SAN FRANCISCO Once again an amateur's videotape is spoiling the
lawful deeds of cops in Los Angeles county. In 1991 it was Rodney King.
Today it is a teenager. Unbeknownst to the cops, these videotapes exposed
the men in
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BY DALE T. MCKINLEY JOHANNESBURG Not far from the predominately working-class Northwest Province town of Rustenburg, where the South African Communist Party (SACP) recently held its 11th congress on July 24-28, lies the garish ramparts
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Tamim's family live in Joee Sheer, which means "stream of milk". But, outside his slum home, a stream of warm, reeking sewage flows. Never was there more reason to take off your shoes at a wooden door. Inside, you climb a narrow
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BY FAROOQ TARIQ & RAJA MEHBOOB HUSSAIN LAHORE On August 8, the military government of President Pervez Musharraf declared that its previously announced plan to privatise Pakistan's educational institutions would not take place.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A labour war is looming on the west coast docks, which could become the defining union conflict of the Bush administration. But the traditional issues of union bargaining — wages, benefits and working
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ISTANBUL — Top Pentagon brass may have doubts about the feasibility of the circulating war plans for Iraq, but George Bush's envoys have convinced Turkish decision-makers that a US military operation to overthrow Saddam
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A ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the organisation fighting for the national self-determination of the Tamil people in the island's north and east, has lasted almost six months.
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The Australian government has defended its embassy officials in Jakarta who lobbied Indonesian security forces and officials to deal with "illegal miners" at an Australian-owned mine. In three separate incidents after the lobbying
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PHNOM PENH — A showing of John Pilger's documentary film The New Rulers of the World drew a crowd of more than 200 people on the evening of July 24. The showing, sponsored by the Foreign Journalists Club of Cambodia, was
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"They were all swept along by the one idea: that they might still get through the adjoining disused mine if they could get there before the way was cut off... In their frightened hearts old slumbering beliefs came back to
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The suffering of ordinary Palestinians inflicted by the Israeli occupation since September 2000 extends beyond the almost 1700 killed and the more than 20,000 injured by the Israeli army and paramilitary "settlers". A new report
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WASHINGTON, DC — Last week's trip to South America by US treasury secretary Paul O'Neill is Washington's latest response to growing discontent about economic failure in the developing world. O'Neill, who has become known for