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Archive for March, 2006

12 Mar

Fisk on Antony Loewenstein

Fisk on Antony Loewenstein’s troubles with people who would rather we didn’t think - the ‘it’s not murder and occupation when we do it’ brigade - although Israel was warned in 1967 that it was.
Information Clearing House [...] - So let’s confront this tomfoolery. Down in Australia, my old mate Antony Loewenstein, a journalist [...]

12 Mar

Milosevic found dead in cell

BBC - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal.
The tribunal said an autopsy would be conducted to establish cause of death, but there was no indication of suicide.
Zdenko Tomanovic, a lawyer for Mr Milosevic, says the autopsy should take place elsewhere as his client said [...]

11 Mar

Robert Fisk - Lecture & Interview available soon!

Last night I went to see Robert Fisk speak at Macquarie University - a completely amazing experience - not just because of Fisk’s insight and oratory skills but because the largest venue the University had was filled to capacity as were 4 other theatres linked by A/V. If you weren’t there an hour and a [...]

11 Mar

Robert Maxwell was under investigation for war crimes

Media magnate and thief Robert Maxwell was under investigation for War Crimes at the time of his drowning The circumstances of his death remain mysterious - he fell, jumped or was pushed (or someone was) from his yacht off the coast of the island of Tenerife. The British government declined to hold an inquiry [...]

09 Mar

China bites back

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones…
BEIJING (AP) - China on Thursday lashed out against U.S. criticism of its human rights record, saying racial discrimination and crime were still rife in the United States and prisoners were being abused at U.S.-run detention centers abroad.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, denounced the United States for what it [...]

07 Mar

Missing: Human compassion - if found please return to Australia

This is really disgraceful. What is Australia becoming? We are really losing our humanity.
SMH - The Queensland government has ordered an urgent investigation into an incident in which a prominent indigenous leader was left for dead at a busy Brisbane bus stop for more than five hours.
Delmae Barton, 62, says she lay for more [...]

07 Mar

Bush’s War on Journalism

It would seem that the Department of Homeland Security is demanding that Doug Thompson - proprietor of Capitol Hill Blue’s hosting company - investigate what Doug Thompson - proprietor of Capitol Hill Blue - has been up to - but he is absolutely forbidden from telling Doug Thompson that this is going on. [...]

02 Mar

Bush makes nuclear deal with India

Bush is doing nuclear deals with India whilst selling Pakistan F-16 bombers. He is enabling India’s nuclear program whilst aggresively opposing Iran having nuclear capability, whilst making nuclear weapons himself and contaminating the world with depleted uranium as far as 3000 miles away from Iraq in Britain. What destructive madness. Personally I don’t [...]

01 Mar

100,000 Indians protest Bush visit

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NEW DELHI - Tens of thousands of Indians waving black and white flags and chanting [...]


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