The common features of religious extremism invariably involve a return to some idealised state of purity. Whether it be Islamic extremism or...
Category: Crime
Ordinary Citizens Are Like Gisele Pelicot
The neoliberal order is her husband and every morning we wake up, feeling a little out of sorts, having unbeknown to us, been raped by strangers in...
Drugged For Sex: The Pelicot Rapes
A man, a husband, drugs his wife without her knowledge to offer her for sex on the Internet to 50 men. Drugged for sex: The Pelicot rapes. This case...
Get Ready For The Rewriting Of American History
I have just had my post “America Chooses A Crook For President” taken down by LinkedIn because it has been categorised as hate speech. Is this just...
Lords & Ladies Of Lawns
Have you ever wondered why many of our older style homes have lawns? Why we demark sections of green grass around our houses? These, hopefully,...
The Very Idea Of Presidential Immunity Is Deeply Disturbing
As the late David Graeber emphasised, elections are not democratic, they are aristocratic. A truly democratic way of appointing leaders is via a...
Dutton’s Dirty Business As Home Affairs Minister
Nearly 10 years of Coalition government in Australia is being revealed as a decade of corruption and incompetence. Now, Dutton’s dirty business as...
Why Do Men Feel The Need To Kill?
I was thinking about the current state of world affairs, with wars in Ukraine and The Middle East raging. Casting my mind back to the recent global...
Money And Alcohol Fuelling Greed And Hate
If you drill down into the things that drive most men on the planet you will find money and alcohol standing out. We live in a materialistic age...
Indigenous Killing For Country
I have been delving into the history of colonial Australia and in particular its relationship with its First Nations inhabitants. It is something...