Letter to Australian senators re. proposed lifetime ban on asylum seekers entering Australia

(The proposed lifetime ban on asylum seekers entering Australia has passed the lower house. You too…

Corporate Accountability Research

For the last couple of weeks I have been helping Corporate Accountability Research prepare a series…

Embrace obliteration

I think, therefore I am. I think and act for myself, therefore I am. I think…

Working paper: The Terror Scare: War on Terror Mythology and Moral Panic

https://www.academia.edu/28916965/The_Terror_Scare_War_on_Terror_Mythology_and_Moral_Panic ‘Moral judgment about the historical events with which War on Terror narratives have become associated…

A Tale from the City

One day, long ago, a man stood where a city would be built and said, out…

Status Anxiety

The Yellow Peril: The Chinese Scapegoat on the Goldfields as Ideological Safety Valve

This is the text of a paper I presented at the Australian History Association annual conference…

Silent Majority PSA

We must have oppression or we will have chaos. If you think for yourself the terrorists…

80 Years Ago Today Economic Democracy Became (Briefly) A Thing

This week celebrates the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution,…

@ Morning Star | Kush Zombies

Originally published online at Counterpunch.org; appeared in the Morning Star (UK) May 31, 2016. Found the…