The FARC - the oldest and most resilient insurgent group in Latin America - have announced that their leader, Manuel Marulanda, has died. Who are the FARC and how have they managed to survive since the 1960s despite the billions of dollars spent on their destruction?
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Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwe's political landscape for the past 30 years and in many ways his story is the story of Zimbabwe.
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Rear Vision attempts to unravel the complex mysteries of the US presidential system. What are primaries and caucuses and what is the Electoral College that ultimately decides who'll have the top job?
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As protesters, led by thousands of maroon-robed monks, challenge the military junta’s authority, Rear Vision tells the sorry tale of Burma's modern history.
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The Prime Minister has urged Australians to pray for rain to save the Murray-Darling Basin farmers. But how far are politicians responsible?
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In spite of Serbia’s opposition, the U.N. seems set on independence for the province of Kosovo. As the final talks begin, find out the background to this bitter territorial dispute. [find out more...]
Wheat is one of Australia's most valuable exports but should it continue to be the one industry exempt from competition and deregulation? Will wheat exporting through AWB's single desk survive the Cole Inquiry? [find out more...]
British Government minister Jack Straw has re-ignited debate in the UK with his comments about Muslim women and veils that cover the face. Explore the history of Muslim women's dress. [find out more...]
Iran's nuclear intransigence is a further challenge to stability in the Middle East, as well as the authority of the UN Security Council. Listen to the history behind Iran's nuclear industry and the USA's involvement. [find out more...]
Rear Vision traces Australia's attempts, during the nineteen fifties and sixties, to obtain nuclear technology and weapons from Britain and the United States. [find out more...]
Photo courtesy of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
In the past three years, civil war has claimed thousands of lives and displaced almost two and a half million people in Darfur. Who is killing whom and why? [find out more...]
