The progressive and humanitarian web magazine Media With Conscience News (MWC News) was edited by Dr Shahram Vahdany until his sad passing in 2018. Set out below are details of many articles published in MWC News by Dr Gideon Polya in the areas of "Editorial", "Analysis" and "Politicis" (for a summary see
Key content of these articles is set out here ( “Media With Conscience News (MWC News) articles by Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/media-with-conscience-news ).
2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the British invasion of Iraq in November 1914 and the commencement of a century of Anglo devastation and ethnic cleansing in Iraq with the exception of the period 1948-1990. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) assisted the British invasion of Iraq in 1915. US lackey Australian special forces spearheaded the illegal and war criminal US-UK invasion of Iraq in March 2003. After 2 decades of devastating Iraq, the US and US lackey Australia have re-invaded Iraq with return of soldiers as advisers or security guards, US bombing and Australia assisting in targeting drone strikes.What must be described as a continuing, Iraqi Genocide has involved the following devastation over the last quarter century:
1. for the US Occupation period of 2003- 2011: 2.7 million post-invasion war-related deaths, 1.5 million violent deaths, 1.2 million non-violent excess deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 0.8 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 5-6 million refugees;
2. for the Gulf War and Sanctions period of period 1990-2003: 1.9 million war- and Sanctions-related deaths, 0.2 million violent deaths, 1.7 million non-violent excess deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths;
Last year the UN General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly voted to proclaim “2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”. The people around the world must urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) not just against Apartheid Israel but also against all those people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries that support this grossly human rights-abusers, genocidal racist, Apartheid state.As summarized below, Zionism is genocidal racist in disgusting theory (race-based colonization and ethnic cleansing of the country of another people) and in awful practices (the ethnic cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine in an ongoing Palestinian Genocide). In 1880 there were about 0.5 million Indigenous Palestinians. Of the 25,000 Jews in Palestine half were immigrants…
Gideon Polya, “US-backed Egyptian military coup”, MWC News, 8 July 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/28358-egyptian-military-coup.html .
In the second Coup under President Obama by US-backed military against a democratically-elected government, the US-backed Egyptian military have ousted and imprisoned Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, President Mohamed Morsi, and his democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood Government. Already Neocon and Zionist Imperialist-perverted Mainstream media and politicians are turning truth on its head by asserting that democratically-elected Morsi was “un-democratic” and that those destroying Egyptian democracy are actually restoring it. In an appalling example of this Orwellian falsehood, an unsigned editorial of the Rupert Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal stated:“Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out to be in the mold of Chile's Augusto Pinochet, who took over power amid chaos but hired free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy”…
Gideon Polya, Oz-Israeli Ben Zygier scandal”, MWC News, 9 March 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/25300-ben-zygier-scandal.html .
Ben Zygier, a dual Israeli and Australian citizen and Jewish Australian father of 2, was secretly imprisoned for 11 months in solitary confinement by the Israelis in 2010 until he was either killed by the Israelis or, as alleged by the Israelis, committed suicide in a suicide-proof cell. Solitary confinement for more than several weeks is regarded by experts as torture. Whether Australian citizen and father of 2 Ben Zygier was murdered by the Israelis or committed suicide in a suicide-proof cell, it is clear that he was secretly tortured to death by the Israelis over 11 months while the pro-Zionist Australian Labor Government did nothing. Australians want to know what happened to their fellow Australian, but the response from the Australian Jewish community, public servants and politicians has been substantial and appalling silence. The Israelis imposed a news blackout on the matter for over 3 years but this scandal was eventually exposed in 2013 by the ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the BBC) and Fairfax media (the most liberal of Australia’s mainstream media)…
Gideon Polya, “2013 New Year’s Resolutions”, MWC News, 2 January 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/23846-new-years-resolutions.html .
Our World is rapidly running out of time and these desperate times mean serious New Year’s Resolutions. The World is acutely threatened by Nuclear Weapons, Poverty and Climate Change. Many of the 99 percent feel helpless to act against the remorseless One Percenters but we can and must win. Our key New Year’s Resolutions must be to do our bit to save Humanity and the Biosphere and to help restore Democracy to our Western Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies. It can be achieved by billions of small victories through the individual voting, advocacy and purchase decisions of the billions of Ninety-nine Percenters and one such possible small victory is outlined below by way of example… The simplest thing one could do immediately is to “bear witness” by wearing a big badge summarizing the moral crisis (e.g. “STOP WAR”) or the climate crisis (e.g. “CLIMATE EMERGENCY”). I wear a big badge saying “300 ppm CO2” and respond to numerous stranger inquiries by explaining that the atmospheric concentration of the global warming greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) is now nearly 400 parts per million (ppm) but that top climate scientists and biologists say that it must be urgently returned to about 300 ppm CO2 as soon as possible for a safe planet for all peoples and all species. Being altruistic and doing good make people happy. Speak out, wear a badge and thus ensure that you have a happy New Year!
Gideon Polya, “Latest gun massacre in the US”, MWC News, 18 December 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/23549-gideonpolya-us-massacre.html .
The World has been utterly shocked by the latest American gun massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 young children were killed. Not reported, however, is the awful reality that each year 8 million under-5 year old infants die out of 104 million children born in the Developing World (minus China), 90% avoidably, and ultimately due to deprivation in a World under neoliberal American hegemony. However this greed-driven carnage is not confined to the Developing World. America is killing innocent children from Afghanistan to Newtown. The United Nations Population Division provides regularly updated demographic data about the World. In 2010 in the Less Developed regions (minus China), the population was 4,287.8 million, births totalled 104.1 million, the under-5 infant mortality per 1,000 live births was 76.5, and accordingly under-5 infant deaths totalled 7.97 million or about 8.0 million. In contrast, in the More Developed regions (population 1,235.9 million, 14.1 million births annually), the under-5 infant mortality per 1,000 live births was 8.0 and under-5 infant deaths in 2010 totalled 0.113 million…
Gideon Polya, “UN Grants Palestinian Statehood. Boycott opponents & abstainers” MWC News, 30 November 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/23190-gideonpolya-palestinian-statehood.html .
