On July 25, an Irish court acquitted five protesters, including Ciaran O'Reilly from Brisbane, of damaging a US war plane at Shannon airport to protest against the Iraq war. All are pacifists from the Catholic Worker Movement, and used hammers and an
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Ghassan Hage Here we are, once again, protesting Israeli barbarism — that same technologically over-equipped barbarism that has made the lives of so many of us unbearable for the last 60 years. The issue today is not the rights or wrongs of
Awestruck by the power of the atomic bomb during its test bombing in the New Mexico desert, J Robert Oppenheimer nevertheless set the coordinates for the first atomic bombs to be used in war, to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later, writes Phil Shannon.
An estimated 100,000 people gathered to celebrate Revolution Day (July 26) in Bayamo, the capital of Cuba's Granma Province. The rally marked the 53rd anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada Barracks led by Fidel Castro, now Cuba's president.
JindabyneDirected by Ray LawrenceScreenplay by Beatrix ChristianWith Laura Linney and Gabriel ByrneShowing at major cinemas REVIEW BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS Four men go on a weekend fishing trip into the high-country of the Snowy Mountains. It's an
Nick Fredman "Religion is the opium of the people." One of Karl Marx's best-known quotes seems to be saying that religion is a wholly negative phenomenon that prevents people from seeing the world as it is and changing it for the better. In this
Rohan Pearce It's all about "Letting Israel Be Israel", according to the headline of an article in the July 31 neo-conservative Weekly Standard. The article by Fred Barnes, the executive editor of the Rupert Murdoch-owned magazine, endorsed "Bush's
Close relationship "I've reminded the prime minister ... over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship." — Emperor George Bush II, June 29, at a joint White House press
Greg Adamson On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the historic Japanese city of Hiroshima. While this was a military triumph for the United States, for scientists, including Albert Einstein, it was a tragedy. A new weapon of immense
An opinion poll conducted by ISM research found that 63% of British voters believe the British government should break from its current position of subservience to the US administration. The findings of the poll were published in the July 25 London
Suiting Themselves, How Corporations are Driving the Global AgendaBy Sharon BederEarthscan, London258 pages, $55.50available in Australia from <http://www.dadirect.com.au> Escaping the Matrix, How We the People Can change the WorldBy
NEWCASTLE — On July 21, 70 truck drivers protested outside the Coles store in the NSW Central Coast town of Wyoming after being left with no job security by Coles-Myer and the Linfox trucking company following the closure of the nearby Coles-Myer
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