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» 24/06/2016 12:20:27 PM @Plantagenet. Pete, your personalised insults are simply tiresome and do you no credit. If.....
» 23/06/2016 2:25:51 PM Bruce, thanks for writing on foreign policy. It is a topic that is conspicuous by its abse.....
» 9/05/2016 4:17:47 PM Unfortunately, it is not only the politicians that will try and sell us a dud bill of good.....
» 25/04/2016 4:58:06 PM A number of commenters persist in referring to Sharia law in Lebanon. That probably says m.....
» 22/04/2016 11:51:54 AM It is not just 60 minutes that failed to maintain basic standards. Newspaper coverage of t.....
» 19/04/2016 4:24:18 PM There is a certain delicious irony in Turnbull making the case against Abbott on the groun.....
» 4/04/2016 4:07:07 PM Bravo for advancing this argument. It is an unfortunate trait of australians that they thi.....
» 27/03/2016 2:08:40 PM Joe, I will answer your four points in the same order that you wrote them. 1. Repeating n.....
» 26/03/2016 10:35:22 PM Joe, your repetition of historical nonsense does not suddenly make it correct. Can you giv.....
» 24/03/2016 5:39:41 PM No Joe, I was referring to your relentlessly ignorant rewriting of history. OLO does not a.....
» 24/03/2016 2:26:29 PM "Russia invades the Crimea ? it's the West's fault. Russia invades Georgia ? The West.....
» 10/03/2016 8:46:27 AM The situation in the Middle East is a great deal more complex than one would know from rea.....
» 1/03/2016 1:57:03 PM I should have added to the above post that Australia supported Kosovo's wish to secede fro.....
» 1/03/2016 1:54:08 PM @Rhrosty. For someone who is so clueless about international law, it certainly doesn't sto.....
» 29/02/2016 12:46:07 PM @Rhrosty. You obviously do not like John Pilger, but that should not be an excuse for comi.....
» 12/02/2016 9:15:38 AM Another young Tory staking his claim for a seat at the table. A greater collection of ill-.....
» 10/02/2016 5:42:18 PM Hi Joe. No, I do not support pushing Israelis or anyone else into the sea. Part of the pro.....
» 10/02/2016 5:11:54 PM Joe, the quote from Voltaire was from me, not 'Paul' whoever that might be. I used it to r.....
» 9/02/2016 11:28:23 AM Voltaire said "to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed t.....
» 8/12/2015 2:50:32 PM @Armchair Critic. I am afraid that your plea will fall on deaf ears. The vast majority of .....
» 5/11/2015 4:51:21 PM This article is very welcome, but one rather fears that it is a case of closing the stable.....
» 25/10/2015 11:33:26 AM Hullo Martyn. If you read the article by Gerber et al that I cited in my first comment you.....
» 24/10/2015 7:25:25 PM This is not an opportunity to engage in Triggs bashing, however much the neanderthal right.....
» 23/10/2015 9:15:47 PM It is a pity that the author's religious convictions lead him to a dismissal of Gillian Tr.....
» 12/10/2015 6:02:20 PM Peter & Joe. I am not beholden to Putin or anybody else. I happen to think that along with.....
» 12/10/2015 1:03:50 PM Just caught up with three days of posts and some threads appear, sometimes inadvertently i.....
» 10/10/2015 10:31:15 AM Geoff, thanks for the link. Hugely enjoyable but also right on the button. If only our msm.....
» 9/10/2015 3:14:05 PM Hi Peter. It is only in the Wizard of Oz that there were good witches and bad witches. To .....
» 9/10/2015 11:57:59 AM David, a useful comment but there are some unanswered questions. The US (and Australia's) .....
» 2/10/2015 10:51:32 AM I laughed out loud reading this remarkable foray into fantasy. The author seems entirely o.....
» 23/09/2015 3:32:56 PM Divergence: I don't assume for a moment that everything would be "ducky" without.....
» 23/09/2015 10:47:46 AM It never ceases to amaze me that Australian commentators can address the refugee crisis en.....
» 22/09/2015 12:06:42 PM Your reference to the comfort of the 1950s is presumably a snide comment on the election o.....
» 8/09/2015 10:18:56 AM Actually Keith, there have been 25 Security Council resolutions on R2P since 2006 (which p.....
» 7/09/2015 2:59:47 PM This is a useful article as far as it goes. The problem is that it does not go nearly far .....
» 25/08/2015 11:42:09 AM Jonathon, I think you rather miss the point about the astonishing rise of Mr Corbyn. Membe.....
» 21/08/2015 10:14:24 AM RHR. I think you mean the Emancipation Act, or more properly the Reform Act of 1867. That .....
» 21/08/2015 9:13:08 AM John, a timely reminder that much of what we believe is not necessarily true. Magna Carta .....
» 16/08/2015 2:10:13 PM Jonathon, the article was first published in New Eastern Outlook in June this year. If you.....
» 14/08/2015 5:43:01 PM Jonathon, only 5 of the 29 chapters of the TPP actually deal with trade. I agree that the .....
» 10/08/2015 9:57:08 PM Leslie, you are wasting your time debating with Plantagenet. There was a time when he made.....
» 10/08/2015 5:34:12 PM Leslie, they are reasonable questions to ask. They have in fact for the most part been ans.....
» 24/07/2015 3:59:10 AM The level of debate on foreign affairs in Australia ranges from poor to abysmal. One of th.....
» 30/06/2015 10:42:56 AM Those who argue that the ABC demonstrates left wing bias in its current affairs programs o.....
» 21/06/2015 8:53:54 PM Jonathon, my article was published on New Eastern Outlook today. James.....
» 18/06/2015 9:47:36 PM Thank you Jonathon. If you ae interested in a fuller discussion of the topic I have an art.....
» 17/06/2015 4:49:19 PM "Australia's 99% are surely no different in their history, their expectations and the.....
» 13/06/2015 3:28:38 PM Even by the somewhat loose standards of OLO this article plummets new depths in its profou.....
» 25/05/2015 3:15:46 PM @Is Mise. When a government gets elected in western democracies it frequently has less tha.....
» 25/05/2015 12:48:02 PM Before I read the comments I made a small bet with myself that if anyone agreed with the m.....
» 5/05/2015 1:21:44 PM Thank you Kellie for sticking your head above the parapet again, knowing as you probably d.....
» 9/04/2015 1:41:45 PM Thank you Jonathon for an interesting and informative article. I also endorse the comment .....
» 7/04/2015 4:29:20 PM This article is classic Zionist BS. It is disgraceful that OLO continues to provide space .....
» 7/04/2015 4:15:41 PM @Rhrosty. You and I are largely in agreement. We have a government at present that is almo.....
» 5/04/2015 12:37:31 PM Joe, I don't know why the URL didn't work, but you can find the article via Google. Just t.....
» 5/04/2015 11:27:34 AM Joe, in response to your queries to me at 4.14pm and 6.00pm on 3 April the evidence is the.....
» 3/04/2015 4:51:19 PM @Rhrosty. Fortunately RH, we have more choices than between living under an IS caliphate o.....
» 3/04/2015 12:14:55 PM @Joe & CH. Nobody is going to condone the atrocities perpetrated by Islamic radical groups.....
» 2/04/2015 7:04:01 PM CH: I can go one better than try to explain what I thought was quite a neat encapsulation......
» 2/04/2015 5:37:08 PM What is truly grotesque here is not the fantasy drawn by the author, but his complete igno.....
» 23/03/2015 5:24:38 PM Binoy, I do not disagree with most of what you said. However, the circumstances of the 197.....
» 18/03/2015 6:43:41 PM Joe, your criticism is a bit rich. did you read the article I cited? Lets look at some of .....
» 18/03/2015 5:41:42 PM Nothing like an article about one of the right wing lunatic fringe's bete noirs to provide.....
» 9/03/2015 6:50:06 PM The discussion about Korea is somewhat off topic, but if it must be discussed there should.....
» 6/03/2015 8:31:27 AM This article is such an appalling mixture of misinformation, ignorance and bias that it wo.....
