Othering and performativity as ideological enablers of fossil extractivism
The climate emergency has an ideological as well as a physical history; the physical history tells us about how the…
Category: Writing
Fed Uni leaflet fan mail, or Duncan Bentley has a stomach full of oligarchy jizz and so do his codependent enablers and bootlickers
from: mike hunt <mikehunt987612345@gmail.com> to: Ben.debney@gmail.com date: Jun 3, 2024, 3:01 PM Hi Ben,If you put as much effort into finding…
Zionism and Liberalism are getting on famously
One of the more conspicuous paradoxes of the Gazan genocide is the weaponization of nominally progressive values to rationalise it…
The Chicken and the Egg
You know that old riddle about the chicken and the egg and which came first? I had an idea about…
Zionist Conspiracism Shares Self-Fulfilling Prophecies With Kindergarten Sandpits
Originally published on Znet: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zionist-conspiracism-shares-self-fulfilling-prophecies-with-kindergarten-sandpits In looking at conflict in history, we can only tend towards the conclusion that many…
Petrodollar Genocide
It is a particular irony of imperialist aggression in the Middle East that, thanks to decades-old geopolitical arrangements known as…
Legacies of scapegoating and persecution in the Palestianian genocide
In the current waking nightmare and trauma mill into which Mesopotamian geopolitics has degenerated, one question stands out above all…
Regimes of unpaid labour over the Covid-19 pandemic
School closures during the Covid pandemic have placed an added burden on parents to perform at home what is ordinarily…
What will history say about the Voice to Parliament?
Despite its very conspicuous lived history of indifference and neglect towards indigenous people, the Federal ALP touts the Voice to…
‘Green Wall Street’: on the extractivist co-option of ecological politics
Originally published on Counterpunch. Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely disappoints. Since…