En Passant

End offshore processing; end mandatory detention. Free the refugees.

The collaboration of Zionists and Fascists is not surprising. The increasingly brutal actions of Israel against the Palestinians fits neatly with the hysterical anti-Muslim campaigns by the APP/ADL.

Zionists in Brisbane marched side by side with fascists on Saturday. The two groups have seemingly made an alliance over their support for Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.

The Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC), the peak trade union body in Victoria, has passed a motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Campaign in support of Palestinian rights and opposing the police attacks on BDS protests at Max Brenner in Melbourne.

The news organisation that bought you phone hacking in the UK brings you untruths in Australia.

The Australian – by its untrue stories shall you know it. The Murdoch press – where untruths abound.

It may well be that the certainty the carbon tax is offering to mining companies and power generators is encouraging the explosion of Coal Seam Gas exploration across the country.

Labor is a minority Government because of its rotten right wing policies. Labor wouldn’t be dependent on Thomson if it had abandoned neoliberalism and begun to rule in the interests of labour, not capital.

Former Gaddafi apparatchiks dominate the Libyan National Transition Council. The co-opted revolution is in safe pro-imperialist hands, for now.

If you have any further examples of ‘possible pollie profiteering’ post the details in the comments and I’ll add it in, if appropriate, to the text.

The sad, petty sewer of official Australian politics over the last 12 months is a wretched contrast to the fightbacks and revolutions around the globe. But the upheavals shaking the world system should give, to us and to our rulers here in Australia, hope and fear in equal measure.