» 24/02/2015 4:28:40 PM @Rhian. I would deny being selective. One of my points was that the US had no trouble with.....
» 24/02/2015 3:29:05 PM Mr Lea-Henry has a common misconception about "terrorism". He also completely mi.....
» 20/02/2015 12:02:48 PM Pete, as I said earlier, what I have written is irrelevant. I was first published in a pee.....
» 19/02/2015 6:58:20 PM Pete, there was a time when you had something intelligent to say. Alas. What I have or hav.....
» 19/02/2015 4:53:59 PM It doesn't much matter whether there is an AUMF or not if one looks at US foreign policy o.....
» 17/02/2015 10:50:34 AM Unfortunately the Senator's ideological position runs well ahead of his understanding of e.....
» 11/02/2015 7:46:23 PM @Graham Y on Tuesday. The problem with people like you Graham is that you insist on seeing.....
» 10/02/2015 2:09:50 PM "Abbott has simply affirmed what he always was. He is an avid monarchist, to the poin.....
» 3/02/2015 12:22:12 PM I agree with Mikk and Daffy Duck. This article was a classic illustration of seeing what y.....
» 12/01/2015 3:34:04 PM The above quote by Raycom and this one: "Palmer, Katter, Greens and sundry others wil.....
» 7/01/2015 10:46:20 AM Bazz, you may find the following article of particular interest from an always interesting.....
» 6/01/2015 6:29:22 PM Bass and Richard, the situation is a great deal more complex than either of you suggest. T.....
» 5/01/2015 12:33:11 PM Few things more succinctly demonstrate the difference between US rhetoric and reality than.....
» 21/12/2014 5:26:50 PM Steele: “Plain outright abuse is not entertaining at all”, how about refraining from it th.....
» 19/12/2014 8:08:11 AM One of the pities of an incident such as has just happened in Martin Place is that it give.....
» 17/12/2014 1:42:58 PM There are many unanswered questions about Monis. That is only the latest of at least three.....
» 14/12/2014 9:33:27 AM Joe, so many questions, so little word allowance to answer. Given a choice between Pilger .....
» 14/12/2014 9:17:25 AM Joe, Pilger has commented on ISIS more than once, and critically. You can read his latest .....
» 14/12/2014 9:13:09 AM "The suppression of the truth about Ukraine is one of the most complete news blackout.....
» 12/12/2014 2:54:35 PM @Atman. The reason the oil price is dropping is a lot more complicated than an alleged glu.....
» 12/12/2014 12:10:31 PM This useful article makes a number of important points that have resonance for Australia. .....
» 10/12/2014 6:14:33 PM Cobber, you are absolutely right. The songs sung by the Tories pre-poll are different from.....
» 2/12/2014 11:41:06 AM JKJ You manage to be offensive, inaccurate and fanciful. All in one post. I was tempted to.....
» 28/11/2014 1:21:16 PM @ o sung wu. Thank you for your civil response. It is a great deal better than many of the.....
» 27/11/2014 9:49:10 PM O sung wu. I was actually called to the bar in 1984. I practice in that area of law becaus.....
» 27/11/2014 4:30:47 PM JayB "So are you saying it's the Ukrainians fault not the Rebels & their Russian alli.....
» 27/11/2014 4:15:00 PM JKJ You raise the same tired idiocies every time this topic comes up. If you want a legal .....
» 27/11/2014 9:50:37 AM Isobel, a heartfelt argument. I tend to view it from a legal perspective. The wanton disre.....
» 25/11/2014 9:40:03 AM Leo Lane once again demonstrates his complete inability to address the issues and resorts,.....
» 24/11/2014 4:06:26 PM @SteeleRedux. You are never going to persuade Leo Lane and his ilk. They are invincible in.....
» 21/11/2014 2:44:01 PM Poirot, You published exactly the letter I was going to write, quoting the British Tories.....
» 20/11/2014 10:25:42 AM The problem faced by Leo, Runner and their ilk in supporting Abbott in his retrograde view.....
» 19/11/2014 10:27:18 AM Interesting how people construct their own reality about events. Tom makes a brave effort .....
» 11/11/2014 2:44:57 PM Michael, you do not have to look beyond the pages of this site to see regular examples of .....
» 5/11/2014 12:43:00 PM continued Even that was really an apologia for what really happened. We now have a brilli.....
» 5/11/2014 12:42:24 PM Bruce, once again you have raised some important issues, although inevitably the comments .....
» 30/10/2014 9:52:21 AM Hullo Agronomist. Thank you for your response. It did not actually address the main concer.....
» 29/10/2014 8:30:03 AM Lego, you are the last person to talk about a "mindset". Did you actually read m.....
» 28/10/2014 12:27:21 PM Thank you for this timely reminder as to the selectivity of what "crises" the we.....
» 9/10/2014 6:20:14 PM Amazing how one can define a country in terms of a narrow topic such as an oil and gas tax.....
» 8/10/2014 2:46:32 PM @JKJ Interesting point. As you see from my comment, I was quoting the Council of Europe wh.....
» 7/10/2014 12:24:04 PM Greg, a very important article. I was particularly glad that you referred to Alfred McCoy .....
» 2/10/2014 12:55:37 PM Pete: "pernicious leftwing". My, how standards are dropping on this site (not th.....
» 1/10/2014 9:57:43 PM Pete, not for the first time I haven't a clue what you are talking about. It seems to me t.....
» 1/10/2014 6:42:41 PM Jay, the point I was trying to make is that most of the so-called democracy movements in d.....
» 1/10/2014 4:25:21 PM Just who is behind Occupy Central? Among the names frequently mentioned: Benny Tai: a regu.....
» 29/09/2014 7:35:45 PM Scott, you might benefit from reading The Redirection, a 1997 article in the New Yorker by.....
» 27/09/2014 5:25:37 PM Pete, you frequently raise the question of would we (Australia) prefer to trade the US for.....
» 26/09/2014 5:33:43 PM Pete, as I regard Putin as head and shoulders above most so-called western leaders I suppo.....
» 26/09/2014 3:21:17 PM Bruce, I generally agree with the trust of your argument, but you say this: "No doubt.....
» 25/09/2014 3:04:31 PM Actually Peter, the attack on Syria is illegal under international law. There are only thr.....
» 21/09/2014 1:42:22 PM Can we bring this post back to the original article and the serious questions that were po.....
» 20/09/2014 4:30:50 PM For those interested in an insightful analysis of the theatricals being played out this we.....
» 20/09/2014 8:47:30 AM Jay, if you are referring to al Bagdadi, is it not passing strange that his particular bun.....
» 19/09/2014 5:01:52 PM Joe, not for the first time you completely misinterpret my comment. As for my views being .....
» 19/09/2014 3:19:31 PM Peter, you are brave to stick your neck out on this site with such an article. If you had .....
» 18/09/2014 9:10:26 AM @CH. I generally do not respond to people who hide behind a non de plume and that is espec.....
» 17/09/2014 9:02:35 AM continued: If we do not formulate a more intelligent foreign policy (a huge ask I know) t.....
» 17/09/2014 9:02:04 AM Joe, you ask "what's your remedy"? In order to produce a solution one must first.....
» 16/09/2014 5:25:37 PM Joe, there is more than one way to "enslave" or "cut off heads" than v.....
» 15/09/2014 11:38:41 AM The headline in this mornings newspapers were to the effect that Abbott had declared war o.....
» 14/09/2014 4:11:47 PM The chance to bomb some Islamic barbarians will no doubt temporarily sate the bloodlust of.....
» 12/09/2014 3:52:50 PM Thank you Bruce for raising some important points. I would just add some brief comments. .....
» 6/09/2014 2:32:06 PM For reasons that I do not fully understand there is a continuing flood of misinformation a.....
» 4/09/2014 11:37:45 AM If you thought Australia's foreign policy couldn't get any worse, well, this morning it di.....
» 3/09/2014 2:00:16 PM @Halduell. We'll said. I am afraid that Mr Cooke has learnt very little in his 40 years of.....
