By Eva Cheng
The Hindu-fundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the leading party in the 24-party coalition that has ruled India since October, has seized power through the back door in the country's second most populous state of Bihar despite
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How PR buries the environment
Global Spin: the corporate assault on environmentalismRevised editionBy Sharon BederScribe Publications336 pp., $29.95 (pb) Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful
Palestinian Authority forced to release students
By Ahmad Nimer
RAMALLAH, Palestine - Students at Birzeit University celebrated the unconditional release of those imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the widespread crackdown that
Write On: Letters to the editor
Ireland
In response to those rebuttals of my letter (GLW #392) from Keara Courtney (GLW #393) and Tom McEvoy (GLW #394), their letters make not one mention of hope or peace for the people.
They both deny or
Mardi Gras parade puts politics up front
Comment by Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has been criticised in recent years for becoming too commercialised, at the expense of the progressive politics that marked its
Newcastle holds People's Inquiry
By Geoff Payne
NEWCASTLE "Madre, they will kill us." These words have stayed with Sister Carmel Hanson, even since she returned from East Timor last year. She feels that her assurances to people there that the
East Timorese women reflect on 1999
By Vannessa Hearman
DILI — Activities to mark International Women's Day on March 8 here included performance art and a public forum on the place of women in the rebuilding process in East Timor. Held in a
Networker: Privatising internet censorship
Censorship is a great unresolved issue on the internet. Anyone old enough
to “surf the net” can gain access to much of the visual and written information
available across the world.
This has
By Dave Holmes
WOLLONGONG — Industrial pollution, in all its many forms and with
all its attendant consequences, has long been a fact of life in the Illawarra.
And nowhere are the effects more pronounced than in the suburbs near BHP's
Bob Brown: mandatory sentencing is not justice
Australian Greens senator BOB BROWN has been one of the fiercest critics of mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. He has introduced a private member's bill to
New anti-terrorism bill targets dissent
By Alec Smart
LONDON — Legislation allowing police increased powers of arrest and detention is being fast-tracked through the British parliament. "Anti-terrorist" laws, rehearsed and fine-tuned in
Rage against Wall Street
On a cold January day, militant rock band Rage Against the Machine took to the heart of the world financial system to film a video clip for "Sleep Now in the Fire", a track from the band's The Battle of Los Angeles. The
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