Unpunished Ongoing Mass Murder By Australian And US Alliance State Terrorists Versus
Life Imprisonment For Planning To Be A Jihadi

By Dr Gideon Polya

19 May, 2016
Countercurrents.org

Five allegedly jihadi Australians have been charged with making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities, an offence carrying punishment of life imprisonment. In contrast, successive Coalition and Labor Australian Governments have yet to face the International Criminal Court  for actual involvement  in the horrendous and ongoing US War on Muslims that has been associated with 32 million Muslim deaths from deprivation, 27 million, or from violence, 5 million, since the US Government's false flag 9-11 atrocity that killed 3,000.  

The Brisbane Times reported: “Five Victorian men dubbed the "tinnie terrorists" over a bizarre plot to travel by boat from northern Queensland to Syria will be extradited to Melbourne after being charged on Saturday night. Federal Attorney-General George Brandis confirmed on Sunday the Australian Federal Police charged the group with terrorism-related offences which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment…The much-ridiculed plot to travel by boat from northern Australia via Indonesia and the Philippines was hatched after Foreign Minister Julie Bishop cancelled the group's passports and the request of the AFP, Mr Brandis said. They had been under surveillance for some time, he said, which led to their arrests near Cairns on Tuesday. Federal police have executed 10 search warrants in Melbourne's north west and in northern Queensland in the intervening time, Mr Brandis said, before charging each man with one count of making preparations for incursion into foreign countries for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities” [1].

Now in Australian law as in British law there is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty and hence more  respectable media reports of arrests for a crime will qualify reportage by use of the word “alleged”. Thus, for example,  before his conviction,  a man who shot 3 people in front of hundreds of  horrified citizens in the heart of Melbourne was reported by responsible media as “allegedly” having done so.  The taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC, Australia's equivalent of the UK BBC)  reported the present matter  correctly thus: “Five men who allegedly planned to leave Australia by boat to join the so-called Islamic State in Syria will be extradited to Melbourne after facing court in far north Queensland… They have been charged with making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities. If found guilty, the charge carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The men, sporting thick beards and wearing dark short-sleeved T-shirts, did not speak in court. They were remanded in custody and will appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday. It is alleged the men planned to take a boat from Queensland's Cape York to Indonesia, before joining Islamic State in Syria” [2].

Now a fundamental corollary of democracy is respect for the law by citizens, including  upholding of the law by law-enforcement agencies. This upholding of the law is  particularly crucial in relation to offences relating  to violence, homicide, and especially terrorism that could involve numerous deaths.  The Australian police and security services have an excellent record in relation to terrorism-related offences -  thus, for example,  zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin terrorist organization, although 2 Australians were  killed by a lone, deranged Muslim gunmen  in successive, unrelated  incidents in Sydney in 2014 (the Lindt chocolate café siege in Martin Place in which a disaffected Muslim gunman shot the manager before he and a woman barrister were killed in the subsequent incursion by armed police) and in 2015 (the murder outside the Parramatta police headquarters of police civilian employee Curtis Cheng by a disaffected Muslim youth).

Unfortunately Australian respect for domestic law is not matched by respect for international  law by successive Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition or Labor (aka Lib-Lab) Governments or Oppositions in relation to invading other countries. The worst state crime of all is invasion of another country but international law as enshrined in the UN Charter permits this only  in certain circumstances (and then only after serious negotiations):

(1) if there is UN permission; 

(2) if the invading country has been invaded by the country to be invaded;

(3) if the invading country has been invited to invade by the government of the country to be invaded [3].

However a serial invader and serial war criminal Australia has repeatedly and flagrantly violated international law in this respect – the only criterion to be satisfied for Australian invasion of other countries is being invited to do so by the serial invader and serial war criminal United States. Historically,  as UK lackeys or US lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the  British 193, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25,  Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 [4-8].

