Exceptions make the rule
"I don't think Australians will ever so far lose their common sense as to elect stupid people." — PM John Menzies Howard explaining in the August 23 Age why the new military powers legislation us unlikely to be abused by
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BY SEAN HEALY
Killing people is big business. In 1999, the United States spent US$276 billion on its military, just over a third of the world's total military expenditure. In 2000, the Pentagon's budget is expected to hit US$310 billion.
Pentagon
Organic farming — often considered an insignificant part of the food supply — can feed an entire country, concludes a report by the Oakland-based Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First (<http://www.foodfirst.org>), a group
BY ANA KAILIS
PERTH — Members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) WA branch packed the Entertainment Centre on September 1 to endorse an escalation of the campaign for better wages and adequate funding for WA's schools and TAFEs.
The AEU
Sixty years ago, on August 20, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was killed by an agent of Stalin. A decade after the "collapse of communism", is there any point remembering this anniversary? In his time, Trotsky was feared and maligned by
UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson suggested that the Australian government had acted "in an over-defensive way" by cutting cooperation with the United Nations human rights committee system. That seems a diplomatic euphemism. This government
BY KARL MILLER
Over the last couple of years, a company called Napster has been one of many trying to make money from the internet.
The company borrowed a few ideas and came up with some software that allowed listeners to share music through its
Misinformation on S11 leaked
A briefing paper on the planned S11 protests, prepared by one of the world's largest public relations firms, Hill and Knowlton, has been leaked to Melbourne Independent Media Centre. The paper, marked "Highly
DILI — Members of Timorese Socialist Party (PST) around East Timor have been occupying buildings left by the Indonesian government in order to establish offices for their work with the grassroots.
In order to claim right to use empty buildings,
Leave it to capitalism to find a way to make a profit from someone else's misery. In the United States, more than 2 million of our friends, neighbours and relatives are in state and federal prisons. The prison-industrial complex, as it is called by
SYDNEY — South Sydney Council is evicting squatters in empty council
buildings at 147-159 Broadway, near Glebe. The council had planned to evict
the squatters on August 28, but public support and media attention forced
a delay. The
The Cuban Revolution and Its LeadershipBy Doug LorimerResistance Books, 200062 pp., $5.95.
REVIEW BY ALLEN MYERS
The movement that is fighting against the program of the major multinationals known as "globalisation" do not have many allies among
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