REVIEW BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
The Essential Bruce SpringsteenBruce SpringsteenColumbia records
It is a time when the relentless commodification of everything has largely driven politically and artistically valuable popular culture underground. So it
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Christine Howes
Calls for a national levy from former governor-generals and prime ministers, headlines in two states' Sunday papers, supportive candidates in the Queensland state election, renewed grassroots support in Townsville and a furore over
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John Pilger, London
In the wake of the fiasco around the release of Lord Hutton's report into the suicide of David Kelly, one truth remains unassailed: British PM Tony Blair ordered an unprovoked invasion of another country on a totally false
Doug Lorimer
Eleven months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the electricity supply in the country's two largest cities — Baghdad and Basra — has still not been fully restored. By contrast, it took Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime only three
Eva Cheng
Evictions and other forms of land seizure — approved by if not instigated by corrupt officials — have become such a social problem in China that the State Land and Resources Department on February 4 issued two decrees in an effort to
On January 27, in Columbus, Georgia, Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, was sentenced to three months in federal prison. A member of Voices in the Wilderness, Kelly has been committed to
On February 14-16 last year, at least 12 million people took to the streets to oppose the war on Iraq. In Australia, around a million people mobilised in the largest coordinated action in this country's history. Now, twelve months later, the
Allen Myers, Phnom Penh
On January 29, police announced the arrest of two people they accuse of fatally shooting Chea Vichea, the president of the Free Trade Union of Workers.
Vichea was killed a week earlier, as he read newspapers at a news
Anthony Benbow, Fremantle
The battle to save WA's Coogee Beach is hotting up. A large part of the beach is in danger of being swallowed up by the proposed Port Coogee development, which would also see some of the ocean in Cockburn Sound filled in
"Saddam Hussein still has chemical and biological weapons and is increasing his capabilities to make more. And he is moving ever closer to developing a nuclear weapon." — US President George Bush, Cincinnati, October 7, 2002.
"The facts and
Tim O'Connor, Port Moresby
As I was sitting under a swaying palm tree, dangling my feet in the rippling waters, feeling the soothing afternoon breeze and chatting with articulate villagers about the dramatic changes in the environment caused by a
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