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Interesting… How to you defeat an idea? Shall we put two ideas in a ring together and see which one is victorious after a number of rounds? The two ideas can slug it out for the amusement of punters and the financial benefit of the promoter. But the metaphor is inadequate since a defeated idea can simply [...] Some great cartoon work… YouTube – A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn. Oh what a feeling! Planet Janet has announced her departure from the board of the ABC and I would personally like congratulate her on her worthy contributions and selfless devotion to the difficult task of ridding the ABC of the progressive predilection for emotion over reason and stealth over honesty. Sure it was difficult for the [...] Must have really got up the old fart, there’s Pilger basking in the glory at the Sydney Opera House while receiving his Sydney Peace Prize (now’s there’s an idea, just as well they asked a few aborigines along to make it look good) and poor old Gerard fuming quietly on the dunny at home. Even [...] Sebastian Kaempf talked about the propaganda battle as another front in the “war against terrorism” at the War2.0 conference a few weeks ago. Here’s another example. Taliban YouTube Channel: Group Creates YouTube Channel To Spread Propaganda (VIDEO). Hugh White talked about new media from a long term historical perspective, questioning whether “new media” is really a major gamechanger when it comes to prosecuting war. On feature that emerged in Hugh’s short talk that is overlooked in the new media landscape is the role of broadcast mass media and the difference between what’s [...] More cheery news… The decline of American economic power linked to the current global recession was implicitly acknowledged by the World Bank president Robert Zoellick. “One of the legacies of this crisis may be a recognition of changed economic power relations,” he said in Istanbul ahead of meetings this week of the IMF and World Bank. via [...] Well the Bush domino doctrine which was supposed to see the wonderful western institution of democracy flower in the middle east seems to be running into a few problems with the EU Election Observation Mission reporting that almost 1.5 million votes cast in the Afghan election are suspect. The election result saw Karzai collect over [...] I was asked to look at whether or not citizens should give up their civil rights in the War against Terrorism. This is problematic because the proposition is logically flawed and the actions of governments around the globe are riddled with instances where they have not acted in the best interests of the public. Why [...] This is what we are fighting for? Afghanistan passes ‘barbaric’ law diminishing women’s rights | World news | guardian.co.uk. |
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