This Week in the New Normal #15
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Australia is going full Fascist …but resistance is growing
Kit Knightly Covid19 has been used as an excuse to increase government control of pretty much everything, pretty much everywhere. It is, without question, the greatest campaign to seize...
Nazi Healthcare Revived Across the Five Eyes: Killing Useless Eaters and Biden’s COVID Relief Bill
Matthew Ehret “The ill-conceived `love of thy neighbor’ has to disappear, especially in relation to inferior or asocial creatures. It is the supreme duty of a national state to...
If you are reading this, you might be a conspiracy theorist
If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably been called a conspiracy theorist. Also you’ve been derided and shamed for questioning the “science” of the Covid debacle. The idea of...
Bait-&-Switch: How they’ve changed the Covid conversation
The CDC estimates the infection fatality ratio of Sars-Cov-2 to be about 0.26%. A number perfectly in line with severe flu seasons. Virtually every country in Europe is now...
WATCH: New Zealand to move all “covid cases” to “Quarantine Centres”
The New Zealand government announced yesterday that ALL cases of Sars-Cov-2 infection “are to be managed in a quarantine facility”. Health Director-General Dr Ashley Bloomfield made the announcements in...
Going Nuclear in the Antipodes: Australia’s Megadeath Complex
Binoy Kampmark The antipodes has had a fraught relationship with the nuclear option. At the distant ends of the earth, New Zealand took a stand against the death complex,...
Shelter from the Storm
Eddison Flame Trouble I look around at the world and I see wars and violence occurring everywhere. I see my government making wars, bulling smaller poorer nations. I see...
‘Lone wolf’ myth covers up possible Mossad role in New Zealand terrorist attack
Max Parry Ever since the news broke on March 15 of two consecutive mass shootings at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, corporate...
Captain Cook’s “Discovery” 250 Years On
Hugh O’Neill CAPTAIN COOK Abridged from a lecture by Professor Bernard Smith (1916-2011) The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interr’d within their bones.”...
More than Cognitive Dissonance
James O’Neill The dilemmas in Canberra go beyond the respective roles of the American alliance and the China trade. They point to a failure to grasp historical reality and...
New Zealand – The ebb & flow of History
Hugh O’Neill There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound...
International legislators oppose TPP, say it endangers country sovereignty
by Vaska As the Council of Canadians reports today, Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party, and MP Don Davis, the New Democratic Party’s trade critic, have joined the...
