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  1. Martha Gellhorn: more than a war reporter

    and took an unauthorised flight to Naples to report on the war in Italy. Aside from her military ... adventures, Gellhorn's journalism delved into the social and political aspects of the war, reporting on ... . While the US was spending US$2 billion a month on the war and dropping more bombs on Vietnam than were ...

  2. On the box

    On the box The Disorderly House of Windsor — Finally, a documentary that sees further than Prince ... strikes of 1934, World War II, the McCarthy era and the period of industrial automation. It even ... September 21. Frontline — The all too realistic farce on the world of "current affairs journalism" ...

  3. War is not a video game

    Jarhead, the movie, which draws heavily on the war movies of Vietnam. Jarhead follows Anthony Swofford ... Acquisition Platoon (snipers). The platoon is deployed to Kuwait in the first war on Iraq, Operation Desert ... of thousands dead and injured in the continuing war on Iraq, the stakes are too high for anti-war ...

  4. DSP prioritises left unity and building anti-war movement

    delegates or office-bearers. Congress delegates discussed the Bush administration's plans for war on ... administration's War On Terror. Lee Jong-hoi, general secretary of the Power of the Working Class in South Korea, ... movement in opposition to the US-led war against Iraq were the two main priorities set for the coming year ...

  5. On the box

    of traditional dance, song, art and ceremony on their lands. SBS, Friday, January 30, 6pm. Women ... Abortion Ship — Rebecca Gomperts is a Dutch abortion doctor, the founder of Women on Waves, an activist ... On the box Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ...

  6. Judy Davis: 'We do not support your war'

    Iraqi army on the road from Kuwait to Basra in Iraq. The war had been won, Saddam Hussein had announced ... discourse. War is, of course, the ultimate failure in communication, but the West has long believed it has ... had the edge on civility. We can no longer take comfort in this fantasy. Those who support Prime ...

  7. Socialist responses to capitalism’s first world war still resonate

    strongly today. The run-up to war began on June 28, 1914, when Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Hapsburg throne ... destroyed Serbian independence. Serbia rejected these demands, and Austria declared war on July 28. Over the ... out of the war the next year. Starting in August 1918, the Entente armies began a sustained advance on ...

  8. Stop work to stop the war!

    Washington's impending war on Iraq. The huge size of the anti-war protests, and the fact that the big majority ... anti-war activists with detailed information on train movements. Italian dockworkers also committed ... anti-war demonstration called by CGIL on that day in Milan. At its March 6-7 meeting in Athens, the ...

  9. Australia's war for mining company profits

    the war. Bougainville is not dependent on the mine: the people can survive without it, Crofts insists. ... By Frank Enright Australia is at war. In fact, it has been for five years, only it hasn't ... been declared to the people of Australia. The "enemy" are the indigenous people on the small ...

  10. Bougainville: Rio Tinto faces war crimes allegations in bid to reopen mine

    which took up to 20,000 lives on an island of 175,000 people. The war crimes committed by government ... Reuters reported on February 7. Situated on Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) eastern border with the Solomon ... traditional landowners who objected to the mine’s environmental and social effects. A bloody civil war ensued, ...

  11. Pine Gap trial resorts to Cold-War law

    Gap for terrorist activity began on October 4. Jim Dowling, Adele Goldie, Bryan Law (Cairns) and Donna ... permission to invoke the Cold War-era DSU law. Retired federal court judge Ron Merkel QC, who is heading ... a legal team for the four, will question the Commonwealth's right to use the act. On October 5, CAAT ...

  12. PHILIPPINES: Thousands protest war, globalisation

    by radical forces against the government of President Gloria Makapagal Arroyo and the US "war on ... struggle in the southern Mindanao province and a cessation of the US "war on terrorism". Mass ... affiliated garment unions with 90% women members. Political organisations such as the SPP (Socialist Party of ...

