Bloodbath on Wall Street

By Mike Whitney (published on ICH, August 5, 2007  On Friday the Dow Jones took a 280 point nosedive on fears that that losses in the subprime market will spill over into the broader economy...

A Week in the Death of Iraq

By Dr. Mohammed When will I die? That's the question circling in my head when I awake on Wednesday. I'm sweating, as usual. My muscles ache from another long night of no electricity in weather only slightly cooler than hell. As I dress for work, other questions assail me:...

Good news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled

"The panic and distraction of the security crisis should not be used as cover for handing Iraq's wealth to foreigners"By Jonathan Steele, in “The Guardian”Glad tidings from Baghdad at last. The Iraqi...

Murdoch and the Bancrofts: why he really wants Dow Jones and the Wall Street...

Exactly fifty years ago in Australia, a pudgy, aggressive, whiz kid business genius named Keith Rupert Murdoch was launching himself in Australia after inheriting from his father a half interest in a minor daily...

Anything goes in Bush's America

It was decadence, among other things, that brought down the Roman Empire two thousand years ago. It appears that a shocking new wave of pornographic decadence as well as a crumbling economy and a futile war is...

The clandestine reason for a million deaths

The world's mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge the principal reason for the Bush "surge" in Iraq which is due for review in mid-September. The "surge" has so far failed to resolve the main issue which...

Kissinger and Putin meet secretly in Moscow

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew to Moscow this week with a bunch of neo-conservative heavyweights, for a deliberately concealed meeting with Russia's President Putin.Kissinger's delegation...

The strange bomb that wouldn't explode

HERE in Australia some of us have decided to join Gordon Brown in the UK by not using the phrase “war on terror” any more. It is a small step, but it might be important. From now on “terrorists” will be...

"Terrorists" or "freedom fighters?"

HERE in Australia some of us have decided to join Gordon Brown in the UK by not using the phrase “war on terror” any more. It is a small step, but it might be important. From now on “terrorists” will be identified more accurately “freedom fighters.”The past...

At last, the truth about Iraq

Australians may have enjoyed the spectacle of the prime minister of their country contradicting his own defence minister about the reasons for Australia's militarily inconsequential but enthusiastically willing...

John Howard and the children of the desert

“We cannot imagine that the descendants of people whose genius and resilience maintained a culture here through 50 000 years or more, through cataclysmic changes to the climate and environment, and who then...

Were they suicides, or something else?

by ROBERT MATTHEWS  MORE than half a century after his death, one of Britain's greatest war heroes will today be honoured at the site of his greatest exploits, the former Allied code-breaking centre at...

A lesson in military history for General David H Petraeus and George W Bush

By STUART MURRAY(historian and author of 35 books, including An Atlas of American Military History) WHEN top British general Sir William Howe marched his powerful professional army of Redcoats, American...

John Howard and the politics of deception

One way or another since he entered politics fifty years ago, Australia's prime minister John Howard has been pulling the wool over the eyes of  the 20 million people who inhabit the world's largest island...

Bush, Howard and the greenhouse mafia

Australia's prime minister, John Howard,  has colluded with US president George W Bush and an industrial “greenhouse mafia” to stifle international efforts on global warming, according to a new book...

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