Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Saturday, January 13, 2018

WAR: Three things you don’t understand about the Syrian war

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For a start, the rebels are not one big happy family all fighting for a common notion of justice. My goodness. There has been so mu...
Saturday, October 04, 2014

CRIKEY: The complicated calculus of terrorists -v- war criminals

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Why have we been focusing all of our attention on lone-wolf terror suspects, while a man accused of horrific war crimes attracts ...
Friday, May 06, 2011

OPINION: Muddled thinking in Anzac tweet

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I spent part of the Anzac Day weekend in true Australian style at the Rooty Hill RSL Club. This huge complex in Sydney's far west incl...
Friday, November 19, 2010

COMMENT:So what on earth do we do with Afghanistan?

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A British Army doctor named Henry Walter Bellew wrote these words after spending a fair bit of time in Kandahar and Kabul: Now that our armi...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

VIDEO/IRAQ: Lengthy report on the Secret Iraq files ...

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VIDEO/COMMENT: John Howard's war of liberation ...

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According to his recently released memoirs, John Howard says that the Australian Labor Party was absolutely wrong to oppose the invasion and...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

AFGHANISTAN: Rudd government celebrates the changed circumstances ...

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Australia's Immigration Minister has unilaterally announced that the situation in Afghanistan is changing for the better. Wonderful. N...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

VIDEO: Veteran from a family of veterans warns of a "modern day Salem witch hunt" ...

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

CRIKEY: Why question defence force loyalty because of religion?

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A spokesman for the Defence forces last Friday reiterated this truism: Eligible people may join the ADF irrespective of their ethnicity, rac...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

COMMENT: A miracle from Greg ...

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People who don't believe in miracles should consider this. Greg Sheridan has just had a column published in The Australian which: ...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

CRIKEY: Somali politics is just as much about clan as it is religion ...

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What drives young second and third generation men living in relatively comfortable surrounds to involve themselves in an overseas conflict w...
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VIDEO: What is happening inside Somalia?

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The following al-Jazeera video shows three Somali perspectives on the ongoing conflict in Somalia that involves al-Shabab in conjunction w...
Monday, July 27, 2009

VIDEO: A Sikh aid organisation assists internally displaced Pakistanis of all faiths ...

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The conflict between the Pakistani army and Taliban insurgents has displaced hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis of all faiths. The followin...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

COMMENT: Horrific crimes against women in Bosnia ...

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This month is the 14th anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica , a city in the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH). That massacre took p...
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COMMENT: The terror inquisition ...

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I've come across a recently-published book (as in published in 2008) about the history of the Spanish Inquisition. It's called The...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

OPINION: Values blur in good and evil ...

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Uncle Sam stands at the top of a flight of stairs, looking more than slightly perplexed. Below him is a windowless chamber its sparse furnis...
Monday, July 06, 2009

BOOKS: Robert Baer on the Iranian superpower ...

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I’ve just finished reading a ripper-of-a-book by former CIA operative Robert Baer about Iran. The book is entitled The Devil We Know: Dealin...
Monday, May 25, 2009

VIDEO: Jesse Ventura on waterboarding ...

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"Have we waterboarded anyone else?" Bookmark this on Delicious
Thursday, May 07, 2009

VIDEO: US troops handed out Bibles in both Iraq and Afghanistan ...

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What's the big deal with a bit of evangelism? Better a Bible than vicious dogs at your testicles, I say. Except that handing out Bibles ...
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