By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Boxer Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, on …
Source: Sufi Boxer Muhammad Ali’s last fight was against Extremism & Politicians’ Islamophobia
Month: June 2016
Lateline takes a look at some of the most awkward campaign blunders in Australia’s election history.
A new look at ancient bones with the latest DNA technology confirms Aboriginal Australians as the continent’s first people, researchers say.
As Sydneysiders recover from the storm that battered the city, Australians are wondering just how many ‘once in a lifetime’ natural disasters they will have to live through before finally addressing climate change. The Sydney Storm joins an ever increasing list of ‘once in a lifetime’ disasters that have hit fifteen or sixteen times throughout the average Australian’s lifetime. Some younger Australians have had the good fortune to experience six ‘once in a lifetime’ weather events in their first ten years of life.
Source: Australians Recovering From Their Fifteenth ‘Once In A Lifetime’ Disaster. | SBS Comedy
Was the Abbott Government fascist? Many people have asked this question, and since September 2013 many articles in both mainstream and independent media have attempted to answer it. Some of the answers have been hysterical to say the least, some have been well-argued, but until now no forensic analyses have ever been undertaken. Dr George…
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott Government experiment …Part 2
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott Government experiment …Part3
By Dr George Venturini* Corporatocracy? This manipulation of the population is the ultimate result of what Sheldon S. Wolin, distinguished Emeritus Professor at Princeton, formulated as ‘inverted totalitarianism’, which brings about a form of ‘managed democracy’. Both concepts, but particularly the first, require an explanation, and it will be offered in the words of the…
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott Government experiment …Part 5
The Jerusalem Day march, marking the ‘reunification’ of the city under Israeli sovereignty, has more to do with domination over Palestinians than celebration. Photos by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Text by +972 Magazine Staff Jerusalem Day is billed as a celebration of the city’s “reunification” in 1967, when Israeli forces captured the Old City along with the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. In practice, Jerusalem Day is an opportunity for Jewish-Israeli nationalists, draped in flags, dancing in circles, singing and chanting “death to Arabs” as they march through East Jerusalem and the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.…
Source: PHOTOS: Nationalist Jewish-Israelis march through Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter | +972 Magazine
The European Union has done nothing to stop Israel destroying infrastructure it has paid for in the occupied West Bank.
Source: Israel has destroyed $74 million worth of EU projects | The Electronic Intifada
Don’t look down. The world’s longest, highest, and most terrifying glass bridge is in the very final stages of its construction.
Source: China’s Record-Breaking Glass Bridge Is Amazing And Terrifying | IFLScience
“I do have a problem with that. Yeah, I do,” Sanders said.
Source: Sanders hits Clinton Foundation over foreign donations | TheHill
Fox News legal analyst Arthur Aidala, also a criminal law attorney, shot down his cohosts’ obvious hope that Hillary Clinton will soon be indicted. Not one of them seemed willing to acknowledge that maybe there is no criminal case to be made against her.
Just by being himself, the black boxer changed the life of a confused, spectacled half-Asian, half-white kid on the other side of the world
Source: Muhammad Ali taught me to be proud of my skin and Muslim faith | Omar Musa | Sport | The Guardian
In 1838 white settlers murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children near Myall Creek Station. For the first time in history some killers were tried and hanged.The massacre is a harrowing reminder of Australia’s colonial violence.
Christian fundamentalist schools are teaching children creationism is fact, that gay people are “unnatural” and that girls must submit to men, according to a series of claims. Former pupils and whistle-blowers have told The Independent that the schools, which originated in the US but are now dotted around the UK and registered as independent or private schools, teach children at isolated desks separated by “dividers” from other students. It is thought more than a thousand children are being taught at dozens of schools, although little is known about them.
On any conventional reading, Australia’s economic development has gone backwards and is too reliant on shipping iron ore to China. This at a time when the Middle Kingdom’s debt bomb is set to detonate.
Source: We’ve left ourselves hopelessly exposed to China – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
As coastal properties have been eaten up by the sea, and rainfall records smashed, people have inevitably started asking whether the savage storm that lashed Sydney over the weekend was exacerbated by climate change. At this stage it’s impossible to draw a causative link between global warming and the dramatic storm system, but a numberMore
Source: Did Climate Change Play A Part In The Sydney Storm? – New Matilda
A tourist map of Jaffa presents a reimagined, Zionist version of the city: Jaffa 2.0 is a boutique neighborhood of Tel Aviv, with a smattering of ‘local’ (read: native) color. But the map itself simply represents a much broader process of destruction and reconstruction. If you go into Jaffa’s tourist information centers (run by the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality) and ask for a map, you’ll receive a colorful, user-friendly guide promising to tell you the best places to go to sample Jaffa’s food, markets, history and more — and in four different languages, no less. [tmwinpost] The problem is that the…
Source: Wiping Palestinian history off the map in Jaffa | +972 Magazine
According to online dating research, Asian American women are the most sought-after racial group, yet Asian American men are the least favorable. Here’s the history that explains why.
