Analysis

  • Lies, damned lies and the media

    Editorial: Lies, damned lies and the media Everyone "knows" what happened during the Gulf War: we saw it on television and read the "camera witness" accounts in the daily papers. But the "precision" bombing of Iraq portrayed by US officials

  • Caught in the act

    Editorial: Caught in the act In the last week, people all around the world watched a home video of US police mercilessly beating and kicking a black man. The cops had stopped him for speeding, then, thinking they were unobserved, had passed

  • End of the Vietnam syndrome?

    Editorial: End of the Vietnam syndrome? "It is my hope that when this is over, we will have kicked once and for all the so-called Vietnam syndrome", said George Bush as he strolled along a Maine beach just before the land war against Iraq began.

  • A campaign to censor the ABC

    One side effect of Australian involvement in the Gulf War hasbeen the vicious attacks on the independence of the ABC. ABC chairperson Bob Somervaille's February 27 announcement of plans for anexternal panel to review complaints against the national

  • Attack on press freedom

    Attack on press freedom In an outrageous attack on freedom of the press, Westpac Bank last week obtained a NSW Supreme Court injunction against Tribune, requiring its publishers to surrender all 4000 copies of the weekly's February 20 edition by 10

  • Gulf medical preparations lacking?

    The capabilities of the Allied forces in the Gulf to cope with casualties from a protracted Gulf war have been brought into question by an international group of physicians.

  • The week that was

    This week we're privileged to have access to the news reports of those great allies and buddies, the CIA and ASIO ...

  • ...and ain't I a woman?

    Sojourner Truth spoke these words to the second annual convention of the women's rights movement in Akron, Ohio, USA, in 1852.

  • South African sanctions

    Bob Hawke, watching cricket in Perth on February 2, decided to perform a major foreign policy somersault and campaign to have international sanctions against the South Africa's white-minority regime phased out. Labor has now openly joined forces with

  • Daylight train robbers

    Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and his Indonesian counterpart, Ali Alatas, met in Denpasar last week to celebrate the Indonesian parliament's ratification of the so-called "Timor Gap Treaty". Both men, in their roles of daylight train robbers, met in a secluded island to divide the spoils of their robbery.

  • Regreening Australia

    There's a lot we know about Australia's forests — and a staggering amount we don't know.