BY EVA CHENG
Towards the end of Bill Clinton's presidency in 2000, the moaning and groaning of US "defence" contractors reached new heights — their profits were drying up as US military budgets shrank to a post-Cold War low. Following the
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BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
It is feared that five women and an unknown number of children may have died in the fire which broke out on February 14 at England's Yarl's Wood detention centre. As of February 27, 25 detainees were still unaccounted for.
BY ALISON DELLIT
On October 7, a fishing boat overloaded with desperate asylum seekers encountered the HMAS Adelaide north of Christmas Island. The warship fired warning shots to stop the boat from moving into Australian waters. Frightened by the
BY NORM DIXON
On February 25, the presidential candidate for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was formally charged with "high treason", a crime that can carry a death sentence.
Tsvangirai was allowed to
Just behaves like one
"I do not feel like a dill." — Australian Defence Force chief Admiral Chris Barrie, speaking at a February 27 press conference at which he finally acknowledged what all his subordinates had been telling him for more than
REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
In Sleepy Scotland
Alistair Hulett
The Cold Grey Light of Dawn
Alistair Hulett and Dave Swarbrick
Saturday Johnny and Jimmy the Rat
Alistair Hulett and Dave Swarbrick
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[On February 19, Mauritius' interim president, Supreme Court Chief Justice Arianga Pillay, signed into law anti-terrorism legislation over which his two predecessors had resigned. Twice passed by parliament, the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, deemed
BY JIM McILROY & NICK EVERETT
Three hundred people greeted the arrival of the refugee "Freedom Bus" in Brisbane on February 17, while 100 people packed into Sydney Trades Hall on February 25 to hear participants on the Freedom Bus describe their
REVIEW BY ANGELA LUVERA
Made in Indonesia: Indonesian workers since SuhartoBy Dan La BotzSouth End Press, 2001395 pages, US$18Order at <http://www.southendpress.org>
Radical US writer Dan La Botz creates scenes of Indonesia in Made in
BY JOHN PERCY
The decision of the Sydney Palm Sunday 2002 organising committee to ban participation by members of the Democratic Socialist Party sets a dangerous precedent.
Parties and other political organisations obviously have a right to
BY LEE SUSTAR
CHICAGO — Enron isn't the half of it. Revelations of more colossal financial scams in corporate America swept into the news last week amid the bankruptcy of telecommunications company Global Crossing.
As in Enron's case, company
In 1972, US President Richard Nixon suggested that Washington drop nuclear bombs on North Vietnam, just-released tapes of conversations between Nixon and then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger have revealed.
Nixon's suggestion was found in 500
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