Doug Lorimer

  • CUBA: US stages new provocation

    In a new act of provocation aimed at creating a confrontation with Cuba, the US government on May 12 ordered seven diplomats at Cuba's United Nations mission to leave the US within 48 hours. The next day, the US State Department

  • Socialists call for budget measures to be blocked

    "Nothing dramatises the criminally anti-social nature of the Howard-Costello government so much as the federal treasurer's latest budget", Socialist Alliance national co-convener Lisa Macdonald told һƷ̽ Weekly. Macdonald

  • Pilger wins Sophie Prize

    Renowned Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger has been awarded the 2003 Sophie Prize, one of the world's most generous environment and development prizes, for his work in helping the public to examine the real causes of

  • Greens criticise Labor on conscience vote

    SYDNEY — On May 8, NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon criticised NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr for his insistence that the state's parliamentarians vote on age of consent laws according to their personal views, rather than their party's

  • IRAQ: US military victory turning into political debacle

    Washington's quick and apparently easy military defeat of Iraq's Baathist regime is threatening to turn into a political debacle, exacerbating the very problems the US rulers hoped it would decisively help to overcome. The US

  • CUBA: Castro defends crackdown against US provocations

    Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡ Revolution Square on May Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the US government was seeking to provoke a crisis with Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style

  • AFGHANISTAN: US troops still fighting Taliban

    BY RUPEN SAVOULIAN& DOUG LORIMER While the world's attention is focused on Iraq, the US-led war in Afghanistan is still raging. US and British elite troops are battling Afghan guerrillas, making a mockery of Washington's claim that its military

  • EUROPEAN UNION: Tensions with US sharpen over Iraq

    The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought to surface the conflict that has been immanent between the US capitalist rulers and their French and German rivals since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold

  • SYRIA: What's behind US threats?

    After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US

  • IRAQ: Oil and the Bush plan for global domination

    While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops

  • Kazak criticises Australian media

    CANBERRA — The head of the Palestinian Authority delegation to Australia, Ali Kazak, issued a statement on April 6 criticising Australian and other Western media for their uncritical reporting and interviewing of Australian,

  • UNITED STATES: War hawks set sights on Syria, Iran

    Emboldened by the US military's apparent quick defeat of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, the war hawks in and around the administration of US President George Bush are setting their sights on "regime change" in Syria and Iran.