Source: The racist history behind Asian sex stereotypes – Matador Network
Mark Leonard looks at migration in the modern world.
Source: Are these the new migration superpowers? | World Economic Forum
How Chinese companies can get around the rules on imported workers.
Look—Anna Pulley / wrote a great book of haikus / about sex and cats!
Source: These Hilarious Lesbian Haikus Poke Fun at Sex and Stereotypes | Mother Jones
Reports indicating that the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is narrowing, are hopeful at best and do little to effect change, says Gerry Georgatos.
Source: Indigenous Australians are still dying 20 years younger
Four days before the federal election was called, George Brandis issued the Legal Services Amendments (Solicitor-General Opinions) Direction 2016.
Source: Election 2016: George Brandis restricts access to independent Solicitor-General
The Liberal Democratic Party of NSW Senator David Leyonhjelm considered entering an agreement to accept $500,000 from an Adelaide businessman in return for making him a lead Senate candidate for the party at the July 2 election.
The ABC goes inside Aurukun’s school and speaks to parents of children who are desperately concerned that their children will slip behind in reading and writing.
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”
His visit was barely documented or recorded but for those who met the boxer during his trip to Fitzroy the memories endure
Source: ‘He came to see blackfellas!’ When Muhammad Ali visited Fitzroy | Sport | The Guardian
In Part 2 of our wide-ranging conversation with the world-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky, we talk about the conflict in Syria, the rise of ISIS, Saudi Arabia, the political crisis in Brazil, the passing of the pioneering lawyer Michael Ratner, today’s Republican Party and more.
With 546 Democratic delegates available, California is the single most influential state this primary season – but things are far more complicated than they seem
Source: Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by one point in new California poll | US news | The Guardian
The treatment of low-paid workers in Australia today is reminiscent of master-servant relationships we supposedly ditched last century
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble since a …
Source: Trump University Was Textbook case of Fraud (TYT) | Informed Comment
Muhammad Ali may have been the greatest boxer of all time, but some of his witticisms were just as entertaining and stinging as anything he delivered in the ring.
Source: Muhammad Ali: The king of talking trash – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Well, it looks like there’s a war on. Scott Morrison declared yesterday that Labor was waging war on business (and also on growth, capital, and mums and dads). Malcolm Turnbull later concurred: “It is a fact.
Source: Bad for business | The Monthly
It’s cleaning day! I shall make a cup of white tea and see what the race traitors at Radio National are up to while I do the chores
ABS data show private sector business investment and company profits boomed under Labor but have collapsed under the Coalition
Source: The anti-business Labor hyperbole is wrong. Just look at the facts | Business | The Guardian
From an “often ruthless” Honduran oligarch to a pair of Indian billionaires who ran a company accused of falsifying drug data.
Source: The World Bank’s Anti-Poverty Push Made These Controversial Tycoons Even Richer | Mother Jones
Climate change is already hurting communities and damaging prosperity.
“Corporations routinely sacrifice the lives of some of their customers to increase profits, and we are all better off because they do,” according to a textbook that the billionaire industrialist is spending millions to push on public schools.
Economist Philip Soos encourages Australians to rise up and see Turnbull’s neo-liberal capitalism for what it is: A racket designed to generate free banquets for the rentier class.
Neil Ennis, who once campaigned with John Howard, says Malcolm Turnbull is beholden to hard right of party
Australians are now poorer, in greater debt and with fewer job prospects — Alan Austin analyses Australia’s miserable economic trajectory under the Abbott-Turnbull Government.
Source: Dismal economic news through May
A republic is inevitable. And then the Union Jack will have to go, too.
Tony Abbott vows to be ‘useful’ and stand up for conservative positions if the Coalition is returned to power.
Source: Election 2016: Tony Abbott not expecting ‘advancement’ in cabinet if Coalition wins
On the face of it, Marty Corboy, the National Party’s candidate for Indi in north-eastern Victoria, has at best a ringside seat to one of the more keenly anticipated battles of this coming election. In the blue corner is the Liberal Party’s Sophie Mirabella, keen to avenge the 2013 result, which robbed her not only of her seat of 12 years but also of a ministerial prize in Tony Abbott’s cabinet.
Source: In dispute | The Monthly
The data, obtained for the years 2011-2015, paints an even more grim picture of discrimination, especially in the arrests of minors, for crimes like ‘incitement,’ and predictably, for ‘security offenses.’ Ayman Odeh: Data reveals deeply…
Source: 60% of people arrested by Israeli police are ‘non-Jews’ | +972 Magazine
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