On June 29, Mehmet Tarhan, who has refused to serve his compulsory military service, was re-arrested on insubordination charges. Tarhan was asked to apply for a discharge on the grounds that he is an openly gay man, but refuses to endorse such
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Norm Dixon The mass media hype about "a new deal between rich and poor", in response to the powerful Group of Eight industrialised countries' plan to cancel multilateral debts owed by 18 mainly African countries, has led many people to believe that
BY ANDY BLUNDEN
Anyone who has participated in organising broad campaigns and protests will know that on many issues people split in two along very similar lines: on the one hand, people coming from the various social movements or young people
Better babies?
Speaking at the National Press Club recently, prominent bioethicist Julian Savulescu argued for embryonic research aimed at making genetic enhancements to humans. He made some worthwhile points.
There is a moral continuum running
Norm Dixon
@into = Two million South African workers went on strike and hundreds of thousands marched in protest at continuing job losses and poverty in a national strike called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) on June 27.
James Balowski, Jakarta
"Based on everything we have obtained, the [National Intelligence] Agency [BIN] is believed to have played a major role in a well-planned conspiracy to murder Munir", Asmara Nababan, the deputy chairperson of the Fact
What it's really all about
"An early withdrawal would have serious negative consequences. Iraq would be in danger of exploding into civil war; jihadists would claim they had beaten the American infidels; many Iraqis would feel abandoned by the
The ALP's continued rightward shift opens up spaces for left alternatives. Labor's refusal to act as a real alternative to the Coalition during the last federal election contributed to their electoral routing and deepened the disillusionment of a
Eva Cheng
The US government is stepping up its attempts to blame China for some of its own economic woes. In a May report to the US Congress, it threatened to officially designate China a "currency manipulating economy" if by October it hadn't
Estimates of attendance at protest rallies and meetings against the Coalition government's anti-union laws include:
June 30
Adelaide — 7000
Brisbane — 20,000-25,000
Cairns — 2000
Canberra (June 26) — 500
Darwin — 2000
Dare to be a Daniel: Then and NowBy Tony BennHutchinson, 2004278 pages
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
Tony Benn is rightfully one of the most well-respected figures in the history of the British Labour Party during the second half of the 20th century.
Fascism and Football — Mussolini, Hitler and Franco all understood the massive propaganda potential of football. SBS, Saturday, July 9, 9.30pm.
Message Stick: NAIDOC Week Special — Inside the lives of Indigenous Australians, presented from
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