BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE
The Toledo Blade newspaper ran a four-part investigative series, beginning October 22, in which journalists Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss exposed terrible war crimes committed during the Vietnam War by an elite US Army platoon
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Bush in Babylon: the Recolonisation of IraqBy Tariq AliVerso 2003214 pages, $25
REVIEW BY NICK FREDMAN
"I see a horizon lit with bloodAnd many a starless night.A generation comes and another goesAnd the fire keeps burning." — Iraqi poet al
BY ROHAN PEARCE
At midnight on November 8, an explosion rocked the al Muhaya complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Nearly 20 people were killed, and more than 100 were wounded by the car bomb blast.
The November 8 terrorist attack was the
BY MICHAEL HODSON
MILIKAPITI, Melville Island — On November 4, a small boat approached through the waters of Snake Bay on Melville Island. Tiwi people knew it wasn't from around there, because it didn't use the main channel in the bay, but
BY JOHN CATALINOTTO
Tens of thousands of employed and unemployed workers marched through downtown Berlin on November 1 to protest the German governments' plans to cut pensions, unemployment insurance payments and other social services, contained in
BY AHMAD NIMER
November 9 saw an international day of mobilisations against the construction of the Israeli apartheid wall. Actions and demonstrations were held in cities around the world to protest Israel's mass land-grab, aimed at building a
BY DOUG LORIMER
For the first time since the US began its war to conquer Iraq and turn its oil resources over to US corporations, a majority of US voters disapprove of the way US President George Bush is handling the situation in Iraq according to
BY LIZ BRANIGAN
Many progressives and moderates support the principle that parents should share care of children.
In an ideal world: where flexible working hours were common; where women's wages were on a par with men's; where men devoted as much
BY NICOLE COLSON
Are gay men taking over television? That seems to be the recent buzz in the media, prompted primarily by two shows that premiered on the US Bravo cable network in July: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Boy Meets Boy.
A closer
BY EVA CHENG
Desperate to find a scapegoat for the loss of more than 2 million manufacturing jobs in the US over the last two years, US President George Bush's regime and the US Congress have been aggressively trying to put the blame on China,
BY ALISON DELLIT
These are turbulent times. We are living in a state of permanent war, enforced by the world's ruling corporate elite. Driving the military offensive — by the world's most terrible and expensive war machine — is an economic war
BY EMMA MURPHY
When I was recording oral histories with Aboriginal women in the Central Desert region, it struck me that food played a central role in their stories.
Talking about the "early days", women would describe in detail their traditional
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