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It’s hard to get excited about 2022

December 19, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray 2021 has been a grinding, dispiriting year for many of us. For a start, we’ve been on the Covid-19 pandemic roller-coaster, with its ups and downs of lockdowns, vaccinations, new variants and constant arguments between business advocates and health authorities about what we ought to do. Depressing because of the pandemic being used as a profit-booster by unscrupulous pharmaceutical corporations and as a divisive social lever by unscrupulous media corporations and unprincipled political puppets. And deeply troubling as an example of how our present model of rule-by-corporation really works…

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You are being robbed and you should be angry

October 31, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray Pork-barrelling is theft, plain and simple. Every time politicians redirect money from programs meant to benefit people and communities that need it, pushing it instead into projects that benefit their electoral prospects, it is theft. We are used to calling it "pork-barrelling", which makes it sound harmlesss. But it's anything but harmless. It's corrosive, wasteful, dishonest, and unethical and it my opinion it ought to be a criminal offence. They say the term "pork barrelling" originated back in the 1700s when barrels of salted pork were allegedly provided as…

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Julian Assange and the global war on truth

September 29, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray The revelation that US intelligence agencies were actively considering how they might kidnap and/or assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in 2017 isn't too surprising, I'm sorry to say. Such rumours had been circulating since 2010, when it was alleged that then US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton had remarked during a high-level discussion of Assange and Wikileaks: "Can't we just drone this guy?" Ms Clinton has been famously unable to recollect the remark ever since, and chances are it may have been just a throwaway line in a State…

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