History ignored yields history repeated [9] and look-the-other-way, serial invader and serial war criminal  Australia is now into its Eighth Iraq War and its Fourth Syrian War of the last 100 years. Successive Australian Federal Governments and Oppositions are not only guilty of “ making preparations for incursion into foreign countries for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities” but are also guilty of actual and war criminal  “incursion into foreign countries for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities” with attendant massive loss of life in the foreign countries involved i.e. these are not “alleged activities” but well-documented “actual” violent and deadly activities as summarized below for a serial war criminal Australia in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Repeated Australian invasion of Iraq. Under the pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, US lackey Abbott Coalition Government and with the backing of the similarly  pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, US lackey Labor Party Opposition, Australia commenced its Eighth Iraq War in a century in 2014. The Australian Government justifies this Eighth Iraq War on the basis that it was invited to join in the Sunni versus Shia Iraq Civil War  by the Shia-dominated  Iraqi Government installed by the US after the war criminal US Alliance and Australian invasion in 2003 and US extermination, imprisonment or exiling of Baathists and other Iraqis the Americans didn't like. The US has a long-standing practice of invading other countries, killing, imprisoning, torturing or  exiling people it doesn't like,  and then holding “democratic elections” (e.g. see Philip Agee's “Inside the Company. CIA Diary” [10]).

The past century of 8 variously bloody Australian invasions of Iraq can be succinctly summarized thus: (1) WW1, Australian Flying Corps (AFC; Royal Australian Air Force or RAAF precursor), 1915; (2) WW2, Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Basra, in Anglo-Iraq War, 1941; (3) Sanctions against Iraq, RAN, 1990-2003, 1.7 million Iraqi deaths from deprivation and 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths,   90% avoidable and due to war criminal UN sanctions; (4) Australian forces to Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991; (5) Gulf War, RAN, 1990-1991, 0.2 million Iraqis killed; (6) Invasion and Occupation of  Iraq, 2003-2011, 1.5 million violent deaths, 1.2 million deaths from war-imposed deprivation, and 0.8 million under-5 infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention that demand that an Occupier must provide life-sustaining medical and food requisites  to the conquered Subjects “to the fullest extent of the mean available to it”; (7) Australia's Pine Gap  electronic spying facility in Central Australia is key to targeting US drone strikes in Iraq, 2008-;  (8) RAAF bombing and Australian Army military trainers, Iraq, 2014-  (an average of 12,000 Iraqis violently killed each year) [4, 7, 11, 12, 13].

The Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide was about oil and US geopolitical hegemony. Thus, for example,  Alan Greenspan, who was chairman of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades (2007): “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq  war is largely about oil” [14]. Australia's  Eighth Iraq War continues to be prosecuted (with the support of the Labor Opposition) by the  Coalition Government  under former Goldman Sachs banker,  Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull,  aka “Mr Harborside Mansion” and the  “200 million dollar man”.

Repeated Australian invasion of Syria. The Australian Abbott Coalition Government with the backing of the Labor Opposition  commenced Australia's Fourth Syrian War in a century  with the commencement of bombing of Syria by the RAAF in 2014.  There was no UN sanction, no invitation by the Syrian Government, and no invasion of Australia by Syria – US lackey Australia invaded when invited to do so by the  serial invader and serial war criminal US.

The past century of 4 bloody Australian invasions of Syria can be succinctly summarized thus: (1) WW1, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) help capture Damascus, 1918; (2)  WW2, the RAAF and AIF operated in Lebanon and Syria against the French Vichy forces, 1941; (3) Australia's Pine Gap  is key to targeting US drone strikes in Syria, 2004- ;  (4) RAAF bombing, 2014. Violent deaths in the US Alliance-promoted Syrian Civil War,  in which Australia is an illegal and war criminal combatant, now total 0.5 million, avoidable deaths from deprivation may be comparable and there are 12 million internal plus external Syrian refugees [4, 11].

US Democrat insider Robert  F. Kennedy (son of Robert Kennedy, and nephew of JFK) has revealed that this present war was driven by long-term US backing for an anti-Russian  Saudi-backed Sunni Gas Pipeline (Qatar to Turkey and thence Europe via Sunni Jordan and a Sunni Syria after removal of Assad and the secular Baathists) against a Shia Gas Pipeline (from Iran and successively through Shia Iraq, secular but Alawite-ruled Syria, Lebanon and thence Europe ) [15]. Australia's  Fourth Syrian War continues with the enthusiastic support of the pro-war Labor Opposition and the  pro-war Coalition Government  under Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull, who replaced Coalition PM Tony Abbott in a Parliamentary Coup in 2015. Charming, all-smiles, and ostensibly centrist  Malcolm Turnbull is vastly more popular with the Australian voters than the aggressive and doctrinaire Tony Abbott,  but  secured the Prime Ministership by a relatively short margin by agreeing to keep the same regressive Abbott policies – the pro-war, pro-coal, pro-One Percenter Malcolm Turnbull is accordingly described as Malcolm Turncoat, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott, Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep's-clothing and “lipstick on a pig”.

