Counterpunch. 14 October 2022. ‘Green Wall Street’: On the Extractivist Co-Option of Ecological Politics’
Counterpunch. 25 May 2022. Culture wars defend the minority of the opulent from the majority
Overland. 10 May 2022. Culture war and conspiracism as election strategy
Counterpunch. 9 May 2022. A World of Slaves Under His Eye: Reproductive Justice vs Totalitarianism
Counterpunch. 22 April 2022. Culture War as Policy Strategy in Australia
Counterpunch. 25 March 2022. Marxism against Marxism
Counterpunch. 21 January 2022. Corporate Media Spin in Defence of Transnational Mining Operations in Ecuador
Counterpunch. 26 November 2021. Murdoch and the IPA Politicise Freedom in Battlelines for Next Year’s Elections
Counterpunch. 24 September 2021. Is Australia’s Anti-Lockdown Movement a Creature of Corporate Dark Money?
Neoliberalistan. 5 August 2021. The personal is political. The private isn’t
Counterpunch. 20 June 2021. Capitalism Can’t Innovate on Ideas
Neoliberalistan. 1 April 2021. Wokewashing the money cult: ideological coping mechanisms in the end-time
Counterpunch. 14 March 2021. Pathological Entitlement and the Supremacist Mindset
Counterpunch. 8 November 2020: Liberal Capitalism is Dead
Counterpunch. 7 August 2020: The Neoliberal Virus
Counterpunch. 23 March 2020: The Political Uses of Pandemic
Anarchist Studies. 31 October 2019: The Fordist Baggage of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Counterpunch. 11 October 2019: Liberals, Class and the Joker Complex
Neoliberalistan. 25 September 2019: A Penal State of Mind.
Neoliberalistan. 24 September 2019: Rising Above the Thinking that Created the Climate Crisis
Counterpunch. 6 May, 2019: Crisis-Afflicted Humanity is like an Alzheimer’s Patient Lost in the Forest
Organise! Spring 2019: The Scare Cycle – Moral Panics and National Elections
Counterpunch. 15 March, 2019: Christchurch, the White Victim Complex and Savage Capitalism
Counterpunch. 4 February, 2019: Is Politics Getting Worse, Or Are We Getting a Better Handle on How Bad It Has Always Been?
Neoliberalistan. 5 November, 2018: Moral panic as an election strategy
The Shovel. 17 July, 2018: Winner Of US Election Meets With Donald Trump In Helsinki
Counterpunch. 23 May, 2018: A Faustian Bargain with the Climate Crisis
Libcom. 29 March, 2018: The role of the left in the rise of far-right populism
New Matilda. 4 January, 2018: Media Hype, Imaginary Hobgoblins: Malcolm And Peter’s Politics Of Moral Panic
Counterpunch. 10 November, 2017: The Perpetual Victimhood of Privilege
Counterpunch. 25 August, 2017: The Predictable Casualties of Counter-Terrorism
Counterpunch. 9 June, 2017: The Paranoid Style of Counter-Terrorism
Medium.com. 25 April, 2017: Trump and Ur-Fascism
Counterpunch. 10 April, 2017: It’s Freedom White Phosphorus, Damn Commies
Counterpunch. 24 March, 2017: Outrage from the Imperial Playbook
Counterpunch. Vol 24, No. 2: Refugees vs. Climate Change: Worthy vs. Unworthy Victims
Counterpunch. 16 March, 2017: The Paradox of Identity Politics
New Matilda. 26 February, 2017: The Short Sell: Penalty Rates, Reaganomics and the ‘Jobs Motive’
Medium.com. 26 February, 2017: The Promise of Post-Capitalist Unionism
Medium.com. 2 January, 2017: Revolutions and the reproduction of injustice
Medium.com. 18 November, 2016: Competitive individualism: a critique
Counterpunch. 14 November, 2016: Adolf Hitler: A Political Archetype of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Medium.com. 12 November, 2016: Adolf Hitler: A Political Archetype of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Counterpunch. 9 November, 2016: Death Rattle Politics
Counterpunch. 2 September, 2016: Mental Illness is Not to Blame for Terrorism
Counterpunch. 26 August, 2016: The Swimsuit That Overthrew the State
Counterpunch. 19 August, 2016: Worthy and Unworthy Victims of Child Abuse
Counterpunch. 5 August, 2016: Sorry Hillary, Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils is Textbook Blame-Shifting
Counterpunch. 20 July, 2016: 80 Years Ago This Week Economic Democracy Was (Briefly) a Thing
Counterpunch. 24 June, 2016: Homophobia and the Conservative Victim Complex
Arena. #142, Winter 2016: ‘Scum of the Earth’: People Smugglers in Myth and Reality
Counterpunch. 14 June, 2016: Why is Hate Crime Terrorism?
