Doug Lorimer The August 7 Washington Post reported that after a "predawn raid by Iraqi troops and American military advisers on a stronghold of Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr erupted into a two-hour gun battle Monday", pro-US Iraqi PM Nuri al Maliki
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Linda Seaborn, Hobart Major Michael Mori, the US military lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, addressed an 800-strong public meeting on August 18. The meeting was organised by Amnesty International. Hicks, 31, from Adelaide, has spent
Stuart Munckton Four people implicated in violent opposition campaigns against the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez escaped from the Ramos Verde military prison on August 13. The former head of the corrupt right-wing Confederation of
Robert Fisk, Beirut When my electricity returned at around 3am yesterday [August 11], I turned on the BBC World Service television. There were a series of powerful explosions that shook the house — just as they vibrated across all of Beirut — as
Fred Fuentes Students are continuing to campaign for the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Lebanon and Palestine. On August 17, speak-outs and meetings were held on campuses around the country. At the University of Queensland, 120
'Calming' Baghdad "Iraq, US Forces Raid Sadr City to Calm Baghdad" — Headline on US Bloomberg news service report on an August 7 US-led military attack that set off a two-hour gun battle with supporters of anti-US Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
Liz Denborough Between July 22 and August 3, 40 people ranging from 20 to 75 years' old travelled by bus from Melbourne to Adelaide to Alice Springs and back. Our aim was to become better informed about the secrets and lies of Australia's nuclear
Kim Bullimore "The responsibility for the military operation rests on my shoulders as prime minister. I have no intention and do not wish to share this responsibility with another", Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the Knesset, Israel's parliament. An
Tibet I read your article "TIBET: China's 'Sky Train'— fast-track to genocide?" by Lynette Dumble and Susanne Menihane (GLW #678). Out of curiosity, did you every consider that people from the West, especially from the "new" world, where natives
UnspeakBy Steven PooleLittle, Brown and Company 2006282 pages, $24.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON "War on terror", "coalition of the willing", "weapons of mass destruction", "surgical strike", welfare and labour market "reform" — these familiar
Kerryn Williams On August 14, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) bombed the Sencholai children's home in the Mullaithivu district, killing at least 61 Tamil students and injuring hundreds of others. Students from up to 18 schools in the region had been
Marcus Greville, Melbourne In a bruising blow to the Howard government's anti-union laws, striking Amcor workers won an agreement on August 16 in which all legal action against the workers and their union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
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