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1. Afghanistan: Why Australia should get out

   in 1992, they turned on each other in a devastating civil war. When the Taliban, who represented the ... cosmetics. Another justification for the occupation is the "war on drugs". This is particularly ... with the US, possibly the only time in history that any government has taken the US "war on ...

2. Western Sahara: ‘We only want our country’

   people carried those who couldn’t walk on their backs. Everyone — the women, the children, the men — went ... maritime resources. Many Saharawi fled to refugee camps on the border with Algeria. However, most of the ... men returned to fight for independence. On February 27, 1976, the Polisario Front declared the ...

3. Pakistan: Flood aid falls short

   undeclared war against Pakistan continues. ABC News reported on August 24 that a US pilotless drone killed 20 ... catastrophe. On August 25, the United Nations reported 120,000 cases of suspected dengue fever and malaria and ... reported on August 25 that US ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson told a conference organised by the US ...

4. Turkey: Erdoğan imprisons parliamentary opposition and silences media

   the democratic and left-wing opposition, independent media and the Kurdish population. On October 25, ... Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were arrested. Free Women’s Congress (KJA) spokesperson Ayla Akat ... administration. At least 2500 members of the DBP have been jailed in the past year. On November 4 arrest warrants ...

5. The great national security swindle

   women fleeing partner and ex-partner violence. “In March, there were 33,933 people on the Victorian ... unpopularity by promising to protect Australians' lives from a serious threat of terrorism. On May 26, he ... liberties. While previous “anti-terror” legislation has focused on inventing new crimes and gutting due ...

6. The Tibetan and Uighur struggles for justice

   the killing in police custody of Uighur businessperson Mutallip Hajim and restrictions on women ... a central feature of imperialist propaganda since the "war on terror", which has replaced the ... protests and riots calling for self-determination that started on March 10, the BBC reported on April 4. ...

7. How anti-terror laws make terrorists

   committing war crimes in Afghanistan. This is hardly a controversial statement. Indeed, on October 13, ... strength to, material and logistical support from Turkey, which is officially an ally in the “war on ... activity On October 12, police cars descended at high speed on a laneway in the western Sydney suburb of ...

8. Afghanistan: Why the puppet seeks distance from master

   increasingly strident attacks on the occupying forces. On April 1, he went as far as to tell a parliamentary ... audience) that explains Karzai's attacks on his backers. Responding to Karzai's remarks about ... accompanied by a surge in statements from Western political and military leaders on the centrality of winning ...

9. Israeli academic condemns ethnic cleansing

   Tony Iltis Israel's war on Gaza, its continued colonisation of the West Bank, and its ... Bank and Gaza in the war of 1967. Reinhart told the meeting, which was organised by Women for ... establishment of Zionist state, Israeli academic Tanya Reinhart told 250-strong meeting in Melbourne on October ...

10. Thousands oppose G20

    mosquitos, he said, adding that if World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz, an architect of the US war on Iraq who was ... meeting on November 18. The rally opposed the neoliberal and militarist agenda of the meeting, which ... protesters clashed with police while attempting to get closer to the meeting. Establishment media seized on ...

11. Afghanistan: US soldier says sorry for occupation's crimes

    them women and children, and on the other side these Taliban and the Northern Alliance terrorists are ... soldier facing prosecution for refusing to be deployed to Iraq on the grounds that the US-led occupation ... US-backed Islamic fundamentalists. Common Dreams said on April 15 that Chiroux, who served in Afghanistan in ...

12. Afghanistan: More chaos and more troops

    invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has also been touted as part of the West's "war on ... Women of Afghanistan reported on the conviction of a man for stealing a sack of flour. "The ... October 2001 invasion. On July 2, US President George Bush announced that US troop numbers in Afghanistan ...

