Bigger Than The Oil-For-Food Scandal
September 19, 2005Juan Cole makes the perceptive point the breaking scandal that over USD$1 billion has been stolen from the Iraq military is a bigger scandal than Saddam’s oil for food corruption.
Iraq, in Print and Film
July 2, 2005An acerbic, excellent critique of Iraq war coverage by Gary Kamiya is worth reading. I’m in the middle of the Revelation 8: Perth international film festival, which includes a devastingly good movie about Iraq by an Aussie director made before, during and after the invasion: In The Shadow Of the Palms. I was literally crying…
Sibel Edmonds – Gagged, But Not Dead
May 15, 2005Sibel Edmonds, the FBI translator who blew the whistle on the FBI, reporting that warnings of 9/11 attacks using airplanes as weapons were mistranslated continues to fight on.
Palast on Bush: Impeach Him!
May 12, 2005As BBC investigative journalist Greg Palast has commented, the leaked memo from Tony Blair’s cabinet is a damning indictment of the perversion of the truth by the Bush administration to wage war against Iraq. It couldn’t be more plainly told: “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy (of invading Iraq)”.
Oil and Sustainable Energy alternatives
April 9, 2005The Australian Treasury Minister, Peter Costello, openly admitted the likelihood of Australia becoming substantially dependent on imported oil in the next 10 years. The need for replacement of oil with sustainable energy sources has now become alarmingly imperative.
Australian Worker Shortage Feared
February 21, 2005I’ve just relocated back to Australia, to Sydney, after six years in New York (hence the break in transmission since the last post). I’ve started a photo-blog for my non-Aus friends who haven’t seen much of Sydney. Given a choice, I would have preferred to stay in the U.S. due to all the wonderful, intelligent…
Necessary, But Not Sufficient
January 30, 2005The reports from newswires indicate that despite the bloodshed, the Iraqi population has voted in higher numbers than expected.
Bush’s Man thinks Climate Change is Real and Disasterous
January 25, 2005In a rare display of independent thinking for a minion of the Bush administration, the chairman of the official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urgently warned that climate change was real and the window of time to address the issue was rapidly closing. Dr Rajendra Pachauri was installed by the Bush-house to replace (at the…