The Brutal Bombing, Starvation, and lack of all aid are back this time with no foreseeable time frame. Even Israelis are crying for an election and an end to the genocide of children
The words of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel ring truer than ever now as the ongoing Israel-Hamas war shows inhumanity and indifference at its worst, Dr Kim Sawyer writes.
Source: The perils of indifference: History repeats itself in Gaza
A civil war is raging in Israel-Palestine, and the outcome won’t be pretty for anyone, including Americans. Fascist Israeli squatters are routinely attacking Palestinian hamlets with mayhem and murder on their minds, and the Israeli Army often takes the side of the aggressors.
Source: Another Day, another Israeli Pogrom Against Occupied Palestinians; or, Echoes of the Sudetenland
Didn’t Morrison apply similar sort of tactics to get preselected in Cook? Similar BS tactics, he used against his front-running popular leading Christian-Lebanese opponent at the time?
When former NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane was vilified, his home raided and false claims made by a journalist who wanted to promote himself, no apology was given, no restoration made. Instead, the victim became the guilty party, punished for something he did not do. Sounds familiar?
It is not too late to say sorry and thereby restore the reputation of a highly principled person whose political career was ended by this controversy. A chorus of Ray Hadley, Peter Dutton, Peta Credlin and Nick McKenzie could give their apologies and restore public hope that the amoral culture which encouraged abuse of Shaoquett Moselmane and his family has ended.
Source: The cowardly conduct of the media, government and AFP – Pearls and Irritations
Conclusion: Learn from History or Repeat It
The newly minted Prime Minister and his government seem to have learned the lesson from ten years ago. They are not willing to be beholden to the Greens because they know how that plays out. This is not to say that the Greens should be utterly shut out. Some of their policy ideas are positive (expanding Medicare to include mental health and dental care for one). But they should not be allowed to demand their policies be implemented when they received a tiny percentage of the vote. Who do they think they are, the Nationals? More seriously, the lesson of allowing small minority parties to have large influence over policy is not a lesson that Anthony Albanese has forgotten. Long may this strategic competence continue.
Whichever way the Federal Circuit Court decides, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews’ decision to cancel Novak Djokovic’s visa has made Australia an international laughing stock. It highlights the dangers of ministers and prime ministers becoming involved in individual visa decisions for purely political purposes. But how did it come to this?LNP
Source: Djokovic case makes Australia an international laughing stock
If Trump runs again, and election fraud takes us back, you know the anger, the self righteousness, will make Trump 1.0 look as mild as flashing a peace symbol, right? Bil Barr will be back. Roger Stone will be back. The crime family will be back. Putin as head adviser will be back: making sure his protégé foolows his lead. Boogaloos, militia-types, Oath Keepers, etc, will be back: Trump’s Brownshirts will be back. And THEY WILL BE BACK WITH A VENGEANCE. Revenge will be how it starts. If justice is not served that will only be the start of an unimaginable living hell.
Source: Inspection- Ride to Hell Again or Justice Well Served? | The Smirking Chimp
Kelley now worries that the downturn in organizing, coupled with the Biden-Harris victory and the spectacle of right-wing violence at the Capitol, could make that demobilization permanent. “What we end up doing is demobilizing the very anti-fascist movements that many of us were in the streets fighting for this summer,” he said. “And then re-mobilizing it against these mobs by giving the state a pass.” The challenge in a post-Trump United States is “reminding people that there’s a long history of racism, and it doesn’t come from white men with horns. It comes largely from state policy and a long history, and a deep history, that we have to contest,” Kelley said. Otherwise, he said, “I fear that the summer of 2020 is going to be forgotten.”
Capitol Attack Was Culmination of Generations of Far-Right Extremism
A dumped One Nation candidate says Pauline Hanson is not in control of her own party, and her controversial chief-of-staff James Ashby is running the show.
Source: James Ashby running One Nation: dumped candidate Shan Ju Lin
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