The Puzzling Story of NATO's Secret Armies During the Cold War: After the Cold War had ended, then Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed to the Italian Senate in August 1990 that Italy had had a secret stay-behind army, codenamed Gladio – the sword Just What Were They Up to? - Nato's Secret Armies
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: The Liberal
In the early 19th century, Romantic poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley conspired to produce a magazine that would challenge the day’s conservative publications with a selection of original poetry, prose fiction and reviews. They called it The Liberal and brought together some of the foremost influences of the Romantic movement for its inaugural release.
But before the magazine would formally launch, Shelley died and the project ultimately dissolved after the fourth issue....
What I would say is, well – Zizek gave a brilliant lecture where he spoke against human rights and he railed against the culture of liberal interventionism. He’s interested in the real and the illusory and he spoke about how America would go into a country like Iraq with the illusory language of human rights. And in creating a human rights violation, would see the real varnish staring back at them. And it’s that sort of interesting mirror image.
• Human rights [Survivors remember Srebrenica; This New York Times story about "meth orphans" is enough to make you weep A Drug Scourge Creates Its Own Form of Orphan ; Here lies the body of Jonathan Swift, where savage indignation can no longer lacerate his heart ]
• · Rich Pervert Tax Code for Themselves ; The best-laid plans of mice and men, as Robbie Burns famously said, often go awry. $1 Mil That's what it now costs to raise a child in Australia's most expenisve city. We explore the implications of paying such a hefty price to have a family How families make ends meet
• · · The stirring tale of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, congressman and bon vivant, becomes more entertaining by the day, and it is far more instructive than another case of a missing white female. In 2003, he sold his house in Del Mar, a very upscale town north of San Diego. The buyer was Mitchell Wade, a defense contractor, who paid $1.675 million. Wade later resold the house at a $700,000 loss Eaten Alive by Corruption: the only person in recent history to lose money on a San Diego real estate deal ; This is an edited version of a speech to Australian Council for Infrastructure Development on March 21, 2005 Lindsay Tanner - Infrastructure ; A rush to build a $2 billion desalination plant at Kurnell has been widely condemned, from the Prime Minister to green groups, as an expensive and environmentally harmful response to Sydney's water shortage Cold water on the salt solution ; Desalination plant 'too important to debate' The options: Pros and cons
• · · · by Desmond Tutu Much Has Been Done, But... ; For Tobias Levkovich, chief US portfolio strategist at Citigroup Smith Barney in New York, the timing of last Thursday's terrorist attacks in London could hardly have been better Markets factor in acts of terror
• · · · · Extremist recruiters Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits ; Evan F. Kohlman: The Afghan-Bosnian Network, argues that the key to understanding Al Qaida's European cells lies in the Bosnian war of the 1990s Bosnia: The Birthplace of Al-Qaeda
• · · · · · Follow the money - A Virginia man charged with illegally wiring millions of dollars to his native Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and other nations pleaded guilty Thursday to operating an unlicensed money service business Vienna Man Pleads Guilty To Running Unlicensed Money Service ; Web Exclusive Another Lost Opportunity; Stephen E. Flynn - Interview Qaeda Attack in U.S. Likely to Be More Catastrophic Than London Bombings