“The Fairfax Press and SBS TV, aided by the ABC, have been obsessed with the story of Australian Commandos involved in a botched raid that resulted in the unintentional killing of five Afghan civilians last year – but that is another story. Meanwhile, it would appear that ABC cameraman Paul Moran’s role in selling the […]
Fairfax Press’s poorly disguised attempt at taking down Independent Senator Steve Fielding. With an Australian federal election around the corner, the Kiwi media examine Tim Lester’s media tough guy shtick… Scoop – New Zealand’s top independent news website. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1007/S00246/aus-fed-election-journo-takes-down-senator.htm Australian Federal Election: Journo Takes Down Senator?By Sasha Uzunov In what can only be described as […]
Exclusive: AFP HASN’T BEEN ASKED TO INVESTIGATE MORAN MURDER By Sasha Uzunov Australia’s leading journalists have called upon the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to launch extradition proceedings against an Iraqi Kurd living in Norway and allegedly the mastermind behind the killing of controversial Australian cameraman Paul Moran in Iraq 2003 but strangely the AFP has […]
Sasha Uzunov (left), Scott Taylor (centre) and Stefan Nitoslawski (right), Talafar, Iraq, 2005. Nitoslawski films Taylor interviewing Iraqi Army General, Talafar, for Maziar Bahari’s documentary, Targets: Reporters in Iraq. Photo by Sasha Uzunov. IRANIAN FILM MAKER DETAINED by Sasha Uzunov News has come that Canadian-Iranian film maker and journalist Maziar Bahari has been detained by […]
Scott Taylor (left) and Dr Yashir, local Iraqi-Turkoman leader (right). In 2005 Taylor went back to Talafar, Iraq after being held hostage in 2004 to retrace his steps for a Canadian TV documentary. Photo by Sasha Uzunov SCOTT TAYLOR ON CNN’S LARRY KING My colleague, Canadian journalist and war reporter Scott Taylor was speaking on […]
THE GOVERNATOR RICHARD BUTLER SNUBS TASMANIA by Sasha Uzunov Outspoken former United Nations action man in Iraq and ex-Tasmanian state Governor Richard Butler is in the news again and not for what he said but for what he did not say! The Aussie Governator who once tangled with Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein over weapons inspections […]
Royal Australian Navy sailor. Photo: US Defense Department. GULF WAR SYNDROME REVISITED An American study into Gulf War Syndrome has found the illness is real, according to Australian veterans’ news site…http://theaussiedigger.com/TheAussieDiggerForum/ But the issue here in Australia has been downplayed by politicians and some in the media, who see themselves as future government advisors and […]
ABC TV rejects FOI request for information on man who “sold the Iraq War” On-Line Opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8075&page=028 October, 2008 A JAMES BOND OTHER LIFE by Sasha Uzunov There are moves to have ex-politicians banned from sitting on the board of the ABC, in an attempt to de-politicise […]
ADF photo: PM Rudd meets the troops IS RUDD THE REAL McCOY ON DEFENCE? By Sasha UzunovCopyright 2008 In recent weeks we have witnessed the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, deliver sermons from the mount which have struck a chord with the defence community. Is the PM the long awaited Messiah, the Real McCoy? First there […]
