BY MICHAEL KARADJIS
"Politics has never seen such a widespread liquidation operation", declared the Turkish daily Sabah following the crushing victory of the "Islamist" Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey's November 3 general election.
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BY JIM GREEN
The largest shipment of high-level nuclear waste between France and Germany — 1300 tonnes of it — was trained and trucked from La Hague in France to Wendland in northern Germany. on November 11-14.
The waste was taken to a
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — In the United States, actor Susan Sarandon and other high-profile artists and performers are speaking out against the planned US-led war on Iraq. In Australia too, members of the arts and cultural communities are supporting
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY Despite attempts by police to prevent it, an anti-war action
in Bankstown's Old Town Plaza on November 16 attracted 80 people. Initiated
by the Socialist Alliance and the Canterbury-Bankstown Anti-War Group,
the
US delegates dropped a bombshell at the Asian and Pacific Population Conference in late October. They announced that the US would withdraw its support for the"action plan" devised at the 1994 United Nations Population and Development Conference in
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
& SARAH STEPHEN
At the end of September, Abdur Wahab Najim, an Iraqi asylum seeker
in Villawood detention centre, was approached by an immigration department
official who offered him a passport and claimed that the
REVIEW BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to KnowWilliam Rivers Pitt interviews Scott RitterAllen and Unwin, 200278 pages, $9.95.
A former marine and a member of the Republican Party who voted for George W Bush,
Embryonic research
As the Senate debates embryonic research, it is important to reject the notion that humans have rights simply by virtue of being human.
The point of rights is to promote the interests of rights-holders. A never-sentient embryo
BY EVA CHENG
"America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortages since the oil embargoes of the 1970s", proclaimed US vice president Dick Cheney's May 2001 national energy policy report to President George Bush.
The Cheney report
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — A concerted campaign for several months by residents and Erskineville Housing Estate tenants forced the NSW state government on November 19 to reject a housing department redevelopment proposal which would have adversely
Following weeks of massive demonstrations, El Salvador's National Assembly voted on November 14 to ratify a decree that prohibits the privatisation in any form of the national health care system (known as the Salvadoran Social Security Institute,
SYDNEY — On November 11, a book was launched in the outer Sydney suburb of Blacktown. It coincided with the 17th anniversary of the killing by police of 16-year-old Angelo Tsakos.
The book, A Mother's Story, details the agony of those 17 years
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