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  1. Becoming part of the problem

    support US policy. It happened in the lead-up to World War II when the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact suddenly ... became supporters of US imperialism. In the late 1940s and '50s, the Cold War produced another crop ... of penitent leftist converts to the superiority of US imperialism. During the 1990-91 Gulf War there ...

  2. The singing CIA agent speaks

    on the issues of the day. "The Cold War is over, and we won, but this presented us with a couple ... right up on women's issues (or rather "ladies rights" or the "women's thing, as ... "Dr" is for Monroe Doctorate, he explains) usually turns out in a dark suit, clip-on sunglasses and ...

  3. Conference discusses way forward for left

    Popular Alliance government's war against the Tamil people and the war's effect on the Tamil ... by the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance on the theme "Socialism β€” the way ... John Percy began the conference with a feature talk outlining debates on socialist strategy in the ...

  4. Grbavica: Sarajevo's open wound

    have to await the end of the war and the opening of all the archives. But as the negotiations drag on ... that "republic", which hangs on a half burned-out skyscraper, and by hidden Serb police who ... Young women are immediately propositioned: "Baby, are you Serbian?". Negative responses ...

  5. The Tibetan and Uighur struggles for justice

    the killing in police custody of Uighur businessperson Mutallip Hajim and restrictions on women ... a central feature of imperialist propaganda since the "war on terror", which has replaced the ... protests and riots calling for self-determination that started on March 10, the BBC reported on April 4. ...

  6. The great national security swindle

    women fleeing partner and ex-partner violence. β€œIn March, there were 33,933 people on the Victorian ... unpopularity by promising to protect Australians' lives from a serious threat of terrorism. On May 26, he ... liberties. While previous β€œanti-terror” legislation has focused on inventing new crimes and gutting due ...

  7. SAUDI ARABIA: Western leaders mourn despot's death

    with Washington's foreign policy, particularly is "war on terror", regime change is not ... the chief target of the "war on terror". Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The US ... invasion alliance of Australia, Britain and the US. In a statement on Fahd's death, US President ...

  8. Troops out! Howard out!

    them unarmed women, children and old men. On May 25, after a car bomb exploded outside a hotel within ... your men and women on the ground?" ALP foreign affairs spokesperson Kevin Rudd responded to ... released on May 24 found that while only 29% of voters had a negative view of the Coalition ...

  9. 'People's power' for the Rabbitohs

    rally and called on supporters of other teams to join in. While the great majority of men, women ... Hall on November 12 to demand the inclusion of the South Sydney "Rabbitohs" football team in ... wars" between the Rupert Murdoch-backed commercial Super League competition and the ...

  10. Outbreak of peace

    Oval on January 23 there were so many cops around you might have expected a convoy of uranium trucks to ... brigade was parked on the servo apron opposite. St Johns and the Orange people from the rescue volunteers ... the colour, energy, the presentation. A couple of grey-haired women with walking sticks went burrowing ...

  11. The People v Philip Ruddock

    BY MARY CARROLL SYDNEY β€” One hundred and thirty people filled the Manly Youth Centre Hall on ... change has been achieved in this country β€” whether it be women and indigenous Australians winning the ... right to vote, an end to the Vietnam war or an end to Australia's 25 year bipartisan support for ...

  12. Textile union prosecutes Nike

    in front of the court on March 9. "We'd rather wear bags than clothes made through ... in a publicity war against Nike", but is trying to improve the conditions of outworkers who ... companies are targeting the lowest paid workers, such as women and children, they're driving down wages ...

  13. EAST TIMOR: Xanana: 'I will not be president'

    Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao told those attending the launch of his autobiography here on May ... personal reflections, starting from the beginning of the war for East Timor's independence from ... the beginning of the event, and there was a stirring performance by Tiddas and a Timorese women ...

