Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is being allowed to imprison an entire nation. That is clear…
On 5 June 1968, just after midnight, Robert Kennedy was shot in my presence at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He…
The Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes the moment her mother, Hannah, was marched from a cattle train to the Nazi concentration…
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In Andrew Cockburn’s new book, Rumsfeld, the gap between rampant power and its faraway victims is closed. Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of…
In June this year, 26,000 US and Australian troops will take part in bombarding the ancient fragile landscape of Australia. They will…
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As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran,…
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger returns to his homeland, Australia, and described the social regression of a once proud…
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