» 26/08/2014 11:47:13 AM Reading Helen Caldicott's argument, and the responses of Rhrosty and Peter Lang makes me y.....
» 19/08/2014 10:02:48 AM Don, thanks for that response. I appreciate the point about admissible evidence from the I.....
» 18/08/2014 12:05:53 PM Don, The problem is the system itself. We have seen ICAC expose some of the horrors of the.....
» 14/08/2014 5:18:59 PM @ Spindoc. I claim no monopoly on truth or history. I like to think that when an issue ari.....
» 13/08/2014 4:57:48 PM Actually Pete, I was critical of the fact that the article was singularly lacking in its k.....
» 12/08/2014 12:56:00 PM Unfortunately, the author of this article, like so much in the msm, has a grasp of history.....
» 31/07/2014 9:59:28 AM @AVW and IJN: Gentleman, aren't you rather straying from the point? Since at least 1967 Is.....
» 30/07/2014 10:03:16 AM "I think we can all agree that Abbott put it to Putin that a Russian rocket launcher .....
» 28/07/2014 6:20:49 PM Yes Pete. I will always prefer evidence to propaganda. But if you actually read what I sai.....
» 28/07/2014 5:59:50 PM Bruce, I generally find myself in sympathy with the positions you take, but in this case y.....
» 25/07/2014 7:41:10 PM Pete, you are wasting your time trying to reason with Singer. He will cherry pick all day .....
» 23/07/2014 10:45:21 AM @David Singer. In your latest response you say "Israel has the right to take such ste.....
» 23/07/2014 9:29:30 AM @ David Singer 9.40pm 22/7/14 You pose two questions to me: (1) Disinformation. This is d.....
» 22/07/2014 11:01:08 AM @imajulianutter. Once again we agree! I really don't know why Graeme continues to publish .....
» 22/07/2014 10:53:00 AM Noel, thank you for a thoughtful and compassionate piece. With the honourable exceptions o.....
» 17/07/2014 2:39:25 PM @under one god. Well said. Israel of course has no intention of relinquishing its strangle.....
» 15/07/2014 2:56:52 PM No, Malcolmpb, it is you that lives in a parallel universe. Rarely in such a short comment.....
» 10/07/2014 5:46:18 PM Joe, as far as we know both ships were in international waters. The Solicitor General admi.....
» 10/07/2014 1:36:55 PM An entirely predictable response from the usual suspects. For another viewpoint, and one w.....
» 10/07/2014 10:11:38 AM @Loudmouth. Joe, your first instincts were correct. The source for the claim that the occu.....
» 7/07/2014 11:28:39 AM "Rather than equality of opportunity, they are fixated on equality of outcome, despit.....
» 20/06/2014 4:46:15 PM Joe, thanks for your civil response. I have been a lawyer for "only" 30 years, b.....
» 20/06/2014 10:04:31 AM Well, the usual trolls are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Lego wants a retu.....
» 18/06/2014 8:10:00 AM @Arjay: Richard, you are wasting your time trying to persuade Lego of anything. As a very .....
» 17/06/2014 5:10:36 PM continued: @Jayb, Rhrosty et al. Of course the atrocities committed by Islamists with a m.....
» 17/06/2014 12:19:24 PM Yet again the Abbott government shows itself to be astonishingly ignorant and foolish. The.....
» 17/06/2014 9:33:31 AM @Halduell. Thanks for the timely reminder that the 1953 coup in Iran was engineered by CIA.....
» 16/06/2014 6:05:46 PM @JayB: re your final paragraph. If you really think that then further discussion is pointl.....
» 16/06/2014 5:57:22 PM Hullo Pete. You actually reinforce my argument, which if you read it without automaticall.....
» 16/06/2014 4:28:10 PM If there is one thing obvious from the armchair general fantasies of the contributors abov.....
» 13/06/2014 8:29:25 AM Our blinkered view of history manifests itself in other aspects of war history. In all the.....
» 28/05/2014 5:42:51 PM Unfortunately Dennis, the slashing of the science budget is symptomatic of a wider malaise.....
» 21/05/2014 6:56:46 PM OLO is to be commended for publishing this article, such a welcome antidote to the regular.....
» 20/05/2014 5:53:37 PM @Rhrosty and Divergence. Some good ideas there that should form the basis of an intelligen.....
» 20/05/2014 9:02:26 AM Graham, your analysis while interesting is perhaps tinged with a degree of optimism for th.....
» 20/05/2014 8:45:55 AM @Halduell. You would find Pepe Escobar's article for www.tomdispatch.com of considerable i.....
» 19/05/2014 11:20:19 AM @sonofgloin. It gets worse. Also appointed to the same board as Biden junior was Dean Arch.....
» 16/05/2014 4:53:18 PM @Halduell. My understanding is that the Russia/China deal was based on an agreement that e.....
» 16/05/2014 11:47:28 AM I agree with Halduell. Gareth Porter's book is essential reading for anyone seriously inte.....
» 16/05/2014 11:38:50 AM There are some articles in OLO that literally leave one speechless. This one however is in.....
» 14/05/2014 6:40:16 PM JKJ: (1) Australia is a signatory to the Convention on the rights of Refugees. (2) Because.....
» 14/05/2014 2:44:10 PM Dick D and Agronomist. Both well said. If you look back at previous articles OLO has publi.....
» 14/05/2014 11:05:40 AM @JKJ You have posed the same question as to the legal basis for Bruce's argument before an.....
» 13/05/2014 9:41:00 AM It is extraordinary how much space OLO gives to views such as the ones expressed in this a.....
» 10/04/2014 5:02:56 PM Obama's sneer about Russia as a "regional power" like a great deal of US foreign.....
» 31/03/2014 3:53:55 PM Joe, you have a rich and varied imagination. Unfortunately you appear to have fallen victi.....
» 28/03/2014 3:43:47 PM Further evidence of the wilfully blind propaganda masquerading as "analysis" by .....
» 26/03/2014 1:35:41 PM Thanks Joe. Your timetable duly noted.. You didn't answer my second question. Too uncomfor.....
» 26/03/2014 12:06:15 PM Actually "Nutter" they haven't stopped. The boats have been intercepted and turn.....
» 25/03/2014 5:30:08 PM Joe, I've made a copy of your latest comment to check your predictions against the reality.....
» 24/03/2014 2:06:15 PM With one or two honourable exceptions, whenever this issue is raised on the pages of OLO i.....
» 18/03/2014 12:07:56 PM Pete, I plead guilty to getting Mearsheimer's first name confused with his frequent co-aut.....
» 18/03/2014 10:48:31 AM @Steven Meyer. I agree. It is particularly the case with Ukraine because its current borde.....
» 17/03/2014 2:06:10 PM One wonders what parallel universe the author of this article (and Rhrosty) are occupying......
» 7/03/2014 10:15:09 PM @Hasbeen. I know that BP inherited a corrupt system. My point was the systemic problem. Th.....
» 7/03/2014 5:38:38 PM Well said Halduell and Leslie. It is alarming how much misinformation has infiltrated the .....
» 5/03/2014 12:57:39 PM One has to be careful comparing the Bjelke Peterson government with modern election result.....
» 4/03/2014 10:57:52 AM When I started to read this article I was dismayed that yet again ignorant ill-informed no.....
» 4/03/2014 10:50:28 AM It is interesting that some of the best comment is coming from unexpected sources. For exa.....
» 3/03/2014 2:28:30 PM Pete, that is a disappointing drop in the usual standard of your contributions. It is not .....
» 2/03/2014 1:15:02 PM Further evidence has emerged on the origins ofd the current situation in the Ukraine. Atte.....
» 28/02/2014 4:24:20 PM Pete, you need to bring your history books up to date. The only reason the Americans were .....
» 28/02/2014 11:58:45 AM cont. A secondary goal was the closure of the major Russian naval base at Sevastopol in t.....
» 28/02/2014 11:51:44 AM @Halduel. Thanks for the link. It provided some useful information. More than can be said .....
» 24/02/2014 6:25:56 PM Cohenite, your second paragraph may be what you want to believe but it is either unknown o.....
