European Union summit in Nice increases weight of larger countries
The conference of European Union heads of government in Nice ended early Monday morning with an "agreement", one and a half days later than planned. The agreement is primarily an expression of the...
View ArticleReport by B'Tselem human rights group highlights Israeli brutality against...
The Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem issued a 51-page report December 6 entitled Illusions of Restraint: Human rights violations in the occupied territories September 29 - December 2, 2000.
View ArticleFunding crisis forces hospital emergency closures in Western Australia
Media reports have exposed the regular closure of accident/emergency departments at Perth's major public hospitals, cancellations of elective surgery, nursing shortages and funding problems, revealing...
View ArticleCabinet reshuffle amplifies factional tensions within Japanese ruling party
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori unveiled a new cabinet on December 5, just two weeks after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) survived a no-confidence motion on the floor of parliament and a...
View ArticleThe case of Leonard Peltier: notorious frame-up of Native American activist...
Earlier this fall, in a downtown Toronto office, a Native American woman recanted her 1976 testimony that served as the basis for extraditing American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier...
View ArticleSupreme Court overrides US voters: a ruling that will live in infamy
The ruling issued Tuesday by the US Supreme Court marks a turning point in US history. It constitutes a fundamental and irrevocable break with democracy and the traditional forms of bourgeois legality.
View ArticleBritain demands greater political control over Africa: the case of Malawi
Clare Short, Britain's Minister for International Development, introduced a white paper this week entitled Eliminating World Poverty: making globalisation work for the poor. Backed personally by Prime...
View ArticleBritain: Vauxhall car workers protest mass layoffs
Workers at GM's Vauxhall car plant in Luton reacted angrily to the announcement of 2,000 job losses as part of a global restructuring, ending car production at the 95-year-old plant.
View ArticleWorkers Struggles: Europe and Africa
Council staff in London, England strike against job losses
View ArticleLetters on "Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new...
The following letters were received regarding David North's lecture, “Lessons from history: the 2000 elections and the new ‘irrepressible conflict'”
View ArticlePresident Clinton pledges clampdown on terrorism in Ireland
Bill Clinton made his third and final visit as US President to Ireland earlier this week. The two-day tour had all the makings of a farewell celebration. Accompanied by his wife, daughter and...
View ArticleAustralian unions campaign for "reasonable" working hours
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), the country's peak union body, is carrying out a campaign for “reasonable working hours”. It is highly unlikely that any but a handful of union members...
View ArticleStaff protest axing of key programs at Australian government broadcaster
Angry Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) staff walked off the job last week for 24 hours after management sacked Paul Barry, presenter of the Media Watch television show, and announced that...
View ArticleGore concession speech: Democrats capitulate to right-wing attack on voting...
The concession speech delivered by Vice President Al Gore Wednesday night was an unvarnished capitulation to the right-wing forces responsible for stealing the 2000 presidential election and installing...
View ArticleCôte d'Ivoire: President Gbagbo stokes up ethnic conflict
Laurent Gbagbo, who became President of Côte d'Ivoire in October with French support after the ousting of military dictator General Guei, went ahead with controversial parliamentary elections on...
View ArticleLetters on the US election crisis
Your web site is the only, and I repeat, only place in the country (and the world) where serious public discussion, analysis, and coverage of the election debacle, is taking place. The newspapers and...
View ArticleThe US media: a critical component of the conspiracy against democratic...
The mass media have played an immense role over the past five weeks in determining the outcome of the crisis that followed upon the unresolved presidential election of November 7. It is unquestionably...
View ArticleAustralian government unveils new interventionist military doctrine
The Australian government released a Defence White Paper on December 6, substantially increasing military spending and enunciating a new strategic doctrine that lays the basis for further regional...
View ArticleFBI agents march on White House to oppose clemency for political prisoner...
In an unprecedented public protest Friday, hundreds of FBI agents marched to the White House to oppose presidential clemency for political prisoner Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has...
View ArticleEvidence mounts of Estrada's involvement in illegal gambling racket
Just over a week into the impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada in the Philippines Senate there appears to be considerable evidence that he was at the centre of a racket to take millions of...
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