REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
War Against The Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create A Master RaceBy Edwin BlackFour Walls Eight Windows, New York550 pages, $58.20 (hb)
The Montgomery county sheriff's office in Virginia was kept busy in the
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On March 5, more than 10,000 people marched from the slums of of Port-au-Prince into the city to demand the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Waving Haitian flags, and pictures of Aristide, the protesters condemned the French and US
The Liberal-National federal government spends about $43 million a day on the military — more than twice what it spends on higher education and research. It spends more on handouts to private schools than on universities, which it justifies by
Doug Lorimer
On February 19, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan endorsed of Washington's plan to install a non-elected Iraqi government at the end of June. Iraq's leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, said on February 27 that
IWD: 'no sexism, no war!'
Erin Cameron, Melbourne
On March 6, 250 people attended an International Women's Day march under the banner "Women against war, racism and sexism".
Aboriginal rights activist Leonora Jackson explained the extreme
NEWCASTLE — On March 5, 250 students rallied at Newcastle University in a bid to prevent the university administration from dramatically raising fees. The protest was organised by the Newcastle University Students Association (NUSA).
Students
Kamala Emanuel & Alex Bainbridge
In 1995, massive opposition to export woodchipping poured onto the streets of major cities in Australia. At the time, at least 80% of Australians were opposed to woodchipping in old-growth forests.
Ten years
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NTEU initiates education campaign
The Victorian division of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) launched a "Cost of education" campaign at its February 28 council meeting. Targeted at schools, community groups, families and other
Although you wouldn't guess it from casting a look over the range of government-sponsored events and $40-a-head breakfasts with the local who's who to celebrate this year's International Women's Day, it is a day with very different origins.
The
Eva Cheng
The March 5-14 annual session of China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), will be asked by the country's rulers to approve 14 changes to the country's constitution, the most important of which is to
The war on Iraq was one of the most opposed wars in history. Millions of people marched to stop it before it began, and now that it clear that it was a war based on lies, outrage against the main warmongers, particularly US President George Bush, has
The President v David Hicks SBS televisionMarch 18, 8.30pm
REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE
The President v David Hicks is a moving documentary that follows the journey of a father, Terry Hicks, trying to understand the events leading up to the detention
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