ECONOMIC NEO-IMPERIALISM February 26, 2013
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John Perkins has written previously on his experience as an economic hit-man. The job is to negotiate with poor/developing countries loans from IMF and other sources that are designed to fail.
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PROPAGANDA AND POLICY February 20, 2013
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Under Gillard, and presumably the same practice will be followed by an Abbott-led Government, Australian Foreign policy has been outsourced to the US Administration.
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MALI AND TERRORISM January 16, 2013
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So what is going on in Mali? The UN Security Council has authorized the French military intervention in its former colony.
UNKNOWN AFGHANISTAN January 4, 2013
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The framing of war, organized and systematic murder, creates a distorted prism to view human beings, their motivations and their actions.
BLAME HAITI? November 15, 2012
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Weather has taken an extraordinary toll over the last year in the United States. The cost is likely to be high in dollar terms and in other ways.
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“HISTORIC” MINDANAO PEACE AGREEMENT October 21, 2012
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Peace agreements too often founder with the opposing parties returning to violence.
WHERE IS THE RHETORIC OF PEACE ? September 4, 2012
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What a difference fifty years has made to the tone of American Presidents. John Kennedy gave the impression he was serious about world peace; recent office holders, in particular Bush and Obama, have be on a course of continual war.
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REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA August 7, 2012
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Today marked the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima., the first use of nuclear weapons. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Civilization did not end, neither did the still continuing export of uranium, and other countries have acquired nuclear weapons so increasing the possibility of nuclear war.
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OSLO NOW AURORA July 22, 2012
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It is now one year since the bombing in Oslo and the massacre on the Utoya Island. And in recent days there has been the killings in the picture theatre in Colorado.
“FORWARD”: NORMALIZE MURDER OR NOT? June 13, 2012
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The normalization of violence, whether it is the homeless out on the streets of our cities or the summary execution by executive fiat of people by drone in NW Waziristan, or Yemen or Somalia is a way of wearing down principled opposition to unacceptable by constant repetition.
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EXITING AFGHANISTAN June 1, 2012
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The endeavour to control Afghanistan by the United States and its acolytes will soon ingloriously end and at extraordinary cost. Such is the destiny of imperial ambition. What then for the people of Afghanistan?
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US CHIEF MAGISTRATE’S DRONE WARFARE May 31, 2012
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Roman Emperors, or at least the Roman Kings, who pre-dated them were Chief Magistrates much like Charles I of England who lost his head over the issue.
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DEFENDING ISRAEL May 24, 2012
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Not only does Israel live in “a very tough neighbourhood”, but then there is the media environment.
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CHICAGO NATO SUMMITRY AND PROTESTS May 23, 2012
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US citizens attempted to exercise their First Amendment rights in Chicago during the Nato gathering of leaders, which strangely included Australia.
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NAKBA REMEMBERED May 16, 2012
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Palestinians have remembered Nakba, and the complicity of the Western Imperial Powers and the Jewish settlers in the dispossession from their land in 1948.
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THE SECRET SOCIETY April 25, 2012
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One, among the several reasons, people form societies is to organize the process of justice.
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AHIMSA AND NONVIOLENCE April 13, 2012
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These words express the same thought but do not seem to have the same meaning. There are parallel constructions in English to the Sanskrit word “ahimsa“, such as “asymmetry”.
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