A risque new German AIDS awareness campaign features graphic images — and footage — of Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein and Adolph Hitler mid-coitus, with the slogan “AIDS is a mass murderer”. Too far or necessarily shocking?
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Picasso painting found in Iraq…or was it?
A Picasso painting has been ‘found’ in Iraq, supposedly looted from Kuwait after Saddam Hussein’s invasion. But on closer inspection, where is the record of any missing Picasso painting?
Getting to know Saddam Hussein: the FBI conversations
FBI reports of interviews it conducted in 2004 with former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein have been published them today. Crikey intern Sophie Tarr picks out the best bits.
Terrorism and politics in Australia: an absurd farce
Meantime, Greg Sheridan, who has only recently been surgically removed from Alexander Downer, weighed in today to laud our success in the War Against Stuff, writes Bernard Keane.
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Kevin Rudd and party pies… you decide…
Neo-con Ledeen praises Howard as “arguably the greatest Western leader of the past decade”
Michael Ledeen is a key figure in the neo-con firmament, a man whose ideas about the Arab world have been thoroughly proven false time and time again. It therefore makes sense that Australia’s leading Zionist lobby, AIJAC, has invited him here on a speaking tour, writes Antony Loewenstein.
No charges laid yet over AWB. How convenient!
This Saturday marks the first anniversary of the completion of the Cole Report into the AWB kickbacks scandal, which recommended criminal charges be laid against 12 people, including 11 former AWB managers. But nothing has happened. No charges have been laid, writes Alex Mitchell.
