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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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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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 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 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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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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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 29, 2011
Egypt allows medical aid into Gaza via the Rafah crossing Published yesterday (updated) 28/07/2011 19:21 EL-ARISH (Ma’an) — Head of the Egyptian Red Crescent Jaber Al-Arabi said Thursday that Egyptian authorities had allowed medical aid and food to enter Gaza via the Rafah crossing. Three truckloads of medications were received by the Palestinian Red [...]
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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 26, 2011
The war in Iraq created another ‘puppet’ regime. (Zoriah.net) By James Petras Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance [...]
Tags: British Empire, History, Imperialism, James Petras, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Osama BinLaden, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World War II
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July 25, 2011
Demonstrators protest against Malaysia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers [Reuters] From its inception as a convict colony Australia has sought to exclude anyone that in their outlook do not belong. After starting on the local indigenous population Australians have repeatedly engaged in conduct aimed at ensuring what has often been described as the White Australia Policy. This policy supposedly born out [...]
Tags: Australia, Chris Bowen, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Hishammuddin Hussein, Julia Gillard, Malaysia, Prime Minister of Australia, Refugee, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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July 25, 2011
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58598 Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, and “reconstruction” profiteers seem to know [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Barack Obama, Chris Harman, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Howard Zinn, Joe Biden, Ryan Crocker, September 11 attacks, Soviet Union, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Taliban, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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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 16, 2011
A British patrol returns to camp in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province last year. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian The five-year British military campaign in southern Afghanistan has been woefully under-resourced and hampered by inadequate equipment, according to a damning report by MPs. The Commons defence select committee, which has been analysing UK operations [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Armed Forces, British Army, Helmand Province, Improvised explosive device, Member of parliament, Ministry of Defence, Taliban
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July 16, 2011
Despite all the talk of the US debt there is never a shortage of money and lives that can be used or taken to support the unquenchable thirst for hegemony and the continuous blood lust of the military. australia as the true friend downunder gives all the help and bodies we can The madness of the political psychopaths [...]
Tags: Aden, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Military, Sharia, Syria, Ta'izz, United State, Yemen
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