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GideonPolya
03 March 2007

An excellent and accurate article. Politically correct racist (PC racist) White Australia has been obsessed with variants of the Yellow Peril or Brown Peril for 2 centuries. The US Alliance (formed in WW2 after Pearl Harbor and the Fall od Singapore) is the sine qua non of Australian politics. However from UN Population Division data it can be estimated that Indigenous excess deaths in post-1950 US Asian wars (in all of which Australia participated) total 19 million. The post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories now (March 2007) total 1.0 million and 2.4 million, respectively (for details see Gideon Polya, on Crosswire, Newsvine and MWC News) - but this is NOT reported by racist, holocaust-ignoring Mainstream Australian media, including the highly intimidated Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). Indeed compliant Opposition Labor Leader Rudd (and hopefully the next PM) supports the Occupation of Afghanistan and estimates excess deaths in Occupied Iraq at about 6% of that estimated by top US medical epidemiologists from Johns Hokpkins University and published in the top medical journal The Lancet.
John Pilger is spot on about the crushing of dissent in Bush-ite, terror-hysteric, anti-Arab anti-semitic and Islamophobic White Australia. Academics are intimidated and public servants politicized.
Indeed the ABC obtained a QC's opinion in 2005 that John Pilger would violate the proposed (and now substantially enacted) and draconian Anti-terrorism Sedition Laws.
A submission (#84) to an Australian Senate Inquiry into those Sedition Laws by an outstanding linguistics scholar named 4 likely "catches" including Professor Noam Chomskuy, Professor Bello, outstanding anti-war cartoonist Michael Leunig (The Age newspaper) and - I am proud to say - Dr Gideon Polya (in particular for a nationwide broadcast I made on Australian complicity in Iraqi mass mortality and US Coalition passive genocide in Iraq).
The Nazis wiped my family from the face of Europe and I am informed by the shining example of decent, courageous writers such as John Pilger - silence kills and silence is complicity. We are obliged to inform everyone about horrendous abuses of humanity - and especially those in which out countrymen are complicit.