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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 27, 2006 - 16:54 by nano
Pauline Hanson recently announced on news radio that her political views have been “vindicated”; she cited the overt racist attitudes of John Howard and Peter Costello as proof of her claim. Who could deny it? Hanson’s imprisonment on trumped-up charges was an act of political assassination instigated by Howard but executed by his then errand boy, Tony Abbott. Hanson’s trial and subsequent imprisonment effectively eliminated her and her party from the Australian political landscape; mainstream racist ideology was re-established in its rightful home, the white Australian conservative ultra-right Liberal Party of Howard! The world watches Australia take a giant leap backwards as Howard continues to divide the nation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday February 26, 2006 - 17:44 by Seumas Milne
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The battle over history reflects a determination to prove that no political alternative can challenge the new global capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 26, 2006 - 02:11 by Irish Northern Aid
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Gerry Adams' Fundraising Visa Denied Again by Bush Administration ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 25, 2006 - 22:55 by Susan McKay, Irish Times
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Article lays out the background of one of the main organisers of the FAIR/LoveUlster march (Wille Frazer) as associated with loyalist paramilitaries. It also details how a relative of another sectarian massacre was smeared by the FAIR group. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 25, 2006 - 14:43 by cleaves
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The famous Shiite Askariyah shrine (Golden Mosque) in Iraq has been targeted and destroyed but by whom remains unclear at this stage. Regardless of the intentions of those responsible, one dramatic (and historically consistent) point cuts through the hysteria and mayhem. That of the importance (or otherwise) of sites that are deemed sacred or holy and the 'location' of this attribution in human consciousness and/or human societies/groups. Social history records naturally occurring phenomena, rocks, rivers etc; structures built by men, temples, obelisks etc; cyclic astronomical phenomena, eclipses, comets etc, all of which have been attributed by humans with special significance at one time or another, whereas none of these produced or naturally occurring phenomenon are ‘holy’ or ‘sacred’. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday February 25, 2006 - 13:22 by Paul
The economic pressures on shell will force them them to exploit their resources even more ruthlessly. The following is one way to deal with them. If they want access to the gas reserves off the Irish coast the Irish government should take a lead from the Russians on how to exploit the exploiters. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday February 24, 2006 - 13:37 by reader
A recent study from the US that shows that between 1966 and 2001 only the richest 10 percent enjoyed a growth rate in their real wages and salaries that was equal to or above the average rate of growth in productivity. In an article publised on the WSWS, ANN TALBOT writes about wealth polarisation in the US and about warnings from an unexpected source- a Financial Times economist. ... read full story / add a comment |
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