BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MOSCOW — When I am asked to name some indisputable achievement that marks the 10 years since the collapse of the USSR, I always recall that Russians have learnt to brew good beer.
In the Soviet Union the beer was
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Hemp party attacked
LISMORE — Thirty police officers descended on the Nimbin campaign headquarters of Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) on October 31. In a two-hour long siege, 10 armed police police searched the premises. One person was
BY EVA CHENG
The protests against Bush's war on Afghanistan are growing in many parts of the world despite initial signs that some countries, especially the US, are seeking to respond to any civil disobedience with heavy-handed repression.
In the
Civilisation vs barbarians
"American investigators are considering resorting to harsher interrogation techniques, including torture, after facing a wall of silence from jailed suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, according to a
BY SEAN HEALY
@box text intr = Unable to keep their mouths shut, business leaders from across Europe and the United States may have unwittingly sabotaged their governments' chances of launching a new round of trade talks — by issuing a wish list
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — During an October 25 interview on Radio 3AW, Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for Victoria Alison Thorne faced a barrage of abuse and accusation.
Thorne was invited by 3AW drive-time host Steve Price to talk
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INDONESIA: Acehnese leader speaks out at trial
BY MAX LANE
The trial (if it
I have sent hope to the scaffolding to find thescaffold and to the lake to find the onedrinkable cup but in truth had nointerest in such worthless purposes simplywanted hope away. It is such a round-facedscavenger an icon that never
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for
Reclaim the Night I
This year's Reclaim the Night rally in Melbourne highlighted the need to raise politics in the women's movement. The speakers talked either of their own personal experiences of abuse, or of the abuse of women in general.
There
BY ADAM MACLEAN
A mutiny by his hand-picked senior managers at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has sealed the fate of Australia's self-styled "mini-media mogul", managing director Jonathan Shier, who resigned at the ABC's board meeting on
A documentary about Indonesian factory workers who make theatre, produced and presented by Actively Radical Television
November 10, 7pm, Tap gallery, cnr Burton and Palmer streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Also music, wine, poetry and chat by Tim
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