Pip Hinman
Afghanistan: not a just war
A week after the Rudd government announced Australian troops would join the US and NATO-led troop surge in Afghanistan, a May 4 US air strike on two villages in the country's south-west killed up to 150 civilians, including many women and children.
Extreme capitalism and war
PM Kevin Rudd likes to tell us he is against "extreme capitalism". Like US President Barack Obama, Rudd tries to give capitalism a more human face, pretending it's now something different to the neoliberal nightmare of the past three and a half decades.
Troops out of Afghanistan!
The Sydney Stop the War Coalition called a snap protest on April 15 against government plans to send more Australian troops to Afghanistan.
Rudd promises to stay in Afghanistan for 'long haul'
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, in Washington last week to meet US President Barack Obama, made clear the ALP government's support for the US's wars overseas. The Australia-US war alliance is as strong as ever, he declared.
Who's afraid of a peace activist?
After the Australian Jewish News decided on March 11 to pull a paid advertisement for the upcoming lecture tour by Professor Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, the Emanuel Synagogue, which had agreed to have Halper speak to a class of 12 people, suddenly withdrew its invitation.
Anti-war group supports Iraqi workers
The Iraqi workers movement is again beginning to organise, despite contending with the difficult conditions of occupation and war, and in defiance of harassment and arrests by the US military.
NSW police pay for wrongful arrest at APEC
NSW police have entered an out-of-court settlement with anti-war activist Paddy Gibson after he sued them for wrongful arrest during the APEC protests in Sydney in September 2007.
ALP must support Palestine
Deputy PM Julia Gillard's outspoken support for Israel's attack on Gaza earlier this year prompted angry criticism from many, including from inside her own party.
Council opposes Gaza onslaught
Such is the outrage caused by Israel's latest attack on Gaza in December-January that even some local governments in New South Wales have passed, or are considering, motions condemning the attack and calling on the Australian government to ban the sale of any military material to Israel.
All Australian troops out of Afghanistan
On February 13, Australian troops killed five children and injured at least two other adult civilians in a night-time "operation" in Afghanistan's southern Oruzgan province.
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