganda during the 1930s, as I watch the US "news" reports of the violent assault on Fallujah.
The US mass media "reports", the style, content
Bill Mason, Brisbane
"Resistance is a just response to occupation; it takes various forms, including armed struggle", Louay Alzaher, representing the Iraq Solidarity Committee, told a public forum on the theme "Iraq in crisis" on November 22.
NT Police Photo of Douglas Scott (#5). The position of the sheet conflicts with the injury depicted in photo #19. This also shows what appears to be cotton wool in the left ear, denied by Dr Kevin Lee.From Green Left Weekly, December 1, 2004.
INDIA: Left sweeps university election
The left-wing All-India Students' Federation won the president's position of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University in late October. It is the first time the AISF has won the position in 30 years.
James Balowski, Jakarta
The new government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has barely been in office one month but has already broken a key election promises — to seek a peaceful solution to the prolonged conflict in Indonesia's
CHILE: Thousands protest APEC
Tens of thousands of Chileans turned out over three days to protest the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Chile. The biggest march was on November 19, organised by the Chilean Social Forum and attended by
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