National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from December 2008

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from December 2008

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Global warming--myth, threat or opportunity?
December 22, 2008... The most critical problem we face is not global warming, or how to make fuel more expensive so we will use less, but providing enough at affordable prices to keep our economy going until alternatives can become reality. The Lucky Country has...

Sinful WASPs.
December 22, 2008... My topic for this article is the relevance of secularism for understanding our political situation, which is the one that is now dominant in Canada, the US and much of the Western world. Underlying this investigation are two assumptions about...

Margaret Thatcher: a legacy of freedom.
December 22, 2008... It is a great pleasure to be back at Hillsdale College, Michigan. It is some 32 years since I first visited the college for a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. Those few days were an important education in American politics for me. The...

Days in the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
December 22, 2008... The last great figure of the 20th century, the Russian novelist and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died on August 3rd. He first came to prominence with the publication of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich...

Terror: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism.
December 22, 2008... TERROR: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism edited by Michael T. Davis and Brett Bowden (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2008) Paperback: 408 pages Rec. price: $45.00 "Know one's enemy" applies to the war on...