Doug Lorimer

  • IRAQ: US seeks UN approval for occupation regime

    On May 9, the United States presented a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for the lifting of 12-year-old economic sanctions on Iraq. It would give Washington control over the Iraq's oil revenues and proposes the

  • KOREA: Seoul, Tokyo fund nuclear plant in North Korea

    Despite their joining the US campaign claiming that Pyongyang is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, both the Japanese and South Korean governments continue to fund the construction of a nuclear power plant in North Korea.

  • CUBA: Castro defends crackdown against US provocations

    Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡ Revolution Square on May Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the US government was seeking to provoke a crisis with Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style

  • Pilger wins Sophie Prize

    Renowned Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger has been awarded the 2003 Sophie Prize, one of the world's most generous environment and development prizes, for his work in helping the public to examine the real causes of

  • Greens criticise Labor on conscience vote

    SYDNEY — On May 8, NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon criticised NSW Labor Premier Bob Carr for his insistence that the state's parliamentarians vote on age of consent laws according to their personal views, rather than their party's

  • IRAQ: US military victory turning into political debacle

    Washington's quick and apparently easy military defeat of Iraq's Baathist regime is threatening to turn into a political debacle, exacerbating the very problems the US rulers hoped it would decisively help to overcome. The US

  • EUROPEAN UNION: Tensions with US sharpen over Iraq

    The US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought to surface the conflict that has been immanent between the US capitalist rulers and their French and German rivals since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold

  • AFGHANISTAN: US troops still fighting Taliban

    BY RUPEN SAVOULIAN& DOUG LORIMER While the world's attention is focused on Iraq, the US-led war in Afghanistan is still raging. US and British elite troops are battling Afghan guerrillas, making a mockery of Washington's claim that its military

  • IRAQ: Oil and the Bush plan for global domination

    While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops

  • SYRIA: What's behind US threats?

    After several weeks of accusations from the White House and the Pentagon against the Syrian government of President Bashar al Assad — ominously similar to those used by Washington to justify its invasion of Iraq — on April 17 US

  • IRAQ: Battle to plunder oil resources begins

    “Already, the international battle for Iraq's oil resources is taking shape, as the rhetoric over who will administer post-war Iraq intensifies”, the US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on April 8.

  • Kazak criticises Australian media

    CANBERRA — The head of the Palestinian Authority delegation to Australia, Ali Kazak, issued a statement on April 6 criticising Australian and other Western media for their uncritical reporting and interviewing of Australian,