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1. Aboriginal communities resist government attacks

   up for a rally on November 12 to protect remote communities in the face of federal government ... First People our right to live on our land the way we want to live, as a community of people, protecting ... destroyed. Oombulgurri in the East Kimberley is one example that was bulldozed last month. The community was ...

2. SUDAN: Africa's hidden war

   Bertrand Ramcharan on June 3. For months, aid and human rights agencies have warned of the massive ... attempted genocide been allowed to progress so far? Sudan, a country the size of west Europe, is the site of ... Esther Anderson "The scale of the tragedy in Darfur would be difficult to believe if it were ...

3. Xanana Gusmao: fighting for freedom with words

   all kinds of torture and also remind me constantly of the unforgettable 12 November 1991 [Dili ... cemetery massacre]. What did the peaceful demonstration of 12 November want? To remind Jakarta and to ... was found guilty of plotting against the Indonesian state and illegal possession of firearms, and was ...

4. Tamils not safe under Sri Lankan rule

   presence and … there’s no Tamils in the military. “On top of that, there are 12,000 suspected combatants ... April 9, the Australian Labor Party government, then led by Kevin Rudd, imposed a three-month suspension ... of the processing of refugees from Sri Lanka. On July 6, the Labor government of PM Julia Gillard ...

5. Australians welcome refugees in their homes

   scheme to release more refugees from detention. From next month, the Australian Homestay Network, the Red ... they had received about 1300 applications. He said they hoped to house about 200 asylum seekers a month ... instead of Serco?” Private prison operator Serco holds the contract to run all of Australia’s refugee ...

6. 'How many kids have you killed today?'

   babies and children. Five thousand children die every month. Hospitals are "denuded of drugs and ... $1.2 million a throw for each of the 67 cruise missiles he has authorised be fired at Iraq. Texas ... The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice By Geoff Simons Macmillan Press, 1998 ...

7. Sudan: Regime tightens grip amid protests

   meagre wages for several months. The NCP’s method of rule ensured a near unanimous vote in favour of ... accused of intensifying its attacks in Darfur during the past two months, while attention has been focused ... Centre for Justice and Peace reported a series of attacks on the opposition in the first month of 2011. ...

8. IRAQ: Let's destroy this lethal weapon!

   its Iraqi opposition puppets claim that the genocide of the first six years has stopped. They claim ... it to the Iraqi people. The amount paid a month to a family of five is less than the income the UN ... IRAQ: Let's destroy this lethal weapon! August will witness the 10th anniversary of the ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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. ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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 ...

22. 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 ...

23. 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, ...

24. 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 ...

25. 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 ...

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