On March 20, the day the US, Britain and Australia launched their war on Iraq, the federal government reintroduced a bill into the House of Representatives to give the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) draconian police powers.
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BY EVA CHENG
At US$45.6 billion, Japan's military budget was dwarfed only by the military budget of the United States which totalled $396.1 billion for fiscal 2003. Throughout the 1990s, Japan's war budget was the second largest in the world —
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — NSW unions covering public servants and teachers in TAFE and the Department of Education and Training (DET) have rejected proposed job cuts announced by NSW Labor education minister Andrew Refshauge on June 17.
At least
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On June 18, US troops shot two Iraqis dead at a demonstration outside the Coalition Provisional Authority's office in Baghdad. A military convoy entering the US compound was pelted with rocks by the protesters, and soldiers from
Cuba
Peter Frost (Write On, GLW #542), criticises GLW for publishing my article on the "independent libraries" project in Cuba (GLW #541), I would like to make a number of points.
Firstly, he incorrectly asserts that some of the 75 opponents of
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Key Tasmanian government leaders stepped in to water down proposed Significant Personal Relationships legislation before it was presented to parliament on June 19. This is despite the fact that the original
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"I really qualify it as militarily insignificant. They are very small, they are very random, they are very ineffective", Major General Ray Odierno, commander of the US Army's 4th Infantry Division, told a June 18 press briefing from
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the
BY JOHN PERCY
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly continues to climb up the web rankings, confirming it as the most visited political web site in Australia.
Last week GLW's Alexa (<http://www.alexa.com.au>) ranking rose to 57,727, while the next most
BY IGGY KIM
In the face of mounting casualties and humanitarian crisis in Aceh, foreign minister Alexander Downer reaffirmed Canberra's support for Jakarta's war.
Speaking to CNN during the recent ASEAN regional forum, Downer stated that "the
BY DOUG LORIMER
On June 16, the governing board of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began discussing a report on Iran's nuclear program from the agency's director-general, Mohammad ElBaradei. Washington hopes to use the report to
Theater of WarBy Lewis LaphamThe New Press, 2002202 pages, $42 (hb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
Back in 1961, when Lewis Lapham was a young reporter in New York listening to US President John F. Kennedy, plump with "good intentions" of reviving
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