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  1. Pilger's Breaking the Silence on SBS

    on Tuesday, December 9 at 8.30pm. Pilger investigates Washington's "war on terror", ... John Pilger's latest documentary, Breaking the Silence, will be broadcast on SBS television ... and contains previously unseen material from Iraq. Two years on, Pilger points out that ...

  2. Write On: Letters to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly

    threats of violence. I told Clarrie about it — he put a reassuring hand on my shoulder and, with his ... is common." Unfortunately, those landing on the tarmac now, are returning asylum seekers from ... Australia's camp on Nauru. They know what it is like to see the body of a tortured brother. They know the ...

  3. IRAQ: Vietnam replayed

    a replay of the Vietnam War. In a November 16 article on the parallels between the two wars, Troy Moon, ... during the first three years of the US war in Vietnam, which the Pentagon says officially began on ... on April 17, 1965, more than three years after the official beginning of the war — attracted 25,000 ...

  4. Fighting the AIDS pandemic

    "AIDS Epidemic Update 2003", released on November 25, an estimated 40 million people are now ... half of them women, in the last 23 years. Sixty-eight million are expected to die by 2020. In ... rates of infection are on the rise again. Prevention, both within the First World and the Third World, ...

  5. Yaluritja Clarrie Isaacs — a lifetime of activism

    Alliance, condemning the government's treatment of refugees and the looming war on Afghanistan. I last ... BY ANTHONY BENBOW PERTH — On December 2, as the morning sun sparkled from the river's quiet ... surface, more than a hundred people gathered at Gooniniup, the Nyungah women's sacred site, also known ...

  6. CANADA: Quebec's new united left party

    April general election. It campaigned around a radical program centred on opposition to the US-led war ... 's commission, which was largely based on the demands advanced by the World March of Women. It includes demands ... huge demonstrations of more than 200,000 in Quebec earlier this year in opposition to the war on Iraq. ...

  7. Medicare being 'murdered' says doctors leader

    president Tim Woodruff told 50 people at a public meeting in the town of Dromana, near Melbourne, on ... health care. Kerrilie Rice, a policy and research officer with Women's Health Victoria, spoke of the ... and Extend Medicare Australia, said that "we are involved in an ideological war" over ...