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  1. John Pilger: How Thatcher helped Pol Pot

    block". Khieu Samphan, Pol Pot's prime minister during the years of genocide, took the salute of UN ... will go unmentioned was the support her government gave in the 1980s to the genocidal Pol Pot-led Khmer ... entered Phnom Penh. In the calendar of fanaticism, this was Year Zero; as many as two million people, ...

  2. Ukraine: Outside powers exploiting ethnic nationalisms

    new Ukrainian government. When Yanukovich fled after failing to crush two months of anti-government ... mixed with memories of the genocidal forced collectivisation of agriculture and other atrocities by the ... Today, they are about 12% of the population of Crimea and the Crimean Tatar population in Crimea now ...

  3. The other, human-made tsunami

    Yet, for nine months after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime, no effective aid arrived from ... of this human-made tsunami reaches 13-18 million child deaths every year; or 12 million children ... giving less to help the tsunami victims than the cost of a stealth bomber or a week's bloody ...

  4. The real bio-terrorists are in Washington

    gas shells accounting for 12% of its total artillery use, double that of Germany. Revulsion against ... an anthrax outbreak there during the final months of the brutal, US-backed white minority ... at last we can all go about our lives free from the fear of anthrax letters in the mail and nerve gas ...

  5. Washington's hand seen in Ocalan's abduction

    oppression Kurds make up 20% of Turkey's population of about 60 million, with more than 12 million ... genocidal attacks on cultures and freedoms of peoples... I am opposed to all terror, even if it originates ... 350 February 24, 1999 By Norm Dixon The brazen February 15 abduction of Kurdish rebel leader ...

  6. SUDAN: Darfur's 'human-made' disaster

    addition, there are perhaps 1.2 million internally displaced persons and upwards of 200,000 refugees in Chad ... months. These factors led to the formation of two resistance movements, the Sudanese Liberation ... "genocide" for fear of triggering their obligations under international treaties. In early July, US secretary ...

  7. Bosnia: who are the guilty parties?

    are mixed, i.e. 1.2 million people are families of mixed faiths. Where should they live Mr ... World war II, is the main force responsible for the genocide in Bosnia. Its constant shelling of ... of repression and hysteria, only 24% of young men obeyed conscription orders in 1992 鈥 only 12% in ...

  8. IRAQ: Bush, Blair, Howard and the Downing Street memo

    outcome of UN weapons inspections (weapons inspectors entered Iraq around three months after the meeting), ... 15 minutes away from the Baghdad high school she taught at when a convoy of soldiers from the 3rd ... Infantry Division opened fire on her car. Her death was the end result of a decision by the US, British and ...

  9. How Trump won and the struggle ahead

    of slavery, genocide and imperial conquest, Trump followed the path of other right-wing populists. He ... which the ISO publishes. *** 1. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States is ... a shocking and dangerous turn of events 鈥 not only for the US, but for the entire world. It represents the ...

  10. SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki's AIDS stance slammed

    5000 babies a month from being infected with HIV yet there is no treatment for the 25% of ... opening of the 13th International AIDS Conference, held here on July 14-19. The excited group of nuns, ... Treatment. The streets of Durban were full of singing, dancing, laughter, warm solidarity and hope. While the ...

  11. Bosnia: lift the arms embargo now!

    Dutch UN troops. The seizure of Srebrenica on July 12 by the Bosnian Serb army with the massacres, rapes ... airlift into Sarajevo, now in its third year of siege, has been suspended for three months after Serbs ... happen. The Serbs have done this many times. That which is going on is genocide." These words, by ...

  12. SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki's neoliberal blueprint for Africa

    mother-to-child-transmission of HIV. And in a major speech at Fort Hare University on October 12, he revealed a perverse ... tsar Horst Koehler a few months earlier. Thanks to work by a coauthor of South Africa's own ... 鈥 or its South African subsidiary Business Day 鈥 you would have seen notice of a Millennium Africa ...

  13. John Pilger: 'Success need not be a dream'

    transparent? How can they attack, in our name, a country already crushed by more than 12 years of an embargo ... lives of at least 500,000 children and is described as genocidal by the former United Nations ... 531 March 26, 2003 BY JOHN PILGER How have we got to the point where a handful of Western ...

  14. East Timor: 'We don't want Australian troops'

    Within a month of Australian troops landing in 1999, Australian companies began operating three oil ... over 200,000 Timorese lives (over a third of the population), Australia's support for this ... genocidal occupation was predicated on a policy outlined in the infamous "Woolcott telegram": that ...

  15. BRITAIN: Not in our name!

    resigned and he, too, called the embargo an act of genocide. Three years ago, 70 members of the US Congress ... absolute power of kings", to join George Bush's attack on Iraq, he acts in a manner no different, ... Hitler's speech in September 1938, on the eve of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. "I know quite ...

  16. 'You stole our land, you stole our rights and we won't celebrate invasion day'

    beginning of a brutal invasion and genocide carried out against the original inhabitants. For decades, ... any compensation scheme. On February 13, it will be 12 months since Rudd made the moving apology to ... Simon Butler 781 February 3, 2009 Members of Tasmania鈥檚 Aboriginal community didn鈥檛 mince their ...

  17. 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: ...

  18. Can Africa survive Obama's advisors?

    resulted in the deaths of half a million young children 鈥 and in just a 12-month period." A few blocks ... gained infamy in 1991 as an advocate of African genocide and environmental racism, thanks to ... Patrick Bond 776 Durban November 21, 2008 One of US president-elect Barack Obama's leading ...

  19. Olympics show sport is political

    sight of the Union Jack and what that flag has done in the past, the genocide, the rape, and the murder ... the last 12 months, including twice before the Chinese Olympic Trials in 2012鈥. Just as Smith and ... social phenomenon without parallel. The Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics was watched by close to ...

  20. Write on: Letters to the editor

    the past 12 months. Denis Kevans Wentworth Falls, NSW. Congratulations Congratulation to the ... the meeting with the locked out Patrick wharf workers at Darling Harbour was on Radio National. One of ... wharf workers now. During the Grunwick dispute in the late '70s Indian women were locked out of ...

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