CONTENTS

2 Editorial - The Bomb, the war AND a road map to peace: George meet Dr Strangelove

3 Letters to the editor

4 WORLD BRIEFS -

WAR

8 Invasion of Iraq - won the battle, losing the war - BISHAN SINGH

9 Conventional Weapons - Misuse of Resources - DES BROUGH

13 Spying for America - BOB LEONARD

16 Blood for Diamonds - RODERIC ALLEY

NUCLEAR ISSUES

19 New Nuclear Threats - ROBERT GREEN

25 Challenges to New Zealand’s Nuclear-Free Policy - KATE DEWES

FEATURE

30 Titan’s battle - end of the industrial era - RICHARD HEINBERG

RENEWABLE ENERGY

37 Green energy prospects in Australia - GORDON FELLER

41 Renewable energy & New Zealand’s energy crisis - MIKE KRAMER

45 Local efforts fuel U.S. Renewable Energy hopes - J.R. PEGG

47 PACIFIC BRIEFS

FEATURES

51 Greenhouse Gas and Australia: Why the reluctance? - PETER NORTH

56 U.S. failing to monitor GM crops - Pew Centre report

WORKERS RIGHTS

58 Plea for justice for Fiji’s mining communities - Senator ‘ATU EMBERSON-BAIN

63 Workers rights in an unequal world - MAXINE GAY

BOOK REVIEWS

67 Nature, Culture and History: The ‘Knowing’ of Oceania by KERRY HOWE reviewed by Geoff Park

68 The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy - By NOREENA HERTZ reviewed by Les Gilchrist

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