Mark O'Briens World affairs Articles

Apple succumbs to Wikileaks pressure

In an article published Dec 23, 2010, it is reported that Apple has joined dozens of other high profile companies including Visa, Pay Pal and Amazon in succumbing to pressure to black-list Wikileaks read more...

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Blowin in the Wind: A film review

Blowin’ in the Wind, by award winning filmmaker David Bradbury and co-producer Peter Scott is a wake-up film that exposes the genocidal catastrophe of the use of depleted uranium in weapons. Fro read more...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, a review

“Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel World Bank, US government, and other foreign ‘aid’ funds into the read more...

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Depleted Uranium: a legacy of treason

treason n 1 betrayal of one's sovereign or country. 2 any treachery or betrayal. treasonable adj treasonous adj In recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its u read more...

Folk Hero or Ratbag?

Do you remember those days prior to the start of the Iraq war, when hundreds of thousand of Australians marched in the streets, demanding and pleading with the Howard Goverrnment to not commit our read more...

Gaslands, the film

Gaslands is an American film about the the poisoning of water systems that occurs with the drilling process for natural gas. Some 900 chemicals, some proprietary (meaning the composition of chemical read more...

Is this the end for News?

Can it really be true? Is it really possible that Rupert Murdoch's control over how and what a large proportion of the human race thinks and feels is about to whither? Is there really a light at the read more...

Japan's tsunami; the end of the nuclear industry?

With the spectre of a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster looming at one of Japan's nuclear power stations as a result of the recent tsunami, one has to ponder if this, finally, spells the end of the nu read more...

Julian Assange raising the ante

Julian Assange recently announced that he will run for a seat for the Australian Senate in the next elections according to an article by Misha Schubert published in the Age, 18/3/2012. Anxious abou read more...

Nuclear power - Is Australia to be the World's nuclear dump?

Published as part of a larger article, Nuclear Power - is it really a Greenhouse Solution? Since the 1980s the US has spent some $15 billion on storage facilities deep within the supposedly geologic read more...

The Julian Assange witchhunt

"How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information... than the rest of the world press combined? It's disgraceful." Julian Assange Everyone has read more...

Yes we Must! A response to Barack Obama

Over the course of the 2008 US [world??] presidential campaign and the democratic primaries beforehand, I often found myself in tears as I watched Obama’s speeches on the internet or on TV.  Agai read more...