On Saturday, 14 October, Australians will vote on a seemingly inoffensive change to their Constitution. Why is it meeting such opposition? The case of the destroyed site at Juukan Gorge offers a hint. Are Australian mining companies, with such a poor record of respecting the voice of aboriginal communities, the true source of opposition? In Continue reading »
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There’s a government review of health insurance. Here’s why you haven’t heard of it … and what needs to change. In the dying months of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison era, a set of research projects was commissioned from the consultancy firms favoured so highly by that government. The full cost is unclear, but it’s in excess of Continue reading »
What can we achieve together in this final week of the referendum campaign? Join me on Thursday for a special webinar with First Nations women Lynette Riley and Beverly Baker to learn first hand about the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. A free Zoom webinar in this Voice Referendum Week: Thursday 12 October 3.30-4.30pm It’s Continue reading »
Afghan war crimes whistleblower David McBride is facing a secret trial on November 13 that could result in him serving a life sentence for leaking classified information that formed the basis of ‘The Afghan Files’, a 2017 ABC exposé revealing allegations of misconduct by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. Although the allegations were substantiated by Continue reading »
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Marco Rubiio should not be allowed to spew this horrific eliminationist garbage on television. Jake Tapper: Is there a way for Israel to destroy Hamas without causing massive casualties against the iccocent people of the Gaza strip and roughly a million of them are children? Marco Rubio: I don’t think Israel can be expected to co-exist or find some diplomatic offramp with these savages. These are people, as you’ve been reporting that deliberately targeted teenage girls, women and children and the elderly, not just for rape and murder and then dumping thei bodies off in the streets of Gaza where the crowds can then defile their lifeless bodies. They’re just horrifying things. We don’t know the full extent of it yet. There’s more to come in the days and weeks ahead. You can’t co-exist with that. They have to be eradicated. I feel sick.
“I’m not a paranoid person,” a QAnon spokesman said, “but it almost seems like a conspiracy.”
As a conglomerate entity, which the Fourteenth Amendment clearly defines as a singular person, I would like to cast my vote for socialism. For me. But not for everyone who works for me.
The system I support is quite clear. If I drop the proverbial ball, it should be at your cost. If I’m straight up ballin’ for a whole quarter, I receive the full dividends. Because I’m a person, and I’m not made of you in any way, except when I fail, in which case I am made of not only all of you but every American taxpayer who isn’t even you or me.
If you want to know why the money doesn’t trickle down, it’s because it does, once you get about two-thirds of the way down. See, we have you under the capitalist system, so all the money you own will trickle out of you. But as for me, I am under socialism, which means that your tax money is handed out to me for such purposes as bailouts, government contracts, and that one sweet COVID deal where I was supposed to pay for your extra sick days.
McCarthy declared that he would be happy to serve as Speaker again in order to make sure that Israel aid is funded I’m sure Vladimir Putin will be very happy to hear that. No doubt Ukraine has even less chance of support in the current circumstance: Rep. John Duarte (R-Calif.) said Monday that Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s commitment to Israel makes him ideal to return as speaker of the House even if he was just voted out. In an interview on “Fox & Friends” Duarte called for the House to reelect fellow Californian McCarthy when it reconvenes this week so it can approve military aid to Israel as soon as possible. Without an elected speaker, the House would not be able to vote on a funding package, he said. “We have one of our strongest allies in the world under attack, and we are dilly-dallying around with a leadership struggle in the House that should have never occurred,” Duarte said, expressing fear that Israel could run short on artillery. McCarthy said later on Monday he would step in again as speaker if he’s wanted after declaring days earlier he would never run again.
The BBC shared some details on what Doctor Who fans/iPlayer subscribers can expect when November 1st rolls around - and it's impressive.
“Deescalation is not possible when they are taking hostages,” the Massachusetts Democrat said — both acknowledging the hostages and disregarding their fate.
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With apologies to J. R. “Bob” Dobbs Donald Trump must be really pissed that the Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend knocked him off the front pages. Of course, The Gray Lady had seen fit the day before to bury on Page A13 news of Trump blabbering U.S. submarine secrets to his Mar-a-Lago guests. Remarkable that this story is buried on Page A13 in today’s New York Times. pic.twitter.com/U0F5Ra33Td — Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel) October 6, 2023 Digby’s comment on this mental midget is so good you should see it again: We are in the midst of an international crisis and the putative nominee for the Republican nomination is whining about Forbes Magazine, Stormy Daniels and Rosie O’Donnell. That’s the man Republicans want to put back in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal (which he is blabbing about to his Mar-a-Lago customers.) The point can’t be made strongly enough. (See what I did?) Thank heavens, Joe Biden is president at a time like this. Donald “very stable genius” Trump lugs around a visceral fear that somebody, somewhere is laughing at him.
The next stage of this struggle will be a massive campaign of industrial slaughter in Gaza by Israel, which has already begun. Israel is convinced greater levels of violence will finally crush Palestinian aspirations. Israel is mistaken. The terror Israel inflicts is the terror it will get.
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Much of what we know is unspeakable, and language is but one expressive medium.
It is unclear what direction Netanyahu will choose. But either way, no matter what will happen in the coming days and weeks, Israel has, in many ways, already lost the war.
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The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change. After all, the executives of tobacco firms have been perfectly content to sell consumers a product long known and virtually guaranteed to cut their lives short, while lying about its harmful effects for decades. Likewise, the courts have now made the pharmaceutical industry’s responsibility for and grasp of the opioid crisis that killed half a million people all too clear. In both instances, state attorneys-general played an important role in seeking redress. Now, Rob... Read more
The MVC team interviews the screenwriter of the radical pro-labor comedy.