Misinformation and Cyber Warfare
“By inserting disinformation in publications, advocating extremist ideas, inciting racist and xenophobic flash-mobs, conducting interstate computer attacks on critical infrastructure targets that are vital for […]
Articles by Bert Hetebry
Why the blatant brutality against civilians?
The war in Ukraine rolls on, seemingly an endless aggression which seeks either a capitulation or the nation’s complete destruction. This morning a report that […]
Slavery: how can we avoid it?
We live wonderfully sheltered lives in the western world; the world of consumerism, of capitalism where just about every need we have can be fulfilled, […]
In search of freedom
I am a poor wayfaring stranger travelling through this world of woe but there’s no sickness, toil or danger in that bright land to which […]
It’s fundamental, so it must be right!
It must be comforting to know in absolute terms that you are right. Right beyond reason, so right that it broaches no argument. I can’t […]
I hate paying tax!
Before my retirement my workmate Paul said he hates working overtime because he pays way too much tax on the money earned. We talked about […]
Boys will be boys… sounds like an excuse to me
Growing up can be fun. As a growing boy, the adventures get bigger as bodies grow, new skills are learned, kicking a football around, hitting […]
Male Entitlement
“You’re not worth going to jail for.” Let’s call him John. I met John walking on the beach several months ago. He is an angry […]
When will hatred stop?
I read an interesting book recently, The Power of Strangers by Joe Keohane. Subtitle is The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World. I talk […]
Australia is only racist for some
My family arrived in Australia in 1954. It was a white Australia we came to, essentially a sort of reflection of an English society. We […]
What does it mean to be Australian?
Sometimes we are proud to be Australian. We cheer on our cricket teams, we carry high hopes for our tennis players, cheer on the Matildas […]
“Shit Life Syndrome”: the criminalisation of poverty
In the book Pathogenesis, the author Jonathan Kennedy refers to the phrase ‘Shit Life Syndrome’ being coined by local doctors in Blackpool, one of the […]
Cost of living crisis, cost of living crisis, cost of living crisis …
Repeat again and again, we are living in a cost of living crisis. And the government really urgently right now ought to be doing something […]
Orthodoxies or Humanity?
Orthodox: Following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or beliefs of a religion, philosophy or practice. (Oxford Dictionary) Humanity:1. Human beings collectively. […]