April 6, 2012
Pepe Escobar: ‘Pentagon freaks creep into China‘s backyard’ Apr 4, 2012 The first rotation of about 200 US marines has arrived in Australia on a six-month training deployment. A total of 2,500 troops are expected to arrive over the next few years in Darwin to enhance the US’s military presence in [...]
Tags: Asia Times, Asia-Pacific, China, Pepe Escobar, Philippines, RT (TV network), Singapore, United State
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March 13, 2012
Australian Govt Votes to Make Aboriginal Land Nuclear Dumping Ground The Australian government has passed legislation today that allows nuclear waste to be stored at a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, a decision Aboriginal groups and environmentalists have vowed to fight. The Australian government has passed legislation today that allows [...]
Tags: Australia, Edith River, Lorna Fejo, Muckaty Station, Nigel Scullion, Northern Land Council, Northern Territory, NT Government, Radioactive waste, Scott Ludlam
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March 9, 2012
Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism 8 March 2012 In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee would not stay young and attractive forever [because] a spinster lady can, and very often [...]
Tags: Australia, Germaine Greer, Gillard, International Women's Day, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Margaret Thatcher, Sydney Morning Herald
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January 19, 2012
Just in case you have been seeing, reading or listening to the never ending stream of media types who in their economic wisdom see only the bright side or at least feel it is their god given right to spin the [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Canberra, China, Gillard, India, Julia Gillard, Quentin Bryce
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December 26, 2011
After the grovelling to Obama so willingly supplied by the Australian PM Gillard comes a few home truths. Lapdogs and the like never get any more than table scraps, while the elite dine in luxury. Only someone as foolish and as pro US as Gillard and her racist Labor Party could [...]
Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Barack Obama, China, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hu Jintao, People's Liberation Army Navy, United States, Xi Jinping
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December 13, 2011
Australia has continued a slide to total subservience to warmongers like Obama for some time. But the most recent behaviour under Gillard is the most remarkable for the tin pot toadies she commands in her unelected role as Prime Minister. We are witnessing the final stages of crawling to the US and then [...]
Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Australian Labor Party, China, Landing Helicopter Dock, United States, White Paper
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December 6, 2011
The Australian government wants to sell uranium to India, but significant hurdles to the deal remain [GALLO/GETTY] This is a post-script for the two-part essay that discussed the debate currently taking place in Australia concerning the sale of uranium to India, in particular the consideration given to the Labour Party’s longstanding ban on uranium sales to countries which have [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Government of Australia, India, Julia Gillard, Labour, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Prime Minister of Australia
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December 4, 2011
The Labor Party endorsment regarding the sale of uranium to India show just how much this so called ”progressive party” is and has always been nothing more than a capitalist workers party. From its inception what was supposed to be a party for workers was simply a party dedicated to the national interest. That interest was [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Gillard, India, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberal-National, United States
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November 17, 2011
Cluster munition or parts of the munition often do not explode on impact, causing great harm to the envrionment [EPA] Brisbane, Australia: A US military “base” in Darwin, Australia (spun as a “rotational deployment” for China, I suspect), will necessitate foreign weapons systems and armaments being stockpiled, retained and transited on and in Australian [...]
Tags: Australia, China, Cluster bomb, Convention on Cluster Munitions, David Hurley, Non-governmental organization, Scott Ludlam, United States
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November 17, 2011
Clinging to the US as if it were a life raft in a stormy sea and expecting to be respected by our Asian neighbours makes Australia look both complicit in US war crimes and a partner in future US imperial expansion in the area. The Australian record in Asia is deplorable. From the White [...]
Tags: Asia-Pacific, Australia, Barack Obama, Beijing, China, Hu Jintao, Julia Gillard, South China Sea, United States
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November 15, 2011
It was not that long ago that a defence paper in order to justify the expenditure of an enormous amount of the Australian people’s money on defence that India was named as a future enemy, along with China. It seems that now all has been forgiven and the win elections at [...]
