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Why Washington Won't Save Darfur Villagers
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 11:31 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
September 21, Salih Booker, the director of the Africa Studies Program at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations ruling-class think tank, argued in the International Herald Tribune that the US government has failed to convince the UN Security Council ... More >>
John Pilger: Australia’s Samidzat
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 1:47 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia
In 1983, the principal media in the Western world, which dominate much of the media in the rest of the world, were owned by 50 corporations. In 2002, this had fallen to nine transnational companies. Rampant deregulation has ended even a semblance ... More >>
GLW: Can John Kerry defeat George W Bush?
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 1:49 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia
With his mother at his side, and a picture of his identical twin brother, who was killed in Iraq, held above him, Ivan Medina, a US Army soldier, said: ``We must bring our troops home now. Not tomorrow. Not in six years. Now! We cannot allow another ... More >>
The Jakarta Bombing, Poverty, War And Desperation
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 11:33 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
I condemn the bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on September 9, which has taken at least nine lives and injured more than 180 Indonesians — mainly people doing business at the embassy and passers-by. I express my full sympathy to all those ... More >>
GLW: 'War On Terror' Has Not Stopped Terrorism
Thursday, 9 September 2004, 11:46 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
9/11 three years on: 'War on terror' has not stopped terrorism Rohan Pearce & Alison Dellit Green Left Weekly More >>
GLW: Bolivarian Revolution: A People’s Win
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 12:33 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
The Venezuelan government’s victory on August 15 is not only a victory for the people of Venezuela, but for working people worldwide. The Venezuelan voters decisive rejection of the right-wing bid to recall President Hugo Chavez has demonstrated what is possible ... More >>
GLW: Michael Moore: War Is For The Rich!
Thursday, 19 August 2004, 2:10 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Michael Moore's blockbuster documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 isn't just an assault on the Bush regime and the “war on terror” — it indicts the corporate vultures who rushed to cash-in on the warmongers' post-9/11 crusade. More >>
Darfuris Made Pawns In Western Power Play For Oil
Monday, 16 August 2004, 3:14 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia
If anything betrays the true attitude of the US and European governments towards the suffering of millions of displaced people in the Darfur region of western Sudan, it is the little publicised fact that Western governments are allowing more than ... More >>
Michael Moore's Media Critics Are The Liars
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 12:39 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Most commentators in the Australian corporate media, whether the unashamedly hard-right terriers of the Murdoch empire or the “liberal” chihuahuas of the Fairfax press, have subjected Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 to relentless attack. More >>
Oil Profits Behind West's Tears For Darfur
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 11:52 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
For at least 18 months now, Western governments have quietly stood by as the non-Arabic-speaking black farmers of the Darfur region in western Sudan have borne the brunt of a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign carried out by state-sponsored bandits known as the janjaweed. More >>
Will Fahrenheit 9/11 Bring Down Bush And Howard?
Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 1:24 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia
I was amused and a little offended by Bolt's rant, but hardly surprised by his predictable Rottweiler-like assault on Moore's documentary. Bolt is part of a desperate — and unsuccessful — campaign to derail the relentless forward march of the film. More >>
Green Left Weekly: Throw Howard Out!
Friday, 2 July 2004, 11:52 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
The message is clear: If re-elected, the Coalition government will drag Australia into more US-led wars of aggression. More >>
Green Left Weekly: Iraq - Bush Bullies Latham
Thursday, 24 June 2004, 10:43 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
It's no surprise that the US government is leaning heavily on the ALP federal leader Mark Latham to back down on his promise to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq ''by Christmas''. More >>
Green Left Weekly: Iraq - US Still Calls The Shots
Thursday, 17 June 2004, 12:21 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
The selection of Iyad Allawi as prime minister of the Iraqi ''interim government'' is a clear demonstration that Washington has no intention of relinquishing its control over Iraq on June 30. More >>
GLW: The World Is Skating On Thin Ice
Thursday, 3 June 2004, 12:22 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Hollywood’s latest blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow , has triggered the release of vast amounts of hot air from fossil-fuel industry funded ''greenhouse skeptics''. More >>
GLW: Iraq War Causes Cracks In The US Empire
Thursday, 27 May 2004, 10:11 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
The failure of US troops' bloody attempts to crush the Iraqi people's armed rebellions in Fallujah and Najaf — and the public outrage across the world sparked by the revelations of the systematic torture of Iraqi prisoners by US guards at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib ... More >>
Aceh: Martial Law Ends But Troops Remain
Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 3:45 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Jakarta's decision to lift martial law in Aceh, in favour of an ''emergency status'', won't change the lives of ordinary Acehnese for the better, according to a leader of the Acehnese community in Australia. More >>
Torture: A Deliberate Tool Of Imperial Occupation
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 12:01 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
As more and more photographs of abuse and torture inflicted on Iraqi detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison by their US guards have come to public light, US officials have been desperate to claim that they are an “aberration” in Washington's ''war ... More >>
GLW: Iraq - Will Us Withdrawal Lead To Civil War?
Wednesday, 5 May 2004, 9:39 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
If the US troops leave Iraq, “violence will fill the vacuum as groups struggle for political power, and we risk all-out civil war”, John McCain, a leading Republican member of the US Senate armed services committee, declared in a April 22 speech to ... More >>
GLW: Spain Strikes A Blow Against Warmongers
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 11:36 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Three days after the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid, in which 200 people died and up to 1750 were injured, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's Popular Party (PP) government was thrown out of office. The massive defeat of the PP, which lost to ... More >>
