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» 24/01/2015 11:05:13 AM "Send them back where they come from" is such a useless argument. It's one worl.....
» 22/01/2015 4:09:40 PM One good way to lose the gratuitously offensive comments would be to lose the anonymity. L.....
» 21/01/2015 2:35:21 PM Is the issue here free speech, or is it rather the abuse of the privilege of free speech. .....
» 21/01/2015 10:27:41 AM "CharlieHebdomania plunges world into whirlpool of Islamic violence" Could this .....
» 20/01/2015 11:19:27 PM @Yuyutsu, Posted Tuesday, 20 January 2015 3:36:52 PM Yuyutsu Instead of indulging in pueri.....
» 20/01/2015 2:19:38 PM @Rhian, Posted Tuesday, 20 January 2015 1:40:51 PM I am surprised that no publication has .....
» 20/01/2015 12:53:15 PM So as I understand the current situation, Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act mak.....
» 16/01/2015 12:11:33 AM @Loudmouth, Posted Thursday, 15 January 2015 5:17:15 PM Joe Yes I can see the differences .....
» 15/01/2015 3:53:26 PM About that freedom of speech thing, and I notice that today's news carries a story about a.....
» 15/01/2015 12:21:19 PM @Yuyutsu, Posted Thursday, 15 January 2015 10:47:59 AM Tell it to David. And to those with.....
» 15/01/2015 10:14:37 AM Yes indeed, a little bit of intellectual honesty can go a long way. Such as in recognising.....
» 15/01/2015 9:54:51 AM To foster a "culture of encounter" and not spread malicious slander - that is a .....
» 14/01/2015 2:22:31 PM To "use satire to traduce the civil standing of others", and to then claim that .....
» 13/01/2015 4:19:14 PM To clarify my sources and because this error has been rightly been brought to my attention.....
» 13/01/2015 10:01:18 AM The trouble with saying that extreme hate speech and Holocaust denial are exceptions to an.....
» 13/01/2015 9:47:52 AM As the race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, was quoted as saying in today.....
» 12/01/2015 7:49:54 AM This seems to be a bit of a schizophrenic article. On the one hand Islam is all wrong and .....
» 8/01/2015 11:22:36 PM Why France? Why now? Oh, that's right. France just 1) recognised Palestinian statehood an.....
» 8/01/2015 10:50:46 AM Why is it that a truly fascist act such as the May massacre in Odessa can pass unnoticed i.....
» 5/01/2015 11:06:23 AM Russia, Iran and Venezuela all find themselves in the cross-hairs. As the US continues to .....
» 2/01/2015 4:21:23 PM Yes, Gary John's article is about eugenics. And yes, the world is facing a population impl.....
» 2/01/2015 10:06:50 AM It is with relief that I see this article goes to the heart of Gary John's mischief. Eugen.....
» 1/01/2015 9:41:12 AM A couple of points: We already have the BasicsCard rolled out across the NT and in a few o.....
» 31/12/2014 11:28:34 AM I'm not surprised to see that some commentators have brought up sterilisation. What's next.....
» 24/12/2014 4:47:29 PM @ kactuz & Jayb Sorry, guys, but he really did say that. Admittedly, at the time he was fl.....
» 24/12/2014 8:05:57 AM @SPQR I quote the man's own words. And add on my own that the only bogeyman haunting the .....
» 24/12/2014 7:42:36 AM On the origins of terror in the Middle East: Menachem Begin, head of the Zionist Irgun mil.....
» 24/12/2014 7:29:15 AM As I understand it, to take out someone behind glass two shots are required, and probably .....
» 23/12/2014 9:33:02 AM A couple of points: The police could have taken him out early in the siege. Should have? M.....
» 17/12/2014 11:22:20 AM This intelligent, reasoned and articulate article should be required reading for anyone at.....
» 16/12/2014 4:18:16 PM Why has no one blamed Putin for the dodgy science or the warming weather or the cooling we.....
» 15/12/2014 11:27:52 AM I'm not from Victoria, but I do wonder if the title doesn't say most of it. I suggest apat.....
» 10/12/2014 12:02:41 AM @Joe Posted by Loudmouth, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 10:36:22 PM Yup, Australia really is (s.....
» 9/12/2014 12:58:13 PM Yup, let's all join forces now to eradicate ISIS. Only first we need a little bombing of D.....
» 4/12/2014 9:40:57 AM Yup! Nailed it. You have done well in speaking out so clearly at the end of a long life. .....
» 2/12/2014 9:09:01 AM That this was a personal tragedy for the family of the deceased is beyond question. That t.....
» 1/12/2014 11:45:22 AM Science fiction has been entertaining and enlightening for most of my life. Much of it has.....
» 25/11/2014 8:54:04 AM I doubt if Obama will prove willing to rethink America's role in the world. He is wedded t.....
» 21/11/2014 11:09:52 PM @ Arjay posted Friday, 21 November 2014 7:42:56 PM Another intriguing story that I remembe.....
» 21/11/2014 3:36:28 PM @Plantagenet, posted Friday, 21 November 2014 11:40:04 AM Pete I'm not sure which part of .....
» 21/11/2014 10:57:35 AM And as for President Putin's unsmiling face, how's this for a thousand word photo: http://.....
» 21/11/2014 8:52:01 AM France has built at least one and possibly two Mistral amphibious assault ships, also know.....
» 19/11/2014 12:05:25 PM If, as stated here, China will not commit to anything until 2030, and Obama's pledge is co.....
» 6/11/2014 12:10:08 PM It's worth remembering that Israel has never defined her own boundaries. This is because t.....
» 4/11/2014 11:42:46 PM Well said, Arjay (Posted Tuesday, 4 November 2014 9:27:07 PM). The question of the demogra.....
» 4/11/2014 4:47:38 PM The tragedy awaiting Zionism is that Jews will always be a minority wherever and whenever .....
» 3/11/2014 11:23:20 AM Is the US petrodollar under threat? Probably, or so many commentators would have us believ.....
» 2/11/2014 9:02:34 AM @ Graham Young Posted Saturday, 1 November 2014 10:40:25 PM Water. All across the US and e.....
» 1/11/2014 12:57:01 AM Hasbeen, Posted Friday, 31 October 2014 5:37:43 PM Can I assume that included in your &quo.....
» 31/10/2014 3:26:04 PM Without a middle class we will have a very thin layer of the wealthy sitting precariously .....
» 31/10/2014 11:04:12 AM America privatised pretty much everything, and promptly lost her middle class. Following t.....
» 30/10/2014 10:23:38 AM "We all have an obligation, both to ourselves and to society, to speak out and to act.....
» 29/10/2014 1:59:30 PM @JohnBennetts Posted Wednesday, 29 October 2014 12:35:20 PM And I reiterate: I have respon.....
» 29/10/2014 12:09:33 PM The author of this article brought MH17 into the mix, as she did the vote in Crimea and th.....
» 29/10/2014 9:57:59 AM The author writes that MH17 is believed to have been shot down by pro-Russian forces in th.....
» 27/10/2014 4:37:43 PM Any and all on-line activity, whether searching or commenting or posing or whatever, is wi.....
» 24/10/2014 11:05:30 AM http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/no-marine-inundation-for-darwin-under-new.....
» 23/10/2014 12:32:58 PM And what facts would those be, Rhrosty? Do you have any facts to account for the lack of s.....
» 23/10/2014 10:42:30 AM If PM Abbott gets his chance to speak with President Putin in Brisbane, he might want to a.....
