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UNAC conference challenges U.S./NATO war policies By davidswanson -SocialistAction

April 6, 2012
UNAC conference challenges U.S./NATO war policies    By davidswanson -SocialistAction

        UNAC conference challenges U.S./NATO war policies By davidswanson - Posted on 05 April 2012 From SocialistAction On April 1 The New York Times reported that the U.S.and the Gulf states, meeting as the “Friends of Syria” in Istanbul, had moved dramatically closer to direct military intervention against the Assad regime. The pro-U.S. Arab nations pledged [...]

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Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism A Pilger article

March 9, 2012
Julia Gillard’s rise marks the triumph of machine politics over feminism  A Pilger article

        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 [...]

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China: Australian racism plays both sides of the net with the wealthiest country around at the moment.

March 8, 2012
China: Australian racism plays both sides of the net with the wealthiest country around at the moment.

                  Remember that China fills a curious role in Australian politics. As a country with a long history of racism particularly directed at the Chinese, Australia is trying to play on both sides of the net. On the one hand we are trying to say they as [...]

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Australian Labor Party treachery and deceit reaches new depths-if that’s possible.

February 25, 2012
Australian Labor Party treachery and deceit reaches new depths-if that’s possible.

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 [...]

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Australian Labor the politics of subservience, racism, jingoism and sheer nonsense. A self promoting, image led party puts on a fight. The winner…Who Cares?

February 23, 2012
Australian Labor the politics of subservience, racism, jingoism and sheer nonsense. A self promoting, image led party puts on a fight. The winner…Who Cares?

  If you are feeling bored try looking at the Australian political non event happening now between the present unelected PM and a former PM. It seems that the unelected one has called the former PM to task and a ballot to decide who captains a sinking boat will happen next Monday. It seems that the rats [...]

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Traitors all. The racist, pro-zionist Australian Labor Party lines up for a complete mismatch. Both are fighting well out of their divisions

February 23, 2012
Traitors all. The racist, pro-zionist Australian Labor Party lines up for a complete mismatch. Both are fighting well out of their divisions

        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 [...]

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Julia Gillard weakened as independent quits Australian government Andrew Wilkie turns back on Labor party-led minority government after PM delays poker machine reforms

January 21, 2012
Julia Gillard weakened as independent quits Australian government  Andrew Wilkie turns back on Labor party-led minority government after PM delays poker machine reforms

Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, has been weakened by independent MP Andrew Wilkie withdrawing his support for her government. Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/EPA Perhaps these articles should be read while listening to an old song. Here are some of the lyrics. I pretend that I’m carefree But what am I I pretend that I’m carefree [...]

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Was it Rudd’s declaration of war

January 20, 2012
Was it Rudd’s declaration of war

                            You may have been fortunate, enough, if that’s the correct phrase, to see an announcement from Australia‘s Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd. Effectively he joined the lengthy queue that is doing an enormous amount of sabre rattling at Iran over Iran’s nuclear [...]

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Rudd, Bonhoeffer and the War on Gaza By Vacy Vlazna

December 28, 2011
Rudd, Bonhoeffer and the War on Gaza  By Vacy Vlazna

        Rudd, Bonhoeffer and the War on Gaza By Vacy Vlazna For Christians, Christmas and New Year revivify reflection on core values – good will to all and peace for humankind. Between these two dates, on the 27th December, falls the third anniversary of Israel’s infamous war crime – Operation Cast Lead [...]

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AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MUST INVESTIGATE MASSACRE IN INDONESIA

December 27, 2011
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MUST INVESTIGATE MASSACRE IN INDONESIA

    AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MUST INVESTIGATE MASSACRE IN INDONESIA by EM News — last modified Dec 27, 2011 01:53 AM With three dead and nine critically injured, Friends of the Earth Australia questions the role of Australian owned company Arc Exploration after a community protest on the island of Sumbawa was attacked by Indonesian police.   Friends of the [...]

