FRASER LASHES PM’S ‘SLAVISH’ SUPPORT OF US-SMH/NEW World Media Watch

[Gloria]

Full excerpts, links up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical


Note the sudden ratcheting up of North Korea!!!!! Coincidence????

WORLD MEDIA WATCH For July 14, 2003

1//The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia--FRASER LASHES PM’S ‘SLAVISH’ SUPPORT OF US(The Howard Government is endangering the integrity and independence of Australian foreign policy and risked making the nation a "completely subservient ally of the United States", the former prime minister Malcolm Fraser warned yesterday. As the Prime Minister, John Howard, began talks in northern Asia to gather support for the United States-led plan to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear program, Mr Fraser said it was time to ask whose national interests the Government was serving.)



2//The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea--MORE IN U.S. CALLING FOR REGIME CHANGE(The emphasis of Washington's North Korean policy appears to be shifting gradually toward regime change, as more officials conclude that anything short of that will fail to conclusively solve the nuclear crisis. At the same time, American policymakers are striving to ensure that the North's nuclear ambitions and human rights abuses are high-profile issues. The Republican policy committee in the U.S. Senate recently brought a Japan-based opponent of the Kim Jong Il regime to the United States for a week and introduced him to several high-ranking officials…During his stay in Washington, Park met several congressmen and policymakers in the George W. Bush administration. Park also attended a seminar held by the American Foreign Policy Council on Wednesday, where he said, "We have to prepare for the collapse of the North Korean regime; if the United States takes military action the Kim regime will collapse in three days.")



3//The Daily Yomiuri, Japan--JAPAN, U.S. TO JOIN FORCES OVER N. KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT (The government plans to join forces with the United States to tighten the international noose around North Korea after Washington confirmed that Pyongyang had begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, government officials said Saturday…Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taku Yamasaki said, after hearing the news about the reprocessing, that if it was true, North Korea's nuclear arms program had passed the stage of suspicion and had become a full-fledged threat to the international community.)



Related Story: ILLEGAL N KOREAN CARGO NOW IN JAPANESE SIGHTS (Australian PM in Tokyo)



4 //Asia Times Online, Hong Kong--INDIA: THE GAMES THE PENTAGON PLAYS (An acknowledged master of psyops, the Pentagon has succeeded in conveying to India its very low opinion of the Indian army without allowing a public uproar to build up…But the defense establishment and the strategic community is outraged…. What should worry India even more than the US indictment of the Indian army and other policymakers, however, is the obvious US attempt at driving a wedge between India and China…Nevertheless, it would thus appear that just as the Pentagon leaked bit by bit to avoid public uproar, an anti-American public uproar is building up in India bit by bit. It is leading to a reappraisal of American goals in India by the strategic community and also of whether India should play the role of a policeman in the expanding American empire.)



5 //The Independent, UK--“I’M THE MOST PERSECUTED MAN IN ITALY,’ SAYS BERLUSCONI(Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's richest and most powerful man, has made an extraordinary defence of his much-criticised leadership in which he describes himself as his country's most persecuted man and lashes out at foreign media… Talking into the early hours of yesterday in the opulent Villa Madama in Rome, the Italian Prime Minister gave an unscripted speech that was a bizarre blend of showmanship, political insight, exaggeration and paranoia…Despite his ownership of the Mediaset TV empire, influence over state TV and control of some newspapers, Mr Berlusconi claimed that "85 per cent of the Italian press is against this government.)

[papau]

1. Bush, sold to us as the fellow with the personality that you'd want to

have a drink with, turns out to have

the personality that makes prison guards in third world countries feel better about themselves.

And our media is oblivious.

[Gloria]

2. Kick for overnight crowd.....

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