I have added my article from the June issue of Peace Researcher, 'Are We Seeing a Popular Revolution in Iraq' to the articles section of the site ( Read more... )

According to National Party finance spokesperson John Key, the party is now having 'second thoughts' about scrapping Cullen's super fund. At the party's annual conference he said the decision of what to do with the fund was 'finely balanced ( Read more... )

Been reading John Pilger's latest article Pilger: Bush Or Kerry? Look Closely And The Danger Is The Same. Pilger takes issue with the myth that John Kerry offers a world view different to George W. Bush. Pilger warns that this lie could grow as the 'anyone but Bush' movement gains steam towards the election ( Read more... )

Just seen the footage of Saddam in the dock ( Read more... )

I have been wondering why the transfer of "sovereignty" to the Iraqi Government was moved forward to two days before the official handover day. While it is possible that this was partly motivated by the desire to deny 'terrorists' a target date with high symbolic value, this speaks volumes of the lack of confidence of the Coalition forces in their ( Read more... )

According to the Tehran Times trucks belonging to the US-led coalition forces have been stopped on the Kuwaiti/Iraqi border after the vehicles were found carrying radioactive materials. The trucks were heading for Iraq ( Read more... )

The June edition of New Internationalist contains an interesting article by Joseph Huff-Hason 'The pollen and the bees'. It reports that many workers in Argentina have set up co-ops to save their jobs when the boss goes bankrupt. Since Argentina's economic collapse in 2001 over 200 failing businesses have been occupied, legally expropriated and ( Read more... )

Just read a good article by Joseph Stiglitz, Iraq's next shock will be shock therapy. "When the Berlin Wall fell, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former ( Read more... )

In 1999 students made the issue of student debt a key issue on the 1999 New Zealand election campaign. Labour gained most of the benefit. But ever since Labour came to office they have been using excuse after excuse for not increasing funding to tertiary education, especially when it comes to addressing student support issues. Think Labour's ( Read more... )

Been reading up on the UK-UK draft resolution on Iraq.

6. Reaffirms the authorization for the multinational force under unified command established under resolution 1511 (2003), having regard to the letter referred to in preambular paragraph 10 above, decides that the multinational force shall have authority to take all necessary measures to ( Read more... )