The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins New York: Dutton (Penguin Group Inc.) June 2007 John Perkins writes out of guilt. Carrying on in the tradition of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History of the American Empire is a form of atonement for the author to right his...

How's this for an elegant put down of the current plan by the Victorian government to base our future on "Clean Coal" technology. It has been submitted to a few papers, by Noel, to see if it gets a run. I'll also be writing a piece myself over the cheapest option for our aging coal plants in the...

Roses blooming outside my window. Birds nesting and singing outside my window. Grass and clover growing outside my window. Echidnas and stumpy tail lizards strolling outside my window. Must be Spring, hooray. But unlike the chirpy weather presenters on television I don't say "hooray, Summer is...