Did your country’s Government vote for Palestinian statehood? This is an important question because fundamental to democracy and self-determination is commitment to 1-man-1-vote regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race or religion and politicians not unequivocally supporting this fundamental proposition are simply anti-democratic and hence simply not fit to be elected. The nuclear terrorist, serial war criminal, genocidal racist rogue state of Apartheid Israel is a kleptocratic (theft-based), theocratic (religion-based), ethnocratic (race-based), genocidal (genocide-based) democracy-by-genocide – of 12 million Palestinians only 6.7% are permitted to vote for the Government ruling all of Palestine, 6 million are forbidden to even step foot in their own country, 90% of which has now been ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinians by the US-, UK-, Australia-, and Canada-backed racist Zionists. The United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 was for the admission of Palestine as a United Nations non-member state with observer status. . It was adopted by the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 2012 with 138 countries voting Yes, 9 countries voting No, 41 countries Abstaining and 5 countries being Absent… 9 countries that voted No: Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Palau, Panama, and United States of America…
Gideon Polya, “Obama-Romney debate”, MWC News, 4 October 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/21935-obama-romney-debate.html .
One can only hope that Americans will listen to their scientists. While political commentators declared Romney winner of the first presidential debate, science-informed people who care for Humanity and the Biosphere can only hope that pro-fossil fuel Mitt Romney does not become US president because in committing to the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas he has committed to “game over” for the Planet - a temperature rise of over 2 degrees C and a hugely worsened climate change plus carbon burning pollutant impact that already kills 5 million people annually (see DARA, "Are we doomed? Too late to save earth?”). According to leading US climate scientist Dr James Hansen (head, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Adjunct Professor at the 97-Nobel-Laureate Columbia University) the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline to take oil from Canadian oil sands in Alberta to oil refineries in Texas will be a global disaster: “If the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over [for a stable climate]. The principal requirement is coal emissions must be phased out by 2030 and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands, must be left in the ground”…
Gideon Polya, “Obama’s UNGA speech”, MWC News, 29 September 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/21822-obamas-unga-speech.html .
The present American President Barack Obama, currently the world’s number one active terrorist, war criminal, warmonger, opiate drug warlord, Zionist lackey and mass murderer, made a speech to the United General Assembly that is breathtaking for its dishonest obfuscation of reality and for its lies of omission and commission (Big Lies). An appropriate anagram of Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama is Abamo, “I shall love you” in Latin, and in Obama’s case “I shall love you to death” as he mellifluously declares his love for humanity, free speech, and freedom, while simultaneously being variously involved as an arms, bombing and/or military personnel provider in wars in Somalia, Libya, Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Colombia, Uganda and Iran (50,000 drug-related Iranian deaths in the last decade, mostly from US-protected Afghan opiates, with 3000 Iranian police and military personnel killed in Iran’s world-leading drug interdiction campaign). Some of the more appalling travesties of Obama’s speech are analyzed below in order of their utterance…
Gideon Polya, “2012 London Olympic Games opening ceremony. British Empire atrocities ignored”, MWC News, 29 July 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/20509-london-olympic.html .
The 2012 London Olympic Games were preceded by a novel Opening Ceremony that controversially involved a social history of the ordinary people of England since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the 18th century. Unfortunately the Opening Ceremony considered only the several score English subjects of the English Establishment and ignored the horrendous maltreatment of hundreds of millions of other subjects of the ruthless British Empire. Just imagine a Berlin Olympic Games Opening Ceremony devoted to German social history and German civilization in recent centuries that failed to mention the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) or the WW2 European Holocaust of which it was a part (30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies killed). One is reminded that Gandhi was once asked what he thought of Western civilization and famously replied “I think it would be a good idea”… Over 2 centuries of an Indian Holocaust involving 1.8 billion Indians dying avoidably from imposed deprivation, 10 million butchered in reprisals in the decade after the 1857 Rebellion, and massive famines from the 1769-1770 Bengal Famine (10 million killed) to the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death with Australian complicity…
Gideon Polya, “WikiLeaks, Assange & Ecuador”, MWC News, 21 June 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/19717-assange-ecuador.html .
Julian Assange, Australian founder of Wikileaks and seriously threatened by the US for exposing US war crimes and US global subversion, has sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London under threat of transfer to Sweden and thence rendition to torture and possible death in the US. Julian Assange had failed in his bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face interrogation over sex-related complaints that have not resulted in any charges so far.The Ecuadorian Embassy is permitting Julian Assange to stay at the Embassy under their protection while his request is considered. Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has slammed the Government failure to stand up for Julian Assange.Similarly, the conservative Australian Coalition Opposition spokesperson for foreign affairs Senator Julie Bishop, has questioned the Australian Labor Government’s inconsistency in intervening in such cases. Thus the Australian Foreign Minister has personally flown to Libya in an attempt to secure the release of Australian mother and International Criminal Court lawyer Melinda Taylor. However the Australian Government merely offers the formality of consular assistance to Assange…
Gideon Polya, “Media censor Palestinian Holocaust”, MWC News, 7 May 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/18730-palestinian-holocaust.html .
Censorship not only offensively inhibits free speech and human communication but also short-circuits science-based risk management that is crucial for societal safety and which successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. Neocon- and Zionist-promoted Mainstream media censorship has perverted Western democracies which have become Murdochracies (Big Money buys public perception of reality and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality and votes). However intelligent analysis of censorship can help Humanity. M. Aarons and J. Loftus in “The Secret War Against the Jews. How Western espionage betrayed the Jewish people” stated “The hidden parts of history, the covert sides, are more orderly and rational, but can be seen and understood only if you are told where to look. The holes in history are what make sense of the thing.” In the example outlined below, analysis of censorship by the ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC), can reveal what they (with a capital T) do not want the people to know… Since 1936, the ongoing Palestinian Genocide has involved about 2.0 million war- and occupation-related Palestinian deaths, 0.1 million Palestinians killed violently, 1.9 million avoidable Palestinian deaths from war- , occupation- and expulsion-imposed deprivation, and 7 million refugees. 3,000 Palestinian infants are passively murdered by Apartheid Israel each year, and 0.8 million Palestinian children are abusively confined to the Gaza Concentration Camp for the "crime" of being Indigenous Palestinians….
Gideon Polya, “Mainstream media coverage of the Norway Massacre. Common Pro-Zionism of Breivik & US Alliance Mass Murderers”, MWC News, 21 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/18369-coverage-of-norway.html .
