Lately, the world had witnessed the spectacle of gun toting vigilantes in the streets of the United States egged on by their President. This week we have seen mobs reacting over unsubstantiated claims of vote fraud and screaming for the count of votes to be stopped.
Bevan Ramsden is a long-time peace and community activist, and a member of the National Coordinating Committee of IPAN, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network. Here, he writes about the the plan to increase militarisation of policing in Australia, and especially, the attempt to allow foreign police and troops to be used (Pearls and Irritations 1 October 2020). This would set the ground for major intervention by the United Sates into Australian affairs.
Julian Assange’s extradition hearing continued last week, and a lot of time was devoted to argument over his mental health. The judge made clear, a decision is not going to be made before the United States Presidential election in November. Big media, press freedom groups, and some prominent ‘human rights’ organisations continue to fall in line with Donald Trump, and have mostlygone silent on the case. Author and member of the Glasgow University Media Group, Alan Macleod, writes about this(Orinoco Tribune 25 September 2020).
It is not all that unusual to hear people respond to any suggestion to change the political course of the nation by branding it idealistic and that it could never happen. Anyone suggesting differently, is going to come across this reserve. Continue reading Effective change is the only choice there is→
Official site of the May Day Committee (Malbourne)