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  1. Creating a desert and calling it peace: Turkey鈥檚 water war against Rojava

    Turkey's water theft. Photo: Harwar News Stop Turkey flooding the 12,000-year-old town of Hasankeyf! ... the cradle of civilisation in ancient Mesopotamia. But, for Turkey, it is another weapon of war. ... Turkey鈥檚 system of huge dams is not just about irrigation and generating hydro-electric power. It is ...

  2. John Pilger: Time to recognise Blair's crimes

    figures that exceed the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the genocide in Rwanda. And yet, wrote ... theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre ... consequences. It is a secure arrangement guarded by cast and critics alike. The farewell speech of one of the ...

  3. Abbott's Syria war will create more refugees

    bombing the country. He also announced plans to accept a further 12,000 Syrian refugees on top of his ... month with his usual rhetoric of 鈥渘ational security鈥 鈥 maintaining, contrary to evidence, that ISIS ... Tony Abbott announced on September 9 a novel approach to stemming the flow of refugees from Syria: ...