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Editorial comment.(Editorial)
December 22, 2008... The curse of Kosovo Georgia's military incursion into the effectively autonomous, and unwillingly Georgian, provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, where Russian peacekeepers, according to international agreement and the desire of those provinces' people, were stationed, and the...

In this issue.
December 22, 2008... We lead with the second part of Mervyn Bendle's two-part article on Saudi funding in Australian universities. When the first part of this important study was published in National Observer (No. 72, Autumn 2007), it brought on its author's head the wrath of the authorities at Griffith...

How to be a useful idiot: Saudi funding in Australia--part II.
December 22, 2008... This article complements an earlier paper that discussed the implications for Australia of the availability of massive funding, largely secret, from Saudi Arabia and related fundamentalist Islamic regimes. (1) It was noted in that paper that such funding would be likely to damage and even...

Lights out on liberty.
December 22, 2008... On August 3, 1914, on the eve of the First World War, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of his office in the summer dusk and observed, "The lamps are going out all over Europe." Today, the lights are going out on liberty all over the Western world, but in a more...

Australian intelligence: confronting the past for a safer future.
December 22, 2008... A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the...