13. East Turkestan: Chinese oppression behind riots

    still often occur. China has used the anti-Muslim racism of the West's "war on terror" to ... Tony Iltis On July 5, hundreds were killed in the East Turkestan capital, Urumqi, after protests ... vigilante attacks by Chinese transmigrants against Uyghurs, US TV network ABC reported on July 8. The July ...

14. US backs Habib’s torturer, but Arab world has changed

    dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak. Women have been on the frontline in the uprisings in Tunisia and ... democratic values (especially women’s rights) in the Middle East is a US priority. However, far from ... leaders merely called on him to make “reforms” and “listen to grievances”. After protesters rejected ...

15. Defying the regime — Iran's people demand change

    popular perception, these gatherings included women in chadors, workers and clerics — not just the ... Neda Salehi Agha Soltan, shot dead by the Basiji state-run militia on June 20, have appeared on ... placards. On June 25, the BBC said opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi used his website to re-assert ...

16. Syria, Yemen uprisings yield different Western responses

    while people are being murdered ― women, children, brave young men ― houses are being destroyed. It is ... just despicable and I ask whose side are they on? They are clearly not on the side of the Syrian ... has cost thousands of lives. On February 21, when Yemen held presidential elections, Clinton released ...

17. Turkey: After failed coup, Erdoğan cracks down

    the Syrian Civil War. The theory has been fuelled by incongruities in the events on the night of the ... a group of military officers calling themselves the “Peace in the Country Council” on July 15, who ... launch one of his own was borne out by scenes on July 16 and following days. Mobs of Erdoğan's ...

18. The 'Anzac Day terror plot' raises new threat of tyranny

    on April 18 to arrest five teenagers for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on Anzac Day. Two were ... held in custody and charged under “anti-terror” laws, one was charged on summons for weapons offences ... on my stomach, I got kicked in the head,” he told the ABC on April 20. “Then [a police officer] ...

19. Repression and hypocrisy in Arab world

    Yemen hundreds of protesters have been killed. Yemen, however, is a “war on terror” ally of the West. ... throughout the country as the US continues to wage its “war on terror”. The April 26 Yemen Times reported ... Democracy Tony Iltis Sixty-two protesters had been killed by Syrian security forces on April 29, ...

20. Britain: Student leader says anti-fee campaign awakens students

    protest over Israel’s war on Gaza] put the tactic back on the political map. People who were involved in ... they spend the money they’re spending on war and bailing out the banks (to the tune of £1.3 trillion) ... Economy Education Tony Iltis Clare Solomon On November 10, tens of thousands of students marched ...

21. Hamas and Palestine's right to exist

    al-Qaeda (or, alternatively, Iranian) led movement to violently impose Islamic law on the world, and ... leadership has become the justification for war crimes. The entire infrastructure of Gaza — hospitals, ... carried out in crowded places using missiles fired from war-planes or predator drones that maximises the ...

22. Pakistan: Workers and peasants resist fundamentalists and elite

    in the "war on terror" is offered by the struggles of ordinary people for democracy and ... Tony Iltis On May 6 and 7, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari was in Washington to exchange ... Nonetheless, fighting broke out on April 26 after Taliban infiltration of Lower Dir and Buner districts brought ...

23. What would it take to make poverty history?

    the World Bank will be represented by Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the war on Iraq, which ... profit-driven insanity of poverty, war and environmental destruction globally. Opinion polls show that on ... Tony Iltis On November 18-19, the G20 meeting in Melbourne will bring together the finance ...

24. Pakistani voters punish dictator

    Musharraf as a key "war on terror" ally despite the Pakistani military's entanglement with ... secured only 55 out of 337 declared seats when preliminary results were announced on February 20. The ... rights have been led by grassroots civil society groups, trade unions, women's organisations and ...

25. Don't pay for a failed system

    Iraq, the US has spent $3 trillion on the war alone. The $1.339 trillion annual global military ... Tony Iltis "Meltdown" is a word that one hears a lot on the news these days. Despite the ... various forms of state intervention in the finance industry on both sides of the Atlantic, sharemarkets ...

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