BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — It is 10 months since September 11, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous day, the rulers of the world have since ground our language into a paean of cliches and
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
"Offensive to human dignity — With these four words the UN human rights envoy, Justice Bhagwati, has encapsulated the moral vacuum at the heart of Australia's mandatory detention of refugees", wrote Howard Dick, an associate
BY GARRY M. LEECH
NEW YORK — During the 1980s, the Reagan administration became mired in the Iran-contra scandal following revelations that it illegally sold weapons to Iran and used the proceeds to covertly arm and fund Nicaraguan "contra"
Museworthy: The Birds' Necks
The birds' necks are as fatas a baby's thighsI know, I wring themWhen the birds are deadthey look very eternallying with their headsat the spirit's angleI place my lips to their feathersand feel their speechTheir
BY PIP HINMAN
Some of the refugees rescued by the MV Tampa last August have been given refugee status and are being resettled in Australia.
After 10 months in prison camps on Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, 480 Iraqis, 56 Afghans
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — The branch of the Democratic Socialist Party previously located in Burwood has relocated to Sydney's south-west. A new Bankstown office was opened on July 26 with a toast to the Cuban revolution and a celebration of the
BY DAVE ROBINSON
Working with the ALP presents the union movement with challenges and some immense difficulties at times. I guess, like me, many are immensely disappointed, if not outraged, at some of the decisions made by the ALP, both in WA and
BY SIMON WOOD
WOOLGOOLGA — It seems hardly a day goes by now without somebody, from ordinary people to the United Nations, criticising the Coalition government's prejudiced and inhumane mandatory detention policy.
At 9am on July 26,
Strict interpretation
“You'll notice that I never said she should resign”, Democrats Senator
Andrew Murray told a July 30 press conference, a day after explaining that
Natasha Stott Despoja's leadership of the party was “an
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — Members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) are again protesting against shipping company attempts to reflag Australian crewed and flagged ships as "flag of convenience" vessels with exploited Third World crews.
BY SUE BOLTON
As the royal
commission into the building industry continues its assault on militants
in the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, state attacks on
the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
US President George Bush is preparing for a new war on Iraq using the pretext
that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is threatening the world with “weapons
of mass destruction”.
Pentagon papers leaked on July 4 reveal plans for an assault on
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