ETHICAL DILEMMAS: 

Shifting Responsibility and Silencing the Vulnerable

When your car does not work as it should, you can take it back. If the roof leaks after it was supposed to have been fixed, you can try and get your money back. What happens when you have undergone a sterilisation procedure and you have ended up having a baby? Perhaps you might give the baby to the doctors to bring up. This would be an elegant solution and fair, but undoubtedly cruel ...  

[ WhoCares?]   

MAMMALS!!!

Who cares about the animals? Martin Cohen describes the plight of the Australian Wildebeast... WhoCares? ... 

---

Emmanuel Lévinas, Interdependency and Time: A Critique of Mutual Obligation

This paper is essentially a defence of social welfare with reference to the inherent assumptions, which underpin the Howard Government's principle of mutual obligation. This is because one of these assumptions is that social welfare creates dependency.This charge is a direct attack on the legitimacy of the Australian Welfare State... 

Sara Hammer is wondering, WhoCares?

Tit for Tat 
in the Occupied Territories ?

 To many of us watching the ceaseless tit for tat killings in the Occupied Territories, it seems hard not to shrug and turn your back on the madness and futility of it all. As the dust settles around the Arafat bunker, there is  a weary sense of deja vue.

Yet does anyone really think that Arafat sends waves of suicide bombers to Israeli restaurants? Do tank crews really feel threatened by children armed with stones? 

Martin Cohen begs to offer a different perspective

[ WhoCares? ]

in which, behind the Leader's back, 
shhh!... Robert Elias introduces another side to US Foreign Policy..

The Modern Day Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells' prophetic nightmare is edging closer to reality each day as scientists find new and bizarre ways to manipulate animals. Virtually every species of domesticated animal has been tampered with as scientists attempt to create "new and improved" companion animals, research tools, and food sources. Non-allergenic cats, glow-in-the-dark bunnies, mutant monkeys, silk-producing goats, giant mice, "Frankenfish," Enviropigs, and other transgenic (genetically altered) animals have made international news ?  

What is the significance of this ferment. 

WhoCares? 

---

Land Rights 

Still Indigenous in Australia

 In Australia, alone out of all the British colonies, there has never been an attempt to legitimise the settlement. Governor Phillip was famously instructed by the British on setting out for Australia in 1788, to negotiate with natives. But it never happened.
And current policy continues to prefer force. over negotiation, albeit with an attempt to pass off cultural recognition in place of legal rights. What Aboriginal Social Justice Commissioner, Bill Jonas, describes as an attempt to reincarnate indigenous people as a kind of noble savage sustained by ceremonies and art alone

Martin Cohen on
Land Rights
10 years after Mabo. ]

WhoCares?

Peter Duesberg's HIV/AIDS research web site.

On the basis of his experience with retroviruses, Duesberg has challenged the virus-AIDS hypothesis in the pages of such journals as Cancer Research, Lancet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Nature, Journal of AIDS, and so on... (and on). He has instead proposed the hypothesis that the various American/European AIDS diseases are brought on by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and/or AZT itself, which is prescribed to prevent or treat AIDS.

WhoCares?

Apocalypse Now

Although the skies over Baghdad have cleared after the sandstorms, the view from the ground is one of mangled bodies and shattered lives, says the London Guardian

Husham Hussein said he was about 200 metres away, indicating a set of traffic lights, when it happened. He saw the missile hit the front of the building where Mohammed's shop used to be. It wasn't a huge missile, he said, which fits with the relatively small size of the crater.

He said a lot of people were injured in the flats above the shops. The shops were all open and the market was busy. He thought 25 people were killed. Someone else said 45-50 people had gone to hospital. No one could think of a military target nearby. Mohammed said five people died in the restaurant near his shop. Abu Hassan, a 45-year-old father of five, 17-year-old Malik Hamoud and Sabah Nouri, 28, were all working in the restaurant. Two customers also died but...
...no one we met knew their names. 

SUSTENANCE!

Palestinian villages are dying without reliable water, yet the amount in settlers' pools would supply villages for months.

Paul Koring reports. 

[ WhoCares? ]

Silenced Knowings, Forgotten Springs: Paths to Healing in the Wake of Colonialism 

The Degrading of the Other, the Splitting of the Self :

By Helene Shulman Lorenz. and Mary Watkins (both PhDs)

Not only is the multiplicity of relations in the world denied, but so too are relations amongst the multiplicity of the self. The individualistic paradigm of the self attempts to imagine selfhood as unitary. It does not encourage listening-in to our own ambivalence, to discern the multiplicity of voices that are internalized through our unfolding relations. 

WhoCares? 

---

---