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  1. John Pilger: Why wars are not reported honestly

    Imperialism & war Democracy John Pilger Wikileaks War on Afghanistan (2001鈥2021) In the US ... Following Vietnam, 鈥渆mbedding鈥 journalists became central to war policy on both sides of the Atlantic. With ... Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan ...

  2. Calls for a ban on the burqa help the racists

    stopping, instead of supporting, the 10-year-long war in Afghanistan where women鈥檚 rights are going from bad ... trivialise the war against the people of Afghanistan, which women bear the brunt of. Feminists have fought ... Feminism Anti-racism Pip Hinman Gadigal Country/Sydney I do not support women being forced to wear ...

  3. Fidel Castro on Wikileaks: The empire stands accused

    Imperialism & war Democracy Fidel Castro Havana December 14, 2010-- Julian Assange, a man ... a revolutionary doctrine capable of shaking to its foundations the empire based on plunder and exploitation of the ... about him, apart from the highly publicised accusation of having sexual relations with two women ...

  4. Rallies defend Wikileaks and the 鈥榬ight to know鈥

    Tamil rights Dr Brian Senewiratne; pro-Choice women鈥檚 rights activist member Kathy Newnam; anti-war ... Democracy Imperialism & war Kelly Ryan Wikileaks Gadigal Country/Sydney More than 1000 people ... rallied at Sydney鈥檚 Town Hall at 1pm on December 10 to show their support for Wikileaks and its founder ...

  5. Swan Island 9 charges dismissed

    Imperialism & war A magistrate at the Geelong Magistrates Court dismissed the charges against ... nine peace activists on November 29. The activists had blocked the road to Swan Island Defence Training ... Facility in Queenscliff on June 16. The activists 鈥 Jessica Morrison, Julie Moyle, Trent Hawkins, Mitch ...

  6. Wikileaks rally speech: 'This is about us and them'

    war crimes and the unbridled assault on countries that challenge U.S. domination. And they show the ... [The following speech was delivered at the Sydney rally in defence of Wikileaks on December 14 by ... comment on the rights and wrongs of the case against Assange, because the fact is we don鈥檛 know. This ...

  7. Letters to the editor

    revealed in the excerpts from the Greens鈥 Adam Brandt in his contribution to the debate on the war in ... contributed some way in the 鈥淒ebate鈥 on war farce which Pip Hinman writes more vigorously about elsewhere in ... support and encourages government war policy. They are easily regarded as simply letting the public have ...

  8. Philippines: Regional conference discusses socialist solutions

    Manila over November 27 and 28. The conference, organised on the theme of 鈥淐apitalist Crisis, Socialist ... president Leody de Guzman spoke on a panel on the role of the working class in the struggle for socialism. ... A former UP student president addressed the conference on the struggle of university students against the ...

  9. Sri Lanka: Deported asylum seekers face torture, jail

    Muttur in Trincomalee, the war-hit town in the east. He was one of 254 asylum seekers on the ... Gunesekaram greeted me, as we met in person for the first time. His mother died of a heart attack on September ... all, unless my mother was not greatly ill鈥, he said. However, on arrival Sujendran couldn鈥檛 go straight ...

  10. Local council to boycott Israel

    Middle East Gadigal Country/Sydney On December 14 Marrickville Council adopted a resolution moved ... campaign and report back on any links the Council has with organisations or companies that support or ... links and imposing a boycott on any future such links or goods purchases. 2. Marrickville Council ...