535

SAUDI ARABIA: How secure is the 'House of Saud'?

BY EVA CHENG The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had

For a world without war

On May 1, the day of international workers' solidarity, anti-corporate activists, unionists and peace campaigners will be taking to the streets of cities around Australia to oppose the corporate looting of Iraq and to protest against the First

CANADA: Chief plans police state in Ontario

BY JEFF SHANTZ TORONTO 鈥� The Canadian state, at all levels, has responded to anti-war demonstrations and direct actions with an escalation of its campaign of harassment and criminalisation of activists. In Toronto, two large anti-war actions

ISRAEL: The 'forgotten' weapons of mass destruction

BY NEIL SAMMONDS The world's most efficient 聯secret聰 manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction was not Iraq, nor is it Syria 聴 it is Washington's closest ally and partner in the Middle East, Israel. In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a

'We will not be silent'

REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN No Blood for Oil: Australian Voices for Peace Various artists Order a copy of listen to sample tracks at <http://www.indie-cds.com> No Blood for Oil brings together a varied and interesting collection of

UNITED STATES: 'We look the other way when it suits us'

BY NORM DIXON "The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International

IRAQ: Oil and the Bush plan for global domination

BY DOUG LORIMER While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops

Anti-war activist notebook

Protesters say 'no' to US submarine BY ANTHONY BENBOW FREMANTLE 鈥� On April 19, activists gathered at the entrance to Stirling Naval Base on Garden Island, near Rockingham, to protest the presence of the US submarine Key West. USS Key West was

Solidarity and defiance in the desert

BY EMMA MURPHY BAXTER 聴 After months of planning, on April 18-20 up to 800 people from across Australia converged on the Baxter detention centre outside Port Augusta, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and show

CPSU members endorse new Centrelink agreement

BY JIM MCILROY Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an

Write On: Letters to 麻豆传媒 Weekly

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Jewish Dawn Cohen (Write On, GLW #534) equates anti-Zionism with being anti-Jewish, and thus denies the anti-war movement the right to attack Israel's role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. "It is important to criticise the

Next GLW

麻豆传媒 Weekly is taking a one-week break. The next issue (#536) will be published on May 7.From 麻豆传媒 Weekly, April 23, 2003. Visit the 麻豆传媒 Weekly home page.