Jose Pertierra
Cuba calls the shots; and Venezuela pays the bills. That is the major premise underlying the report made public on July 10 by the US State Department concerning Cuba. Its findings are as much about the Bush administration's plans for
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In the wake of the sacking of 1000 warehouse workers in Sydney and Melbourne by Coles, the company has further betrayed those sacked. After suggesting that positions would be available for those workers wanting to be redeployed, it announced on July
Jen Jewel Brown
Early on July 6, Lisa Bellear said goodnight and went to bed at her home in Brunswick. That morning, the widely admired, clean living, apparently healthy Minjungbul woman was dead. She was barely 45, and the coroner reported that
Ian Lowe
Energy is the basis of modern civilisation. We have easier lives than our grandparents did because we use much more energy: electricity, gas and transport fuels.
Our energy use is equivalent to 40 human slaves working for us in shifts,
Norm Barber, Adelaide
"We get people housing", a bulky, 50ish woman tells me, her Street to Home identification card hidden inside her shirt. "Where are the houses?", I ask. She laughs. "We help people in other ways", she counters. When asked she
The National Union of Workers has condemned a decision by Nestle to shed 44 jobs — one-third of its work force — at the Purina PetCare factory in the small central-western NSW town of Blayney.
NUW state secretary Derrick Belan said on July 20
Doug Lorimer
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters in Tehran on July 16 that his government considers the package of proposals presented to it on June 6 by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana an
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading journalists expose the myth of a free pressEdited by Kristina BorjessonPrometheus, 2004453 pages
REVIEW BY SIMON TAYLER
"I have sympathy for friends who work in the corporate media. It's a terrible burden to be setting
Ben Edwards, Sydney
People in eight cities and towns across Australia are taking action to protest against the federal ban on same-sex marriage, which was passed with Coalition and Labor party support on August 13, 2004.
The Australian government
Kim Bullimore
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said on July 19 that air strikes and artillery shelling of his country by Israel over the previous seven days had killed 300 people, wounded 1000, displaced at least half a million and inflicted
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