Articles tagged ‘War’.

Two!
At the last CI staff meeting
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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US mega-death machines for WA’s Garden Island?
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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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30 January 1972: Army kills 13 in Northern Ireland civil rights protest
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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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You can’t have it both ways
Banana workers harvesting bananas in Queensland. According to the Bureau of Statistics, 375 workers banana workers died last year through exposure to radioactive bananas, A Senate Committee is enquiring into the high rate of genetic defects in banana workers' children.
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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Dance for the de-miners
Imagine a farmer losing two arms and an eye. He was found in his home wasting away.
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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War without end, amen: the reality of America’s aggression against Iraq
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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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Let’s get Sassy: recipes 6 and 7 – ‘Bugger these blokes, I’m off to Spain’
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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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The PM believes in fairytales (so how come she won’t disappear in a cloud of fairy dust?)
Let's make Pakistan next!
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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Ziggy Switkowski: Let’s sell uranium to Pakistan, too
From: The Australian December 05, AUSTRALIA will have to consider selling uranium to Pakistan in the future after agreeing to export it to India, acco...
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Labor sells out on nuclear non-proliferation
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) have condemned the Australian Labor ...
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Refugee trauma worse than war
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The trauma of being a refugee can be worse than the trauma of war, according to research by Dr Anita Milicevic, conducted at Melbourne’s Victor...
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Greens Senator in bid to stop Assange extradition
Julian Assange - bound for the US?
Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam will attend the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks editor in chief Julian Assange in London on December 5 and is ...
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Labor must ban cluster bombs before cutting any deals over US forces in Darwin
The Australian Greens have urged Labor to fix the Government’s cluster munitions bill and pass it into law before considering any US troop deplo...
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Give us your rifles and go home
Brigadier-General Mohammed Zafar Khan
Afghanistan’s call for Australian troops to give their equipment to the Afghan National Army and go home is a thunderous statement being met wit...
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Obama to attend Occupy Castlemaine
In a move that has shocked Republicans and the Whitehouse, President Barak Obama has announced he will interrupt his Australian schedule and attend th...
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25 more years supporting nukes
Comms towers at the Holt Naval Base, North West Cape
The Australia-US deal over the Naval Communication Station at North West Cape threatens Ningaloo Reef and needs a complete overhaul, the Australian Gr...
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An occupier’s perspective
Who would have thought this, on the streets of Melbourne?
By Isaac Sutcliffe I’m not sure who first came up with the idea of occupying Wall Street. I remember the first I heard of it was from the “hac...
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West Papuan Futures – part three, the independence struggle is here to stay
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By Setyo Budi* This is the third part of an article that looks at a fragmentation that appears within the Indonesian government and West Papuan Indepe...
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West Papuan Futures – part two
Rex Rumakiek, Secretary General of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation
By Setyo Budi* This is the second part of an article that looks at a fragmentation that appears within the Indonesian government and West Papuan Inde...
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West Papuan Futures – part one
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Setyo Budi* The future of West Papua will be determined by a number of factors, and key players in upcoming years. Jakarta-Papua dialogue has been cho...
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Death in El Salvador
Farewell Christian Poveda
By Deborah Bonello The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding. The fir...
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Feminism’s front-line killer blow
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By Clive Hamilton Sending women into battle alongside men is no victory for liberation. With women to take on combat roles in the military, it is time...
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The other 9/11
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On the morning of Tuesday, 11 September 1973, two jets launched a deadly attack on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in the heart of Santiago, Chil...
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Residents flee as Indonesian troops mobilise
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By Setyo Budi First published in New Matilda Thousands of people have deserted their homes in the Central Highlands of West Papua as Indonesian troops...
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Gillard and the old refrain: Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori
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By Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we t...
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Weekend read: What is war good for?
Excavation work at Taraco
Warfare, triggered by political conflict between the fifth century BC and the first century AD, likely shaped the development of the first settlement ...
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A question is arising
Protesters outside the Max Brennan shop in Melbourne
By Setyo Budi* Police arrested several pro-Palestinian political activists in dawn raids in Melbourne last week after their protests against a chain s...
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Libyan warplanes bomb London
Blitzed: the view at London's Isle of Dogs
Libya has been accused of killing ‘dozens’ of civilians including children in bomb attacks on London docks following the Libyan leaderR...
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The souled nation
At school in East Timor. Photo by Pery Mesquita.
Nearly one hundred people packed the Theatre Royal last Friday, offering a great welcome for Sol Nation. “Are you a good dancer?” a friend asked. ...
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NATO has Libyan media in its sights
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova
8 August 2011 The head of the United Nations agency entrusted with safeguarding press freedom today deplored a recent North Atlantic Treaty Organizati...
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On this day in 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. President Harry S Truman, announcing the news fr...
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Films to make a difference
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The Possible Futures Film Contest, a joint project of FOUR YEARS. GO. and The Pachamama Alliance, received 317 films from film makers in 44 countries ...
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Time for truth on Rio Tinto and Bougainville war
Tom Albanese, chief executive of Rio Tinto. © Copyright 2011 - all rights reserved
Rio Tinto must reveal the full extent of its involvement in the Bougainville war, the Australian Greens said today in the wake of revelations Papua ...
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