British water company Biwater has taken legal action against the Tanzanian government after the company was kicked out of Tanzania earlier this year, two years into a US$100 million water privatisation contract. Biwater had failed to meet the
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This November, the federal government had the opportunity to give three year's notice to terminate the agreement which permits the United States base to continue operating at Pine Gap. It didn't, and several peace activists have decided to travel
Sarah Stephen
Preventative detention orders will allow state police to detain those whom they suspect of intending to commit a terrorist attack. However, they are also designed for those against whom there is no evidence, or not enough, to bring a
Gregory Wilpert, Caracas
Chavez's party, the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR), won 114 or 68% of the 167 seats in the new National Assembly, according to preliminary results that MVR deputy William Lara announced on December 4. Pro-Chavez
Women's choice
In Volume 167 (1997) of the Medical Journal of Australia, obstetrician Richard Henshaw reviewed the literature comparing surgical abortions and medical abortions using RU486. He observed that, in relation to safety, efficacy,
Trent Hawkins and Nathan Verney
Many pro-war politicians attribute the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to mistakes made by Western intelligence agencies. For Scott Ritter, former chief United Nations weapon inspector in Iraq
Alex Miller
A Scottish miner was walking home one night with a bunch of pheasants he had poached from a local landowner's estate when the landowner appeared and demanded that the miner hand over the pheasants. "Why should I hand them over to you?",
Oscar Olivera is the leader of the Federation of Factory Workers of Cochabamba. He is well-known in Bolivia and internationally for his role as a leader of the Coalition in Defence of Water in the heroic victory of the people of Cochabamba against
[The following abridged letter was read out by Tony Kevin at a rally, organised by the ACT Network Opposing War and Racism, protesting the terror laws on November 28.]
Dear Mr Howard,
You are reported as saying that the federal government will
As part of its efforts to whip up an atmosphere of "imminent terrorist attack" in Australia, and thereby ensure public acceptance of its new, anti-democratic "anti-terrorism" laws, the federal government staged a drastic attack on civil rights with
Workers demonstrated outside the German embassy in Kuala Lampur on December 1, calling on the German ambassador to Malaysia to intervene in an industrial dispute at a German-owned factory. The workers also staged a noisy but peaceful protest outside
Raul Bassi
In the lead-up to the election of the centre-left Workers Party (PT) presidential candidate Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva in 2002, one of the PT's key election promises was to get rid of corruption. Undoubtedly, in a country where
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