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  1. Hamas and Palestine's right to exist

    al-Qaeda (or, alternatively, Iranian) led movement to violently impose Islamic law on the world, and ... leadership has become the justification for war crimes. The entire infrastructure of Gaza β€” hospitals, ... carried out in crowded places using missiles fired from war-planes or predator drones that maximises the ...

  2. INDIA: Arundhati Roy- 'We have to become the global resistance'

    is also on the board of directors of the Bechtel Group. After the war, Bechtel signed a $680 million ... more than 2000 Muslims were murdered on the streets of Gujarat, that women were gang-raped and children ... called militants. In the era of the "war on terror", poverty is being slyly conflated with ...

  3. Venezuela expels US diplomats amid threats to Maduro's life

    Venezuela down”. β€œSenores gringos, imperialists, you have before you men and women of dignity that … will ... never kneel before your interests and we’re not afraid of you. We’ll confront you on all levels, the ... conspiracy plans. On October 2, Venezuela Analysis reported that the US had expelled three Venezuelan ...

  4. SUDAN: Khartoum to allow more African troops in Darfur

    hunger. The janjaweed's terror tactics have included the systematic rape of Darfuri women and the ... York Times reported. Ismail also assured US officials that a final peace agreement in the civil war in ... UN secretary general Kofi Annan's special representative on Sudan, welcomed the announcement as ...

  5. Bellyful of Rice lies

    100 Most Powerful Women" list in 2005, has a carefully cultivated public image. According to ... anti-war campaigners won't be giving her a rock-star welcome. It's widely believed that the key ... issue to be addressed by the secretary of state on her visit is extending the participation of ...

  6. UNITED STATES: Corporate crooks and right-wing kooks

    Bush and his cabinet are already training their sights on abortion rights, public education, access to ... welfare, affirmative action and environmental protection regulations. On January 22, his first day on the ... effect legalised abortion. A message delivered to the demonstrators on Bush's behalf by anti-choice ...

  7. AFGHANISTAN: US gives warlords green light to reassert control

    unspeakable atrocities during the devastating 1992-96 intra- mujaheddin civil war. Washington is willing to ... a warlord's personal wealth and power). When the warlords go to war, they stoke their followers' ethnic, ... gang leaders to deal with immediate enemies, only to turn on their erstwhile allies with ferocious ...

  8. Social decay and musical violence

    a terrible war against the people of Vietnam. Rock music had already become popular, and the political ... one in the British charts, despite a virtual ban on radio and TV. While they sang "Anarchy in the ... Western) youth, and took quite a nihilistic direction on the whole. In the 1980s, hardcore punk music ...

  9. Peter Tatchell: β€˜Marriage equality, and nothing less’

    register for national service. I did not want to fight in Vietnam. I did not agree with the war. It was an ... a citizen’s arrest of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on charges of torture and other human rights abuses. ... candidate for the Labour Party and was widely vilified on account of my left-wing politics and my support ...

  10. The history of capitalism: no, it isn't pretty

    partly because of the maiming effects of intensive exploitation on women workers β€” the deformation of the ... depends on the noble spirit and good works of the capitalist class. The reputation of this class has ... near a factory, says Kerr, and Dickens' criticism of what he thought was going on in the ...

  11. Mexico: Migrants’ massacre result of bad policy

    bodies of 72 migrants from Central and South America. They had been kidnapped on their way to the United ... HeraldScotland.com said on August 29. Escalated violence has made it harder to carry out a swift and thorough ... investigation. On August 26, two bombs exploded near the morgue where the bodies of the 72 migrant victims were ...

  12. Pakistan: Workers and peasants resist fundamentalists and elite

    in the "war on terror" is offered by the struggles of ordinary people for democracy and ... Tony Iltis On May 6 and 7, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari was in Washington to exchange ... Nonetheless, fighting broke out on April 26 after Taliban infiltration of Lower Dir and Buner districts brought ...