  13. Anti-war vet speaks out: Getting to the bottom of it

    offers a war veterans take on the debate around the US military's torture of Iraqi prisoners. One ... was. These young men and women are products of a military that gave them a one-hour class on the Geneva ... that none of the prisoners on C-Block had signed a contract to be where they were. It wasn't ...

  14. PALESTINE: Israel escalates brutal war

    into releasing Palestinian children and women languishing in Israeli jails, mostly on concocted charges ... Rohan Pearce Following Israel's missile attack on the office of Palestinian Prime Minister ... Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City on July 2, the Israeli military issued a statement claiming it was intended ...

  15. Greece: Open war against the majority in favour of the rich

    persistent struggle. It culminated on March 26, when four women cleaners were bashed so badly they were ... Violence against minority groups and women has reached unprecedented heights ― on top of the fact these ... majority, on March 30. The bill contained three articles, which seem to give the final blow to the remaining ...

  16. UNITED STATES: Pentagon conscripts soldiers for Iraq war

    become to ensure it has adequate cannon fodder to implement the imperial plans of the "war on ... Rohan Pearce On January 6, the US Army's news service reported that the defence department ... "unit cohesion". The December 29 Washington Post reported that on these soldiers' ...

  17. March 5 student strike: 'activating society' against the war

    future." She informed GLW that the anti-war collective on her campus is holding meetings of more than 30 ... Griffith University, and that a number of anti-war groups have recently sprung up on high schools, ... March 5, coming out to hear the real facts behind a war on Iraq, and learning how much power we have ...

  18. Wikileaks proves: Afghan war unjust and unwinnable

    must be defended The war on Afghanistan: a crime against humanity How the CIA created Osama bin Laden ... Imperialism & war Ash Pemberton Wikileaks “If the people keep identifying democracy as ... the Wikileaks website on July 26. Before publication, the files were shared with journalists from the ...

  19. UNITED STATES: Corporate media hid US war's likely impact

    war will have on the people of Iraq. The closest thing to a report on the likely humanitarian disaster ... Prior to the war against Iraq, Americans heard very little from the corporate media about the most ... basic fact of war: people will be killed and civilian infrastructure will be destroyed, with devastating ...

  20. United States: Black Lives Matters stands with #EndSARS movement in Nigeria

    Africa Anti-racism Imperialism & war North America Malik Miah Black Lives Matter #ENDSARS ... protests against state violence. More than 69 civilians were shot dead on October 20–21. Twelve people were ... to condemn the assault on the peaceful march. “Opening fire on peaceful protesters is a blatant ...

  21. British Labour's 'class war' against the poor

    REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous By Nick Cohen ... of New Labour's enlistment in the class war against the poor drawn by Nick Cohen, ... — a fresh source of profits — is the only one that counts. If Cohen doesn't offer any ideas on what to ...

  22. 'We want a world without war'

    BY SUE JOHNSON George Bush and Tony Blair's war on terrorism is totally hypocritical. The ... to play it hard, and, more recently, to go strong on supporting the US war. For the last six years ... parties. An obsession with war and with fighting imaginary threats from Iraqi women and children are not ...

  23. Libya: Support for war fraying

    — 33 children, 32 women and 20 men, from 12 families, AFP said on August 10. An August 11 statement ... Imperialism & war Democracy Tony Iltis Botswana has become the latest country to follow the ... on August 12. Meanwhile, the August 12 British Telegraph reported that Gaddafi’s regime in Tripoli ...

  24. Abbott's Syria war will create more refugees

    Refugees & migrants Imperialism & war Anti-racism Tony Iltis Australian Prime Minister ... Tony Abbott announced on September 9 a novel approach to stemming the flow of refugees from Syria: ... bombing the country. He also announced plans to accept a further 12,000 Syrian refugees on top of his ...

  25. ACEH: Setbacks for Indonesia's war

    crush the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and its supporters, the Indonesian military (TNI) on June 9 lost ... casualties the TNI has suffered in a single incident since martial law was declared on May 19. Six other ... On June 9, the TNI announced plans to build a prison on Nasi Island, about 15 kilometres from the ...

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