Many years ago, acquaintances of ours, Peter and Ria Gill, owned a restaurant, Peaches1,2, in the Canberra suburb of Campbell and we would occasionally dine there. The food was wonderful…
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Young people clearly don't know what a shock-jock is. Kirk was nothing new. His opinions were nothing we haven't heard from talk-back radio hosts for 50 years. They all said outrageous things for attention and money, radicalising their audience with no care for the consequences. Platforming rage baiting radio hosts has been Rupert Murdoch's main source of income for decades. Shock jocks have always been sad, egotistical, right-wing losers. Their listeners are even sadder.
The Murdoch media, or Newscorpse as it is sometimes called, is notorious for lying to its readers and listeners, as I have demonstrated many times. Some examples are given in…
As a beverage, coffee has been popular for a long time, with the discovery of the stimulant effect of the plant in Ethiopia early in the 14th century or thereabout, its…
In June, I wrote a piece which suggested that when Trump sent in the National Guard to Los Angeles, he was hoping that violence would flare up, so that he…
Political violence is unacceptable when wielded by the poor, the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the occupied, the colonised and the enslaved. Political violence is unacceptable when the violence comes as response to the politics. Political violence is unacceptable when it arises out of the refusal to accept the domination of empire and the ruling class. Political violence is unacceptable when it strives to liberate. But the political violence wielded by the state and its lawmakers, by colonialism, by “progress”, by carcerality, by capitalism, by the weapons manufacturing industry, by the tech oligarchs, by the media, by Israel, by imperialism and its thirst for more power, more money, more privilege, more control - well, that’s not political violence at all. That’s democracy. And it’s the price of doing business if we want to protect our freedoms.
Russell Morris is an Australian singer-songwriter who has been composing, recording and performing music since the late 1960s. Some of his songs have been among my favourites since I was…
Having recently written a long piece about the origin of what was termed neoliberal economics and how it inevitably led to a disgraceful, vacuous, malignant narcissist like Trump being elected…
There are many Americans who have noticed Trump’s swollen ankles, the large bruises on his hands, and his increasingly incoherent speech, and speculate that he is in rapid terminal decline,…