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Pine Gap activists face seven years' jail

Kerry Smith Four peace activists who broke into the United States' Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs last year will stand trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court on October 3. The four, members of Christians Against All Terrorism, will

PHILIPPINES: New mine could be environmental catastrophe

Zoe Kenny The Didipio community in the province of Nueva Vizcaya on Luzon, the Philippines' largest island, is campaigning against a proposed gold and copper mine that could have a devastating impact on the area. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to JP

Queers fighting back

Rachel Evans Eighty countries still criminalise homosexuality. Beheading, torture, jai or rape await many queers fighting for their rights across the world. In one of the worst reported cases, Iran beheaded two young gay men in July 2005. Last

War on the homeless

Norm Barber, Adelaide "We get people housing", a bulky, 50ish woman tells me, her Street to Home identification card hidden inside her shirt. "Where are the houses?", I ask. She laughs. "We help people in other ways", she counters. When asked she

Lebanese criticise government indifference

Pip Hinman "The Australian government is not doing enough to rescue my wife and children", Rami Abdallah said on July 20 as he was about to leave Sydney for Beruit. "I am involved in my local community, I have given my all to Australia, yet the

Cronulla task force results reveal racism

Graham Matthews, Sydney On July 18, NSW police minister Carl Scully, accompanied by assistant police commissioner Graeme Morgan, held a media conference to announce the final results of strike force Enoggera — the police task force charged with

Tens of thousands demand 'Israel out!'

Alex Bainbridge Central Sydney was filled with throngs of people — many from the Lebanese and Palestinian communities — as 20,000 people marched on July 22 to protest the bitter injustice of Israel's latest offensive against Lebanon and

Missile tests and nuclear hypocrisy

John Hallam That the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missile technologies is a bad thing that should be strongly discouraged is beyond doubt. The probability that by malice, madness, miscalculation or malfunction, a nuclear weapon will again

A dazed and confused look at corporate journalism

Into the Buzzsaw: Leading journalists expose the myth of a free pressEdited by Kristina BorjessonPrometheus, 2004453 pages REVIEW BY SIMON TAYLER "I have sympathy for friends who work in the corporate media. It's a terrible burden to be setting

Students stop defence department meeting

Simon Cunich, Sydney Students inflicted a small blow to the Australian military machine on July 18 when they stopped a department of defence briefing at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). The defence department was on campus to promote

How Cuba survived its oil shock

The Power of Community, How Cuba Survived Peak OilDVD and VHS, 53 minutes$US20, Available from <http://www.communitysolution.org> REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY "Peak oil", the notion that the world's supply of oil is entering a period of ever

LEBANON: Behind the rise of Hezbollah: Two decades of Israeli occupation

Michael Karadjis Israel and its apologists claim that Israel's brutal terrorisation of the Lebanese people is an act of self-defence following a cross-border raid by the Lebanese organisation Hezbollah, which captured two Israeli soldiers. However,