» 19/10/2014 1:44:47 PM @Jay of Melbourne I doubt you are any more of an expert than the rest of us. I don't doubt.....
» 19/10/2014 11:54:30 AM @LEGO Posted Sunday, 19 October 2014 7:40:09 AM You presume incorrectly. The neo-Nazis I .....
» 18/10/2014 8:27:42 AM It's interesting if predictable that Hitler is being resurrected as an excuse for the pres.....
» 17/10/2014 10:50:37 AM It is refreshing to read an article from someone who clearly does not get his ideas from t.....
» 15/10/2014 2:25:22 PM Vlad the Hammer v The Mad Monk - what not to like! And Bibi Obama as ref?.....
» 15/10/2014 10:26:12 AM Abbott is copping stick for his chest-beating comments and rightly so. But what about his .....
» 13/10/2014 10:40:21 AM I have a number of issues with this topic. The notion of universal human rights is one. Wh.....
» 12/10/2014 10:23:31 PM Jardine K. Jardine I'm not too sure what to make of that comment. My first thought is that.....
» 12/10/2014 8:35:03 AM @Jardine K. Jardine Posted Friday, 10 October 2014 5:36:01 PM "Perhaps the question t.....
» 10/10/2014 1:29:56 PM The reason we won't be putting ISIS out of business any time soon is because it's not in o.....
» 10/10/2014 9:53:22 AM The author writes "...it is important not to view children born through surrogacy mer.....
» 9/10/2014 11:11:49 AM I wonder about the author's assessment of Bob Carr as Foreign Minister. He seems to dismis.....
» 7/10/2014 1:01:42 PM In South America the largest US military presence is in Columbia. Columbia also happens to.....
» 6/10/2014 8:31:56 PM Just so we are clear, I do not think Obama is pathetic or a wimp, a running dog of America.....
» 6/10/2014 3:14:04 PM I can only hope the forces attempting to turn the clock back in Indonesia fail, and fail t.....
» 3/10/2014 10:41:46 AM There is no War on Terror. There is only a War for Oil manifesting as a War on Islam. And .....
» 27/09/2014 12:58:32 PM Here we go again. The UK has now voted to join the fray, promising weeks and months and po.....
» 26/09/2014 1:03:39 PM In case we were wondering how this would play out in the short-term, with all the foreseea.....
» 26/09/2014 10:10:27 AM Thank you, Bruce Haigh. This is a timely and well argued reminder that we are being swept .....
» 23/09/2014 11:18:41 AM On the issue of Islam being a violent creed, which religion isn't? Buddhism? Ask the Rohin.....
» 23/09/2014 9:04:44 AM Religions thrive on persecution. Any attempt to keep Islam out of Australia is doomed to f.....
» 20/09/2014 1:50:24 PM Very interesting to think that the Caliph al Bagdadi is a Mossad agent named Shimon Elliot.....
» 20/09/2014 2:36:50 AM So let's see how it falls so far: ban all religions return to a white Australia policy d.....
» 19/09/2014 2:40:07 PM Of course jumping in again into the Middle Eastern wars will heighten the risk of a terror.....
» 19/09/2014 12:13:28 PM We keep coming back to beheadings as the core reason ISIS must be defeated, and if that me.....
» 17/09/2014 11:39:20 PM I read the above while having a dish of ice cream late at night. The ice cream was good......
» 15/09/2014 7:52:37 AM "The Saudi leadership has a unique form of religious credibility and legitimacy, whic.....
» 13/09/2014 4:42:40 PM @ Loudmouth, Posted Saturday, 13 September 2014 2:08:34 PM Yes, Nazis! Right Sector, Azov .....
» 13/09/2014 1:56:16 PM Seriously, Rhrosty (Posted Saturday, 13 September 2014 12:33:12 PM.) You really do want t.....
» 13/09/2014 11:16:56 AM @ individual, Posted Saturday, 13 September 2014 5:35:58 AM You ask what I would do to pro.....
» 13/09/2014 1:32:57 AM After raising Australia's terrorism alert level from medium to high today, the following q.....
» 12/09/2014 9:13:58 AM Abbott, along with his Foreign Minister and his Attorney-General, are doing more than just.....
» 11/09/2014 10:43:39 AM A fairly spot-on assessment of the near future. There are a couple of other points that mi.....
» 10/09/2014 3:37:17 PM @Philip S, Posted Wednesday, 10 September 2014 1:40:11 PM Oh, I expect they still have it......
» 10/09/2014 11:46:36 AM @Arjay, Posted Wednesday, 10 September 2014 6:55:48 AM "Germany is looking like joini.....
» 8/09/2014 11:27:46 AM If what is being said about men as a matter or course these days were to be said about wom.....
» 4/09/2014 3:38:05 PM In answer to the question as to whether or not our participation in the wars in the Middle.....
» 3/09/2014 12:41:55 PM Oh dear. What nonsense. To re-cap: The "West" did overthrow an elected governmen.....
» 27/08/2014 11:52:50 AM I strongly recommend the following link for Alan Hart's perspective on the situation in Is.....
» 25/08/2014 12:55:43 PM @diver dan, posted Monday, 25 August 2014 12:07:27 PM I have sort of given up answering co.....
» 25/08/2014 10:55:02 AM I think in his recommendations in addition to Johnson's, the author correctly identifies t.....
» 22/08/2014 9:08:52 AM This reads like a puff-piece explaining away police violence. But perhaps we should get us.....
» 18/08/2014 4:58:52 PM @ David Singer posted Monday, 18 August 2014 3:44:46 PM I am very relieved to hear that so.....
» 18/08/2014 10:28:41 AM Dress it up, tart it up, call it what you will, but, still, shooting fish in a barrel is s.....
» 7/08/2014 8:40:18 AM I would like to see a similar article to this one with its focus on Tasmania done on the N.....
» 5/08/2014 11:41:10 AM I doubt the final conclusion of this latest rant by Mr Singer. "Israel meanwhile ensu.....
» 5/08/2014 8:31:30 AM Fanatical Islam is killing everyone in its path and blowing up shrines and erasing communi.....
» 1/08/2014 8:30:22 AM Early last month French bank BNP Paribas BNPP.PA was fined almost $9 billion by US courts .....
» 31/07/2014 7:26:38 PM @Killarney Yup. That's the one. Thanks.....
» 31/07/2014 9:09:25 AM This is by far the most comprehensive account I have yet read of what really happened to M.....
» 30/07/2014 8:28:15 AM "This pattern of manufacturing war to deflect internal tensions ... what they do achi.....
» 28/07/2014 12:17:20 PM I take great issue with the myopic and one-sided interpretation of events in Ukraine as sh.....
» 24/07/2014 11:07:14 PM Another important question to ask is what possible benefit would, or could, accrue to Russ.....
» 24/07/2014 10:30:50 AM Or maybe it's all about money. Money as in the IMF and the World Bank and the threat to th.....
» 23/07/2014 9:02:46 AM What nonsense it is to claim that this, and I quote, "macabre and clandestine industr.....
» 22/07/2014 12:26:11 PM Any lingering question as to whether or not Israel is a member-nation of the civilized wor.....
» 10/07/2014 6:58:38 PM gonna spike that unity! gonna whack that Hamas! and then? and then? well, then we're gonna.....
» 8/07/2014 10:20:07 AM Sanctimonious western support of lunatic war-mongers (aka Israel) certainly does not help .....
