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The European Union has marked the “nine-eleven” anniversary in America, reviewing its own counter-terrorism measures and affirming opposition to all acts of terror – “be it right or left wing extremist, separatist, or Al Qaeda-related terrorism.” … Read More »
Anxiety attends the count-down to the tenth anniversary of “nine-eleven” – the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. … Read More »
The European Commission has confirmed the visit of its President, Jose Manuel Barroso, to Australia and New Zealand this month. … Read More »
On Monday, 22.8.11, Private Matthew Lambert became the 29th Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan.
A member of the 2nd Battalion (2RAR) based at Townsville, he succumbed to injuries received from a bomb blast, while serving in Mentoring task Force Three – a unit coupling Australian and Afghan troops. … Read More »
The recent massacres in Norway have highlighted an urgent need for intelligent, well-informed international debate shared challenges of countering violent extremism.
As Shada Islam writes from Brussels, that is the theme of efforts by the ASEM process, (Asia-Europe Meeting), bringing together 48 countries of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: The murder of innocents in Norway by a zealot identifying with the extreme right, called Anders Breivik, has caused some disassociation and position-taking by the so-called “new nationalist” parties in several European countries. These, like the Wilders party, PVV, in the Netherlands, or the Sweden Democrats, have made sudden electoral gains, on the back of campaigns against mass immigration, especially if Islamic. (See EUAustralia Online: “Finland vote latest in Euro-nationalist trend”, 22.4.11; “Voting: tense count in Sweden, 22.9.10; “Wilders, horse-trading …”, 5.9.10).
They have been at pains to point out that the Norwegian gunman, if singing from some pages in their songbook, was an isolate; that they concentrate on legal parliamentary politics; that they have broken their links with a fascist past, or, in cases like the Netherlands, never had such a past; and that they do not sympathise with, let alone provide any infrastructure for terrorist activities. While police in Europe have been taking a prudent look at some of the rhetoricians and associations on the radical right, few accusations have actually been made that these new parties condone egregious violent crimes. (Criticism in the liberal press is rather that extreme ideas will feed into the fantasies of weak types, and the insane).
Haydn Rippon, a doctoral researcher studying the new nationalist movement, prepared this appraisal. … Read More »
In the hard world of the Horn of Africa there would seem to be no relent.
A day after the first United Nations aid was flown into the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday (27.7.11), intense fighting erupted in different parts of the divided city. … Read More »