» 24/02/2014 3:47:06 PM JB "This is going so well for the government". What parallel universe are you oc.....
» 24/02/2014 2:04:04 PM Cohenite, To answer your question in as gracious and unsupercilious manner as I can muster.....
» 24/02/2014 1:50:07 PM JKJ: You raise a large number of points in your last three comments. I do not have the tim.....
» 23/02/2014 12:09:26 PM (cont.) One particular example, although not the only one, is the convention on the rights.....
» 23/02/2014 12:00:48 PM JKJ and JayB. you two really ought to exchange email addresses! I think that both of you .....
» 23/02/2014 11:34:31 AM Cohenite, you are partially correct, although in your case that was probably inadvertent. .....
» 21/02/2014 2:25:43 PM Unfortunately, most of the discussion is taking place in a factual vacuum, not least becau.....
» 21/02/2014 2:08:40 PM Bruce, when I read your article I made a small bet with myself that the majority of the co.....
» 20/02/2014 5:38:29 PM JayB: I am obviously not going to convince you of the error of your interpretations of the.....
» 20/02/2014 1:37:25 PM JayB & SM. You both seem to miss a fundamental point. Once a country ratifies a Convention.....
» 20/02/2014 9:39:47 AM @JKJ I have tried to maintain a civilised dialogue about a fundamental issue. It is a grea.....
» 18/02/2014 9:20:24 AM Thank you David for one of the most thoughtful and significant contributions I have read o.....
» 18/02/2014 8:12:53 AM SM. We will just have to agree to disagree......
» 17/02/2014 10:57:07 AM @Edward Carson. You pose some very large questions to Professor Kayzer and I will not pres.....
» 14/02/2014 5:17:16 PM JKJ All persons intercepted on the high seas o elsewhere have the right to have their cla.....
» 14/02/2014 10:18:55 AM Shadow Minister. As you often do you are conflating separate issues which only serve to co.....
» 12/02/2014 5:37:08 PM JKJ. You would find an article by Professor Donald Rothwell in the Australian 10 July 2012.....
» 11/02/2014 11:44:50 AM @Shadow Minister. You would lose your bet insofar as my reading of the Charter is concern.....
» 11/02/2014 10:19:56 AM Thank you Bruce for this article, although as is obvious from the first three comments the.....
» 10/02/2014 7:17:15 PM I have been reluctant to reenter this discussion because it is obvious from the 4 or 5 com.....
» 7/02/2014 10:32:38 AM Congratulations Andrew on having the courage to enter the pages of OLO where the comments .....
» 6/02/2014 5:34:35 PM @Leo Lane and others. One reason I am reluctant to engage in debate in this forum is that.....
» 4/02/2014 4:57:48 PM OLO published articles on climate change quite regularly. Equally regularly the usual susp.....
» 22/01/2014 11:50:10 AM The doctrine of the separation of powers divides the institutions of government into three.....
» 21/01/2014 8:56:18 PM It is a pity that with a couple of exceptions the discussion about Professor Keyzer's impo.....
» 21/01/2014 8:49:14 AM This is an important article that raises a number of issues. I think that the following ar.....
» 17/01/2014 3:23:29 PM Actually Syd, you were too kind. The case against Abbot is actually much stronger than you.....
» 17/01/2014 2:53:54 PM Steven and Pete. An interesting discussion, but it has yet to address the questions I pose.....
» 16/01/2014 6:45:20 PM Further to the appalling Bishop. she was interviewed by the Times of Israel (where she was.....
» 16/01/2014 4:28:13 PM Rhys Jones and Pete P. Agree with what you both say. It has never been clear to me (and th.....
» 8/01/2014 9:54:08 AM It is hard to decide which is worse: Bernardi's book or this equally ignorant apologia. O.....
» 6/01/2014 9:50:34 AM Bruce, thank you for that article. I do not expect to see a similar report in the msm. If.....
» 30/12/2013 4:55:29 PM Hi Pete, Nice of you to interrupt your holiday. Unfortunately, notwithstanding the obvious.....
» 20/12/2013 4:31:46 PM Hi Pete. No such insinuation. The point I was making is that when what Peter Dale Scott ca.....
» 20/12/2013 2:41:27 PM This is a pathetic article, not so much for what it says, or more accurately speculates, b.....
» 17/12/2013 11:59:39 AM An interesting post, although high on wishful thinking. I agree that serious discussion on.....
» 16/12/2013 8:00:49 PM Hi SPQR. 1. It is a fact that al Qaeda was formed in the 19870s as part of an American ins.....
» 16/12/2013 1:50:27 PM @SPQR I am not sure that "reams" is quite the right word. I have on occasion res.....
» 13/12/2013 1:24:32 PM Joe, I am puzzled by your response to one of David G's posts. I completely fail to see an.....
» 10/12/2013 11:27:42 AM I just wish to comment on the limited notion of intelligence gathering, i.e. spying, that .....
» 2/12/2013 1:39:53 PM It is unfortunate that writers such as Ms Nathan perceive disagreements with the actions o.....
» 30/11/2013 3:32:48 PM Pete, If you examine Individual's posts over the past year (and several others like him) .....
» 27/11/2013 10:51:28 AM Hi Pete, "Odd" hardly covers it, and "doctrinaire views" is surely a .....
» 25/11/2013 4:11:46 PM I agree this is a good article with mush to discuss. It might usefully have been a two-par.....
» 12/11/2013 12:47:05 PM Thank you Bruce for highlighting the fundamental nature of the Australian government (of b.....
» 8/11/2013 10:37:41 AM Jenny, you start by referring to the Abbott government's brief honeymoon with you. If the .....
» 5/11/2013 5:44:19 PM Reg, another interesting and important contribution. I know you have space constraints, bu.....
» 30/10/2013 10:43:14 AM There are a number of lessons to be drawn from this article. I suggest that a few of them .....
» 23/10/2013 6:23:16 PM Mr Robinson has grappled with the difficult concept of the social contract. I strongly dis.....
» 8/10/2013 10:15:38 AM Joe, my understanding is the same as yours. What the Indonesians have purchased is a lease.....
» 7/10/2013 6:06:11 AM @Julian. Agreed, and no doubt we could add others as well. Which is precisely why it will .....
» 4/10/2013 1:07:36 PM Needless to say, none of the above actions draws a word of criticism from successive Austr.....
» 4/10/2013 1:07:15 PM Mr Gordon is yet another deluded apologist for a racist regime that in the eyes of the vas.....
» 1/10/2013 5:07:01 PM Mr Pascoe, you might like to expand your reading as there are obvious gaps. For example, y.....
» 18/09/2013 7:04:13 AM It never ceases to amaze me how contributors to OLO, especially on international affairs, .....
» 5/09/2013 4:55:45 PM Pete, Joe and UOG. Ban Ke Moon has just come out and restated the obvious. Any attack on S.....
» 3/09/2013 3:10:19 PM "Green and Joyce are right. The present system of preferential voting has been stretc.....
» 3/09/2013 2:19:44 PM Bruce Haigh continued: Australia should not feel compelled to support the Obama administr.....
» 3/09/2013 2:19:01 PM The following is a quote from former diplomate Bruce Haigh writing in this morning's Crike.....
» 3/09/2013 1:28:09 PM Joe,, using Japan is not a good example. It is true that the majority of Americans did not.....
» 2/09/2013 10:07:07 PM Pete, you really need to broaden your reading. Relying on the Washington Post is not going.....
» 1/09/2013 4:25:49 PM @Individual. Typically, you take half of a quote out of context and then distort it for yo.....
» 29/08/2013 4:27:25 PM Reg, it is not just Ruddian self-indulgence. There is a fundamental flaw in the Australian.....
» 29/08/2013 4:12:47 PM We are facing an incredibly dangerous situation in the Middle East, and our understanding .....
» 28/08/2013 10:50:38 AM The belligerence and hypocrisy continue unabated. The UN inspectors were specifically forb.....
» 27/08/2013 4:08:19 PM Rhys Jones and Halduell pose the obvious point: Assad is neither stupid nor suicidal. Are .....