Common Pro-Zionism of Breivik & US Alliance Mass Murderers. An Elephant in the Room reality that the endlessly lying, Neocon American and Zionist Western Mainstream media are trying to keep under wraps is that the Norwegian killer Anders Breivik (killer of 77 people) is not just a mass murderer but is like the mass murdering US Alliance and Apartheid Israel leaders (killing of 12 million people in the post-1990 US War on Muslims) in being a racist, genocidal, neofascist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, pro-Israel, and pro-Zionist mass murderer.Thus, by way of example, if you Google the term “pro-Zionist ” you will get 6 million results and the number 1 is an article in the pro-Zionist Jerusalem Post that quotes pro-Israel, pro-Zionist mass murderer Anders Breivik attacking anti-racist Jews: “Jews that support multiculturalism today are as much of a threat to Israel and Zionism as they are to us. So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists”…
Gideon Polya, “Murdochracy & Lobbyocracy Australia. Foreign lobbies subvert Labor”, MWC News, 29 February 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/17198-murdochracy.html .
Australia like other Western nations is a Murdochracy (Big Money, notably the Murdoch media empire, buys media, truth, public perception and votes) and a Lobbyocracy (Big Money buys politicians, parties, public perception and votes). The latest ex-PM Kevin Rudd versus PM Julia Gillard Labor leadership challenge in Australia has left the Australian Labor Party as an Australian Lobby-perverted Party facing electoral annihilation some time in the next 18 months. While largely foreign-dominated Mainstream media ignore foreign subversion of Labor, the Australian public know enough to realize that something is rotten.Australia has just witnessed a week of political high drama in which ex-PM Kevin Rudd, deposed in a pro-Zionist-led, US- and foreign corporation-backed, 24-hour Coup in favor of pro-Zionist Julia Gillard on 23-24 June 2010, challenged PM Gillard for the top job but failed to win the support of the Caucus of Federal Labor MPs by a margin of 71 to 31. Two thirds of Labor MPs voted for Gillard The saturation Australian Mainstream media coverage of a week that saw vitriolic character assassination of ex-PM Rudd by Julia Gillard and leading Gillard supporters somehow managed to miss 3 huge Elephants in the Room in relation to the 2010 Coup and the appalling, vitriolic 2012 character assassination of Australia-first Kevin Rudd - the role of foreign interests, notably the endlessly subversive US, Apartheid Israel and foreign-owned mining corporations. Just because the truth is buried does not mean it will go away…
Gideon Polya, “The cost of Zionism & neo-fascism. One Million Americans annually die needlessly”, MWC News, 18 February 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/16969-zionism-neo-fascism.html .
The US is the richest country on earth but an estimated 1 million Americans die preventable deaths each year due to gross fiscal perversion whereby trillions of dollars are spent on the military, wars and killing people abroad rather than on keeping Americans alive at home. The Neocon and Zionist Establishment 1% responsible for this passive mass murder of 1 million Americans each year should be exposed and sidelined by the long-suffering 99% of ordinary Americans. For those who care about ordinary Americans and have been inspired by great American humanitarians, there are some truly shocking statistics.
The US has a Gross National Product of $14.5 trillion, has a national debt of $9.1 trillion that is 63% of GDP, and devotes $698 billion each year to military expenditure, this representing 4.8% of GDP, 43% of World military expenditure and $698,000 million/ 314.7 million = $2,217 per person. By way of comparison, total US expenditure on health per capita is $7,410, total expenditure on health as % of GDP is 16.2% (2009 data from WHO) and total annual US expenditure of health is accordingly $7,410 per person x 314.7 million persons = $2.3 trillion or $2,300 billion per year. The accrual cost (long-term committed cost) of the Iraq War has been estimated at $3.0 trillion to $3.5 trillion (by Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, and the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress) and that of the Afghan War at up to $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion (by Professor Michael Intriligator, professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA) i.e. a total accrual cost of about $5 trillion…
Gideon Polya, Stopping the war with Iran. Iran & US Alliance compared”, MWC News, 9 February 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/16770-iran-war.html .
Decent folks around the world must stop the looming US-Israeli war on Iran. US, Apartheid Israel, NATO-US Alliance countries and Australia are becoming increasingly shrill in their threats of war against remote and peaceful Iran as well as against Syria which was a haven for religious tolerance and for Muslim and Christian refugees. In view of the flood of anti-Iranian and pro-war propaganda from the West it is timely to take a reality check and consider some facts on Iran as compared to the US, Israel, NATO and Australia that are by and large not reported by Western Mainstream media. 1. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (the NPT)… Decent people around the world must oppose the remorseless Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist push for war on peaceful, remote Iran. What can people do? Decent people everywhere – and especially decent folk in US Alliance countries - must (a) inform everyone they can about the above disparities and (b) impose sanctions and boycotts against all avoidable goods and services from Apartheid Israel and US Alliance countries involved in the worsening Muslim Genocide. The World must tell the Zionists and pro-Zionist Anglo-American neocons that we will not tolerate any more of their obscene, genocidal wars.Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Gideon Polya, “Zionists attack ‘The Promise’”, MWC News, 18 January 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/16268-zionists-attack.html .
Many Zionists falsely defame anti-racist Jews critical of Apartheid Israel as “anti-Semitic”. A core moral message from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust is “never again to anyone”. Accordingly, decent, anti-racist, humanitarian Jews are morally obliged speak out against the Palestinian Genocide and the racist abuses of Apartheid Israel but this typically elicits false defamation by pro-Zionists as exampled below. All decent folk must defend anti-racist Jews from false defamation by pro-Zionists. “The Promise” is a UK TV series based on the experiences of 80 of the 100,000 UK soldiers who served in post-war Palestine in the 1940s. This TV series in four episodes was written and directed by Jewish British writer, director and producer Peter Kosminsky, with music by outstanding Jewish British composer Debbie Wiseman MBE, and premiered on 6 February 2011 on the UK Channel 4. "The Promise" deals with a young woman going to Israel/Palestine of today, using her visit to investigate her soldier grandfather's part in the post-war phase of the British Mandate of Palestine. The series drew virulent criticism from pro-Zionists in Britain and from Australian pro-Zionists after it was shown in Australia in 2011. According to the Australian Jewish News (12 January 2012), “Insidious”, “racist” and “a landmark in the creeping rehabilitation of anti-Semitism in Western culture”. These are just some of the terms used to describe The Promise in a 20-page letter of complaint submitted this week to the SBS ombudsman by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ)” (Australian Jewish News, TV series akin to Nazi propaganda”, 12 January 2012).
Gideon Polya, “Ignoring 2011 reality. Mainstream Media ignore 2011 war carnage”, MWC News, 1 January 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/15912-ignoring-2011-reality.html .
Brilliant humanitarian Indian writer Arundhati Roy has commented powerfully on simultaneous First World holocaust commission and holocaust denial: “the ultimate privilege of the élite is not just their deluxe lifestyles, but deluxe lifestyles with a clear conscience” (see Arundhati Roy in “The Cheque-book and the Cruise Missile”). In the British TV comedy “Fawlty Towers”, hotelier Basil Fawlty (John Clease), faced with some German guests, famously told his staff “Don’t mention the war”. The look-the-other-way Mainstream media of Australia – and no doubt those of other Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies – have applied this dictum by ignoring the horrendous US war carnage in reviewing a blood-soaked 2011… But not a word about the US Alliance wars in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya that have been associated with war-related deaths totaling 2.2 million, 4.6 million, 5.0 million and 50,000, respectively (Google Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide” ).
Gideon Polya, “Climate Credit versus Carbon Debt,.Can litigation save the Island States?”, MWC News, 14 December 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/15497-climate-credit.html .
At the 2011 Durban Climate Conference the US, with the help of its climate criminal lackeys Australia and Canada again succeeded in preventing requisite international climate change action. It was reported that Island States had again pleaded with other representatives to avert “climate genocide” but their pleas fell on deaf ears at Durban, as at Cancun, and as at Copenhagen. However it is possible to quantitate the Climate Debt incurred by profligate high polluters such as the US Alliance countries and the Climate Credit allowing low polluters to advance economically on a path to eventual zero emissions in circa 2050. Quantitative, country by country analysis of the Climate Debt of Climate Debtor countries versus the Climate Credit of Climate Creditor countries may prove to be a valuable litigation weapon in the fight of Island States for their very physical survival. This approach may indeed help avert “climate genocide” (Google “Climate Genocide”)…
Gideon Polya, “Occupying Australia. 2,500 US Marines to permanently Occupy Darwin”, MWC News, 26 November 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/15110-occupying-australia.html .
While Sydney and Melbourne police were violently arresting and dispersing Occupy Sydney and Occupy Melbourne off-shoots of the 99% versus 1% Occupy Wall Street Movement, the cowardly, pro-war, pro-Zionist, neocon and sycophantically pro-US Australian Labor Government was announcing, associated with a visit to Australia of war criminal Obama, an Occupy Australia movement whereby 2,500 child-killing US Marines will be indefinitely based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and that there will be increased use of Australia by the US Navy and the US Air Force. The US Marines are child killers? Yes – the US Marines have spearheaded the post-1990 US War on Muslims that has been associated so far with 6.2 million Muslim under-5 infant deaths in Iraq (2.0 million, 1990-2011), Afghanistan (2.9 million, 2001-2011) and Somalia (1.3 million, 1992-2011), 90% avoidable and due to gross US Alliance violation of various articles of the Geneva Convention. Decent anti-war Australians are appalled at this cementing of Australian association with genocidal US state terrorism just as the US Alliance is about to leave Iraq (4.6 million war-related deaths, 1990-2011) and is adumbrating withdrawal from Afghanistan (5.6 million war-related deaths, 2001-2011). Yet about 50% of Australians support this permanent Occupation of Australia by child-killing US Marines because of deep-seated, race-based fears of Asian military threats…
Gideon Polya, “Wikileaks & free speech . Untruth must be repudiated, not punished”, MWC News, 29 October 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/14470-wikileaks-free-speech.html .
Freedom of expression, freedom of speech is vital for democracy, for unimpaired scholarly research and for rational risk management that keeps society safe. But what about hate speech, racial vilification or speech likely to cause dangerous public disorder? The need for democracy, scholarship and risk management means that freedom of speech must be sacrosanct but there is a place for a formal, transparent, expertly-informed judicial process that would make findings on free speech excesses but the only punishment of, for example, holocaust or genocide deniers would simply be the shame and ignominy of public exposure by such a process. Abuses of freedom of speech can involve lying by commission and lying by omission. A good example involving lying by commission is given by the story of the shepherd boy who repeatedly cried wolf when there was no wolf but when a wolf did come nobody listened to his cries with dire consequences for the boy. This fable is acutely relevant to today. Thus the US Center for Public Integrity has reported that in 2 years after the 9-11 atrocity the Bush Administration told a total of 935 lies about Iraq. Failure of the System to expose Bush Administration lying led to the Iraq War and the utter devastation of that country. Endless examples can be given of lying by omission but the biggest lie by Mainstream media is non-reportage of the Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide in which, since 1990 alone, 12 million Muslims have died war-related deaths due to US Alliance violence or US Alliance-imposed deprivation, the breakdown being 4.6 million (Iraq), 5.6 million (Afghanistan), 0.1 million (Palestine) and 2.2 million (Somalia) (Google “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide).
Gideon Polya, “10th anniversary of US Afghan War. 5.6 Million war-related Afghan Deaths”, MWC News, 10 October 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/14040-us-afghan-war.html .
As of 7 October 2011, the 10th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 1.4 million violent deaths and 4.2 million non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation, a total of 5.6 million war-related deaths. A detailed and documented Afghan War Human Cost Fact Sheet has been prepared to assist humane public discussion of the ongoing, US Alliance-imposed Afghan Genocide (5.6 million war-related deaths) that has now reached the dimensions of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).
1. Post-invasion non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation total 4.2 million (using a baseline of expected annual mortality of 4 deaths per 1,000 of population for a high birthrate Developing country not subject to war).
2. Post-invasion violent deaths total 1.4 million (assuming expert advice that the level of violence has been 4 times lower in the Afghan War than in the Iraq War and an Iraq War violent deaths/non-violent deaths ratio of 1.3).
3. Post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 2.9 million (nearly twice the number of the 1.5 million Jewish children killed by the Nazis in WW2).
4. Afghan refugees total 3.2 million, this comprising 2.7 million in Iran and Pakistan and 0.4 million internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan)…
Gideon Polya, “Bengal Famine. How Australia & UK killed 6-7 million Indians in WW2”, MWC News, 27 September 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/13742-bengal-famine.html .
