According to an opinion poll conducted by Hart/McInturff on June 9-12 for the Wall Street Journal and NBC TV News, 52% of US adults think removing Iraq's Saddam Hussein from power was not worth the number of US military casualties and the financial
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REVIEW BY JILL HICKSON
The latest DVD release from Art Resistance contains four programs. The first features
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
During its April-May tour of Venezuela, an Australian trade union brigade organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network visited the Invepal paper plant at Moron, west of Caracas. After the owners
Message Stick: Glenn Skuthorpe — Inside the lives and characters of Indigenous Australians across the country, presented in their own voices. ABC, Friday, June 30, 6.04pm.
The Chaser's War on Everything — Confronting and lampooning key players
Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz
Only a few days out from the July 2 constituent assembly elections and referendum on regional autonomy, the focus of Bolivia's electoral campaign was not any of the candidates — most of them practically unknown to voters
Peter Boyle
Occasionally the innocent casualties of war are given a human face. And it is shocking — sometimes so shocking it can help stop a war.
Last week, in a blogsite (no longer online) by a Cuban doctor serving in East Timor, there was a
Pip Hinman
As Japan's troops prepare to leave Iraq, PM John Howard has announced that Australian troops will stay, despite the majority of Iraqis not wanting them there. However, the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) shooting of the trade minister's
Alex Miller
In a near-repeat of the incident last July in which innocent electrician Jean Claude De Menezes was shot and killed at point-blank range by British armed police, Mohammed Abdul Kahar was shot in the chest during a June 2 "anti-terror"
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
Union Solidarity, a community-based organisation with 10 local groups across Melbourne, aims to support workers in struggle. Dave Kerin, the initiator and coordinator of the Melbourne central group, told Â鶹´«Ã½
Doug Lorimer
The Washington Post reported on June 18 that it had obtained a copy of a cable sent to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from the US embassy in Baghdad that paints "a starkly different portrait" from the White House's public
Sue Bolton
Spotlight became a lightning rod for mass discontent with the Howard government's anti-worker laws when one of its Coffs Habour employees, Annette Harris, went public about the pressure put on her to sign an individual contract. If
Chris Latham
Less than a week after Work Choices came into effect on March 27, the Cowra Abattoir in NSW hit the headlines when it announced plans to sack 29 workers and re-hire 20 on worse conditions and with a $200 pay cut.
PM John Howard
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