Morning Star (UK). 31 May, 2016: The Hip Hop Underground is in Safe Zombie Hands
Counterpunch. 29 April, 2016: Kush Zombies: QELD’s Hat Tip to Old School Hip Hop
Counterpunch. 25 March, 2016: Bin Laden Won the War on Terror.
Counterpunch. 11 March, 2016: Therapeutic Psychodrama as Campaign Strategy.
Counterpunch. 25 February, 2016: Kill the Poor.
Arena. #140, Summer 2015-16: Halal Hysteria
Isocracy. 25 January, 2016: On the Continuing Prevalence of Racism.
Counterpunch. 14 December, 2015: The Language of Moral Panic: “Radicalization” vs. “Extremism”.
Counterpunch. 7 December, 2015: On Being the Gatekeeper of Your Own Nightmares.
Counterpunch. 16 November, 2015: After Paris You’re Meant to Hate Refugees.
Counterpunch. November, 2015: The Political Economy of Scapegoating.
Counterpunch. 8 October, 2015: Trump, Guns and Mental Illness.
Counterpunch. 2-4 October, 2015: Zombies on a Runaway Train.
Counterpunch. 22 August, 2015: Modern Newspeak Dictionary III.
Counterpunch. 31 July, 2015: Modern Newspeak Dictionary II.
Counterpunch. 22 July, 2015: Modern Newspeak Dictionary.
Overland. 2 July, 2015. Witches, Terrorists and the ABC.
Counterpunch. 29 June, 2015: Tony Abbott’s Australia: Madness or Design?
Counterpunch. 8-10 May, 2015: Drug Trafficking and the Politics of Vengenace
Overland. 9 April, 2015. Hockey’s Entitlement Issues.
Counterpunch. 27-29 March, 2015: Collapse, A Foregone Conclusion
Bendebney.info. 30 March, 2015: Whiteness: The Great National Safety Valve
Bendebney.info 30 March, 2015: How ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ is a Great Metaphor for the US Response to the 9-11 Attacks, Amongst Other Things
Bendebney.info. 7 October, 2014: Panic Hiding in Plain Sight: The Terror Scare
Bendebney.info 25 September, 2014: Crises Worthy and Otherwise: Terror Scare vs. Climate Change
Short Stories
2015. Ships in the Night
2015. Render Unto the Beast
Publications
The Booger Peril: A History of Things to Come: A history book falls through a wormhole from the future. It describes a moral panic that develops over immigrants from outer space after Earth makes contactwith aliens (or as I like to call them, ‘space terrorists’).
The Domestic Peril: The Radical Alien and the Rise of Corporate Americanism, 1912 – 1919: In the years preceding the First World War, corporate propaganda in the United States weighed in against the menace of the ?radical alien,’ said to be a clear and present threat to American freedoms. This propaganda blamed strikes and other manifestations of class antagonism on unassimilated immigrants, who it claimed were, at best, vulnerable to peddlers of ?un-American’ unionism, and, at worst, importers of the ?alien’ ideologies upon which organised labour was said to be founded. This thesis argues that, in reaction to the Lawrence Strike of 1912, composed mostly of foreign-born workers and led by the hated Industrial Workers of the World, big business manipulated half-truths through propaganda to develop the mythology of the ?radical alien,’ responding to the perceived peril with the movement to ?Americanise’ the immigrant. Under the guise of providing lessons in English and Civics, this movement functioned to neutralise the threat of union militancy on the part of foreign-born workers by indoctrinating them in Corporate Americanist civic orthodoxies.