European Tribune - Comments - Australian Federal Election, 2007

Australian Federal Election, 2007 | 46 comments (46 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Liberals hit by Scandal (4.00 / 4)

Coalition is familiar with dirty tricks I can tell you...think about "children overboard" scandal etc.
If it actually happen this will be a first time for me to witness change of government here and quite frankly I am not sure what I can expect. For some reason I do not trust ANY politician on Earth any more...
It's getting harder and harder to maintain standard of life without going deep in to the dept and I don't think anything can change that.I will of course vote Labor for house and Greens for Senate but I am not having big hopes that my life is going to be any easier if Labor wins...It will be a great satisfaction to see Howard and Coalition gone tho...

by vbo on Thu Nov 22nd, 2007 at 07:47:01 AM EST
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Re: Liberals hit by Scandal (none / 1)

vbo,
I just want to make sure you have seen this:

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.

by A swedish kind of death on Fri Nov 23rd, 2007 at 07:18:21 AM EST
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dismantling yugoslavia (4.00 / 2)

Can you diarise this please ? Or at least email me the book title. Moving to Bulgaria as I'm doing, I'm finding that the ex-Yugoslavian situation is very "live" in the realpolitik of Bulgaria. It impacts everything and my broad-brush understanding of what happened simply isn't up to examining the nuances I'm coming across

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 02:23:36 PM EST
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Re: dismantling yugoslavia (none / 1)

I read it in portions, so I am not done yet. It brings back lots of memories of how I understood things back then so I have to digest it in portions.

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.

by A swedish kind of death on Sun Nov 25th, 2007 at 08:56:12 PM EST
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Re: Liberals hit by Scandal (none / 1)

Thank you for this...

by vbo on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 06:31:43 PM EST
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