Articles tagged ‘War’.

War is a racket – a few profit, the many pay
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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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Heroes
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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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25 April 1915
If we're going to celebrate the virtues of militarism, what about a date when the first Australians took up arms to defend their homeland?
By Andrew McKenna Australia invades the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli. We establish a beach head and start killing Turks defending their homeland. We su...
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Farewell Don Gunn
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By Andrew McKenna There are a few people in life who I can say have not just influenced me but been ‘markers’ or milestones in my life. Do...
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Howard lied (but didn’t we know that already?)
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By Margaret Swieringa Former prime minister John Howard’s justification this week on why we went to war against Iraq in 2003 obfuscates some iss...
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Building a life
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Photos and story by Meg Sattler The Shan people of Myanmar have long endured a harsh existence in their native land. Intermittent conflict between Sha...
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Opposition plans to spend $1.5b on drone surveillance
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By Meg Sattler Federal opposition defense spokesman David Johnston has announced plans to deploy unmanned aircraft surveillance to detect and deter as...
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‘May God take pity on her soul’: The Argentinian reaction to Margaret Thatcher’s death
The Independent   “La Dama de Hierro” has passed away. Argentina’s media has always embraced the Iron Lady title, a nickname that in its ey...
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You couldn’t make this up if you tried: Labor’s horrible accomplishments
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In the week before Easter, Prime Minister Gillard invited Kyle Sandilands, a radio DJ – who once questioned a 14-year-old rape victim on-air about h...
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Make music, not war: Post War Orchestra converts weapons into musical instruments
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Turning pistols into piccolos sounds like the kind of hippie dream that died out with flared trousers. But a group of UK musicians is doing just that,...
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Kathryn Bigelow stuns on red carpet wearing blood-soaked rags Osama Bin Laden was killed in
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Oscars Fashion Report: Kathryn Bigelow Stuns On Red Carpet Wearing Blood-Soaked Rags Osama Bin Laden Was Killed In...
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Iraq 10 years on – Time for an Inquiry
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Today marks 10 years since the commencement of Australia’s largest ever demonstrations took place protesting Australia’s imminent involvem...
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Why is justice a one-eyed blind woman?
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History Never Ends I Hate to Bother You By Eduardo Galeano “Information Clearing House” – I’d like to share with you some question...
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On this day in 1968
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1968: Radiation alert following B-52 crash, 28 January 1968 A recovery team is searching for wreckage from an American Air Force B-52 bomber armed wit...
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Remember all the children, Mr President
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By Bill Quigley December 17, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Remember...
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A culture that condones the killing of children and teaches children to kill
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By Lucinda Marshall December 16, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The Sandy Hook massacre isn’t just about the need for gun con...
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U.S.-U.K. (and Australian) Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 killed 3.3 millions
By Sherwood Ross December 05, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were...
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Short change for schrapnel
The Hon Stephen Smith: holding a tin rattle for Defence
The Minister for Defence, the Honourable Stephen Smith, has said that despite massive cuts to the Department of Defence budget, he was sure the Austra...
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Where’s our humanity for Gaza?
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By Sara Roy Between February 2009 — just after the Operation Cast Lead onslaught — and August 2012, Israeli attacks in Gaza averaged six per week....
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Puppet State America
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By Paul Craig Roberts November 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – The United States government and its subject peoples think of...
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Journalistic Cliches: ‘Surgical Air Strikes’, ‘Rooting Out Terror’, and ‘Cyber-Terrorism’ Cannot Conceal Reality
By Robert Fisk November 19, 2012 “The Independent” — Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to ...
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PM condemns attacks on Israel, silent on attacks on Gaza
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has condemned the attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip, and said the rocket attacks will not help the Palestinian campai...
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Afghanistan: ‘It’s not worth it’ – Major John Cantwell
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The Prime Minister’s statement on Afghanistan failed to commit to withdraw Australian combat troops in a specified timeframe, the Australian Greens ...
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The victims of Fallujah’s health crisis are stifled by western silence
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The Guardian Researching a possible link between US bombardment and rates of birth defects and paediatric cancer in Iraq is a moral imperative. Four ...
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The CIA and ‘video games’ in Pakistan
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The Mail on Sunday has revealed shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan. A damning dossier assembled from ex...
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Julia Gillard and the same old lies
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By Andrew McKenna JULIA Gillard made a surprise visit to Australian troops in Afghanistan recently, and unbelievably, linked their mission to the Bali...
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Afghanistan’s My Lai massacre
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Under the Geneva Conventions, it is a war crime to execute a captive. Yet, in Kunar on December 26, 2010, US-led forces, or perhaps US soldiers or con...
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NATO kills four children in eastern Afghanistan
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On Tuesday Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned a NATO operation that he said killed four children in the country’s east, a claim the coaliti...
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