The Trickle Down Myth
Supply side economics are driven by policies favouring the privileged and wealthy as a purported way of stimulating investment and…
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Negative impacts on tourism from knowing about coral bleaching
The badly-misnamed Department of Environment has campaigned to have every reference to Australia removed from a UNESCO report entitled, “World…
Hanson’s Latest Whingefest
Narcissistic attention seeker and professional supply addict Pauline Hanson protests descriptions of racism and comparisons to racist counterpart US Presidential…
Render Unto the Beast
First short story I’ve written in years; wrote it for a short story competition in 2015. It didn’t win. It…
‘The Predicament of Man’ – Arthur Koestler
Not a bad essay this one. THE PREDICAMENT OF MAN By Arthur Koestler Excerpted from his book The Ghost in…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a Great Metaphor for the US Response to 9/11, Amongst Other Things
The 2014 remake of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a great movie. It also features a sequence…
Panic Hiding in Plain Sight: The Terror Scare
The use of the term ‘War on Terror’ to describe the West’s campaign of military aggression in and around Iraq…
Some rules for living a good life as far as I can tell
In no particular order: 1. Knowing that change and impermanence are the greatest constants in the universe (even more so…