In Iraqthe Yanks are back.Democracy,I suppose,is what they're goingto impose.
Democracy,dictatorship,do not let your sweet lips slip.
They now tell us thatOperation Enduring Freedomwas a success.Well I'd hate to see a failure.Though in one
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Every day last week, the newspapers carried full-page lists of medicines and dietary supplements recalled by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), after it suspended the manufacturing licence of Pan Pharmaceuticals for six months on April 28.
BY MAX LANE
Following a meeting of the Indonesian cabinet security committee on April 28, security minister Susilo Bambang Yudotomo announced that Jakarta may consider resuming "security operations" and abandon peace negotiations in Aceh.
As the catalogues advertising cheap slippers, saucepans and vacuum cleaners drop into our letterboxes, it might be worth remembering that the woman widely credited with initiating Mother's Day, Julia Ward Howe, would be horrified by the marketing
BY ROHAN PEARCE
There is growing hostility among ordinary Iraqis at Washington's attempts to impose a puppet government on the country. While there is little nostalgia for the brutal rule of Saddam Hussein, there seems to be determination not to
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell YouBy Norman Soloman and Reese ErlichContext Books, 2003188 pages, $31 (pb)
BY PHIL SHANNON
"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip", wrote George Orwell of journalists under dictatorships,
BY AHMED NIMER
RAMALLAH — Before the US-led invasion of Iraq, the US and British governments made it clear that they were planning for an immediate resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations and a rapid implementation of the US "road map" to
BY DOUG LORIMER
The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought to surface the conflict that has been immanent between the US capitalist rulers and their French and German rivals since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold
Sydney: M1 targets Halliburton
SYDNEY — Chanting "Halliburton OUT! Troops OUT! US imperialism OUT! OUT! OUT!", 150 people held a spirited May Day march to the office of Halliburton after a rally in Martin Place on May 1.
Halliburton was the
BY ALEX SALMON
PERTH — The WA branch of the mining division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union picketed the opening of Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on May 1. The unionists were protesting the company's attacks on workers
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — After a two-year struggle, the Australian Nurses Federation (ANF) has successfully forced the Tasmanian state government to pay a postgraduate allowance to all qualified nurses.
On May 1, the Federal Court ordered
BY GILLIAN DAVY
MELBOURNE — Iraqi and Afghan refugees who now face the threat of forcible return to their "liberated" home countries addressed a forum held on April 29 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, organised by the RMIT Refugee
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