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By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
by Nick Everett "The international community continues to miss the point in the case of East Timor. To the capitalist governors, Timor's petroleum smells better than Timorese blood and tears." — A Portuguese priest, Kraras, in East
This week (October 14/15) a National Day of Action in support of East Timor is taking place around Australia, sponsored nationally by UDT (Union of Democratic Timorese) Fretilin Youth (Revolutionary Front for Independent East Timor), Resistance and
Spider and Rose, Written and directed by Bill Bennett Starring Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell and Max Cullen Reviewed by Pip Hinman When Ruth Cracknell was asked to describe Spider and Rose, she said she didn't really know
By Renfrey Clarke BUDAPEST — Years after the "old left" Communist party regimes collapsed in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, the results are clear: not peace and an expansion of democracy, but a licence for the forces of capital to
By Pip Hunter Pragmatism rather than principle was what prevented the ALP from expanding its three-mine uranium policy at its national conference, according to many environmentalists. The "pre-cooked" four-day conference, for which
Mandela asked to help Nigerians Earthlife Africa, at the request of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, is urging South African President Nelson Mandela to make representations to the Nigerian government for the release of Ken
By Frank Enright "The Keating government has compromised the delicate peace negotiations between the Bougainville Interim Government [BIG], the Bougainville Revolutionary Army [BRA] and the Papua New Guinea government", according to the
By Renfrey Clarke BERLIN — On the streets of German cities, one of the most common campaign posters for the October 16 federal elections contains not a word of text. All it shows is the head of Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union
Feminist Book Fair I am Lidia Falc¢n, feminist writer from Spain, and have had 22 books published in various languages and I came to Melbourne to attend the Sixth International Feminist Book Fair. I realised with surprise and anger that at
Open Learning — The City of the Bush — This program introduces the Bulletin magazine and some of the writers who contributed to it. The debate between two of the most famous Bulletin writers, "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson — over the
By Jennifer Thompson As Indian authorities struggled with an epidemic of pneumonic plague, prostitutes in New Delhi told a reporter that their business continued even while schools and cinemas were being shut. "We were told once that