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NZ government, opposition support US war in Middle East
Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 10:25 am | World Socialist Web Site
New Zealand government, opposition support US war in Middle East By Tom Peters 16 September 2014 More >>
Ahead of election, Snowden reveals mass spying in NZ
Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 10:22 am | World Socialist Web Site
Ahead of election, Snowden reveals mass spying on New Zealanders By Tom Peters 16 September 2014 More >>
New Zealand Greens: A party of big business and militarism
Friday, 12 September 2014, 9:19 am | World Socialist Web Site
New Zealand Greens: A party of big business and militarism By Tom Peters 11 September 2014 More >>
On the Ashburton shooting
Thursday, 11 September 2014, 11:36 am | World Socialist Web Site
Two New Zealand Work and Income (WINZ) workers were killed and one seriously wounded when a homeless welfare recipient allegedly fired at them with a shotgun on September 2. The workers were all long-standing employees of the WINZ office in the South Island ... More >>
NZ govt celebrates centenary of seizure of German Samoa
Wednesday, 10 September 2014, 2:41 pm | World Socialist Web Site
New Zealand government celebrates centenary of seizure of German Samoa By Tom Peters - World Socialist Web Site 5 September 2014 More >>
New Zealand election debates underscore bipartisan austerity
Wednesday, 10 September 2014, 2:35 pm | World Socialist Web Site
New Zealand election debates underscore bipartisan austerity agenda By Tom Peters - World Socialist Web Site 8 September 2014 More >>
The Australian Wheat Board scandal & the Iraq war
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 2:59 pm | World Socialist Web Site
After seven weeks of damning evidence from the Howard government’s Cole inquiry, the real issue in the scandal over the Australian Wheat Board’s payment of $300 million worth of bribes to Saddam Hussein’s regime is not whether Prime Minister John Howard ... More >>
Bush pursues strategic “partnership” with India
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 2:53 pm | World Socialist Web Site
US President George W. Bush travels to South Asia this week with the aim of cementing a strategic and “global” partnership with India. According to his aides, the trip is among the most important that Bush has made in his entire presidency. More >>
Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian revenues
Monday, 27 February 2006, 2:43 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Events within the Occupied Territories following Hamas’s victory in Palestinian legislative council elections last month have again demonstrated Israel’s and Washington’s blatant disregard for international law. More >>
Right-wing posturing: Arab firm’s role at US ports
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 5:35 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Congressional leaders of both parties are engaged in a cynical publicity stunt in their criticism of the Bush administration for approving the takeover of commercial operations at six Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports by a port management company owned ... More >>
Sri Lankan government and LTTE agree to hold talks
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 4:05 pm | World Socialist Web Site
After considerable international pressure, the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last Wednesday agreed to hold talks next month in Geneva for the first time since April 2003. More >>
US, EU threaten cut-off of funds to Palestine
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 4:03 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The election of Hamas has been met with threats by the United States, Europe and Israel to cut off funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA). More >>
India: victims of Gujarat pogrom found, mass grave
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 4:45 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Some of the many missing victims of the anti-Muslim pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002 were uncovered in a mass grave late last month in the village of Pandharwada. Relatives of the victims dug up the remains of about 20 bodies that ... More >>
Ford to cut 30,000 jobs in North America
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 4:43 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Ford Motor Company announced plans on Monday to eliminate between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs by 2012. This amounts to more than 20 percent of the company’s North American workforce, and nearly 30 percent of its manufacturing jobs, where the bulk of the ... More >>
Palestinian election reveals hostility to Abbas
Tuesday, 24 January 2006, 3:26 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council, scheduled for January 25, are set to deepen the political crisis facing President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Public hostility to Abbas over its readiness to abide by the dictates ... More >>
Bush administration report defends spying
Tuesday, 24 January 2006, 3:22 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The Bush administration is responding to revelations of illegal government spying by mounting a campaign to defend its actions, employing the same arguments that have been used to justify a massive expansion of executive powers on a number of different ... More >>
India: twelve protestors killed in police shooting
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 4:09 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Twelve tribal villagers in India were shot dead by police on January 2 during a demonstration against the development of the Kalinga Nagar steel complex in the eastern state of Orissa. The impoverished protestors were demanding a halt to construction by steel ... More >>
Collaboration with CIA renditions by France
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:26 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) and the French League for Human Rights (LHR) last month announced they were “filing a complaint with the Public Prosecutor of the Administrative Court of the City of Bobigny against arbitrary detentions, ... More >>
US bombs Pakistan: an act of reckless imperialism
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:19 pm | World Socialist Web Site
The US air strike carried out on January 13 on the isolated village of Damadola, near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, was as reckless as it was criminal. At least 18 civilians were killed, including five women and five children, further inflaming ... More >>
Fiji remains tense after new coup threat
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 3:15 pm | World Socialist Web Site
Bitter divisions in ruling circles in the small Pacific island state of Fiji have resurfaced after the country’s military commander, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, last week threatened to stage a coup if the government proceeded with its planned ... More >>
