Eva Cheng Led by the United States and the European Union, the rich nations' campaign to force open Third World countries' markets while protecting their own was frustrated again when the round of World Trade Organisation-sponsored negotiations
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Stuart Munckton The 30th Common Market of the South (Mercosur) summit was held on July 20-21 in Cordoba, Argentina, and was the first presidential summit since Mercosur accepted Venezuela as a full member on July 4. Mercosur also includes Brazil,
In a July 29 media release, the refugee rights group Project SafeCom condemned the immigration department's decision to order a sick nine-year-old Afghan boy living in community detention in Brisbane to be relocated to the detention facility on
Kim Bullimore While most world attention has focused on the brutal Israeli attack on Lebanon, Israeli occupation forces have continued to their month-long assault on the Gaza Strip. Since June 28, Israeli occupation forces have carried out more than
John Pilger The National Museum of American History is part of the celebrated Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Surrounded by mock Graeco-Roman edifices with their soaring Corinthian columns, rampant eagles and chiselled profundities, it is
Coral Wynter&Jim McIlroy, Caracas Around 10,000 people rallied in the Poliedro amphitheatre on June 29 to celebrate the third anniversary of the founding of the Frente Francisco de Miranda. The FFM is the leading organisation mobilising youth in
Peter Boyle Share prices for BHP Billiton (Olympic Dam uranium mine) and Rio Tinto (Ranger mine) leapt up when Labor leader Kim Beazley announced that he would campaign to overturn Labor's "no new uranium mines" policy at the next party conference.
In February, supporters of women's right to choose abortion succeeded in removing the abortion drug RU486 from politicians' control — including Christian fundamentalist health minister Tony Abbott — and giving it back to the medical
Graham Matthews An academic appointed to advise the Australian (un)Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) on the link between wages and unemployment has called for the minimum wage to be frozen. According to Professor Phil Lewis in the July 22 Australian, there
Pip Hinman A holocaust is engulfing Lebanon. Hundreds of civilians are dead, thousands injured. Entire villages and suburbs have been destroyed. The United Nations says that a third of the casualties in Lebanon are children, and that a million
Emma Clancy As second semester begins on university campuses around the country, students are organising against Israel's wars on Lebanon and Gaza, and making plans to hold on-campus demonstrations and public forums to express their outrage at the
According to Doug Rokke, the former director of the US Army's depleted uranium project, the US's delivery of 100 GBU 28 laser-guided bunker-buster bombs with depleted uranium warheads to Israel for use in its brutal offensive against Lebanon will
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