» 12/08/2013 10:16:39 PM Hi Ingolf. You can read Carter's remarks on the English language version of Der Spiegel on.....
» 12/08/2013 4:10:34 PM Hi Pete. I would prefer to think of it as the "rise" of Snowden. I agree that it.....
» 12/08/2013 11:30:16 AM This is an interesting article that raises a number of points. I am rather more pessimisti.....
» 1/08/2013 3:26:48 PM Syd, there was a time when the mainstream media did fulfil a useful function. There was a .....
» 30/07/2013 5:31:40 PM This is a seriously flawed article from an unreliable source. Family First are hardly to b.....
» 29/07/2013 1:07:54 PM Vox Unius: You may well be right that $190 billion was "wasted" although that is.....
» 18/07/2013 9:21:40 AM Of course, what Mr Winter sees as strengths might equally be argued as Abbott's weaknesses.....
» 10/07/2013 5:44:18 PM @PhilipS: I didn't respond to your comment because it was incoherent nonsense not deservin.....
» 10/07/2013 4:27:39 PM @SPQR Your inability to see what you prefer not to see remains as boundless as ever. Put t.....
» 10/07/2013 1:29:24 PM (continued) If the claims come within the provisions of Articles 1 or 33 of the Conventio.....
» 10/07/2013 1:21:54 PM It is depressing to read most of the above comments because they betray an almost complete.....
» 8/07/2013 1:14:16 PM It comes as no surprise that Liberals (including the editor of OLO) should want an early e.....
» 5/07/2013 9:57:18 AM @Candide: agreed. @Lego. Even your insults lack originality......
» 4/07/2013 4:37:32 PM @Candide. Don't hold your breath. Waiting for any kind of intelligent response from Lego w.....
» 2/07/2013 6:52:14 PM Thank you Pericles for actually focusing on Mr Large's arguments. Sadly, most of the respo.....
» 2/07/2013 11:02:58 AM Matt, a thoughtful open letter that raises a number of important issues. Part of the probl.....
» 28/06/2013 4:23:27 PM Alison, this is an important article. I would take issue however with one of your points. .....
» 22/06/2013 9:43:50 PM Lego, you are obviously caught in a time warp circa the 1940s. You are badly in need of an.....
» 22/06/2013 4:54:25 PM Lego and I must have been reading a different article because apart from the first six wor.....
» 19/06/2013 2:49:33 PM Jayb, you make the fundamental error of confusing a dislike of a particular government's p.....
» 19/06/2013 11:09:39 AM @Jaybe. There is a distinction between having an interest in a peaceful resolution of Midd.....
» 19/06/2013 10:00:01 AM Graham, don't be surprised at SM's views. Any resemblance between his view of history and .....
» 18/06/2013 6:37:51 PM This is yet another example of ill-informed comment on the Middle East. OLO seems to be ma.....
» 14/06/2013 5:08:09 PM The author suggests that the US citizenry can take comfort from the fact they do not live .....
» 8/06/2013 8:16:58 AM Actually Alan, the vast majority of responses to your article are examples of what is know.....
» 6/06/2013 9:40:22 AM Alan, you have largely confined your criticism to the ABC's non-critical stance toward the.....
» 29/05/2013 11:30:15 AM Richard, this is an important article that raises a number of issues that need to be serio.....
» 16/05/2013 3:51:00 PM Chris, One would have to question the premise of your question. Are the countries of East.....
» 14/05/2013 4:11:48 PM In his article Mr Little said "Australian understanding of the character of China's r.....
» 14/05/2013 3:39:47 PM @Beaucoupbob. I think you will find, on examination of the evidence, that attacks on weste.....
» 10/05/2013 11:33:34 AM Chris, how many articles have you read on sites like OLO that discuss the financial crime .....
» 10/05/2013 11:00:56 AM @rhrosty. You are correct. But it is not just the so-called mainstream media that is unwil.....
» 9/05/2013 2:57:19 PM Frankly, one wonders if the author of this piece is actually aware of what is going on in .....
» 6/05/2013 4:24:58 PM SM: I really doubt the utility of debating with you as you are impervious to facts. The re.....
» 6/05/2013 2:51:40 PM SM: You are the last person on this forum to accuse me of prejudice. Your grasp of history.....
» 6/05/2013 12:58:27 PM This would have to rate as one of the worst items published by OLO on foreign affairs. The.....
» 2/05/2013 3:30:29 PM Hi Pete. Agree with everything you say except the final paragraph. Plenty of democratic co.....
» 2/05/2013 12:52:45 PM Before one decides on which of the military hardware options to adopt one must first have .....
» 30/04/2013 5:53:05 PM Alan, I chose a limited number of indicators because they illustrate a point within the wo.....
» 30/04/2013 12:15:19 PM The kindest thing that might be said about Alan's articles is that they take a glass half .....
» 24/04/2013 2:59:03 PM This is an interesting article. In many respects the key paragraph is the third to last on.....
» 22/04/2013 1:50:59 PM Chris, before the Industrial Revolution China was the world's superpower. Despite sending .....
» 22/04/2013 12:04:43 PM @David G. Actually David, the joint exercises were last month although you would be hard p.....
» 22/04/2013 8:10:56 AM Bruce, I agree with most of your analysis of the problem, viz that the US is a greater con.....
» 22/04/2013 7:58:05 AM You might like to think about the fact that not everyone shares your narrow view on the pu.....
» 26/03/2013 5:28:15 PM Actually Renysol, Mr Dijsselbloem resiled from his comments the following day. It is extre.....
» 25/03/2013 8:36:14 PM Alan, You have the patience of a saint. In this quotes you sum it up: "By repeatin.....
» 22/03/2013 8:58:56 AM JKJ: so a Nobel prize winning economist has got it all wrong, but you have figured it out......
» 21/03/2013 3:31:19 PM Rhrosty, Robert Le Page and Mac have expressed it very well. The attempt to link the Cypru.....
» 18/03/2013 3:59:21 PM We live in an age when the unspeakable becomes the normal and the unspeakable of times pas.....
» 15/03/2013 6:35:49 PM North Korea has an unenviable position and no-one would wish to defend the often bizarre b.....
» 15/03/2013 3:39:15 PM No-one wants to rain on the new Pope's parade, but the cause of truth is not really served.....
» 14/03/2013 10:17:44 AM Than you Ken. This is one of the best articles that OLO has published in a long while. The.....
» 11/03/2013 5:26:52 PM I am adding this brief post in case anyone might think that my non-response to Cohenite's .....
» 10/03/2013 9:07:08 PM Joe, No-one is disputing that there is an unacceptable level of carnage caused by terrori.....
» 9/03/2013 9:39:00 PM Cohenite: you obviously only read what you know is going to espouse opinions with which yo.....
» 7/03/2013 7:12:11 PM Ms Bishop suggests that Grillo's party is the largest single party in the Italian Lower Ho.....
» 6/03/2013 9:02:33 PM Joe, either read the evidence about the WTC towers or don't say anything at all. Everythin.....
» 6/03/2013 6:32:03 PM Joe, two books you might like to look at for the answers to your questions are both by Dav.....
» 6/03/2013 1:58:39 PM This is an important article in that it highlights many of the inroads made on our civil l.....
» 5/03/2013 12:50:02 PM The debate about tabloid vs broadsheet is largely a phony one. Two things in particular st.....
» 5/03/2013 9:08:20 AM Arjay. One could write a whole book on Israeli false flag operations. Most intelligence ag.....
» 4/03/2013 10:52:20 PM @Steven Meyer. I think the term is projection. I don't recall seeing a single "conspi.....
» 4/03/2013 6:11:08 PM Mr Ruff actually has some important points to make, although one wouldn't know it from the.....
» 28/02/2013 3:18:30 PM I agree with Plantagenet that the writer of the latest article shows a more subtle appreci.....
» 21/02/2013 4:26:57 PM @Geoff of Perth. Agree completely. Let us assume for a moment that the incoming Coalition .....
» 20/02/2013 2:55:07 PM JKJ: I largely agree with what you say, but would just add some further points. The media.....
