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Pakistani voters punish dictator
Musharraf as a key "war on terror" ally despite the Pakistani military's entanglement with ... secured only 55 out of 337 declared seats when preliminary results were announced on February 20. The ... rights have been led by grassroots civil society groups, trade unions, women's organisations and ...
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SOUTH KOREA: Impeachment attempt provokes mass protests
backlash, leading to mass protests against the attempted parliamentary coup. On March 12, the country's ... Roh aligned himself with the breakaway Our Open Party (OOP). On the day the impeachment motion was ... including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. On March 13, at least 70,000 people rallied at ...
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INDONESIA: Aid to the military could annihilate the Acehnese
afford to buy the purloined goods starved. In the first year, 60,000 civilians, mostly women and ... Indonesia quickly imposed a ban on journalists visiting villages. Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla has ... now done a back-flip on his demand that foreign military forces were to leave Aceh by March 26, but ...
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TB spreads in Russia as government chops health funds
β refugees from regional wars and victims of housing rackets, as well as women and children fleeing domestic ... believed to be infected now. The classic neo-liberal disease, tuberculosis preys above all on the people ... sufferers in Russia range as high as 60% On the outside, only a small minority of ex-prisoners with ...
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Letter from the US: The Republicans' two conventions
one in which the delegates had any say. This convention centred on the party's platform. By ... up to the convention, he sought to soften the party's image on abortion by suggesting that the ... capitulated on the platform, to the extent that Buchanan could claim a "victory" and for the first ...
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Dacca diary
abandoned railway track blown up by the retreating Pakistani army during the 1971 war of liberation. ... don't exist in Bangladesh, perhaps because the IMF frowns on such things. Civil rights and social ... be a restraint on the holy practice of free trade? What had happened to the decrepit and decaying ...
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Where is the Socialist Alliance going?
make sure that the ALP lost. Second, the alliance campaign against the looming war on Iraq helped push ... a war on Iraq was central to their win. Wilson went from conditional to unconditional opposition on the ... impending war on Iraq. If the Socialist Alliance had access to more organisers, offices, literature and ...
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John Pilger: Holocaust denied
Russia's war in Georgia and the terrorism in Mumbai, Obama's silence on Palestine marks his approval, ... Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie". It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. ... parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on Al ...
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Christine Assange: WikiLeaks took the mask off power
Collateral Murder was out on the 4th of April. The Gillard coup was the 26th of June. The Afghan War Diaries ... said we in the US military know whatβs going on in the war β¦ what should be investigated is what ... Sydney on February 17 for a public forum, βDonβt shoot the messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracyβ. ...
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The secret sacred myths of Tomanwendiji
Ngarrindjeri women, there has been no corresponding interest in the beliefs of the developers. This commentary ... Barthes was run over by a bread van on the streets of Paris. But were the grand old semiotician still ... alive today, he would revel in the war over Kumarangk. As the deeply tribal Tomanwendiji find themselves ...
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The mellowing of 'Miss Shell Shocked'
audiences on their feet. Shocked's charm lies in her combination of swinging music and street ... spending the years 1979 to 1987 virtually homeless have all impacted on her world outlook. The name ... that they first used to describe the victims of shell-shock in World War One. These people from outward ...
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LEBANON: Hezbollah: its origins and aims
Michael Karadjis The United States and Israel claim the horrific attack on Lebanese civilians is ... this was clearly a guerrilla attack on a military target, not the wanton killing of civilians. In any ... oppressed in Lebanon and the world" (issued in Beirut on February 16, 1985), Hezbollah declared its ...
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LIVE BLOG: Occupy Sydney general assembly
and back to Town Hall. The assembly also agreed on the statement read out earlier that night. Now ... on this. Meanwhile, police have threatened the assembly that unless they move in 20 minutes all ... sydney submits a schedule one form for a march to Martin Place so we have the right to march on November ...
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Fred Moore: 'Never ever give up'
a life member of the Miners' Women's Auxiliary! Asked what he thought about WorkChoices, ... Fred's smile disappeared. "This is the most vicious attack on workers' hard-won conditions in ... pay; not a minute on the day'." What about the main opposition party? "The Labor Party ...
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East Timor's long struggle for justice
Shirley Shackleton The sudden departure on May 29 of visiting Jakarta governor, General Sutiyoso, ... used as a dumping ground for political dissidents. At the outset of World War II, the Australian ... the Timorese to the mercy of the Japanese who forced them into hard labour. Thousands of women ...
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Drawing the lessons from the '60s
against imperialist war and globalisation. Not surprisingly, many are looking back to the upsurge of the ... attempt to build a new socialist party based on Maoist principles. It covers a myriad of organisations ... strong multi-racial organisations, are with us today. Elbaum focuses in some detail on how a section of ...
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John Pilger: 'The Americans want Iraq's oil'
speech was presented to the 20,000-strong Walk Against the War rally in the Sydney Domain on November ... are currently kept "on hold" in New York by the United States, with Britain's backing. ... contrived, if not conspired, to kill more people in Iraq than in many wars in my life time. They want to ...
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Journalists and the first casualty
The appallingly bad media coverage of the war has been remarked by many. But why was it so bad? ... Media analyst MAGGIE EMMETT explains how it's done. On February 13, 300 journalists from 23 ... restricted and that they had to be accompanied by Ministry of Information personnel when they went out on ...
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John Pilger's 2009 Sydney Peace Award speech: Breaking the Australian silence
there is no war on terror. It's a hoax. But there is a war of terror waged by governments, ... roads and building houses, but on a war of legal attrition waged against black communities. ... The following speech by renowned journalist and film-maker John Pilger was delivered on November ...
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The CPA revisited: what went wrong?
farmers in Queensland, and yet fail to leave its ideological mark on the Australian body politic? Or, if ... five working-class women appearing in the US documentary Rosie the Riveter, who were chosen from an ... on democratic centralism, was rigidly hierarchical. Although I had the good fortune to operate in ...
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Japan: Australian activists address global anti-nuclear conference
Environment Centre, Margaret Bevis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War and Felicity Hill, ... Australiaβs Uranium: Fuelling Japanβs Nuclear Reactors. The workshop responded in part to revelations on ... calling on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to halt uranium exports to Japan. These postcards will be ...
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Bolivia: Joining the 'axis of evil'
finds itself on the verge of the definitive closure of this historic space, conquered by the indigenous ... House. On some occasions, the "good" servants rebelled and therefore, passed over into the ... category of evil. In the "axis of evil" are Cuba and Venezuela β how could they not be! On the ...
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Afghanistan: Action needed to stop US-installed regime executing student
The following is an abridged statement released by Left Radical of Afghanistan (LRA) on January ... "Kambakhsh disgraced Islam... and broke the constitution". During an interview with Kelid Radio on ... demanded Kambakhsh be sentence to be stoned to death. The death sentence was handed down on January 23. ...
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VENEZUELA: Note book from Caracas: Eyewitness to revolution
report on the unfolding revolution there. Regular updates from Jorquera are being posted at ... <www.venezuelasolidarity.org>. 2 million army reservists to be signed up On April 3, on his weekly TV program Alo Presidente, ... Venezuelan government. Chavez declared on the program: "We are going to have 2 million army reservists, ...
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Zimbabwe: Behind ‘Comrade’ Mugabe's regime
Zimbabwe's liberation war. ZIPA's fusion of inclusive politics, transformational vision and military ... young recruits who would shortly form ZIPA sought to reinvigorate the struggle as the war stalled. ... Marxist-inspired courses. It educated its cadre against the sexual abuse of women and sought to win the support of ...