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The war of terrorists
as trenches for their "holy" fight, turning women and children into human shelters. On the ... Mahdi Army actions include: imposing veils on women; destruction of liquor shops and killing their ... Alliance, reported on the conflict in Fallujah and commended the Iraqi resistance there. In the following ...
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Anti-war vet speaks out: Getting to the bottom of it
offers a war veterans take on the debate around the US military's torture of Iraqi prisoners. One ... was. These young men and women are products of a military that gave them a one-hour class on the Geneva ... that none of the prisoners on C-Block had signed a contract to be where they were. It wasn't ...
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UNITED STATES: Free speech attacked
honked loudly for an FSP banner that read "Stop the war on working people at home and abroad". ... Alison Thorne In an attempt to silence dissent against the war in Iraq, flag-waving followers of ... KVI-AM radio hurled racial epithets and threatened violence in a multi-ethnic Seattle neighbourhood on ...
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Torture is news, but its not new
women being beaten to death, and drowned, and humiliated in stomach-turning ways. On one photograph was ... John Pilger When I first went to report the US war against Vietnam in the 1960s, I visited the ... struck by the similarity of displays on many of their office pinboards. "That's where we hang ...
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The Greens alternative: Services before tax cuts
money on waging an illegal war, on regressive tax cuts, buying swinging votes and divisive public policy ... families in particular, rely on. There is no real investment in public health, nothing for public schools, ... spending on services from the public sphere — in which all Australians contribute to the cost and share the ...
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OUR COMMON CAUSE: Why are the 'good guys' torturing Iraqi prisoners?
commenting on the pictures of Iraqis being tortured, stated, "Their treatment does not reflect the ... bit." British PM Tony Blair went on record as saying the behaviour shown was in "direct ... Vietnam is well known. The shooting of women and children in the village of My Lai is but one incident in ...
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Socialist Alliance marks progress
federal election- which is shaping up as a referendum on war in Iraq and attacks on the working class at ... services. The conference condemned attacks on the Muslim population and defended the right of Muslim women ... Peter Boyle The third national conference of the Socialist Alliance, held in Melbourne on May 8-9, ...
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COLOMBIA: Is the FARC a terrorist outfit?
on pressure for the FARC to be included in lists of supposed terrorists. And — to justify its war ... world terrorism, are the US administration and their main war allies, including Uribe, who heads ... the victims of neoliberalism and globalisation, which have been imposed by the United States on all ...