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BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — In the United States, actor Susan Sarandon and other high-profile artists and performers are speaking out against the planned US-led war on Iraq. In Australia too, members of the arts and cultural communities are supporting
BY KAREN FLETCHER MELBOURNE — Community lawyer Amanda George, well-known for years of work against private prisons in Australia, is standing as an independent candidate in the Victorian election. She is opposing the Labor minister for police and
BY JEREMY BRADLEY The Middle East is in the grip of severe drought. Israel's farmers are so highly dependant on irrigation that they require more than half of the 1.55 billion cubic metres of water that is used annually within Israel's
BY MICHAEL KARADJIS "Politics has never seen such a widespread liquidation operation", declared the Turkish daily Sabah following the crushing victory of the "Islamist" Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey's November 3 general election.
REVIEW BY ELIZABETH SCHULTE War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to KnowWilliam Rivers Pitt interviews Scott RitterAllen and Unwin, 200278 pages, $9.95. A former marine and a member of the Republican Party who voted for George W Bush,
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit
BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — Despite attempts by police to prevent it, an anti-war action in Bankstown's Old Town Plaza on November 16 attracted 80 people. Initiated by the Socialist Alliance and the Canterbury-Bankstown Anti-War Group, the
US delegates dropped a bombshell at the Asian and Pacific Population Conference in late October. They announced that the US would withdraw its support for the"action plan" devised at the 1994 United Nations Population and Development Conference in
BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY — A concerted campaign for several months by residents and Erskineville Housing Estate tenants forced the NSW state government on November 19 to reject a housing department redevelopment proposal which would have adversely
BY ROHAN PEARCE On September 12, US President George Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly to set out the US regime's case for a bloody war on Iraq. Bush declared that the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein since 1998 had
Embryonic research As the Senate debates embryonic research, it is important to reject the notion that humans have rights simply by virtue of being human. The point of rights is to promote the interests of rights-holders. A never-sentient embryo
BY EVA CHENG "America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortages since the oil embargoes of the 1970s", proclaimed US vice president Dick Cheney's May 2001 national energy policy report to President George Bush. The Cheney report