The Night Business
The name of the district ‘Heera Mandi’ means ‘diamond market’, but as Kiran says, ‘There…More
Browsing: International Affairs
The Lynching of Saddam Hussein
We’ve shut him up. The moment Saddam’s hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor…More
Apologists for State Terrorism
It is a truism that all evaluations of history are tainted by one’s vision of…More
Who's Watching Whom?
I was at a rally in support of West Papuan refugees earlier this year, listening…More
The Death of the General
At 2:15pm on 10 December, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte died of heart failure and pulmonary…More
We Love RAMSI, But
Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, was still throwing punches at Australia late…More
The Cult of Cruelty
In the week that George W Bush took to fantasising that his blood-soaked ‘war on…More
Evidence Mounts Against Gusmao
Two weeks ago we revealed written orders from East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao to the…More
The Mystery of the Missing Ballots
This week, one of the largest cities in Latin America is almost at a standstill…More
Appeasing Jakarta
In shelving the Migration Amendment ‘Designated Unauthorised Arrivals ‘ Bill last week, John Howard achieved…More