Uncanny Reflection – The Destruction of Chechnya
When we hear the Russian bombers coming we say here comes ‘humanitarian aid’ Resident of Grozny Like a funhouse mirror, the brutal mass-bombing and shelling of Chechnya by Russian forces resembles a...
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This year is obviously a US presidential election year, although in practice the presidential electoral cycle never really ends, the long day never wanes. Curiously, the 2000 presidential election...
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In September 2000 the World Economic Forum (WEF) is holding its ‘Asia-Pacific Summit’ in Melbourne. Alexander Downer, who attended the 1998 summit, describes the summit as the world’s ‘Business...
View ArticleThis is the Night, Remembered if Outlived
A decade or so ago, psychological depression was something of a cinderella among the troubles of our age. Coming off the back of the sixties, when the star turns of schizophrenia and anxiety had moved...
View ArticleAIDS in Africa
The AIDS crisis in Africa exceeds in horror and evil anything that the neoliberal world order has been able to dish up in the last decades. A disease that starts with young adults and works its way...
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