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James5 is a site about stuff that matters. Environmental friendliness, social justice and left-of-center politics is what you can hope to find here. Posts are on a wide range of topics including international law, trade, politics, development, aid, climate change, the environment and general student issues.
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ABC’s The Hollowmen on Foreign Relations
I’ve been very impressed with the new ABC series The Hollowmen. It’s a mockumentary style series set in the Prime Minister’s “Central Policy Unit”, a unit set up by the Prime Minister to help him get re-elected. Though o...
China fuelling war in Darfur
The BBC reports that China has been supplying weapons to the Sudanese government in defiance of an arms embargo. Two things to note, first, the almost naive Chinese argument that they told the Sudanese not to use the weapons in Darfur, and two, what ...
US wanted to test nerve gas on Australians
This news is just insane. Back in the 1960sw the United States asked the Australian government if it could test some nerve gas, VX and Sarin, on 200 Australian diggers in Queensland. They had even already scoped out test sites! This is insane. ShareT...
Lawfont on ACTA copyright treaty
Kim over at Lawfont took a look at the proposals made by the RIAA on the ACTA. Some crazy suggestions on the plate.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lawfont on ACTA copyright treaty", url: "http://www.james5.org/2008/07/23/lawfont-on-acta-copyright-treaty...
New lows from Fox News
I’m amazed at how low Fox News has now sunk. While ‘reporting’ on two journalists that had criticised them they used edited photos of the journalists, which gave them yellow teeth, bags under their eyes, made them bald, and made the...

