Two weeks after the hard drives of two Indymedia servers were seized from the London office of a US-owned web hosting company called Rackspace, British Home Office under-secretary Caroline Flint told parliament that "no UK law enforcement agencies
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When an Aboriginal police liaison officer claimed in September that he had received death threats by police wishing to suppress information about the February 15 death of the Young Man from Kamilaroi, the case was thrown back into the spotlight. Ray
Zoe Kenny,
Melbourne
October 19, 40 people attended a public forum at
the Victorian Trades Hall organised by the Refugee Action
Collective (RAC) to discuss perspectives for the
refugee-rights movement after the re-election of the Coalition
Doug Lorimer
The October 16 Boston Globe reported that about half of the US$5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the US occupation authority in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for, according to an audit commissioned
Rohan Pearce
They call it the "war on terror", but under the guise of fighting terrorism Washington's warmongers are strengthening the US empire. Part of this has been carrying out a worldwide realignment of US military forces — the better to
Doug Lorimer
According to a report compiled by the Iraqi health ministry, the US-occupied country faces a soaring death toll from preventable diseases including typhoid and tuberculosis.
The report, released on October 13, notes that Iraqi's
Kim Bullimore, West Bank
On September 29, Kim Lamberty and Chris Brown, international peace activists from the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), were attacked and severely beaten as they escorted Palestinian children from Tuba in the Hebron region
France's state-un Electricity Firm has announced the construction of a new nuclear power station on the coast of Normandy. Nuclear power accounts for 80% of the country's electricity.From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, October 27, 2004.
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The attacks on recently elected pro-worker parliamentarian Leung Kwok-Hung, commonly known as Long Hair, have continued, as has his defiance in the face of them.
More than 30 years ago, the British expelled the inhabitants of Diego Garcia so the US could establish a military base. Now the government's dirty tricks are being challenged in court. John Pilger comments on the outrage.
In spite of its late hour,
Pip Hinman
Author and filmmaker John Martinkus, who was kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqi resistance fighters on October 16, has been accused by foreign minister Alexander Downer of deliberately putting himself in danger, and of "giving comfort" to
Tony Iltis, Melbourne
While "Is the left going green?" was the topic for a forum organised by the New International Bookshop on October 21, the discussion was more focused on whether the Greens were going left.
Two of the panelists were Greens
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