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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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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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 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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
The Pentagon wants the White House to “hold off on ending the Afghanistan troop surge until the fall of 2012″ [GALLO/GETTY] Among multiple layers of deception and newspeak, the official Washington spin on the strategic quagmire in Afghanistan simply does not hold. No more than “50-75 ‘al-Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA, have [...]
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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 [...]
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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 11, 2011
Palestinian children, traumatised by the occupation, are regularly arrested, detained, and interrogated by Israeli security forces[GALLO/GETTY] Dozens of Palestinian children clamoured excitedly in the East Jerusalem village of Silwan on June 26, each clutching the strings to as many helium-filled balloons as they could. Moments later, the children watched as the sky above this flashpoint [...]
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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 7, 2011
Iraq: Attacks by Government-Backed Thugs Chill Protests Security Forces Offered No Protection; Joined Assaults JUNE 30, 2011 Government supporters clash with anti-government protesters at Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on June 10, 2011. © 2011 Reuters MORE COVERAGE: More Human Rights Watch Reporting on Iraq Instead of protecting peaceful demonstrators, Iraqi soldiers appear to be [...]
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July 7, 2011
Because Israel’s leaders prefer land to peace and there’s nothing any American president can do about that so long as the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress call the shots on U.S. policy for Israel/Palestine, it’s obvious that the Palestinians have nothing to gain, only more to lose, from politics and diplomacy. So [...]
Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Israeli-occupied territories, Palestinian people, Shlomo Gazit, United Nations Security Council, United States, West Bank, Zionism
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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 [...]
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July 6, 2011
SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA WATCHDOG SAYS ISRAEL CAN BE CALLED AN APARTHEID STATE Editor’s Note: This statement was released today and unequivocally sends a clear message to the Zionist lobby, that complaints of “discrimination”, “false propaganda” and “hate speech” whenever criticism of Israel is launched, is contrary to freedom of expression and political speech and that [...]
Tags: Anti-Apartheid Movement, Apartheid Israel, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Israel and the apartheid analogy, Israel Boycott, Palestinian people, South Africa, South Africa under apartheid
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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
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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July 3, 2011
LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) – Britain will announce this week that it is to withdraw up to 800 troops by the end of next year, according to a report in the Sunday Times newspaper. The move comes after last month’s announcement that thousands of U.S. troops would start being withdrawn later this year as part [...]
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An article on the Gaza position and the Flotilla
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
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