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Editorial Editorial NEXUS MAGAZINE This editorial is going to address an issue that I have long bitten my Volume 4, Number 4 tongue on, and that is the subject of various media attacks on myself JUNE - JULY 1997 NEXUS and US. PUBLISHED BY . . NEXUS Magazine Pty Ltd, ACN #003 611 434 These attacks all focus on one point, and that is they allege that Iam EDITOR a right-wing extremist and that NEXUS has a right-wing political Duncan M. Roads agenda. CO-EDITOR Until Thad considered that i : sess, d d el; Catherine Simons ntil now, I had considered that it was unnecessary to defend myself ASSISTANT EDITOR in the pages of my own magazine, as it should be obvious to anyone Ruth Parnell reading NEXUS that there is nothing right-wing in or about it. EDITORS' ASSISTANT B since th io nC. Sino blished i i, Richard Giles sut, since there is an increasing amount of pu lishe information OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR being recycled by journalists who don't do their job by checking facts, Janine Carmichael I find it necessary to explain myself to readers who are probably CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE becoming curious as to why these allegations continue to surface. John Taylor Gatto, David G. Guyatt, : . . . Sherrill Sellman, Susan Bryce, John Chambers, Nearly all of the information attacking me and NEXUS has stemmed Harry Mason, Pierre Sinclaire, Michael Taylor, | from a writer who works variously for the Fairfax media and is also Steven oe OUT DESIGN owe listed as a contributor to Australia-lsrael Review, a publication Duncan M. Roads regarded as extreme right-wing even by Melbourne's Jewish CARTOONS community, as evidenced by documents in my possession. coven oan This person, who will remain nameless here (on advice from my Alex Clarke Graphic Design, Lismore, NSW solicitor), spends a lot of time making the bullets that other more PRINTING gullible journalists seem content to shoot. Warwick Daily News, Queensland, Australia AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTION Journalists in this category (if you can call them journalists) include Newsagents Direct Distribution Phillip Adams of ABC Radio National (who periodically insists that HEAD OFFICE - All Correspondence NEXUS is part of a right-wing new-age conspiracy); and Matthew a ee eels oe usta Kalman and John Murray, of Open Eye magazine in the UK, who * Moet AaMHOy eaisb ped ore otg wrote a lengthy article published in New Statesman linking the new- web page: http://(www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/ age movement to neo-Nazis and citing NEXUS magazine as the proof. NEW ZEALAND OFFICE - PO Box 306, Kalman and Murray even went to the expense of printing up leaflets Westpark Village, West Harbour, Auckland. . ’ . . Y : wa Ph: +64 (0)9 416 7320: Fax: +64 (0)9. 416 7340 | full of details of NEXUS" supposed right-wing, neo-Nazi connections. USA OFFICE - PO Box 177, Kempton, IL 60946- Not one of my accusers has ever bothered to contact me personally 0177. Ph: (815) 253 6464; Fax: (815) 253 6454 | 4 Clarify any of the accusations they cheerfully regurgitate. It is UK OFFICE - 55 Queens Rd, East Grinstead, West - ‘ Sussex, RH19 1BG. Ph: +44 (0)1342 322854: patently clear that these people are not interested in the truth: they Fax: +44 (0)1342 324574 just want to cause trouble. In the UK it has gotten to the stage where EUROPE OFFICE - PO Box 372, 8250 AJ Dronten,!_ some shopkeepers selling NEXUS have been threatened with violence The Netherlands. Ph: +31 (0)321 380558; Fax: +31 (0)321 318892 if they continue to sell the magazine. ITALY OFFICE - c/- Avalon Edizioni, What really hurts is that I used to respect Phillip Adams, Open Eye a ee ene soe magazine and New Statesman. Now I am left wondering what other STATEMENT OF PURPOSE lies and smears these people and publications have spread. NEXUS recognises that humanity is undergoing a So, for the record, when you hear the next wave of media allegations massive transformation. With this in mind, A _ A q _ NEXUS seeks to provide ‘hard-to-get’ information that I am trying to lead the whole new-age movement into a Libya 50 as to assist people through these changes. based, neo-Nazi terrorist training camp, you'll know they are wrong. NEXUS is not linked to any religious, philosophi- 1am not right-wing, my friends are not right-wing and NEXUS has no cal or political ideology or organisation. we ’ . . . PTT TES a OLTSEOPNTERTOIUTN? political agenda. I am not an anti-Semite, and I am not a Libyan secret While reproduction and dissemination of the agent. Iam, however, an information anarchist—and proud of it! information in NEXUS is actively encouraged, Meanwhile, I would like to apologise to readers who were probably anyone caught making a buck out of it, without aa ren oe . , our express permission, will be in trouble when expecting a more inspiring editorial. Next time! we catch them! Duncan This editorial is going to address an issue that I have long bitten my tongue on, and that is the subject of various media attacks on myself and NEXUS. 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