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...
View ArticleLeaked 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...
View ArticleGag 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...
View ArticleMelbourne 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHamas 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...
View ArticleGaza 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...
View ArticleNoriega 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...
View ArticleChina 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...
View ArticleLoewenstein, 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...
View ArticleWikiLeaks' 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...
View ArticleGreens 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...
View ArticleBradley 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...
View ArticleRefugee 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...
View ArticleBradley 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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