What the Olympics really celebrate
BY ZANNY BEGG
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has spent $230 million on a series of advertisements around the theme "celebrate humanity". This exercise in "global branding" is supposed to encourage us
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'Waste Minchin, not SA!'
BY JIM GREEN
ADELAIDE — About 4000 people protested against the federal Coalition government's plan to dump radioactive waste in northern South Australia at a rally on the steps of Parliament House here on August 16.
MALAYSIA: Penans appeal for international help
More than a hundred Penan people, from various settlements in the interior of Sarawak, have gathered at Long Kevok to stage a non-violent protest against sustained logging activities in their communal
US democracy goes online
"In the current election system, the voter is a product to be sold to the corporations. But they're being sold through this convoluted method of advertising, consultants, [and] travelling. Voteauction is making a more
Major donors to the Democratic convention
Organisation Total to convention Total soft money, PAC & individual contributions Dems Repubs
American International Group $2,000,000 $774,362 $315,162 $456,700
BP Amoco Corp $1,000,000 $1,008,070
MALAYSIA: Police beat labour rights advocate
KUALA LUMPUR — Well-known labour rights advocate Tian Chua said that two of his vertebrae were fractured after he was kicked heavily in his back by a police officer while being detained at the Jalan
Women to march for world justice
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — Groups in at least 157 countries and territories will be part of the World March of Women against poverty and violence against women on October 17, the United Nations' day for the
Major donors to the Republican convention
Organisation Total to convention Total soft money, PAC & individual contributions Dems Repubs
General Motors $1,000,000 $469,665 $126,550 $338,215
Microsoft Corp $1,000,000 $2,282,868 $1,143,014
BY RAYYAR FARHAT
Justice Michael Kirby wearily told the Young Lawyers' Forum on "Community participation in genetics and law" that he'd seen it all before. The controversy surrounding the mapping of the human genome and all the subsequent
A truly free voice
Johnny Cash at San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert)Johnny CashColumbia/Legacy REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS
Prison sucks, and Johnny Cash makes no bones about that. In this defiant 1969 prison concert, he pulls fire, freedom and
PHILADELPHIA — The following report on events around the Republic Party convention in Philadelphia by a member of the US socialist group Solidarity was posted on the internet on August 10. It is slightly abridged. What's going on in Philadelphia
Grateful
I am so grateful to the young woman who gave me a back-issue of Green Left in the Queen Street Mall just now. I would have bought the most recent copy, but I only have $1.65 so far until "pay-day" next Wednesday.
I went into the Hilton
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