Selected On-line Aceh Resources
January 24, 2005East Timor Action Network An online English language Indonesian news service covering Aceh Free Aceh Movement also known by it’s Acehnese acronym GAM. Blogpulse listings on Aceh
First they come after Commies, Towel-heads, Homo’s, and then the Sponge?
January 20, 2005Don’t let anyone tell you the rightwing conspiracy (as named by Mrs insider herself, Hillary Clinton) have their brains in the right place. It seems the scapegoating has gone a little, err off-track.
Tsunami used to repress Acehnese
January 13, 2005The entire tsunami disaster was a preventable catastrophe, if some of the money spent on military invasions by rich nations had been spent on extending the Pacific ocean tsunami warning network to the Indian ocean, the loss of life would have been reduced many-fold.
Tsunami Relief Donations
December 28, 2004While everyone is still recovering from holiday overeating and abundance, now’s the time to donate to support the victims of the Bengal Bay Tsunami disaster. I donated online at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Other organisations are probably also accepting donations to aid that disaster.
David Hicks Details His Abuse By U.S. Military
December 12, 2004David Hicks, one of the Australian citizens held in Guantanamo Bay against the Geneva Conventions has finally been able to make a sworn statement of the abuse he has suffered at the hands of the U.S. military. Available as a PDF (from the amazing Project to Enforce the Geneva Conventions, a one man effort to…
U.S. Economic Doom Forecast
November 25, 2004According to commentary by at least one economist, the melt down of the U.S. economy is very likely, in line with the previous arguments I’ve presented here before.
Republican Administration support of Saddam’s WMDs
November 21, 2004Salon has an informative article about the support given by the Reagan and Bush 1 administrations to Saddam to use chemical weapons against his own people and the Iranians.
It’s the Wealth
November 16, 2004An article by Rick Perlstein in last weeks Village Voice is worth reading to dispell the notion that it was “moral values” that bought Bush the election. According to Perlstein and the Polysigh blog, it seems that religious voters did not turnout in significantly greater numbers for the 2004 election and then vote for Bush.
Fallujah, the First Victim of the Second Term
November 12, 2004The images shown via the BBC (among others) of rampant bulldozing of houses in Fallujah using armoured vehicles is eerily familiar of the illegal collective punishment of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli Defence force using Caterpillar bulldozers. As noted by Mark LeVine, the ideology of Israel and the U.S. has converged.
Prudence In The Rule of Law
November 9, 2004Proof there is still consideration and sanity in the U.S. courts in this decision concerning the application of POW status to Guantanamo Bay detainee Hamdan: