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Oh, nein, it wasn’t that bad a year … or was it? »
From Obama’s inauguration to the pointlessness of Copenhagen, Guy Rundle takes a light look back on the year that was.
Healthy outlook for more progressive Obama reforms »
The Obama Presidency has so far been a damp squib, but health-care reform is a major step forward.
Peter Galbraith: I was not plotting against Karzai »
Ousted former senior UN official Peter Galbraith says a NYT piece accusing him of plotting to oust Afghan President Hamid Karzai was false: the UN is just trying to distract people from its terrible mishandling of the country’s elections.
Montazeri: Iran’s bravest cleric »
The New Republic pays tribute to the recently deceased Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri, Iran’s highest-ranking Shiite cleric and one of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s most vocal critics.
Is no one allowed to question the government? »
Anyone who dared question the government’s ETS plan, like Senator Barnaby Joyce, was declared a climate change dinosaur and destroyer of our future. When will the magic ride of Rudd rhetoric end? asks Malcolm Colless .
Sheehan: Rudd just an environmental blowhard of hot air »
We can’t blame Kevin Rudd entirely for climate change and global warming. But we can blame him for making it even worse, writes Paul Sheehan . Rudd’s green credentials are disappearing faster than the Murray Darling Basin.
Send Conroy a lump of coal for Christmas »
A new website called The Gift Of Censorship is promising to deliver a bag of coal in a large red sack to Stephen Conroy and for every 1000 complaint letters sent to him through the site.
Akerman: What part of the word “failure” doesn’t Rudd understand? »
Copenhagen was an “abject disaster, a dud, a dog, a bust” and a “flopperoo of grand proportions”, says Piers Akerman — so why is he still determined to push forward with an ETS?
Wilson: It used to be about the music — Rudd sells out »
By supporting the Copenhagen Accord, Kevin Rudd has sold out Australia’s ability to negotiate on future climate deals for very little in return, says Tim Wilson .
Crime drops in first half of 2009: FBI »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Violent crime in the United States, including murder and robbery, dropped 4.4 percent in the first half of 2009 and property crime like car thefts also dropped, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday.