Kellie Tranter

Many are asking what will happen to Greece and the Eurozone and what will it mean for Australia? It seems to me that economists generally, with some exceptions, do have a bit of a monopoly on delusion. Fallacious assumptions ground their theories, information everywhere seems to be skewed, predictions are made without an acknowledgment of [...]

“Freedom and democracy” is the 21st century catch cry of Western countries like ours, the self-proclaimed “liberal democracies”. Sadly, the reality is the polar opposite of the ideal. Modern Western liberal democracies have become and are becoming progressively more repressive. The trend is particularly noticeable looking at how government responded to peaceful protests. The use [...]

Our leaders have been conning the Australian public for years about the realities of international efforts in Afghanistan. The small army of activists, writers, independent journalists, academics, historians and retired diggers and diplomats who for years have been exposing their untruths usually are ignored, dismissed or ridiculed, including by mainstream media. So you’ll have to [...]

“…Along with Latin America, West Africa is expected to be one of the fastest growing sources of oil and gas for the American market…” – National Energy Policy Report, Office of the Vice President Richard Cheney, May 16, 2001 The Kony 2012 viral video – so far, this year’s biggest – focused so much attention [...]

It’s most instructive to read carefully the Stratfor emails WikiLeaks released recently. Their language and tone are alarming: both brutal and ruthless, in my view they reflect all that is wrong with a world now programmed to a rampant neo-liberal economic model that is underpinned by Machiavelli’s philosophy of power. In an era where governments [...]