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Ben Chifley, China, Government, India, Labor, United States, Vietnam
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October 20, 2011
I, along with many others was warning readers about the awful killing machines, the Drones. They are a weapon with nothing more than a continually updated capacity to kill and destroy while using highly suspect forms of surveillance. What they really do is to simply be employed against a site where there is some suspicion or advantage attaching [...]
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October 15, 2011
India has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but is one of few countries willing to discuss disarmament [GALLO/GETTY] When the Commonwealth heads of government meet in Australia later this month, one prominent leader is almost certain to be conspicuously absent: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. India is a strong backer of the association of [...]
Tags: Australia, China, India, Manmohan Singh, NPT, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pakistan, United States
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October 4, 2011
This article is not a bad reminder to all the true believers that the Gillard great Australian crawl to the miners in WA was just that. A sickening example of a sell out to big business. Not a human rights abuse perhaps but a gross abuse of humans in this country when dealing with the people’s [...]
Tags: Freeport-McMoRan, Grasberg, Grasberg mine, Indonesia, Indonesian National Armed Forces, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto Group, Suharto, West Papua
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August 16, 2011
Anti-carbon tax rally hits Australian parliament Thousands of people gather in Canberra to protest at Prime Minister Julia Gillard‘s plans for the unpopular tax Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 08.43 BST Article history Australia’s opposition has called on Gillard to apologise for winning the election on a falsehood that her government would [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Canberra, Carbon tax, Julia Gillard, Parliament House Melbourne, Prime minister, Tax
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August 3, 2011
The following is a somewhat conservative look at Obama’s failings as President. As an employee of the elite it was never possible to expect anything more than failure. It however, is not a matter of his being doomed from the start, he really had nothing to start with. The capital and imperial projects demand total [...]
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July 30, 2011
The Intervention Examining the impact of the Australian government‘s so-called ‘intervention’ policy on aboriginal communities. (The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2011/07/2011729121416628187.html) Filmmaker: Julie Nimmo Recorded over eight months in the community of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia, The Interventionreveals the federal government’s implementation of its so-called ‘intervention’. JOIN THE DEBATE Send us your views [...]
Tags: Australia, Community, Government of Australia, Human rights, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Katherine, Katherine Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Northern Territory National Emergency Response
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July 26, 2011
Marching for Anzac in the 51st State 20 April 2011 The street where I grew up in Sydney was a war street. There were long silences, then the smashing of glass and screams. Pete and I played Aussies-and-Japs. Pete’s father was an object of awe. He weighed barely 100 pounds and shook with malaria and [...]
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July 17, 2011
Please do not think this means support for Abbott or any of the proven disastrous Liberal policies. Disastrous to the very many but a godsend the the very few both the ALP and the Liberals and whoever attaches themselves limpet like to either are simply factions of the one party system we have. In that system the only party is [...]
Tags: ALP, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Carbon tax, Gillard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, United State
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July 15, 2011
In Shadow of Death, Iraq and U.S. Tiptoe Around a Deadline Spencer Platt/Getty Images American soldiers stopped to talk with an Iraqi during a patrol this week in Babil Province. Lately, American combat deaths have been increasing in Iraq. By TIM ARANGO Published: July 14, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE [...]
Tags: Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi security forces, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, United State, United States Armed Forces, United States Army
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July 14, 2011
If you read Ted Rall‘s article next to this one a few important factors emerge for Australia. If the US is in deeper and darker waters than anyone is prepared to let on then where does a lackey lappdog nation like Australia fir if it all goes pear shaped. The first thing you probably need to do [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, China, Gillard, India, Israel, Julia Gillard, middle east, Ted Rall, United State
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July 14, 2011
US infrastructure has been decaying over the past decade. Nevertheless, Republicans are pushing for deep budget cuts [EPA] Once upon a time, in a land that now seems to have been populated by tooth fairies and unicorns, there was a political party that had a set of core beliefs to which they actually adhered. Among them was [...]
