Stuart Munckton
According to a February 22 article by Venezuela Analysis commentator Jonah Gindin, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on February 20 that the recently expropriated paper company, now known as the Venezuelan Endogenous Paper
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On February 19, 500,000 people flooded Rome calling for an end to the war and occupation, and for the freeing of kidnapped Il Manifesto journalist and feminist activist Giuliana Sgrena. During Sgrena's one-month imprisonment, Italian television
Sarah Stephen
A year ago, few people had heard of Peter Qasim. Now he's rapidly becoming a household name, a symbol of the Australian government's harsh and punitive policy of mandatory and indefinite detention of asylum seekers. In the first week
Brayden joined the US army not thinking he'd ever be sent to war. He certainly hadn't entertained the idea that he would turn against a war.
He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank of captain, from June 2000 to November 2004.
Five anti-war activists were arrested on March 2, after they forced their way into the Irish embassy to protest the use of Ireland's Shannon Airport to refuel US war planes on their way to Iraq. The activists were members of the Irish group Pit-Stop
The following is abridged from a statement issued by the Indigenous Social Justice Association, calling on NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr to re-open the inquest into the February 2004 death of young Aboriginal man Thomas "TJ" Hickey following a police
On February 25, two young men died after their car crashed into a tree during a high-speed police chase in Macquarie Fields in Sydney. Several days of rioting by angered youth in the area and a series of police raids followed. More than 60 people
Alex Miller
Thousands of anti-capitalist and anti-war activists are expected to protest against the G8 summit that is to be held in Gleneagles from July 6-8.
The summit will bring together the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries,
Sydney University student and Socialist Alliance activist Bronwyn Powell was among those on the Freedom Ride bus that left Sydney on February 12 to follow the route of the original 1965 Freedom Ride for Aboriginal rights. This is her diary of some of
In an email home on September 29, Brayden described how the US multinational Halliburton took over the lucrative laundry facilities at the Baghdad airport.
Stationed here at BIAP (Baghdad International Airport) for the past year, we saw the local
On March 1, federal Judge Henry Floyd ordered the federal government to release Jose Padilla within 45 days, or to charge him with a criminal offence. Padilla, a US citizen, was arrested in May 2002, when he arrived back to the US at Chicago airport.
"We have stated clearly and on many occasions ... that we do not recognise abortion as a method of family planning, nor do we support abortion in our reproductive health assistance", Ellen Sauerbrey told a UN-sponsored global women's conference on
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