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  1. Taliban assault exposes failing, unpopular war

    Imperialism & war Ash Pemberton A 20-hour assault on the US embassy in Kabul by Taliban ... a woman, a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey said on June 15. The survey said Afghan women had almost zero ... fighters on September 14 has exposed further weaknesses in the already-crumbling facade of the United ...

  2. Wikileaks proves: Afghan war unjust and unwinnable

    must be defended The war on Afghanistan: a crime against humanity How the CIA created Osama bin Laden ... Imperialism & war Ash Pemberton Wikileaks 鈥淚f the people keep identifying democracy as ... the Wikileaks website on July 26. Before publication, the files were shared with journalists from the ...

  3. Bernardi calls for burqa ban

    security concerns about not being able to see women's faces, playing on the racist stereotype that ... on terror鈥 began, in an effort to justify imperialist invasion and paint the victims of this war as ... workers' rights and giving women full control of their own bodies. This attack on the burqa should be ...

  4. WikiLeaks vs News Ltd: Jail Murdoch, not Assange

    Democracy Imperialism & war Ash Pemberton When it comes to comparing the cases of two ... be the 鈥渄ecent and sensible thing鈥 to do, DailyRecord.co.uk said on July 12. The bid was withdrawn on ... journalist Antony Loewenstein told Al Jazeera on July 8: 鈥淐learly the problem is not so much the staff that ...

  5. Assange: 鈥楪illard must bring me home鈥

    the Washington Post said on February 8. Ny was accused of being an overzealous women鈥檚 rights crusader ... Democracy Ash Pemberton Wikileaks US investigators have admitted their efforts to find grounds on ... Journal said on February 9. The admission came as Assange faced an extradition hearing in London on ...

  6. Anti-WikiLeaks campaign undermines anti-rape campaigns

    who said on August 18: 鈥淓ven taken at its worst, if the allegations made by these two women were true, ... been corrupted. On the one hand, the names of the women have been circulated on the internet; they have ... indictment against Assange. Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador on August 16 after staying in ...

  7. Assange, Manning: Media stoops to personal attacks

    pressure on July 13 and published the full version of the internet chat logs between Manning and Adrian ... Lamo, the person who informed on Manning to the FBI. Wired published excerpts of the chats last year, ... the logs casts doubt on the US Department of Justice's efforts to prove Assange conspired with ...

  8. 鈥榃e won鈥檛 wait for change鈥

    hypocritical on the question of human rights 鈥 especially the rights of women. The wars it has created are the ... very environment we depend on to survive while war, poverty, racism and oppression dominate the lives ... political topics today. The ugly reality of the 鈥war on terror鈥 was laid bare by Ammar Ali Jan, youth ...

  9. Abandoned by Australia, Assange turns to Ecuador

    2010, after WikiLeaks' release of thousands of secret documents relating to the US's war on ... Assange went to the Ecuadorian embassy in London on June 19 to apply for asylum, after losing his final ... Australian government, saying it had abandoned him. He said on June 21 that he had not met any Australian ...

  10. Superheros or super-villains?

    Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Billy Crudup "Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring ... anything but typical. This film is based on the groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel 鈥 written by Alan Moore ... and drawn by Dave Gibbons 鈥 which turned the superhero genre on its head. It junked the traditional ...

  11. Matty Johns' free ride back to fame

    TV on March 25, with the "family-friendly" Matty Johns Show being hailed ... a "success" by reviewers. Last May, he was suspended from his hosting role on Channel 9's league coverage ... and The Footy Show after allegations were aired on ABC's Four Corners about what is now ...

  12. Israel's siege strangles Gaza

    military in March and April, as the Israeli government talked up the possibility of another war on Gaza. ... confirmed to Embassy officials on multiple occasions that聽 they intend to keep the Gazan economy functioning ... part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed 鈥 on multiple ...