Australian invasion of Afghanistan. The US lackey Australian Howard Coalition Government  invaded Afghanistan at the invitation of the US in 2001, shortly after the US Government's false flag atrocity that killed about 3,000 people [16] and was used by the Americans to launch the endless, 21st century War on Terror (aka the US War on Muslims) that targets any  relatively defenceless Muslim population deemed to be  vulnerable and exploitable [4, 11].

The Afghan Holocaust and Afghan  Genocide has been associated so far with as many as 5.6 million dead since  2001 from violence (1.4 million) or from war-imposed deprivation ( 4.2 million), and with 2.9 million under-5 year old infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to gross and war criminal violation by Australia and the US Alliance of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention that demand that an Occupier must provide life-sustaining medical and food requisites  to the conquered Subjects “to the fullest extent of the mean available to it”) [4, 11, 17].  

The endless Afghan War is another “pipeline war” (the formerly US-backed Taliban opposed a US proposed gas pipeline from Central Asia), but the official US excuse for war was the Taliban not handing over Osama bin Laden quickly enough (the Taliban were happy to send him to a third country) and alleged Al Qaeda involvement  in the 9-11 atrocity (but no Afghans were involved in 9-11 according  to the lying Bush “official version” of 9-11).  The US-installed  Afghan President Karzai  has recently explicitly rejected the US war-justifying “official version”  of Al Qaeda  being in Afghanistan and  being responsible for the 9-11 atrocity, stating recently: “[Al-Qaeda] is for me a myth … For us, they don't exist. I don't know if al-Qaeda existed and I don't know if they exist. I have not seen them and I've not had any report about them, any report that would indicate that al-Qaeda is operating in Afghanistan… [re Osama bin Laden being responsible for  9-11] That is what I have heard from our Western friends. That's what the Western media says. There is no doubt that an operation, a terrorist operation was conducted in New York and in Washington… I neither believe nor disbelieve something that I don't know about. I can tell you that Afghanistan was as much a victim of terrorism as was America, as were the people who were killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks" [16, 18]. Australia's  military involvement  in the Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide continues with the support of the US lackey, neoliberal Labor Opposition and the  US lackey neoliberal Coalition Government  under super-rich, pro-One Percenter  Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull, aka Mr Harborside Mansion and the “200-million-dollar-man” (for being super-rich)  and “lipstick on a pig” (for being the charming, all-smiles face of the genocidal pro-war policies and climate criminal pro-coal policies of the Coalition aka the COALition or KOALition).

Australia targets war criminal US drone attacks. Australian intelligence  targets US drone attacks on Muslim world via the joint US-Australian Pine Gap electronic  spying facility in Central Australia [19].  UN demographic  data show that Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries subject to Western military intervention in 2001-2015 now total about 27 million, with a further 5 million Muslims being killed violently by the US Alliance [20]. There are about 60 million refugees in the world today and Muslim refugees from US-complicit wars now total over 30 million [11]. The Australian-US joint telecommunications spying facility at Pine Gap in central Australia plays a key role in US nuclear terrorism and in the targeting of war criminal US drone strikes on Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria , Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan i.e. across the Muslim world from North Africa to South Asia. Indeed it is possible that Australia is complicit in secret US drone strikes against other countries, but  a journalist  reporting such atrocities would face up to  10 years in prison under Australia's draconian anti-terrorism laws [21, 22].

