BY
NORM DIXON
& BARRY SHEPPARD
Even as the world's corporate media was declaring the end of the
Iraq war, on April 12 as many as 2 million people mobilised across the
globe to oppose the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.
In
535
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On April 15, 13 Iraqi civilians were killed and 29 wounded by US troops
in the northern city of Mosul. The next day, US troops shot dead a further
four Iraqis and wounded 10 others. Both atrocities occurred at anti-US
protests
BY EVA CHENG
The strains on Washington's close, seven-decade relationship with Saudi Arabia burst into the open last August when the Washington Post revealed that US war secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB) on July 10 had
On May 1, the day
of international workers' solidarity, anti-corporate activists, unionists
and peace campaigners will be taking to the streets of cities around Australia
to oppose the corporate looting of Iraq and to protest against the First
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO — The Canadian state, at all levels, has responded to anti-war demonstrations and direct actions with an escalation of its campaign of harassment and criminalisation of activists.
In Toronto, two large anti-war actions
BY
NEIL SAMMONDS
The world's most efficient secret manufacturer of weapons of mass
destruction was not Iraq, nor is it Syria it is Washington's closest
ally and partner in the Middle East, Israel.
In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a
REVIEW
BY SARAH STEPHEN
No Blood for Oil: Australian Voices for Peace
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BY NORM DIXON
"The allegation ... of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is an excuse [the US uses] when we have it out for other countries", Jon Wolfsthal, deputy director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
BY DOUG LORIMER
While US government officials, from President George Bush down, have publicly denied that the US-led invasion of Iraq has anything to do with seizing control of Iraq's oil vast reserves, the orders given to the invading US troops
Protesters say 'no' to US submarine
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
FREMANTLE — On April 19, activists gathered at the entrance to Stirling Naval Base on Garden Island, near Rockingham, to protest the presence of the US submarine Key West.
USS Key West was
BY
EMMA MURPHY
BAXTER After months of planning, on April 18-20 up to 800 people
from across Australia converged on the Baxter detention centre outside
Port Augusta, to protest against the mandatory detention of asylum seekers,
and show
BY JIM MCILROY
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) have voted by 61% to 39% in favour of a resolution from the union's Centrelink Section Council to endorse a new enterprise bargaining agreement, which will now be put to an
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