East Timor Tim Anderson's excellent analysis of "East Timor after Alkatiri" (GLW #674) goes only part of the way to explaining where Australia is at in its push to establish a puppet protectorate to its near north. While the emerging picture in
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Emma Clancy, Sydney Rotem Mor is a young Israeli refusenik (conscripts who refuse to serve in the military to protest the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza) who is currently on a speaking tour around Australia. On July 9, he addressed the 35th
ISTANBUL — More than 5000 people assembled for a rally and march in Taksim Square on July 29 to demand that Israel halt its military offensive against Lebanon and the Palestinians in the Gaza strip. The demonstration was called by the Confederation
Ghassan Hage Here we are, once again, protesting Israeli barbarism — that same technologically over-equipped barbarism that has made the lives of so many of us unbearable for the last 60 years. The issue today is not the rights or wrongs of
Doug Lorimer On July 22, US troops attacked the offices of the Shiite-based Mahdi Army militia in the town of Musayyib, 64 kilometres south of Baghdad, "killing 15 militiamen in a three-hour battle", Associated Press reported. AP also reported that
An estimated 100,000 people gathered to celebrate Revolution Day (July 26) in Bayamo, the capital of Cuba's Granma Province. The rally marked the 53rd anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada Barracks led by Fidel Castro, now Cuba's president.
Protests were held in some 30 of Nepal's 75 districts on July 26, organised by the Citizens Movement for Democracy and Peace, an umbrella body of non-party organisations. The protest in the capital, Kathmandu, reportedly attracted 2000-3000.
Stuart Munckton According to a July 23 VHeadline.com report, campesino [peasant] leader Braulio Alvarez escaped with minor injuries after the car he was driving "came under a hail of bullets". Alvarez is a deputy in the National Assembly (AN) for
Rohan Pearce It's all about "Letting Israel Be Israel", according to the headline of an article in the July 31 neo-conservative Weekly Standard. The article by Fred Barnes, the executive editor of the Rupert Murdoch-owned magazine, endorsed "Bush's
Annolies Truman, Perth The 107 Perth construction workers who have received writs from the secretive Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) will have their first federal court appearance in Perth on August 29. The Construction,
Greg Adamson On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the historic Japanese city of Hiroshima. While this was a military triumph for the United States, for scientists, including Albert Einstein, it was a tragedy. A new weapon of immense
On July 23, defence minister Brendan Nelson announced that Canberra is willing to contribute armed Australian soldiers to a "robust" (meaning armed and prepared to carry out combat operations) international "peacekeeping" force to "stablise" Lebanon.
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