Bomb me humanlyTerrorise me with democracyMcDonaldise me when I hunger.
Destroy my country to save it!
The old stench of fascismis being blown away by thenew stench of fascism.
Uncontrolled B52 joy flightsThat sweet, heavy steel rain.
This is
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In a staggering display of hypocrisy, US President George Bush told trainee US military officers on March 8 that parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in Lebanon in May could not be free and fair so long as 14,000 Syrian troops remained
March 16
1827: The Monitor on Sydney indicts Governor Darling on 24 counts.
1968: US marines slaughter 347 Vietnamese villagers in the My Lai massacre.
March 17
1948: Police beat strikers and hospitalise Communist MP Fred Patterson in the St
Peter Boyle
What began as a class assignment for Nick Calacouras, a final-year journalism student at the University of Technology Sydney — a small investigative project into subcontractors who handle Australia's foreign aid turned into a research
In a March 5 press conference, Somali MP Awad Ahmed Ashra explained that the Boxing Day tsunami had "thrown out containers containing toxic waste" on the country's coastline, causing widespread illness including skin disorders and abdominal
Doug Lorimer
On February 25, US Army officials at Fort Stewart, Georgia, announced that Sergeant Kevin Benderman, a 40-year-old army mechanic who refused to deploy to Iraq for a second tour of duty, will be court-martialed on desertion charges. If
National Public Radio in the US reported on March 2 that 1700 immigrants had been given electronic monitoring bracelets by the Department Of Homeland Security, in a six-month experimental trial. The immigrants have not been accused of a crime, but
Stuart Munckton
A statement released on March 8 and signed by almost 400 Venezuelan journalists accused the US government and media of a campaign to prepare the ground for a US military attack on oil-rich Venezuela.
According to translation of
On February 23, Indonesian painter and activist Semsar Siahaan passed away as a result of a heart attack. Siahaan was the foremost artist of the progressive movement in Indonesia and had visited Australia more than once, including to attend the
Amy Irwin &Bea Bleile, Armidale
After a misleading election campaign by yhe Young Liberals in last year's student elections, the University of New England Student Association electoral tribunal ruled that three Young Liberals breached the
Roger Burbach
The February 12 murder of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun who helped peasants engage in sustainable agriculture in the Amazonian rainforest, came as oligarchic interests and the parliamentary right are on a political offensive
Ben Raue is the Greens candidate in the by-election for the federal electorate of Werriwa, called for March 19 following ALP leader Mark Latham's resignation from parliament earlier this year. A 19-year-old student of economics and social science at
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