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Afghan feminist: The 'war on terror' is a war on the Afghan people
read out at the national protests against the Afghanistan war on October 7. I would like to thank ... impunity prevails across Afghanistan for the warlords and drug lords. The "war on terror" is in ... Malalai Joya Outspoken anti-war and democracy campaigner Malalai Joya was suspended from the ...
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War is peace? How Obama could earn his peace prize
the brutal war on Afghanistan, now into its ninth year with no end in sight. This is not simply a war ... regime in George Orwell's 1984 was "war is peace". The Nobel jury appears to have based ... itself on this principle of inverting reality with its decision to grant this year's Nobel Peace ...
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On the box
On the box Transvestite Wives – It is estimated that over 250,000 British men dress in ... women's clothes. This documentary looks at three transvestite relationships through the eyes of their ... Blackfellas – A young white woman steps across the urban divide to find out what it's like to live on the ...
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Hugo Throssell, V.C. — a red Anzac
First World War experience, holding up the "diggers" as models of conservative virtue. They ... welfare — they just got on with the job (supposedly) of defending Australia and the British Empire. During ... Gallipoli and other theatres became anti-war pacifists and/or socialists as a result of their experiences. ...
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Nepal: Maoists prepare for new upsurge
ongoing demonstrations across the country in support of the Maoists, but the right-wing forces held on and ... Katawal was the peace process that ended a decade of civil war between the Maoist-led People's ... activists on how to go forward in its struggle to build a "New Nepal". The UCPN-M has sent more ...
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Steaming along the tracks of revolution
based on Fedor ('Artem') Sergeyev, a Bolshevik who escaped from exile in Siberia after the ... provocateur, and the Queensland police) try to stitch him up on a murder charge. His beatings in Boggo Road ... escaped class warfare. Neither, notes a fiercely anti-war Samsurov, has the existence of a national Labor ...
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Germany: Left makes big gains in poll
SPD's worst result since World War II. An SPD leader said on election night: "We have been bombed ... whom are women. In state elections held on the same day as the federal poll, Die Linke won 27.2% of the ... Die Linke was 11.9% — a 3.2% increase on the 2005 result by the joint electoral ticket of two ...
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NT walk-off: Indigenous community defies racist intervention
whatever cattle station required the cheap labour. Women and children lived on the outskirts of the large ... walk-off camp, three hours north-east of Alice Springs. A statement from the protest camp reads: "On ... stores, and only on food, clothing and medical supplies. Ampilatwatja, part of around 300 square ...