Love is Mighty CloseVika and LindaBullbar records
REVIEW BY MOLLY WISHART
Vika and Linda Bull's latest album, Love is Mighty Close, arguably lacks the joie de vivre of earlier recordings, but the songster siblings nevertheless evoke an
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BY ALAN MAASS
CHICAGO — The Bush administration has been parading handcuffed felons from WorldCom, ImClone and Adelphia in front of the TV cameras. But it's getting harder by the day to sell the story that the collapse of corporate giants like
BY EVA CHENG
Although the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was formed in 1995, its predecessor — the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — came into existence in 1948. GATT was part of a three-pronged mechanism created by the United States
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare,
1932-1945, and the American Cover-upBy Sheldon H. HarrisRoutledge, 2002385 pages, $57 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
In the last days of World War II, as the Japanese retreated from the Soviet
BY JODY BETZEIN
In the past few weeks the immigration department has begun sending
letters to those refugees who were first granted temporary protection visas
(TPVs) in late 1999, demanding that they must provide justification for
their
BY AMY MCDONELL
SYDNEY — Less than a week after trade minister Mark Vaile announced that 25 delegates from around the world will be attending a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Sydney on November 14 and 15, activists have
BY DANNY FAIRFAX
SYDNEY — “The US has a Christian fundamentalist government in power…
George Bush's fundamentalist plutocracy is the main danger to us. Terrorists
aren't the danger, asylum seekers aren't the danger. They are the danger.”
and ain't i a woman: George Pell: a greater scandal than abortion
The revelation on August 21 that Sydney Catholic Archbishop George Pell had been accused of sexually abusing a boy shocked Prime Minister John Howard, who immediately declared
CARACAS, August 18 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today initiated a protest caravan against an August 14 Supreme Court ruling that absolved four senior army officers charged with having participated in the April coup d'etat against him.
To
Intelligence only an option
"We will look at all options and we will consider all technologies available to us, and diplomacy and intelligence." — George "The Crusader" Bush, August 22, discussing his plans to launch a war on Iraq.
Burning
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE — The corporate media may have imposed a total blackout on the picket imposed by members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) against the union's national officials, but thousands of
Students protest against Nelson
PERTH — Around 100 students rallied outside a meeting to discuss federal minister for education Brendan Nelson's proposed changes to higher education. The meeting on August 20 was billed as a "public
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