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BOOK REVIEW: COURTING DISASTER: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack, by Marc A. Thiessen

CIA’s handling of the terrorist threat COURTING DISASTER:How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Obama Is Inviting the Next Attackby Marc A. Thiessen (Washington DC: Regnery)Hardcover: 376 pagesISBN: 9781596986039RRP: AUD$59.90 Reviewed by Dallas Clarnette No one can forget the awful 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York’s Twin Towers and on the Pentagon in Washington DC, when thousands perished. Yet who remembers the planned murderous air strikes of August 2006? It was to involve flights by United Airlines Flight 931 from London’s Heathrow Airport to San Francisco, Air Canada Flights 849 and 865 to Toronto and MontrÃ©al, United Airlines Flights 959…

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EDITORIAL: Taxpayers to help subsidise UN’s $100 billion climate fund

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The failure of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to set enforceable targets for cutting CO2 emissions has not stopped the Australian Government committing billions of dollars to the UN’s Green Climate Fund, which is intended to raise $100 billion a year by 2020. The extent of Australia’s commitment to funding the UN’s…

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COVER STORY: Planned Parenthood’s activities finally exposed

COVER STORY, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY

Given that Planned Parenthood is one of the greatest promoters of death around the globe, it is fitting that we may be witnessing the death of this nefarious organisation. We are certainly seeing, if not its death, then its long-overdue meltdown because of widespread adverse reaction to it. On February 18, the US House of Representatives voted to scrap funding for Planned Parenthood. House members approved the amendment by Republican congressman Mike Pence by a vote of 240-185. The debate now moves to the US Senate. It has been a horror month or two for the organisation, and this is…

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ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Can we avoid a second global financial crisis?

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Is the GFC over – or are we waiting for a repeat performance? We can’t know yet for certain. The banks in the United States and the major economies of Europe have been rescued from bankruptcy by large injections of government money. For the moment, their capacity to destroy the real (that is, productive) economy has been halted. But manifest financial sector problems remain to be fixed, both inside and beyond the US. Those European nations within the EU’s currency union are of notable concern. The EU is passing through its greatest ever crisis. Not nearly enough has been done…

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MIDDLE EAST I: Arab turmoil to change Middle East power balance

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The current popular revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and other parts of the Arab world will have a significant effect on the balance of power in the region. What began with the suicide death of a poor street trader in Tunis has mushroomed into a protest movement across the Arab world, engulfing Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan…

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: The Chinese president goes to Washington

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All the parades, salutes and one-on-one chats during Hu Jintao’s recent visit to Washington couldn’t paper over the cracks in the relationship between the United States and China. Unless Beijing changes course, conflict between the US and its allies and China is inevitable. Those who accept Beijing’s propaganda line of “China’s peaceful rise” misunderstand the…

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