» 4/07/2014 3:15:20 PM Given the harassment the Eagle is currently doling out to the Bear, not to mention to the .....
» 2/07/2014 4:02:34 PM I do wonder if Israeli help to Jordan might involve shifting their (Israel's) army up out .....
» 1/07/2014 12:42:21 PM To say there is no such thing as censorship in 2014 is simply wrong. Those interested in t.....
» 1/07/2014 10:21:14 AM I fully agree with the author. Honor killings are reprehensible, but if we are to kill any.....
» 30/06/2014 10:42:40 AM I think the world can expect to see a few alterations to the its map of national borders s.....
» 23/06/2014 5:02:17 PM And who is to say that the situation in Iraq today is not exactly the situation envisaged .....
» 23/06/2014 4:17:36 PM The different national approaches are telling in themselves. China and the US are saying t.....
» 20/06/2014 10:14:38 AM I don't know what is happening on Twitter other than the more outrageous statements that o.....
» 19/06/2014 9:45:17 AM Collective punishment is a war crime, and its use today in retaliation for the alleged kid.....
» 17/06/2014 9:24:12 AM Of all the national leaders who have recently walked the world stage, Tony Abbott reminds .....
» 17/06/2014 8:04:04 AM A quotation attributed to Mr Churchill: "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned ga.....
» 16/06/2014 8:36:59 PM Having just read my way through the above comments, I reckon James O'Neill is playing the .....
» 16/06/2014 9:24:11 AM This cry from the heart of a young mother living under occupation has to resonate with all.....
» 10/06/2014 4:43:59 PM @Individual I'm with you in thinking Jolowi would be the better President, at least from a.....
» 4/06/2014 8:59:35 AM I do so admire the consistency of David Singer! That first paragraph says it all. The Pope.....
» 2/06/2014 9:59:39 AM Could any of these bans and sanctions have ever taken root without the world's present uni.....
» 1/06/2014 10:56:32 AM Is it any wonder that the energy giants attended this conference? With a US$400 billion Ru.....
» 27/05/2014 1:05:06 PM A free on-line dictionary defines a bigot as "One who is strongly partial to one's ow.....
» 21/05/2014 10:20:04 AM And I suggest only batshit insanity would try to airbrush the Nakba out of history. No one.....
» 21/05/2014 8:17:12 AM If Israel defines itself in law as a Jewish state, how can it not be an apartheid state fo.....
» 19/05/2014 1:53:46 PM I'm with Big Nana, only instead of living in the Kimberleys, I live in Alice Springs. A r.....
» 17/05/2014 8:58:44 AM To get back to the title of this article, I came across this in another article: "Rig.....
» 17/05/2014 1:02:33 AM My great hope for a new international monetary order is that it will deny any country the .....
» 16/05/2014 2:36:00 PM @Progressive Pat Has your source indicated whether or not the gas deal you mention having .....
» 16/05/2014 1:15:05 PM All this unnecessary and tiresome bagging of Putin coupled with references to ancient para.....
» 16/05/2014 9:02:11 AM The only fear we should all have is that the looming Iran nuclear deal will not go ahead. .....
» 15/05/2014 11:18:41 AM How can Pilger assert that for the first time since the Reagan years the US is trying to t.....
» 11/05/2014 10:44:14 AM Speaking of lazy thinking... "So who invaded where, in this case ? Who has assault tr.....
» 10/05/2014 9:57:30 AM There is an easily read and very informative recent book by Gareth Porter called Manufactu.....
» 9/05/2014 8:55:48 AM This is by far the most balanced mainstream article on the situation in Ukraine I have rea.....
» 9/05/2014 8:23:14 AM "The American and PLO failure (and how not to add Israel to that cast?) to achieve th.....
» 7/05/2014 8:54:37 AM I will have to admit that I have never watched Top Gear. I acknowledge that others really .....
» 28/04/2014 8:37:45 AM This highlights the absurdity of the present escalation in Ukraine. Europe needs Russian g.....
» 26/04/2014 3:04:34 PM Read the news, Joe. It's all in there. Victoria Nuland is a good place to start......
» 26/04/2014 12:36:48 PM @Rhrosty "If the Crimea didn't have significant oil and gas reserves, would Putin bee.....
» 26/04/2014 8:09:20 AM I wasn't going to post further on this stream, but then I came across this gem in the Vine.....
» 25/04/2014 7:01:33 AM After getting the Intervention in the Northern Territory so wrong, I'm no great fan of Pil.....
» 23/04/2014 4:27:46 PM I can think of no argument against the assertion that the oligarchs in power in Kiev, and .....
» 23/04/2014 8:26:25 AM What an appallingly hypocritical piece! All fingers pointing at Russian aggression, with n.....
» 12/04/2014 11:17:34 PM And now how's this for a kicker - PM Abbott reckons we could soon see the Chinese military.....
» 10/04/2014 11:34:55 AM Isn't it an axiom that competition is good for business? In that sense I wonder if the big.....
» 8/04/2014 10:56:07 AM Oh, dear. And after only 4 paragraphs into David's latest we find the expected get-out-of-.....
» 7/04/2014 1:41:09 PM Do the maths. How much does it cost to keep pot illegal? Factor in the cost of incarcerat.....
» 2/04/2014 8:13:34 AM A timely article on our food security given yesterday's release of the latest IPCC report .....
» 30/03/2014 9:14:50 AM This is really important. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/28/viewing-the-ukraine-crisi.....
» 29/03/2014 1:26:54 PM I fear you may be right about an impending collapse. Some years ago I came across an obse.....
» 29/03/2014 10:39:36 AM @Arjay Interesting that you write of the West's (read US) need to steal more assets to bac.....
» 28/03/2014 11:15:55 PM Thanks, James O'Neill, for the tip to read Patrick Martin's take on Obama's speech. I lis.....
» 28/03/2014 10:41:45 AM Yes, Australia has rarely worked so closely with China. While the tragedy of this plane's.....
» 27/03/2014 11:59:45 AM While I have no problem with Australia not allowing itself to become a dumping ground, I w.....
» 25/03/2014 10:41:56 AM A bit more detail please. How many of those children were from families awash in grog and .....
» 24/03/2014 3:57:14 PM Not all of us who support the current roll-back of asylum seekers are the monsters some wo.....
» 24/03/2014 8:32:04 AM I think 60% sounds about right. Those boats were tearing Australia apart. If 60% say no mo.....
» 24/03/2014 8:11:23 AM @ SteeleRedux, Sunday, 23 March 2014 10:46:24 PM Damn! And here I was thinking he was refe.....
» 23/03/2014 9:43:43 PM Now, now nutter. You are on record as admitting that climate change is real. A bit late to.....
» 22/03/2014 6:10:17 PM And yet, there they were standing ankle deep in the sea water coming in the out sluices. G.....
» 21/03/2014 11:19:49 PM Yup. It's like I was thinking as I watched that program with water pouring over the roads .....
» 21/03/2014 2:48:40 PM On the US television program NewsHour screening afternoons on SBS, yesterday I watched the.....
» 20/03/2014 11:42:07 AM The author writes, "Whether this would also capture Holocaust denial speech and other.....
» 19/03/2014 8:22:49 AM Crimea has voted to return to Russia. Ukraine as it was is no longer. Get used to it. And.....
» 18/03/2014 9:37:43 AM And how many children have been, and are today, detained in war-crime-worthy prison camp c.....