Tags: Cliff Schecter, Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, National Rifle Association, Real McCain, Republican, United State, Wayne LaPierre, World Health Organization
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July 13, 2011
Phyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is also a fellow of the Transnational What follows is in the form of a letter by Phyllis Bennis the author of the article beside this one on this page. It summarises thoughts, actions, initiatives and the continuing [...]
Tags: Danny Glover, Democracy, Iraq War, middle east, Transnational Institute, United Nations, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Washington DC
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July 13, 2011
What follows are some updating reports about the Australians, Sylvia Hale and Vivienne Porzolt who have won an appeal and will soon be freed in Israel. In yet another callous exhibition the Israeli government had made decisions to detain and deport them for having the audacity for being there to visit Palestinians. One might wonder [...]
Tags: AEST, David Shoebridge, Gaza flotilla raid, Greens New South Wales, Human rights, Israel, Israelis, Palestinian people, Sylvia Hale, Tel Aviv, Time in Australia, Zionism
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July 12, 2011
Gillard is simply an extension of the still birth of the ALP in 1891. All that needs to be sorted out is how the party is able to give a continuing appearance of still being alive. What happened back then has continued to this day. The aspirations of working people were sacrificed at the alter [...]
Tags: ALP, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Gillard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, United States
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July 11, 2011
Just because the environment is an important issue and the future really does need to be a major concern, do not think that is what motivates the politicians. No it certainly does not. Their only concern is re-election and the ultimate safe retirement free from any financial concerns, social liability and judgment. All that just adds to [...]
Tags: Australian Greens, Carbon tax, Christine Milne, Emissions trading, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott
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July 10, 2011
For those of you who have time for a little reflection there is an interesting fact that emerges from the Carbon Tax in Australia. Whether it works, is partially successful or leads to other means as a matter of absolute certainty it is at least a start. Despite the one party system we have, that is [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor Party, Carbon tax, Emissions trading, Government of Australia, Greenhouse gas, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Noam Chomsky, Tony Abbott
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July 6, 2011
This is yet another good article at the Gilad Atzmon site. That site can by reached at http://www.gilad.co.uk/. This article has an interview between Cattori and Plionis. I have has been mentioned on this page a few times that Israel has become like a new found friend for Greece. That raises a further interesting point. The [...]
Tags: Crete, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Gilad Atzmon, Greece, Greeks, Israel, Palestinian people, Politics of Greece, United States
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July 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Police action, Somalia, Thomas E. Ricks, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle, War
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July 6, 2011
Israel‘s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip has led to an almost complete collapse of Gaza’s economy, making the people dependent on international aid [GALLO/GETTY] Earlier this year we watched with amazement as hundreds of thousands of Arabs charged into the streets of their cities demanding reform. The uprisings led to the departure of several [...]
Tags: 2007–present blockade of the Gaza Strip, Free Gaza Movement, Gaza flotilla raid, Gaza Strip, Israel, Palestinian people, United States, Yousef Munayyer
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July 5, 2011
Risk of new financial crisis prompts RBA to leave rates on hold Peter Martin July 6, 2011 RBA leaves interest rate on hold Business Day reporter Chris Zappone looks at the Reserve Bank‘s decision to leave the cash rate at 4.75 per cent. Video feedback Video settings THE Reserve Bank no longer expects to raise [...]
Tags: Australia, Central bank, Economic growth, Financial crisis of 2007–2010, Interest rate, Reserve Bank, Reserve Bank of India, World economy
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Committee on Climate Change, George Monbiot, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, Guardian, Hindenburg disaster, International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclearpower, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Committee on Climate Change, George Monbiot, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, Guardian, International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclearpower
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July 5, 2011
The blockade is the problem The economic pressure of the blockade has not brought about moderation in Hamas‘ positions, and stopping protesters en route to Gaza will not change the military balance. Haaretz Editorial All signs indicate that the government of Israel has taken steps to receive the present Gaza flotilla in a manner much [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza flotilla raid, Gaza Strip, Green Line, Hamas, Israel, Oslo Accords, Palestinian people
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July 5, 2011
Israeli DM Withholds Palestinian Corpses Says Move Aimed at Keeping ‘Bargaining Chips’ by Jason Ditz, July 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Shortly after the Israeli military confirmed the plans, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced he is ordering a halt of the transfers of some 84 Palestinian corpsesto the Palestinian Authority. [...]
