The Lost Art of Journalism: A Call for Truth in a World of Puppetry
Is there a William Howard Russell among today's journalists?
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December 20, 2024
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Justice / Law Enforcement / Propaganda / Racism / Rule of Law
The ACT Government and the Ministry of Truth
The Australian Capital Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal has become Orwell's Ministry of Truth, facilitating the distortion of historical and legal records.
October 10, 2024
Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Propaganda / Refugees / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
Anna Elisabeth Schmieg and the narrative structures of society
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and…
September 20, 2012
Accountability / Corruption / Education / Equality / Hypocrisy / Propaganda / Rule of Law / Tertiary
OUA and Australia’s culture of corruption
Before I launch into today’s topic I’d like to offer an apology for my long absence from Blak and Black. I have been helping a friend restore a 19th Century…
September 15, 2012
Accountability / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Propaganda / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity / White Australia
Too little, too late
… What folk is this, which seems by pain so vanquished?" And he to me: "This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.…
August 28, 2012
Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Law / Propaganda / Refugees / Rule of Law
Eat shit: millions of flies can’t be wrong
The absence of good and evil characterizes the mind itself (hsin-t i) The presence of good and evil characterizes the movement of intention. The knowledge of good and evil is…
July 6, 2012
Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Human Rights / Propaganda / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity
Media, racism and manipulation
Media have divided the working class and stereotyped young African-American males as gangsters or drug dealers. As a result of such treatment, the media have crushed youths' prospects for future…
April 7, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / International Law / Propaganda / Rule of Law / United Nations / West Papua
What is actually the root of the problem in Papua?
The following is an extract of an interview between Bambang Dharmono, former Aceh military commander and negotiator representing Indonesia for the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM), to lead the Presidential Unit…
January 10, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Australian Defence Force / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Propaganda / Racism / Shared humanity
Bintang Kejora: a struggle for a new dawn
Former Kopassus commander Lt. Gen. (ret.) Prabowo Subianto (who was “forced to retire because of his involvement in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of democracy activists in early 1998”) has…
December 17, 2011
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Law Enforcement / Police / Propaganda
Canberra Corrupt: The self styled Creative Canberran
Dear Creative_Canberran, Please forgive my tardiness in responding to your racist, defamatory and provocative insights into my research and writing abilities. No, your infantile rant on RiotAct has not escaped…
November 13, 2011
Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Government / Law Enforcement / Pacific Neighbours / PNG / Propaganda / RAMSI / Refugees / Rule of Law / Solomon Islands / Stanhope Government
Injustice within Justice
I have borrowed the title from Michael Stolleis' oxymoronically titled book Justice within Injustice which is about, oxymoronically, justice in the Third Reich. After having read Stolleis' essays, in which…
August 16, 2011
Assimilation / Corruption / Culture / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Neo-Colonialism / Propaganda / Rule of Law / White Australia
A rose by any other name: Invasion
Earlier this week Sydney City Council voted to include the term ‘invasion’ in the Preamble to the city’s vision for 2030. It’s even made news in India. It’s caused a…
July 2, 2011
Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Propaganda / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / Yindjibarndi
Is Native Title worth the paper it’s written on?
At the request of one of the people mentioned in this post it has been taken down. We will review this situation and keep you informed of any progress as…
April 10, 2011
The Mirrors
As society becomes more narcissistic, as we push ourselves harder and harder in the name of status at the expense of everything else, society starts heading towards the unknown. It…
November 22, 2010
The subtleties of genocide
Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin were at best clumsy amateurs when it came to genocide. If a political group wants to rid itself of a troublesome ethnic minority,…
September 26, 2010
The here and now of racism in Australia
A recurrent theme in Australia’s history has been how to deal with the perennial ‘problem’ of the Aboriginal population. Assimilation, as policy for much of the twentieth century and continuing…
September 12, 2010