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US Students Kick Military Recruiters Off Campus

Friday, 15 April 2005, 11:21 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia

Two years after the invasion of Iraq, which generated the biggest protests in history, the anti-war movement in the United States is re-gathering strength. More >>

John Pilger: ‘They Are Afraid Of You’

Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 2:24 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

Remarks made by independent journalist John Pilger to a March 20 anti-war rally in Sydney. More >>

Aceh, W. Papua & Indonesian dissidents to Conf.

Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 1:47 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

Five delegates to an Asia-Pacific solidarity conference in Sydney this morning arrive two-day’s late and only after vigorous protests against visa denials by the Australian embassy in Jakarta. These include: More >>

GLW: Is Bush's Empire Coming Unstuck In Iraq?

Thursday, 24 March 2005, 11:25 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia

In a March 14 article for the British Guardian, investigative journalist Naomi Klein pointed out that, as the US is increasingly exposed — ''Brand USA is in trouble'' — as the world’s biggest terrorist, it is desperate to rebrand itself. More >>

Halliburton In Oz: Publicly Funded War Profiteer

Thursday, 17 March 2005, 11:45 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia

Halliburton is the No. 1 corporate beneficiary of the war against Iraq, raking in US$18 billion in contracts to rebuild the country's oil industry and providing logistical services to the US occupation troops, according to the US-based Corpwatch's 2004 ... More >>

Howard’s Attempted Bribery To Steal Timor Oil

Thursday, 17 March 2005, 12:32 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia

''We went to East Timor to help those people, and now we are slapping them in the face and stealing their oil.'' This is what Chip Henriss-Anderssen, a former major in the Australian military who served with the International Force for East Timor, ... More >>

5500 US Deserters: We Won't Fight In Iraq

Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 2:30 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

On February 25, US Army officials at Fort Stewart, Georgia, announced that Sergeant Kevin Benderman, a 40-year-old army mechanic who refused to deploy to Iraq for a second tour of duty, will be court-martialed on desertion charges. If convicted, ... More >>

Green Left Weekly: Stop Stealing East Timor's Oil!

Thursday, 10 February 2005, 2:42 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

A 30-second television advertisement screened on January 26 during the Australian Open tennis tournament has returned to the limelight the theft of East Timor’s oil and gas resources by PM John Howard’s Coalition government. At prime time and to ... More >>

Iraq: Have The Elections Saved The US Occupation?

Thursday, 10 February 2005, 2:39 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

For most activists in the global anti-war movement, it's obvious that the US-engineered January 30 elections in Iraq have not ushered in a new era of democracy nor fundamentally changed the nature of the brutal, US-led occupation. More >>

GLW: Palestine - A Town Under House Arrest

Monday, 7 February 2005, 2:22 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

On January 25, Israeli troops rolled into the town of Saida and placed the whole village under curfew: since then, no-one has been allowed to leave his or her home. One of those in the town is Australian aid worker Donna Mulhearn , who sent the following ... More >>

Green Left Weekly: Resist The Empire!

Thursday, 3 February 2005, 10:53 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia

At an extravagant celebration with his wealthy supporters on January 20, George Bush was officially crowned ruler of the United States empire for another four years. More >>

Iraq Election A Sham: Bring The Troops Home!

Friday, 28 January 2005, 1:49 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

Unfortunately for the Bush administration, the gap between its claims about Iraq and the reality is so vast that any comment it makes on the subject guarantees an embarrassing abundance of irony. More >>

Global Warming: Is Kyoto Accord The Answer?

Monday, 20 December 2004, 11:12 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia

Thousands of delegates from almost 200 governments around the world converged on Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on December 6-17 for the latest in the seemingly interminable rounds of talks aimed at implementing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the international ... More >>

GLW: Police Terrorise Palm Island Aborigines

Thursday, 9 December 2004, 1:15 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

At 11.20am on November 19, a 36-year-old Aboriginal man, Cameron Doomadgee, died in the police watch-house on Palm Island. An hour earlier he was very much alive, singing along the street. More >>

GLW: Venezuela - An Unfolding Revolution

Thursday, 9 December 2004, 1:13 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

If there is one thing that US imperialism cannot stand, it is the threat of a good example. Venezuela's pro-worker government is in Washington's gun sights. More >>

James Petras: Covering Up US War Crimes In Iraq

Thursday, 2 December 2004, 11:13 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia

I am reading William Shirer's Berlin Diary , a journalist's account of Nazi political propaganda during the 1930s, as I watch the US “news” reports of the violent assault on Fallujah. More >>

GLW: Political Blowback From Fallujah Begins

Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 2:08 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia

The NBC TV footage of a US marine executing a wounded and unarmed Iraqi resistance fighter in a Fallujah mosque was a rare crack in the facade that Washington, with the complicity of most of the corporate media, has tried to present to the world ... More >>

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