Borat versus Social Media: Sacha Baron Cohen Comes out Swinging
Having made a name for himself causing cringing controversy, forging alter egos with the ease of a spam producer, Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G, Borat, […]
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Popes Against Nuclear Weapons
The Vatican comes with its ills, contradictions and blatant hypocrisies in the field of moral theology and human existence, but on the issue of atomic […]
Through the Yellow Looking Glass: Australia’s China Wars
This year, China as Intimidating Monster has become the popular motif in Canberra circles. Australian government members Andrew Hastie and Senator James Paterson have become […]
Dropped Investigations: Julian Assange, Sex and Sweden
Sex, the late Gore Vidal astutely observed, is politics, and not merely from the vantage point of those who wish to police it. In the […]
Letting the Side Down: Prince Andrew, the Royal Family and Jeffrey Epstein
The choking cloud of Jeffrey Epstein’s paedophilic legacy has been floating over the Atlantic for some time. It does its best (or worst) in matters […]
Open Guidelines: The Foreign Interference Problem in Australian Universities
Education has always been a political matter, whatever the apolitical advocates of it think it is. In Australia, it has proven sectarian, ideological, and skewed, […]
Business as Usual: Evo Morales and the Coup Condition
There is an inherent bestiality in the politics of the Americas that signals coup, assassination and disruption. No state is ever allowed to go through […]
Some things don’t always work properly …
… Unfortunately, that applies to us! There are a couple of issues we need to explain, and to apologise for: 1 Daily, we are receiving […]
Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data
Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data In recent weeks, Johannesburg’s computer network was held for ransom by a hacker […]
Walls in the Head: Ostalgia and the Berlin Wall Three Decades Later
Walls have always served a dual purpose: they keep people in, and others out. The mentality of the wall is one of imprisonment and exclusion. […]
Corporate Mammon: Amazon and the Seattle Council Elections
An enduring US political tradition was in evidence in Seattle recently. Amazon had decided that the city council elections would be too important to leave […]
Curfew Panda
It seems a tall, ambitious and very authoritarian order: imposing bans on persons under the age of 18 from playing online games between 22:00 and […]
The Dr Mohamed Haneef case
By Dr George Venturini The Dr. Mohamed Haneef case On 1 July 2007 Scotland’s largest airport in Glasgow was shut down after a four-wheel-drive was […]
Tethering Pegasus: WhatsApp takes NSO Group to Court
A lawsuit filed in a US federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday threw up a few interesting, and disturbing considerations. In it, the Facebook-owned […]
Beyond the ‘Palace Letters’ (part 3)
By Dr George Venturini At the election of 2 March 1996 Labor suffered a landslide defeat at the hand of to John Winston Howard’s Liberal–National […]