» 13/03/2014 4:00:52 PM Get real Yuyutsu. Those thugs in Kiev overthrew an elected government. Have you no shame?.....
» 13/03/2014 9:25:26 AM A bit reductionist to argue that there are only two peoples in the Israel/Jordan area. No .....
» 12/03/2014 9:13:47 AM Once again we have an essay purporting to be even-handed, but upon reading showing the sam.....
» 8/03/2014 9:54:43 AM When I said above that Russia "has offered a check on the random but always self-serv.....
» 7/03/2014 10:33:12 AM The reason the world is in debt to Putin is that he alone, of all the word's leaders over .....
» 5/03/2014 12:22:06 AM It's a short read with a 30 minute video at the end and well worth the time: http://www.in.....
» 4/03/2014 8:49:13 AM Why write "When the West looks at Vladimir Putin...", followed by "When Put.....
» 28/02/2014 12:15:15 PM @James O'Neill I agree that today's Australian had a typically Murdoch response to this un.....
» 28/02/2014 8:16:20 AM To follow and put into perspective what is happening in Ukraine, readers might want to rea.....
» 26/02/2014 10:39:56 AM @FOTIS, Posted on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 9:43:31 AM I agree that we need a completely.....
» 26/02/2014 9:34:07 AM Why is it unmentioned in so much of this discussion that Australia has a policy that allow.....
» 23/02/2014 12:09:33 PM Oh dear! I take it all back. No wonder the commanders of the Australian ships didn't know .....
» 22/02/2014 11:16:27 PM @ Bazz, Posted Saturday, 22 February 2014 10:34:52 PM Not at all. If a government operate.....
» 21/02/2014 8:43:56 AM I don't believe one speck of these protestations of innocence. Given the state of today's .....
» 21/02/2014 8:10:57 AM Geneva II failed in no small part because the US demanded that Iran play no part. Invite t.....
» 18/02/2014 10:04:10 AM Interesting that of the seven articles referenced by cohenite, six were written by choenit.....
» 14/02/2014 9:02:23 AM This sounds like an action plan for the EU and the USA, not for Ukraine. What are the une.....
» 13/02/2014 10:52:25 AM Might be warmer. Might be cooler. Windy, but. And wet. reference reference reference Fire.....
» 13/02/2014 8:16:29 AM You have to love the title of this piece. "England is whistling in the wind". In.....
» 13/02/2014 8:04:18 AM The way the wind is blowing in our brave new world is nicely encapsulated in the last para.....
» 12/02/2014 11:25:54 AM Of course living under military occupation and settler fascism would have nothing to do wi.....
» 11/02/2014 2:31:58 PM Why does nothing seem to work over there? Try these two articles. http://972mag.com/senten.....
» 10/02/2014 2:17:56 PM What I find most interesting about this post and two others in today's OLO (one concerning.....
» 6/02/2014 10:41:54 AM How can anyone not love this guy? *Collective amnesia, as in not remembering the Nakba? *1.....
» 4/02/2014 1:56:24 PM About Greenland, and they do say a picture is worth a thousand words. Google images on Gre.....
» 4/02/2014 10:41:02 AM So much vitriol. Like gangs of kids in the playground, each side is trying to shout longer.....
» 3/02/2014 10:41:59 AM Could this fairly meaningless rant be John Pilger's attempt to nominate himself and his la.....
» 31/01/2014 11:40:13 PM I'v just been in NZ for a three week vacation. No ABC, no SBS and piss-poor TV as a result.....
» 20/01/2014 8:53:40 AM Very important to remember, as this article mentions, that the Coalition did not win the l.....
» 17/01/2014 3:16:30 PM Sooner, I hope, rather than later we will find the courage to ask the elderly how much fur.....
» 20/12/2013 11:17:29 AM For most of my adult life, the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has been exposing th.....
» 17/12/2013 1:18:13 PM @David G You write, "Perhaps if the world thought about how the world would be if Ame.....
» 2/12/2013 7:07:26 PM I find it interesting that on the same day this essay was published on On Line Opinion, th.....
» 28/11/2013 9:44:06 AM What an excellent article. But to forego our "misplaced confidence in the unearned pr.....
» 18/11/2013 10:58:54 AM Singer's sophistry is a beacon of lazy thinking to those similarly deluded. Poor t'ing. P.....
» 15/11/2013 9:38:51 AM I think it's of fundamental importance to remember right now that 2014 is an election year.....
» 15/11/2013 8:03:42 AM What a negative, pessimistic article. The last sentence said it all: Can Abbott translate .....
» 14/11/2013 11:23:29 AM So Russia, India, China and others have, at times, banned food exports to protect their ow.....
» 11/11/2013 8:08:42 AM If Howard didn't really think climate change was important, could his willingness to jump .....
» 8/11/2013 6:16:17 AM One last point, David. Aside from myself, of the 28 comments so far on this thread, I thin.....
» 7/11/2013 12:02:01 PM @SF I reckon the Palestinians would be more than willing to recognise the legitimacy of a .....
» 7/11/2013 9:03:36 AM Let's start with a first premise to not silence anyone. If anyone feels slandered, let the.....
» 6/11/2013 11:33:44 AM Why do we think China has to be a multi-party democracy just like us? They have over the l.....
» 4/11/2013 1:58:51 PM I can't help but appreciate the state-of-art hypocrisy in our former and current governmen.....
» 30/10/2013 4:38:28 PM @David Singer #1 "Yet Israel is the only one whose legitimacy and existence is still .....
» 30/10/2013 12:10:03 PM And so the arguments keep going around and around. It's hotter. It's not. It's drier. It r.....
» 30/10/2013 9:46:55 AM Aren't Israel, Jordan, Syria and Iraq all constructs post the British, French and Turkish .....
» 28/10/2013 10:21:03 AM A couple of questions: For the author, why would a one-state solution mean racially stereo.....
» 25/10/2013 2:36:18 PM Wouldn't it be wonderful if there really were no such phenomena as global warming and clim.....
» 23/10/2013 8:24:04 AM I have to disagree with the objection to mandatory voting. Personally, I think it's a good.....
» 21/10/2013 11:50:25 AM From the first paragraph - climate change is the most politicised issue in the country alo.....
» 19/10/2013 12:05:43 PM Barring the unforeseen disaster that is always lurking in politics, we now have two teams .....
» 17/10/2013 8:38:48 AM Albanese won the popular vote with an enviable 60%. Shorten got the job. How does that w.....
» 15/10/2013 6:52:50 AM The World Bank has concluded: Whilst the unsettled political environment and internal Pale.....
» 9/10/2013 9:03:10 AM What I found most telling in this article was the comment made almost in passing about whe.....
» 4/10/2013 12:28:59 PM @ Yuyutsu And what percentage of the rights enjoyed by Jewish Israelis would Palestinian .....
» 4/10/2013 7:51:13 AM Indeed. And we can only hope that Zionists worldwide will find the "foresight and aud.....
» 3/10/2013 11:00:38 AM Hasbeen by name and a has-been by nature. 'Nuff said. But to get real, the opening of a di.....
» 2/10/2013 4:26:17 PM I can't believe it. Yuyutsu, you have done it again, that is make a really stupid comment......
» 2/10/2013 11:02:57 AM If Abbott's trip to Indonesia is anything to go by, I think the author's hope that all min.....
» 30/09/2013 1:36:41 PM Intriguing comment, Yuyutsu: "...in the Middle-East, if you don't have this kind of .....
