Return Of People Power

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By John Pilger

In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his "secret war" against Central America. What is striking is the relentless lying. A department of lying was set up under Reagan with the coy name, "office of public diplomacy". Its purpose was to dispense "white" and "black" propaganda – lies – and to smear journalists who told the truth. Almost everything Reagan himself said on the subject was false. Time and again, he warned Americans of an "imminent threat" from the tiny impoverished nations that occupy the isthmus between the two continents of the western hemisphere. "Central America is too close and its strategic stakes are too high for us to ignore the danger of governments seizing power with military ties to the Soviet Union," he said. Nicaragua was "a Soviet base" and "communism is about to take over the Caribbean". The United States, said the president, "is engaged in a war on terrorism, a war for freedom".

Rupert Murdoch’s Victims

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The Life and Crimes of a Global Goebbels

By RICHARD NEVILLE

T he first death known to me, that was precipitated by a Rupert Murdoch headline, occurred in Sydney in March,1964, when a schoolboy committed suicide. More of that later. These days, the casualties resulting from military invasions championed by Murdoch are numbered in the thousands, though he is not the sole agent of destruction. One of his former TV producers in the Middle East, Serene Sabbagh, resigned from Fox recently because of its "bias and racism".

What tipped Sabbagh over the edge was the bombing of Qana._"As a mother of three, watching the images, the raw images of children being pulled out of the rubble and then I switched to Fox News to hear some of their anchors claiming that these little kids that were killed, these innocent victims that were killed, were human shields used by Hezbollah. And one of the anchors went as far as saying they were planted there by Hezbollah to win support in this war. And it was unbelievable. For me, that was the breaking point"

Hizbullah’s victory has transformed the Middle East

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The defeat of the regional superpower could yet open the way to a wider settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict

George Galloway in Beirut
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,,1861645,00.html

As the smoke clears from the battlefield of the 34-day war in Lebanon, it would be a mistake to count the cost only in fallen masonry and fresh graves. All is changed, changed utterly, by the defeat that the whole of Israel is now debating, from the cabinet through the lively press to the embittered reservists at the falafel stall. Practically the only person in the world who claims Israel won the war is George Bush – and we all know his definition of the words "mission accomplished".

WA Premier defends gas plan

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Carpenter defends his decision to ensure cheap gas supply for WA and says without it economy and industries would suffer
Alan Carpenter’s plan to earmark natural gas reserves for cheap domestic use enjoys popular support in WA, which has some of the world’s cheapest gas prices, reported The Australian Financial Review (17/8/2006, p.61).

Traditional owners in $17million carbon trade

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$17 million carbon credit trading deal done between NT Government, Darwin LNG, Northern Land Council and traditional owners of land
In August NT minister Marion Scrymgour, announced a landmark carbon credit trading agreement between the NT Government, Darwin liquefied Natural Gas, the Northern Land Council and traditional owners of land from Maningrida to the headwaters of the Katherine and Mann rivers, reported The Australian, 28/8/2006, p.16.

Insurers question clean coal and nuclear

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The paper, " Risk to Opportunity: How Insurers can Proactively and Profitably Manage Climate Change", said a well-worn example of risk was degraded indoor air quality due to over-tightening of buildings. In many cases, these concerns were unfounded, but in others they are legitimate (but surmountable). An example of the latter is that small/light cars Continue Reading →