"It's not fair. That's how I feel. That a person in America could go to the doctor, get a prescription, take Effexor, and all of a sudden be unable to quit." These comments were posted on March 23 by "Sean9" on the message boards of the British Social Audit website.
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Louise Morris
Tasmania's forests are increasingly the focus of national and international attention, as the weight of public opinion grows in favour of protecting the remaining high conservation-value forests across the state.
Tasmania is the
Robyn Marshall, Caracas
The peasants of the Venezuelan countryside are being terrorised. Three peasant leaders were assassinated on April 23, in the state of Portuguesa.
All of the leaders — Jose Rodriguez, Gabriel Paredes and Juan Baptista —
Steps for the Future: Sincerely Yours — Acclaimed South African filmmaker Dumisani Phakathi returns to his old neighbourhood of Phiri and its social problems, in the black township of Soweto. SBS, Tuesday, June 8, 12.40am.
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the WorldBy Greg CritserAllen Lane, London, 2003232 pages, $29.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
In a gruesome passage in chapter 10 of the first volume of Capital, Marx wrote of the "incredible
Fabian Loschiavo & Bea Brear, Sydney
The waves crash onto the base of sheer cliffs on the ocean side. In the bay they are more gentle. The coloured sandstone — golden, purple and orange — shows itself among the native heath and shrubs. Old
Sam Pillay
Seven days after India's voters ditched the Hindu chauvinist BJP-led government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh was shown in as India's 14th prime minister, at the head of a new Congress Party-led government.
The
Doug Lorimer
Ahmad Chalabi, who up until a few months ago had been the Bush administration's favourite to head Washington's puppet regime in Iraq, now stands accused of duping the US into invading Iraq.
On May 18, US deputy defence secretary Paul
Daya Varma& Vinod Mubayi
May 13, 2004, will be remembered as a memorable day in the history of independent India. Belying the predictions of media "experts", pre-election polls, exit polls and commentators of all shades, the voters of India threw
Roberto Jorquera
On May 6, US President George Bush announced new measures to tighten the 43-year US economic embargo against Cuba, based on recommendations made in a 450-page report to Bush from the presidential Commission for Assistance to a Free
Shua Garfield, Hobart
Since the Coalition's federal budget was launched, the Socialist Alliance has waged a campaign to raise support for its demands to tax the rich more and the poor less.
A tax tug-of-war has emerged in the local newspaper,
Eva Cheng
In the May 13 Indian parliamentary elections, the Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Indian Peoples Party) won 138 seats — 42 less than in the previous election in 1999 — in the 545-member lower house of India's
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