By withholding wheat supplies, Australia help Britain kill 6-7 million Indians in the World War 2 Bengal Famine (Bengali Holocaust). Today, Australia as a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution is disproportionately contributing to a worsening climate genocide that is set to kill 2 billion Indians , 0.5 billion Bengalis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis this century if man-made climate change is not seriously addressed. India contributed an army of 2.4 million men to assist the British war effort in World War 2. However India was rewarded by a British-imposed Bengal Famine (Bengali Holocaust, Indian Holocaust) that killed 6-7 million Indians in Bengal, Assam, Bihar and Orissa in the period 1942-1945. Australia was a major supplier of wheat but deliberately by-passed starving India, this boosting British food stocks and what was evidently a starvation-based military strategy to prevent Japanese advance into Bengal…
Gideon Polya, “Australia finally quits Iraq. 4.6 million Iraqi dead, 1990-2011 ”, MWC News, 12 August 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/12733-australia-finally-quits-iraq.html .
Australia has been involved in Iraqi Sanctions and the Iraq War since 1990 (4.6 million Iraqi war-related deaths in the period 1990-2011) but has just withdrawn its last remaining soldiers, replacing them with Chilean mercenaries to guard the Australian embassy. Australia must be held to account for its complicity in the carnage in Iraq. Australia (complicit in war-related deaths totaling in 4.6 million and 5.0 million in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively) should be excluded from the Olympic Games as was Apartheid South Africa from 1962-1992 (69 dead in the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa). Australia started its involvement in Iraq in 1990, assisting the US impose deadly Sanctions on Iraq (1990-2011, under Labor PMs Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and Coalition PM John Howard ) and assisting the US in the Gulf War. In the Sanctions period (1990-2003) Iraqi violent deaths totaled 0.2 million, non-violent war-related deaths from deprivation totaled 1.7 million and under-5 year old infant deaths totaled 1.2 million (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention).
On about 19 March 2003 under Coalition PM John Howard, Australian forces joined US and UK forces in invading Iraq. In 2011 a war-devastated Iraq remains occupied by US forces. In the post-invasion period 2003-2011 there have been 1.5 million violent deaths, 1.2 million non-violent avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 0.8 million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention), and 5-6 million refugees .Overall, in the period 1990-2011, there have been 4.6 million war-related deaths, the breakdown being 1.7 million violent deaths, 2.9 million non-violent avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 2.0 million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention), and 5-6 million refugees –an Iraqi Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention (for details and documentation see “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”)…
Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel killing of demonstrators. Sharpeville & Golan Massacres Compared”, MWC News, 7 June 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/11260-apartheid-israel.html .
In recent weeks the Israelis have been shooting and killing unarmed Arabs demonstrating for Palestinian Human Rights. In the latest incident on the illegally Israel-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, Israeli soldiers killed 2 dozen demonstrators and wounded 350. Apartheid Australia (it applies race-based discriminatory laws against its Indigenous Australian, Afghan and refugee subjects) has supported US Alliance bombing of Libya but remains Israel’s best friend after the US. A noisy debate erupted in Australia recently because Greens Senator-elect Lee Rhiannon supported Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel. Lee Rhiannon was attacked by the Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Opposition and the Australian Labor Party Government (aka the Lib-Labs) which both support anti-democratic, race-based, genocidal, war criminals, Zionist- Israel. On the Australian taxpayer-funded ABC national TV Q&A program on 6 June 2011 (Google Q&A), Senator-elect Lee Rhiannon tried to defend the BDS position against vociferous pro-Zionists. Naturally enough, reference was made to the latest cowardly and murderous Israeli massacre of about 2 dozen unarmed Palestinian protesters on the illegally Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights [Apartheid South Africa 1960 Sharpeville Massacre - 69 people killed, 180 others injured]…
Gideon Polya, “Obama’s London speech. Lies of omission & holocaust denial”, MWC News, 28 May 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/11037-obamas-london-speech.html .
President Barack Obama made a speech to the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall London on 25 May 2011. Obama’s speech involved egregious lying by commission and lying by omission, holocaust ignoring and holocaust denial that extends to ignoring the suffering of his own relatives. This widely disseminated, shameless lying by Obama promises more death and destruction for Humanity at the hands of Anglo-American state terrorism. Below is a detailed analysis of this outrageous, Orwellian, history-re-writing Obama speech.
1. Obama: “As Winston Churchill said, the "...Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence."”
Reality: Human rights find ultimate expression in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Convention, Humanity-endorsed conventions grossly violated by the UK and US, by sustained UK state terrorism and US state terrorism and by UK- and UK-backed Israeli state terrorism…
Gideon Polya, “Royal wedding & royal censorship. Exposing crimes of Churchill & Queen Victoria”, MWC News, 2 May 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/10412-royal-wedding.html .
An estimated 2 billion people watched the lavish wedding of Kate and William in London that cost the British economy $10 billion from a national day off work. We all wish the best for the happy couple. However the TV coverage permitted by the Royal Family involved massive censorship of the Australian ABC and indeed all other media. The Royal Family and the British Establishment survive through censorship, lies (of commission and omission) and slice (spin-based untruths) and this latest British censorship demands exposure of Britain’s horrendous past and continuing imperialist crimes. The recent British Royal Wedding involved extraordinary Royal censorship of world media that mirrors British Establishment ignoring of its immense genocidal crimes over the last few centuries. Brilliant humanitarian Indian writer Arundhati Roy has commented powerfully on simultaneous First World holocaust commission and holocaust denial: “the ultimate privilege of the élite is not just their deluxe lifestyles, but deluxe lifestyles with a clear conscience” (see Arundhati Roy in “The Cheque-book and the Cruise Missile”)…
The BBC coverage of the Royal Wedding included slavishly and lavishly pro-Royal commentary from pro-Zionist historian Simon Schama whose 3-volume work “A History of Britain” (BBC) extraordinarily makes no mention of the WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British under Churchill remorselessly murdered 6-7 million Indians in cold blood in the years 1943-1945. In 1945 the Germans followed a CAAAA (C4A) protocol of Cessation of the violence, Acknowledgment of the crimes, Apology for the crimes, Amends for the crimes and Assertion “never again to anyone”. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We all wish Kate and William a very happy marriage. However one hopes that even before they are Queen and King of England they will make some Amends for this dreadful catalogue of British mass murder and holocaust ignoring by at least Acknowledging the crimes, offering an Apology and Asserting “never again to anyone”
Gideon Polya, “Arab Revolution & Iraqi Holocaust. Scholars support, media ignore Iraqi protests”, MWC News, 25 February 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/8909-arab-revolution-a-iraqi-holocaust.html .
