A note on pop culture
Eminem has released a new song Mosh. It turns out that this is a seemingly uncharacteristic call to arms from probably the most significant hip-hop artist in some time (at least on the commercial scene). This blatant anti-bush anthem is more than just “politics suck” as you’d expect, it […]

Reporters Without Borders (RFS) have today released a report on the levels of media freedom in 167 countries. Not surprisingly Australia ranked a mere 41st position with 8 “Scandinavian Liberal Paradises” all sharing equal first: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland. America ranked a reasonably respectable 22nd.
With these sorts of surveys one […]

Anti-Semitism and the Left
In The Age this morning Barry Cohen has argued that the Labor party has fallen victim to Anti-Semitism.
While I am in no position to comment as I am far from an ALP insider, I do have two problems with his argument. Firstly it would seem that in the view of Cohen […]

Rupert Murdoch and his press have a lot to answer for. The examples are endless and the documentary Outfoxed (which I am yet to see) I’ve no doubt will provide more ammunition still.
Whitlam was interviewed last night on SBS and says that Murdoch certainly played a roll in ensuring he was not re-elected in […]

I am currently reading Paul McGeough’s Quarterly Essay: Mission Impossible: the Sheikhs, the US and the future of Iraq.
His argument goes that if you are to understand Iraq you need to understand the complex system of tribes that it consists of and the role that they play. Therefore it is impossible to impose a […]

The Internet
The Internet is something that excites me. Maybe not as much as it excites Tezza but quite a bit none the less. Its emancipating powers are enormous. It is uncensored and has lead to an exponential rise in mobilisation and resistance, not to mention the fact that it is a massive […]

Just reading my weekly Workers Online newsletter – one I particularly enjoy as it sheds a unionist light on things that I had sometimes not considered. However I was a touch concerned about this week’s editorial from Peter Lewis who I generally find to be pretty spot on.
He blamed Labor’s election loss of the […]

Things I’ve liked of late:
‘Unless you can compress your cynical ramblings into a T-Shirt slogan that I can sell to alienated teenagers, I don’t need to hear them.’ - Sam and Fuzzy
‘If you voted for Howard…I will hunt you down…
and kill you
I don’t know where you live but I’m very good at research’ – random […]

I don’t like to whinge but FOR FUCKS SAKE. It would appear that the few small concessions that the ALP worked into the FTA will shortly be over turned.
So now the we have a dictatorship in this country American corporations will be able to evergreen. In other words create fake patents that to […]

While I’m on the topic, the newly elected rodent government wants to reintroduce industrial relations bill to parliament for the umpteenth time. However after July 1 next year it will be passed by the senate thanks to the betrayal of the Australian people by the ALP and Democrats for directing their preferences to Family […]