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Rudd urged to protect Assange DAN OAKES

December 18, 2011
Rudd urged to protect Assange  DAN OAKES

Rudd urged to protect Assange DAN OAKES 19 Dec, 2011 03:00 AM An open letter to Kevin Rudd  THE former prime minister Malcolm Fraser and dozens of public figures have called on the Foreign Affairs Minister, Kevin Rudd, to ensure the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is protected from ”rendition” to the US. They warn that if [...]

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PM Gillard: hard worker, hard-nosed, hard to read Gittins: A strange breed of Labor PM

December 13, 2011
PM Gillard: hard worker, hard-nosed, hard to read Gittins: A strange breed of Labor PM

      Click to play video It is interesting to read this article on Gillard. surely there can be no surprise that there is little difference between the Labor and Liberal parties. We effectively have a one party system paying homage to the business party or the elites if you prefer. That simply means [...]

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Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them. A 2009 article

November 10, 2011
Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them. A 2009 article

  Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them The government is expected to give the go-ahead to the coal-burning Kingsnorth power plant. Here, one of the world’s foremost climate experts launches an excoriating attack on Britain’s long love affair with the most polluting fossil fuel of all reddit this Comments (622) James Hansen The [...]

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Netanyahu a disaster, Israel a cancer and the US as the providore. Australia goes along for the ride. Thanks Julia

September 4, 2011
Netanyahu a disaster, Israel a cancer and the US as the providore. Australia goes along for the ride. Thanks Julia

Turkey has expelled Israel’s ambassador as relations continue to deteriorate [Reuters] Well-handled, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Rather than apologise to the Turkish government for the deaths of nine of its nationals on the Mavi Marmara, you dug in and now your ambassador to Ankara has been expelled. At this rate, the once critical Israeli-Turkish relationship will [...]

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BHP needs the money. Please help

August 24, 2011
BHP needs the money. Please help

According to their massive profit figures it seems that BHP may have really needed that Gillard to crawl all the way to WA to speak to the miners and then reduce the amount the miners pay, if the profits were going to get astronomical. As Gillard was at pains to tell the Australian people, negotiating [...]

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Gillard, the ALP and the numbers game

July 17, 2011
Gillard, the ALP and the numbers game

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 [...]

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All the talk about Carbon Tax

July 14, 2011
All the talk about Carbon Tax

Remember this was the tax renowned spiritual leader for the elite Julia Gillard was against before she became the unelected leader of the nation. With a clear majority there would be no carbon tax but a sliding preferential system of concessions to the elite in the mining industry so that her majesty not be dethroned. [...]

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With back stabbing, subservience to polls, the truth sacrificed at every turn Gillard is just another example of the ALP as it always has been

July 12, 2011
With back stabbing, subservience to polls, the truth sacrificed at every turn Gillard is just another example of the ALP as it always has been

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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If you want a truly nonsensical response and a total lack of commitment where do you think is the best place to go?

July 11, 2011
If you want a truly nonsensical response and a total lack of commitment where do you think is the best place to go?

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 [...]

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When NO TAX becomes not only is it our idea but it is good for you. The politics of hypocrisy and treacHery with a happy ending

July 10, 2011
When NO TAX becomes not only is it our idea but it is good for you. The politics of hypocrisy and treacHery with a happy ending

  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 [...]

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Julia (Gillard), Thatcher, the Tsarina, Hillary,Imelda, Jacqueline, Pelosi it can get confusing if you let it.

July 5, 2011
Julia (Gillard), Thatcher, the Tsarina, Hillary,Imelda, Jacqueline, Pelosi it can get confusing if you let it.

It can do just that. Just REMEMBER that they all have a common feature. All that ever interested them in a real sense was power to themselves or how much their husband/wife had. BUT it’s all a matter entirely for you.   Protesters hold placards during a rally in Sydney against prime minister Julia Gillard‘s [...]

