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COVER STORY / EDITORIAL: How America’s choice will affect Australia

Australia’s current situation requires a strong America willing to stand up to emerging powers such as China and Russia, as well as to Islamic extremism. With the conclusion of the Democratic and Republican party conventions, the choice facing American voters is now clear: between a war hero who has served as a long-time Republican senator, John McCain, and an extraordinarily articulate young Democrat senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. Both represent a break with the past: McCain has long been at loggerheads with the Republican party machine, while Obama is also a party outsider, a black Democrat with only four years…

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STRAWS IN THE WIND: Recipe for social conflict / Putin’s gamble / Once more unto the swill buckets, dear friends

STRAWS IN THE WIND

Recipe for social conflict It was Marx who said that the capitalist has no country; only the workers, farmers and simple people love their country, and would fight and die for it. But they were bunnies. The proletariat should band together, as finanz-kapitalists had done, but make their own one socialist world. And we know what Marx and most of his followers thought of farmers and peasants, drooling away in their rustic idiocy. Like the English, the “new men” would industrialise, and rationalise agriculture, and open the country to imports from all corners, leaving the rustics to quit the land…

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SPECIAL FEATURE: 1968 Prague Spring remembered

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This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the short-lived interval of freedom that the country enjoyed under the reforming rule of Alexander Dubcek. Jan Lidicky, who grew up in Czechoslovakia, witnessed these events first-hand before leaving his homeland in early 1969 and migrating to Australia. Alexander Dubcek Leonid Brezhnev Soviet tanksoccupy Prague In the early hours of August 21, 1968, the people of what was then Czechoslovakia woke up to a massive armed invasion that brutally ended the unprecedented liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring. It ended any illusions of Czechoslovak national…

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Future threats from China

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

China’s march towards the Olympics in August has brought into focus many of its problems, including internal security, minorities, pollution and energy security. In this article, Peter Coates concentrates on some ways that these problems impact on Australia, or will do so in the future. In order to avoid international embarrassment during the Olympics, it appears that China has pursued a strategy of crushing discontent among its ethnic minorities before the Games begin. In March, many Tibetans protested in favour of independence. The severity of Beijing’s crackdown may have inflamed the situation, bringing more Tibetans onto the streets. If the…

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REGIONAL COMMUNITIES: Could an Asian regional grouping work?

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Could Kevin Rudd’s proposed scheme for an EU-style Asian economic community possibly work? Former senior trade negotiator Colin Teese concludes his two-part discussion of the Rudd Plan (the first part of which appeared in News Weekly, July 5). Mr Rudd’s belief that the Asian region is of a mind to consider some kind of regional…

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DVD: APOCALYPSE? NO! Why global warming is not a crisis, by Christopher Monckton

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Antidote to Al Gore’s alarmism APOCALYPSE? NO! Why global warming is not a crisisby Christopher (Viscount) Monckton of Brenchley(Washington, DC: Science and Public Policy Institute)Running time: 2 hrs, 38 mins (all regions)Rec. price: AUD$29.95 The issue of global warming has become a battle for people’s hearts and minds. On one side is the dogma that…

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