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It’s a no-brainer that critical thinking and an ethical core are immensely triggering to ethnofascist totalitarians, if not autocrats generally. ‘Ungh people who can think for themselves remind me what…
Originally published at Overland In this latest Australian election cycle, history repeats itself with increasing intensity as policy debate is relegated to a relic of history in favour of strategies…
Originally published on Counterpunch. Ongoing protests over Victorian state government lockdowns and vaccine mandates are emerging as fodder for ‘moral panic’ feeding into the 2022 Australian election cycle. A strategy…
Debney, B. (2019). Halal Certification Uproar: The Muslim Scapegoat as National Safety Valve. In C. M. Hall, The Routledge Handbook of Halal Hospitality and Islamic Tourism. Routledge. Halal food certification…
Originally published at New Matilda, though they seem to have joined so much of the rest of the nominal left. ‘The whole aim of practical politics,’ wrote US journalist H.…
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 has become implicit in the mere act of referring to them. As a result…
‘Never let a good crisis go to waste,’ Winston Churchill famously remarked. Famed for leading the Allied opposition to Nazi aggression during WW2, Churchill was no doubt aware more than…