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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February 25, 2012
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard are providing a masterclass in how to alienate voters. Photograph: Daniel Munoz/REUTERS Echoes of UK politics in showdown between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard John Major’s ‘put up or shut up’ challenge to Tory right and wars between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown playing out in Australia Tony Blair has been [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor, Gordon Brown, John Major, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Rudd, Tony Blair
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February 23, 2012
If you really are interested in a feather fight between two non entities keep tuned to Australian events. In the continuing saga a former PM has resorted to confrontation with the unelected present PM. Gillard or Joolya as she should be known is once again called on to get her loyal [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor, Bruce Hawker, Gillard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Rudd, Wayne Swan
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January 23, 2012
There seems to be something missing in all the talk in Australia about refugees. Where is the evidence for what people and politicians say about the “Border Security” issue or problem. Perhaps you may expect that if there is an issue [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Aussie, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Iran, North Shore, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Refugee, Sydney, United States, White Australia Policy
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January 10, 2012
Recent developments regarding the Japanese whaling ship and the three people who got on board has shown Australian Labor politicians, particularly the PM Julia Gillard in their true light. The position seems to be that as usual Labor policy is [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Greens, Greg Hunt, International Court of Justice, Japan, Julia Gillard, MV Shōnan Maru 2, Southern Ocean, Whaling in Japan
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January 4, 2012
A recent squabble or perhaps more correctly feather fight between a past so called Labor great in Bob Hawke and the present unelected Australian PM Gillard shows up a classic divide between what the Labor portrays its public image as and what the grubby realities are. This was a party supposedly with [...]
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Bob Hawke, Gillard, Hawke, Julia Gillard, Labor, Marxism, Prime Minister of Australia
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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 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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December 4, 2011
Australia approves uranium exports to India Labour Party conference approves PM’s plan, despite Delhi not being signatory of nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Australia possesses nearly 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium reserves [Reuters] Australia’s ruling Labour Party has approved plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a [...]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, Australia, Gillard, India, Julia Gillard, Labour, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, United States
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November 29, 2011
On the 7th of February 2011 a document was made that spoke of the Australian government‘s actions toward the indigenous people of Australia. The original actions were part of a policy put in place by a Liberal based conservative Federal government. That government was later replaced by a Labor Party government that has allowed the [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Labor, Australians, Government of Australia, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Labor government, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
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November 21, 2011
What follows is a letter sent via email by a Greens member of Parliament. You may very well form the view that the only place for uranium is in the ground. Please note just how heavily indebted to the elite [...]
Tags: Australia, India, Julia Gillard, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pakistan, Scott Ludlam, South Asia, Uranium
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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
If you keep saying a country is a potential enemy you should not be surprised if they turn out that way. Particularly when there is a large element of hypocrisy in what you are saying. Australia wants to have it every which way. SAy twe are going to survive because of the Chinese, talk to [...]
Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Barack Obama, Beijing, China, Obama, 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 30, 2011
Qantas ordered to resume flights by tribunal An indicator board shows cancelled flights at the Qantas terminal at Sydney airport. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA Australian airline and unions told to terminate industrial dispute that left thousands of passengers stranded around the world reddit this Dan Milmo and Alison Rourke guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 October 2011 16.42 GMT Article [...]
Tags: Alan Joyce, Australia, British Airways, Fair Work Australia, Joyce, Julia Gillard, Qantas, Saturday, Strike action, Sydney Airport
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Australia, Australian Labor Party, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Israel, Julia Gillard, Labor, Labor Party, Liberal Conservative, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Pakistan, Parties, Pentagon, Politics, Shelly Yachimovich, United States
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October 11, 2011
Following our own Australian security fears about just about anyone who is not white anglo saxon protestant it is worthwhile looking at the position in the US. Remember no matter what ASIO or UNCLE may say it is in the end a matter of trust to believe them. The extreme likelihood that if there is [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Awlaki, Ivan Eland, middle east, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, 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 29, 2011
Australia has unveiled one of the world’s most ambitious schemes to tackle climate change. From July 2012, Australia’s biggest polluting companies will pay $25 a tonne for their carbon emissions, increasing 2.5 per cent a year until moving to a market-set price in 2015. The plan will create the largest emissions trading scheme after the [...]
Tags: Australia, Carbon Cycle, Climate change, Emissions trading, environment, European Union, European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Greenhouse gas
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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 7, 2011
Australia is blessed with rugged beauty and a wealth of natural resources – including coal, iron, natural gas and gold. Such minerals are powering Australia’s economy to record highs. And as demand from China for more resources grows, new mines continue to open across the country. But critics say there is a dark side to [...]
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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
EPBC referral highlights critical environmental issues with Mt Penny site 10 Jul, 2011 The presence of endangered and vulnerable plant and animal species has seen the referral of the proposed Mt Penny mine development to Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke. The referral was made at the beginning of last week by Mt Penny Coal under [...]
Tags: Barry O'Farrell, BHP Billiton, Biodiversity, Business, environment, Katrina Hodgkinson, Mining, Regent Honeyeater, Tony Burke
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July 30, 2011
How the Murdoch press keeps Australia’s dirty secret 12 May 2011 The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known? In his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70 per cent of the capital [...]
Tags: Australian Labor Party, Indigenous land rights, Indigenous People, John Howard, Larissa Behrendt, Northern Territory, Rupert Murdoch, Stolen Generation
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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 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 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 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 damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
Tags: British government, Centre for Alternative Technology, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, Nuclear, 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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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