A s Obama weeps crocodile tears over the Arab Revolution against US-backed dictatorships. US- and Zionist-beholden Western media have been reporting the Arab Revolution underway in countries including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Bahrain but ignore Iraqi demands for freedom. While Western media and politicians laudably support the courageous protests for democracy in countries such as Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Bahrain, there is extraordinary silence in relation to the demands for democracy in Occupied Palestine and Occupied Iraq in which the indigenous inhabitants live under the tyrannical rule of genocidal European invaders rather than under the tyrannical rule of Western-backed indigenous dictators. In the Zionist-controlled Occupied Palestinian Territory post-invasion excess deaths from Israeli-imposed deprivation total 0.3 million, post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million and the Hamas MPs who won an overwhelming victory in the 2006 elections held under Occupier guns are holed up in the violently Israeli-guarded Gaza Concentration Camp together with 1.5 million other Palestinians, including 800,000 children .There are 7 million Palestinian refugees and about half the 12 million Palestinians are forbidden to live in the land continuously inhabited by their forbears for thousands of years from the dawn of history. Of 12 million Palestinians only the adults of 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis are permitted to vote for the racist Zionist-dominated Apartheid Israeli government that for 43 years has been ruling all of Palestinian plus, variously, slabs of neighboring Egypt, Lebanon and Syria (Google “Palestinian Genocide”)…
Gideon Polya, “US, Israel & Egyptian Revolution. US-Israel back torturer Suleiman”, MWC News, 14 February 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/8656-us-israel-a-egyptian-revolution-.html .
The world has been thrilled by the success of the peaceful Egyptian Revolution and fervently hope that this is the beginning of the end for endlessly greedy US imperialism, for all US-backed dictators like Hosni Mubarak and for US-backed, genocidal racist Zionism and Apartheid in the Middle East. However the US, Apartheid Israel, Egyptian torturer Omar Suleiman and the traitorous Egyptian Establishment may yet pervert the Egyptian Revolution and continue the Egyptian massacre that has passively killed 22 million Egyptians through imposed poverty since 1950. The Egyptian Revolution has seen off US-backed, pro-Israel dictator Hosni Mubarak but time will tell whether the US, Apartheid Israel, the Egyptian military and the corrupt Egyptian Establishment will be successful in perverting the fervent wish of the Egyptian people for democracy and a decent life. In particular, it is not clear what the role will be of Omar Suleiman, the US-backed, pro-Israel Egyptian spy chief, CIA collaborator, human rights abuser and torturer appointed as Vice President by Mubarak during the Egyptian Revolution…
Gideon Polya, “Climate change & flood disasters. Stop Burning Coal & Gas”, MWC News, 15 January 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/7989-climate-change-flood-disasters.html .
Because of weather variability one cannot attribute any specific weather event to man-made climate change. However the successive events of burning fossil fuels, increased atmospheric greenhouse gases, increased sea temperature, increased evaporation, and increased precipitation contribute to precipitation intensity and flooding. Global warming has been associated with a greatly increased incidence of floods around the world. The message from the huge 2010-2011 flood disasters in Pakistan, Brazil Sri Lanka and Australia is simply to stop burning gas, oil and coal fossil fuels ASAP as advocated by the Melbourne-based Climate Emergency Network (CEN) and like responsible climate activists.
The 2010 Pakistan floods killed several thousand people, will kill many more from deprivation and made 24 million people homeless (but this did not stop the climate criminal and war criminal US to step up robot bombing of Pakistani villages). This week in January 2011 floods and landslides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have killed about 500 people so far and made thousands homeless, and floods in Sri Lanka have killed 23 people so far and made 1 million people homeless. Queensland, North East Australia, continues to be ravaged by huge floods that have so far killed 16 people (40 missing), forced tens of thousands from their homes, inundated about 20,000 homes, adversely affected 70 towns and 200,000 people, flooded a big part of the capital city Brisbane including the CBD, and cost circa $13 billion. Now La Niña-spawned storms fuelled by tropical moisture have also devastated North East New South Wales to the south of devastated South East Queensland and caused huge floods in Western Victoria in Southern Australia. Paradoxically, these same now flood-devastated Australian areas had just emerged from about 10 years of drought that was exacerbated by the El Niño obverse of the La Nino system…
Gideon Polya, “Obama’s India Gasland scenario. US plans for Indian shale gas ”, MWC News, 8 January 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/7830-obamas-india-gasland-scenario.html .
Low polluting developing countries like India have a great opportunity to avoid the mistakes of the worst per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluting First World countries such as the US, Canada and Australia. However while burning natural gas can be as dirty GHG-wise as burning coal, Obama falsely says otherwise and the US is cooperating with the corrupt, Zionist-infected Indian Government to exploit huge Indian shale gas deposits, an environmental travesty that will bring the shocking US Gasland scenario to India and help doom the Planet.
India has a very low annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution of about 2 tones CO2-equivalent per person per year as compared to 27 for the US. This means that for a safe Planet India has about 40 years to get to the zero global CO2 emissions demanded by top climate scientists while the US must do this in 10 years (see Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, “Terra quasi-incognita: beyond the 2 degree C line”< 4 Degrees & Beyond, International Climate Conference, 26-30 September 2009, Oxford University, UK). In the path to zero emissions (and beyond) India must not make the same mistakes as the European World which is responsible for 71% of post-Industrial Revolution carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution in the atmosphere. India has already made huge mistakes in relation to permitting cigarette smoking and cars. However India has huge shale gas deposits and for the sake of India and the Planet Indians must ensure that this gas is not exploited – it represents a huge threat to India and to Humanity…
Gideon Polya, “Equal shares on our one only planet. New Year’s Day 1/1/11 Message”, MWC News, 2 January 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/7696-equal-shares-of-planet.html .
