This was inspired by the 鈥淐ollateral Murder鈥 video released in April 2010 by WikiLeaks.
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1. Oh, come all you American teenagers
Put away your video games
And get some real shoot em-up-action
Wasting folks with weird-sounding names
Now how would you like to bear true faith
By joining an Apache crew
In trouble spots around the world
There鈥檚 killing work to do
Light them up
Keep shooting
Look at all
Those dead bastards
2. Well, there鈥檚 so many features to tell you about
Like the Boeing M230 chain gun
With that Arab-slaying motherfucker
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Despite crisis levels of overcrowding, many urban Aboriginal communities have been denied federal funding for new housing. On March 18, ABC online said town camps around Darwin were not allocated any of the $1.5 billion in upgrades planned for Aboriginal communities.
Nine Aboriginal people have sued Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt in Melbourne over four articles he wrote in 2009.
The court has heard the articles questioned the motives of 鈥渓ight鈥 or 鈥渨hite-skinned鈥 people who identified as Aboriginal.
The people taking the action under the Racial Vilification Act include activist Pat Eatock, former ATSIC chairperson Geoff Clark, artist Bindi Cole, academic Larissa Behrendt, author Anita Heiss, health worker Leeanne Enoch, native title expert Graham Atkinson, academic Wayne Atkinson and lawyer Mark McMillan.
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In the excellent film Milk Sean Penn, as gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk, said: 鈥淭wo to one, they support us, two to one when they know one of us.鈥
The ethicist Peter Singer has noted that while most people would have no qualms about ruining an expensive pair of shoes wading into a lake to save a drowning child, most people don鈥檛 donate the value of their shoes to save the life of a child in another country.
The disgusting and heartbreaking photos are finally bringing the grisly truth about the war in Afghanistan to a wider public.
All the PR about this war being about democracy and human rights melts into thin air with these pictures of US soldiers posing with the dead and mutilated bodies of innocent Afghan civilians.
I must report that Afghans do not believe this be a story of a few rogue soldiers. We that is part and parcel of the entire military occupation.
ITEC Employment and its related entity Community Enterprises Australia (CEA) are preparing a submission to the federal government that will argue 鈥渢he pendulum has swung too far in favour of the jobseeker鈥, in relation to changes to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) on Aboriginal communities, The Australian said on April 2.
CEA is the largest CDEP provider in Australia.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the pendulum swinging 鈥渢oo far in favour of the jobseeker鈥 meant, perhaps, that people were finding work.
For more than a week, Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 The Australian has been on the warpath against green and left 鈥渆xtremists鈥. It began by attacking the NSW Greens for supporting the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. The Greens are organised in independent parties in each state, but the Murdoch flagship demanded that Australian Greens leader Bob Brown bring its most left-wing branch into line.
Activists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre (HVEC) and Still Wild Still Threatened returned to the Picton Valley on April 7 to launch a 10-week campaign to protest the logging of Tasmania鈥檚 old growth forests.
Police broke up a similar protest in the Picton Valley on February 18, in which two HVEC protesters were arrested.
HVEC鈥檚 Jenny Weber said on April 7 that the groups鈥 campaign is 鈥渁imed at promoting the benefits to both the community and the environment that will be delivered when native forests are given full and formal legislated protection.
The Egyptian army has violently cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in Cairo鈥檚 Tahrir Square on the night of April 8, BBC.co.uk said the next day.
Medical sources said two protesters were killed and the health ministry said 71 were hurt.
Protesters were demanding greater changes from the interim government that took over after dictator Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February, including demands that Mubarak be made to stand trial.
Protesters re-occupied Tahrir Square on April 9, BBC.co.uk said.
The Venezuelan government will begin a process of recovering 300,000 hectares of land during April that have been in the hands of an unnamed English company, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in an interview during his trip to Uruguay.
Chavez said the process of taking back or 鈥渞ecovering鈥 land had been fundamental to the revolutionary process led by his government. He said this especially so that 鈥渨orker control鈥 could 鈥減revent companies from exploiting the land and workers, and getting rich and taking the earnings overseas鈥.
Matthew Cassel, assistant editor of Electronic Intifada, has recently been reporting from Egypt where he witnessed first hand the revolutionary upsurge that toppled the Mubarak dictatorship and continues to reshape the region.
Cassel will be speaking at the Resistance Conference May 6th - 8th, Redfern Community Centre, Sydney. For more information or to register visit: www.resistance.org.au/conference2011.
Resistance activist Patrick Harrison spoke to Cassel about his experiences and the revolutionary movements in the Middle East.
We now know what Washington鈥檚 model is for the Middle East, in its most attractive guise.
In answer to Egypt鈥檚 Tahrir Square uprising, they have smoking craters filled with the charred remains of rebels, conscript soldiers, civilians and other blameless people who must have seen the joy in Egypt and Tunisia and wished it for themselves.
In answer to the turbulent, democratic republic, with its tumult of leftist, Nasserist, Islamist and liberal currents, they offer a prolonged civil war at best, culminating in a settlement with Muammar Gaddafi鈥檚 son Saif and his sibling.
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