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  1. Australia's Spies and Their Secrets

    In this venture, ASIO was assisted by British intelligence. McKnight relates the recollections of ... or even FBI." Charles Spry, ASIO's long-serving director who died recently, was a very ... mainly from the right; and basic security measures for government departments and documents etc. So its ...

  2. The big read: Six of the \'best\' Labor promises

    intervention. They are respectfully requested to refrain from dying until the 2009-2010 budget is handed down. ... "Building Strong Foundations Program to assist in the delivery of literacy and numeracy programs for ... up by intensive assistance from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal teaching aides, a shiny new schoolhouse ...

  3. Racism kills

    dying in custody at an even greater rate. During the period investigated by the royal commission ... seven years since May 1989, another 79 indigenous people have died in custody, an average of 11.4 ... this has increased since 1989. Between 1980-1989, 10 indigenous women died in custody. Between ...

  4. Vietnam's Agent Orange victims call for solidarity

    many of which were US military bases. According to declassified US defence department documents, on ... thousands of victims who have died over the years, there are an estimated 3 million living victims. For ... the Vietnamese government, despite being resource-strapped, started providing financial assistance to ...

  5. A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor

    caused the death of more people in East Timor, proportionately, than had died under Pol Pot in Cambodia. ... population, have died under the Indonesian occupation. In a telephone interview from his home in Java, he told ... into resettlement camps where many died "if they were not executed by plunging them from the ...

  6. Honduras: Protesters defy violence as left says elections stolen

    spoke to Adrienne Pine, an assistant professor of anthropology of American University, and Edwin ... international observers monitoring the vote. AZADEH SHAHSHAHANI: Despite all of the documentation that has ... implemented in the U.S. AMY GOODMAN: Adrienne Pine Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University, ...

  7. IRAQ: John Pilger 鈥 The great cover-up

    voices, such as Denis Halliday, the former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, who resigned ... to the Iraqi people last year". Quoting UN documents, Hans von Sponeck replied that the figure ... cancers and birth defects." It was only after six Italian soldiers, who had served in Kosova, died ...

  8. Turkey: Government implicated in ISIS suicide attack

    allies had travelled to Suru莽 from across Turkey with the intention of continuing to Koban锚 to assist in ... couldn't breathe. Many of the wounded died that way.鈥 She said survivors waved down cars to take the ... and other oppositional media organs documented the ISIS headquarters in Ak莽akale,鈥 Amed Dicle wrote. ...

  9. East Timor: How the poorest threaten the powerful

    London's Covent Garden. "Timor?" said a hesitant sales assistant. We stood staring at shelves ... Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, Suharto died peacefully in 2008, surrounded by the best medical help ... According to a leaked Australian Defence Department document, Australia's "first objective" ...

  10. A third intifada? Palestinians demand their freedom

    reached the Golan Heights 鈥 part of Syria illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. Eight people died and ... between the factions. Mohamed Megahid al-Zayat, assistant director of the Cairo-based National Center for ... January when the 鈥淧alestine Papers鈥 were released. The documents detailed Fatah's active ...

  11. South African social justice research centre defies attack

    Forum in Brazil rose against the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. With our centre's assistance ... the university, measured per academic employee. High productivity arises from documenting and ... management has stabbed this centre, but it cannot be allowed to die. So this is really all about politics, ...

  12. John Pilger: Australia's role in the Balibo killings

    least 200,000" died under the occupation, a third of the population. Filming undercover in 1993, ... East Timor, "is some understanding of their attitude and possible action to assist public ... protested to the Indonesians. This criminal connivance is documented in Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, ...

  13. AMWU speaks out against 457-visa abuses

    visas died on the job in separate incidents. Both the construction union (CFMEU) and the Australian ... broken by the nature of the documents that were being submitted or not submitted as the case may be. The ... assist each other on this issue. September 14, 2007 724 News ...

  14. INDONESIA: Australia, US renew military ties with killing machine

    Indonesian Armed Forces' (TNI) claims that two Acehnese died in an accidental explosion and one unarmed ... Indonesian and Acehnese human rights organisations which document the violence are themselves harassed by the ... "[The Australian government] might be able to assist [the Indonesian military] in developing ...

  15. ACEH: 'Australia is helping the army to kill my people'

    claim that Australian military cooperation with Indonesia would not include assistance for ... military", the Acehnese leader said. There were more than 1700 documented cases of killings in Aceh last ... year. Human rights organisations say at least 170 more died in the first few weeks of this year. The ...

  16. The China Deng left behind

    ultimately, to Deng Xiaoping, the "architect" of the whole scheme, who died on February 19. The ... vigour 鈥 most dramatically with the invasion of Vietnam in February 1979, assisting Washington's ... Party said in a public document that some of the key factors most likely to lead to social unrest were ...

  17. Where does the threat of racism come from?

    seems to be the trademark of the speak-English-or-die brigade 鈥 Australia is under threat from 鈥渃reeping ... station. However, racist provocateurs, who tried to charge through the anti-racist crowd, were assisted in ... racist placards, some of which were adorned with neo-Nazi symbols, and the documented links between RA ...

  18. Assange: Support for Manning needed more than ever

    facign the first day of his trial in the United States for leaking documents exposing serious war crimes ... I remember thinking I鈥檓 going to die." After protests from his lawyers, Bradley Manning was then ... crimes and their context), nor may he present any witness or document that shows that no harm resulted ...

  19. Podemos threatens Spanish establishment

    form of unemployment insurance or public assistance. These measures have created an enormous problem in ... Problems of the Spanish Economy", describes the intention of the document. It was widely distributed ... governing parties (PP and PSOE) has led to some notable attacks against the document 鈥 and indeed its ...

  20. 'Comfort Women' in long fight for justice

    looked after; others were abandoned or shot. Many "comfort women" died of illnesses, on the ... military did was to give assistance to private agencies which already had plenty of "experience" ... Philippines government does not provide any assistance. So we need to find ways of supporting the [Filipino] ...

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