CARACAS, August 18 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today initiated a protest caravan against an August 14 Supreme Court ruling that absolved four senior army officers charged with having participated in the April coup d'etat against him.
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BY MATT EGAN & TOM FLANAGAN
LISMORE During the last five years, workers at Telstra's directory assistance call centre in Molesworth Street, Lismore, have repeatedly won recognition as the top performing call centre team in their region. One
BY EVA CHENG
Although the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was formed in 1995, its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade came into existence in 1948. GATT was part of a three-pronged mechanism created by the United States
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare,
1932-1945, and the American Cover-upBy Sheldon H. HarrisRoutledge, 2002385 pages, $57 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
In the last days of World War II, as the Japanese retreated from the Soviet
BY ALFREDO CASTRO
BOGOTA Although it has gone unreported in the mainstream media,
paramilitary death squads working with the Colombian security forces have
continued assassinating hundreds of civilians in recent weeks.
Among the dead
BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO The Bush administration has been parading handcuffed felons from WorldCom, ImClone and Adelphia in front of the TV cameras. But it's getting harder by the day to sell the story that the collapse of corporate giants like
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
SYDNEY The US has a Christian fundamentalist government in power
George Bush's fundamentalist plutocracy is the main danger to us. Terrorists
aren't the danger, asylum seekers aren't the danger. They are the danger.
On November 14-15, Sydney will host a meeting of World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade ministers from some 25 countries to discuss the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations.
The meeting will evaluate the progress that has been made since
Museworthy: Life, Related to 'Nest'
I had thought this nestwas mine,now they tell meit is leavesand bits of rubbishcollectedwith enough care onlyto protect a lifetime.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the
Bastardry
Every so often there occurs an act of political bastardy so transparent that it fair takes your breath away. Such an act is the decision to exclude Greens Senator Bob Brown from the Australian delegation of 50 to the Johannesburg
BY AMY MCDONELL
SYDNEY Less than a week after trade minister Mark Vaile announced that 25 delegates from around the world will be attending a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Sydney on November 14 and 15, activists have
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE The corporate media may have imposed a total blackout on the picket imposed by members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) against the union's national officials, but thousands of
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