  13. Naomi Klein: Iraq needs genuine democracy

    Carolina. On March 4, 2003, with the invasion just 15 days away, the United States Agency for International ... Bechtel's inability to turn the lights on, and Halliburton's wild overcharging, RTI's "civil ... around the corner from GlaxoSmithKline). Johnson insists that his team is focused on the "nuts and ...

  14. A new dynamic in Philippines left

    leaders and activists of MR as well as other organisations on the left. The whole of the left is in ... National Executive forced the adoption of a policy calling on the party to return to Mao Zedong Thought, ... especially to the Maoist doctrine that revolutionary strategy should be based upon a protracted guerilla war ...

  15. Stakes mount in Cambodian stand-off

    formed. Despite participating in the National Assembly swearing-in ceremony on September 24, the majority ... proportional representation and, under the formula adopted by the National Electoral Commission on May 29, ... the protest, following a grenade attack on his house and a series of racist incidents (involving the ...

  16. Anti-apartheid rugby protests showed how sport and politics are inseparable

    tour, and the tour and its aftermath β€” Winter begins by focusing on seven Wallabies players: Jim Boyce, ... with the Wallabies touring side to South Africa. On this tour, he and the other players were shocked by ... of 69 Black African men, women and children who had been protesting apartheid laws in 1960. Because ...

  17. Indian students chart way forward

    Association (AISA) met here on August 27-28. The main focus of the conference was the need for students to ... the BJP's campaign to impose a "Hindu Rashtra" (pure Hindu state) on India has been ... growing stronger. The prime targets of the campaign are religious and national minorities, and women, for ...

  18. A mixed but interesting bag

    a collection of essays on "an alternative group of battlers who have been variously agitators, larrikins, ... exciting and stimulating new development in literary theory". Ross Fitzgerald's essay on Fred ... Similarly, Noel Loos' piece on Eddie Mabo traces his fight to gain recognition of native title for ...

  19. Letters to the editor

    USA and its western allies are engaged in a war with Islamic extremist groups, the cruel actions of ... of oppressive, corrupt, dictatorial regimes and interfering western governments intent on keeping ... traditions of the patriarchal monotheists and it was all about the ownership of women. The whole marriage ...

  20. The Revolution of the Reasonable

    went on to explain that once the Third World was linked into the web, women would be able to find out ... down on the roadway blend with sound bites of a leading e-technology spokesperson claiming that S11 ... the preceding decade as a result of war. Reasonable people throughout the world tut-tutted over their ...

  21. Farewell to 'the most dangerous man in Darwin'

    suburban Darwin was the small bust of Lenin on his bookshelf. The second thing you discovered was that Bill ... after having been suppressed by the military authorities during the war. In those days, Darwin was an ... Tribune, the CPA's newspaper. Soon after leaving Katherine, he secured a job on the Darwin waterfront ...

  22. 8 Mile: It's all about class

    seems strange that an artist so willing to attack Washington's War on Terror would be so demonised ... women more then their attacks on abortion access. This narrow-mindedness appears to have been applied to ... you'll do for their Navy You just a baby, gettin' recruited at 18 You're on a plane now, ...

  23. FMLN gains in Salvadoran elections

    By Jenny Francis SANTA MARTA, El Salvador β€” In national and local elections held here on March 16, ... an army assault. After some six years in exile, the survivors gradually returned home. Each year on ... women deputies elected, MarΓ­a Ofelia Navarette, who will represent Chalatenango in the assembly, is due ...

  24. Hands off our education and student unions!

    actively opposed the Vietnam War and supported movements for women's liberation and gay rights, or in ... federal education minister Brendan Nelson is already planning his next wave of attacks on higher ... suffered a decrease of 13% in real terms. The Coalition clearly has its sights set on the full ...

  25. The Tamworth boy who exposed Howard's lies

    on Iraq, admits to having a soft spot for Tamworth. Tamworth-born and-bred, Wilkie gets back there ... minister. It has prepares intelligence assessments on offshore issues. When Wilkie resigned from the ONA on ... issues, but the main reasons were to stamp its authority on the Middle East, control the region's ...

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