An Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther KingBy William F. PepperVerso, 2003334 pages, $49.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Around 5pm, April 4, 1968, John McFerren was shopping at the LL&L Produce Company in Memphis, Tennessee, when he heard
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BY LIAM MITCHELL
SYDNEY — As 40 workers started their 12th week of strike action, 200 people turned up for a community picket to support the strike at the Morris McMahon site on June 5.
Although the dispute began over working hours in March, it
The Australian parliament is debating legislation to amend the criminal code and ban the Lebanese-based Hezbollah (Party of God) as a terrorist organisation. This means that any Australian resident raising funds or supporting the organisation in any
BY SEAN HEALY
When they met over steaks and beer at the US president's Texas ranch, the discussion between John Howard and George Bush turned quickly to the Australian government's "reward" for participating in the Iraq war.
And this, we are
BY KIM BULLIMORE
Among the 75 opponents of the Cuban Revolution arrested and jailed in Cuba in early April, 10 have been described in the Western media as "independent librarians". Their arrest drew swift condemnation from the US government, and
BY AHMAD NIMER
RAMALLAH — On June 2, as I was trying to get back into Ramallah from Jerusalem, I was met with an all too familiar sight at the Qalandia checkpoint, a few kilometres south of the city. Thousands of Palestinians trying to leave
BY SARAH STEPHEN
At the start of a new century, the world has entered a new and frightening "age of terror", the world's ruling elite tells us. The attack on Manhattan's Twin Towers supposedly "changed everything".
There is a "real and present
BY DALE MILLS
The Australian government has shown that it cares as little about the civil rights of Australians abroad as it does for the civil rights of Australians at home.
Australian citizen Jack Thomas has been held in detention in Pakistan
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON, June 3 — Such a high crime does not, and will not, melt away; the facts cannot be changed. Prime Minister Tony Blair took Britain to war against Iraq illegally. He mounted an unprovoked attack on a country that offered no
BY PIP HINMAN & STUART MUNCKTON
As news of Indonesian military atrocities in Aceh — including girls as young as six being raped — spreads, so does the solidarity with the Acehnese people's struggle for democracy.
On June 5, 33 people gathered
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
MELBOURNE — The local campaign against the Blackshirts chalked up a victory on May 23 when a judge upheld a five-year intervention order taken out by Brunswick woman Paula Pope against Blackshirt leader John Abbott. Abbott
North Korea and nuclear weapons
Justin Tutty (Write On, GLW #539) disagrees with my statement that "we should defend North Korea's right to develop whatever weapons it feels it needs to defend itself against the very real threat it faces" (GLW
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