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Iraq One Year On: Has Washington Won?
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 1:31 pm | Green Left Weekly - Australia
One year since US President George Bush announced the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, the plans for an imperial ''new American century'' have come seriously unhinged. More >>
Tariq Ali: The Price Of Occupying Iraq
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 11:42 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
The whole world knows that US President George Bush and British PM Tony Blair lied to justify the war, but do they know the price being paid on the ground in Iraq? More >>
GLW: The Global Anti-War Movement Was Right
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 10:47 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
On February 14-16 last year, at least 12 million people took to the streets to oppose the war on Iraq. Now, twelve months later, the warmongers in Canberra, London and Washington are desperate to justify their murder — but it won’t wash. More >>
Green Left Weekly: Free David Hicks!
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 10:51 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
David Hicks has been held without charge in the US military camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for more than two years. In November, US Major Michael Mori was appointed as his military ''defence counsel''. More >>
How The US Armed Saddam Hussein With Chemicals
Wednesday, 17 December 2003, 11:40 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
On August 18, 2002, the New York Times carried a front-page story headlined, "Officers say U.S. aided Iraq despite the use of gas". More >>
Green Left Weekly: Iraq - Vietnam Replayed
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 12:10 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
''It is not Vietnam, and there is no way you can make the comparison'', Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, the top US general in Iraq, snapped at a reporter during a November 11 Pentagon press briefing in Baghdad. The reporter had asked Sanchez whether the ... More >>
Green Left Weekly: Is The US Empire Invincible?
Friday, 5 December 2003, 11:48 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Seven months ago, when the US army rolled into Baghdad, the US war machine seemed invincible. The US rulers seemed to be in reach of realising their goal of conquering Iraq and using it as a secure base from which to establish imperial domination throughout ... More >>
Green Left Weekly: US Terrorises Iraqi Civilians
Thursday, 27 November 2003, 11:19 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
A November 19 press release from the US military's Central Command was headlined, ''Operations Make Iraq Safer, Improve Quality of Life''. It was referring to the renewed offensive by US occupation forces against Iraqi resistance fighters. More >>
Unpopular War: Americans Turn Against Bush
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 10:49 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
For the first time since the US began its war to conquer Iraq and turn its oil resources over to US corporations, a majority of US voters disapprove of the way US President George Bush is handling the situation in Iraq according to the latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup ... More >>
14 Asylum Seekers 'Threaten' National Security
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 11:49 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Fourteen men claiming to be Kurds from Turkey, four Indonesian crew and one small fishing boat drifting into shore on Melville Island, 80km from Darwin — that’s all it took for the government to declare “national security” to be under such threat ... More >>
Norm Dixon: How Willie Brigitte Became A Terrorist
Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 11:14 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
''What was Willie Brigitte doing in Australia for five months'' and ''Why did the federal government not take action against him sooner'' are the questions that the corporate media has repeatedly asked since news of the 35-year-old French citizen's ... More >>
GLW: US elite fears Bush is losing Iraq war
Friday, 7 November 2003, 10:44 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
''The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react'', US President George Bush commented after the coordinated detonation of car bombs at four different targets in Baghdad on October 27. More >>
Manus Island's Last Prisoner Denied Justice
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 9:43 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
Since the end of July, 24-year-old Palestinian asylum seeker Aladdin Sisalem has been the only prisoner in the Australian government's Lombrum detention centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea. More >>
Green Left Weekly: Iraq Globalisation At Gun Point
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 9:32 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
On August 31, Peter McPherson, a former Bank of America executive, close friend of US Vice-President Dick Cheney and, today, the top US economic “adviser” in Iraq, announced that the US-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) had selected ... More >>
Green Left: GM Food A `Biological Time Bomb'
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 10:31 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
On August 7, the United States government formally demanded that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) set up a dispute settlement panel in order to legally challenge the European Union's five-year de facto ban on the new approval of genetically modified ... More >>
Iraq: How Bush, Howard and Blair lied about WMD
Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 9:24 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
On May 30, US President George Bush told Polish television that the US military had found Iraq's “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD). Well, sort of. Remember the three (some media outlets have inaccurately reported two) trailers the US found. More >>
Civilians, Rights Activists Targeted In Terror War
Wednesday, 4 June 2003, 11:13 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
JAKARTA — Amid mounting reports of civilian casualties and human rights violations by Indonesia's armed forces (TNI), the government is moving to suppress opposition to the so-called “restoration of security” operation in Aceh, Indonesia's northern-most ... More >>
GLW: Australia Abandons Victims Of Oppression, War
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 8:46 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
''We chose Australia as a country of justice and freedom'', Iranian asylum seekers in Port Hedland detention centre wrote in an open letter to the Australian people on March 14. They were horrified, however, by what they found. More >>
Green Left: Iraq - US Invaders Massacre Civilians
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 11:48 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
On March 31, soldiers from the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division stationed at a roadblock near the Iraqi towns of Najaf and Karbala opened fire on a car, killing 11 of the civilians inside. According to an “embedded” Washington Post reporter, the US captain ... More >>
World-wide protests demand: `Don't attack Iraq!'
Friday, 31 January 2003, 10:25 am | Green Left Weekly - Australia
The wave of global anti-war protests on January 18 was a massive show of opposition by the world's working people — in particular those in the United States — to a US war on Iraq. The protests also signal that the US administration no longer enjoys ... More >>