One notes that intelligence on Australian citizens - including mandatory government acquisition and retention for 2 years of all computer metadata ( i.e. who Australians contact by e-mail or on the web) – can be shared with the US and thence with nuclear terrorist, international law-violating, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy by genocide  Apartheid Israel [23, 24] which, for example,  has undertaken a massive international campaign against those anti-racists  (including many anti-racist Jews) supporting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against  this serial war criminal, Apartheid rogue state.  This campaign has variously resulted in anti-BDS laws or regulations in the US, UK, France and Australia [25]. Impelled by US “terror hysteria” propaganda, the   US lackey Australia Coalition Government with Labor Opposition support has  extended already draconian Australian anti-terrorism laws. Australians can be detained without charge or trial and face 5 years in prison if they fail to answer all questions  or if they report such detention. Australian Intelligence  officers have criminal and civil immunity from prosecution, and reportage of any special intelligence operations are criminalized, with maximum punishments ranging from 5 years' to 10 years' imprisonment.   Australia has become a secret police state in which journalists face lengthy imprisonment for informing the public in the public interest [21-24].

Conclusions

Non-state terrorism and state terrorism are both evil. Both state terrorism and non-state terrorism are utterly abhorrent to decent, pro-peace people. While the evil of non-state terrorism has been largely successfully countered in Western countries by  top-down state action involving education, high technology intelligence, intranational and international intelligence sharing, and skilled counter-terrorism forces, countering the vastly more deadly  evil of state terrorism requires peaceful, bottom-up action by billions of ordinary people world-wide [3].

The US has a long history of horrendously destructive state terrorism and of supporting non-state terrorism [5, 10]. The  harsh reality is that Muslim-origin non-state terrorism is an important asset for US imperialism – every Muslim-origin non-state terrorist atrocity provides a further excuse for US Alliance governments to  invade and devastate Muslim  countries and to degrade  civil rights and human rights  domestically. Thus alleged jihadis in Australia have had their passports removed, and have been arrested and charged with allegedly “making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities”, an offence punishable by life imprisonment [1, 2] – a surely disproportionate punishment in the absence of any actual violent acts. In contrast,  Australian Jewish Zionists  are given carte blanche for “making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities” and actually committing illegal and  war criminal violent acts via joining the Israeli security services, war criminal agencies that have been involved in the actual bombing,  shooting, tasering, kidnapping, robbing, torturing and killing not just of Palestinians and Arabs but also of Australian citizens. While financial support for a Gaza orphanage  could conceivably attract a punishment of  life imprisonment in Australia, a donation towards the Palestinian Genocide via the Jewish National Funds is tax deductible under  Australian tax laws [26].

In the 21st century successive Australian Coalition  and Labor Governments have been regularly involved in  actual (as opposed to “alleged”) “making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities” and have actually  engaged as members of the US Alliance in horrendously deadly  and destructive invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.  Indeed Australia with bipartisan political  support is engaged in its Eighth Iraqi War and its Fourth Syrian War in a century.  The Australian-US joint telecommunications spying facility at Pine Gap in Central Australia plays a key role in US nuclear terrorism and in the targeting of war criminal US drone strikes on Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria , Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries subject to US Alliance military intervention since 9-11   now total about 27 million, with a further 5 million Muslims being killed violently by the US Alliance and an increase in Muslim refugees to over 30 million  – a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide [11, 20].

The annual deaths in the neoliberal greed-driven  and oil- and gas-related Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide are dwarfed  by deaths from pollutants from carbon fuel burning totalling 7 million people annually (WHO) – over  100 million people have died thus since 9-11, and  there have been 3 million US air pollution deaths versus 53 US political terrorism deaths since the US Government's false flag 9-11 atrocity in 2001 [27, 28]. Indeed it is now extremely unlikely  that the world  will avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees Centigrade  temperature rise and the worst culprits in this catastrophe in terms of “per capita  income weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution” include the rich, neoliberalism-committed, serial invader  Anglosphere countries of  Australia, Canada, UK  and the US [29- 31].  It is estimated that failure to requisitely address man-made climate change this century will wipe out much of the  Biosphere and kill all but 0.5 billion people i.e. kill 10 billion people this century [32].

