Letter from Baghdad
Every morning for the past five weeks I've watched the children walk to school from the balcony of my hotel across the street.
Today [March 17], I was asked to leave this hotel for my own safety. To the right is a phone
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BY LEIGH HUGHES
The official beginning of the US-led war on Iraq was the catalyst for the abandonment of classrooms and the closure of several schools on March 20, as hundreds of students walked out in protest. In the following days, not only did
On March 20, Australian fighter planes assisted in a US air strike on Baghdad,
marking the beginning of the war against the Iraqi people.
Prime Minister John Howards decision to send Australians overseas to
kill Iraqis is unjustifiable. No
BY
ALISON DELLIT
After a week of emergency anti-war actions, tens of thousands of
Australians continued to protest on the March 22-23 weekend. Protests in
eight cities mobilised around 120,000 people. This included a whopping
30,000 on
Those in the US, British and Australian governments and their mainstream media toadies who hoped the anti-war movement in the US and around the world would collapse following the launch of Washington's barbaric blitzkrieg against Iraq would be
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Shortly after the bombing of Iraq began people started to gather at the State Library to protest against the start of the war. The protesters, organised by the Victorian Peace Network, heard from a range of speakers
BY
JOHN PILGER
How have we got to the point where a handful of Western governments
take us into an illegal and immoral war against Iraq, a stricken country
with which we have no quarrel and offers no threat: an act of aggression
opposed by
BY ALISON DELLIT
It didn't take long for the corporate media to fall even further behind backing Washington's war on Iraq. On March 19, the day after Prime Minister John Howard announced his government had officially committed Australian troops to
Green Left Weekly's ROHAN PEARCE examines the main justifications used by US President George Bush and Prime Minister John Howard to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq.
1. Iraq possesses chemical and biological weapons
The UN inspections have so
NEW YORK CITY More than 250,000
people marched through the streets of New York City on March 22. The demonstration
was so big that as the first contingents arrived at the rallying point,
people were still leaving the start point 38 blocks
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE There are now two superpowers in the world the imperial
mafia [in Washington] and the anti-war and global justice movements worldwide,
William Blum, US author, journalist and radical commentator and former
US
BY EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — On hearing US President George Bush's declaration of imminent war on March 18, 500 people flocked to Parliament House at 5pm. The spontaneous crowd was passionate, loud, and articulate in its outright rejection of the
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