Archive for February, 2008
LABOR IS “OUTSOURCING” THE SOVEREINGTY OF THE NATION
The following paper was written on May 2000. It’s republished here to remind readers that the detachment of the Labor Party from the political “sins” of its past is still to come, as it continues to relish them by increasing them. It’s clear that a Rudd government would sign up to the UN declaration on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )A Response To An American Isolationist
By Con George-Kotzabasis
It’s in the nature of power politics from the Roman republican times of Scipio Africanus (Carthage must be destroyed), to our own that no superpower can metastasize itself into isolationism, as your “minding our own business” implies. A benign superpower such as America by its ineluctable engagement with the world is the axis [...]
Australians are Proud of their Western Culture
Sidelining the Loud-Mouthed Cultural Warriors
By Irfan Yusuf, On Line Opinion, January 18, 2008
A short reply by Con George-Kotzabasis
To conflate, as Yusuf does, the so called cultural ‘warriors’ of the West with the religiously fanatic suicidal jihadists of al Qaeda, does not only abuse reality but also one’s intellectual integrity and honesty. Yusuf writes “the vast [...]
