2006 Newsnotes

Comments I have made in a magazine called Labour & Trade Union Review, now Labour Affairs.

2006: March

• Cartoons and Satanic Verses [Muhammad Cartoons];
• The spirit of Voltaire [He did not like democracy];
• Lords Of Muck & Misrule [Press Freedom];
• The rise and rise of the Wikipedia

April

• China ignores the USA.
• Iran – casting trouble on oily waters
• Thou shalt sell sex, but pretend otherwise
• Allah Wants You (no one else does)
• Hat-Trick in Former Yugoslavia

June

• It really is Nepaling… [Global Events]
• Merkel on China
• Mao’s legacy
• USA – land of Impure Puritans
• Gas Without Frontiers
• Born to be Sick! [US Health]
• Straws In The Wind
• Tangled ancestry

July

• The New Backwoodsmen and the Nat-West Three
• World-Wide Web: US Spider
• Railways in China’s Wild West [Railway to Lhasa]
• Up-Market China
• Russia Aggressively Occupied By Russians [Putin and Solzhenitsyn]
• Bush of Mesopotamia, Blair of Afghanistan
• Cursing Canaan [Gaza Crisis]
• Fear and loathing in West Lothian [Scottish Independence]
• Bad Sports [Football Commentators]

August

• Israeli Terrorism and Hezbollah Mobile Warfare
• Normal Bombers [Israel]
• Oil slicks
• Yasukuni Shrine: it is criminal [Japanese War Guilt]
• International Cowboy Jurisprudence [Tibet]
• Snow Dwarf and the Eight Planets [Pluto downgraded]

October

• The Pope of Europe [Benedict XVI]
• What Islam did for Europe
• Thai coup
• Korean bombs & Japanese politics
• Life-Rage [Guns in the USA]
• Honey, I’m Honeycombed [Gays in the US Republicans]
• Lucy’s Aunt [Ape-Human Fossils]

November

• Borat – The East & West Minstrel Show
• The place horses come from [Kazakhstan]
• They shoot journalists, don’t they? [Anna Politkovskaya and Chechnya]
• Torturing Truth [US Torturers]
• Gambling prohibition [US Internet Rules]
• The Immaculate Pigs [Speed Cameras and Steel]
• Hungarian memories
• Iraq: the anguish of the enforcers
• Quiet Americans, Quieter Vietnamese [Undetected South Vietnamese Spy]
• Wasps, WASPS and honey-bees [Evolution of Bees]

December

• The Extremely Short American Century.
• The Counter-Revolution Betrayed? [US Republicans]
• Milton Friedman, Banker’s Pet
• Maoist legacies [Dutch Socialist Party]
• Iraq: Spring and Run
• Russia: the new White-Guards [Pro-Western Opposition]
• Hurricanes on Earth and Saturn
• ‘Action’ Jackson and the Last Hobbit
• Nandysaps [Human Hair]

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