Table of Contents - 30 May 2009

• CLIMATE CHANGE: Solar inactivity points to further global cooling (Peter Westmore)
• EDITORIAL: Australia's biggest financial scam? (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Next generation to pay for Swan Budget
• NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Fund infrastructure with a development bank (Patrick J. Byrne)
• DEFENCE WHITE PAPER: Glaring flaw at heart of government defence thinking (Antony O'Brien)
• ASIA: Will China "liberate" the South China Sea? (Ian H. McDougall)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: US auto industry meltdown highlights financial collapse (Peter Westmore)
• UNITED KINGDOM: Unrestrained greed caused banking crisis (Peter Westmore)
• HUMAN RIGHTS: A bill of rights will diminish our freedoms (Charles Francis QC)
• ILLICIT DRUGS: Cannabis use linked to suicide, schizophrenia (John Barich)
• EDUCATION: The Frankfurt School and the war on the West (Bill Muehlenberg)
• OPINION: The forgotten factor: land prices (John Young)
• AS THE WORLD TURNS: American capitalism gone with a whimper / Eurabia has a capital: Rotterdam / In the casbah of Rotterdam
• Bill of rights vs. common law (letter) (Lucy Sullivan)
• Beware of 'Plimer contrarianism' (letter) (Dr Brian E. Lloyd, AM)
• CINEMA: Cold War metaphor encoded in vampire movie (Len Phillips)
• BOOKS: THE HORNET'S STING: The Amazing Untold Story of WWII Spy Thomas Sneum, by Mark Ryan (Warren Reed (reviewer))
• BOOKS: HEROES: From Alexander the Great to Mae West, by Paul Johnson (Bill James (reviewer))
• News Weekly Books