Month: June 2016
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Shadow boxing of Malcolm Turnbull v Bill Shorten … How Hitler tamed the Catholics before turning on the Jews … Canberra’s new ally: the maniac in Manila … Japan: Empire of the Rising Gun …. Great Bores continued …. Turnbull and Shorten fight phoney election Australia’s federal election is increasingly like a boxing match in…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
The Yanks are coming … remember the flood of heroin into Kings Cross during the Vietnam War … what can Darwin expect this time around … Europe’s neo-Nazis re-emerge … Great Bores: New series …. Australia is emerging as American war base – why? When Harold Holt’s Coalition government invited American GIs to spend their…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Tony Abbott exposed again … Coastal devastation demolishes climate deniers … Watch out for preferences deals … Here comes the Arts Party … Race for UN job gets down and dirty … How Zionists polluted Sydney Peace Prize … and more Climate change smashes coastal NSW It is 12 years since Sydney’s Sun-Herald published a…
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The artist who celebrated the lives of Lenin, Trotsky and Muhammad Ali: DAVID KING 1943-2016
Graphic designer, photographer, collector and writer David King dedicated most of his adult life to celebrating the Russian Revolution of 1917. He produced books, curated exhibitions and organised seminars to present the Bolshevik-led revolution with primary-sourced accuracy and captivating images. While bourgeois art moved inexorably towards commercialism, the cult of celebrity and modish post-modern fantasia,…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Election secret: Don’t mention capitalism’s storm clouds … Malcolm Turnbull swings from banker to wanker … Little Englanders praise Abbott and turn against Europe … Israel promotes bouncer to Defence Minister … Rupert Murdoch strikes again … Capitalism is the new dirty word During Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 US presidential race, his principal strategist James…