The Anti-Bases Campaign has established its own Website, once again thanks to the good people at Converge. Melanie Thomson did the hard yards setting it up, before heading off for her Big OE, in London; Joe Davies has put in an enormous amount of work finishing it.

It’s a visual site , with splendid colour photos of the Waihopai spybase domes. It includes pages on:

* Waihopai, plus the other bases at Harewood and Tangimoana;

*a history of the ABC;

* the latest issue of "Peace Researcher";

* an upcoming events page (such as the October 2001 NZ speaking tour by Canadian ex-spy, Mike Frost);

* ABC submissions on various spy agency Bills;

* and an excellent selection of links to the Websites of kindred organisations and publications in Australia, Britain and the US.

Check it out. The address is:

http://www.converge.org.nz/abc

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>