Category: World
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Trump’s America
Stay indoors but stay informed. Check out alternative, non-Murdoch, current affairs. This week’s menu includes: Trump takes USA from hero to zero; Stop rorters from exploiting the pandemic; Two new dictionaries show how language is being Americanised; Debut of the word “sportswashing”; Didn’t Australia get gold for “sportswashing” at the Sydney Olympics?; Opus Dei enthusiast…
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Baroness brazens it out
Stay in indoors but stay connected: Follow current affairs that’s important and professional, and it’s FREE: Baroness Scotland’s scramble to hold onto Commonwealth job; Britain’s Windrush crime; Baroness Scotland’s curious Commonwealth allies; Sharan Burrow, ex-ACTU boss, makes friends in Saudi Arabia, the Arab Gulf’s bloodhouse; When famous sayings were really famous; List of great sayings. “Baroness…
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Remembering friends who lunched
Tributes to some of my dearest friends who I won’t being seeing ever again. But this is not a tear-grabbing set of obituaries, rather a celebration of memorable lunches with journalist Frank Crook, actor Arthur Dignam, trade union leader Jack Mundey and judge David Levine. And it ends with a piece on rock’n’roll legend Little…
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Meet the real Lyle Shelton
Exclusive menu of independent reporting: Who is Lyle Shelton? US multi-millionaires get cash from Washington stimulus package; Deep South pastor asks for stimulus cheques; Henry Kissinger’s plan to “save” capitalism; The day Laurie Brereton shocked the ACTU Congress; Travel PR puffs aren’t journalism; PLUS Quote of the Week and Pseuds of the Week Meet the…
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Corporate meltdown over Ruby Princess
A menu of current affairs and commentary: What happened to film lighting? Ruby Princess scandal revisited; Quality bookshops losing out; Julian Assange’s big surprise; Time to replace dying capitalism?; Edward Snowden emerges from isolation; Maurie O’Sullivan said it first; The Australian’s headline blunders; Uncensored views of young Donald. Movies in the dark One bonus arising from…
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The banks, the big corporations and the coronavirus
This week: the banks, the big corporations and the coronavirus All in this together? Bankers, CEOs and company directors emerged from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) better off than before it. This was true in the US, the UK and Australia. They walked away unscathed from the financial catastrophe which they had created but…
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Joe Biden’s backers
Another menu of independent current affairs: US Democrats face choice between VP Joe Biden (right) and Senator Bernie Sanders (left); Why Donald Trump is a moving target; The “scramble for Africa” was repeated around the world; Brixton leader “Red” Ted Knight dies in London, aged 86; plus Quote of the Week and Mark Latham’s love-in…
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MPs take six-month holidays
Enticing menu of current affairs, independent and FREE of charge: MPs in Sydney and Canberra shut up shop; Getting to know Stig Abell; Hachette job on Woody Allen; Inside Pentecostalism; When the Pope met Boris Johnson; Don Watson’s Quote of the Week. MPs close parliament and take six-month holidays Federal MPs unanimously voted this week…
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‘Murder in Melbourne’ a case of stolen identity
BOOK REVIEW Hasbara and identity theft: a Melbourne case study By DR DAVID FABER The dark arts of economy with the truth have long been part of political manipulation. Why take the risk of lying outright and being caught out when fudging the truth will do and be more effective? As such they have been…
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Nationals rorted Aboriginal grants
Another exclusive feast of current affairs items: Scott Morrison’s “sports rorts” overshadowed by Nigel Scullion’s misuse of funds for Aborigines; New Yorkers squeezing last drop of profit from share market; bringing back some Aussie words; how America’s Pilgrims survived and prospered; Pentecostal pastor sums up coronavirus; Plug of the Week from Rowan Cahill. How the…