A life at the end of history
Posted in Politics on 26 June 2009
The Australian Liberal Party has rarely been a political entity worthy of respect, but The Howard Years (1996-2007) appear to have brought it into terminal disrepute. A year and a half after John Howard’s disgraceful demise, both as Prime Minister and Member for Bennelong, it is clear the legacy of Howard’s malfeasance still infects the [...]
Posted in Politics on 23 June 2009
Memorial to Neda Soltan: Angel of Freedom
The current horror in Iran between a majority of people who want to be free in a secular society and the minority of insane fundamentalists who are happy to slaughter in the name of Allah is a clear example of a species that looks to have passed its use-by [...]
Posted in Politics on 15 June 2009
A couple of Saturdays ago I drove over to the Barren Valley Shopping Centre for brekkie. There’s a cubby in the food court that serves breakfast for $7.90. It’s cheap, it’s nearby, and best of all, I don’t have to cook it.
It was too early for the weekend rush so I had a chat with [...]
Posted in Politics on 23 January 2009
Obama is “that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds [...]
Posted in Politics on 17 January 2009
Posted in Politics on 16 January 2009
War Chimp playfully chokes Magoosolini with Medal of Disgrace.
The circle jerk of war criminals didn’t stop there. In addition to Medal winners Tony Blair and Columbia’s handy Prez, Alvaro Uribe, Iraqi slaughter architects Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and their chief talkback spruiker of all things immoral and indecent, Rush Limbaugh, joined the festivities.
In his [...]
Posted in Politics on 12 January 2009
The Right Wing is the scourge of humanity.
The Pro-Israel lobby worldwide is amazingly powerful. Grown men and women in democratic parliaments are afraid to speak out at the atrocities of the current Gaza invasion. Why? Because they would be attacked relentlessly.
Any Jew who criticizes Israel’s policies regarding Palestinians is immediately labeled a self-hating Jew.
Any non-Jew [...]
Posted in Politics on 5 January 2009
Bomber Pilot over Gaza Requesting Targets
Courtesy Michael Leunig, The Age
I’m sorry, I love the Jews, and without them the human race would still be on all fours. But this is pure right wing insanity.
Links:
Window into Palestine
Disaster of Israel’s making
Common ground riven by a cultural gulf
Technorati Tags: fascism, gaza, israel, middle east
Posted in Politics on 5 November 2008
It’s safe to say that millions of Americans are saying tonight: “At last, I’m no longer ashamed to be American.”
An historic election, indeed, has seen an African-American elected president. It simply blows the mind. Even better, Barack Obama is the genuine article. The calm and judicious words he chose for his acceptance speech held no [...]
Posted in Politics on 3 November 2008
Race and slavery are America’s original sin. The election of Obama would be, beyond question, one of the noblest gestures of historical redemption that Americans have ever been called upon to make. — Martin Kettle
America is standing yet again at the crossroads. The nation did so at its beginning, during the Civil War, and during [...]