Keeping control
Most internet business are facing financial crises today, a year
after the dotcom bubble burst. Even the infrastructure companies, those
that manufacture the boxes and phone lines, software and PCs that connect
people
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BY SIMON BUTLER
BRISBANE — The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting here in October is set to be a focus for militant actions against the forum's expressed support for corporate globalisation.
Groups and individuals involved in organising
In urban America
A reader asks, "What is it like to be a Black man in America?" I could go on for days answering that question but time and space will not permit that so I will just give you a view of a few minutes.
The distinct hum of an
BY NAOMI KLEIN
Let's face it, the street theatre in London was a bit of a McProtest.
The idea of turning London into a life-sized Monopoly board on May Day sounded like a great idea to me.
The most familiar criticism lobbed at modern protesters
BY DICK NICHOLS
There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country who know full well that since 1996 John Howard and Peter Costello have simply been carrying on the pro-corporate policies of the Hawke and Keating Labor governments of the
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — Affiliates of the NSW Labor Council on May 17 called on the state Labor government to split its workers' compensation "reform" package into two parts, in the latest bid to force concessions on the controversial
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — As the Palestinian uprising (intifada) enters its eighth month the gap between the Palestinian population and the interests of the Israeli government has never been wider. The systematic policy of state-sponsored
Paul O'Connor, a well-known human rights campaigner, is the projects coordinator for the Derry-based Pat Finucane Centre. The centre is named in memory of Pat Finucane, a human rights lawyer from Belfast who was murdered in front of his wife and
HIH is not a bad apple
Public calls for a full-scale royal commission into the collapse of
failed insurance giant HIH are mounting. And so they should be it's high
time that the insurance industry was dragged kicking and screaming
BY JIM GREEN
After years of denial and deceit, the British government has admitted that military personnel were used in radiation experiments during the nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga in South Australia in the 1950s.
Confirming statements
BY RODNEY CHRISTOPHER
Nobody can deny that the Medicare system is in need of resuscitation. However, nobody can deny that our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly, are the pawns in the latest debate between doctors and the federal government over
Refugee policy condemned
PERTH — Australia's policy of detaining asylum seekers in detention centres was a blatant breach of at least three international treaties, Dr Judith Watson, a former minister for multicultural affairs, told a May 21
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