BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON - Graham
Greene once described a "subterranean world, where the hopes and dreams
of the mass of the people reside, unconnected with the rarefied world above,
until those above take one step too far". There is a
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BY EVA CHENG
Created in 1989 to help break Third World resistance to the Uruguay Round of trade talks, the 21-country Asia Pacific Economic and Cooperation (APEC) forum plunged into near irrelevance in 1997 when the economic crisis hit Asia.
But
BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY Dozens of high school student activists from Sydney, Wollongong and the NSW Central Coast have pledged to support the November 14 march and high-school walkout against the impending war on Iraq and the exploitative
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART In
the largest of several anti-war protests held around the country, 2000
people marched through the Tasmanian state capital on November 2. Green
triangles, Socialist Alliance No war on Iraq placards, union
BY SARAH STEPHEN
A woman told the November 1 Illawarra Mercury that she has stopped wearing her traditional hijab headscarf after suffering five years of taunts and abuse. She is not alone. Many Muslim and Arab Australians are bracing for an
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW On the evening of October 23, all of Russia's television channels interrupted their broadcasts to report that a group of Chechen fighters had seized the Moscow theatre centre where the musical Nord-Ost was playing.
BY CHRIS SLEE
On October 30, Australian Taxation Office (ATO) staff began to vote on a new agency agreement. Voting will close on November 7. Opponents of the agreement, including supporters of the Members First group within the Community and
BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY Federal trade minister Mark Vaile's confirmation on October 30 that the November 14-15 ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been moved to the site of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in Homebush
Whatever happened to user-pays?
"A German intelligence-gathering operation went spectacularly wrong after bills for phone tapping services were sent to the people being bugged. About 50 people received the demands in mobile phone invoices." —
BY JAMES CRAFTI
MELBOURNE Are all Aussies heartless bastards? This was the question
that was thrashed out at the third annual Green Left Weekly comedy
debate. Almost 200 people crowded into the Brunswick Town Hall on October
25 to find
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
LAUNCESTON One hundred people attended a demonstration against the Gunns woodchip company's forestry practices at its annual general meeting on October 31. One banner read "People don't kill forests Gunns kill
BY CHRIS WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG - The Greens' Michael Organ was officially declared the new member for the federal lower house seat of Cunningham by the Australian Electoral Commission on October 30.
Responding to the announcement, Organ stated the
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