National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from June 2007

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from June 2007

Editorial comment.(on the United States presidential election)
June 22, 2007... THE AMERICAN PRIMARIES: WHO'S BEST FOR AUSTRALIA? As one of America's closest allies, historically dependent on the strategic security the alliance provides, Australia has a strong interest in the current race for the White House. ...

In this issue.
June 22, 2007... John Stone's leading article dissects the greatest fallacies in the "global warming" claims, bringing together the counter-arguments that will, one hopes, soon ensure the demise of this highly infectious and emotive "religion"--which is what it...

Kyoto the fraud: how Australians are being conned.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... One of the disquieting aspects of 2007, culminating in the November federal election, centred upon "global warming"--or "climate change", as the global-warming proselytisers nowadays prefer to call it, for the usual Orwellian reasons. ...

The origins of the radical intelligentsia in the 'Sixties.
June 22, 2007... Recent discussions about the nature and role of the contemporary Australian intelligentsia offer limited analyses of its origins, ideological structure, and cultural and psychological dynamics. (1) In fact, its history goes back some 40 years...

Australia's intelligence future: finding the right recruits to secure it.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... The opening decade of this century has seen Australia's intelligence community subjected to unprecedented scrutiny, mainly as a result of the fight against terror and its associated legislation. New hopes and expectations have been laid upon...

America's confrontation with Iran.
June 22, 2007... The Bush Doctrine, in line with the ideas of the neo-conservatives, suggests America's power, especially military power, is omnipotent, and that its values and institutions are universally desired and universally applicable; hence America's...

Does Balkanisation beckon anew?
June 22, 2007... When the Great War comes, said old Bismarck, it will come out of "some damn fool thing in the Balkans". On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot the archduke and heir to the Austrian throne Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, setting in motion the...

What McCain means.
June 22, 2007... In 2004, the voters of Arizona, by 56 per cent to 44 per cent, enacted Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship before an individual may vote or receive state benefits. Forty-six per cent of Hispanics voted for Proposition 200, giving...

BOOK REVIEW.(Vietnam: The Australian War)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... VIETNAM: The Australian War by Paul Ham (Sydney: HarperCollins, 2007) Hardback: 700 pages Rec. price: $55.00 Paul Ham has not written a revisionist history of the Vietnam War. For the most part, he goes along with the...