Search

Search results

  1. Write On: Letters to ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly

    " and goes on to praise Howard's mad rush to war, calling him a "great military leader". ... for my own safety. To the right is a phone exchange which was bombed in the last war. I'll miss ... south of Baghdad. Having produced a documentary during the 10-year Bougainville War, I'm well ...

  2. Peru: Widespread protests follow Fujimori’s pardon

    Democracy Imperialism & war Latin America & the Caribbean Ben Radford Peru’s ... Constitutional Court reinstated a 2017 pardon granted to imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori, on March ... forcibly sterilised more than 2000 Indigenous people, mostly women. He was tried in 2009 for his role in ...

  3. Pine Gap: spy base aids US war on Iraq

    bombs during the 1990-91 US war on Iraq and, most recently, the targeting of US bombs against ... contribution to the US "war on terror" than any token effort by the Australian Defence Force. Hence, ... what actions of war and terror are being carried out in our name? Pine Gap is on Australian soil and is ...

  4. Pakistan: The latest victims of the 'the war on terror'

    elected partially on anti-war sentiment, are committed to escalating the Afghan war. This escalation is ... Islamic terrorism β€” the "war on terror". Al-Qaeda and their Taliban allies are based in the ... the US, Pakistan has received about US$1 billion a year in military aid to help fight the "war on ...

  5. Socialist Alliance: Ten reasons to oppose Bush's 'war on terrorism'

    because the land war will shed the blood of numberless Afghan men, women and children; because George Bush ... allow unilateral retaliation once an attack has stopped. As a result, the atrocity of their war on the ... It's worth noting that the one international expression of support the US did seek for its "war on ...

  6. John Pilger on Sri Lanka's brutal war: Distant voices, desperate lives

    a declaration of war on the Tamils. The new law meant that Tamils almost disappeared from the civil service by ... affirm you are on the right side of history, regardless of the fact that your government has one of the ... perpetrated their own atrocities. But they are the product, not the cause, of an injustice and a war that long ...

  7. British Tories launch 'war on single parents'

    "war on the single parent", as one newspaper here has called it. The exact shape of the offensive ... entrench a harsh new tax on separated fathers. John Major's government is about to launch its ... of financial penalties. Planned cutbacks on welfare entitlements of single parents are likely to ...

  8. Stop the genocide: Sri Lanka wages war on Tamil people

    told ABC Online on April 15: "The latest information that we have received from the ground is that ... the Sri Lankan army is preparing to take on a major military offensive to enter the safe zone, and ... northern Vanni region. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on April 9 that this safe zone is actually "one ...

  9. Kurdish women's radical struggle for liberation ― more than a media sideshow

    on IS fighters, with little attention to the politics of these brave women. Preoccupied with attempts ... women's liberation and enforces quotas, as well as β€œco-presidency” on all levels ― one woman and one man ... Kurdish parties in northern Iraq is less permissible of women's participation in war. Culture of ...

  10. Sudanese democracy activists: 'Women are suffering under this regime'

    International Women's Day statement released on March 8. * * * On the 8th March this year, we at Sudan ... Imperialism & war Feminism Democracy Economy The Sudan Democracy First Group is an umbrella ... Democracy First Group (SDFG) celebrate International Women's Day. We mark the struggle of Sudanese ...

  11. Women make Kobani living hell for Islamic State

    Imperialism & war Feminism Democracy Hundreds of Kurds gathered in a Turkish border town on ... October 7 for the funerals of four women killed fighting the Islamic State (IS) group. Across the border, ... contained the bodies of fighters from the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) ― the all-female ...

  12. Malalai Joya: Fiery salutations to the brave women of Kobane

    and justice, and strike enemies who are armed to the teeth. On behalf of the freedom-seeking women and ... Imperialism & war Feminism International solidarity Democracy Malalai Joya The article below ... resisted the Taliban and US-led occupation of her nation, on October 12. It is abridged from ...

  13. Venezuela: Economic war or government errors? Marta Harnecker on the crisis's context

    The government has blamed the economic problems on an economic war being waged by powerful capitalist ... context of Venezuela’s problems and assesses the role of the economic war and government mistakes. ... 3. Chavez conceived of socialism as an economic system centred on the human being and not profit, ...

  14. United States: In his final days, Trump deals savage blow to suffering Yemenis

    Agriculture Imperialism & war Middle East Mary Merkenich war on Yemen famine Houthis The war ... to the war. The six-year war between the United States-backed and Saudi Arabian-led coalition and ... suspended millions of dollars in aid to Houthi-controlled areas. The war began in 2014. In March, 2015, the ...

  15. US backs Saudi war on Yemen

    Saudi intervention has accelerated the civil war engulfing Yemen. The World Health Organisation said on ... corrupt Saleh regime was backed by the US on the pretext of being an ally in the β€œwar on terror”. US ... failed war on Iraq. However, this strategy exists alongside contradictory US policies, such as the fight ...

  16. Women’s Boat to Gaza stopped by Israel as US approves new military aid

    other humanitarian aid was intercepted and seized by the Israeli Navy on October 5. The Women’s Boat to ... women for up to four days before deporting them. A passenger on the boat, retired Army colonel and ... 1114 Participants on the Women's Boat to Gaza World ...

  17. Letter from the US: Fresh crimes in 'war on terror' exposed

    Imperialism & war Democracy Barry Sheppard Two reliable recent reports throw light on the ... moral depravity of Washington’s β€œwar on terror”. The first concerns a massacre in Afghanistan by US ... cynically sends young men and women into imperialist wars waged to extend capitalist power and profits. ...

  18. Election 2001: Has anyone told them there's a war on?

    anyone told you there's a war on?". The November 10 federal election contest between Prime ... wedge", he said on October 8. Beazley would rather the war just went away for a few months and came back ... Australian Democrats must take some blame for the vacuum of debate on the war. In the September 17 Senate ...

  19. Refugees, religion and the war on terror

    incredible practice of incarcerating children in Australia: the government's policy on the war against ... Alexander's ragtime band in downtown Baghdad. This will not be like the war on Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein ... BY ADRIAN D'HAGE On August 29, I was tuned in to Sandy McCutcheon's Australia Talks ...

  20. Sri Lanka's war on Tamils: the unknown genocide

    Washington's "war on terror" prism, with the LTTE being listed by the US and the European Union as ... in its 26-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed group fighting for ... reported on March 3 that 200,000 civilians were "living under desperate conditions". ...

  21. IRAQ: A war based on lies

    no justification for attacking Iraq in the "war on terrorism" and that their main aim was ... chemical and biological weapons programs. No case for war On July 23, Ritter said: "There is no case ... the region and to what he calls "civilisation", the truth has long been an open secret. On ...

  22. John Pilger: The world war on democracy

    the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s ... the hold on a cargo of fertiliser: bird shit. The weather was rough; everyone was ill; two women ... war on democracy. The heaviest bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan was launched from its vast airstrips, ...

  23. Tariq Ali on Afghanistan: Six years of a war of terror

    Sherry Wolf The US launched its first assault in the "war on terror" in Afghanistan six ... US war on Afghanistan, which a lot of people see as the "good" battle in the "war on ... years ago. Today, the country remains one of the poorest places on Earth, ruled by a corrupt warlord ...

  24. Pakistan: Opportunism behind Imran Khan’s anti-Americanism

    β€œanti-imperialism” is based on repression of women, religious minorities, trade unions, peasant organisations and all ... Asia & the Pacific Elections Imperialism & war Farooq Tariq Lahore Suddenly, Imran Khan ... which has been trending on Twitter since April 3, when he lost power. Since his election as Prime ...

  25. New stage in Israel's war on Palestine

    Hotovely, called for a renewed war of annihilation on Hamas and a policy of targeted assassinations directed ... Imperialism & war Anti-racism International solidarity Democracy Middle East National ... led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, predictably seized on the boys' disappearance and death ...

Pages