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A Gaza message to others

July 5, 2011
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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Julia and the politics of oneness

June 30, 2011
Julia and the politics of oneness

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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Sri Lanka and the Push Factors an article by Suvendrini Perera

June 29, 2011
Sri Lanka and the Push Factors an article by Suvendrini Perera

  SRI LANKA 28 Jun 2011 Don’t Mention The Push Factors By Suvendrini Perera Tags: suvendrini perera sri lanka’s killing fields sri lanka ltte asylum seekers Kevin Rudd has been silent on shocking revelations about violence at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. Is that because so many fled that violence to seek [...]

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What’s popularity when you’re unelected? Ask Gillard

June 18, 2011
What’s popularity when you’re unelected? Ask Gillard

Gillard now ‘most unpopular Australian leader in past 40 years’ A year after she ousted previous Labor leader Kevin Rudd, only one in four Australians say they would vote for her Share154 Alison Rourke in Sydney and agencies guardian.co.uk, Saturday 18 June 2011 12.01 BST Article history Julia Gillard: ‘What I’ve done as prime minister [...]

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Gillard as the warlord of OZ a Pilger article

June 9, 2011
Gillard as the warlord of OZ a Pilger article

The caricature above is by Andy Dolphin you can view his site at, http://myweekinart.blogspot.com/2010/07/julia-gillard-digital-caricature.html   In this article Pilger draws some useful conclusions about Gillard. Her warmongering stance is replete with all the Labor racist madness built up in the Labor Party since 1891. She as an unelected Prime Minister heading up an unelected government survives on [...]

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Labor madness with spending to match

June 4, 2011
Labor madness with spending to match

Just in case you have forgotten what this unelected Labor government is all about when it comes to war spending when there is no one to fight, don’t forget the Defence White Paper. That document was meant to smooth the way for the creation of an ongoing expenditure well into the stupidity and arrogance categories of human [...]

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Current talk about the Rudd dream of an Australian presence and the Defence White Paper

May 31, 2011
Current talk about the Rudd dream of an Australian presence and the Defence White Paper

I wrote the following in May 2009. What was then and is now a stupid and crass assessment of the Australian position is haunting us an will continue to do so. It only takes one fool to make a position stupid. To categorise both China and India as virtual future enemies was an incredibly arrogant [...]

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Australian sea levels to rise

May 30, 2011
Australian sea levels to rise

Australian sea levels to rise by three feet unless climate change is halted Sea levels will rise by more than three feet by the end of the century making severe coastal flooding a common factor of life in Australia if urgent action is not taken to limit climate change, a key report by a panel [...]

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Australian Racism and Intolerance. Also a Labor Party Tradition

April 23, 2011
Australian Racism and Intolerance. Also a Labor Party Tradition

The latest treatment of those with the temerity to burn buildings and not actively take part in murder and slaughter we here in Australia love, shows the depth of racism and intolerance here and in particular in the Labor Party. The party was of course the founder and main mover of the White Australia Policy [...]

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Pilger article on ANZAC

April 22, 2011
Pilger article on ANZAC

  Marching for Anzac in the 51st State by John Pilger, April 22, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum 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 [...]

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By the grace of Gillard and others we will end up being universally hated

April 21, 2011
By the grace of Gillard and others we will end up being universally hated

It was very interesting to hear yet another homily on obedience from the unelected Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, given, as it were , on the run, during yet another incredibly important overseas visit. It seems that the PM believes that the violence from those incarcerated at Villawood is just oh so unacceptable. Never mind [...]

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Strikes

April 18, 2011
Strikes

This is the type of action the Australian Labor Party turned its back on in 1891 when it was formed as a capitalist workers’ party. By attaching itself to an agenda of minimalist parliamentary gains from the elites, the end came at the beginning, April 18, 1912 and 1941 Labor Movement and Leaders Submitted by [...]

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The price you pay in Australia for being pro Palestinian or just pro decency.

April 17, 2011
The price you pay in Australia for being pro Palestinian or just pro decency.

Apart from a few lunatics who think that Israel can do what it likes to the Palestinians this is what happens in Australia if or when you decide to take a good look at what the Israelis are doing and decide to act on that. Backlash forces end to Israel boycott Josephine Tovey April 18, [...]

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