BY NORM DIXON
The speed with which the forces allied to the Northern Alliance (NA) took control of northern and western Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's retreat from Kabul on November 12 left Washington flat-footed. The US is now scrambling
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Museworthy: The Law of Ears and Also Things Close
"If sound waves carry on to infinity,where are their screams now?"Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
sound as close as my earsand upon the side of the green hilla lace of seagullsunravelling its own
Stop hating us and we'll stop killing you
"I support this war unequivocally. We were attacked on our soil. We have to bomb those people until we teach them not to hate us." — singer Eartha Kitt on the educational value of cluster bombing Afghan
BY LUKE FOMIATTI
SYDNEY — Aboriginal education will continue at the Bankstown campus of the University of Western Sydney, as the student occupation of the Goolangullia Aboriginal Unit ended in victory on November 9.
The university agreed to all
BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS
GEELONG — Workers are facing divide and rule tactics from the bosses of the Godfrey Hirst carpet factory in South Geelong.
Due to begin a 48-hour strike on November 27 as part of an ongoing four-week campaign of rolling
BY FRED FUENTES
MELBOURNE — Activists from around the country will converge on Melbourne on December 2-3 for an anti-war and anti-racism conference jointly organised by the National Union of Students and ANSWER, Act Now to Stop War and End
BY LEE SUSTAR
CHICAGO — The US government is using the war in Afghanistan to justify — and accelerate — its agenda of corporate globalisation. At the November 9-14 World Trade Organisation summit the US, Europe and Japan invoked the war to
BY SARAH STEPHEN
While the spotlight may have moved off refugee detention centres, the misery of asylum seekers there has worsened.
On November 18, six Iranian asylum seekers escaped from Woomera, the "hell-hole" of Australia's detention centres,
BY STEPHANIE LONG
The living standards of the industrialised Northern countries owe a great deal to the massive flow of natural resources and work (either as slave or underpaid labour) from the countries which make up the Third World, the
BY URI AVNERY
At the reception desk of the War-Against-Terror Coalition, there lies an application form for new partners. After stating his name, country and function (king/president/emir/dictator/tyrant), the applicant is invited to answer the
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BY BARRY HEALY
SYDNEY — Heifer are a struggling independent band carving out a niche for themselves in the live pub rock scene that thrives in the outer western suburbs of Sydney out of the
Corporate scumbags: Scumbucks
The coffee industry is one based on the super-exploitation of Third World farmers, many of whom live in dire poverty, at the mercy of the weather and a fluctuating market, whilst speculators and corporate heads
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