» 24/09/2013 8:01:44 AM To my thinking, the immediate concern here is whether or not the US will allow Russia to s.....
» 19/09/2013 2:42:05 PM So Senator Don Chipp claimed in 1986 that without reform a Prime Minister could commit the.....
» 19/09/2013 9:12:23 AM If I understand what the author is implying, the nation-states formed from the ruins of th.....
» 19/09/2013 6:28:47 AM I reckon that naked little girl running down that road in Viet Nam would agree with Rhrost.....
» 17/09/2013 9:02:25 AM Instead of just training them a little bit, why don't we not train them at all? Stay out o.....
» 12/09/2013 9:24:46 AM Without any other nation offering a counterbalance, over the past two decades the US has a.....
» 11/09/2013 2:59:06 PM I agree with Geoff of Perth. It's all about energy and access to it. There is a pipeline w.....
» 10/09/2013 11:15:38 PM And let's not forget the white phosphorus used on the residents of Gaza. While I applaud t.....
» 10/09/2013 11:19:29 AM Could Neo be neo-conservative? Just a suggestion, but fairly clear to me from the context......
» 10/09/2013 8:50:08 AM Thank you, Junaid Cheema. May your article be read and re-read......
» 9/09/2013 9:51:21 AM Selfies undid the ALP, whether they were Rudd's photos or the party's two-term obsession w.....
» 9/09/2013 9:32:27 AM Good point made by Arjay. From Wikipedia, "The USS Liberty incident was an attack on .....
» 7/09/2013 12:13:04 PM The responsibility for making war in the US rests with the US Congress. Obama has done the.....
» 6/09/2013 8:23:08 AM I think Assad is toast, much like Saddam was toast a decade ago. Pity about all the little.....
» 6/09/2013 8:23:03 AM Two quotes from this article demonstrate how the story grows, this time in eight quick par.....
» 4/09/2013 3:54:46 PM I'm having a bit of trouble seeing how HRT, genetic modification and reincarnation constit.....
» 4/09/2013 3:30:06 PM @Jardine K. Jardine I have no trouble in agreeing with your utopian theory about how we ne.....
» 4/09/2013 10:55:43 AM I am wholeheartedly with those others who are saying that the best possible outcome for th.....
» 3/09/2013 9:47:14 AM Where in Bob Carr's Lakemba Mosque statement does he state that Jews have no right to live.....
» 2/09/2013 4:46:55 PM Fracking may provide a relatively inexpensive and accessible new source of energy, but if .....
» 1/09/2013 8:13:27 PM One of the recurring points of interest in the many threads on OLO is that the right-wing .....
» 1/09/2013 10:12:14 AM from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22424188 Testimony from victims of the co.....
» 1/09/2013 7:47:38 AM And yet the Turkish press reported finding canisters containing sarin gas in the possessio.....
» 31/08/2013 11:31:45 PM But why attack Syria? If, as many suspect, the chemical weapons are a false flag, in whose.....
» 31/08/2013 9:04:14 AM Something truly momentous could be happening in world affairs. For the first time in livin.....
» 30/08/2013 11:00:56 AM This is such a well presented argument that I can only hope it gains a wide audience. Luck.....
» 29/08/2013 10:41:29 AM The author asks what to do? That's easy. Stay out of it until such time as prove positive .....
» 27/08/2013 8:54:39 AM Rouhani's statement, "We completely and strongly condemn the use of chemical weapons .....
» 27/08/2013 8:29:39 AM From the Lakemba Mosque statement, "And that means respect for the right of Israel to.....
» 21/08/2013 2:34:14 PM @Antiseptic About Judaism being exclusionary: Not necessarily, and certainly not continuou.....
» 21/08/2013 11:07:20 AM I think Abbott will hold on. He's been campaigning for three years now and hasn't run out .....
» 21/08/2013 10:53:53 AM Thank you for that, Neve Gordon. As you say, at least the mayor is being honest. This does.....
» 20/08/2013 12:42:50 PM An interesting article in today's Fairfax News can be found here: http://www.theage.com.au.....
» 19/08/2013 5:05:36 PM @Jayb At least we agree that all fanatics are scary critters. So why sell any of them arms.....
» 19/08/2013 3:10:51 PM @Jayb No, I don't hate Jews. But as for Zionists, they scare the $#!t out of me. They scar.....
» 19/08/2013 2:34:26 PM While what Dr Philip Nitschke says about the financial savings that would come from allowi.....
» 19/08/2013 2:21:17 PM As was mentioned in one of the comments, the principal of KISS, or Keep It Simple Stupid, .....
» 14/08/2013 2:31:07 PM @Lego I have recommended that your post be deleted due to your use of the word Muzzies to .....
» 13/08/2013 8:48:40 AM I think this might be endemic to politicians worldwide. Consider Australia. From all accou.....
» 9/08/2013 1:46:44 PM @Yuyutsu How sadly wrong you are. In this instance, neither you nor the rest of us have an.....
» 9/08/2013 9:10:19 AM I first became disillusioned with Amnesty International when they, quite wrongly in my opi.....
» 26/07/2013 9:31:26 AM If women and children are not to be sent to Manus, then can we expect an increase in famil.....
» 25/07/2013 7:04:44 AM I agree that the EU is on shaky ground, but disagree as to where that ground is. A few day.....
» 18/07/2013 11:54:16 AM I too wonder about factions in the Libs. Abbott has been an effective leader in opposition.....
» 8/07/2013 8:54:32 AM Having just spent three years assiduously undermining Julia Gillard, and let's face it, sh.....
» 2/07/2013 12:47:49 AM It's hardly surprising that miners can have good ideas. They didn't get where they are tod.....
» 26/06/2013 11:15:06 AM Has there ever been a greater disappointment, a flush more busted, than than Mr Barack Hus.....
» 19/06/2013 6:45:42 PM So a battalion of women facing another battalion of women would mean both sides would down.....
» 19/06/2013 9:59:11 AM Could it be that one way to restore a sense of honor and purpose in the ADF would be to st.....
» 14/06/2013 7:54:49 AM How can anyone believe that a record of all communications will be swept into a fully-priv.....
» 13/06/2013 7:36:43 PM Sadly this is another, and a particularly good, example of the 'change you can believe in'.....
» 11/06/2013 9:23:28 PM I think the 'boat people' started out a decade ago as genuine refugees fleeing persecution.....
» 6/06/2013 10:59:01 PM @anti-green I can assure you I do not believe Islamic terrorists fight in the spirit of hu.....
» 6/06/2013 4:20:08 PM @anti-green Are you suggesting that torture, rendition, targeted killings, night-raids and.....
» 6/06/2013 1:32:24 PM @anti-green "It is of course lawful, but at the same time misguided, for clever lawye.....
» 6/06/2013 9:20:06 AM What we are witnessing in the legal moves against Bradley Manning is what happens when the.....
» 3/06/2013 10:09:31 AM 'Dirty Wars' was published this year. Written by Jeremy Scahill, it explains in great deta.....
» 31/05/2013 3:24:21 PM Of course Israel is a democracy. Its citizens vote and governments change. I assume this c.....
» 27/05/2013 10:01:26 AM It is a source of never-ending wonder to me how simple, how black and white, the world loo.....
» 27/05/2013 8:30:57 AM Drones and destabilisation programs overseas, persecution of dissenting groups at home, ha.....
