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Whistleblower calls for new inquiry into Iraq 'intelligence'

Sarah Stephen, Sydney "A journalist recently asked me whether the average Australian cared any more about the unravelling case for war", Andrew Wilkie told a Stop the War Coalition public meeting on February 15. "It's true that some have taken PM

Jailed anti-war activists gain support

Anna Samson, Sydney Will Saunders and David Burgess commenced their first weekend of periodic detention on February 14. The pair were found guilty of malicious damage after painting the words "No war" on the highest sail of the Opera House. They

How Washington ripped-off Asia's stolen treasure

Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's GoldBy Sterling and Peggy SeagraveVerso, 2003332 pages, $49.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON In June 1945, with US tanks less than 30 kilometres away, General Yamashita, head of the Japanese

FRANCE: Elections held amid corruption's stink

Murray Smith, Paris As campaigning for the March regional elections moves into top gear, the familiar odour of corruption is once again wafting across the French political scene. Ex-prime minister Alain Juppe, president of the governing Union for

Manus refugee faces new danger

In early February there was a flurry of media coverage about 25-year-old Palestinian Aladdin Sisalem — the lone asylum seeker detained in the Australian-financed Manus Island detention centre. It was revealed by the February 11

Right to organise in jeopardy

Patrick Emerton The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre have resulted in a burst of legislative activity in Australia. A host of new laws has been passed, ostensibly to respond to the threat posed by terrorism. The latest proposal to

Loose cannons

Great strides I "The Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council have made great strides in the security, economic stability and growth, and democratisation of Iraq." — US Secretary of State Colin Powell, in testimony to the

Which way forward for the World Social Forum?

David Glanz The unambiguously good news from the January 16-21 World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, is that the global movement against capitalist globalisation is not just alive and well, but extending deeper into civil society. The immediate

IRAQ: Fierce resistance ends city's occupation

Rohan Pearce& Doug Lorimer Resistance fighters have forced US troops to abandon their occupation of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, at least temporarily. According to the February 8 Washington Post, US troops abandoned fixed positions in the city,

Will Vanuatu be Australia's next target?

Tom Orsag Since the official end of the war in Iraq, Australia, the former British colonial settler-state, has gone on to send troops and police to recolonise parts of the South Pacific, its so-called backyard. Prime Minister John Howard is US

Where is Latham taking Labor?

The electoral fortunes of the ALP seem to have turned around since its national conference. Recent polls have the two major parties level, and the Liberals behind on a two-party preferred basis. The intelligence justifying the Iraq war is being

Write on: Letters to the editor

Iraq The United States has continued to remind the world that it will be handing over power to the Iraqis after June 30, 2004. The US Coalition Provisional Authority will hand over power to some form of Iraqi government from this date. What form