by Bruce Childs | Sep 29, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectiveWe will long remember last week for all the contradictions that it raised, and for the challenge it presented for Australians to reject their political adolescence and adopt a more mature national identity.It all started last Thursday...
by Bruce Childs | Aug 3, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectiveThis month people marched through the streets of Sydney in the traditional Hiroshima day demonstration under the banner: ‘Hiroshima, Never Again’. There are approximately 26,000 nuclear weapons in the United States, Britain,...
by Bruce Childs | Jun 26, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectivePresident Bush and his chutzpah team want to rule the world. Chutzpah is a word applied to people who radiate belief in themselves without any apparent substantive reason for that belief. The president does of course have the world’s...
by Bruce Childs | May 7, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectiveWar & peace”The agenda, as always, begins with trying to find out what is happening in the world” Noam Chomksy concludes in his interview with Michael Albert in this month’s Evatt Journal. As President Bush and his...
by Bruce Childs | Mar 13, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectiveThe Howard government’s pro-war position means that the need for citizens to maintain a vigilant, critical stance in relation to our media cannot be overstated. The most recent report to the UN Security Council on Iraq’s...
by Bruce Childs | Jan 29, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectivePresident Bush is the leader of the world’s greatest military power ever. If the Pentagon were to rank as a country, it would be the world’s 14th biggest economy. The United States has a quarter of the world’s economy,...