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BY ANNE WINKLER-MOREY To those of you who would call me a self-hating Jew because I oppose the Israeli government's policy of terrorism and apartheid against the Palestinian people, let me say this right away before you do: I do not go to
Museworthy: Suitcase Your joy breaks into many colours when it passes through other people. Pain doesn't pass. It is a suitcase carried inside another and left as if abandoned. Heavy. Unopened. A journey never taken. BY MTC CRONIN MTC
BY SOPHIA ZIELINSKA PERTH — Why do we have to destroy a marine paradise just to build a giant man-made paddle pool for the elite? This is the question many ask about a proposal to build a tourist resort a short swim away from Ningaloo Reef.
BY ROHAN PEARCE Demonstrating the total bankruptcy of the so-called “leaders” of the Arab world, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, gave an interview to Insight Magazine on April 17 which bears more than a passing
BY ALEX MILNE EAST GIPPSLAND — More than 20 logging areas (coups) have been planned for Goolengook, in East Gippsland in Victoria, of which four have already been logged. Much has been lost already, but a lot can still be saved if enough people
BY ROHAN PEARCE If it weren't for the horrendous death toll of Palestinians, the destruction of West Bank towns and the fierce repression of dissent of anti-war protesters within Israel, US Secretary of State Colin Powell's tour of the Middle East
BY FEDERICO FUENTES The April 22 edition of Newsweek magazine reported that the plotters behind the failed April 12-14 coup in Venezuela had revealed their plan to the US embassy in Caracas less than two months earlier. A senior US state
BY PENNY DUGAN PARIS — On March 23, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR, French section of the Fourth International) deposited at the Constitutional Council the 500 "sponsorships" that will enable its candidate, Olivier Besancenot, to
BY LARRY DOUGLAS On April 8, Ray Krone, became the 100th person in the United States since 1973 to be released for a crime that put him on death row. Krone, 45, was convicted for the 1991 stabbing death of 36-year-old Arizona bartender, Kim
BY ALISON DELLIT SYDNEY — Organisers of the April 19 pro-Palestinian protest are supporting planned protests on May 1, arguing that defence of Palestine and demands on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories be a central part of
HOBART — Five hundred people rallied to stop logging in old growth forests on April 20. Built at short notice, the sizeable turnout reflected the considerable activism in defence of the forests in recent months. In addition to previously formed
BY URI AVNERY TEL AVIV — One hundred and five years ago, the day after the first Zionist congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary: "In Basel I founded the state of the Jews." Last week, Ariel Sharon should have noted in his diary: "In