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1. Pakistan: New drone killings deepen instability

   people on July 16. It brought the number of people killed by US drones in North Waziristan since June 12 ... evidence to the contrary reaches the international media. Before June 12, there had been a six-month ... pretext of combating terrorism, this law allows for detention for two months without having to appear ...

2. IRAQ: Outside extremists bring death and destruction

   Earth, said to be spending up to $5 billion a month on its occupation of Iraq, apparently can not find ... warfare against the people of Iraq. They became, in my view, genocidal in their impact over the years, and ... BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — The "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. ...

3. John Pilger: Cambodia's holocaust remembered, 30 years on

   winner of the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize. Pilger broke the story of the Khmer Rouge genocide in 1979. His ... over Cambodia, what we saw silenced all of us on board. There appeared to be nobody, no movement, not ... even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had stopped at the border. Whole villages were ...

4. Rwandan rebels oppose French invasion

   international relations for Asia and Africa, Dr Ben Rugangazi, said that France was an ally of the genocidal ... the other hand, have singled out for genocide the Tutsi people as well as people of all ethnic groups ... By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — The Rwandan Patriotic Front, on the verge of taking power in the ...

5. John Pilger: Australia's role in the Balibo killings

   John Pilger John Pilger It is a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal ... occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and ... independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian dictatorship followed, adding to a toll of ...

6. Confronting the crisis: 'Yes we can!'

   disaster", Peter Marshall, the national secretary of the United Firefighters Union, wrote in the February 12 ... this Titanic around. The 20th century was the century of genocide, with death camps, ethnic cleansing, ... car plants of the whole country to produce war materials within three months. Can we do the same thing ...

7. John Pilger: How Thatcher helped Pol Pot

   block". Khieu Samphan, Pol Pot's prime minister during the years of genocide, took the salute of UN ... was the support her government gave in the 1980s to the genocidal Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge. Below is an ... the calendar of fanaticism, this was Year Zero; as many as two million people, a fifth of ...

8. Ukraine: Outside powers exploiting ethnic nationalisms

   new Ukrainian government. When Yanukovich fled after failing to crush two months of anti-government ... mixed with memories of the genocidal forced collectivisation of agriculture and other atrocities by the ... Today, they are about 12% of the population of Crimea and the Crimean Tatar population in Crimea now ...

9. The other, human-made tsunami

   and people suffered a collective trauma few could explain. Yet, for nine months after the collapse of ... of this human-made tsunami reaches 13-18 million child deaths every year; or 12 million children ... tsunami victims than the cost of a stealth bomber or a week's bloody occupation of Iraq. The bill for ...

10. The real bio-terrorists are in Washington

    first smallpox-laced blankets were given to Native Americans as part of a genocidal land-grab. Poison ... for 12% of its total artillery use, double that of Germany. Revulsion against the slaughter and ... an anthrax outbreak there during the final months of the brutal, US-backed white minority ...

11. Washington's hand seen in Ocalan's abduction

    Turkey's population of about 60 million, with more than 12 million living in the south-east near the border ... can be no humane explanation for genocidal attacks on cultures and freedoms of peoples... I am opposed ... By Norm Dixon The brazen February 15 abduction of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya by ...

12. SUDAN: Darfur's 'human-made' disaster

    are perhaps 1.2 million internally displaced persons and upwards of 200,000 refugees in Chad as ... months. These factors led to the formation of two resistance movements, the Sudanese Liberation ... "genocide" for fear of triggering their obligations under international treaties. In early July, US secretary ...

13. Bosnia: who are the guilty parties?

    are mixed, i.e. 1.2 million people are families of mixed faiths. Where should they live Mr ... World war II, is the main force responsible for the genocide in Bosnia. Its constant shelling of ... of repression and hysteria, only 24% of young men obeyed conscription orders in 1992 — only 12% in ...

14. IRAQ: Bush, Blair, Howard and the Downing Street memo

    from the Baghdad high school she taught at when a convoy of soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division ... opened fire on her car. Her death was the end result of a decision by the US, British and Australian ... publication of the "Downing Street memo" in Britain's Sunday Times on May 1, the motives behind ...

15. SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki's AIDS stance slammed

    5000 babies a month from being infected with HIV yet there is no treatment for the 25% of ... Durban city hall to demand equitable access to HIV/AIDS treatment. The march preceded the opening of the ... 13th International AIDS Conference, held here on July 14-19. The excited group of nuns, drag queens, ...

16. Bosnia: lift the arms embargo now!

    The seizure of Srebrenica on July 12 by the Bosnian Serb army with the massacres, rapes and expulsion ... airlift into Sarajevo, now in its third year of siege, has been suspended for three months after Serbs ... have done this many times. That which is going on is genocide." These words, by Dutch economic ...

17. SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki's neoliberal blueprint for Africa

    mother-to-child-transmission of HIV. And in a major speech at Fort Hare University on October 12, he revealed a perverse ... tsar Horst Koehler a few months earlier. Thanks to work by a coauthor of South Africa's own ...

18. How Trump won and the struggle ahead

    of slavery, genocide and imperial conquest, Trump followed the path of other right-wing populists. He ... which the ISO publishes. *** 1. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States is ... a shocking and dangerous turn of events — not only for the US, but for the entire world. It represents the ...

19. John Pilger: 'Success need not be a dream'

    attack, in our name, a country already crushed by more than 12 years of an embargo aimed mostly at the ... BY JOHN PILGER How have we got to the point where a handful of Western governments take us into an ... threat: an act of aggression opposed by almost everybody and whose charade is transparent? How can they ...

20. East Timor: 'We don't want Australian troops'

    Within a month of Australian troops landing in 1999, Australian companies began operating three oil ... over 200,000 Timorese lives (over a third of the population), Australia's support for this ... genocidal occupation was predicated on a policy outlined in the infamous "Woolcott telegram": that ...

21. 'You stole our land, you stole our rights and we won't celebrate invasion day'

    beginning of a brutal invasion and genocide carried out against the original inhabitants. For decades, ... any compensation scheme. On February 13, it will be 12 months since Rudd made the moving apology to ... Simon Butler Members of Tasmania’s Aboriginal community didn’t mince their words about how they ...

22. BRITAIN: Not in our name!

    resigned and he, too, called the embargo an act of genocide. Three years ago, 70 members of the US Congress ... BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — If Tony Blair uses the royal prerogative, "the absolute power of ... speech in September 1938, on the eve of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. "I know quite well", he ...

23. Abbott's Syria war will create more refugees

    bombing the country. He also announced plans to accept a further 12,000 Syrian refugees on top of his ... month with his usual rhetoric of “national security” — maintaining, contrary to evidence, that ISIS ... Tony Abbott announced on September 9 a novel approach to stemming the flow of refugees from Syria: ...

24. Can Africa survive Obama's advisors?

    resulted in the deaths of half a million young children — and in just a 12-month period." A few blocks ... gained infamy in 1991 as an advocate of African genocide and environmental racism, thanks to ... Patrick Bond Durban One of US president-elect Barack Obama's leading advisers has done more ...

25. Olympics show sport is political

    sight of the Union Jack and what that flag has done in the past, the genocide, the rape, and the murder ... the last 12 months, including twice before the Chinese Olympic Trials in 2012”. Just as Smith and ... without parallel. The Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics was watched by close to 1 billion people. ...

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