Kim Bullimore
On August 4, Eden Natan Zada, an Israeli military deserter and member of the outlawed anti-Arab terrorist organisation Kach, open fired on a bus carrying Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (so-called Israeli Arabs), killing four
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"Media executives [have] to accept their responsibilities in time of war", argues Daniel Pipes, a rabidly pro-war US commentator. "On their initiative, they should exclude the enemy's apologists and advocates. Lively debate does not require such
Susan Price, Sydney
Carmen Walacz Vel Walewska picked mushrooms for a living until she was sacked on July 27 for resisting signing an individual contract. The contract reduced her pay to $16.50 per hour, below the award rate, and removed all
Workers on all of Argentina's railroads, except the Buenos Aires subway network, went on strike on August 4, together with other sectors, demanding a salary rise. Engine-driver guild representatives warned that if there was no agreement in a week,
Norm Dixon
The Australian government's policy on global warming could be summed by a verse from Bobby McFerrin's facetious late-'80s hit song "Don't worry, be happy": "In every life we have some trouble/ But when you worry you make it double/ Don't
Thank you supporters, we have raised nearly half our target!
Peter Boyle
In just three weeks of campaigning, Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's supporters have raised $46,630 for the Emergency Appeal. This is a spectacular response.
Certainly, John Pilger's
On August 4, 90% of nurses went on strike across Fiji after the government failed to agree to agree to their demands. The nurses are demanding a wage rise and are refusing to accept a pay cut due to a recent overpayment. Labour minister Kenneth Zinck
Liam Mitchell
Employers are rubbing their hands with glee at the early Christmas presents PM John Howard's new industrial relations laws promise them.
The prospects of cutting labour costs, reducing or eliminating benefits such as long-service
Marcus Pabian, Ciudad Bolivar
On August 3, our solidarity brigade group ventured out early to visit 16 young Indigenous students at the National Experimental University in Ciudad Bolivar.
As we arrived, a veteran indigenous leader was addressing
The Howard government is using the recent terrorist bombings in London as a pretext to reintroduce the idea of a national identity card. If this idea became reality, it would spell the death of civil liberties in Australia.
Coalition and Labor
The Israeli government has cancelled a course on multiculturalism because of the inclusion in the curriculum of articles by Palestinian writer and activist Edward Said. The course, initiated and funded by the Jerusalem Foundation, was designed to
Bernie Stephens, Harare
The finding by UN Special Envoy Anna Tibaijuka that Operation Murambatsvina (drive out rubbish) — the bulldozing of informal settlements — has left up to 3.3 million Zimbabweans "deeper in poverty, deprivation and
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