» 15/02/2013 5:54:57 PM Jay. There is a certain delicious irony in the hispanic takeover of the US south-west. The.....
» 15/02/2013 5:05:52 PM The article is a fine advertisement for the Obama regime. Unfortunately, as the record sho.....
» 7/02/2013 3:35:36 PM Andrew, this was an excellent article. What you say about our involvement in Iraq is equal.....
» 5/02/2013 12:32:23 PM Ray, this is an interesting article although I think you tried to cover too much ground in.....
» 4/02/2013 12:16:38 PM Bernie, your sense of irony does you credit......
» 3/02/2013 12:38:38 PM Chris, you need to take a long hard look at what is actually going on in the US -China con.....
» 1/02/2013 10:16:46 PM Gentlemen, are we not rather straying from the point. Pilfer had some important things to .....
» 25/01/2013 2:49:49 PM @cohenite. It is not enough to dismiss something you disagree with as a "leftist rant.....
» 24/01/2013 5:26:51 PM I agree with Julie Bishop on one point. The current government is incompetent and unprinci.....
» 22/01/2013 12:19:16 PM "As for foreign policy, events yet unknown make predictions hazardous". On the c.....
» 14/01/2013 8:37:31 PM @julianutter:"labor mantra"? Once again confirmation that you occupy a parallel .....
» 14/01/2013 8:28:39 PM @shockadelic. Before you leap into claims of illogicality I suggest you acquaint yourself .....
» 14/01/2013 10:47:11 AM @Divergence. the fact that you ally yourself with SPQR is a telling fact in itself. One do.....
» 14/01/2013 7:54:05 AM @spqr. There you are at it again. What I said in the post you kindly linked to was that bl.....
» 13/01/2013 10:27:36 PM @divergence. I use my own name because I stand by my arguments, right or wrong, not becaus.....
» 13/01/2013 8:19:51 PM @Divergence. Impossible to tell that you are a woman from your nom de plume. If you had th.....
» 13/01/2013 9:48:37 AM Ludwig, I apologies for lumping you in with Divergence. His is an all together different o.....
» 11/01/2013 5:38:20 PM Julianutter: the devil as always is in the detail. Of the three final points you make, wha.....
» 11/01/2013 10:15:18 AM @Pericles. The CPU vs OPV debate is a red herring. The Libs are currently toying with a ch.....
» 10/01/2013 12:21:13 PM @Curmudgeon. It is a curious world view that you have if you see opinion divided into eith.....
» 10/01/2013 11:17:11 AM Bruce, this is a useful summary but there are some points that you make that are seriously.....
» 10/01/2013 11:02:17 AM OLO continues to provide Julie Bishop with a forum for Coalition propaganda. It cannot be .....
» 9/01/2013 4:56:34 PM @ Pericles Hear hear......
» 3/01/2013 3:52:38 PM @worldwatcher. One of the problems with Ms Bishop's presentations is that they are not &qu.....
» 27/12/2012 5:10:41 PM "In those 45 years those people have yet to reduce their rate of child production, as.....
» 27/12/2012 11:44:47 AM Jenny, this is a useful contribution to the debate but speaking as one who has studied and.....
» 27/12/2012 11:26:59 AM For a recent balanced discussion on climate change it is useful to listen to Professor Kev.....
» 24/12/2012 12:07:09 PM this is an interesting article that hopefully will spark an intelligent debate about the n.....
» 22/12/2012 9:57:45 AM @worldwatcher. It is not necessary to populate a country with migrants in order to control.....
» 21/12/2012 4:00:08 PM @rhrosty. Your moral confusion, not to say your grasp of facts, is increasingly evident. Y.....
» 20/12/2012 12:01:59 PM Monday of this week was the third anniversary of a cluster bomb attack by the Americans on.....
» 17/12/2012 10:31:19 AM @Hasbeen. The draft IPCC report leaked online last Friday does not support your contention.....
» 14/12/2012 3:19:30 PM RObert: Point taken. I do not seek to censor anyone's views, but there is a distinction in.....
» 14/12/2012 12:12:37 PM @Daffy Duck. It is a measure of how far we have declined as a democracy that the fundament.....
» 13/12/2012 10:38:21 AM This article is so wrong on a number of levels. It is constitutionally inept. The PM is on.....
» 8/12/2012 6:33:03 PM Cherry picking history is a favored ploy of Israel's apologists. Hamas is a case in point......
» 7/12/2012 5:51:49 PM Graham Y: Marilyn Shepherd posed a perfectly valid question that needs a response. When is.....
» 6/12/2012 2:20:33 PM Good old reliable Julie. Once again the water carrier for the latest in propaganda out of .....
» 5/12/2012 2:47:01 PM Dr O: Check your history instead of parroting the Tel Aviv talking points. The Palestinian.....
» 5/12/2012 11:53:42 AM Very good article Kellie. Are you aware that Australia was once more out of step with worl.....
» 4/12/2012 6:32:35 PM This is a disturbing story on a number of levels. It shows, for example, how far the moder.....
» 22/11/2012 12:17:32 PM @ Daryl of Perth. Isn't it an equally valid question to ask: are the militants of Likud an.....
» 22/11/2012 11:31:03 AM This article is a good reason why it would be dangerous for the Coalition to become the go.....
» 20/11/2012 9:51:43 AM @avw & iamajulianutter. It is technically correct that Israel has no constitution in the s.....
» 19/11/2012 10:04:26 PM @Stevenlmeyer. "Only conspiracy theorists like James O'Neill.........". You are .....
» 19/11/2012 8:25:24 PM @imajulianutter. I would not place to much weight on anything Obama says in support of Mor.....
» 19/11/2012 10:29:04 AM @DavidG I agree with you. Some of us do try to raise a voice of reason. As you noted, the .....
» 17/11/2012 10:03:57 PM Cheers Ross. Yes, I was at that meeting and have also met Haririt in Copenhagen. I am fami.....
» 17/11/2012 9:43:50 AM Arjay: I agree with what you say in your last two posts. I also know Harrit, Jones and Leg.....
» 16/11/2012 5:09:54 PM @Steven Meyer. Quite what my views on 9/11 have to do with the topic under discussion evad.....
» 16/11/2012 3:10:49 PM No, the article is neither well reasoned nor rational. It betrays an alarming ignorance of.....
» 16/11/2012 10:04:47 AM Array: there is always a potential problem in relying on the endorsements of any given ind.....
» 12/11/2012 7:25:56 PM Pericles: you manifestly live within your own fact free bubble that rational discussion wi.....
» 12/11/2012 4:27:15 PM @Pericles: your solicitousness brings a tear to my eye. Like the author of the article you.....
» 12/11/2012 2:19:47 PM This is a depressing example of what passes for journalism in Australia. The author is eit.....
» 8/11/2012 9:50:25 AM Gentlemen, this is all very entertaining, in a slightly masochistic way, but haven't you r.....
» 7/11/2012 12:50:15 PM @ Senior Victorian. You nominate 5 areas that presumably you think are "conspiracy th.....
» 6/11/2012 5:12:43 PM The author rightly points out that the 2000 and 2004 elections were marred by electoral fr.....
» 30/10/2012 10:49:29 AM "Then all the Coalition has to do is to develop a plan to show how they are going to .....
» 26/10/2012 4:39:04 PM It has been said that some of the best causes have the worst advocates. There are many que.....
» 26/10/2012 4:24:09 PM This article was a poor analysis of the US race. The author does not even follow the line .....
» 19/10/2012 12:08:00 PM A useful summary, particularly as it highlights the fact that preparation for the bis bega.....
» 17/10/2012 12:49:01 PM While any humanitarian disaster needs our support it is important to understand the roots .....
» 11/10/2012 3:52:01 PM While this article makes a number of good points it overstates some aspects and failed to .....
» 1/10/2012 10:46:29 PM The opening sentence of this article is a classic illustration of the self-fulfilling prop.....
» 21/09/2012 9:39:57 PM Jay. "NATO is trying to give Read Richard Cottrell's book "Gladio" (2012). .....
