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IRAQ: US deliberately killed reporters

BY NORM DIXON The international journalists' rights group Reporters Without Borders on April 8 called on US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld to provide evidence that the offices of the pan-Arab TV station al Jazeera and the Palestine Hotel in

Australia's history of war: the loyal and the disloyal

BY DR MARTIN CROTTY& DR RAYMOND EVANS The federal government has committed this country to join the US and Britain in a legally dubious, highly immoral, massive unprovoked military attack on Iraq. The lessons of history, we are told, are that

IRAQ: Battle to plunder oil resources begins

BY DOUG LORIMER “Already, the international battle for Iraq's oil resources is taking shape, as the rhetoric over who will administer post-war Iraq intensifies”, the US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on April 8.

Anti-war notebook

Pensioner protests war on Iraq BY KAMALA EMANUEL LAUNCESTON - Anti-war activist Bob Bensemann cancelled his pension on March 24 in reaction against the governmentÂ’s treatment of refugees and its support for war on Iraq. In his letter to

Despair and punishment at Baxter

BY ERIN KILLION Jane Keogh is a refugee-rights activist in the Canberra Refugee Action Committee. After visiting Baxter detention center in January, she spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about the conditions in the centre. Keogh met 41 people in the

IRAQ: US war creates humanitarian crisis

BY ROHAN PEARCE Despite quick proclamations of "victory" by the US media, fighting in Iraq continues. So too does the devastation of the country's fragile infrastructure and the suffering of the most vulnerable 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of Iraqi society due to a

Students protest Nelson Review

Two-and-a-half-thousand university students from campuses around Australia took to the streets on April 10 in opposition to the governments proposed "reforms" to higher education.

Iraq: troops out now

BY PIP HINMAN Scenes of exuberant "liberated" Iraqis and Kurds have quickly given way to scenes of concern and anger that the US "liberators" are preparing to be occupiers. Even the Sydney Morning Herald's pro-war correspondent Paul McGeough has

Whistleblower of the year

BY SARAH STEPHEN Former Australian diplomat Tony Kevin has this month been awarded international whistleblower of the year by the respected UK-based organisation Index on Censorship. The citation for Kevin's award reads: "The former Australian

Thousands march on Palm Sunday

BY ALISON DELLIT More than 30,000 people joined Palm Sunday marches for peace on April 13. The largest marches were the 15,000-strong protest in Sydney and a 10,000-strong protest in Melbourne. In Adelaide, 3000 marched, 1500 in Brisbane,

Union militant to face trial

BY MARGARITA WINDISCH MELBOURNE — On April 8, the County Court was told that all matters relating to the Skilled Engineering and Johnson Tiles cases between the prosecution and all of the 15 unionists except Craig Johnston had been settled. The

Young people fighting for our right to dissent

BY EMMA CLANCY The last few months have been a period of political awakening for thousands of teenagers. Through protesting against the war on Iraq, many young people have gotten involved in political activity for the first time. But their