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  1. Afghanistan quagmire: pull the troops out

    Imperialism & war Sydney Stop the War coalition released the statement below on May 26. ... squandered on this war 鈥 money that could be spent on education and medical institutions, among other ... * * * The death of Sergeant Brett Wood in Afghanistan on May 24 should trigger a radical rethink of this ...

  2. Report: Poverty worsens maternal health

    Women in Afghanistan (RAWA), despite US$300 million spent daily on war in Afghanistan and the more than ... babies and mothers than any war or natural disaster. Agencies like Amnesty and the UNFPA working on the ... which, using a wide range of statistics from 164 countries, ranks the best and worst places on earth to ...

  3. Britain: Austerity, cuts worsen crisis

    Prentis said: 鈥淎s public sector job losses gather pace, the number of women out of work will keep on ... World War Two have been wiped out. 鈥淭hat trend is set to continue and worsen.鈥 Guardian.co.uk said on ... cuts, is intensifying the effects of the crisis on the British people. Austerity measures are worsening ...

  4. Sydney Writers' Festival allows needed stories to be told

    where the audience could ask questions from the floor or via Twitter. On the panel were Samah Hadid, ... move on, there remains an ongoing revolutionary process unfolding in Egypt and the region. Summing up ... women in the uprisings. Who's Afraid of WikiLeaks? Barbara Gunnell, Guy Rundle, Robert Manne, ...

  5. Egypt: 'The revolution must go to Palestine'

    classmates in downtown Cairo for the Third Palestine Intifada rally on May 15. The day marks al-Nakba ... occupation. The first round of demonstrations were on May 13 outside the Israeli Embassy, where warning shots ... up, we will never stop fighting, we will never die until Palestine is free!鈥 Men, women and children ...

  6. John Paul II: patron saint of anti-modernism

    drew 1.5 million of the devout to Rome on May 1 for the beatification ceremony of Karol Wojtyla, Pope ... canonisation of Pius XII, who was pope during World War II. While attention has been drawn to John Paul II鈥檚 ... woeful record on the issue of sexual abuse within the church, little has been said about the reasons for ...