@ Morning Star | Kush Zombies
Originally published online at Counterpunch.org; appeared in the Morning Star (UK) May 31, 2016. Found the byline funny; the original at Counterpunch was ‘A hat tip to old-school hip hop.’
The Trickle Down Myth
Supply side economics are driven by policies favouring the privileged and wealthy as a purported way of stimulating investment and production. As such, they have long been a favourite strategy of those most dedicated to fulfilling the vision of ‘father of the US Constitution’ James Madison that capitalist democracy should ‘protect the minority of the…
Negative Impacts on Tourism
The badly-misnamed Department of Environment has campaigned to have every reference to Australia removed from a UNESCO report entitled, “World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate,” on the grounds that reporting on the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef could ‘harm tourism.’ Unusually warm water indicative of warming globally has lead to bleaching on…
Hanson’s Latest Whingefest
Narcissistic attention seeker and professional supply addict Pauline Hanson protests descriptions of racism and comparisons to racist counterpart US Presidential candidate Donald Drumpf. ‘Australians are so over being labelled as racist,’ Hanson says to Sky News, while both she and her interviewers somehow manage to miss the glaring cognitive dissonance of denying being racist while…
The Gliewitz Case and the Moral Panic that Started WWII
We all know that Hitler started World War II by invading Belgium, provoking a military response from England and France. What relative few have investigated however is the way that Hitler sold the invasion to his own people from the perspective of propaganda. When we look at what he actually did, the results are surprising,…
Ships in the Night
1/1. Life in the midst of war, upheaval and uncertainty: the daily possibility of becoming the next statistic, the difficulty of getting basic household items, the intermittent electricity and other essential services. Sitting in the dark of night watching tracer fire and explosions in the moonlight with a warm breeze on your face. Somewhere far…
Book launch
Book launch: ‘The Booger Peril: A History of Things to Come’ Saturday 19 March, 6pm @ NIBS meeting room, Trades Hall, Carlton. Will have copies on sale for anyone keen to grab one. Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1552385328410118/1568833226765328/
@ Arena | ‘Halal Hysteria’
@Piece in Arena Magazine; text is an edited version of a talk I gave on ‘Halal Certification: The Muslim Scapegoating and the National Safety Valve’ at the “Muslim Question,” Citizenship and Racism Symposium run by Deakin in December 2015. Here’s the first page; if you like the rest go buy the magazine!
@ International Journal of Crime, Justice & Social Democracy | Book Review
Book review: George Morgan and Scott Poynting (eds) (2013) Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West.
Facebook Community Standards strike again
Community of racists, apparently.