Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Monday, December 20, 2010

OPINION: Asylum-seeker shame rises for some political pundits

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Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the United States embassy in Canberra last November. And to be sitting there watching and listening...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

VIDEO/IRAQ: Lengthy report on the Secret Iraq files ...

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VIDEO/COMMENT: John Howard's war of liberation ...

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According to his recently released memoirs, John Howard says that the Australian Labor Party was absolutely wrong to oppose the invasion and...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

OPINION: Refugee Hysteria Suggests Aussies Have Forgotten Their Own Ancestors

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YOU can always tell when Australia has entered election mode. Suddenly the really big issues come to the fore - issues that affect the econo...
Friday, May 28, 2010

OPINION: Rising trend of fearmongering on refugees and passports ...

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Coalition rhetoric now appears to slipping back to the worst practices of the Howard era, IRFAN YUSUF writes ... Tony Abbott wasn’t exactly ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

OPINION: Values blur in good and evil ...

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Uncle Sam stands at the top of a flight of stairs, looking more than slightly perplexed. Below him is a windowless chamber its sparse furnis...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

VIDEO: US troops handed out Bibles in both Iraq and Afghanistan ...

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What's the big deal with a bit of evangelism? Better a Bible than vicious dogs at your testicles, I say. Except that handing out Bibles ...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

COMMENT: Border Insecurity ...

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The letters section of the Daily Telegraph of Friday 24 April 2009 has two typical examples of uninformed hysteria concerning the issue of ...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

CRIKEY: Mafia scandal should make O'Farrell and Turnbull very nervous ...

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Well it’s been a bad few weeks for the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party. Brendan Nelson decided to POQ, his parting message to many of hi...
Monday, February 09, 2009

CRIKEY: When will anti-war conservatives condemn the so-called war on terror?

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The former opinion editor of The Australian (and no doubt author of numerous editorials in The Oz at the time) has made his position on the...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

VIDEO: All-American sharia ...

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The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Noah Feldman Colbert at Christmas Colbert Christmas DVD Green Screen Bill O'Reilly Inter...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

VIDEO: A superb oration of President George W Bush

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Friday, November 28, 2008

COMMENT: Dr Greg Barton tries to grapple with Indian terrorism ...

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Dr Barton knows plenty about Indonesia. He's written some superb stuff on the subject of Indonesian Islam, and has authored an insightfu...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

IRAQ: How minorities suffer in silence ...

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Iraqis of all ethnic and religious backgrounds are suffering thanks to the breakdown of law and order across the country. However, Iraq'...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

CRIKEY: Downer laughs at water-boarding and other "pretty fascinating" stuff ...

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Well, it's great to see Alexander Downer having a good laugh in his retirement: *Laughing at the use of waterboarding and other to...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

CRIKEY: Kevin Andrews' immigration crusade

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Since the end of the White Australia Policy, there has been bipartisan support for a non-discriminatory immigration policy. But with the How...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

OPINION: No regrets? Downer did it his way, sadly ...

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Some years ago, I went to a ''Big Ideas'' forum hosted by the Centre for Independent Studies. The session was moderated by A...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

COMMENT: Reading list ...

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The folks at NewMatilda.com are serving up an intellectual feast of profiles and interviews from the Sydney Writers' Festival. For thos...