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  1. Islamic State gives West excuse for war

    At some point the US-led β€œWar on ISIS” will involve serious action against IS. However, both have ... Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Tony Iltis β€œThings are looking positive and ... the wind is with us,” Major General Craig Orme, commander of Australian forces in the latest war in ...

  2. Tony Abbott hopes war can save his job

    eventually succeeded in creating a new, but fragile state. But the tactic of relying on a religious civil war ... Imperialism & war National liberation Democracy Tony Iltis Iraq Kurdistan Workers' Party ... attacks on the living standards of ordinary people and Abbott's incompetence has made his government ...

  3. Britain: It is a war between the majority of MPs and the majority of Labour Party members

    Tony Blair's illegal war on Iraq in 2003. β€œThe Blairite approach does not bring the party success ... Imperialism & war Socialism Anti-racism Economy left unity Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party (UK) ... Brexit Kate Hudson β€œIt is a war between the majority of [Labour] MPs and the overwhelming majority of ...

  4. The dogs of war

    By Peter Montague Somewhere between 2.6 and 3.8 million US men and women served in Vietnam during ... were sent to Okinawa after the war. These studies showed that dogs which served in Vietnam were 1.8 ... cancer in men and women was similarly correlated with residence in industrialised areas. "The ...

  5. Howard, Rudd escalate support for US-led Afghan war

    and prepared for by the Australian public", PM John Howard announced on April 10 that an ... "increased reliance on air power has led to thousands of civilian deaths. The devastating air offenses are ... has had to publicly condemn them. On March 5, for example, Reuters reported that Karzai ...

  6. John Pilger: The celebration and justification of war

    of them. On cue, this was followed by an item that a war memorial in Sydney had been β€œdefaced by men ... Imperialism & war John Pilger British elections Staring at the vast military history section ... illicit devotion to the cult of organised killing. There was nothing I recognised from reporting war ...

  7. WORLD: Another huge wave of anti-war protests

    February 14-16, the largest mobilisations took place in Europe. The anti-war actions kicked off on March 14 ... leave their schools and workplaces on the day war begins and assemble for a mass demonstration outside ... parliament at 5pm. An even bigger demonstration will be held on the Saturday following the start of war ...

  8. US-led war can only worsen Middle East violence

    declaring a new war β€” or at least a new phase in an old one: the decade-old β€œwar on terror”. This war will ... justified their post-September 11 β€œwar on terror” as a part of a β€œclash of civilisations” between the West ... administration exploited the opportunity to launch a β€œwar on terror” with targets that went far beyond al-Qaeda. ...

  9. Venezuela: Chavez denounces war threat as unions organise

    revolutionary students, workers, women, everyone ready to defend this sacred homeland". Chavez said on his ... could dedicate ourselves to anything other than war." Colombia and the US signed a deal on October ... James Suggett Sarah Ausburn Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared on November 8 that his ...

  10. John Pilger: Howard whips up pro-war paranoia

    A vivid example of this is Australia's current role in the "war on terror". Recently, the ... legislation that gives its police force totalitarian powers in the "war on terror". The great ... Howard has issued full-page advertisements calling on Australians to protect their "friendly, decent ...

  11. Subcomandante Marcos: Capitalism's 'new war of conquest'

    Federico Fuentes Launching the second phase of La Otra Campana (The Other Campaign) on March 25, ... "the current stage of capitalism" as a "new war of conquest". He argued that ... "another world is possible, but only on top of the corpse of capitalism, the dominant system". The ...

  12. For safe, affordable abortion on demand

    the right to choose signal a war on women in Australia. The women’s movement has concerned itself with ... on is slowing the staggering rates of women killed by violence (the number rose as I was writing this ... demand. Capitalism relies on gendered oppression. The perpetuation of women as the carers and bearers of ...

  13. Ariel Sharon's many war crimes

    Imperialism & war Democracy Middle East National liberation Steven Katsineris War criminal and ... former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, who died on January 11, led an infamous Israeli army terror ... casualties on its inhabitants. The village had been reduced to rubble: forty-five houses had been blown up ...

  14. Israel's wars: Mounting humanitarian and environmental toll

    1991 Gulf War on Iraq had disastrous consequences for the Iraqi people, particularly children. DU ... war. Rokke told PrisonPlanet.com's Alan Jones Show that DU will impact on the whole region: ... water supply and impacted on the sewerage system. A July 3 statement by Friends of the Earth Palestine ...

  15. Howard's war with refugees, by John Pilger

    On the Beach in Melbourne, about the nuclear apocalypse. Asked what she thought of Australia, she ... great and good, Sydney's traffic lights were fixed on green for the motorcade of the International ... currently against desperate refugees. There is a terrible irony at work here. Last October, as the "war ...

  16. WORLD: Largest coordinated anti-war protest in history

    BY NORM DIXON People throughout the world have thronged to anti-war demonstrations on February ... place in countries whose governments have defied the overwhelming public opposition to war. On February ... Iraq Β— despite polls showing that 70% oppose even a UN-endorsed war on Iraq in these countries. At ...

  17. Australians protest Iraq war

    march on March 17 that began at Sydney Town Hall. Demanding an end to the US-led war in Iraq, the ... protests". While the numbers were down on some previous anti-war protests in Sydney, all speakers pointed out ... Home" T-shirts, heard Maha and Mamdouh Habib recount their personal experience of the "war on ...

  18. Almost 1 million Australians march against war

    BY ARUN PRADHAN MELBOURNE Β— Kicking off a weekend of massive international protest against war on ... Iraq, nearly one in 50 Australians attended an anti-war protests on February 14-16. The weekend began ... of Melbourne on February 14. The sea of people brought the CBD to a standstill and sent a clear ...

  19. The Afghan war β€” unjust and unwinnable

    future." It is unsurprising that increasing mainstream commentary on the Afghan war has centred on ... very presence provokes violence. On July 18, this unwinnable and unjust war claimed the life of Private ... deadliest month for occupying troops since the war began, ABC radio's AM said on July 21. A July 23 ...

  20. UNITED STATES: Workers organise against war

    questioning or outright opposition to the war on the part of trade unionists. That is because of the ... asserted that debate on the war was needed and that evidence of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass ... BY DIANNE FEELEY DETROIT β€” On January 11, a meeting of more than 100 officers of US trade unions ...

  21. War abroad and class peace at home

    Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape By Ken S. Inglis Melbourne University ... Press, 1998 522 pp., $49.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon On Anzac Day each year, the air hums and whines ... that flew at Gallipoli. And just as the ammunition of war destroyed human flesh, so the incantations of ...

  22. Sri Lanka: Genocidal war won't bring peace

    of Tamil women. The UN said yesterday that it did not know how many have died in the camps." On ... said on May 20 that Ban had also supported threats by the European Union of a possible war crimes ... casts Prabhakaran as a "war on terror" villain β€” mentor to Hamas and al-Qaeda. However, the ...

  23. NEW ZEALAND: Anti-war movement tells Labour: 'Get off the fence!'

    affairs spokesperson Keith Locke condemned any war on Iraq, regardless of whether it is US or UN-led. The ... is already very much complicit in the war that has been going on for over 10 years. A NZ warship ... anti-war position, including calling on unions to support anti-war activity. Only three unions remain ...

  24. Sri Lanka: Tamil oppression worsens despite war's end

    war on the Tamil people killed more than 30,000 Tamils this year. This occurred after the government ... removed international witnesses. "Genocide" is defined by the United Nations Convention on the ... and Import Bank of China. Slaughter of Tamils The full-scale war against the Tamil people that ended ...

  25. Western Sahara: Africa’s oldest conflict reignites

    of the most peaceful communities on Earth, there is graffiti saying β€œwe want war”. Initially, there ... Africa Imperialism & war International solidarity National liberation Tony Iltis Polisario ... ceasefire that has existed between pro-independence forces and Moroccan occupation forces since 1991 on ...

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