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Sad to see that Pamela Bone is battling cancer and will no longer be
writing for The Age. Her final Age article describes her feelings about
her bat ...

The one laptop per child project (OLPC) aims to distribute millions of cheap laptops to children in third world countries over the next few yearsManuf ...

The World Socialist Web Site (published by the Trotskyist International Committee of the Fourth International) has an interesting article on the crisi ...

A flashmob is "a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place,  perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly dispers ...

I've been reading the (presumably)* South Australian political blog The Piping Shrike for a few months now. It's far more interesting than the usual r ...

Here is a short piece on my primary area of interest. I
think readers unfamiliar with the terminology should still get the general
drift.

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It’s worth reading Slate’s recent series of articles by a number of “liberal hawks” most of whom now  believe that they were wrong (or at least ...

I'm only half way through it myself but would just like to strongly recommend reading Frank Furedi's book
Lots to agree with and lots worth replying t ...

I’ve been following events in Israel-Palestine for quite
sometime and thought I’d bring these links to everyone’s
attention; as people who haven’t c ...

This thread is for evaluation of proposals for solutions to the indigenous crisis (Australia)other related indigenous threads:saying sorrycrisis in ab ...

Fitna is an anti-Islam film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders (half a million people voted for him in Dutch elections)It has been removed from the Liv ...

This is just to kick off a separate thread for discussions of the nature and relationships between different political and religious tendencies releva ...

When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to RevolutionAn interesting article for discussion. Read the comments too - the article has already triggered a ...

barack obama'a speech on race and politics is on you tubejon stewart has a clip from Reverend Wright, ("god damn america") which in part prompted Obam ...

As usual I'm finding it difficult to follow whats going on Iraq and in US policy on Iraq closely enough enough to be confident of having correctly see ...

The Kevin Rudd apology:1) does not identify the reason some (not all) aboriginal children were stolen - cultural genocide2) says sorry without compens ...

A recent study by the Iraqi Family Health Service, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, estimates that there were 151 000 violent deaths ...

Via Opinion Dominion comes news of a review in the New Yorker, by Joan Acocella, of David Levering Lewis' book "God's Crucible: Islam and the Making o ...

Via Public Polity:  Creative Commons founder and CEO Lawrence Lessig has recently released his book "The Future of Ideas" for free download (clic ...

It looks like the UK political establishment has got the (green) message:"Yet on BBC's Newsnight the same day as Sachs' lecture, the Secretary of Stat ...