“The Road We Are Travelling” August 8, 2018
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I can claim no originality here, since this post is an extended quote from Chris Hedges. The problem is to understand President Trump.
On the Turning Away January 22, 2018
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The dog blog has become much more straightforward. I have taken the course of least resistance, now that U discover I can put almost all the photos I have taken and it it not too long. Furthermore, the photos are a self indulgence.
“The Urgency of Now” November 9, 2016
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The election of Donald Trump to become in due course the American President is an extraordinary development. Given the campaign, he made a gracious acceptance of Hillary Ciinton’s phone call acknowledging defeat.As far as I know she has not made a public announcement.
Telling the Truth March 17, 2016
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It was a great surprise to hear that Bernie Sanders was not played on the Monopoly Mass Media. They were apparently more interested in their own commentary and waiting for Donald Trump’s (originally the German name was Drumpt).
Bernie out of the campaign? March 2, 2016
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Super Tuesday has come and gone. Ted Cruze has won in Texas and Oklahoma, otherwise the Donald has been successful. The real contest for the presidency is among the Democratic Party nominees.(This is despite the suggestion that the swings and roundabouts favour the Republican candidate this year.)
Death in the US Working Class December 5, 2015
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Normally these people in the American way are given a racial classification, and described as working.
The presumption made is that neo-liberalism is new. The cruelty and structural violence has much in common with the conditions created for British underclass in the 19th Century. The Basingstoke Union Workhouse in 1881 describes the inmates. Unlike then, migration is not an option.
WAR AGAINST THE HUMAN FUTURE June 13, 2014
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This is a provocative suggestion. However, for governments to allow the cutting down forests, the source of oxygen,thus destroying ecosystems we cannot recreate, and particularly refusing to take effective actions on climate change the case is clear.
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HOMELESSNESS May 19, 2014
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Now that border fascism has been brought home by the cruelty of the Federal Budget, as could have been predicted, the question and ramifications of homelessness might merit consideration.
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PRAYER AND “TERRORISM” February 3, 2014
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I found the story of the Ballarat mosque on Facebook. It was put up by the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR). In its way it is an illustration of how in the era of developing modern communications, the local and global merge.
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WHO KILLED JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY? December 3, 2013
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Bob Ellis recently claimed in his provocative way Lee Harvey Oswald did not have a motive to kill President Kennedy.
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JFK ASSASSINATION : 50 YEARS AGO November 22, 2013
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The speculation, surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, now fifty years ago, is not surprising.
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SHUTDOWN TO SHUTDOWN October 18, 2013
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Antipathy to government is one thing, but taking it to almost the limit is another.
THE MANNING TRIAL August 1, 2013
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Bradley Manning’s military espionage trial has now entered the sentencing stage. He has gone from being recognized in court as “the accused” to “the defendant”. This phase of the trial is expected to last some months.
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NO DEFENCE? June 13, 2013
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Obviously, I don’t know much about law, but I thought everyone was entitled to present a defence, and regardless of circumstances there was to be a presumption of innocence. Furthermore, the accused’s ultimate fate was at the discretion of the jury. Apparently, none of this applies in the case of Edward Snowden, who supplied information on pervasive information collection by the US Government.
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FAIR TRIALS AND US PATRIOTS June 11, 2013
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Using terms such as show trial, as Julian Assange has done, Chris Hedges refers to the trial process as “a judicial lynching”. in relation to the military trial of Bradley Manning could be understood as emotional thinking.
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BRADLEY MANNING: “SHOW TRIAL” June 5, 2013
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Soon the Obama Presidency with will enter the twilight zone as a lame duck administration. This will be a very subtle change, and many will not notice the difference.
MASKED DEMOCRACY March 12, 2013
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The case for the unrepresentative nature of US democracy seems overwhelming. Could not the same observation be equally made in Australia?
DIALECTIC AND DEMOCRACY March 3, 2013
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Last week Bradley Manning made a statement to the Military Hearing, after a period of incarceration now exceeding three thousand days, with incidental torture along the way. So much for the presumption of a speedy trial.
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