Kevin Rudd resignation as Australian FM: expert reactions

Report: " Kevin Rudd’s dramatic decision to resign in the early hours of the morning in Washington has caught Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the hop.

From campus to a Gaza flotilla: the experiences of an activist academic

Dr David Hearn (Associate Professor (French and Linguistics) , University of Western Ontario 1996 – present) : " Pulitzer Prize winner and civil rights activist Alice Walker from the US Boat to Gaza says challenges to the blockade of Gaza are the Freedom Rides of our time  …

UK journo Sophie McBain's view of the Libyan revolution, one year on

Sophie McBain: "It's exactly one year since the official start of the Libyan revolution and Amnesty International marked the occasion with a damning report into the widespread human rights abuses committed by armed militias in the country and the failure of the National Transiti …

Pro-and anti-war UK MPs speak out, the threat of war against Iran grows

George Eaton: "With the prospect of a pre-emptive Israeli attack on Iran growing ever more likely, Westminster is finally beginning to respond.

UK experts: Oil a trillion-dollar catalyst for change in the Arab World

Tara Shirvani and Sir David King (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford): ''The new Arab leadership also need to focus on transforming oil-based economies into information-based economies supported by firm democratic foundations and social equity.

Pilger: Let's learn from Blair's crimes, so we don't repeat them in Syria

John Pilger: "The warmongering and human rights abuses of the New Labour years seem forgotten by all but the likes of Gareth Peirce. Yet Blair’s legacy lingers on in Afghanistan and Iraq and is re-emerging in Syria and Iran."

New study: 45,000 US deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage

Report: "Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health.

US to withdraw more than 11,000 troops from Germany & Italy

The Obama Administration has vowed to retain close military ties to its European allies after revealing  plans to withdraw more than 11,000 troops from Germany and Italy as part of a strategic shift to Asia.

Major nanotechnology advance: DNA robot could kill cancer cells

Report: "The researchers designed the structure of the nanorobots using open-source software, called Cadnano, developed by one of the authors — Shawn Douglas, a biophysicist at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

Pressure mounts on Australian PM Julia Gillard from ex-PM Kevin Rudd

Michelle Grattan (political editor, The Age): "Julia Gillard has come under new pressure over her actions in the 2010 coup after Kevin Rudd said yesterday that claims she had used polling against him were questions for ''other people''...

Gillard Under Pressure Over Leadership Claims re 2010 anti-Rudd Coup

Age associate editor: "On Monday night, 725,000 television viewers enjoyed the rare opportunity of watching the strategies of a former prime minister who wants his old job back and the current Prime Minister, desperate to thwart him, being played out in real time...

Fracking & Coal Seam Gas in Australia: Gas Drillers Bring In The Heavy Hitters

Calliste Weitenberg reports that Gas drillers for Coal Seam Gas (CSG() and Fracking have failed to win over the public but with help from big lobbyists with top-level Coalition connections, they're putting pressure on the NSW government in Australia.

Re Oz Indigenous Tent Embassy fracas & Real Threat To National Security

Hamish Ford: "On Australia Day in Canberra this year two stark effects of an intertwined political and mainstream media narrative were revealed. First, that protests, no matter how small, are increasingly portrayed as security threats.

Rudd the Comeback Kid? US knew of planned Oz Coup weeks before

ABC Four Corners report: "In Washington the US State Department was taking great interest in the political machinations in Australia. For at least a year, they had been receiving information on internal politics of the ALP from a number of the coup plotters.

Doctoral scholar, UWS: Iraqi-Australians on life after the American war

Doctoral scholar Farid Farid: "Last week in Baghdad, 17 men were executed. Nothing special to note here in the conflict ridden, post-US withdrawal landscape of Iraq, except that this time they were executed by an Iraqi court...

Oz professor - Gaia theory of Dr James Lovelock FRS: is it science yet?

Professor Ian Enting: "In discussing the concept of Gaia, Lovelock now distinguishes: Gaia hypothesis: the original version — the Earth’s organisms regulate the physical and chemical components of the earth system so as to maintain the planet as an optimal habitat f …

New Statesman review: The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens (b 1812)

Reviewer: "Very few of Dickens's private letters were written with an eye on posterity. Indeed, in 1860, he spent an afternoon burning "basket after basket" of them and many more were lost after John Forster filleted them for The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74).

Is criticism of female politicians like Oz PM Gillard playing the sexism card?

Catriona Menzies-Pike (managing editor of progressive Australian web magazine New Matilda): "Is it sexist anytime anyone ever criticises any woman? Can anything any female politician ever does be shielded from criticism on the grounds that to do so is sexist? If a female pol …

Oz ex-MP Cheryl Kernot on politics, the media, female leadership & sexism

Former Australian Democrats MP Cheryl Kernot re sexism allegations over treatment of Australian  PM Julia Gillard: "The first thing I’d say is none of those other countries [Germany, US, New Zealand] has the “gotcha” media syndrome.

Hasan, NS: Intervention in Syria won't work, so how do we stop Assad?

Mehdi Hasan: " How do we stop the ongoing killings in Syria? It is an urgent and important question but one that defies a simple or easy answer. Let's be clear: Syria is a human rights disaster.

Zionists @ Ben White: claim Israel can be Jewish and democratic

British Zionists responding to Ben White and claiming that race-based Israel is "democratic": "BICOM has recently published articles by four experts to raise the level of discussion in the UK about the state of Israeli democracy.

Elephants on grass: only lively debate can save Australia's environment

Professor Bowman (University of Tasmania): " Last week I published an opinion piece in Nature attempting to crystallise debate on a number of issues in Australian environmental management: bushfires, weeds, feral animals, management of Aboriginal land, control of native predat …

Oz Ex-PM Kevin Rudd versus PM Julia Gillard: The waiting game goes on

Michelle Grattan,(political editor of The Age newspaper) on the resurrection of former PM Kevin Rudd who was replaced  in a June 2010 coup by presenbt PM Julia Gillard: "Despite the assistance the Age/Nielsen poll gave Gillard, and her own feisty performance in Parliament, …

Tribute to the late Christopher Hitchens by Oz ABC Late Night Live

Australian ABC Radio National Late Night Live presenter Phillip Adams presents a tribute to "Late Night Live's longest and most outstanding contributor, the late Christopher Hitchens, journalist, author and contrarian" (and pro-Iraq War war atheist).

Are wars on the decline? - ABC Late Night Live program claims it is

ABC interview: "International war may be declining, but according to journalist Peter Hartcher and Professor John Mueller, we should remain vigilant.

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