National Observer - Australia and World Affairs articles from March 2006

National Observer - Australia and World Affairs archives from March 2006

Editorial comment.(United States Congress, Democrate majority)(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... AMERICA: NEO-CONS OUT, REALISTS IN The Republican debacle that was the mid-term U.S. elections has widespread implications for American foreign policy, not in and by itself, but in the context of the unwinnable but definitely losable Iraq...

In this issue.(Australian citizenship)
March 22, 2006... The lead article in this issue is John Stone's highly important and devastating critique of the "discussion paper" entitled Australian Citizenship: Much More than a Ceremony, the work of Andrew Robb, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for...

The unmentionable problem of Australian citizenship.
March 22, 2006... On Sunday, 17 September last, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Mr Andrew Robb, issued a discussion paper entitled Australian Citizenship: Much More than a Ceremony, to provide a...

Iran and deception modalities: the reach of taqiyya, kitman, khod'eh and taarof.
March 22, 2006... This article continues the study and implications of the critical role of Iranian deception modalities (1) in Iranian-Shi'ite political discourse, especially in relation to the 20-year clandestine development of Iran's nuclear programme. ...

Australia's response to terrorism in the Asian region.
March 22, 2006... Terrorism can be defined as "a form of psychological warfare that is used to create extreme fear through the use of threat of force against non-combatant civilian military targets". (1) Terrorism is as much about psychological maiming as it is...

The State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... THE STATE OF EMERGENCY: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America by Patrick J. Buchanan (New York: St Martin's Press, 2006) Hardback: 320 pages Pat Buchanan's latest book, on the problem of unchecked immigration into...

The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... THE BODY OF IL DUCE: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy by Sergio Luzzatto (trans. Frederika Randall) (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005) Hardcover: 258 pages with index One curious, seldom-noticed interaction...