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US uses ASEAN summit to escalate confrontation with Beijing - World Socialist Web Site

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US uses ASEAN summit to escalate confrontation with Beijing
By Mike Head
6 August 2015

The US administration and its allies are ramping up their threats against China, using the annual foreign ministers’ summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) this week in Malaysia to accuse Beijing of “militarising” the South China Sea.

These allegations have intensified the tensions over these strategic waters that contain some of the world’s most heavily used shipping routes, raising the danger of triggering a US-China war, whether by deliberate provocation or miscalculation.

#anase #asean #états-unis #chine

US uses ASEAN summit to escalate confrontation with Beijing - World Socialist Web Site

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US uses ASEAN summit to escalate confrontation with Beijing
By Mike Head
6 August 2015

The US administration and its allies are ramping up their threats against China, using the annual foreign ministers’ summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) this week in Malaysia to accuse Beijing of “militarising” the South China Sea.

These allegations have intensified the tensions over these strategic waters that contain some of the world’s most heavily used shipping routes, raising the danger of triggering a US-China war, whether by deliberate provocation or miscalculation.

#chine #états-unis #asean #asie_du_sud_est

Australian government refuses to lift refugee intake - World Socialist Web Site

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Australian government refuses to lift refugee intake

By Mike Head
7 September 2015

The Abbott government yesterday cynically sought to counter the mounting international and domestic criticism of Australia’s inhuman anti-refugee regime, amid the worldwide outpouring of sympathy for the tens of thousands of refugees seeking asylum in Europe.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Australia would take more refugees from war-ravaged Syria and Iraq, pledging to do “the right thing” and help the UN respond to the humanitarian crisis.

#migrations #asile #réfugiés #australie #solidarité

Doctors condemn conditions in Australian refugee camp - World Socialist Web Site
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Doctors condemn conditions in Australian refugee camp
By Mike Head

24 December 2013

A group of 15 doctors has exposed the sub-standard medical care they are forced to provide asylum seekers at Australia’s Christmas Island detention centre. Their 92-page “letter of concern,” given to their employer in November, was published by the Guardian Australia web site last week.

The detailed letter sheds further light on the inhuman conditions imposed on thousands of refugees in the country’s detention facilities, both within Australia and on remote islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans. It documents “numerous unsafe practices and gross departures from generally accepted medical standards which have posed significant risk to patients and caused considerable harm.”

#migrations #australie #asile #camps

Australia: 13 dead in two more refugee boat disasters - World Socialist Web Site

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Australia: 13 dead in two more refugee boat disasters
By Mark Church and Mike Head
17 July 2013

Two more asylum seeker boats have sunk trying to reach Australia in the past five days, killing at least 13 people. The sinkings underscore the mounting human toll of the Labor government’s escalating measures to stop refugees seeking to exercise their democratic and legal right to flee persecution and claim asylum.

Last night, a search for survivors was called off within hours after a boat carrying about 150 people capsized earlier in the evening, killing at least four passengers. At the time it sank, two Australian Navy ships were escorting it to the government’s detention camp on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

#réfugiés #asile #australie #naufrage #mourir_en_mer

Japon Nucléaire Fukushima Tepco

Japan’s TEPCO: a history of nuclear disaster cover-ups
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By Mike Head - 17 March 2011

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is the conglomerate at the centre of Japan’s nuclear radiation emergency at Fukushima. Its operations over the past several decades epitomise the government-backed pursuit of corporate profit, at the direct expense of lives, health and safety."

#Japon #Nucléaire #Fukushima #Tepco