Australia Jumps The Queue In East Timor
Last week Australia’s Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, was in Dili to lobby for a refugee…More
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How China's Censor Machine Works
The awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo made front-page news all…More
A Big Crack In China's Education System
On Beijing’s southern fringe is a place called Gongyi Xiqiao, a cluster of highrise apartment…More
Big Debts For Big Guns
Wars cost a lot of money, and the United States ran out of the readies…More
A Soft Verdict For Corporate Polluters
Last Monday, victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster stood outside the local court in…More
Time To Shed The Cloak Of Victimhood
The murder of international peace activists on the Gaza flotilla by Israeli commandos marks a…More
It's Not Just The Taliban Anymore
Things have gone steadily from bad to worse in Pakistan as evidenced by a murderous…More
Let's See Who Remembers In A Week
Walking the streets of Bethlehem in the West Bank yesterday, you wouldn’t have seen much…More
Without Hope, There Will Be No Change
A few months ago I was contacted by an old student of mine, a former…More
Israel's Choice Is Clear
Within hours of Israel’s storming of the Gaza flotilla yesterday in international waters, Haaretz columnist…More