Decent pro-peace people around the world are obliged to (a) inform everyone they can and (b) urge and apply as practicable Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all members of the war criminal and climate criminal US Alliance, including Apartheid Israel, and against all complicit politicians, parties, and corporations.  Now is the time for zero tolerance for war criminals and climate criminals, and zero tolerance for state terrorists and corporate terrorists as well as for non-state terrorists [3, 33].

References.

[1]. Kim Stephens, “”Tinnie terrorists” to face Cairns court on Monday”, Brisbane Times, 15 May 2016: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/tinnie-terrorists-to-face-cairns-court-on-monday-20160515-govffw.html .

[2].  “Five men charged over alleged boat escape plot to be extradited to Melbourne from Queensland”, ABC News, 16 May 2016: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-16/alleged-terror-accused-extradition-melbourne-cairns-court/7416560 .

[3]. “Stop state terrorism”: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ .

[4].Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes a succinct history  of every country and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/  ;

[5]. Gideon Polya, “The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 – Make 4 July Independence From America Day”, Countercurrents, 5 July, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm ;

[6]. Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries:  Make  26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm ;

[7]. Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ;

[8]. Gideon Polya, “President Hollande And French Invasion Of Privacy Versus French Invasion Of 80 Countries Since 800 AD”, Countercurrents, 15 January, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150114.htm  ).

[9].Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, now available  for free perusal on the Web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/  .

[10]. Philip Agee, “Inside the Company. CIA Diary”, Penguin, London, 1975.  

[11]. "Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .

 

[12]. “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ .

[13]. “Iraq Civil War (2014-present)”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_civil_war_%282014%E2%80%93present%29 .  

[14]. Peter Beaumont and Joanna Walters, “Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m”, The Observer, 16 September 2007: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimeline .

[15]. Robert F. Kennedy, “Syria: another pipeline war”, EcoWatch, 25 February 2016: http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/25/robert-kennedy-jr-syria-pipeline-war/ .

[16]. “Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ .

[17]. “Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ .

[18]. “Preview: Hamid Karzai says al-Qaeda is a “myth'”, Al Jazeera, 10 September 2015: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2015/09/preview-hamid-karzai-al-qaeda-myth-150910101842572.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=
New%20Campaign&utm_term=*AfPak%20Daily%20Brief .

[19]. Phillip Dorling, “Pine Gap drives US drone kills”, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2013: http://www.smh.com.au/national/pine-gap-drives-us-drone-kills-20130720-2qbsa.html  .

[20]. Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable  Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm .

[21]. Gideon Polya, “Terror Hysteria -  Draconian New Australian Anti-Terrorism Laws Target Journalists,  Muslims And Human Rights”,  Countercurrents, 8 October, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya0810114.htm .

[22]. Bill Rawlings, “I could go to jail for this next month” , Civil Liberties Australia, 28 August 2014: http://www.cla.asn.au/News/i-could-go-to-jail-for-this-next-month/  .

[23]. Philip Dorling, “ US shares raw intelligence on Australians with Israel ”, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2013: http://www.smh.com.au/national/us-shares-raw-intelligence-on-australians-with-israel-20130912-2tllm.html  .

[24]. Gideon Polya, “50 Ways Australian Intelligence Spies On Australia And The World For UK , Israeli And US State Terrorism”,  Countercurrents, 11 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya111213.htm .  

[25]. Ali Abunimah, “Israel “quietly” pushed for anti-BDS legislation in US, UK”, Electronic Intifada, 24 February 2016: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-quietly-pushed-anti-bds-legislation-us-uk .

[26]. Gideon Polya, “Racist Zionism and Israeli State Terrorism threats to Australia and Humanity”, Palestinian Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/racist-zionism-and-israeli .

[27]. “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths .

[28]. “Carbon terrorism: 3 million US air pollution deaths versus 53 US political terrorism deaths since 9-11 (2001-2015)”, State crime and non-state terrorism: https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/carbon-terrorism .

[29]. “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed .

[30]. "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming .

[31]. Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm .

 

[32]. “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/  .

 

[33].  "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/  .

 

Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contributions “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/australian-complicity-in-iraq-mass-mortality/3369002#transcript

) and “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide” in “The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ). He has published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/  ) as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/social-economic-history/listen-the-bengal-famine  ;  Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/home  ; Gideon Polya Writing: https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/ ; Gideon Polya, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Polya ) . When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ .