Jessica Corbett covers the coming U.S. tour by Julian Assange’s father John Shipton and brother Gabriel Shipton (Common Dreams28 May 2021). Starting on 6 June, the tour plans to meet up with activists, journalists and policy makers, to lift support o the call for Julian’s freedom and against attacks on a free press. Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks and hunted by Washington for revealing inconvenient truths.
The first notes for this article were penned last week, when the bombardment of Gaza and other atrocities against the Palestinian population showed no sign of slowing down, and the Australian government remained silent. The ceasefire was then brokered. The Australian government remains silent. Continue reading Israel forced to call ceasefire but Palestinians still under occupation→
The following fromRichard D. Wolff and published by Economy for All (23 April 2021). Economy for All is associated with the (Independent Media Institute) in the United States. This article is about the state of capitalism in the United Sates. Many of the features of decline described, This could just as easily be referring to Australia. The difference is that Wolf’s country has been a global empire, while ours a small economy largely integrated into the American one. Wolff describes the ongoing decline of the global empire, the inability of those at the top to turn the tide. He also talks about the widening social divide and responses to the decline. which is likebeing on a moving train on track to hit a stone wall.
Margaret Kimberley (Black Agenda Report 7 April 2021) considers that the world of a single superpower imposing its will on the planet has gone, except that those who hold power in the United States and the Joe Biden administration don’t want to accept it and are launching a new cold war. But the more they do this, the more they create the conditions for those targeted as the enemy, to unite against their common adversary.
Marjorie Cohn wrote (Truthout 2 April 2020) about the danger that the trial of George Floyd murderer Derek Chauvin is that it will promote the idea, that this killing was the result of a ‘bad egg,’ rather than the existence of a police system deeply rooted in racism. The trial has Born this out so far, and the defence has concentrated in the usual by profiling George Floyd as the stereotype of a drug affected black man needing to be held down.The trial continues.
Joe Biden’s big stimulus package for the United States is extensive and contains within it Many good initiatives. More than 3000 kilometres of roads, the remaking of bridges, ports, and water systems. And there is a big boost in investment in research to eliminate carbon emissions. Continue reading Joe Biden’s stimulus package is not enough on its own→
If we believe the political hype, the world is bouncing back nicely from the Covid-19 disaster, and this includes Australia.
Unemployment is said to be going down. It is said that the numbers say so. This covers up, of course, that a large part of this is the rise of casual and part time work to replace former full time and permanent jobs. Continue reading Something is seriously wrong with the global economy→
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