Colombia: US poised to boost intervention
The United States House of Representatives passed a bill on March 30 which approves US$1.7 billion in military aid to Colombia. The package, which includes the setting up of two new Colombian military
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Cuban President Fidel Castro has unveiled an audacious but very constructive proposal to break the logjam preventing the reunification of Elian Gonzalez with his father. On March 29, Castro announced that Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, was
EAST TIMOR: Long queues for medical facilities
DILI — To come face to face with public health services in East Timor is a daunting thing. For expatriate workers, there is access to foreigner clinics and always the possibility of being evacuated
East Timor: Jobless confronted by anti-riot troops
By Vanja Tanaja
DILI — United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (NTAET) security forces threatened to use anti-riot gear against 800 job seekers seeking information on their job
A deep look at shallow news
The Shallow EndWritten by Doug LucieNew Theatre, SydneyShowings until April 29MCA Ticketing 9873 3575 BY WENDY VARNEY
Capitalism's new levels of aggression and ruthlessness are nowhere more evident than in the media,
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — Five hundred members of the Communication, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) marched into the Melbourne headquarters of Telstra on March 30 and occupied its ground floor to protest against the company's job-shedding
MELBOURNE — It was very pleasing to read in GLW #398 two articles related to the insane drug war that has resulted from the global prohibition of certain drugs. I am a peer educator who has been working intimately with mainly "illicit" drug users
South Asia: Anti-Clinton protests suppressed
US President Bill Clinton's late March visit to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh was met with a barrage of protests from left and democratic forces resisting Washington's increased efforts to plunder the
Monsanto, Fox TV and censorship
Two US former investigative journalists toured Australia in March to raise awareness of a lawsuit they have filed against Rupert Murdoch's Fox television network. Jane Akre and Steve Wilson allege they were unfairly
Protests against forest agreements
Environmentalists staged protests across the country on March 31 against the failure of regional forest agreements (RFAs) to protect old-growth forests from logging. In Melbourne, conservationists condemned Steve
Britain: British Nuclear Fools Ltd
The future of the Sellafield plant, operated by British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) in northern England, is in jeopardy following safety lapses, cover-ups, an act of sabotage by a BNFL employee, economic
Mike's Militia
Among the local stay-at-home-on-Tuesday-nights population of part-time couch potatoes, there may be some of you who were fortunate enough to catch Mike Moore's The Awful Truth on SBS TV. As a card-carrying member of Mike's
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