Four leading members of Mexico's ruling elite have been assassinated over the past two years. Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and six other people died in a gun battle at Guadalajara's Miguel Hidalgo international airport
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By Jennifer Thompson A member of the Kurdistan organisation of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq (WPCI) has been issued with a death threat by an Islamic Revolutionary Hizbollah leader. The fatwa (religious order), repartedly issued by Islamic
Reinventing Darwin — The Great Evolutionary DebateBy Niles EldredgeWeidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995 Reviewed by Adam Hanieh The writings of evolutionary biologist and palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould have an enormously popular following. So it was
By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — Seventeen Christian churches and organisations in Australia last week announced their intention to provide sanctuary for East Timorese refugees under threat of deportation by the federal Labor government. The newly formed
By Bernie Rosen The death of Charlie King, a Rationalist speaker at the Sydney Domain for nearly 34 years, leaves a gap in the intellectual life of our community that will be hard to fill. Charlie took over the platform from his illustrious
[This poem is about Harry Connell, long time activist and founder member of the Builders Labourers Rank and File Committee in the early 1950s.] Harry, they're workin' in the rain, Harry, mate, they're workin' in the rain, Down in George St., mate,
The idea here is that anyone can win. The pauper can become a prince in the course of a good bet. The riches of the few are available, if only you can guess correctly. The reality is that only a very small minority of punters on the Cup will win big,
By Denis Doherty A national peace protest and camp planned for December 1 to 3 is to be held on the lawns of Parliament House. Organisers are determined to remind the major players in the nuclear club that the majority of people want nuclear weapons
Unsustainable agriculture and vegetarianism By Peter Johnston "Today a greater percentage of the human race is overweight than at any other time in history. Meanwhile a greater percentage of the human race suffers from malnutrition than at any other
By Peter Montague The word "dioxin" stands for a group of chemicals that occurs rarely, if ever, in nature. A very large proportion of dioxin comes from human sources. Dioxin began accumulating in the environment around 1900 when the founder of Dow
Help needed! Green Left Weekly has received news that Brandon Astor Jones, one of our weekly columnists, needs some help. Brandon is on death row in the United States. He is appealing against his conviction. However he has lost faith in the lawyer he
By Norm Dixon Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature and a prominent democracy campaigner, has called on the international community to take decisive action against the military regime that rules Nigeria. Soyinka, who lives in
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