Evatt Newsletter #14 May 2003

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War & peace

It's up to us: Michael Albert interviews Noam Chomsky.
http://evatt.org.au/news/219.html

Out of the rubble, the last of Paul McGeough's exceptional Baghdad despatches.
http://evatt.org.au/news/212.html

Guantanamo Bay is a brutal double standard, explains George Monbiot.
http://evatt.org.au/news/204.html

Is there a Gulf War syndrome, asks Natasha Johnson.
http://evatt.org.au/news/207.html

Phillip Knightley reviews Paul McGeough's Manhattan to Baghdad.
http://evatt.org.au/news/206.html

Privatisation

Patricia Ranald warns of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement.
http://evatt.org.au/news/211.html

Yet another PPP deal falls in a heap, reports Phil Revell.
http://evatt.org.au/news/216.html

Australia is an unhappy & unfair country

We must focus on wellbeing, not growth, argues Clive Hamilton.
http://evatt.org.au/news/209.html

Equalitarianism is in retreat, explains Fred Argy.
http://evatt.org.au/news/208.html

And it's just getting worse

Now equal opportunity is to be thrown overboard, says Anne Summers.
http://evatt.org.au/news/217.html

Working in America

A US study has lessons for Australia, reports Roy Green.
http://evatt.org.au/news/215.html

Feature

What's next?

President's perspective, by Bruce Childs.
http://evatt.org.au/news/218.html

Intellectuals, democracy and empire

The Neocons have only just begun, says Joseph Cirincione.
http://evatt.org.au/news/210.html

Robert Blecher traces the lines of the war's intellectual boosters.
http://evatt.org.au/publications/papers/87.html

New papers

Towards the precipice

The minds of the economist and historian typically work in such antithetical ways that a true combination of their strengths is very unusual. In Robert Brenner they are exceptionally united. Read the latest stanza in Brenner's remarkable history of the postwar world economy.
http://evatt.org.au/publications/papers/85.html

Publications

Inserting a new dialectic: Governance

Remember the Asia-Pacific, where Australia happens to be located? We publish the chapter on globalisation and regional governance by Kevin Rudd from the Evatt Foundation's recent book, Globalisation: Australian Impacts (UNSW Press).
http://evatt.org.au/publications/books/86.html

Events

The campaign begins: rally to save Medicare

Australia's first public demonstration against the Howard government's Medicare carve up will take place at noon Thursday 8 May at Chifley Square in Sydney. Update: This event has now passed and the item has been deleted

Political economy conference in Sydney

The conference is on Friday 9 May, and will be preceeded on Thursday evening 8 May by Clive Hamilton talking about his controversial new book.
Update: This event has now passed and the item has been deleted

Exhibition: Mary Alice Evatt 'Mas' 1898-1973

After successful shows in Bathurst, Melbourne and Albury, the MAS exhibition is finally on its way to Sydney.
http://evatt.org.au/events/46_20030310.html

Evatt Breakfast Seminar: Michael Pusey talks on middle Australia & the dark side of economic reform

The Evatt Foundation proudly presents Michael Pusey talking about his hot new book in a public seminar that is just not to be missed.
http://evatt.org.au/events/54_20030421.html

Henry Reynolds debates Keith Windschuttle

The University of New South Wales Law Society is hosting a public debate between Henry Reynolds and Keith Windschuttle on 'The construction of Australian history: fact or fiction?'
http://evatt.org.au/events/53_20030421.html

Amina Lawal to be stoned to death for adultery on June 3rd

The Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Amina Lawal, condemned for the crime of adultery to be buried up to her neck and stoned to death. Her death was postponed so that she could continue to nurse her baby. The execution is now set. Ensure you sign this petition. Note: This item has now been updated
http://evatt.org.au/events/57_20030506.html

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