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  1. 'War on terror' cloaks rights abuses

    Israel are using the "war on terror" to justify abusive military campaigns and crackdowns on ... limits on civil rights, severely discriminates against women and systematically suppresses dissent. Yet ... the excuse for attacks on human rights and civil liberties by governments around the world, Human ...

  2. Martha Gellhorn: more than a war reporter

    and took an unauthorised flight to Naples to report on the war in Italy. Aside from her military ... adventures, Gellhorn's journalism delved into the social and political aspects of the war, reporting on ... . While the US was spending US$2 billion a month on the war and dropping more bombs on Vietnam than were ...

  3. The anti-corporate movement: the next steps in Australia

    BY PETER BOYLE Progressive movements worldwide are under pressure from the US-led "war on ... re-election, brazenly pursuing its widely condemned war against refugees and launching a new attack on civil ... May 1 must be a show of global solidarity — against the corporate rulers' war on the Third World, ...

  4. What really happened in Somalia

    meeting, Hollywood heads "committed themselves to new initiatives in support of the war on ... by the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) anti-war coalition. In his review of Black Hawk ... a pack of snarling dark-skinned beasts — it reeks of glumly staged racism". On December 12, 1992, ...

  5. Same people, different hats

    Afghanistan are deceptive", Zaher said. "Putting two women in the cabinet, allowing music — these ... changed very little. Power is still based on race or clan, the law is still based on Islamic ... blood for 22 years. The war in Afghanistan hasn't stopped, its continuation is in the best ...

  6. National protest against abuse of refugees

    Association of Australia); Women Against War and Racism; Dorothy Buckland-Fuller (Women's International ... BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — With the Coalition government on the back foot over its refugee ... policies, activists from around Australia are planning to converge on Parliament House on February 12 to ...