BY URKO AIARTZA
BILBAO — The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, and the media impact they made, created a climate in which governments around the world — by fanning and exploiting fears of "terrorism" — have been able to implement
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BY EVA CHENG
Since July, Washington has launched an unprecedented campaign to blame China's currency regime for declining US manufacturing jobs and pressuring Beijing to end its nine-year peg of the yuan (renminbi in Chinese) to the US dollar.
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Vive La Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French RevolutionBy Mark SteelScribner, 2003299 pages, $29.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
On June 20, 1789, Dr Guillotin made a significant entry into history. Locked out of their meeting place by
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On October 13, the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) announced the cancellation of a November 6 visit to Australian Defence Force facilities in Perth by a TNI delegation. The decision was in response to the Australian
BY NICK RAWSON
The 21st Australia-New Zealand Work/Study Brigade will travel to Cuba in December. Organised annually by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, the brigade provides an opportunity for people to express solidarity with Cuba's struggle
BY JANE BECKMAN
NEWCASTLE — NSW Health and Research Employees Association (HREA) branches throughout the Hunter region have unanimously condemned the NSW Labor government's decision to privatise new facilities to be built at the Newcastle Mater
BY DOUG LORIMER
At a White House press conference on October 10, US President George Bush announced new punitive measures against socialist Cuba, including new steps to enforce Washington's 41-year-old trade embargo against the island, stricter
BY DOUG LORIMER
After weeks of haggling, France, Germany and Russia on October 16 finally voted in the UN Security Council for a US-sponsored resolution mandating the creation of a "multinational" occupation force in Iraq under US command.
While
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Palestinian legislator and human rights activist Hanan Ashrawi is scheduled to receive the Sydney Peace Prize from NSW Premier Bob Carr on November 6 at Parliament House. Ashrawi, a long-time campaigner for the rights of
Syria: Neither Bread Nor FreedomBy Alan GeorgeZed Books, 2003
REVIEW BY CHRIS SLEE
Israel's government on October 5 launched a missile attack on Syria, the first strike into Syrian territory in 30 years. US President George Bush immediately
BY TIM BYRNES
CANBERRA — Andrew Wilkie, the former senior intelligence officer at the centre of a storm following his resignation in protest at Prime Minister John Howard's government's stance on Iraq, admits to having a soft spot for Tamworth.
BY DOUG LORIMER
With the United States and its allies facing an escalating guerrilla war of resistance to its occupation of Iraq, more and more people are starting to see similarities between the Iraq war and the US war in Vietnam in the 1960s and
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