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BY KAMRAN ASDAR ALI Media reports indicate that on the evening of September 14 the president, General Pervaiz Musharraf, met with his cabinet and national security team in a marathon session lasting until the early hours of the next morning. The
BY ALISON DELLIT The ripples from the Ansett debacle continue to widen. On September 18, the Australian Council of Trade Unions estimated 60,000 jobs — hotel workers, taxi drivers and tourist industry workers — are threatened as a direct
Karen Fletcher, spokesperson for the CHOGM Action Network. "For years its been possible for people in the First World to treat worldwide poverty and oppression as if it isn't real", Karen Fletcher told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. "And now reality has just
@box text intr = The Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly staff will be taking a break next week to attend the Resistance conference and the CBF protests in Melbourne. The next GLW will be published on October 10.
The United States regards seven states and 29 organisations as being officially "terrorist". Here's a selection: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Sudan; Armed Islamic Group (GIA), Algeria; Popular Front for the Liberation of
BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — On the night of September 15 at around 4am, I was jolted out of bed by the sound of helicopters hovering over the city. This sound in itself has become rather ubiquitous over the last few months, usually signalling an
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — Two hundred people attended a September 18 public forum entitled "Who's to blame: Middle Eastern people or US foreign policy?". The forum was initiated by the Socialist Alliance. "Being victims of Israel's terror
BRISBANE — Queensland's DJs, musicians, street performers and rappers have joined the long list of community groups that will be protesting at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October They will protest in their own funky style on
Sarah Peart, spokesperson for the O3 to CHOGM Alliance. The O3 to CHOGM Alliance is organising a blockade of the October 3-6 Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF) in Melbourne. The media spokesperson for the group, Sarah Peart's passion about
BY EVA CHENG Until the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, most mainstream commentators were reluctant to admit that the world was confronting a synchronised new recession. Their tone universally changed after that day: they
BY SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — "Say no to war! Say no to racism!" will be the theme of the first day of a three-day blockade of the Commonwealth Business Forum (CBF). Starting at 7am on October 3, the blockade will be addressed by refugee rights
BY SEAN HEALY The world's only superpower has declared the "first war of the 21st century", a "new kind of war" against "global terrorism'", a war in which "there are no rules". In a chilling parallel to threats by Islamic fundamentalists to