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Loose cannons

Obviously not with the PR department "The people there are dead because we wanted them dead." — comment to CNN by an unidentified Pentagon official on the obliteration by US helicopter-gunships on October 22 of the Afghan village of

WORLD ECONOMY: Free trade puts workers on the global treadmill

BY SEAN HEALY Ever watched a mouse run around and around on a treadmill? Well, that's the position of workers under the terms of "free trade" agreements — except rather than one mouse per treadmill, it's billions of us, all competing against each

Socialist Alliance has 'a good start'

BY ALISON DELLIT "We stood up for our principles against the power of the major parties and we have stood tall", indigenous activist Sam Watson, the lead Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance in Queensland, told the alliance's Brisbane

Museworthy: The Subjectivity of Corpses (after Susan Bordo)

Museworthy: The Subjectivity of Corpses (after Susan Bordo) like legal meat and bonethe corpse said I could not have its corneaI could not have its heartI could not have its kidneynor one lung of its pair at an impassethe corpse and Iwere

From Fraser to Howard: Behind the shift in policy toward 'boat-people'

BY SARAH STEPHEN As the imperialist powers escalate their war on Afghanistan, refugees continue to flee in their tens of thousands, joining millions in Pakistan and Iran. The scale of the humanitarian crisis is immense, with several million Afghan

IRAQ: How the US intentionally destroyed Iraq's water supply

In violation of the terms of the Geneva Convention, the United States government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply during and after the 1991 Gulf War, Defense Intelligence Agency documents have revealed.

Boondocks won't be silenced

BY SARAH KNOPP "We'd like to take this time to remind all Americans in this time of hardship that 33 News coverage of 'America Strikes Back' is brought to you by Nike, who would like to remind all freedom-loving, brave American soldiers to 'Just Do

UNITED STATES: The world's 'leading terrorist state'

Noam Chomsky, a longtime political activist, writer, and professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, international affairs, and human rights. He was

Mundine victimisation exposes 'free world' freedom

BY PETER ROBSON& TROY SAXBY "I really feel that it's not our problem. They call it an act of terrorism, but if you understand the religion and our life, it's not about terrorism — it's about fighting for God's laws, and America's brought it upon

Anti-war protests grow

BY MELANIE SJOBERG SYDNEY — In the biggest show of Australian opposition to the war in Afghanistan yet, more than 10,000 protesters mobilised in 11 cities on the weekend of November 3-4, declaring: "No to racism, no to war — this is what we're

Write on: Letters to the editor

Bullies Since the end of World War II, the USA has been the biggest and toughest kid on the block, bullying mercilessly Iraq (genocide), Cuba (40 years' blockade), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, little Grenada, Vietnam, Chile (Pinochet's ghastly

Protesters demand refugee rights

BY NADEEM ANSARI CANBERRA — More than 500 people turned out on November 4 to demand an end to the war on refugees in a protest organised by the Refugee Action Collective. First to address the crowd was Wadjularbinna from the Aboriginal Tent