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/ 31 October 2003
Even while serious fighting continues, the economic destiny of Iraq is being decided — not by the Iraqis themselves, but by the occupying powers and the United States-appointed governing council, almost half of whom are exiles. As a result of Order 39, Iraq’s economy has been put up for sale.
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/ 31 October 2003
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> and Open Communications (a part of the Open Group of marketing and communications companies) have joined forces, with Open Communications having been appointed as the advertising agency for the <i>M&G</i> with effect from October 1 this year.
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/ 31 October 2003
Now we know that the grounds on which the Iraq war was fought were false, we cannot be blamed for wanting to wallow in self-righteousness. As director Michael Moore might bellow: ”We were right and they were wrong.” That is true, but we cannot leave it there. We have to do better than that. We have to move on.
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/ 31 October 2003
President George W Bush this week tried to stifle rising doubts on the occupation of Iraq by insisting this week’s bombings were a sign that life had improved under the United States’s watch. Comparisons being made between the official justification for war in Vietnam and the administration’s media strategy in Iraq.
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/ 31 October 2003
Halliburton, the oil services company formerly run by United States Vice-President Dick Cheney, this week reported soaring revenues from its contracts to help rebuild Iraq. The company said sales in the third quarter were 39% higher, at ,1-billion.
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/ 31 October 2003
A controversial scheme led by the oil giant BP to build a huge, strategically important pipeline is about to win crucial backing, according to a leaked document.
The World Bank is due to approve a -million loan this week for a consortium to build an underground pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea to the Turkish port of Ceyhan via Georgia.
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/ 31 October 2003
”The more that policy changes in South Africa, the more it is the same.” These words are from Govan Mbeki’s seminal book on rural resistance, The Peasants’ Revolt. In the post-apartheid era white domination and its crippling legacies are under attack from progressive government policies, and Mbeki’s words no longer apply.
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/ 31 October 2003
An eight-year-old Iranian refugee whose plight ignited a bitter immigration row in Australia launched a civil suit this week against the government, claiming that he suffered severe mental health problems caused by his time in detention.
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/ 31 October 2003
Michael Howard emerged as the man most likely to be the third leader of the British Conservative Party in six years this week, after Iain Duncan Smith lost his battle to retain the Tory leadership by 75 to 90 votes cast by his fellow Tory members of the United Kingdom Parliament.
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/ 31 October 2003
French President Jacques Chirac ended two days of intense but fruitless talks with France’s main political leaders this week still facing one of the most painful dilemmas of his long political career: whether or not to call a referendum to ratify Europe’s new Constitution.