James O’Neill warns that without independent media, we could easily sleep walk into yet another war on behalf of a dangerous “ally.”
Source: Russia bashing: Hartcher and the SMH rewrite history yet again
Month: July 2016
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The terrorist attack on Ataturk Airport in Istanbul Tuesday immediately drew …
Source: ISIL Terrorism Strikes at Turkish Economy; & Someone tell Trump the Victims are Muslim
She was blonde, bulky and she’d been drinking. She told us with deafening certainty that it was “inappropriate” to talk politics in a New York bar.
Source: Reasons to be worried
Duncan Storrar, the man whose Q&A question defined the election campaign at its outset in May, has emerged to challenge the nation’s leaders once more.
Source: Q&A star Duncan Storrar overcomes trauma to pose fresh questions
With one more sleep before voters go to the polls, Malcolm Turnbull asks us to trust him but Frank Sykes has put forward seven compelling reasons why we’d be fools to do so.
Source: Seven more reasons why you’d be a fool to vote for Turnbull!
Many people claim that, because Malcolm Turnbull is personally wealthy, he is more qualified to oversee our economy. But if the ABS figures are anything to go by, Malcolm is taking us backwards at a rate of knots. Over the past 12 months, trend employment increased by 217,000 – a far cry from the 300,000…
Source: Malcolm’s report card – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The Haaretz correspondent for the occupied territories and author of “Drinking the Sea at Gaza” has angered Israeli and Palestinian leadership with her uncompromising honesty. – 2016/06/27
More occupation means demolishing more homes. It means more families who will wake up in the middle of the night. It means killing more Palestinian teenagers. Because we have the power, the weapons, and the law at our disposal. By Hagai El-Ad A few hours before Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told members of the EU Parliament that “the current diplomatic, political and regional conditions do not allow Israelis and Palestinians to reach a permanent peace agreement” a few weeks ago, Israeli soldiers shot and killed 15-year-old Mahmoud Badran. They also “mistakenly” wounded four of his friends, who had just come back…
Source: Under occupation, Palestinian teens are always killed by ‘mistake’ | +972 Magazine
In both Greece and Japan, excessive debts will have to be reduced by means previously regarded as unthinkable, writes Adair Turner.
Source: Will these countries ever repay their debts? | World Economic Forum
According to a recent report by RT, Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology have launched their own 24-hour news network and movie studio. Yeah. So that happened. According to RT’s report: “Trying to capture the success of Rupert Murdoch, Vladimir Putin (redacted) …
Source: Tom Cruise Wants To Reach ‘Every Person On Earth’ With New Scientology TV AnonHQ
The children of Polish soldiers who fought in the Second World War have spoken of their people’s proud history of fighting alongside the British amidst rising xenophobia following
There is an historic rejection of the political establishment underway.
Source: We’ve stopped believing that elections mean anything, but who can blame us?
The Turnbull Government confirms asylum seekers who arrived under the former Labor government remain unprocessed.
As the fallout from Brexit continues, Britain’s major parties have turned to Australia’s top political operatives to form a plan that creates total political chaos, rather than just a minor commotion.
“We want to do this properly, so we’ve turned to the best,” an insider from the Conservative Party said. “I never would’ve thought to get the Prime Minister to stand down, and then get his presumptive successor to pull out of the race as well. That’s the type of turmoil you can only conjure up with experience. It’s what Australia does so well”.
One Australian backroom expert who has been flown to London said it was important to draw out the instability over several electoral cycles. “The danger is you just contain it to one cycle, or just one party. So the guidance I’ve given my British counterparts is to spread the chaos broadly. Draw it out.
“Getting the Labour leader to stand aside is the next obvious move, and then you continue the momentum from there”.
A UK Labour Party strategist said he was learning quickly with the help of Australian experts. “Once the new leaders are in place, we’re going to call for an early election. That way we have the unique opportunity to have three Prime Ministers in under a year. I think that’s how you do it”.
Australian Electoral Commission regional manager, Mark Eachbox
Mainstream media is hopelessly conflicted these days with an ideology to sell, bought and paid for by their corporate puppet masters. Christian Marx calls on us to boycott and divest from the MSM!
Source: Mainstream media: Now just a propaganda mill for Big Business?
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has linked asylum seekers with terrorism, insisting recent attacks overseas have made border security a key issue for voters at the election.
Source: Federal election 2016: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton links asylum seekers with terrorism
By Dr George Venturini* Testing the thesis . . . A controlled mass media (continued) Most of the other newspapers are controlled by Fairfax Media Limited, which is one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand, with investment in newspaper, magazines, radio and internet. There is a sizeable foreign participation. Fairfax has…
The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott part 29
A comprehensive look at the “achievements” of the Abbott Government during their first term in office.
Source: Achievements of the Abbott-Turnbull Government To Date
The passage to Indigenous enfranchisement has been fraught and hard-won in incremental steps but the status quo in 2016 should give us all pause for thought
Media barons Paul Dacre and Rupert Murdoch had a hand in the withdrawal of Michael Gove’s support for fellow Brexiteer Boris Johnson as Tory leader, a leaked email suggests.
Source: Murdoch and Dacre… press barons and Britain’s real kingmakers? — RT UK
Al-Araqib is one of 35 ‘unrecognized’ villages in Israel that authorities refuse to provide with water, electricity or basic infrastructure. Israeli security forces demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 100th time Wednesday morning. It was the second demolition during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, taking place while residents were fasting. The first demolition in the village took place almost exactly six years ago, on July 27, 2010. [tmwinpost] Al-Araqib is one of 35 “unrecognized” Bedouin villages in the Negev desert in southern Israel, a definition which means Israel refuses to provide residents with connections to the national…
Source: Israel demolishes Bedouin village al-Araqib for 100th time | +972 Magazine
Isis has welcomed Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in its Arabic language propaganda newspaper, hailing a “political crisis” and the prospect of referendums in other nations. The article in al-Naba claimed the Brexit “threatens the unity of Crusader Europe”, according to a translation by Shiraz Maher, the deputy director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.
The UK construction industry will slam into a “brick wall” early next year due to the massive uncertainty created by the Brexit vote, an industry source has warned. A person in the sector, who contacted The Independent but did not want to be named, said that since the shock referendum result was announced last Friday morning anxious international investors have already pushed the pause button on future UK infrastructure investments.
Assuming that Brexit means Britain is withdrawing from the world would be an egregious mistake.
Source: Britain and the Arab world post Brexit – Al Jazeera English
The heated referendum shows that the messages of hope or fear peddled by our politicians matter greatly, writes Ben Eltham. As the news from Britain washes over Australia, we southerners cannot help but wonder what it all means. For Britain, this is a political event of unparalleled significance. It has already triggered the resignation ofMore
Source: Brexit Is A Mark Against Scaremongering, Not Democracy – New Matilda
Is Australia about to get another three years of the wrong end of the pineapple? Or will Malcolm make the same mistakes again like previously before?
Source: Will Malcolm Turnbull learn the lessons of history? | First Dog on the Moon | Opinion | The Guardian
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