Comment & Analysis
Review: Dreaming War – Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal
THIS IS a tremendous follow up to Gore Vidal’s equally impressive Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace published last year.
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Review: Power and Terror by Noam Chomsky
NOAM CHOMSKY’S Power and Terror is an attack on the hypocrisy and double standards of US foreign policy. It explains why US imperialism is loathed by so many people; because it interferes in international politics […]
World Economy
World economy: A synchronised crisis
The world economy is on the edge of a prolonged period of stagnation. Before the war on Iraq began, its approach had already made a negative impact. A United Nations statement in January this year […]
World Economy
World economy: Is war good for business
FINANCE MINISTERS from the seven largest economies in the world met recently to debate how to revive the sick world economy. However, there was little agreement on how to revive the patient.
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Review: Max Beckman: Bleak artist of war and reaction
A major retrospective of the work of the 20th Century painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is currently running at the Tate Modern in London. Given the exhibition’s major concern with war and violent conflict, the timing […]
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Brazil: World Social Forum – Lula, Chavez, and Evo Morales address World Social Forum
The speech by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula), the popular Left Brazilian president, was undoubtedly the most anticipated event in the World Social Forum. The crowd was even bigger than the 140,000 that participated […]
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Brazil: Lula addresses enormous crowds at World Social Forum
"Ole, ole, ole, Lula… Lula… Lula", chanted a vast crowd that engulfed the Sunset Park in Porto Alegre on Friday afternoon, last week.
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Review: Fences and Window by Naomi Kliene
IN FENCES and Windows, the No Logo author Naomi Klein gives a series of ’frontline dispatches’ – newspaper articles and speeches – following the ’coming out party’ of the anti-capitalist movement in Seattle two years […]
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Review: Rabbit proof fence
THE FILM Rabbit Proof Fence is based on the true story of three girls’ trek across 1,500 miles of Australian outback in 1931. However, the film is not just the story of an incredible feat […]
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Review: The Dancer Upstairs
The Dancer Upstairs is set in an unnamed Latin America country in the recent past and concerns the attempts of a policeman, Agustin Rejas (played by Javier Bardem), to capture the elusive guerrilla leader who […]