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Colombia: A US-backed terror state
David T. Rowlands By waging a brutal war against its own population on behalf of transnational ... violence against women said attacks on Colombian women are widespread, systematic and often go unpunished. ... contributes directly to the mass displacement of peasants. Nominally a tactic of the "War on Drugs", ...
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A comic of the tragedy of working life
a semi-professional music hall family, Hancock got hooked early on the thrill of making people laugh. He served his ... Alan Simpson. They combined to produce his greatest achievement, Hancock's Half Hour, on radio and ... poverty and rationing after the war, and was a rebuttal to the Tory Prime Minister, Harold ...
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Philippines: Massacre shows why political system must change
On November 23, 57 people were massacred in the Filipino Magnindanao province by the ruling ... Ampatuan clan that governs it. Many of those killed were journalists. On November 27, the primary suspect ... said: "The victims were in a convoy on their way to file the candidacy of Datu Unsay Vice-Mayor ...
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Merak Tamil refugees warn of deportation threat
seekers in the Indonesian port of Merak. The rally recognised that without those on board the boat at ... "Indonesian solution". Rally participants wrote messages of support for the refugees on a giant calico ... in Perth on December 5. On December 2, messages came from the asylum seekers in port at Merak that ...
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Sri Lanka's Tamils let down by Cuba and ALBA
since 1983 until its defeat on May 19, 2009. During the last year of war the Sri Lankan government ... law on both sides of the civil war: "For its part, the Government reportedly used heavy artillery ... our America) — on May 27, when signing a UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution praising the ...
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Rudd in power: two years of broken promises
detention of refugees — including women and children. With zombie-like determination, the government broke ... Generations, his hated Work Choices anti-union laws, his determination to support the brutal wars in Iraq and ... years on, industrial action outside a bargaining period remains illegal. Laws that discriminate against ...