Ali Abunimah 29 March 2019
Not a word from Andrew Bolt but Milo consumed all his energy. He's a poet, and Israel is lobbying the Australian government.
“An automated assessment has been made. Unfortunately, your application is one of a small number of applications that cannot be approved due to checks required by the Australian Government.”
Kanazi said he plans to follow the instructions contained in the email in order to continue his application through an Australian consulate, and hopes to visit the country as planned.
Yet as Kanazi goes through the process he faces a campaign of defamation and pressure by anti-Palestinian activists smearing him as an anti-Semite and a supporter of “terrorism” – standard tactics of Israel and its lobby groups seeking to silence Palestinians and those who advocate for their rights.
Widely published, Kanazi has in fact used his poetry and political commentary for years to convey a strong anti-racist message and to express solidarity with peoples’ liberation struggles in Palestine, the United States and around the world.
What would Lachlan Murdoch (the sludge) and AOC (antibody) discuss over dinner today? (ODT)
Between two worlds life hovers like a star,
’Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.
How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be!
The thesis was written by Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch. In the 57-page thesis, Lachlan tried to develop a system, rooted in German philosophy, for leading a life guided by morality and love. His thesis was titled, “A Study of Freedom and Morality in Kant’s Practical Philosophy,” and he salted it with spiritual inquiries. It even concluded with a striking Sanskrit line about yearning for the purity of infinity.
A quarter-century later, this document is strangely relevant because its author has become one of the most important yet least-known purveyors of white nationalism.
far-right shouters wouldn’t be on our screens without the approval of the Murdochs. Just as the Sackler family owns the pharmaceutical firm that created and marketed OxyContin, at the center of the opioid epidemic, the Murdoch family is behind Fox News and the far-right sludge that has been injected into America’s political bloodstream.
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Bolt's columns every Monday are just a repetition of the thread practised the week before and repeated over and over again like an ad attached to a carousel. There is nothing new here or inspiring other than what it is, Churnalism in its purest form.
There is no Black and White Racism; there is only systemic racism, and its historical context and roots stretch back well over 200 years. It arrived by boat on Australia's shores in 1788. The ABC is not throwing fuel on any form of systemic behaviour pattern other than the predictable spark of unrighteous and inglorious outrage of an ultra-racist named Andrew Bolt who would try without shame to convince us that he's a victim of Black racism.
The ABC provides a platform for all Australians and restricts none, unlike Bolt. Should Bolt wish to test the righteousness of his theory of race hatred and it's equivalence he could do it via our RDA laws which he only knows too well. However, he hasn't the guts to try that path has he?
Indigenous Australians, which Bolt claims he's one, have been righteously angry at people like Bolt since invasion day. Bolt would if he could steal their 60,000-year identity and history to make it meaningless. Indigenous Australians have never been able to systemically establish any patterns of behaviour that negatively impacts on the privileged white colonial race to which Bolt believes he belongs. Unfortunately, even poor whites and blacks alike have internalised the social psychology of privilege and in part have accepted it which entraps them. It's that entrapment Bolt doesn't want to be revealed. He'd rather that we live our day to day lives and continue on as April Fools. The ABC helps shine a light on that by giving Get Krack'in a platform to punch up.
How the Liberals got stuck in a long, demented cycle of vengeance
Hi Tony, it's Julie Bishop," began the call. Long silence. Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministership was collapsing. Bishop had decided to run for the leadership. She was making every call herself, even the difficult ones, to ask for support. No intermediaries, no numbers men."I'm just doing you the courtesy of ..."It was as far as she got. Abbott cut her off. "What about you do me the courtesy of being a loyal deputy?" He was still fuming about the collapse of his own prime ministership three years earlier. He blamed Bishop for colluding against him.
It's time to go so the country can move FOWARD (ODT)
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Pre-election 'bidding war' for WA sees billions roll across the Nullarbor as leaders splash the cash
The cynicism of Pork barrelling is a reason to get rid of him
As the merry-go-round of federal leaders making lavish spending promises for WA continued this week, Mark McGowan could barely contain his glee, writes Jacob Kagi.
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