Howard election campaign hit by dirty tricks scandal
The election strategy of Australia's prime minister John Howard is in turmoil today after members of his Liberal party were caught red-handed in an inept dirty tricks campaign. Bogus flyers, from a fake organisation called the Islamic Australia Federation, were distributed through the letterboxes of voters in a marginal seat claiming the Labor opposition sympathised with Islamic terrorists.
A team of Labor officials found five men posting the clumsily printed flyers - the phrase Allah Akbar, God is Great, had been misspelled as Ala Akba - through letterboxes in the early hours of the morning.
Guardian also links to the flyer (pdf)
/ducks "If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles." Sun Tzu
Monthly Review
The Dismantling of Yugoslavia: A Study in Inhumanitarian Intervention (and a Western Liberal-Left Intellectual and Moral Collapse) Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
Have not read the whole thing yet, but it makes a lot of good points and deconstructs the official story. I think it has been discussed in an open thread or Salon here and an open thread at MoA, but I am too lazy to look it up. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
But it is online, so just follow the link and start reading. Lots of good material for a Lazy Quote Diary there for whoever finishes it first. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
