Category Archives: EDITORIAL

EVENT: BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND by David Bradbury, Friday March 28

Blowin’ in the Wind examines the secret treaty that allows the US military to train and test its weaponry on Australian soil. It looks at the impact of recycled uranium weapons and the far-reaching physical and moral effects on every Australian. The film’s release has been timely as the government currently moves to approve more uranium mines while arguing the contrary – that by going nuclear we are being both ‘safe’ and ‘green’. Continue reading

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Citizens may take action over rough treatment in Victorian Parliament

ALP MP Gavin Jennings has condemned the call for the removal of the public from the Gallery of the Victorian Parliament last week, during the Summary Offences Act debate. He immediately entered testimony into Hansard, that he had only on rare occasions, heard “chortling” or “clapping”, and deemed the President’s description of “dangerous and provocative behaviour” a misrepresentation of the facts. Two men and two women said they wanted to stay and hear all of the debate, under the reasonable assumption that they had done nothing to warrant eviction from the Gallery, but a 30-man special task force was called in, with guns and tasers, to forcibly remove them. Continue reading

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“DON’T GIVE IT OXYGEN!” – The Rise of Unscientific Journalism

The following article was written prior to the removal of Robyn Irene’s ‘The Betrayal of Julian’ from the Western Australian newspaper The Stringer. Since Robyn’s article was also published on Indymedia, my reference links are now pointing to that site.

“DON’T GIVE IT OXYGEN!” was temporarily approved for publication by The Stringer’s founder, Gerry Georgatos, but I was advised within the hour, that the newspaper had opted instead to remove Robyn Irene’s ‘The Betrayal of Julian’ .

A shame – and painfully ironic? – that “DON’T GIVE IT OXYGEN!” cannot address the same audience, but I respect Mr Georgatos’ wishes to have “never published ‘The Betrayal of Julian’ in the first place”, for the reasons he stated.

I also appreciate Gerry’s kind advice that I try uploading my article to the other site, Indymedia, where he is apparently a ‘Trusted User’ with publishing rights for his own and other writers’ articles. Robyn Irene may also be an Indymedia ‘Trusted User’, so I would advise her, Gerry or Anonymous (name listed as the publisher of ‘The Betrayal of Julian’) to carefully re-read the Indymedia Editorial Policy:

“Newswire articles and/or comments will not be placed on our promoted newswire if they are [among other things] (1) inaccurate: posts that are inaccurate or misleading; (2) from political parties: the newswire is designed to generate a news resource, not a notice-board for political parties; and (3) a personal attack: articles and/or comments that contain abusive language against other activists or site users.” (coughs…) Continue reading

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Wikileaks Party Independent Review(s)

“…the Wikileaks Party’s long-awaited, and recently released Independent Review… via Crikey.com.au because it’s not on their website… how it failed to mention a hefty submission made by the former Council member and national spokesperson for the WLP, Sam Castro.” Continue reading

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World Première of John PILGER’s ‘UTOPIA’

“This film is about heroes. It is not about victims. It’s about struggle and resistance. It brings together some of the most admirable human beings I have met.” John Pilger Continue reading

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A Long-Forgotten Echo…

As far as I can see there is no journalist willing to probe deeply and at length into Wikileaks due to its masterful manipulation of media and its artful concealment of its operation under guise of necessary security. Simply put, Wikileaks behaves like a secret spy operation. John Young, Cryptome.org Continue reading

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WIKILEAKSPARTY.OMG.AU

Voting has now closed, and as we await the results – predicted one week ago by the bookies, the Murdoch press and, minutes ago, by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as landslide victory for our right-wing Liberal Party – I will take a moment to explain what we intended to do in the Australian Senate. We had realised that the Upper House, which was intended to review and adjudicate on the operations of government – our Lower House – had become more of a House of Deal-Making. Who better, we thought, than Julian Assange and his fellow-candidates to represent us in the Australian Senate; given the Wikileaks’ outstanding international track record, of keeping the bastards honest? God knows we’d tried taking to the streets before the Iraq War, but the man at the top had not heard our voice… Continue reading

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JULIAN ASSANGE LIVE BROADCAST TO AUSTRALIA

The Internet has been transformed into a militarily occupied state. When all of our private communications, heart felt, the inner core of our life, communications between boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, between business partners, even between bureaucracies and states; when all those communications are swept up, hovered up into a vast collection apparatus, indexed and stored for all time available only to a select few… then we are in the situation where we have a tank on the street of the inner core of our lives, where we have a soldier under our bed, listening to everything that a husband and wife says to one another when they are communicating by email or sms. The penetration of the digital on civilian life is also the penetration of the military and intelligence agencies of civilian life.” Julian Assange Continue reading

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All Rise for The War on Truth

Bradley Manning’s trial should not be happening within the chain of command of a US military court. His loss of confidence in that chain of command and his adherence to international law warrants the judgement of an international court. This trial must be open to the eyes of the world, and in the interest of humanity – not just the US, and not just the few. Continue reading

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THE TRUTH… about Mother’s Day

The first North American Mother’s Day was conceptualised with Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870. Despite having penned ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ 12 years earlier, Howe had become so distraught by the death and carnage of the Civil War that she called on Mothers everywhere to come together and protest what she saw as the futility of “Sons killing the sons of other mothers”. Continue reading

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