Dear Prime Minister, I am writing now to ask you to make an unambiguous statement of support for Australian citizen Julian Assange, who is appealing an extradition order that, if successful, could jeopardise his liberty, and to place at his disposal the full legal support of the Commonwealth to ensure that his rights are protected

A day before the ALP national conference an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on the ALP to withdraw its support for the US-NATO

My condolences to the People of Australia. My warnings to the women of Australia, especially northern Australia.

Despite Australia having signed the convention against cluster munition, a US base may transport and stockpile munition. By NAJ Taylor, November 19 Brisbane, Australia: A

A day before the ALP national conference an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on the ALP to withdraw its support for the US-NATO

May I start by saying how pleased I am to be in the company of Christine Assange, StandFast, Stop the War Coalition, Medical Association for

An open letter to the President of the United States Barack Obama & Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the occasion of Barack Obama’s address to the Australian Parliament on November 17,

Obama's visit provides us with an opportunity to make our voices heard, and to join with the movement of the 99% opposing wars for the 1%. We plan to hire a bus that will leave Sydney approximately 7am to arrive in Canberra at 10am and return in the evening of the same day. Will you join us

An open letter to the President of the United States Barack Obama & Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the occasion of Barack Obama’s address to the Australian Parliament on November 17,

The Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (CJPP) endorses the July 2011 call from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for “international action towards

On 1 July 2011, the Victorian police viciously attacked a peaceful pro-Palestine demonstration in Melbourne’s CBD. 19 protesters were arrested during a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) action against Israeli-owned Max Brenner store. Video taken of the demonstrations shows that the pro-Palestinian activists were completely peaceful and they were attacked in a violent and unprovoked manner by the Victorian police.

The current Israeli government continues to steal land from the Palestinians and to attempt to blockade those in Gaza. It continues to deny responsibility for the millions in exile. As long as Israeli policy looks like this, Israel will remain an insecure bunker on the fringes of the Middle East, a Middle East that has itself become fluid and subject to popular tsunamis

When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser "destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt." Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven "into the gutter from which they should never have emerged." The language of colonialism may have been modified; the spirit and the hypocrisy are unchanged

By Ellen Brown I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. Libya not only has oil. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its central bank has nearly 144 tonnes of gold in its vaults. With that sort of asset base, who needs the BIS, the IMF and their rules? As the United Nations works feverishly to condemn Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi for cracking down on protesters, the body’s Human Rights Council is poised to adopt a report chock-full of praise for Libya’s human rights record

By Pepe Escobar You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya (http://atimes NULL.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD02Ak01 NULL.html#). This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck

Ignoring the call of the African Union - the regional organization having jurisdiction which counts every African nation save Morocco among its members - and channeling the political ghost of George W. Bush on the eighth anniversary of the "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq, "America's First Black President" ordered the launch of some 110 Tomahawk missiles on Libya Saturday, killing an unknown number of Africans for oil

Tony B.liar was warned by the UK's spy chief that Iraq posed no threat and would make the UK less safe

Here are four compelling reasons why, if he did what the government accuses him of doing, he deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, not jail time

Some 1500 activists rallied in Lafayette Park and marched to the White House fence today, where 113 were arrested. Chanting “Stop the wars, expose the lies, free Bradley Manning!” the protesters marked the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.

History is now being reshaped in such a way that the previously major events of the latter years of the foreshortened American century -- the Vietnam War, the end of the Cold War, even 9/11 -- may all be dwarfed by this new moment. And yet, inside the Washington echo chamber, new thoughts about such developments dawn slowly.

My condolences to the People of Australia. My warnings to the women of Australia, especially northern Australia.

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee is proud to stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new world based on democracy, human rights and economic justice. From New York to Athens, from Madrid to Santiago, from Bahrain to Rome, these huge mobilisations provide a much needed reminder of something that Palestinians have always known – that another world, a dignifying one, is possible and ordinary people can create it

Whether desolate airstrips or sophisticated command and control centers, American drone bases are the backbone of a new robotic way of war and the latest remote-controlled arm of the United States' power projection. Most of the 60 or so facilities that increasingly dot the planet according to "evolving mission needs" have remained uncounted and remarkably anonymous - until now

If you're feeling all patriotic after reading Kevin Rudd's Australia stands with Syrians fighting for freedom I don't recommend you read the UNAMA report Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghan Custody that was released this week

There is evidence of gross media manipulation and falsification from the outset of the protest movement in southern Syria on March 17th. The Western media has presented the events in Syria as part of the broader Arab pro-democracy protest movement, spreading spontaneously from Tunisia, to Egypt, and from Libya to Syria. Media coverage has focussed on the Syrian police and armed forces, which are accused of indiscriminately shooting and killing unarmed "pro-democracy" demonstrators. While these police shootings did indeed occur, what the media failed to mention is that among the demonstrators there were armed gunmen as well as snipers who were shooting at both the security forces and the protesters