» 24/05/2013 12:03:15 PM Here's a question: Why is holocaust denial against the law pretty much all over the world,.....
» 24/05/2013 11:42:03 AM And yet News Ltd has a story in today's online edition that tells of the urgent evacuation.....
» 17/05/2013 6:40:00 PM @Jon J Better let Obama know he's Tweeting on a dodgy study. See Poirot's comment just abo.....
» 17/05/2013 1:31:22 PM No, Hasbeen, when Blind Freddy opens his eyes he will see, as could you if you looked, cou.....
» 17/05/2013 10:26:41 AM There seems to be no question that Australia has closed her cheque-book on climate change .....
» 16/05/2013 10:07:41 AM Unless I'm reading this wrong, BRCA1 and BRCA2 are parts of the human genome. This would m.....
» 6/05/2013 3:53:37 PM Having looked for and failed to find an 'alert' button such as can be found on other onlin.....
» 6/05/2013 3:45:31 PM To prevent a jihadist victory in Syria, stop arming them. This will probably mean backing .....
» 6/05/2013 9:07:16 AM Palmer's Party, like Katter's and like the Greens, will never win office on its own. So t.....
» 2/05/2013 2:42:01 PM It would help if a link were provided to show us what this story/outrage is all about. But.....
» 22/04/2013 9:06:55 AM The benefits that would come from ending the 'war on drugs' include a huge reduction in th.....
» 17/04/2013 6:13:45 PM After reading “The Invention of the Jewish People” by Shlomo Sand, try "The Wandering.....
» 15/04/2013 2:35:32 PM @Joe (and others) Point taken regarding the origins of zero, and thanks for the correction.....
» 15/04/2013 8:03:59 AM Since the Berlin Wall came down almost twenty-five years ago, and communism imploded with .....
» 11/04/2013 9:49:27 AM While I have my own issues with Julie Bishop, most specifically with her seemingly blind s.....
» 27/03/2013 7:43:01 AM If ever there was an idea whose time has come, it's this one. VAS has two facts attached .....
» 25/03/2013 11:37:45 AM Does anyone else see the contradiction in Gillard offering an apology to mothers and their.....
» 21/03/2013 9:28:58 AM So since leaving Gaza Israel has "...paid a high price ever since in terms of loss of.....
» 18/03/2013 11:53:50 AM For two centuries Australia has huddled around the southern coastline pretending to be a E.....
» 11/03/2013 3:53:06 PM Some say Rudd, and some say Gillard. This morning someone said Shorten. But isn't it the c.....
» 8/03/2013 1:50:21 PM @paul2 A bit like the Jewish demands for special areas and privileges? It comes from thin.....
» 8/03/2013 9:33:20 AM Anyone who thinks, or states, that Zionism through its various voices in the world has not.....
» 6/03/2013 11:46:25 PM From the article - "the planes meant we could automatically be ruled by fear". O.....
» 6/03/2013 5:25:14 PM This is one of the best posts I have read on OLO. The elephants in the room have become gl.....
» 5/03/2013 11:28:40 AM I think a lot of this argument can be answered by asking would any person be allowed to to.....
» 4/03/2013 9:12:19 AM @Spindoc And so not just Daniel Ellsberg exposing the war crimes in Vietnam, but any Germa.....
» 4/03/2013 7:28:06 AM Bradley Manning is clearly a humanitarian hero, and I shudder to think how hard he is abou.....
» 22/02/2013 2:40:07 PM If an adult of either sex chooses to alter the way they look, there's not much any of us c.....
» 19/02/2013 4:50:03 PM And for a different view - http://972mag.com/as-palestinian-hunger-strikes-come-to-a-head-.....
» 19/02/2013 2:42:01 PM In this post and the comments following from it, we speak of the detention of the Palestin.....
» 18/02/2013 11:34:51 AM According to reports in the press, Assange has nominated for the Senate in Victoria in the.....
» 12/02/2013 9:11:08 AM The only bone I would pick with this thoughtful article is the assertion that Gillard has .....
» 5/02/2013 11:58:00 AM Is this article tongue-in-cheek? While it reads like it, I hope it's not. I like the notio.....
» 30/01/2013 10:44:26 AM Has this new law passed through both Houses and become the law of the land, or is it still.....
» 24/01/2013 10:18:49 AM @Chek Are you thinking of the cyber attack mounted by the US and Israel on Iran? That let .....
» 24/01/2013 9:16:08 AM In this election year, I see this as one of the first scare tactics that the Gillard gover.....
» 23/01/2013 10:39:37 AM If women-only gymnasia are to be allowed, will men-only gymnasia also be allowed? And what.....
» 18/01/2013 1:54:38 PM With respect, but a bit of a correction, Curmudgeon. You are referring to the Zoroastrians.....
» 18/01/2013 10:16:37 AM And again the key is to adapt. "Silent Spring" was probably where I first became.....
» 15/01/2013 11:22:02 AM How much of the objection to nuclear power is knee-jerk? I know mine was. And then along c.....
» 14/01/2013 9:32:42 AM For once I think I may be in agreement with David. Creative compromises can indeed conquer.....
» 11/01/2013 4:23:44 PM Neither can you, Hasbeen, that is go back and pretend to have said something else. But un.....
» 11/01/2013 10:37:00 AM We offer the drug dealers' excuse that if we don't export coal, someone else will. This is.....
» 31/12/2012 2:14:27 PM While I applaud your suggestion to get entrepreneurial Australians interested in importing.....
» 29/12/2012 11:09:29 PM That is a very curious argument, Prompete. It prompts me to ask how many Jews were persona.....
» 29/12/2012 9:19:58 AM Not wanting my silence to be taken as consent and agreement, I would like to point out tha.....
» 28/12/2012 12:35:39 PM Of course any person, whether Jewish or not, having been dispossessed of a home in Jordan,.....
» 28/12/2012 11:29:20 AM The two state solution was always a non-starter, an attempt to perpetuate what was grabbed.....
» 20/12/2012 3:38:34 PM So few seem to be bothered by the complete disparity between POTUS pulling his tear-jerkin.....
» 13/12/2012 9:16:44 AM On this and other issues, specifically the misogynist rant, Gillard is showing a strident .....
» 10/12/2012 12:16:52 PM "It seems too, that an unintended consequence is excusable. As a society we no longer.....
» 7/12/2012 12:07:15 PM Jew-hating genie? What Jew-hating genie? I grant you a Zionist-hating genie, morphing in s.....
» 6/12/2012 11:09:59 AM The Nations of Virtue are about to do it again - "it" being destroy another nati.....
» 3/12/2012 9:43:17 AM The analogy of the AGW deniers with the denials still coming from Big Tobacco are so very .....
» 3/12/2012 9:12:00 AM If the Coalition go into next years's election sticking with Abbott and his team, they wil.....
» 20/11/2012 4:57:27 PM @Taswegian Apologies for the first post - it escaped me before I edited it. You and other.....
» 20/11/2012 4:54:26 PM @Taswegian You and ot hers might be interested in the following story from villangs in the.....
» 9/11/2012 2:54:10 PM Oh dear. Hasbeen by name - Hasbeen by nature. Would you really prefer that we ramp it up a.....
» 9/11/2012 9:20:00 AM I, too, gripped he edge of my seat while cheering the good guys and wishing all sorts of t.....
» 6/11/2012 9:26:38 AM @ Jon J About the Antarctic ice, and isn't the Ross Ice Shelf showing signs of melting, an.....