» 21/09/2012 6:01:09 PM Arjay. I am yet to be persuaded that Murdoch is becoming a peacenik, although I agree that.....
» 21/09/2012 9:00:59 AM Arjay. Is that true about Murdoch resisting the endless march to war? What is your source .....
» 21/09/2012 8:54:57 AM Dear Ira, there are mo.re reliable sources than Wikipedia if you wish to understand the hi.....
» 20/09/2012 8:47:46 PM Dear Bempec and Ira. The issue is not whether or not Jews have lived in Palestine since th.....
» 20/09/2012 12:44:38 PM One has to give credit to Ms Bishop for one thing: she is indefatigable in defending the i.....
» 20/09/2012 12:25:50 PM OLO really needs to examine its publication policy. Mr Kessler seems to have only a noddin.....
» 20/09/2012 12:15:48 PM This would have to rate as one of the most amoral interviews I have read. Both parties tal.....
» 11/09/2012 5:24:09 PM @ Cohenite. A conspiracy is simply an agreement by two or more persons to carry out an ill.....
» 11/09/2012 9:51:34 AM There is a huge body of scientific evidence proving that the official conspiracy theory ab.....
» 10/09/2012 5:26:15 PM Well done, Diver Dan. It has taken only 8 posts (and your second) to go completely off top.....
» 10/09/2012 12:33:58 PM This is a good article making some important points. We also, on the eve of the anniversar.....
» 6/09/2012 8:46:57 PM Poroit, I have just read the article by John Cook that you reference. It should be obligat.....
» 6/09/2012 12:31:13 PM Well said Scribbler and Pelican. In their book What Price Security (2006) Andrew Lynch an.....
» 6/09/2012 12:11:01 PM Tim, welcome to the world of conspiracy theorists. You are arguing, in effect, that the ov.....
» 3/09/2012 1:27:18 PM Graham, you persist in misrepresenting my arguments. I did not call opinions "lies&qu.....
» 2/09/2012 4:06:27 PM Graham, I cited two examples. The first of these was a rebuttal of the claim that Iran h.....
» 2/09/2012 1:58:52 PM Graham, read the second and fourth paragraphs of my first comment. Both rebut what are man.....
» 2/09/2012 1:16:31 PM Graham, I did point out a major error in the article. I am happy to expand but I think it .....
» 1/09/2012 6:07:59 PM Graham and Killarney: why don't you two gentlemen carry on your dialogue off this comment .....
» 30/08/2012 10:25:47 AM Ms Bishop is right to question why Australia has sent representatives to the non-aligned c.....
» 28/08/2012 9:35:18 AM Wendy, a possible answer to your final question as to what are the Australian, UK and Swed.....
» 28/07/2012 1:01:13 PM David, you always have the defence of "truth". I think it was Orwell who said th.....
» 26/07/2012 5:34:34 PM Steven, you haven't answered David's question. Veering off on obscure metaphors is no subs.....
» 26/07/2012 11:42:49 AM Unfortunately and not for the first time an article by Ms Bishop reads as though she has g.....
» 25/07/2012 5:30:20 PM @ killarney. Well said. There is a current campaign going on of which Ms Arnold appears to.....
» 24/07/2012 8:10:25 PM David G, it wouldn't matter if Reg wrote about the joys of motherhood and apple pie the us.....
» 18/07/2012 5:38:59 PM Welcome back Reg. One of my favourite quotations is from Chou En Lai who when asked for h.....
» 18/07/2012 9:38:37 AM Thank you Steven for an interesting analysis. As always it is the interpretation that peop.....
» 16/07/2012 1:34:55 PM Well said Chek, except I think you meant to say that Pell was outclassed by Dawkins. Pete.....
» 10/07/2012 8:00:05 PM Geoff: your comment is on the mark. The author of this article appears not to consider how.....
» 6/07/2012 4:07:29 PM Thanks Pete. I would like to discuss this further outside the constraints of a comment sec.....
» 6/07/2012 10:01:07 AM Pete. An interesting hypothesis but one that I would argue is widely at variance with the .....
» 5/07/2012 8:31:17 PM If this is the best the Coalition can come up with then God help us all. If Ms Bishop is b.....
» 29/06/2012 4:58:13 PM @ Plantagenet. Thanks Pete. Please don't misunderstand me. I don't expect people to read .....
» 29/06/2012 3:05:05 PM @ plantagenet. Pete, Can I suggest you read Fitzgerald and Gould's book Afghanistan's Unto.....
» 26/06/2012 10:42:27 AM @DavidL Assange is not an "accused sex offender". The Swedish request for extrad.....
» 26/06/2012 9:39:57 AM Thank you Kellie for an important and well argued article. The fact that the US government.....
» 25/06/2012 10:26:22 PM Unfortunately I disagree with the author and with most of the comments that have been post.....
» 19/06/2012 5:41:11 PM Hasbeen, I don't know what parallel universe you occupy, but anyone who can write that the.....
» 19/06/2012 9:17:43 AM The smh with a "soft left ideology". Well, I suppose it depends on where one sta.....
» 15/06/2012 8:05:14 PM There is no contradiction between rejoicing in the best of our British heritage such as pa.....
» 15/06/2012 3:05:43 PM Juan Cole on his Informed Comment website recently published a map showing US bases surrou.....
» 25/05/2012 10:10:25 PM If the reactionary rump of the LNP succeed in overturning the existing legislation regardi.....
» 24/05/2012 1:37:18 PM Chris, You have a charmingly naive view of American foreign policy. Look at the encircleme.....
» 24/05/2012 10:19:20 AM Bruce, How refreshing to read a reasoned analysis of Australia's defence needs. I think it.....
» 24/04/2012 7:03:57 PM John Bennetts: I agree with your observations. I would just add that Mr Assange has not be.....
» 24/04/2012 6:48:31 PM There is nothing more difficult than trying to persuade someone of a viewpoint they have p.....
» 24/04/2012 5:41:10 PM Joe, You really shouldn't allow yourself to be confused by American propoganda. If you wan.....
» 23/04/2012 7:54:19 PM @ Hasbeen. In the faint hope that you might be interested in actually improving your knowl.....
» 23/04/2012 4:12:14 PM Joe Loudmouth, One of the points I was making was that there was an Afghan government tha.....
» 23/04/2012 3:14:39 PM Thank you Kellie for the article. As most of the comments make clear however, it is likely.....
» 20/04/2012 1:06:01 PM Dear Diver Dan, For the reason suggested in my final paragraph. The "deadening influ.....
» 20/04/2012 10:56:48 AM This article started off in the right direction but then lost its way with digressions int.....
» 3/04/2012 12:47:00 PM Well said Diver Dan. The posts that follow yours make your point exquisitely. All the usua.....
» 2/04/2012 3:29:50 PM No Hasbeen. I do not "hate progress". I would consider that my views are more pr.....
» 2/04/2012 1:22:27 PM All systems of electing a parliament are flawed. the question then becomes: which is the l.....
» 29/03/2012 11:39:34 AM Halduell perhaps said it best. Bishop does nothing more than repeat the same tired propoga.....
» 5/03/2012 1:59:45 PM An interesting article that raises anumber of questions. Not the least of these questions .....
» 2/03/2012 3:28:23 PM Actually Brenton, there is a choice at the ballot box other than between Tweedledum and Tw.....
» 23/02/2012 9:26:11 AM Ms Bishop is hardly an impartial observer. Her demand for an election is made solely becau.....
» 19/02/2012 3:22:59 PM Kaep, I sympathise with your impatience about the inability of people to understand the se.....
» 13/02/2012 2:30:17 PM Michael in Adelaide. I think that is a very useful comment. I claim no expertise in oil pr.....
» 10/02/2012 9:48:27 AM It seems to me that there are two very important points that emerge from the article. ther.....
» 6/02/2012 3:14:07 PM @ Plantagenet. Well said. Kellie: That is the wrong question and only half of the answer......
» 2/02/2012 6:20:31 PM Arjay, I couldn't agree more. Majorie Cohn said "Because rules of engagement are set.....
