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  1. The anti-war movement in a military town

    prepared a statement that his family read on his behalf, reiterating his position opposing the war and ... Lou Plummer, Fayetteville, North Carolina On the day after his 19th birthday in 1966, my father ... to Europe in World War Two. By 1969, having left the guard, Dad was in Vietnam with the Fourth ...

  2. News Briefs 3

    for Reid, Lisa Macdonald, described the two-fold "fundamentalist" war on women who, in some ... Nazir Gul told a packed hall on March 20. The International Women's Day event, organised by members ... 3 Afghan community discusses women's rights SYDNEY — Most women in Afghanistan are no better ...

  3. Write on: Letters to the editor

    in on reconstruction. Iraq is still in a state of war. Reconstruction cannot commence until the ... committee's report on poverty in Australia. The government's cynical response displays contempt for the ... poverty line, an effective marginal tax rate of 87% on casual earnings, and arbitrary fines of up to $1540 ...

  4. Our Common Cause: Who is killing Indigenous Australia?

    occupied Palestine, these images dramatised to the world a real hidden war in Australia. This hidden war ... doesn't usually make as spectacular TV as the war zones of the Middle East. But it is as deadly. After ... shock facts that reveal the war that is killing Indigenous Australians faster each year. According to ...

  5. PALESTINE: Israel escalates terror campaign

    Nidal al Haddad On March 24, the United Nations Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution ... represented on the commission, including UN Security Council members China and Russia, voted for the ... abstained. The elderly quadriplegic was killed by missiles fired from an Israeli helicopter gunship on March ...

  6. John Pilger: We can win a peaceful world!

    John Pilger Let us be clear on the facts of what happened one year ago on March 20. The United ... merely stated the obvious — that by joining the attack on Iraq, the Australian government has all but ... Blair and Howard." Take just one speech by John Howard on February 4 last year. In less than an ...

  7. ACEH: Military tightens grip in run-up to elections

    occupation. On April 5, Indonesians will go to the polls to elect new national, regional and local ... Foreign observers Following a cabinet session on March 12, the government declared that Aceh would be open ... General Endang Suwarya, told Serambi on February 14: "Every single foreign national who enters Aceh, ...