Green Left Weekly's 500th issue! July 17, 2002

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                          Green Left Weekly,
                        Australia's socialist newspaper
                              Issue #500
                            July 17, 2002

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Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an
environmental and left perspective.

Featured this week: JOHN PILGER: USA ROGUE STATE

In Green Left Weekly's historic 500th issue, dissident journalist John
Pilger exposes the Bush gang's unilateral use of military aggression in
Afghanistan, its plans to wage war on Iraq and its tearing up of the
Kyoto Protocol on reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses. He concludes
that the USA is the world's leading rogue state.

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COVER STORY

 * UNITED STATES: The world's leading rogue state

FEATURES

 * Hands off militant unionists!
 * 500th issue Australian solidarity messages
 * 500th issue solidarity messages from around the world

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * UNITED STATES: Florida workers take on Taco Bell
 * ARGENTINA: `We are all piqueteros'
 * IRAN: Respected communist leader's untimely death
 * SOUTH AFRICA: Strike solid despite state repression
 * SOUTH AFRICA: Raid likened to apartheid era
 * INDONESIA: No change without youth
 * IRAQ: Bush prepares his next bloody war
 * FRANCE: 500,000 march for gay and lesbian rights
 * Activists picket Australia House
 * UNITED STATES: A few bad apples or a rotten system?

ISSUES

 * Help us distribute GLW!
 * Green Left Weekly reaches regional centres
 * Royal commission ignores employers' abuses
 * Two election campaigns launched
 * The SIEV-X refugee drownings: what is the government hiding?
 * Call for action on anniversary of SIEV-X drownings
 * Afghan refugees: `Don't send us back to war!'
 * Craig Johnston: How we won Campaign 2000
 * Why are they trying to get rid of Craig Johnston?
 * WMC's hypocrisy on greenhouse emissions
 * Socialist Alliance pledges a better Tasmania for workers
 * Socialist Alliance's pledges for the 2002 Tasmanian election
 * Public servants say: Shame Howard on Tampa Day!

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

 * Teachers, students stop school closures
 * Protest against corporate trickery
 * Protest against Iranian repression
 * Conference endorses refugee sanctuaries
 * Student environment conference condemns racism
 * Acehnese leader calls for solidarity
 * RMIT bids for detention centre education
 * Christmas Island to become Australia's gulag
 * Vigil for refugees' rights
 * Defiant nurses stand ground
 * Socialist Alliance prepares for NSW election

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * David Bradbury's bitter memories of Cuba
 * Greg Palast: eye-poppingly good journalism
 * Growing up in South Korea
 * A glimpse at life in the Torres Strait

REGULAR FEATURES

 * Editorial: How Green Left Weekly got this far
 * Write On: Letters to Green Left Weekly

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