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.
Australia’s is not a capitalist economy as they would have us believe. It is extremely monopolised, and the biggest corporations are closely linked to government. Many of them depend on generous welfare handouts to them and the ordinary taxpayer has to foot the bill. This is not the fabled free market.
The following article by Joseph Camilleri (Pears and Irritations 5 May 2021) deals with the present hyping up of fear over China and war talk, as a case of déjà-vu, of the cold War hysteria that led us into a succession of disastrous and unjustified wars in the past. Examples are Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. The difference this time, is that the consequences of a war are likely to be far more serious.Joseph Camilleri is managing director of Alexandria Agenda, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences
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→
Beware. Australia is facing a mayor public relations offensive to spread the lie that the Morrison government has a great record in creating jobs and shaping up to do even better. The aim is to throw sand in our eyes and stop us from seeing that the opposite is true. Continue reading Morrison government is pretending to be serious about job creation→
