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With media attention focused intensely on the UN Security Council debate over Iraq, the London-based Observer newspaper revealed on March 2 that the United States is apparently spying on the diplomatic delegations of Security Council nations. Despite
BY ROHAN PEARCE US President George Bush has increasingly resorted to the claim that the aim of his regime's planned invasion of Iraq is to spread "democracy" throughout the Middle East. The worth of this claim is belied by the US record of backing
BY ALISON DELLIT Prime Minister John Howard's Liberal-National coalition government has taken a decision to commit to a war that Australians want no part of, and it has done so without even bothering to hold a parliamentary debate. In these
BY ALLEN MYERS Dear Jose, I am proud to have participated in conferences and solidarity demonstrations with East Timor from the Indonesian invasion in December 1975 until the withdrawal of Indonesian troops. Twelve years ago, when I edited
Women who earn more than $90,000 a year are the "most eager" of all Australian women to have children, and the least likely to expect to be childless, according to a study just released by the federal government and the Curtin University of
Howard's dishonest case for war Prime Minister John Howard's March 13 address to the National Press Club clarified one thing — the Australian people have no reason at all to support a war on Iraq. In a speech littered with emotional
MANILA — More than 3000 women, led by Women Rage (Women's Resistance to Globalisation and to End War), protested outside the US embassy here on International Women's Day, March 8. The women demanded that the Philippines government address issues of
BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — "In the face of a US-led war on Iraq and the looming World Trade Organisation meeting in Mexico in August, the Brisbane Social Forum wants to create an axis of hope — discussing how another world is possible", according
BY SARAH STEPHEN Thousands of refugees' rights supporters from around the country are set to converge over the Easter weekend on the Australian government's latest concentration camp — the Baxter detention centre, near Port Augusta in South
BY ROHAN PEARCE US Secretary of State Colin Powell made headlines on March 9 when he announced that Iraq's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program — pilotless "drones" — were the ever-elusive "smoking gun" that proved Iraq was concealing banned
BY DANNY FAIRFAX On February 15, 500,000 people converged on Berlin, and 50,000 in Stuttgart, to say "Keine lust auf krieg!" (We don't want war!). This is despite the fact that the federal Social Democratic Party (SPD)/Greens coalition government,