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Loose cannons

Loose Cannons Find those Binladenburgers! “Larry Ponemon, the CEO of Privacy Council, says that since September 11 he's been hired by at least one major supermarket chain to oversee the handing over to law enforcement agencies of the

CUBA: Students guarantee revolutionary democracy

BY JO WILLIAMS HAVANA — Critics continue to say that Cuba is undemocratic, closed off, repressive, and that critical ideas in general are suppressed. An investigation of the education system and the young people in Cuban schools paints a very

AFGHANISTAN: Sham assembly installs warlord coalition

AFGHANISTAN Sham assembly installs warlord coalition BY NORM DIXON The much-hyped loya jirga — or grand assembly — was supposed to be post-Taliban Afghanistan's first step towards the creation of a representative democratic

In the shoes of asylum seekers

REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN  Escape to Paradise Directed by Nino Jacusso With Duzgun Ayhan, Fidan Firat, Nurettin Yildiz and Walo Luond Distributed by First Hand Films Frontieres (Borders) Directed by Mostefa Djadjam With Lou

Earthquake risk at Lucas Heights

Earthquake risk at Lucas Heights BY ALEX MILNE Work is continuing at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, despite calls for the government to reconsider the project after an earthquake fault line was discovered there. The fault was

Abortion still an issue in Tasmania

Abortion still an issue in Tasmania BY ANTHEA STUTTER LAUNCESTON — “Despite the emergency sitting of the Tasmanian parliament last December, ostensibly to pass legislation to solve the abortion access crisis, women still don't have full

Labor joins Coalition to deny asylum seekers' appeal rights

BY SARAH STEPHEN The Howard government's Migration Legislation Amendment (Procedural Fairness) Bill 2002 passed through the House of Representatives with the support of the Labor Party on June 26 with very little publicity. The new act

Museworthy: The Game

The Game I must tell you of my felony. It is, that at every moment, I was falling away from beauty. In a woman's face I was the eternal coldness, in her hands the unmaturing child growing heavier, disturbing her spine year

Socialist Alliance makes refugees an issue in Tassie poll

Socialist Alliance makes refugees an issue in Tassie poll BY DARREN JIGGINS HOBART — The day after Premier Jim Bacon's June 21 calling of the Tasmanian election, there was a 500-strong refugees' rights rally in Hobart — the largest

PALESTINE: Bush backs Israel's apartheid plan

BY AHMED NIMER RAMALLAH — The remarkable ease with which the mainstream media obscures the reality of life for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has been starkly demonstrated by its coverage of US President George

Some WA anti-union laws replaced

BY IAN JAMIESON PERTH — Unions in Western Australia have welcomed a package of industrial law reforms introduced by the Labor state government. Unions WA secretary Stephanie Mayman described Labor's bill as an important step forward but it "does

and aint i a woman: Big Sister?

Big Sister? Australia's Big Brother television show is unfortunately not unique. In the last three years, 36 different versions of the show have been aired around the world — but while 50% of the “contestants” are always women,