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East Timor – A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful

John Pilger

by John Pilger, renowned investigative Australian journalist and international academy award winning documentary film-maker May 1, 2012 (TSR) - Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I went to Stanfords map shop in [...]

Australia lines up with US for war with China

Australian defense

February 18, 2012 (TSR) - An Australian defence posture report, released last week, is the latest sign of the Obama administration’s reckless and aggressive push against China on all fronts—diplomatic, economic and military. The interim review spells out the wide scope of the military agreement announced last November by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and President Barack Obama. [...]

Australian Banks Given One Week To Prepare For European “Meltdown”

Euro meltdown

December 20, 2011 (TSR) - Whereas previously we had heard extensive horror stories about banks being told to prepare for the end of the world in case the European summit (the latest and greatest one from last Friday which was supposed to find a cure for cancer among other things) failed, and even went so far as to [...]

Genome power is about to sweep world: Nobel laureate

Face it: Professor Barry Marshall says the genome will soon be part and parcel of everyday life. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

NOBEL laureate Barry Marshall plans to become the first Australian to post his own full genetic code, or genome, on the internet, even though it does reveal unsettling insights. His nearly-completed six-billion-piece code shows he is at nearly three times higher lifetime risk of macular degeneration and double for testicular cancer and for Alzheimer’s disease. [...]

Asylum seekers sew lips

Asylum seekers sew lips

SYDNEY, Australia. November 19, 2010 (AFP) – UP TO 10 asylum-seekers in a remote Australian immigration detention centre have sewn their lips together, the government said on Friday, just days after an Iraqi inmate at a Sydney centre took his own life. ‘This is distressing for me and most of the Australian people,’ Immigration Minister [...]


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