The fundamental message on 1/1/11 is surely 1 (ONE) – 1 man-one-vote, there is only 1 Planet (Spaceship Earth) for Humanity, and equal shares in resources i.e. until we necessarily all cease carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution in 2050 the ratio of my share to your share should be 1. Yet the US (in charge of the flight deck of Spaceship Earth) has 4.5% of the World’s population but consumes 25% of its resources through anti-democratic hegemony maintained by egregious violence (8 million dead in the US War on Terror alone, the breakdown being 2.5 million dead in Iraq, 4.9 million dead in Afghanistan and 0.8 million dead (including 0.1 million Americans) from opiate drug-related causes due to US alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry).
All decent folk subscribe to the essential egalitarianism of the second sentence of the American Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Nevertheless within the “Land of the Free” there are enormous inequities (e.g. see “Facts on the Concentration of Wealth” compiled by George Draffan). These inequalities kill. Thus about 20,000 people die avoidably each year in the US because they are too poor to have medical insurance. Each year about 20,000 under-5 year old infants die avoidably in the US because successive US Administrations place a greater priority on the mass murder of Muslims, 7 million Muslims having been actively or passively killed so far, in the US War on Terror that has been conducted at an accrual cost of circa $4 trillion (see “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”)…
Gideon Polya, “Wikileaks saga exposes censorship. And Genocide Ignoring by Mainstream Media”, MWC News, 17 December 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/7364-wikileaks-saga-exposes-censorship.html .
Two huge features of Wikileaks are that (1) the leaked US cables simply provide documentary confirmation what sensible people had surmised already about the conduct of the US Alliance; and (2) the real scandal is that neither Wikileaks nor Mainstream media (MSM) will report the horrendous carnage of 8 million dead so far in the US War on Terror. Below is documentary evidence of how the Australian ABC and one of Australia’s leading newspapers, The Age (Melbourne), actively censors reportage of this ongoing, largely Muslim Holocaust.
A 5-decade-career scientist, I retired from my laboratory-based research 7 years ago (although I still teach a major course to second year university science students). Inspired by Polish war hero Jan Karski (who tried to tell an unbelieving world about the Nazi Holocaust in Poland as it was happening) and appalled by Mainstream media, politician and academic ignoring of the ongoing US-imposed genocides (notably the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and fossil fuel-driven Climate Genocide), I have been very active researching and writing to bear witness about these ongoing atrocities. Silence kills and silence is complicity – one cannot walk by on the other side. While I publish extensively around the World, I am almost completely excluded from presenting this urgent humanitarian message within Australia…
Gideon Polya, “4.6 million dead Muslim infants. Ask Hillary Clinton “Is the price worth it?””, MWC News, 21 November 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/6742-46-million-dead-muslim-infants.html .
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently visited Australia in November 2010 but was not asked the key question about 4.6 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan (UN data), specifically “Is the price worth it?”. Clinton’s good friend and predecessor as Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, had been asked the same question on CBS “60 Minutes” in 1996 (when dead Iraqi children totaled “only" 0.5 million) and notoriously replied “We think the price is worth it”. This failure to ask this key question of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010, a question acceptable to mainstream American media in 1996, provides an indication of the cowardly obsequiousness of US lackey Australia and in particular of the taxpayer-funded ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC)…
Gideon Polya, “Prosecute Blair & Howard over “proceeds of crime””, MWC News, 15 November 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/6615-prosecute-blair-a-howard.html .
The leaders of the US Alliance have yet to face war crimes trials before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their involvements in the Iraqi Genocide (4.4 million deaths, 1990-2010) and the Afghan Genocide (4.9 million deaths, 2001-2010). Judicial exposure of US Alliance war crimes can be achieved if Australian PM John Howard, who committed Australia to the illegal invasion of Iraq, is prosecuted for “proceeds of crime” over his recently published memoirs.
Thus Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks (who has committed no offences against Australian or International law) is reportedly under investigation by Australian authorities for a possible “proceeds of crimes” prosecution over the publication of his memoirs “Guantanamo: my journey”. If “proceeds of crime” prosecution can be mounted against David Hicks who has killed nobody and broken no laws it can surely be mounted against John Howard and other US Alliance Prime Ministers complicit in child-killing sanctions, invasions and occupations and the deaths of millions…
Gideon Polya, “9th anniversary of start of US-Afghan War”, MWC News, 10 October 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/5794-us-afghan-war.html .
The Afghan War has now entered its 10th year. It has become the longest US war. As of 7 October 2010, the 9th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 4.9 million violent deaths or non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation. The ongoing, US Alliance-imposed Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide has now reached the dimensions of the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation). Decent people around the world must continue to vigorously oppose this gross violation of Humanity. To assist such decent folk I have prepared a carefully documented Afghan War Deaths Fact Sheet as set out below and incorporating the latest information as of 7 October 2010.
1. Post-invasion non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation total 3.7 million.
2. Post-invasion violent deaths total 1.2 million (assuming advice that the level of violence has been 4 times lower in the Afghan War than in the Iraq War and an Iraq War violent deaths/non-violent deaths ratio of 1.3).
3. Post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 2.6 million.
4. Afghan refugees total 3.2 million, this comprising 2.7 million in Iran and Pakistan and 0.4 million internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan)…
Gideon Polya, “Ahmadinejad’s UN 9-11 speech”, MWC News, 25 September 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/5455-ahmadinejads-un-9-11-speech.html .
Top scientists and intelligence experts dispute the “official US version” of what happened on 9-11 and variously assert that people within the US Government did 9-11 (possibly with Israeli assistance). President Ahmadinejad’s 9-11speech at the UN merely advances 3 logical, testable, scientific hypotheses about 9-11 but has immediately elicited hysterical, egregiously dishonest, anti-science and anti-truth responses from Western leaders and Mainstream media. The immediate responses involved a walk-out of US representatives and its lackeys from 30 countries, including Australia, Britain, Sweden and Spain, from the speech itself – they simply didn’t want to hear anything differing from the “official US version” of 9-11. Western media and politicians immediately started falsely and hysterically reporting Ahmadinejad’s comments on 9-11. President Ahmadinejad’s speech merely offered 3 scientific hypotheses about the cause of 9-11, namely (1) the “official US version” of a “terrorist group”, (2) US responsibility and (3) US complicity in allowing a terrorist operation to proceed…
Gideon Polya, “Media lying & censorship blocks Afghan War debate”, MWC News, 5 September 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/5011-afghan-war-debate.html .
