A Critique of Competitive Individualism
The self-made man or woman as business success story has long been the motivating ideal of free market capitalism and the basis of its ideological self-rationale; if inequality exists in…
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…
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 Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate,” on the grounds…
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…
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…
Halal Hysteia
@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…
Book review: George Morgan and Scott Poynting (eds) (2013) Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West.
Book review: George Morgan and Scott Poynting (eds) (2013) Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West.
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 didn’t even place. I’m still happy with it. * An…