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BY VANNESSA HEARMAN Martin Kingham is the Victorian secretary of the construction and general division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). On April 29, he will face charges in the Melbourne Magistrates Court,
BY SARAH STEPHEN Mohib and Fatima Sarwari and their four children were arrested by police at their home in Launceston, Tasmania, on December 5 and taken to the Baxter detention centre. Their 'crime"? They failed to correctly notify the immigration
BY NORM DIXON & BARRY SHEPPARD Even as the world's corporate media was declaring the end of the “Iraq war”, on April 12 as many as 2 million people mobilised across the globe to oppose the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. In
BY ROHAN PEARCE On April 15, 13 Iraqi civilians were killed and 29 wounded by US troops in the northern city of Mosul. The next day, US troops shot dead a further four Iraqis and wounded 10 others. Both atrocities occurred at anti-US protests
BY ROHAN PEARCE For those who expected the US-led invasion forces in Iraq to be welcomed with open arms, events on April 15 proved to be a shock. On that day in Nasiriya, some 20,000 Shiite Muslim Iraqis protested against the US occupation of Iraq,
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
BY JEFF SHANTZ TORONTO — 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
There have been many theories floated in Australia's newspapers as to why federal Labor leader Simon Crean is doing so badly in the polls. Two polls in as many days indicated most Labor supporters prefer former PM Kim Beazley to lead the party. The
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
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
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
BY NEIL SAMMONDS The world's most efficient “secret” manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction was not Iraq, nor is it Syria — it is Washington's closest ally and partner in the Middle East, Israel. In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a