Suicide? Sir, Although I am not currently subscribing to News Weekly, I happened to come across an article by Lucy Sullivan, “Euthanasia: a false start to end-of-life dilemmas”, which appeared in your January 30, 2016, edition. In the article, Lucy Sullivan describes how her friend, a stroke victim, decided to eventually take her own life by refusing all medical attention, food and drink.…

  CHURCH OF SPIES: The Pope’s Secret War against Hitler by Mark Riebling (Basic Books, New York) Hardcover: 384 pages ISBN 9780465022298 Price: AUD$44.90   Reviewed by Terri M. Kelleher   “In April 1945, the Nazis tried to break the man they called “the best agent of the Vatican Intelligence in Germany.” (p1, Prologue) The Gestapo believed that the big-eared, unprepossessing Bavarian labour…

  KILLING THE HOST: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy by Michael Hudson (ISLET, Kansas City) Paperback: 440 pages ISBN: 9783981484281 Price: AUD$80.25   Reviewed by David James   In 1720, at the height of the South Sea Bubble, the British Parliament debated the proposition that bankers should be sewn into a sack with poisonous snakes and thrown into the…