On Auschwitz liberation anniversary Germans confront latent anti-Semitism

As Germany commemorates the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, The Local wrtier Miriam Widman explores just how widespread anti-Semitism continues to be in Germany nearly 70 years after the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation). 

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Senior "Age" editor: Why we can't trust [Oz PM Julia] Gillard any more

Michael Short (a senior Age editor): "We have a duty to lead and inspire our young people, in particular.

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' Gullible Electorate ' - Bitstrips

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John Pilger: the war on democracy by the US and UK Establishments

John Pilger: "From the Chagos Islands to Pakistan, innocent civilians are pawns to America, backed by Britain.

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The Iraq War: A criminal war the US lost

David Finkel: "After hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, the devastation of war and the humiliation of an eight-year occupation, the hideous tyranny of Saddam Hussein has been replaced by the prospect of endless sectarian war in which, among other ruinous developments, I …

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Vanity Fair writer Junger on US Marines urinating on dead Afghans

Sebastian Junger (contributing editor at Vanity Fair, author of War and the director of the 2010 film Restrepo, both re US troops fighting the war in Afghanistan): "For the past 10 years, American children have absorbed these moral contradictions [re torture], and now they are f …

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Commentary on huge US veteran suicides (circa 50,000 in last 10 years)

John Birmingham (Australian writer): "in the US, which has been at war for over 10 years now, a serving member of the military takes their own life every 36 hours.

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US Marines urination on Taliban video an artefact of war, says expert

Dr Ben Wadham (sociologist in the School of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia): "It is an artefact of military culture that soldiers at different times will engage in the desecration of the bodies of those they have killed.

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Israel's race-based marriage law keeping Indigenous Arab families apart

Martin Linton: "The Supreme Court ruling - by 6 votes to 5 - has sparked off a long overdue debate in Israel about discriminatory laws. But family unification is only the tip of the iceberg.

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