Federico Fuentes
A little more than a month after the July 18 referendum on the future of Bolivia's natural gas industry, President Carlos Mesa's "victory" has begun to unravel.
Many commentators had predicted that Mesa's "victory" had given him
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Working stiffs, as always
"Most rich people are able to avoid taxes, and if you can't raise enough money from taxing the rich, guess who pays the taxes?" — Emperor George Bush II, August 11, defending his tax policy.
Land of opportunity
"The
Mutiny: The True Story of Red October — Unlike the disaffected captain of a Russian nuclear submarine in Hollywood's version of events in The Hunt for Red October, Captain Valery Sablin was not a defector, but loyal to Communist ideals. Sablin had
Dr Ilan Pappe is one of Israel's most prominent "new historians". In May 2002, Pappe was threatened with expulsion from his university, the University of Haifa, for supporting a Jewish graduate student whose dissertation documented an massacre of
Doug Lorimer
Despite attempts by New York City Republican mayor Michael Bloomberg to deny them permits, protests during the August 30-September 2 Republican Party national convention are expected to draw tens of thousands of anti-war activists.
Queensland Rail announces job cuts
BRISBANE — Queensland Rail will cut more than 700 jobs from its workforce of 13,500 in the initial stage of a drastic restructure, which follows the loss of a major rail freight contract to private company
Band banned for politics
HOBART — On August 24, Hobart College band Mr Mukhole played at the school's assembly. Before the band started to play, the lead singer, Bryn Heathwood, explained the band's name and reason for existing.
As Heathwood
Zoe Kenny, Melbourne
The "Punish Howard" student rally in Melbourne on August 19 was lively and upbeat and there were a number of contingents from places that haven't attended rallies in a while, including Victoria University and several high
Mission Impossible: the Sheiks, the US and the Future of IraqBy Paul McGeoughQuarterly Essay 14, 2004Black Inc117 pages, $13.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER
There can be no doubt that Sydney Morning Herald journalist Paul McGeough has got bottle.
Ruth Ratcliffe, Sydney
Three years after the Tampa affair, when Prime Minister John Howard's government refused to allow 400 asylum seekers who had been rescued by a Norwegian freighter to set foot on Australian soil, 250 refugee-rights supporters
Jonah Gindin & Robin Nieto
Despite rumours that Venezuela's right-wing opposition would boycott the regional elections scheduled for October, on August 24, at a meeting of labour leaders belonging to the social-democratic Accion Democratica,
Dave Andrews, Fremantle
Power maintenance workers based in Collie, near Bunbury in Western Australia's south-west, are continuing their strike for better working conditions. The strike by 110 workers, now entering its eighth week, has provoked a
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