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Due to an editing error, an article entitled "When right isn't quite right" in GLW #566 incorrectly used the word "coated" to describe depleted uranium munitions. From Green Left Weekly, January 21, 2004. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page.
Doug Lorimer As the number of US troops killed in Iraq steadily climbed toward 500, Coalition Provisional Authority chief Paul Bremer claimed that guerrilla attacks had fallen dramatically in the wake of Saddam Hussein's capture on December 13.
Doug Lorimer The December 5 directive issued by US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz provided a clear indication of what the Bush Doctrine is all about. It barred French and German companies from competing for US$18.7 billion in contracts for
Tom Flanagan, Lismore Following a sustained public campaign led by the North Lismore Progress Association (NLPA), the Lismore City Council has abandoned its preferred route for a northern "bypass" that would have seen heavy traffic routed between
Anita Lumbus Two Afghan proverbs: "A broken hand can work but a broken heart can't" and "What you do to your enemies today, you will do to your friends tomorrow". Ali is 11 years old and lives in the Western Australian coastal town of Albany. He
Sarah Stephen On January 12, a delegation of Australian government officials and health department doctors arrived on Nauru to investigate the crisis in the Pacific island state's health system, strained to breaking point during a 29-day hunger
Rohan Pearce On January 12, US-based Human Rights Watch criticised house demolitions carried out by US forces occupying Iraq. According to HRW, at least four houses have been demolished by US forces over the past two months to punish relatives of
In a world of his own I "Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, pushed out of the administration for not being a team player, says President Bush was so disengaged during cabinet meetings that he was like a 'blind man in a roomful of deaf
Lisa Macdonald Since the 9/11 attacks, the US rulers have escalated their military drive for control of every corner of the world economy, and the Australian capitalist ruling class has been there every step of the way, vying for a share of the
Shane Bentley Britain's National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), with 67,000 members, made headlines in December when its Scottish regional council voted overwhelmingly to end its long-standing links with the Labour Party and
Sarah Stephen An independent medical team calling itself the Professional Alliance for the Health of Asylum Seekers and their Children, which had been raising money to make a trip to Nauru on January 19, was forced to suspend its trip when the
Raul Bassi, Sydney Many times, we will read in newspapers, or hear on the radio or TV, of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army. Sometimes, these killings are "explained" by the claim that the victims were militants, or "didn't follow soldiers