Archive for March, 2008
Posted on March 22, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, blogging, government, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: climate change, former premier. on the news, george bush, godfather, Iraq, labor party, paddy mcguinnes, quadrant |
By Con George–Kotzabasis
The intellectual lightness of former premier Bob Carr’s critique of Paddy McGuinnes lies in the opening of his article published in The Australian, on January 30, 2008., ” ‘Don’t get too close to that crowd of Quadrant’, instructed Paddy McGuinnes…The year …is fixed in my memory as 1976 or 1977, when I was [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iraq, blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: action now, american, authoritarian governments, executive action, great dangers, obama, on the news, paul krugman, peloponnesian war, populist politicians, republican policies, rest on my oars, thucydides, u.s. policies, unholy alliances, your opinion |
By Con George-Kotzabasis
This is no time for populist politicians like Obama, nor, could I say, for “aureole” New York Times commentators like Paul Krugman, who are attempting to bait the electorate’s hate of the Republicans. But for politicians with mettle, sagacity, and visual clarity and imagination to deal with the stupendous issues that America faces [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Iraq, Middle East, blogging, media, news, politics, thoughts | Tags: civil libertarians, crime prevented, drastic measures, legal studies, mechanistic thinking, opinion on, the news |
A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to: Keeping Australia Safe By An Improper Exercise Of Power By Surya Deva
On Line Opinion July 28, 2007
The mechanistic thinking and unimaginative conclusions of this article are typical of someone who has been trained in legal studies and who carries proudly and aloft the banner of the civil libertarians. The latter as [...]
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