By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — In the huge food store at Taganskaya Square, the mood at the bread counter was growing surly. Some 50 people pushed and argued, while the white-coated sales staff gestured helplessly. As usual, there was plenty of
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Human rights groups and spokespeople for the East Timorese resistance movement have condemned as a whitewash the Indonesian government-appointed inquiry's preliminary report into the November 12 Dili massacre.
By Tracy Sorensen Over the past three years, stratospheric ozone depletion over all areas of the globe except the tropics has accelerated alarmingly. Predictions of increases in the rates of skin cancers and eye cataracts are being lent weight
Australia Day By Jim Cole "Australia Day", January 26, is a day of joy and festivities for most Australians. But what about the feelings of the real Australians? The original occupants of this country were happy, contented and peaceful
By Dan Connell and Angela Matheson JEBEL MUKABER, Occupied West Bank: A convoy of 15 Israeli vehicles recently drove into this small Palestinian village and stopped in front of the newly constructed house of Anwar Kalil. Within minutes, two
AIDS radio plays It's been a few years now since the Grim Reaper appeared on our TV screens, bowling an unsuspecting group of heterosexual couples and little children into HIV oblivion. Since then, attempts to educate the public about AIDS have
Renfrey Clarke, Green Left's Moscow correspondent, is getting married. Renfrey and Larissa, an actor from Novosibirsk, will be married in Moscow on January 22. Best wishes to both of them from the GL staff. Photo by Peter Annear.
Rape The justice systems, of late, have been fine tuning their message for the prospective rape victims of the '90s, and women would do well to consider the following. If you are a single woman on a date, do not allow your boyfriend to rape
DSS hassles Aidex protesters By Brendan Greenhill BRISBANE — People who have attended the anti-Aidex protest in Canberra have been harassed by the Department of Social Security for their involvement. Beneficiaries who were arrested or
By Nigel D'Souza When blacks rose against their oppression in Britain in the '80s, the images on newsreel and documentaries confirmed or constructed images in the popular imagination of blacks and their place in British society. Out of the
By Steve Painter A year after the Gulf War, the United Nations embargo against Iraq remains in place, with Australian warships helping to enforce it. As a result, most Iraqis have spent the past 12 months living amid a catastrophe even worse
Left Face: Soldier Unions and Resistance Movements in Modern Armies By David Cortright and Max Watts Greenwood Press. 1991. 282 pp. $58.50 (hb). Reviewed by Allen Myers This book is the product of decades of research and, more importantly,
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