Come The Revolution

Category: Middle East

  • The fast disappearing Prime Minister

    Roll up, roll up and see the world’s fastest disappearing Prime Minister In Washington DC at the end of October, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told journalists: “I have never had more fun in my life.” Turnbull’s extraordinary remark bewildered his supporters as well as his opponents. I wonder whether he was still “having fun” this week…

  • The legacy of Martin Luther

    Remembering Martin Luther – rebel priest who led the Reformation It is 500 years since Martin Luther, a professor in moral philosophy and an ordained monk, nailed his Ninety-Five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences, to the door of the Castle Church in the German town of Wittenberg. His dissertation, written in Latin, was…

  • President Xi, world leader

    Psst! China’s President Xi just became the leader of the world If you had been reading the mainstream press in Australia or listening to the radio or watching television, you may be excused for missing the story that China’s President Xi Jinping has just been elevated to world leadership. By a unanimous vote, the 2,200 delegates…

  • Goldman Sachs, the ‘vampire squid’

    Goldman Sachs in bid to take over the world Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former top executive of Goldman Sachs merchant bank, has appointed another Goldman Sachs executive as the next chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). He is James Shipton, formerly the bank’s managing director and head of government and regulatory…

  • 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…

  • US at the crossroads

    US at the crossroads: it means we are too Americans, all 323 million of them, are living on the brink of major decisions. Do they make war on North Korea or Iran? Do they overthrow the government in Cuba or Venezuela? Do they declare China and Russia are “enemies of freedom” or keep talking to them?…

  • Trump’s visit to terror central

    President Trump’s visit to terror central – Saudi Arabia and Israel … Our black mob entitled to recognition … Where is James Packer? … Sam Dastyari: creation of a myth … Catholics stiff-arm Liberals for more money … Guide to getting a mine in Queensland Trump spreads arms largesse US President Donald Trump’s lecture to…

  • The romance of Malcolm and Pauline

    PM Malcolm Turnbull surrenders to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation … Critical moment in French presidential race … Albert Namatjira legacy needs your help … Remembering England’s Shrewsbury pickets … Real news from Afghanistan and Ecuador … Turnbull & Pauline: A love story In the 1990s France’s far right National Front under the leadership of Jean-Marie…

  • Class and the fair go

    Class warfare is back in vogue … Sally from ACTU scares pants off bosses … Millionaire CEOs lobby MPs for tax cut … After the floods, no one wants to mention sewage disposal … Thomas Jefferson falls victim to fact-twisting media … History lesson: when UK started gay reform … Ahem, war crimes in Idlib…

  • The media, One Nation and the Netherlands

    How the media got it so wrong in WA and Netherlands … Lesson? Don’t let social media replace reporting … Qatar beats OZ hands down in resources taxation … Israel bans me – Hooray! … Tel Aviv rolls out red carpet for “Duterte Harry” … Premier Gladys loses her shine … One Nation collapses in…