  14. Supporting refugees and beating back bipartisan cruelty

    days of protests by refugees on Nauru, landmark court decisions, the Nauru Files, politicians’ offices ... forced to suffer the most. Western superpowers started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Australia is ... countries are the greatest climate vandals, one of the triggers of the Syrian civil war. The rich nations ...

  15. Police attempt to silence Cheney protesters

    part of an action on Salamanca lawns to express opposition to Cheney's visit and the war in Iraq. ... who walked out of school against the Iraq war in 2003, hundreds of NSW police and officers from the ... NSW Public Order and Riot Squad (PORS) tried to stop peaceful rallies on February 22 and 23 when US ...

  16. Labor's budget β€” work until you drop

    impact on women, who rely more on the pension than men. Women have fewer retirement savings than men ... on May 12. Swan's bleak message was clear: for those with a job, it's a matter of work ... overall. The average superannuation payout for women is one third of that for men. Women working full time ...

  17. TrumpWatch: Protests greet wide-ranging attacks

    fighting surveillance, profiling, war andΒ  hate violence; women reclaiming their bodies against ... page). On The Project, Wayleed Aly gave the full list as of January 27, and with the exception of the ... partial list of brief accounts of some of the developments β€” with a heavy focus on the protests and ...

  18. Venezuela: Global peasants’ movement Via Campesina urges support for revolution, government

    consequences of an economic war being imposed on Venezuela by powerful oligarchical, fascist, and imperialist ... International, which met in Managua, Nicaragua on March 29. *** We, Via Campesina Internacional, the ... consider the Bolivarian revolution a reference for social transformation and inclusion. As women, youth, ...

  19. Philippines: Regional conference discusses socialist solutions

    Manila over November 27 and 28. The conference, organised on the theme of β€œCapitalist Crisis, Socialist ... president Leody de Guzman spoke on a panel on the role of the working class in the struggle for socialism. ... A former UP student president addressed the conference on the struggle of university students against the ...

  20. In β€˜No Is Not Enough’ Naomi Klein leaps high β€” but not high enough

    β€” especially when it is on the 2016 US election and the rise of Donald Trump. This book, though, written over ... view Trumpism through the triple framework provided by her earlier books, focusing on branding, ... the first person to run for president and make money on it. Β Klein’s succinct depiction of Trump the ...

  21. IRAQ: Get out now, before we are thrown out

    Anglo-American assault on their homeland; thousands of these anti-Saddamites marched against the war in London ... job next war." Well done, Rick Mercier. But listen to the silence of your colleagues on both ... US mercenaries. Many of the dead of Fallujah were women and children and the elderly. Only the Arab ...

  22. 'Out now; end conscription': an antiwar activist remembers

    inflicted on it during the Gulf War of 1991, is still alive and kicking. The Vietnam syndrome is why the US ... high school students began to organise against the war and for student rights; and the new women ... pro-war position on the Gulf War, East Timor, etc, today! Jim Cairns was the central figure in the ...

  23. β€˜We won’t wait for change’

    hypocritical on the question of human rights β€” especially the rights of women. The wars it has created are the ... very environment we depend on to survive while war, poverty, racism and oppression dominate the lives ... political topics today. The ugly reality of the β€œwar on terror” was laid bare by Ammar Ali Jan, youth ...

  24. SRI LANKA: Army faces serious defeat

    assistance. Some 35,000 Sri Lankan troops have been trapped on the Jaffna peninsula since the critical ... Elephant Pass military base fell to the LTTE troops on April 24. As of May 5, the LTTE was reported by BBC ... increasingly Sinhala-chauvinist Buddhist clergy in the south has called on the Indian government to send its ...

  25. Tax office offers amnesty to tax cheats

    ³¦°ω²Ή³¦°μ»ε΄Η·Ι²Τ” on tax cheats. The project is aimed at recovering billions in tax revenue held in bank accounts in ... offshore tax havens. It is part of what is said to be a "global war" against tax evasion ... following recent work by the OECD and G20 finance ministers on automatic exchanges of tax information. In an ...

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