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 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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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
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 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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Gaza flotilla raid, Greek Police, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Kevin Rudd, Melbourne, Politics of Greece
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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 [...]
Tags: Athens, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Greece, Israel, Mike Hanna, Politics of Greece, Turkey, United States
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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 [...]
Tags: Federal Reserve System, Gross world product, International Monetary Fund, Recession shapes, Stephen S. Roach, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, United States, World economy
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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 1, 2011
US Gaza-bound boat returning to Greek port Vessel seeking to break Israel’s siege of Gaza Strip returns to port after it was intercepted by Greek armed commandos. The boat left the Greek port of Perama [Reuters] A boat carrying dozens of US activists seeking to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip has been towed back to port [...]
Tags: 2007–present blockade of the Gaza Strip, Benjamin Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu, Gaza flotilla raid, Gaza Strip, Greece, Israel, Politics of Greece
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July 1, 2011
Preface: Despite the present Australian unelected Government’s completely undying love and support for Zionism there are some who think first and pledge their allegiance later. As a convict country Australian politicians have grown up on diet rich in a homily on obedience trotted out at all available times to support the lies, deceit and [...]
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July 1, 2011
GILAD ATZMON: GAZA FLOTILLA VS. DIASPORA JEWRY The Israelis are preparing themselves for another massacre on the high seas. This should not take us by surprise: after all, people who are detached from a true notion of history, and driven by a continuous fantasy of destruction, would be the last to draw a lesson from their past. Earlier [...]
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July 1, 2011
The TV reporter who conducted Thursday’s bizarre interview with Ed Miliband, in which the Labour leader responded to every question with the same statement about his position on public sector strikes, has said he felt ashamed at the “professional discourtesy” in being used as a “recording device for a scripted soundbite”. Damon Green, the ITV News correspondent [...]
Tags: BBC, David Miliband, Ed Miliband, ITV News, Labour Party, Sky News, Twitter, YouTube
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July 1, 2011
Preface: It would be far too much for the popularity starved failure of unelected leader of this country to make a statement but has she ever considered what the effect of the loss will be? Not just death and collateral damage to the ignorant savages called Afghans but future voters will have marched off to [...]
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June 30, 2011
It was mildly interesting to read a report in the SMH today concerning Gillard being a chorus of one as far as Afghanistan is concerned. Why it has taken so long for such material to reach the hallowed halls of the fourth estate is a mystery. The local population expressed views on Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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June 28, 2011
Politics can be amusing and still be serious. On some occasions you can get some insight into the nature of the beast from the beastly parts- like the politicians and the media who make up the travelling zoo that comes in the package you vote for. Here in Australia we have a completely unelected Prime Minister [...]
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June 27, 2011
When the Public Rises, We’ll Want an Ally in Congress By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58303 For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this [...]
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June 27, 2011
Arab activists say liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU as part of their aid packages had contributed to the unrest in the first place. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features Arab activists warned on Monday that conditions attached to western aidthreatened to undercut the goals of economic and social justice at the [...]
Tags: African Development Bank, egypt, European Investment Bank, Hosni Mubarak, International Monetary Fund, Non-governmental organization, United States, World Bank
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June 27, 2011
Google reveals US government leads way in private data requests Google has received a record number of requests from 26 developed countries to reveal private information about internet users Share99 reddit this Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.16 BST Article history Google has released figures showing the number of requests for private [...]
Tags: Bhumibol Adulyadej, Brazil, France, Google, India, Kazakhstan, Search, search engine, Search Engines, Searching, Spain, United States, YouTube
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June 27, 2011
Google reveals US government leads way in private data requests Google has received a record number of requests from 26 developed countries to reveal private information about internet users Share99 reddit this Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 19.16 BST Article history Google has released figures showing the number of requests for private information [...]
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June 27, 2011
Malaysian activists arrested before banned political rally The Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, has claimed the planned rally is an opposition scheme to create chaos and undermine the government. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images Malaysian authorities have accused 30 detained opposition members of conspiring to overthrow the government and to revive communist ideologies after the activists [...]
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June 27, 2011
To be fair it may have been in the process of being served, but the outright refusal to answer was interesting to listen to particularly the reasons, if that’s what they were that offered. ikners.com Philip Morris Says Australia Plain Pack Law Violates Treaty By Robert Fenner and Joe Schneider (Updates with lawyer’s comment in [...]
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June 27, 2011
“Israel is the single greatest strength america has in the Middle East” Just in case you think these words are from a radical activist or a disgruntled Palestinian consider who else may be of that view. You could probably be excused that someone like Julia Gillard the Australian Prime Minister could say or think that [...]
Tags: Anna Baltzer, Israel, Joe Biden, Julia Gillard, middle east, Osama bin Laden, Palestinian people, Zionism
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June 27, 2011
As the launch of the Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human approaches, increasing numbers of Zionist officials and commentators illuminate the depths of their moral and intellectual bankruptcy by arguing that it is a political – not humanitarian – project. Ran Curiel, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, offers an example as good as any [...]
Tags: Erez Crossing, Free Gaza Movement, International Solidarity Movement, Israel, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Palestinian people, Palestinian territories, Saeb Erekat, Salt Satyagraha
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June 27, 2011
Sacred Mantras by Uri Avnery, June 27, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Palestinians are planning something thoroughly obnoxious: they intend to apply to the UN for statehood. Why obnoxious? Any Israeli spokesman (not to mention spokeswoman) will tell you readily: because it is a “unilateral” move. How dare they proclaim a [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: 2007–present blockade of the Gaza Strip, Australia, Breast cancer, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Health, Hellenic Coast Guard, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Israel, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Palestinian people, West Bank
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