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It’s confirmed, total panic grips Howard government over Hicks scandal! The novice Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has weighed in on the Hicks debate with a wild accusation inferring that Hicks was “.. seeking to destroy our civilisation.” — what next? Turnbull's statement follows hot on the heels of the stratospheric logic (see link) displayed by the Federal Treasurer in his effort to save the government — who's next?

The United States recently attended the Aero India defence show, hoping to profit from India’s hunger for military equipment; it wants to make India a counterweight to China. The relationship between China, India and the US is ill-defined; in a region that bristles with weapons, India also will have to contend with Japan and Russia. Martine Bulard discusses recent developments in India which has decided to throw in its lot with the United States for pragmatic reasons….

AltPress E-Newsletter No. 24, February 2007
By Alternative Press Center

The Alternative Press Center's "Picks of the Month!" Links to articles on the new Democratic controlled Congress by Mike Davis, experience of prisoners and use of information, development of wind power in Native communities by Winona LaDuke, military officer refuses deployment in Iraq, sustainable building design, economic relations between Costa Rica and Nicaragua….

The left in the United States remains distracted by fantastic stories about conspiracies hatched by the Bush administration: in many of these, even the 9/11 attacks are believed to have been an inside job. Yet the chief, and most fearful, characteristic of the Bush administration has been its low level of practical management abroad and at home. Alexander Cockburn offers a critique of 9/11 conspiracists arguing that it's a distraction from the 1,001 real plots of capitalism that demand exposure and political challenge.

When things are a bit slow we can always rely on the Australian conservative government to entertain us — their now very desperate (divorced from reality) attempts to come out of the Hicks “saga” smelling roses are entertaining if nothing else. The impossibility of the Howard government looking good over any issue relating to Hicks hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of the Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello. The Treasurer has very unwisely waded into the debate with characteristic miscalculated comments regarding Hicks. Try as Costello might to incriminate Hicks and brand him a murderer, the facts speak for themselves.

Notice the use of language — Australian news radio (12 noon) today broadcast that “convicted terrorist, David Hicks, receives nine month sentence…” – shame on ABC news radio, one can only wonder whether the choice of wording reflected the fundamentalist conservative, evangelical christian values of the Howard-loving producer, who will remain nameless in this report. Unlike American loving evangelical christians, most Australians accept “convictions” as a result of fair trials and due legal process NOT sordid kangaroo court 'determinations'.

Immigration agents made more than 50 arrests today in raids of a temporary employment agency at eight locations where the employment agency allegedly provided illegal alien workers, including the port of Baltimore and sportswear maker Under Armour Inc.