Sir, United Nations countries America, Britain, China, France, India, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and Russia, either have weapons of mass destruction, whether biological, chemical or nuclear, or have the capabilities of producing them. President Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, controls the greatest weapon of mass destruction known to man, starvation, and he is currently…
Twenty years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was recognised as the intellectual force who de-authorised the Soviet Union. Today he turns his attention to the West but few are listening says Max Teichmann. What follows is based upon a little book entitled A World Split Apart which was originally an address given at Harvard University in 1978,…
The report of the Chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, to the UN Security Council last week documented substantial and continuing violations by the Iraqi regime of its obligations to the UN Security Council, putting responsibility for any American-led response squarely on Saddam Hussein. The US President, George Bush, has consistently maintained that if the…
Covenants without the Sword are but Words and Breaths …– Hobbes 1. False Dawn The collapse of Western Communism, symbolised by the knocking down of the Berlin Wall, ushered in what was proclaimed to be a New World Order. It was something for which we had all hoped – and had believed everyone else had hoped for. A world moving from the shadow of global war, most especially nuclear war; one where the United Nations would dispense peace and justice – even-handedly – and more and more swords would be turned into ploughshares. America would remain the greatest country –…
The Federal Opposition remains deeply divided over the looming war with Iraq and Simon Crean seems to be walking into another trap set by John Howard. Up until very recently, Mr Crean has steadfastedly refused to declare whether Labor would support military action without a United Nations mandate. He has been all over the shop,…
The proposed US-Australia free trade agreement is likely to be of little benefit to the Australian sugar industry, the fate of which is likely to be settled long before the signing of any such agreement. US Trade Representative, Bob Zoellick, and Prime Minister, John Howard, have announced the intention of their two countries to sign a free-trade agreement by 2004. The US is strongly pushing for Australia to abolish its single desk selling arrangements for wheat, barley, sugar and rice. It also wants eliminated “unjustified” quarantine restrictions on US pork, chicken, Florida oranges, apples, beef and California stone fruit. Single…