Month November 2006

Left regroupment — is it possible?

There’s a current here in Australia that thinks it is and for the past 5 years under the banner of the Socialist Alliance we’ve been trying hard to do just that. But it’s not an easy task at all. Many…

Stake in the heart

On Monday, the four leading military newspapers will publish an editorial saying “Donald Rumsfeld must go.” This is absolutely, positively politically-timed to inflict maximum damage on Bush just before the election.

Those beautiful models

Melanie emails Please pass this around to the women you know â┚¬â€œ especially young girls. It shows how distorted our image of beauty really is. This reminds of how Christie Brinkley replied to an interviewer who remarked how glamorous and…

Preston Gates & Abramoff

Disgraced lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff was employed by Preston, Gates and Ellis from 1994 to 2000, the ‘Gates’ of this large law firm being the father of Bill Gates of Microsoft. (He retired in 1999.) While Abramoff was…