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  1. Good citizens have a lot to answer for

    nothing about, while the young women in their "crowd" are simply hangers-on in the slipstream of ... War II. The social and political tensions of the time are delicately portrayed. The film is ... assimilated. The acknowledgement of the family's being Jewish is forced on them by the anti-Semitism of ...

  2. A false cry

    touches on the question of black man (oppressed race) being part of an occupying army oppressing the ... of women, or perhaps the script writer's, not the IRA's. Further, and worse, her character, ... women activists involved in the armed struggle are even more fanatical and heartless. There is a real ...

  3. Australian media fails Tamils

    abuse of women; disappearances. All things that have regularly blighted Sri Lanka's brutal war ... Stu Harrison The Sri Lankan government's war against the Tamil minority has again exposed the ... standard practice in recent years for mainstream journalists covering a war zone to become ...

  4. John Pilger: Cruelty and xenophobia shame and stir the 'lucky country'

    for renewed militarism and war, as ordained by the Bush administration, and to cover attacks on ... unoriginal, race-obsessed and in thrall to imperial power and its wars. From Britain's 19th century opium ... war-dead Australians had never mourned were found right under their noses- those of a remarkable indigenous ...

  5. The School of Coups

    Salvador throughout its brutal civil war 鈥 all were primary clients of the SOA in their heydays of military ... troops. Instead, soldiers from Latin America and the Caribbean are trained in "dirty little war ... the citizens of El Junquillo. Women are raped before they are murdered, as are children under 12. ...

  6. Iraqi people resist invaders

    surveyed who thought the war was going well dropped from 62% on March 22 to 44% on March 23. Particularly ... anti-war public, denied the use of its territory to US troops to for an invasion of Iraq. On March 25, US ... coalition's air assault on Iraq has been "the most intensive in the history of human wars". On March ...

  7. Uganda 'hoodwinks' world, say opponents

    northern part of Uganda is a fully ravaged war area. NRA soldiers go on the rampage in the villages, raping ... did not extend beyond the Karuma Falls on the Nile River; he subsequently demanded that people ... men, women and children... Soldiers that are known e are sent to rape these people." The military ...

  8. Exhumed bury sharp politics in cryptic lyrics

    for people to get a sense of what's going on with the lyrics and everything. I guess you could ... focused on death, and I've always tried to keep that as the main theme or the main metaphorical tool ... Want to expand on that? Absolutely. Corporate personhood and privately funded elections have basically ...

  9. Who are the Tamil Tigers?

    Chris Slee The Sri Lankan government claims to be on the verge of totally defeating the Liberation ... for an independent state for the Tamil people on the northern and eastern parts of the island. The ... and in July 1983. In these racial holocausts thousands of Tamils, including women and children, were ...

  10. Carlo's Corner: Plastic sword a perfect symbol for fake terror scare

    Murdoch media has said absolutely nothing on the news that the sword they splashed on front covers, ... up this type of hatred, reported on October 10: 鈥淭here have been at least 30 attacks on Muslims ... 鈥 mainly against women wearing the hijab 鈥 in the three weeks since the police anti-terror raids...鈥 The ...

  11. The last refuge of scoundrel Abbott

    daily abuse and violence. Women have been thrown off trains, abused and spat on, mosques and proposals ... demonstrated in her recent opinion piece on the Al-Jazeera news site. 鈥淭he message was unequivocal and ... government was working on measures to strengthen Australia's already draconian and inhumane immigration ...

  12. Gaza's death throes, and no one's listening

    imposes draconian sanctions on another people for democratically electing a government not to its liking? ... electricity and then rains down on the people, bombs and artillery fire? The answer is: no government of ... helped to forcibly expel 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in the 1948 war. Today, we are ...

  13. Pope protest celebrates civil liberties win

    the pope's reactionary policies took place on July 19 against the backdrop of an important civil ... premier John Watkins on June 28, the last sitting day of parliament before WYD and less than one week ... challenge to the government's regulations. In ruling on that challenge, the Federal Court interpreted ...

  14. Venezuela: A chance to see people's power in action

    immense wealth from the oil reserves will not be held hostage to those who wage war on the world to grab ... Each day we are receiving requests for more information on how to sign up to the brigade, not only from ... it. For many, Venezuela is a clear beacon of hope in a world of war and poverty. "The simple idea ...

  15. AFGHANISTAN: The UN offers a fresh hell

    women of 30, white-bearded, dark-turbaned men who from huts of dry twigs look with suspicion and ... astonishment at Westerners. They are a leftover of the last Afghan war, the one we are supposed to believe is ... no longer wants this riff-raff of poor and destitute on its squeaky-clean border. So the United ...

  16. MIFF: world citizen

    the lid on filmmaker Elia Kazan during one of the darkest and most turbulent periods of American ... film, Kandahar, documented one woman's journey through war-ravaged Afghanistan. For his latest ... trails of Afghan refugee children who live in villages on the border between Iran and Afghanistan. Shot ...

  17. The legacy of Malcolm X

    profit system, except as slaves and now as second-class, exploited labour. During World War II a March on ... a Malcolm X cap. John Vanunu, who was Bush's chief of staff, on a TV talk show said, if Malcolm were ... Martin Luther King. The reason Malcolm X is still so important is that, on a fundamental level, things ...

  18. Letter from the US: Elections herald cuts in social wage

    for war. The capitalist class is on an offensive against working people, and part of that offensive is ... Republican Congress are already making noises about working together. What will they be working together on ... won by the working people and the oppressed in past struggles. Since the second world war, the two ...

  19. SPECIAL FEATURE: Revolution and counter-revolution in Afghanistan

    1980, the PDPA government proposed that discussions on ending the war be held with Pakistan and Iran, ... led in 1975, as well as his involvement in acid attacks on unveiled women in Kabul at the same time. ... intra-mujaheddin civil war and its devastating consequences 鈥 including the rise of the Taliban and possibly the ...

  20. Sri Lanka: Tamils seek end to occupation

    settlements to break up the contiguity of Palestinian land in the West Bank. Even though the war between the ... failure of their pay to keep up with inflation, and against attacks on their pension schemes. In June last ... reason for poverty in the south is the huge government spending on the military occupation of the Tamil ...

  21. INDONESIA: Aceh's dual disasters: The tsunami and military rule

    relief aid. Worse, the military is still waging war on the pro-independence Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The ... are mostly in the hills. The war between them has been remarkably perdurable; it has lasted on and off ... a referendum on the region's political future, has called for international mediation in the war through ...

  22. Rudd's policy is racist 鈥 refugees are not illegal

    "safety" of the people on board, including five children and five women, the Australian government put ... coast of Sumatra. An Australian customs ship rescued the 78 asylum seekers from their stricken vessel on ... October 18. But the order from the Australian government was to keep them away from the mainland. On ...

  23. 'I've really lived today': memories of the Vietnam antiwar movement

    The war and the fight against it were important influences on world politics at the time and continue ... I really was caught up in being a housewife then. I was aware of the war in Vietnam going on, because by ... April 30 is the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam. ...

  24. What politics to unite Australia鈥檚 left?

    Socialism Peter Boyle left unity Once again the question of left unity is on the agenda in ... that the far left agrees on much more than it disagrees, but also that historic positions are no ... principles. We want a political organisation that operates on the basis of majority decisions, but where ...

  25. News Briefs

    held at Fremantle's Kulcha Centre on the Iraq war, the US-Australia military alliance and the ... Band banned for politics HOBART 鈥 On August 24, Hobart College band Mr Mukhole played at the ... everything on the planet, just to make a profit. We believe people and environment should become before ...

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