President's perspectiveWar & peace"The agenda, as always, begins with trying to find out what is happening in the world" Noam Chomksy concludes in his interview with Michael...
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Towards the precipice
by Robert Brenner | May 7, 2003
At 6 am on 12 June 2002, four FBI agents barged into the SoHo loft of Samuel Waksal, the former CEO of the biotech company ImClone Systems Inc, and led him away in handcuffs: he...
The troops are workers too
by Evatt Foundation | May 7, 2003
Is there a 'Gulf War syndrome'?Kerry O'Brien, Compere, 7.30 Report: With Australian soldiers, sailors and aircrew now engaged in another war against Iraq, veterans of the...
Shock! The US appeals to the UN
by George Monbiot | May 7, 2003
One rule for themSuddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may...
Maternity leave & equal opportunity overboard
by Anne Summers | May 7, 2003
The priority that no longer ratesPru Goward must be wondering what it was she did. Not only has the Prime Minister derailed her paid maternity leave proposals; now his...
Manhattan to Baghdad
by Phillip Knightley | May 7, 2003
Despatches from the frontline in the war on terrorPaul McGeough is a distinguished member of a fast-vanishing band of journalists, the roving foreign correspondent. Once upon a...
Focusing on the Neo-cons
by Joseph Cirincione | May 7, 2003
Origins of regime change in IraqLong before September 11, before the first inspections in Iraq had started, a small group of influential officials and experts in Washington were...
The Blair government: two views from Britain
by John Monks, Jon Cruddas | Apr 5, 2003
Return of the working classJon CruddasA truly shocking acknowledgement of the realities of contracting-out was contained in last week's leaked Cabinet Office memo on the two-tier...
The first casualty
by Bruce Childs | Mar 13, 2003
President's perspectiveThe Howard government's pro-war position means that the need for citizens to maintain a vigilant, critical stance in relation to our media cannot be...
The people don’t know and can’t know
by John Pilger | Mar 13, 2003
The First Casualty: Introduction to the revised editionWhen I read the first edition of this remarkable book twenty-five years ago, I was struck by the following quotations....