» 5/11/2012 7:08:46 PM So the Arctic sea-ice is not melting. That's good to know. All those photos must be from .....
» 5/11/2012 3:26:39 PM I have one question I pose to both parties found in the postings above. If the climate is .....
» 5/11/2012 9:58:42 AM I like the bit about "the drills continue to hammer into America's tar sands, oil sha.....
» 31/10/2012 1:27:23 PM One of the things I most enjoy about this disingenuous article is thinking about how quick.....
» 26/10/2012 2:24:42 PM - employs scathing personal attacks in lieu of policy proposals and initiatives - has play.....
» 26/10/2012 1:55:59 PM I have no idea why India won't sign the NPT, but Iran has signed it, and signed additional.....
» 22/10/2012 11:40:59 AM The Rudd/Gillard leadership of what was once a great Australian political entity, the ALP,.....
» 22/10/2012 8:59:28 AM @Arjay The word is misandry......
» 19/10/2012 4:29:09 PM Can you imagine Australia voting against the wishes of the international Zionist lobby? I .....
» 6/09/2012 9:27:40 AM I am a self-confessed local government tragic. Twice I have stood for election and twice g.....
» 5/09/2012 4:39:07 PM @Rhian You say in your reply to Jay, The point of the article is to “remain alert so that .....
» 3/09/2012 1:16:58 PM "Settlements are illegal under international law and threaten to make a two-State sol.....
» 30/08/2012 1:27:14 AM Dear Yuyutsu Not "in other words". Only in the words I used, among which was a s.....
» 29/08/2012 4:25:35 PM Further to my last post, please read http://972mag.com/israeli-army-destroys-water-cistern.....
» 29/08/2012 3:22:20 PM No, Yuyutsu, Israel was ALWAYS going to attack Jordan. They held Jerusalem, and without Je.....
» 29/08/2012 12:57:49 PM Surely ethnic cleansing implies something done to one ethnicity by another. If we can agre.....
» 21/06/2012 8:25:08 AM Thank you, Ms Jeffreys. And while I do think Craig Thompson showed himself to be a bit of.....
» 20/06/2012 5:07:21 PM I think all of the above shows just how close the social practices of Judaism and Islam we.....
» 19/06/2012 10:09:46 AM "Are human rights and freedom of press universal western values?" No, they are n.....
» 14/06/2012 10:51:31 AM Of course another way to end the bloodshed in Syria would be for Obama and his friends to .....
» 6/06/2012 10:17:07 AM At least David Singer never disappoints. He is what he is, poor t'ing! For another view r.....
» 1/06/2012 1:12:43 PM This debate always comes back to the same old same old: If I as an advocate of voluntary e.....
» 29/05/2012 3:00:03 AM @Yuyutsu I imagine one good way to spot the difference between an Israeli and a Zionist wo.....
» 28/05/2012 8:47:34 PM @Yuyutsu "They managed to create hell for ordinary Israelis who had nothing against t.....
» 28/05/2012 1:08:01 PM @David G I think the current injustice will end, if for no other reason than it is so unba.....
» 28/05/2012 10:02:39 AM To settle for statehood on a truncated rump of Palestine seems to me to be a short-sighted.....
» 25/05/2012 12:25:03 AM individual There are many good reasons to allow the responsible use of recreational drugs .....
» 24/05/2012 9:07:58 PM Saltpetre & individual and alcohol? and tobacco? Are you saying neither are part of modern.....
» 24/05/2012 10:27:18 AM Other than fear, the anti crowd not only don't know what they are talking about, but they .....
» 17/05/2012 8:19:22 AM Perhaps the easiest way to win this "war" would be to legalise the controlled sa.....
» 16/05/2012 11:13:55 AM I agree with Daffy Duck on George Monbiot's article. For those interested, it can be found.....
» 10/05/2012 8:13:11 AM I have no argument with the general thrust of this piece, but if there are solutions 'out .....
» 3/05/2012 10:17:13 AM At some point during the last century man's desire for power overcame his assumption of su.....
» 1/05/2012 11:31:25 AM If it is true that the porn industry generates billions of dollars in annual profit, could.....
» 25/04/2012 1:47:19 AM Assange jammed the Yanks. Now they're jamming him. End of story......
» 20/04/2012 3:40:12 PM Mutual respect between equals. That says it all, really. Either we go there, or we continu.....
» 19/04/2012 6:18:22 PM @ imajulianutter Nice touch. But will she get it? Subtlety does not seem to be much in pla.....
» 19/04/2012 8:04:57 AM Political victory, that is victory through the ballot box, would embolden the Brotherhood .....
» 18/04/2012 9:23:59 AM Elections in Iran regularly make international news as pundits from the West try to discer.....
» 16/04/2012 3:12:38 PM Clearly and succinctly argued. This debate has been a long time coming, and Australia need.....
» 13/04/2012 3:33:44 PM Wasn't it Keating who said Turnbull lacked judgement? He lacked judgement by taking on th.....
» 4/04/2012 8:42:14 AM Bob Carr has given me cause for optimism. Once he was named as our next Minister of Foreig.....
» 3/04/2012 2:11:36 PM Such belligerence! There is a God. There is not. Biff! Take that you dirty rat. Are we.....
» 31/03/2012 2:42:35 PM The reason I enjoyed this article so much is that it shows how the paths of history cross .....
» 29/03/2012 8:55:54 AM It would seem the process of disinformation continues. On the issue of a visit to the Parc.....
» 28/03/2012 8:28:03 PM @Rhostry ...an entirely opaque administration, which is currently engaged on quite massive.....
» 28/03/2012 12:54:05 PM It's a bit scary to think just how much Obama's girl is our Julia. Not content to merely i.....
» 27/03/2012 9:04:37 AM "...these killings, so similar in themselves to terrorist acts,..." I suggest no.....
» 23/03/2012 6:40:34 AM Curmudgeon Apology for this late reply. The waste coming back from France is what's left a.....
» 22/03/2012 12:13:16 PM I question if it is true that the only waste Australia needs to make arraignments to store.....
» 14/03/2012 12:32:54 PM I too would like to voice my support for an inquiry into "end of life decision making.....
» 5/03/2012 9:06:15 AM Pornography has a lot in common with fast food in that what you see is never quite what co.....
» 1/03/2012 9:44:28 AM Julia Gillard is, rightly or wrongly, seen as being soaked in blood because of the manner .....
» 28/02/2012 3:46:40 PM When Rudd made a public call for 'the people' to support him, he showed a basic misunderst.....
» 27/02/2012 10:20:43 AM With the media cries of 'Live coverage from 5:30 AM' this leadership saga can now be accur.....
» 24/02/2012 2:36:17 PM I was hoping against hope that Rudd would bow out of the challenge. But this is not to be,.....
» 20/02/2012 12:34:28 PM Is a referendum too much to hope for? Unfortunately, I fear it is. And that is one of many.....
» 21/01/2012 9:44:37 AM What a timely reminder of just how odious the Zionist regimen of Israel is! Count Folke Be.....
» 21/01/2012 9:30:25 AM War is the culprit. In the time of battle it is somehow permissible to kill by any means a.....
» 17/01/2012 2:33:40 AM Fair go, Aspley! Sean Fitzpatrick was a great All Black captain. His team would have won .....
» 16/01/2012 2:12:06 PM Hey Hasbeen Speak for yourself, dude. And runner - Not such a silly idea. Knowing the poss.....
