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  1. Unjust, unwinnable: Troops must leave Afghanistan!

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis Prime Minister Julia Gillard has claimed successes for the war in ... on June 6 of 23-year-old Sapper Rowan Robinson, the fourth Australian combat death in Afghanistan in ... Afghanistan occupation for several years. On June 4, ABC News said the latest opinion polls put the opposition ...

  2. United States: John Pilger film and visit banned

    a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and ... Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger ZCommunications received the following open letter ... media, 'The War You Don't See', and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan ...

  3. Pro-pokie campaign not worth a punt

    un-Australian. So naturally I went home and investigated the matter, ready to go off to war against those evil ... assault on society. What is actually being proposed is not a 1984-style assault on our civil liberties. ... no one is trying to stop me putting a tenner on the Bulldogs for the footy on Saturdays (although the ...

  4. Koestler — from anti-Stalinist to pro-capitalist

    against Franco's fascists in the Spanish civil war; as a Jew, he escaped from the Gestapo in France ... 1970s books on parapsychology. Michael Scammell's biography of Koestler explores a man born in ... the German Communist Party as a writer and polemicist. He waxed lyrical on turbines and tractors ...