World Repression Newswire Archive

Haiti: Declaration by the Commission of Women Victims for Victims

05-09-2006 07:42 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 1, 2006: Despite the threat of violence amidst continuing arson attacks and gun battles in Port-au-Prince’s poorest neighborhoods, hundreds of women victims of rape will march through the capital today with faces veiled to raise their voices against ongoing violence and discrimination against women. On the occasion of this historic march, the Commission of Women Victims for Victims (KOFAVIV) has released the following declaration:

Australia: Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks

05-09-2006 07:35 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

No doubt the Howard government will respond to the growing demands for Hicks’s immediate release in the only way it knows—with more slander and innuendo. But as the popular response to Mori’s public meetings and lectures makes clear, a definite shift has taken place in public sentiment that will only deepen in the coming period.

Australian government insists on independent military presence in East Timor

05-09-2006 07:11 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In the midst of this growing instability, Australian Foreign Minister Downer’s visit is aimed at safeguarding Canberra’s interests and pressuring East Timor’s parliament into giving an immediate go-ahead for the exploitation of Timor Sea oil and gas.

OutRage!: The Talibanisation of Iraq...

04-09-2006 14:10 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

OutRage! highlights the greatly increasing threat to lgbt people in Iraq from extremist muslim group(s).

(Cue..rant from 'Twiglet'..?)

Haiti: Lavalas Family propaganda and The Lancet

04-09-2006 14:01 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Results of a new survey have just been published in the prestigous magazine, The Lancet. The 'survey' claims that huge numbers of people were killed and sexually assaulted in Port-au-Prince in the 20 months following the collapse of the Aristide/Lavalas Family (FL) government. It further contends that the perpetrators of the abuses were the criminals, police, former soldiers and anti-FL gangsters, and that hardly any abuses were committed by pro-FL gangsters. Has pro-Lavalas Family propaganda struck again?

It’s the American Way or the Highway:

02-09-2006 21:11 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

"Your Extinction Will Quell Your Moral and Intellectual Confusion"

Doubtful justice in Lodhi sentencing

01-09-2006 06:33 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In Lodhi’s case, this has meant that the threshold of what constitutes “beyond reasonable doubt” has been lowered to an alarming degree. Justice and civil rights are the victims of this “war on terror” in which the government and security agencies benefit politically from convicting supposed terrorists. It is likely that Lodhi’s conviction and sentencing demonstrates, as in the Thomas case, that terror laws are being used to jail people who are not terrorists.

Climate Camp - On the Ground: Suicide farmers found in Yorkshire

One minute I am choking on fumes in smog and heat-ridden Central London, the next it's raining, it's cold, it's northern and I am only armed with a mountaineering helmet and a camera.

Report: 11 Hour Blockade of Israeli Company

UK Headquarters of Israeli Company Blockaded to Gain Ruling on Legality of Trading with Settlements

US military escalates confrontation with Shiite militia in Iraq

31-08-2006 06:14 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

It is these considerations that are propelling the US military into reckless and bloody operations against the Mahdi Army, regardless of the consequences.

Four Palestinians were killed in Nablus, Palestine

30-08-2006 20:53 | Repression | World

Nablus -- Four Palestinians were killed, one of whom was a 15 year old child. Another 25 were wounded during Israeli raids on the city of Nablus on the 26th of Nablus.

Protest by Baloch commuinity against Pakistan on Killing of Nawab Bugti

Protest by Baloch commuinity against Pakistan on Killing of Nawab Bugti

Times Blocks Phony Terror Scare Investigation Article to U.K. Web Readers

30-08-2006 19:02 | Repression | Terror War | World

This is a first. Usually it's the US media blocking European news from reaching the minds of its citizens ... Something to hide, Phony?

Alarm in Washington over deepening disaster in Afghanistan

30-08-2006 09:26 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Afghan officials told VOA that there could now be as many as 40,000 guerillas fighting against the occupation forces and the Afghan army. Extensive US and Pakistani military operations have failed to prevent insurgent groups using the mountainous regions along the Afghan-Pakistan border as a safe haven to rest, resupply, train and recruit. Large areas of the predominantly ethnic Pashtun provinces of southern and eastern Afghanistan are outside the Kabul government’s authority and regularly fall under the sway of Taliban forces.

Draconian scapegoat orders 'stacked against' Thomas

29-08-2006 20:37 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A constitutional law expert says the system is stacked against Melbourne man Jack Thomas.

To Build the Impossible Bomb

29-08-2006 08:19 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

No Muslim in his right mind would attempt what has been claimed, because he would know it can't be done - and, believe me, doing it under any circumstances would require a Muslim in his right mind. At best, the guy simply would kill himself, and do little damage to the plane's toilet. Regardless, nobody would be allowed the opportunity to spend hours in the toilet ... not aboard a jetliner.

Why Do We Hate Them? - Fear and Loathing in the Occident

29-08-2006 07:28 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Islamophobia is a mental and spiritual affliction. And our Western ruling elites bear the responsibility for inflicting it upon the psyches of the masses.

Australians: Defend the right to strike! Aug 29 solidarity with CFMEU 107

29-08-2006 04:08 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

August 29 is a national day of solidarity with the 107 construction workers on the Mandurah to Perth rail line who are facing fines of up to $28,600 each, simply for taking industrial action in defence of their union delegate. On 5 July 2006, the Howard Government launched an unprecedented attack on 107 individual Australian workers and their families.

Australia: The torture of Jack Thomas

29-08-2006 00:48 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Given the High Commissioner’s role and the reference to “high places,” there is every indication that the Australian government sanctioned these abuses. What is indisputable is that, acting on its behalf, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions sought to secure convictions that depended entirely upon the completely unreliable statements that Thomas made in his desperation to stop the beatings, avoid being sent to Guantánamo Bay and be allowed to go home.

Jack Thomas served with control order

28-08-2006 21:28 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

‘Anyway who cares about civil liberties should be outraged at this decision. We hear about authoritarian governments putting people under house arrest in Burma – well, now it’s happening right here in Australia!’