In late October, the liberal anti-establishment investigative site Consortium News filed a historic suit against the United States of America and Newsguard Industries, describing a state-funded effort to label, defame, and stigmatize “media organizations that oppose or dissent from American foreign and defense policy.”

 

 

ON THE OCCASION OF UNCOP28 IN DUBAI, ONE HAS TO REFLECT ON ANOTHER EVENT IN THIS MODERN CITY.

THE DUBAI SAILGP IS ON AND THE RACES WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 9TH AND SUNDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2023…

 

ONE HAS TO ADMIRE THE TECHNOLOGY WHICH A FEW YEARS AGO WAS NOT AVAILABLE — NOT EVEN DREAMED OF... 

THERE IS A BIT OF BITTER/SWEET TASTE ABOUT SAILGP — IN RELATION TO CARBON NEUTRAL. 

WHILE THE FORMULA ONE (F1) RACES ALL OVER THE WORLD CELEBRATE THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS AND GETTING DRUNK ON OCTANES AND CHAMPAGNE... SAILGP TRIES HARD TO MINIMISE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF RACING AND PARTICIPATES IN CLEAN UP OF THE ENVIRONMENT. YET THE WHOLE PROCESS ISN’T CARBON NEUTRAL. 

 

America is in the midst of a domestic political crisis with a literal madman and his cult/Party — heavily supported by some of America’s largest companies — threatening to turn America into a dictatorship. 

As Yahoo news reports this morning:

“Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about the possibility less than a year before the US elections.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been named ‘The World’s Most Powerful Woman’ by Forbes magazine for the second year in a row. She beat off competition from European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde and US Vice President Kamala Harris to clinch the top spot.

Von der Leyen rose from eighth on the annual list in 2021 to first in 2022, with Forbes citing her “strong and decisive support of Ukraine, as well as her continued leadership in bringing Europe through the coronavirus pandemic.” 

Her support for Ukraine was cited again this year, with the magazine describing her as “one of the West's staunchest supporters of Ukraine amid Russia's unprovoked invasion.”

US Senator Bernie Sanders has urged his Democratic colleagues to pull more than $10 billion in military aid to Israel from an upcoming spending bill, arguing that the money would make Washington complicit in Israel’s “immoral” war in Gaza.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Monday that he would put a $106 billion spending bill to a vote on Wednesday. Requested by President Joe Biden, the bill includes $10.1 billion in direct military aid to Israel, more than $61 billion for Ukraine, and $13.6 for border protection at home.

“I do not believe we should be appropriating over $10 billion for the right-wing extremist Netanyahu government to continue its current military approach,” Sanders said in a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Euphemistically, the Prime Minister recently announced that he and President Biden have “inaugurated a new era of US-Australia strategic cooperation”. Presumably he meant to say he’d found new ways to surrender Australia’s sovereignty.

 

Australians need to know what lies beneath the new era of US-Australia strategic cooperation    By Mike Scrafton

 

Last week’s statements by David Arakhamia – who took part in the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations to end the armed conflict a year and a half ago – have caused a stir. The leader of Ukraine’s parliament only said what had been uttered by others before, but his input, for the first time, delivered official confirmation from Kiev.

 

Fyodor Lukyanov: Here’s the grave diplomatic mistake Ukraine will eventually regret Kiev rejected ‘Finlandisation’, but it was almost certainly a better deal than the one it will get now

 

Fyodor Lukyanov

 

Imagine my horror discovering that American sign language equates Ireland to the potato. You don’t have to imagine at all as I find it hilarious, even though I understand the historical context as to how the Irish, rather than the Peruvians with their divine array of potatoes, or the Russians with their mastery of vodka, or indeed the good folk of Maine or Indiana who grow most of America’s potatoes, are synonymous with potatoes.

 

I live in the inner west/southwest of Sydney, traditional lands of the Gadigal, Wangal and Darug-speaking peoples. Our built heritage traces the area’s development and amplifies its desirability, economic viability, and people’s quality of life. According to Time Out, Marrickville and Enmore are some of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world.

 

Sydney YIMBY and the weaponising of heritage      By Marie Healy

 

Britain’s left-wing Party, Labour, has now disappeared into being a ‘competitor’ ‘against’ Britain’s right-wing Party, the Conservatives, competing for conservative voters, condemning progressive voters, and has abandoned voters who are to the left of center. Voters to the left of center have no longer political representation in either Party. Here is how that result was engineered by Britain’s billionaires (who basically control British politics):

Neoliberalist theory and practice went so horribly wrong because governments that put their faith in markets forgot one word – competition.

From the early-1980s, much of the Western world began turning to neoliberalism – a faith in free markets and smaller government. The collapse of the Soviet Union by the end of that decade confirmed neoliberalism as the dominant economic philosophy. But neoliberalism is now dead. Who killed neoliberalism and what will replace it?

 

Who killed neoliberalism?    By Craig Emerson

 

I write this brief letter and appeal on this fifty-second day of conflict between the Israeli government and the hapless population in Gaza. I also write as a child of Holocaust and concentration camp survivors.

LETTER TO THE DANDENONG COUNCIL, Melbourne, Australia, ABOUT THE IMMINENT GENOCIDE IN GAZA, November 29, 2023.

 

Imminent genocide in Gaza     By John Janusz Ebel

 

The Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has apparently revealed the true goal of his country’s enduring support for Ukraine and it has nothing to do with defending “democracy” or even battling Russia, but boils down to the modernization of the US military-industrial complex, ex-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said.

Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of the country’s National Security Council, took to social media platform X on Sunday, commenting on a speech made by Austin at the Reagan National Defense Forum in the US.

“We’ve launched what the Army calls ‘the most ambitious modernization effort in nearly 40 years’ for our defense industrial base,” the Pentagon boss said during the event.

 

OUR DESTRUCTION OF nature IS LEGENDARY

 

as we burn more OIL than IS necessary

 

FURTIVE SHADOWs OF PASSING PLANES

 

That BOMB showers of goodwill in vain

 

because THE DEAD SPEAK ILL of THEMSELVES

 

FOR the survivors do their BEST

 

To hate and dream OF revenge lest

 

IN ALL HONESTY, I could be DISHONEST

 

NO WORRIES, mate, I WILL WALK AROUND TROUBLE

 

through the mud of life and THIS little soap bubble

 

in the SLOW wake of DANCING scented men…..

 

Dressed in flowery shirts next TO some dirty villain

 

STINKING OF dried and bleeding BLOOD mixed with cordite

 

alight

 

Her SINGING IF ALLOWED WOULD MAKE THE MILK CURDLE

 

Freedom of speech in America and most European nations has fully receded into a mythological concept. The American constitutional right is no longer valid.

Take it from someone whose entire YouTube channel has been demonetized and suppressed. My name on Facebook and Instagram is a synonym (at least from Meta’s point of view) of the words “election interference.” Any positive press about me is suppressed, and accounts that support me get punished. X, formerly Twitter, deboosts and shadow-bans me. I am not alone but one of the thousands, maybe millions, of voices the powers that be want to be silenced. We don’t follow the narrative that supports the military-industrial complex of the West.

 

BY TARA READE....