To place any individual on a pedestal so that you are blinded to their flaws is an error that needs correcting. That particularly goes for those one may consider their ideological or intellectual heroes.
Noam Chomsky in the Epsteinn files is just one example.
The approach to ON needs to be strong and measured to ensure that threat, and the global threat of bankrolled far-right lunacy to our democracy, is contained.
A good start would not be inflating them unnecessarily as a divisive tactic in the media and reckoning with reality, not fluctuating polls.
New laws passed earlier in the week here in Australia that could see this post considered a hate crime.
If peace annd opposition to a genocide could be a hate crime, we're in trouble.
"[Pretti] was subsequently pepper sprayed, violently brought down and pinned to the ground by multiple armed and masked agents, and then shot 10 times, the first having already left him lifeless.
This was an execution."
"We should not be up in arms to defend the governments of Venezuela, Iran, China, or any other “enemy” of empire – we should be up in arms against our own governments, against the empire, in solidarity with the people of those countries."
16.01.2026 11:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If Venezuela’s oil is not as lucrative a (black) gold mine as has been touted, what then explains the US rhetoric and unilateral aggression?
Despite being an ostensibly “anti-war” and isolationist President, Trump’s erratic and often contradictory foreign policy does have a concept of a plan.
Anthony Albanese's response to event in Venezuela are weak and worthless - Australia should be condemning the United States as a rogue state, and the public should be demanding complete detatchment from AUKUS.
04.01.2026 08:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One does not need to support the Maduro government, or even recognise its legitimacy following dubious electoral results last year, to note that the precedent set with the bombing and capture of Maduro is astounding.
Quick analysis of events in Venezuela:
The designation of a state - Iran - as a "sponsor of terror" is a welcome development. To remain consistent, this ought to be applied to other states that meet the same criteria.
29.11.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The designation of a state - Iran - as a "sponsor of terror" is a welcome development. To remain consistent, this ought to be applied to other states that meet the same criteria.
29.11.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0What Spotify needs is a way to just remove any and all AI generated shit off my recommended - Discover Weekly, Release Radar, recommended playlists. If you made your music with AI I don't wanna fucking see it man, you're a parasite. Just give me verifiably real artists, fuck.
11.11.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Whilst philosophy can certainly venture into realms perhaps more esoteric and metaphysical than history is typically associated with, history itself falls into this intermediate space between myth and reality."
20.10.2025 06:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cut aid, accusations of delayed hostage transfer, and at least 9 killed - Israel seems intent on scuttling another ceasefire as those in Gaza dare to breath a little easier.
15.10.2025 07:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Modern slavery today has a much broader definition than chattel slavery, and does include the kinds of labour carried out by miners outside the formal system, along with the abuses they suffer doing that work."
New piece on mining in the DRC:
Much is being said about the "concession" to Hamas terror in the recognition of a Palestinian state. But the true concession is not in recognising the reality of Palestinians' existence, but legitimising a contemporary settler-colonial project on their land.
What does a just outcome look like?
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and its leaders stand accused of inciting it.
We cannot say we didn't know.
Starting to read the UN report stating that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestians.
For those who have been paying attention, this has been obvious since late 2023.
For those aware of the history and trajectory over the last 70 years, it is tragically unsurprising.
How droll - posting this short piece to Facebook, something about it prompts the site to try create an event to boost its reach.
A market for everything, I suppose.
"Another collapsed residential tower in Gaza City, a father carries his child’s remains in a white bag. I tab over to join a friend in a game online.
It’s just another day."
"Those who have spent years peddling lies about “transgender ideology”, like Charlie Kirk, are also the same people who have openly discussed the “great replacement theory” and made claims that non-white people are culturally and biologically more violent and less intelligent."
15.09.2025 10:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Charlie Kirk's assassination and the immediate aftermath raises important questions about political violence. What constitutes political violence, and what is recognised as such? Was this inevitable in the United States?
What next?
Another piece from 2019 on anarchism and the intersection with feminism. My knowedlge of those two topics, separately and combined, has grown (I would like to think), but this still holds up quite well in my view.
calebbastow.com/2025/07/14/a...
In the interim, this piece was also cited by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - a mild shock at first, followed by relief when it was for a good reason...
14.07.2025 11:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In recent weeks, I've been uploading pieces from my old site into an archive on the new site. Some, like the below, I've posted on the main feed too.
This older piece on anarchism and violence does suffer from a slight lack of nuance I'd add in today, however the core premise I would still hold to.
Oh dear...
13.07.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0God, the typos - not only does autocorrect not seem to function here, but also goes to show why quick short form posts are not my forte, as opposed to an actual written and at least partially edited piece.
08.05.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Part of me wishes I remembered this app more often, so that I could actually post commentary, ideas, musings, shit posts.
And then then other part of that appears when I open it goes, yeah but I have probably have betted things to do with my life.
Be back in a few weeks I guess.
Do not give them ground.
03.04.2025 08:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dutton's politicised rejection of reality and adoption of Trumpian style rhetoric is not to be taken lightly, and must be strongly opposed.
Attacks on universities is just one battleground. Now more than ever we need critical and informed voices to push for progress, not fall to obedience.
Global warming has already surpassed the 1.5C and, given runaway methane emissions from permafrost and glacial melts combined with the sheer lack of action by major polluters in both state and capital spheres, to brush environmentalism off as "woke" is not only dangerous, they are fucking complicit.
03.04.2025 08:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0