Only attack those who can't hit back
"There are countries which are developing weapons of mass destruction and we will deal with them appropriately. One country is Iraq... if they won't [disarm], we'll lead a coalition to disarm them. Another
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BY ROHAN PEARCE
"Well, the problem with guns that are hidden is that you can't see their smoke", White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer told journalists at a January 9 press briefing. Fleischer was responding to the interim report delivered to the
BY STUART MUNCKTON
Reading the mainstream press over the last month, one could be forgiven for believing that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has become so unpopular that his government is facing a revolt by the country's workers.
However, at
BY CHRIS LATHAM
FREMANTLE — On January 6, the USS Abraham Lincoln, the world's largest aircraft carrier, returned to Fremantle just two weeks after its last visit. It had been scheduled to return to the US, but was ordered back to Fremantle to
BY MIKE BYRNE
Punk rock legend and lead singer of the Clash, Joe Strummer, died of a heart attack on December 22, aged 50. Born John Graham Mellor in 1952, the son of a British diplomat, Strummer became disillusioned with his middle-class
BY DAVE WRIGHT
BRISBANE Centrelink workers have overwhelmingly rejected management's
new enterprise agreement. More than 70% voted against what was an attack
on Centrelink workers' wages and conditions. The vote was even more emphatic
in
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — The US and British attack on Iraq has already begun. While the British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to claim in parliament that "no final decision has been taken", Royal Air Force (RAF) and US fighter bombers
Weapons of mass destruction or oil?
Iraq is a country of rich natural resources. Many experts believe that Iraq has additional undiscovered oil reserves. Iraqi oil is of high quality and is very inexpensive to produce. This makes it one of the
2003 opens to impending war and $3 trillion in tax cuts for the richest
people in the world. We are living in extreme times, terrorised even here
in Australia by a $15 million government advertising campaign for free-floating
anxiety and
BY
EVA CHENG
In the biggest political demonstration in Hong Kong since China resumed
sovereignty over the territory in 1997, 60,000 people took to the streets
on December 15. The protest was against the Hong Kong government's attempt
US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a report on the controversial use of cluster bombs in the war on Afghanistan. The report, Fatally Flawed: Cluster Bombs and Their Use by the United States in Afghanistan, reveals that the
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Certified agreement negotiations in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR), finalised with an all-staff vote on 18 December, were bitter and protracted. Department secretary Dr Peter Boxall, a
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