Category Archives: War on Terror

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition (Phillip Deery, 2007)

Posted on January 14, 2014 by @ndy

[The second episode of the documentary Persons of Interest screens tonight (January 14, 2014) on SBS at 8.30. It’s prompted me to publish the following …] Phillip Deery (2007), ‘ASIO and the Communist Party: New Light on an Old Tradition’, … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks Party : R U Syrias?

Posted on January 13, 2014 by @ndy

John Shipton, CEO of the WikiLeaks Party (and Assange’s old man), recently sat down for a nice cup of tea with that nice man Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria and General Secretary of the Ba’ath Party (Bashar was of course … Continue reading →

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ASIO : Persons of Interest : Interview with director Haydn Keenan

Posted on January 10, 2014 by @ndy

PERSONS OF INTEREST – Trailer from Smart Street Films on Vimeo. Tonight on ‘The SUWA Show’ (5.30pm, 855AM, streaming at 3CR.org.au), Dr Cam & I have a chat with Haydn Keenan, the director of ‘Persons of Interest’, a new documentary … Continue reading →

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1994–2014 : ¡Viva Zapata!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by @ndy

[January 1, 2014 is the 20th anniversary (BBC) of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, so I thought I may as well re-post this interview with Subcomandante Marcos, an EZLN leader, conducted in April, 1994. There’s another interview with Marcos … Continue reading →

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Mick Armstrong on Melbourne G20 protests, November 2006 [A Blast From The Past]

Posted on December 24, 2013 by @ndy

Yo Gabba Gabba wrote me to say he couldn’t find Socialist Alternative leader Mick Armstrong’s statement in response to a disturbance at an anti-G20 rally in Melbourne in November 2006. Given also the recent stoopid regarding the G20 meeting in … Continue reading →

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“The Black Rose Syndicat” : D’oh!

Posted on December 21, 2013 by @ndy

Update (January 11, 2014) : Black Rose Syndicat (Addendum), January 7, 2014. Update (December 23, 2013) : OK so I reckon I gotta bit of a handle on it, and the moral of this story is: drugs are bad, mmmkay? … Continue reading →

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movement beyond borders forum redux

Posted on December 6, 2013 by @ndy

Update (December 12, 2013) : Don’t take my word for it: you can watch a video of the forum here. Last Saturday I attended a public forum on movement beyond borders, organised by the ‘beyond borders’ collective, a group of … Continue reading →

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FORUM : movement beyond borders : Saturday, November 30, 6pm

Posted on November 22, 2013 by @ndy

The ‘beyond borders collective’ has organised a public forum to be held at Trades Hall next Saturday. It looks really interesting … so I’ll have to try hard to find an excuse not to attend: It seems like every day … Continue reading →

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Rape in Australia: highest reported number of rapes by men of women per capita in the world?

Posted on October 29, 2013 by @ndy

Update (November 8): A correction has been published. This line was amended from “this country has, after all, the highest reported number of rapes by men of women per capita in the world” to “one of the highest reported number … Continue reading →

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Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Bill ~versus~ Sons of Anarchy

Posted on October 21, 2013 by @ndy

Update : Chilling: Queensland’s war on civil liberties, Robert Corr, overland, October 22, 2013. ‘Indeed, the Queensland laws have been drafted in scatter-gun fashion. None of the legislation is limited to bikie gangs. The Vicious Unlawful Association Disestablishment Act, for … Continue reading →

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