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Australian band Powderfinger to disband

Australian band, Powderfinger, at a press conference today, announced plans to disband following the completion of their most extensive Australian tour to date. The tour is Powderfinger's first major...

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Leaked video: US Apache chopper kills journalists

A video showing a US military Apache chopper gunner mowing down a group of journalists in Eastern Baghdad in 2007 has been recently leaked onto the internet by Wikileaks. The...

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Gag order lifted on journalist's espionage case

An Israeli court last Thursday lifted a months-long gag order on the case of a young Israeli journalist charged with spying offences. The young woman, Anat Kam, 23, has been...

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Melbourne MC Mantra announces nationwide tour with Urthboy

Melbourne MC Mantra will soon be hitting the road with Urthboy for a nationwide tour. Mantras recently released debut album Power of the Spoken has been named 'Feature Album' for...

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The Anat Kam Affair and freedom of the press

On Monday, The Tel Aviv District Court allowed several new details in the Anat Kam affair to surface. The Anat Kam affair has raised so many controversial and important issues...

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Hamas executions to continue in Gaza

Earlier this month, Hamas authorities executed two Palestinian men in the Gaza Strip for collaborating with Israel. Despite intense international scrutiny and condemnation from both Israeli and...

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Gaza flotilla raid: detailed recap

On May 31st, the Israeli navy conducted a pre-dawn raid on the 'Gaza Freedom Flotilla' - a group of six ships carrying over 10 000 tonnes of aid supplies and...

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Noriega goes on trial in France for money laundering

Ex- Panama dictator Manuel Noriega goes on trial in France. By Timothy Lawson Former Panamanian military dictator Manuel Noriega, 76, went on trial in Paris on Monday following his extradition...

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China surpasses Japan to become the world's second biggest economy

China has finally outpaced Japan to take the number No. 2 spot on the list of world economies. The economic milestone was disclosed on Friday by the country's chief currency...

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Loewenstein, Greens under fire from Murdoch press

Originally published in Green Left Weekly issue 877 In the past few weeks, Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd media have attacked Jewish-Australian journalist and author Antony Loewenstein over a March 30...

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WikiLeaks' challenge to media status quo

Originally published in Green Left Weekly issue 878 WikiLeaks released a new slew of secret US military documents on April 24 relating to the US off-shore detention facility Guantanamo Bay...

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Greens Senator slams new immigration laws

Monthly Access] The Gillard government is foreshadowing new legislation to combat the recent spate of riots and protests that have been occurring recently at Australian detention centres. Immigration...

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Bradley Manning needs our help

Manning's detention conditions have improved: but we must still keep the Free Bradley Manning campaign alive! If I was Bradley Manning, lying mentally and emotionally eviscerated in some dank prison...

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Refugee activists slam aggressive police tactics

Originally published in Green Left Weekly issue 881 Two men were taken to hospital and a third treated at the scene after being injured during a confrontation with police at...

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Bradley Manning For President?

Lot's Wife and Newshit] NOTE: This article was published in March 2011. "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people...

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