Norm Dixon
Hollywood's global warming apocalypse flick, The Day After Tomorrow, has focused attention on how the melting of polar ice, the Arctic tundra and the world's glaciers can trigger abrupt climate change. There is now overwhelming evidence
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Max Lane
The government of Megawati Sukarnoputri, apparently at the urging of Indonesia's intelligence agency (BIN) and foreign affairs department, has refused to extend Sidney Jones' work permit.
Jones works for the International Crisis Group, a
Kavita Krishnan, Delhi
Psephologists, astrologers and speculators alike had used their predictions to campaign for a return of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's right-wing National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to power in the April 20-May 10
Ruth Ratcliffe
Despite Pm John Howard's attempts to dismiss it, evidence that Australians have been tortured in Guantanamo Bay by the US military is becoming overwhelming. Green Left Weekly spoke to Stephen Hopper, lawyer for detained Sydney man
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
Up to 1000 asylum seekers remain behind bars in Australia's immigration detention centres, including 168 children. The majority are from war-torn countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq - places the Australian government
BY DAVID ROVICS
We'll get rid of the dictator, rebuild your countryMake sure all your kids go to schoolWe'll clean up the cities, get the sewage plants runningInstitute parliamentary ruleWe'll bring you autonomy, senators and judgesAnd a shiny new
Dale Mills, Sydney
"This whole thing is about bashing Muslims for votes. Bash a Muslim, buy a vote." This was Sydney solicitor Chris Murphy's response to politicians and media commentators' outrage at the release on bail of his client, Bilal
Ron Guy
A wall can take many forms. It can be the 2400 kilometres of earth — and estimated three million landmines — that separate the Western Saharan people from their homeland. Or it can be a wall of silence.
Recently, I joined a delegation
Nick Everett, Canberra
"We must all do our bit to end our government's silence on the crimes being committed against the Palestinians", Michael Shaik, an International Solidarity Movement activist, told a Socialist Alliance public meeting on June
Dale McKinley
On June 3 in the Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto, two Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) activists from the community of Phiri — Tshepo Mkwanazi and Thabo Madisane — were convicted of "intimidation" and given R10,000 fines each,
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