» 16/01/2012 11:43:29 AM Two years ago I read on the informative website www.circinfo.org/ that the bit of skin rem.....
» 13/01/2012 3:03:39 AM Does anyone remember the Y2K bug? It was touted to end computing as we knew it on the stro.....
» 6/01/2012 2:36:25 PM Joe In Australia isn't suicide legal? Or is it merely not illegal? This is a real question.....
» 6/01/2012 12:38:05 PM "Imagine the response if this appalling event was reversed and it happened to us.&quo.....
» 6/01/2012 11:56:52 AM Thank you, Yabby, for the reference. As a long standing proponent of assisted suicide, or .....
» 29/12/2011 2:37:31 PM There is a book that should be made required reading for the HSC. It's called Planet of Sl.....
» 29/12/2011 2:06:13 PM US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is quoted above as saying, "I think the price has b.....
» 28/12/2011 9:55:38 AM Despite Iran having forsworn nuclear weapons and opened their nuclear program to an unprec.....
» 23/12/2011 11:54:16 AM I agree that people who get on overcrowded leaky boats in the monsoon season have themselv.....
» 16/12/2011 8:27:54 AM I am continually astonished that in a world of potentially catastrophic climate change, a .....
» 25/11/2011 10:50:46 AM Once again it's the energy-at-any-cost that is causing the damage. Wind farms and coal-sea.....
» 22/11/2011 3:23:59 PM It's interesting to speculate on a role reversal to see just how heavily our Foreign Affai.....
» 18/11/2011 8:59:31 AM I think it is a matter for a different discussion whether or not Maryam Namazie is an apos.....
» 15/11/2011 6:35:36 AM I am continually amazed by the looking-glass world of this debate. Now, apparently, the J.....
» 14/11/2011 9:17:58 AM In my laptop's Free (medical) Dictionary by Farlex, projection is defined as: An unconsci.....
» 10/11/2011 9:05:10 AM So much to question here. Israel hasn't signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, but I.....
» 9/11/2011 8:05:39 AM Are the police in their various guises being used by the States as agents provocateur? Fir.....
» 8/11/2011 7:36:11 AM Instead of Mandatory Pre-Commitment which is attracting such resistance, why not go with o.....
» 7/11/2011 8:59:28 AM Referenda in Australia have always been a hard ask. According to Wikipedia, only 8 out of .....
» 6/11/2011 7:55:00 AM And yet, and yet... The arctic sea ice is melting, the glaciers are shrinking, major weath.....
» 3/11/2011 1:35:03 PM I have argued for years in favor of VOLUNTARY euthanasia. I still do. It's a personal choi.....
» 1/11/2011 12:14:32 PM To Yuyutsu and Montgomery can I point out that I did not try to justify the bombing of a p.....
» 1/11/2011 12:01:33 PM Please pay no attention to the shushers, Andrew Gunn. You have done a good thing here......
» 31/10/2011 8:16:02 AM There is another way to do this math. With between 5,000 and 6,000 Palestinians being held.....
» 28/10/2011 9:48:22 AM I agree Councils have the authority to move campers on from public spaces, but that doesn'.....
» 25/10/2011 9:10:42 AM I am so glad to read that someone else thinks Dr. Hanan Ashrawi's treatment in 2003 was in.....
» 24/10/2011 1:26:05 PM Surely the most timid, self-defeating phrase in the English language is it can’t be done. .....
» 21/10/2011 9:22:53 AM Firstly we need to praise Tony Abbott. He exposed the hollowness of Kevin Rudd's leadershi.....
» 20/10/2011 2:47:40 PM I have to question the understanding of history as expressed by Lindy in the first comment.....
» 17/10/2011 8:50:44 AM There is an interesting op-ed in the Australian by Peter van Onselen in which he speaks of.....
» 14/10/2011 6:51:25 AM Are we really supposed to believe that a car salesman from Corpus Christi,Texas, a gammon .....
» 6/10/2011 10:44:09 AM Further to my argument, current 2011 population figures show there are about 5.8 million J.....
» 6/10/2011 9:45:34 AM Palestine is the land south of the Lebanon, west of the Jordan River and northeast of Egyp.....
» 5/10/2011 11:28:27 AM Perhaps using the historical issues of colour and ethnic difference as a basis for invokin.....
» 8/08/2011 2:33:06 PM Philip Tang Europeans were surely barbarians, and at no time more so than during the Crusa.....
» 8/08/2011 8:33:28 AM When the Cold War ended, and all those reds came out from under our beds, some demon was n.....
» 4/08/2011 12:02:20 PM I don't mind seeing an inquiry into media in general, but only if it can be balanced and d.....
» 30/07/2011 10:43:28 AM Back, back in the day, and long before the Stone Age ran out of stones, along came these n.....
» 29/07/2011 1:28:47 PM I think we are being very short-sighted and economically lazy to opt for coal-seam or shal.....
» 18/07/2011 12:19:43 PM I think you can go much further in condemning yellow journalism than just writing of how p.....
» 14/07/2011 7:55:15 AM I know its old history, but hemp was chased into the drug register by the emerging synthet.....
» 13/07/2011 7:30:06 AM Rebekah Brooks either knew what those under her were doing and was culpable, or she didn't.....
» 29/06/2011 1:50:39 PM We already have optional voting. As 'skeptic' says he has done all his life, I voted infor.....
» 23/06/2011 9:33:24 AM LEGO - Twenty years ago I worked briefly as a relief store manager on a remote NT indigeno.....
» 23/06/2011 5:40:26 AM LEGO - you misunderstand why I am suggesting attendance at primary school is so important......
» 22/06/2011 4:10:47 PM I have seldom, if ever, disagreed with a comment posted on this website more than I disagr.....
» 22/06/2011 9:04:33 AM rexw wrote ...our indigenous people have bargaining power well in excess of their 2.5% of .....
» 20/06/2011 5:29:44 PM A most welcome article. Finally Sand's important book is gaining the public recognition th.....
» 6/06/2011 10:50:13 AM This is an encouraging article of good sense in the sea of foolishness that has overtaken .....
» 30/05/2011 10:57:27 AM Is Obama his own man, or is he a puppet of the military/industrial corporations? I lean to.....
» 24/05/2011 3:44:20 PM My computer's free Farlex dictionary defines antisemitism as 'the intense dislike for and .....
» 24/05/2011 1:29:31 PM Hamas wants all of Israel Israel wants all of Palestine Israel/Palestine Palestine/Israel.....
» 19/05/2011 10:21:43 AM Earlier this month the voters in Zurich, Switzerland were ask to vote on whether or not to.....
» 17/05/2011 1:52:59 PM As a resident of Alice Springs who often reads Pilger's articles on world affairs, this ar.....
» 14/05/2011 6:10:16 PM In my post from last Thursday I failed to acknowledge where I first encountered the idea I.....
» 12/05/2011 10:38:31 AM What if the diaspora, on which Zionism and the Jewish right of return depends, were a myth.....
» 10/05/2011 12:01:46 PM John Donne was right. “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved with Mankind; .....
» 9/05/2011 12:42:39 AM Meanwhile the Arctic sea-ice is shrinking, melting or thinning while before and after phot.....
» 5/05/2011 2:03:55 PM When discussing global population growth and global food stocks, does anyone agree that th.....
» 2/05/2011 11:10:34 AM “With the exception of the Golan Heights - none of the land occupied by Israel in the 1967.....

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