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  1. A rousing witness to injustice

    Gulf War in 1991 (still on-going through sanctions against Iraq) demonstrate Pilger's humanity and ... repayment". American war and blockade on Vietnam, for example, has opened the door to the economic plunderers ... Distant Voices, John Pilger is once again on a mission to "rescue from media oblivion uncomfortable ...

  2. Hiroshima Day commemorated

    By Tom Kelly The 49th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb on the Japanese city of ... Hiroshima was commemorated in a number of Australian cities on August 6. The occasion served to highlight ... on behalf of Brisbane's Murri community, spoke about the crimes committed against the ...

  3. The struggle for peace in Guatemala

    their war-ravaged country. The mass movements of the early 1970s grew from agricultural worker's ... to organise on the big plantations or fincas. In 1972, peasants' daily wage was 90 centavos, ... seasonally, during harvest time, and spent the other nine months on their own small plots in the mountains. It ...