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  Interlude #9 posted by tra la, 2007-05-11 10:51:52
By way of balance and release. (full story)
prose/poetry / international
 Global Military Alliance: Encircling Russia and China posted by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya via rialator, 2007-05-10 10:33:17
Although Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Japan are not formally members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), they are linked through military partnerships, affiliated governments, a network of partnerships, and bilateral agreements with the United States and Britain. (full story)
imperialism / international
Bush's Zombie Shuffles Off posted by Tariq Ali via rialator, 2007-05-10 10:11:50
Tony Blair's success was limited to winning three general elections in a row. A second-rate actor, he turned out to be a crafty and avaricious politician, but without much substance; bereft of ideas he eagerly grasped and tried to improve upon the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. But though in many ways Blair's programme has been a euphemistic, if bloodier, version of Thatcher's, the style of their departures is very different. Thatcher's overthrow by her fellow-Conservatives was a matter of high drama: an announcement outside the Louvre's glass pyramid during the Paris Congress brokering the end of the Cold War; tears; a crowded House of Commons. (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
The Madness of War Profiteering in Iraq posted by Robert Greenwald via rialator, 2007-05-10 09:58:01
The following is Robert Greenwald's testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense about war profiteering: (full story)
imperialism / international
 The nature of God – and I ought to Know! posted by major mitchell, 2007-05-08 14:36:03
[No apologies for the title, as it applies to everyone.] In today’s world far too many killers and murderers are utilising religion as a method of social manipulation, control and (believe it if you would face the reality of your ‘religion’) to JUSTIFY MURDER, THEFT and WAR! If that in itself doesn’t sound an alarm in the heads of all devotees of the ONE nameless, peerless, INFINITE God of ALL, then please go for a walk or entertain yourself with something else, this paper is NOT for you! (full story and 1 comments)
theology / international
 Deconstructing the Australian Broadcasting Commission posted by peptide, 2007-05-07 13:05:44
The once public Australian broadcaster (ABC) is proving to be a brazen propaganda medium for the government. The latest overt propaganda issuing from ‘our’ ABC is clearly designed to soften public resistance to biometric and other intrusive forms of identification. Senator Stott Despoja is currently debating the uses and abuses of an identification smartcard in the Senate. With that debate in progress and unresolved we now witness BIOMETRIC ID ‘softening’ techniques by the ‘public’ broadcaster, ‘our’ ABC: (full story and 4 comments)
social/political / national
 Aussie software pirate extradited posted by Kenneth Nguyen via rialator, 2007-05-06 19:33:22
BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies.
Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to 10 years in an American prison after a guilty plea late last month. (full story)
injustice/law / international
 The Insular Conservative: John Winston Howard posted by barra, 2007-05-05 11:16:54
The Federal Minister of Employment and Workplace Relations (big) Joe Hockey was forced this week to draw his leader’s attention to the oppressive reality facing average working Australians. Crushing debt, loss of penalty rates and other entitlements has forced many Australian families to the wall. Mortgagee sales in working class areas throughout the nation have increased at an alarming rate. John Howard, the darling of big business and the Corporate sector wondered why the common people were not eating cake! (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / national
 IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal posted by Mark Weisbrot via rialator, 2007-05-04 17:06:30
Venezuela’s decision this week to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank will be seen in the United States as just another example of the ongoing feud between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Bush Administration. But it is likely to be viewed differently in the rest of the world, and could have an impact on both institutions, whose power and legitimacy in developing countries has been waning steadily in recent years. (full story)
imperialism / international
 Dick Cheney's Banker Grantham Sees World Bubble posted by William Pesek via rialator, 2007-05-03 22:32:48
May 2 (Bloomberg) -- You'd expect someone whom the famously dour Dick Cheney entrusts with millions of his dollars might have a gloomy view of the world. Jeremy Grantham does indeed.
"From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair; from forestry, infrastructure and the junkiest bonds to mundane blue chips -- it's bubble time,'' he writes in Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.'s latest quarterly letter titled, "The First Truly Global Bubble.'' (full story)
social/political / international
The first refugees of global warming posted by Laurie Goering via rialator, 2007-05-02 12:25:44
ANTARPARA, Bangladesh -- Muhammad Ali, a wiry 65-year-old, has never driven a car, run an air conditioner or done much of anything that produces greenhouse gases. But on a warming planet, he is on the verge of becoming a climate refugee.
In the past 10 years the farmer has had to tear down and move his tin-and-bamboo house five times to escape the encroaching waters of the huge Jamuna River, swollen by severe monsoons that scientists believe are caused by global warming and greater glacier melt in the Himalayas. (full story)
environment / international
 Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade posted by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky via rialator, 2007-05-02 11:51:21
The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions. The proceeds of this lucrative multibllion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan. (full story)
social/political / international
Political conjunctions and Blurring definitions posted by finn, 2007-04-30 23:17:48
A number of factors have recently formed a conjunction, which provided a new view of a popular ‘reality’. Whenever the flames of the terrorist ‘threat’ begin to wane convenient arrests are made that fan the embers back into flames of concern. Recent police raids in Sydney and Melbourne have resulted in the arrests of two Sri Lankan Tamils; “two men have appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on terrorism related charges,” ran the intro from one media outlet while another ran with, “men face terrorism charges after raids.” I’m sure we all get the drift but it should be noted that assistant commissioner to the Federal Police, Frank Prendergast, went to lengths "to make it clear that these men weren't involved in any possible attacks on Australian soil.” Well then, what? (full story)
social/political / national
 German Federal Prosecutor’s Office dismisses Rumsfeld war crimes case posted by CCR via rialator, 2007-04-29 22:47:30
Synopsis
On April 27, 2007, Germany’s Federal Prosecutor announced she will not proceed with an investigation against Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA Director George Tenet, and other high-ranking U.S. officials for torture and other war crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo. (full story and 1 comments)
injustice/law / international
 Asymmetry delivers Victory posted by naxal, 2007-04-28 15:11:15
From Sun tzu to today’s flying LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) the fundamental decisive factors determining the outcome of war have never changed – though some ‘superpowers’ would have us all believe otherwise. The determining factors are and have always been, intelligence, skill, ingenuity and tactics – all other factors, including high technology, are secondary. The outcome of War is determined by and anchored in the warrior. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
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