1. Kamala was already talking up war on Iran before the election.
2. How is bombing Iran morally different to what was done to Palestine, Lebanon, Syria under Biden. 3. If both options are into genocide then you need another opposition. 4. There are more options if you go looking
Yeah, mate, Democrats are good because they would've bombed different countries even though they were literally manufacturing consent to bomb Iran prior to losing.
Also, i use empire very deliberately. The rest of the world gets it because they are on the receiving end.
It's normal for US presidents to bomb countries. All of them. aje.news/mdvot8 always for Empire that's how Empires work.
Biden approved and enabled the genocide in Gaza - there's literally no greater evil. Harris said Iran is the greatest threat to the US during her campaign. She was also going to go to war with Iran and just would've sounded more coherent when she did.
Rudd put some money into public housing otherwise those years were as disappointing as the rest. Less disappointing than the current crop of ghouls but not by enough to feel nostalgic.
I remember as far back as Howard. Albanese is as bad as any of them.
His approval rating is well into the negatives. But it's his dangerous and immoral complicity in US and Israeli war crimes that concerns me (and his general antagonism towards minorities, working class, unemployed and unhoused people)
To be fair, they are probably an anti-war anarchist. All the best people are.
Israel loves murdering children and destroying schools. The default assumption based on their previous behaviour should be that they did this deliberately.
One example please, just one example of Shoebridge raising a false issue?
The massacre of at least 165 Iranian schoolgirls and their teachers, largely ignored or sanitized by the genocidal western media exposes the real objectives of this aggression by two rogue nuclear pow,ers. bdsmovement.net/news/Israeli...
The most brutal takedown of the current U.S. government ever broadcast on TV:
“The U.S. government is a vicious imperialist government that attacks other countries and kills little children. Iran understands it is fighting the Epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs them.”
She (like you) still think the US can act as a benevolent empire. There are no benevolent empires. The problem is empire. Arming your friends to fight your enemies is empire. Read some books.
This is a bit depressing. Even the anti-imperialist US Americans want to keep doing imperialism. Imperialism-lite is less of an upgrade than you think.
It's auspol so yeah, you'd expect it to look at the Australian angle. And while we are a US client state we're complicit in this shit. I'd rather not be.
Sydney's Mardi Gras siding with zionists is a sad and unfortunate development. Elite capture is an ugly thing and Pride in Protest are fighting the good fight.
Is that where the Labor brain is at these days - all "personal responsibility" and individualism and who cares about climate change and genocide, let the market decide?
The moral issue is with the *system* not my behaviour or yours within it. Designing a system that by default makes one complicit in genocide is pretty obscene.
They were also close to Jimmy Saville. Rich people are depraved and it's dose dependent. The wealthier they are, the more depraved they become.
That requires time and expertise most people don't have - we are already massively burdened by unnecessary admin. Also, there are less bad things to invest in but the compulsory financialisation of 10% of income is a problem on it's own
The punishment bureaucracy is not there to reduce crime or support victims. That is just the spin. Evidence based programs that reduce crime are used to prop up that pretext but governments need them to fail or they'll undermine the whole system.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... i won't forgive Paul Keating for compulsory superannuation which makes it extremely difficult not to be complicit in genocide and environmental destruction. ALPs moral bankruptcy is not a recent development. #auspol
So many other countries have managed to do high speed rail. The main feasibility issue in Australia is corruption not population or topography. It's wheeled out as a distraction because it's popular and they don't do it because rich people don't want it.
If there was any consistency in our "justice" system, this would be treated as a hate crime. And even without the racist element it should still be murder. It's an example of white supremacy, car supremacy and elite impunity.
There's never been effective opposition in my lifetime. Maybe some more vibrant sparring partners. But the complete failure of the LNP does expose ALP as not wanting to do any of the things they claim to want to do. They are just a husk for big business and the US state department.
"credible accused" makes it sound like there is some doubt. There is no doubt. But otherwise, yes.
Yes, they are violent racist thugs. That's their job, that's what they've always been, that's what the ALP employs them for. I condemn them as individuals for that but the real problem isn't *who* is in those uniforms, the problem is the uniform itself.
Sure, it's not an excuse and those police are bad people, but the cops are not the main enemy here, it's their bosses. Political leaders will protect their goons only so much and sacrifice them before taking accountability themselves.
The Police were following orders. ACAB but the real problem is the premier
LETTER TO PREMIER MINNS from James R Dear Premier Minns I was arrested yesterday outside the Sydney Town Hall yesterday evening charged with assaulting a police officer. During my violent arrest I sustained several bloody injuries. I can barely walk today and my right kidney hurts very badly as a result of its being punched. Or perhaps I have a cracked rib? The demonstration was pretty much over when the police, backed up by eight or so fellow officers on horseback, started to aggressively push the crowd south, into an already very crowded space. I have witnessed this tactic before - used by police to generate a violent retaliatory response. Up until then the police had been calm and respectful of we demonstrators. Then, they changed and became violent, as the footage you would have access to makes clear. Clearly, someone in the chain of command instructed the police to create chaos and violent confrontations in order to retrospectively justify the large police presence yesterday, to use as evidence in support of the banning of future demonstrations, and in the hope that the media will play along and hold we demonstrators responsible for inciting violence. Was it you who issued the edict to foment violence or someone else in the chain of command? After 5 hours in a police cell with no offer of water or medical attention for my various injuries I was released without charge - the 'assault police officer' allegation having been dropped when it became apparent, from body cam footage, that I had not done so. 1am a 76 year old filmmaker and journalist and request a response to this letter and an indication of whom I should approach within your government to have my spectacles and torn short replaced and my medical expenses paid? cheers
Photo Police brutality
Photo Police brutality
“Was it you who issued the edict to foment violence or someone else in the chain of command?
After 5 hours in a police cell with no offer of water or medical attention for my various injuries I was released without charge - I’m a 76 year old filmmaker & journalist,“
#Auspol