» 25/01/2012 6:35:57 PM As an antidote to some of the more rabid contributions above may I commend that people rea.....
» 24/01/2012 7:21:15 PM Hi Alan Austin. It is manifestly obvious that Cohenite has not read the Bolt judgment or i.....
» 24/01/2012 10:12:19 AM Dr Matthews is right, but the problem goes beyond the media more closely scrutinizing the .....
» 23/01/2012 6:06:18 PM 579: In what way was my comment "biased". I was simply stating verifiable facts......
» 23/01/2012 10:51:16 AM Haven't the comments rather gotten away from the point that Cohn was making: that pressuri.....
» 22/01/2012 6:02:55 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 21/01/2012 9:14:41 AM @DavidL The Iranians never said they would wipe Israel off the map. That is a tired lie th.....
» 18/01/2012 2:55:51 PM Unfortunately, this article barely raises the right questions let alone provides an answer.....
» 10/01/2012 9:53:24 AM Arjay, There is nothing in the "contributions" of Lego, Ken H or Neutral that st.....
» 7/01/2012 11:04:42 PM Ken H. There are so many factual errors and misunderstandings in your latest missive that .....
» 7/01/2012 5:47:22 PM "Just remember, that many people are glad that the Yanks finally caught up with Osama.....
» 6/01/2012 10:53:57 PM @ Neutral. Your own comment at 11.48 invites that inference although it was so ignorant i.....
» 6/01/2012 6:49:15 PM It is difficult to know what to be depressed about: the author's (generaly) accurate accou.....
» 22/12/2011 5:11:53 PM Indeed it is long past time that the truth about Palestine (and the Zionist regime in Isra.....
» 1/12/2011 8:40:16 AM Sadly, Malcolm Turnbull is an almost lone voice of sanity in an insane Australian politica.....
» 24/11/2011 10:27:39 PM Bempec, Yes, where it is appropriate. For example one cannot discuss 'Muslims' or 'Christi.....
» 24/11/2011 11:40:35 AM Bempec, I use the terminology of 'Zionists' to distinguish them from the Jewish people. Th.....
» 24/11/2011 9:51:06 AM Bempec, Why is it that critics of Iran are so fond of quoting what I understand to be a mi.....
» 23/11/2011 6:39:46 PM Yuyutsu, I will answer your first question. It is very difficult to predict the outcome of.....
» 23/11/2011 5:31:10 PM @ yuyutsu. You really need to distinguish between Israeli propaganda and historical realit.....
» 22/11/2011 9:58:24 AM What is truly depressing is the absence of critical analysis in this country of Israel's w.....
» 16/11/2011 1:21:27 PM I agree with the autrhor's argument. It does not go far enough however in analyzing this s.....
» 16/11/2011 1:04:59 PM Julia Gillard's announcement about uranium sales to India comes hard on the heels of a lik.....
» 2/11/2011 3:34:30 PM @ Skeptic: You comment is so profoundly ignorant that anything I say is unlikely to influe.....
» 2/11/2011 1:10:46 PM This an excellent article and deserving of a more considered and intelligent response than.....
» 31/10/2011 12:29:17 PM The only surprise would be that anyone was surprised that Labor is just an echo chamber of.....
» 19/10/2011 4:42:17 PM Reflecting on Australia's role in Afghanistan is an overdue exercise. The so-called ".....
» 13/10/2011 9:29:14 AM I agree wholeheartedly with Killarney. The only points I would add are these: UN Resolutio.....
» 27/08/2011 10:35:05 AM @ Hasbeen. You presumably have Italy in mind when you refer to constant changes of governm.....
» 26/08/2011 4:02:35 PM MMP is not without its faults, but as a large number of european countries have shown, it .....
» 11/08/2011 11:58:54 AM Pericles, you quote part of my first comment on deaths in and out of police custody. What .....
» 11/08/2011 11:53:59 AM Amicus, you just can't help yourself can you. The IPCC report established that the bullet .....
» 11/08/2011 10:05:55 AM The dangers of premature speculation are evident from the report of the Police Integrity c.....
» 3/08/2011 5:34:23 PM What a pity Mr Little is such a lone voice in exposing our weaknesses and follies viz a vi.....
» 28/07/2011 10:51:57 AM Breivik had other characteristics that need to be noted. He was not just anti-Muslim, he w.....
» 22/07/2011 5:21:53 PM While the comments to this article are an interesting insight into some of the paranoia an.....
» 6/07/2011 7:13:16 PM One wonders what parallel univewrse Mr Colless is inhabiting. It is not a question of allo.....
» 6/06/2011 8:49:45 PM This was a useful article but like sso many contributions to the issue fails to acknowledg.....
» 24/05/2011 3:58:34 PM There is much more that could be said but space contraints do not permit it. Suffice perha.....
» 24/05/2011 3:58:13 PM Mr Singer in common with many apologists for Israel persists in the selective quotations o.....
» 18/05/2011 3:48:02 PM Yabby, I have noticed that you are one who never lets facts get in the way of opinion. Mos.....
» 18/05/2011 1:32:09 PM @ Shadow Minister No, that is not the case. One becomes a prisoner of war by being captur.....
» 18/05/2011 10:42:39 AM The writer poses some important questions which unfortunately are not considered by most o.....
» 13/05/2011 4:08:10 PM Yabby, the masses didn't elect Bush in 2000 and 2004. In the first election the Supreme Co.....
» 12/05/2011 9:33:23 PM Yabby: you have the gall to call others "conspiracy theorists". Global caliphate.....
» 12/05/2011 10:43:51 AM This is a tired analysis content to repeat long discredited versions of history. It confus.....
» 10/05/2011 5:12:04 PM Tess, the responses to your article are enlightening. They speak volumes about the power o.....
» 5/05/2011 6:00:58 PM I agree with jon underwood that the article is naive. Worse, it is seriously ill-informed......
» 4/05/2011 8:31:44 AM Hullo Sunflower. I am not sure what you mean by "other articles" on the subject......
» 3/05/2011 10:39:57 PM Amicus, your ad hominen attacks are becoming tiresome. If you don't have the courage to co.....
» 3/05/2011 4:25:02 PM What possesses OLO to publish this rubbish. It is nothing more than an apologia for perpet.....
» 21/04/2011 1:55:38 PM This is a curious article which hints at so much but draws back from discussing what is no.....
» 20/04/2011 4:55:25 PM Mr Smith's article and all of the letters to date do not address one of the fundamental qu.....
» 18/04/2011 11:40:41 AM This is an important article and OLO and the Australian (to my amazement) are to be congra.....
» 15/04/2011 1:04:24 PM The fundamental errors that people make when evaluating why Labor does or does not pursue .....
» 7/04/2011 10:24:52 PM @The Godless The law is not an ass. What is an ass are people who swallow self-serving pr.....
» 7/04/2011 6:02:53 PM @RPG For the lawyer's version read the article by Steven Wheatley in the European Journal.....
» 7/04/2011 11:02:38 AM @RPG Of course there is international law and the topic is so obvious there is hardly any .....
» 6/04/2011 3:11:25 PM @RPG. Thank you for your response. I assure you that there is nothing confected about my o.....
» 5/04/2011 6:27:58 PM This is an appallingly ignorant article and I am concerned that On Line Opinion should len.....
» 23/03/2011 10:10:47 AM This article is regrettably wrong on so many points it would take another article to point.....
» 3/03/2011 8:57:23 AM This is a very important article that deserves wider circulation. The chances of their bei.....
» 10/02/2011 2:16:42 PM Giving parliament more power would be an improvement but it is no guarantee that the quali.....
» 12/01/2011 9:08:11 AM Olduvai: you clearly did not read what I wrote. Persons counted as "immigrants" .....
» 11/01/2011 5:24:47 PM It would help if the debate occurred in a factual environment. Population growth has four .....
» 7/01/2011 9:34:35 AM I do not ususually respond to anonymous attacks especially when ad hominen arguments and a.....
» 6/01/2011 1:40:38 PM Even if the initial premise of this article is correct, that Syria is somehow concealing i.....
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