Articles tagged ‘War’.
Three car bombs have exploded in Dublin, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100 others during rush hour. Five more people died and another 20 we...
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A second IRA hunger striker, 25-year-old Francis Hughes, has starved to death in the Maze Prison near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His ...
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Argentina’s only cruiser, the General Belgrano, has been sunk by a British nuclear submarine in the South Atlantic. It is the first serious atta...
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Thanks Rosemary for your article. As a teacher and parent I too am concerned about media popularising violence especially in young people who have not...
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By Rosemary McKenry A 13-year-old girl, Ruby, puts up two ‘likes’ on her Facebook page. ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Kony 2012.’ Her friends do...
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By Joyce Sanders We remember the names of a lot of the heroes of the first World War: on 25 April, 1918, the battle at Villiers-Bretonneux gave hero ...
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By Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps Major Butler joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Med...
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By Mark Twain O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle-be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth...
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Grisly photos of American soldiers posing with bodies of suspected Taliban insurgents resemble ’tourist pics’ and represent the changing ...
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The Northern Ireland peace talks have ended with an historic agreement. The accord – dubbed the Good Friday Agreement – was reached after ...
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By Brian Terrell, ICH April 05, 2012 – Were Jesus to preach today as he preached in Jerusalem two millennia ago, instead of a cross of wood the ...
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) will stage a protest today at the Future Fund’s headquarters in Melbourne to call on th...
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In Canberra today the government announced a further strengthening of ties between Australia and the US. ‘From 2018 Parliament will close and Congre...
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By Bobbot March 25, 2012 “Salon‘ — Dick got a heart transplant. At age 71. Did he shoot the donor himself or did he have someone els...
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MELBOURNE – The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) welcomes today’s Parliamentary motion affirming support for “the goal o...
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Labor and the Coalition’s about-turn on their support for nuclear submarines is a welcome acknowledgment that they made a mistake yesterday in a...
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The whole thing is regrettable, really. Shocking, truth to tell. And so sad, I’m sure, for those people, those blanket-wearing, beard-growing, false...
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Governments and commentators keen on promoting a war against Iran should be stridently opposed, not so much because of the threat to world peace, but ...
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Gary Bridgland from Harcourt is planning a trip to Laos once his bees settle down for the winter. You can catch him at the Wesley Hill Market on Satur...
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It’s bad enough that the US military burned — it says accidentally — Korans in Afghanistan. But if that symbolism wasn’t already a setback to ...
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Why the outcry over Syria? When the US and its allies bombed Libya where was the outcry? When Israel attacked Lebanon (pick any of the occasions) wher...
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By Karl Lindemann U.S. foreign policy is obsessed with demonizing Iran. It has been since the pro-American Shah was popularly overthrown in 1979. From...
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam said yesterday that the Australian Defence Force posture review – an inquiry into Australian defence...
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British troops have opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the Bogside district of Londonderry, killing 13 civilians. Seventeen more people, inclu...
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The Government must end uranium sales to Russia if it is serious about stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the Australian Greens said on Fri...
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Back in the 1960s and early 70s, the US dropped millions of tonnes of bombs and mines on South-East Asia. It was the Vietnam War, and Laos and Cambodi...
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By Chris Floyd December 19, 2011 “Information Clearing House” – In March 2003, the United States of America launched an entirely unp...
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Great Grandma Sassy ‘Saskatchewan’ O’Higgins came to Australia from County Monaghan via Canada and Chicago. She migrated after falling i...
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By Anonymous Since when is a meeting in a bar a “modern-day fairytale”? Did Fred and Mary have a drunken shag in the dairy and then he won...
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