Come The Revolution

Category: Asia

  • Beware imposed referendums

    Beware politicians who inflict                                               referendums on voters Elected politicians across the world have invented two devices to avoid taking their own decision: they send any controversial subject off to outside consultants, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers…

  • Trump’s declaration of war

    President Donald Trump declares war on North Korea and Iran – is he serious?   US President Donald Trump delivered his first address to the UN General Assembly in New York this week at its annual session for heads of government. Normally it is an occasion for immense hypocrisy as leader after leader takes centre stage to…

  • The road to ignominy

    Two Aussie high achievers take low road to ignominy I’ve been having the gravest doubts about two celebrated Australians whom I have previously admired – former High Court judge Michael Kirby and millionaire entrepreneur Dick Smith. In recent months both have been shown in their truer colours and it has been ugly. Kirby has always been a…

  • Police commissioners and their political masters

    Faceless man replaces Andrew Scipione as NSW Police Commissioner … UK’s Theresa May delivers suicide note to EU – or is it Britain’s resurrection? … Why hardened criminals become terrorists in prison … Korea, North and South, plunges into political turmoil … Moslem baroness puts Israel’s soldiers of fortune on the spot … Festival of…

  • Abbott charms UK Tories

    The Tony Abbott-Rupert Murdoch Show enjoys a ratings surge … Still in denial over the Vietnam war … Memories of dinner parties at the Knightleys’ in Notting Hill … A new series: Festival of Dangerous Ideas … Great Crashing Bores continues … Abbott charms UK Tories Tony Abbott’s visit to London for this week’s Tory…

  • State of nuclear secrecy

    South Australia: our first nuclear state … Nuclear-powered submarines to be followed by nuclear waste plant … Local government elections test for Coalition, Labor and Greens … NSW Labor Party unredacted … Henry Kissinger, war criminal … Great Bores continued … SA: State of nuclear secrecy Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Premier Jay Weatherill seem…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook

    Tony Abbott’s demented Liberal followers consider Doomsday strategy at election: don’t vote for Turnbull … Canberra is supporting Hong Kong independence while ending Norfolk Island’s … Geoffrey “Hypotheticals” Robertson to plead Bounty mutineers’ case at UN … NSW cops in anti-terror breakthrough: two teenage school kids arrested and jailed Lunar right-wing Liberals on self-destruct mission…

  • Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Murdoch’s legal fixer claims ABC’s top job

    When are Australians going to get over the foolishness of giving uncritical support to women who become the “first female” to hold this or that top job? It is not gender which determines whether someone will be good at a job or not. It is the quality of their values. The great Martin Luther King…