Terry Jones: I’m really excited by George Bush’s latest reason for bombing Iraq: he’s running out of patience. And so am I!
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war… Robert Byrd, a US senator, appeals to fellow Americans to reject the administration’s outrageous, reckless and inexcusable
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Close to one million people, from veteran peaceniks to first-time marchers, have packed central London to tell the government and the United States to pull back from war with Iraq in the country’s biggest ever peace march
Following firmly in Clinton’s footsteps, the retarded monkey boy‘s US$15 billion AIDS plan for Africa and Haiti would restrict the flow of money to groups that perform or promote abortions overseas
Russia has threatened to use its veto to block Washington’s plans for a United Nations-endorsed Iraq war, as China swung behind the European proposal to beef up weapons inspections and avoid military action. While the anthrax rebellion in the Australian armed forces has widened, with another eight sailors en route to or already in the Persian Gulf refusing inoculations
France and Germany have developed a secret alternative plan to war against Iraq in which thousands of armed UN troops would enforce Saddam Hussein’s disarmament
Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted in their home countries
Three Victorian detectives and a former detective were today arrested by corruption investigators and charged with trafficking cannabis worth at least $100,000
The next round of globalisation is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design, engineering — even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper?
Scientists have been shocked to discover that four dormant volcanoes in South America are in fact active
US trade negotiators are pushing for Australia to sign up to a tough new copyright regime that could hold ISPs liable for breaches. The EFA are less than impressed
Gigantic dust clouds swirling over China are threatening the world’s most populous country with the first-ever ecological meltdown
. The clouds — which stretch for thousands of miles over Asia and have even reached across the Pacific to North America — are rising from a rapidly growing dust bowl in northern China that far outstrips the notorious one in the United States in the 1930s
The leaders of France and Germany used a historic meeting of their two governments yesterday to state their united opposition to early military action against Iraq. While in Sydney, more than 150 anti-war protesters today converged on Garden Island to voice opposition to the forward deployment of troops to the possible war on Iraq
In the 13th century, the Venetians built a warship a day to battle Turkey at sea. Today, the Pentagon can barely crank out a new fighter plane in 10 years. Experts blame red tape — and corruption — in the military industrial complex
The Australian Labor Party has offered a prize of a case of Coca-Cola and $100 worth of Linux merchandise to anybody who can find a valid e-mail address for John Howard
Four people are confirmed dead and up to 400 homes are in ruins after the devastating firestorm that swept through large areas of Canberra at the weekend. The historic Mount Stromlo Observatory was largely destroyed, along with equipment and property worth an estimated $20 million. Fierce flames claimed five telescopes, the workshop, eight staff homes and the main dome
A day of world-wide protests against a looming US-led war on Iraq has culminated in giant peace rallies in Washington, San Francisco and other US cities
As Western troops head for the Gulf, anti-war activists have descended on Baghdad, seeking a solution to the showdown between the retarded monkey boy and President Saddam Hussein
Vatican City, 106 acres in area and Europe’s last remaining absolute monarchy, revealed that while it has a population of only 455, last year its miniature legal system hosted 397 civil cases and 608 criminal ones — two legal cases and nearly 1.5 crimes for every man, woman and child. An interesting spin that neglects to mention the millions of visitors that pass through the Vatican every year
The Chinese Government has ordered the closure of more than 3,300 Internet cafés for safety reasons after a fire destroyed an underground cafe in Beijing in June this year
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