Monthly Archives: August 2020

Friendly Jordies ~versus~ Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union

[Update (September 1, 2020) : BadEmpanada has published a vid (August 30) titled ‘Why Friendlyjordies and Labor Are Attacking the AUWU’; Hamish Taylor has published an extract from a Friendly vid in which Jordan downplays an alleged sexual assault by … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #033 w Sarah Hightower on Aum Shinrikyo & QAnon : August 27, 2020

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Sarah Hightower [Twitter]. Sarah is an independent researcher with an interest in extremism and cults and an expert on Aum Shinrikyo. See/hear also : The True, Secret History of the … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #032 w Seyward Darby on Sisters in Hate : August 20, 2020

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Seyward Darby [Twitter], a writer and editor who’s just recently had published Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism (Little, Brown & Co., 2020): Journalist … Continue reading

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Hi Dr Nick!

[Update (August 19, 2020) : ‘But perhaps the most disquieting effect of the prevailing attitude that racism always can, and should, be debated, is the way in which it has allowed the far-right to claim that they are being ‘cancelled’ … Continue reading

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Tucker Carlson is Antifa

From The Department of Too-Good-Not-To-Share (via JustinTBrown) …

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The Base: Exporting Accelerationist Terror [via The Lads Society]

A problem for the Australian antifa, and indeed for anti-fascist groups in Europe and the US, is that few people and organisations they oppose here have much to do with Nazism. ~ Chip Le Grand, Antifa Australia goes for the … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #031 w Shalini Kantayya on Coded Bias : August 13, 2020

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Shalini Kantayya [Twitter], the director of Coded Bias, a terrific documentary currently screening at MIFF 68 1/2. CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #030 w Alex DiBranco on Male Supremacism, Terror & The Right : August 6, 2020

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Alex DiBranco [Twitter], the founder and executive director of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, which provides in-depth research and timely analysis of misogynist mobilization, ideology, and violence to … Continue reading

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