I visited Julian the other day at Belmarsh Prison for the second time. Britain’s Guantanamo. He spends 23 hours every day, for 3½ years in solitary confinement. This is an attempt not to break him but to kill him. It’s slow murder. Of a man who’s not been convicted. Has not been charged of anything Continue reading »
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A tonic for readers who are drowning in news about China, climate change and socioeconomic problems, but who are starved of alternative and critical perspectives. Boldly refusing to follow the pack mentality of the mainstream media, and not afraid to reject the Cold War mindset, Pearls and Irritations is essential reading for those who want Continue reading »
PM Albanese supports indigenous Australians but not indigenous Palestinians, whose land has also been stolen from them. Why? Albanese claims that the recent Hamas attack is “a dreadful circumstance that people didn’t see coming”, a damning admission of his ignorance about the genesis and history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Anyone who didn’t see this coming Continue reading »
Since when do we praise Occupiers for brutal oppression? Words are used to confuse, obfuscate and detract from the truth of Palestine-Israel. Words such as terrorist, enemy, militants and murderous are often used to describe Palestinians who are, in essence, victims, freedom fighters, oppressed, occupied and ignored. Settler-colonial occupation! What strange words to be using Continue reading »
It’s Wednesday and I spent some time this morning reading the latest IMF – Global Financial Stability Report – in which the IMF pretends to know what is going on in the world economy based on a set of erroneous assumptions about how that economy functions. But the data it provides is interesting in itself.…
In the Jewish legend, the great warrior Samson ends up, as John Milton famously puts it, “eyeless in Gaza.” He is blinded by the Philistines and harnessed to a huge millstone, forced to drag himself around and around in circles, always moving but unable to go anywhere. Eventually, in the most spectacular of suicides, he gets […]
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The automaker’s Business Resource Groups have responded to the company’s call for volunteers at plants affected by the UAW strike.
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“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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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 »
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 »