Saturday 21st of December 2024

John Richardson's blog

exceptionalism on parade ...

exceptionalism on parade ...


mixed messages ...

mixed messages ...

Now what? Did you think that the United States had finally grown up and come to the realization that they could in fact share the same hemisphere as the people of Cuba, accepting Cuban society as unquestioningly as they do that of Canada?

hobson's choice ...

hobson's choice ...

If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I’m somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I’m PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump.

it used to be called "conspiracy to defraud" ...

trust who?

Dr Evan Jones discusses the latest in a series of parliamentary inquiries into systemic bank corruption as the victims of fraudulent foreclosures continue to wait for justice.

we came, we saw, he died ...

we came, we saw, he died ...

The Drug War, like the Terror War, is essentially a vast machine for profiteering by the purveyors of weapons and tools of repression. Like the Terror War, the Drug War demonstrably exacerbates the problems it purports to address, and has led to widespread chaos, death and state corruption of almost unfathomable levels. And Hillary Clinton, almost certain to be the next president, is deeply complicit in both of these malevolent enterprises.

immaculate deception ...

immaculate deception ...

“ ... on that Monday 24 March I watched Cardinal Pell being questioned in the royal commission and I woke up at 4.40 the next morning and thought, ‘It’s too disgusting, the way he threw his men to the wolves to protect himself.’”

fractured country ...

In 2013 Lock the Gate launched a ground-breaking film which tell the stories of the impacts of unconventional gas extraction on families and communities across Australia.

This documentary captures in stark terms the personal heartache of Australians whose lives have been changed forever by gas mining and the heroic actions everyday people are taking to defend the country they love.

Rattus re-visited ...

Rattus re-visited ...

The Howard government had a ruthless class agenda, writes David Glanz, but it was Labor’s timid opposition that kept it in power.

History records that John Howard’s Liberals won government 20 years ago, on 2 March, 1996.

a very gay boy ...

a very gay boy ...

through a looking-glass darkly ...

through a looking-glass darkly ...

There is a growing recognition that Australia’s immigration detention centres are concentration camps, and no amount of denial by various apologists for the brutalisation of asylum seekers and refugees will change that reality.

Barack the bullshitter ...

Barack the bullshitter ...

the very best of leadership ...

the very best of leadership ...

dirty little secrets ...

dirty little secrets ...

 

 

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