Stuart Munckton
In April 2002, shortly after the military coup that temporarily overthrew Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, author William Blum asked on the counterpunch website: "How do we know that the [Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)] was
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Chris Latham
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's sixth annual Container Stevedoring Monitoring Report, which was made public on November 15, claims that the cost reduction gains made by the stevedore bosses as a result of the 1998
Doug Lorimer
The 35-member board of governors of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began meeting in Vienna on November 25 to review Iran's compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).
The board will consider a
Eva Cheng
World crude oil prices have shot up by 70% in the last year, with little sign of them coming down substantially soon. In Australia, petrol prices seem to have settled above $1 per litre, a level hard to believe even just a year ago.
If
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and his Backyard Nuclear ReactorBy Ken SilversteinFourth Estate, 2004$29.95 (pb) David Hahn could have been taken for a typical US teenager in the 1990s. He loved driving
On November 23, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, visiting Madrid, attended a mass meeting of workers. This account of the astonishing event was written by El Militante member Emilia Lucena. It first appeared at
Pip Hinman, Sydney
The Leichhardt Town Hall was filling up fast on November 22 when federal Labor leader Mark Latham arrived. Five minutes later people were still pouring in, curious about Labor's plans for the next three years.
Latham's
Sarah Fuller & Rachel Evans, Sydney
In late July, Mission Australia was granted permission from the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board to ban all transgender women who are not "recognised transgender persons" from its publicly funded homeless women's
Bill Mason, Brisbane
On November 22, more than 200 Aboriginal community members held a meeting and marched on the police station on Palm Island, off the north-Queensland coast. They were protesting the death in custody of local man Cameron
UNITED STATES: Skipping the ads to be illegal
The new Intellectual Property Protection Act currently before US Congress, has some strange provisions. Among them, is a provision to differentiate between the legal activity of fast-forwarding
Graham Matthews, Melbourne
Six-hundred-and-fifty people packed the Capitol Theatre to capacity on November 26 to hear journalist and film-maker John Pilger speak on the power of the corporate media.
The public forum was organised by Green Left
"Butchered blond woman found with slit throat" cried the Sydney Morning Herald, in blond coloured tears.
But the 100,000s of Iraqis who have died are called "insurgents" and it is left at that.
I'll stand on a box and shout at the masses of
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