Tags: Cadaver, Ehud Barak, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, NATO, Palestinian people
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July 5, 2011
US Eyes ‘Mini-Surge’ in Afghanistan Despite Talks of Drawdowns, Military Eyes More Special Forces Deployments by Jason Ditz, July 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Obama’s announcement of a “drawdown” in Afghanistan was treated as a major watershed. Despite the ultimately trivial size of the move, it has sparked a [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Drawdown (hydrology), Libya, NATO, President Obama, United State, United States Armed Forces
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 4, 2011
Geneva Conventions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Geneva Convention: The signature-and-seals page of the First Geneva Convention (1864), establishing humane rules of war. The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. The singular term Geneva Convention denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the [...]
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July 4, 2011
The Use of Torture in the War on Terror Reflections on the Afghanistan (2002) and Abu Ghraib (2004) experiences. Australian Defence Force perspectives. Conducted at CDSS in April 2005. This entry comes from the following front page of this document About Mission and Function Course Development Case Studies Research Article Reviews [...]
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July 4, 2011
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 04/07/2011 Reporter: Geoff Thompson Recently uncovered documents have linked an Australian soldier with the abuse of prisoners in Iraq‘s notorious Abu Ghraib jail. The ABC’s Geoff Thompson investigates. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: These notorious pictures helped change the course of the Iraq War. The graphic photos of Iraqi detainees being mistreated [...]
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July 4, 2011
ADF knew of abuses at Abu Ghraib Anne Davies, Deborah Snow, Debra Jopson July 5, 2011 Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adf-knew-of-abuses-at-abu-ghraib-20110704-1gz95.html#ixzz1R9uMIOrL Related articles Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths (ikners.com) From Abu Ghraib to the [...]
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July 4, 2011
ADF knew of abuses at Abu Ghraib Anne Davies, Deborah Snow, Debra Jopson July 5, 2011 Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/adf-knew-of-abuses-at-abu-ghraib-20110704-1gz95.html#ixzz1R9p7NE8U Related articles (There are many more at ikners.com) Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths (ikners.com) They must [...]
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July 4, 2011
Greece says its ban on all Gaza-bound ships leaving port was to protect pro-Palestinian activists [Reuters] Most of the nine vessels that pro-Palestinian activists planned to sail on as part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in defiance of an Israeli blockade remain stranded in Greece ports, after Greek authorities forbade them from embarking on the journey. Two [...]
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July 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
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July 4, 2011
Even the Clintons can tell the truth….but not often. apparently Hillary told our esteemed and boy wonder Foreign Affairs Supremo that it was hard to argue with your banker. Probably that means that sooner or later she would /might need to know the answer. But in true Clinton style what don’t go ’round don’t go ’round. China [...]
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July 4, 2011
When you are down and out or that’s what the elites are telling you , what you need is a good friend. But beware the fangs of the viper. It was only a day ago I posted an article and asked if Greece had started paying the interest yet on the loans. It [...]
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July 3, 2011
Time and bailouts do not cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock [GALLO/GETTY] The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years. Get used to it. In a post-crisis world, these are the footprints of a failed recovery. The reason is simple. The typical business [...]
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July 3, 2011
Prince Charles has held private meetings with several coalition ministers, including George Osborne, Michael Gove and Caroline Spelman. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP Following the revelation that Tony Blair believed the Prince of Wales meddled in sensitive policy areas during the last Labour government, it has emerged that the prince has had private meetings with at least seven [...]
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July 3, 2011
A sense of excitement emerged as a result of the Flotilla. (Noor Harazeen) Only the most heartless of supporters of the Jewish State of Israel could even begin to think of Palestinians especially the children being deprived of some of the most basic of human rights as the Jewish State of Israel [...]
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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