An extraordinary feature of the neocons’ "War on Terror" is the Mainstream media that conducts a terror hysteria campaign over several thousand Western victims of Muslim-origin over the last 4 decades but which utterly ignores the estimated 8 million people (mostly Muslims) who have died avoidably, either violently or non-violently die to deprivation, associated with the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However a hung Parliament in Australia is set to create a Hole in the Wall of Silence of the neocon Mainstream media.
With the hung Parliament result in the recent Australian Federal Election a major crack has appeared in the US Alliance edifice of lies, propaganda and deception over 9-11, the War on Terror and the horrendously deadly, 8 million-victim wars of occupation still being waged in Occupied Iraq, Occupied Afghanistan (and elsewhere). With 72 seats for Labor (the Labs) , 73 seats for the Liberal-National Party Coalition (the Libs), 1 Green seat, 1 Greenish independent (Andrew Wilkie) and 3 right wing Independents, a Governing Coalition will have to be formed to get a barely workable majority of 76 out of the 150 seats. A key condition for Green and Greenish Independent support for Labor was a debate on the Afghan War. Further, Greenish Independent, former Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Wilkie, is famous for resigning his top intelligence post just before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 declaring that there was no hard evidence for Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WND) – a position supported by UN weapons inspectors at the time and subsequently vindicated after the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq (none were found)…
Gideon Polya, “US bombs flood-devastated Pakistan. Pakistan Independence Day ”, MWC News, 14 August 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/4511-pakistan-independence-day.html .
Pakistan abandoned its Independence Day (14 August) celebrations because of the floods disaster but the US has shamelessly continued its cowardly robot drone bombing attacks on defenseless Pakistani villages. Only Sanctions and Boycotts can stop US state terrorism that bombs a flood-devastated Pakistan on Pakistan Independence Day. It was reported by ABC News today, Indian Independence Day (15 August), that the Pakistani Prime Minister had announced that 20 million Pakistanis are now affected by because of unprecedented floods – but it was also reported today by ABC News that a US drone strike on a NW Pakistan village had killed 13 people and wounded 5. One wonders what genocidal, racist evil drives the Obama Administration to continue its cowardly, civilian-targeting drone attacks on Pakistani villages as Pakistan suffers an unprecedented flood catastrophe, a disaster linked to profligate American greenhouse gas pollution, Western-imposed global warming and worsening Climate Genocide.
While both Pakistan and India are marking their respective Independence Days (14 August and 15 August, respectively), Pakistan is experiencing its worst ever floods at the same time as the evil, cowardly, American Empire is ramping up war with drones in NW Pakistan. America, one of the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters, is also contributing to massive climate change-linked disasters such as the Pakistan floods while simultaneously devastating NW Pakistan by high technology robot bombing (generating 2.5 million refugees in NW Pakistan in 2009). The civilized world in general must call a halt to the dual obscenity of Zionist-backed US imperialism and Zionist-backed pollution of the planet by remorseless US capitalist greed…
Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel & pro-Zionist US Alliance. Anti-democratic & Anti-democracy”, MWC News, 23 July 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/4005-apartheid-israel.html .
Apartheid Israel’s consistent policy is for a violent, race-based and genocide-based theocracy – seize the land of another people and ensure that there is only a minority of Indigenous voters. Killing, imprisoning, exiling and otherwise denying the vote to most of the people of a country is not democracy – it is simply anti-democratic, Apartheid and genocide. If you Google the phrase “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East” you get about 44,000 results. If you Google the phrase “Israel is the only democracy” you get about 62,000 results. Yet this is another Zionist Big Lie. The horrible reality is otherwise as set out below – Apartheid Israel is no more democratic than was Apartheid South Africa.
In 1880 there were about 500,000 Indigenous Arab Palestinians in Palestine and about 25,000 Jews (half of the Jews being immigrants). After the British delivered the Balfour Declaration in 1917 (in an unsuccessful attempt to get Russian Zionists to secure continued Russian participation in the slaughter of World War 1), they permitted massive Zionist colonization of Palestine. Today there are about 5.5 million Jewish Israelis and about 12 million Palestinians – but only the 5.5 million Jewish Israelis and 1.5 million Arab Israelis are permitted to vote for the Government that rules all of Palestine (plus bits of Lebanon and Syria). About 10 million Palestinians are forbidden to vote for the Government ruling the land identified as Palestine (or variants thereof) for 3,000 years and accordingly the continuously inhabited home of Palestinians for that huge period. The Zionists violently stole a whole country, its farms, villages, towns, cities and its very name, Palestine (that has been around for 3,000 years)…
Gideon Polya, “Australia ignores Israeli terrorism against Australians”, MWC News, 14 June 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/3149-israeli-terrorism.html .
Australia has had a long, 2 century history of racism, genocide and support for Anglo-American imperialism. In the 21st century this has continued with Australian military involvement in the ongoing Iraqi and Afghan Genocide; horrendous Indigenous Australian deaths from deprivation (Aboriginal Genocide); national law- and international law-violating, race-based laws or regulations against Indigenous Australians and against Afghan refugees and Tamil refugees fleeing what scholars have described as the Afghan Genocide and the Tamil Genocide, respectively; and, of course, slavish support for US-backed, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel.
While Australia beats the anti-terrorism drum it has a race-specific definition of what terrorism is. To Australia, terrorism is what the US and Apartheid Israel call terrorism and that is something that Arabs, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Muslims, Asians and African do. Australia ignores the horrendous consequences of US and Israeli state terrorism even when it threatens, mangles or kills Australians.
The pro-war, pro-occupation, pro-Zionist Australian Labor Government has not taken any meaningful action against Israeli terrorism, even when such terrorism is against Australian citizens as summarized below.
(1) Massive and violent Israeli theft of billions of dollars worth of property of Palestinian Australian citizens.
(2) Israeli bombing of 25,000 Australian citizens in Lebanon in 2006 (this including severe wounding Australian Defence Force Major Matina Jewell and the murdering of all of her UN Peacekeeper comrades)…
Gideon Polya, “Armenian Genocide Day. Australia-New Zealand Anzac Day”, MWC News, 25 April 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/2078-armenian-genocide-day.html .
Armenian Genocide Day (24 April) and Australia Anzac Day (25 April) are inextricably linked because the 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide (1.5 million dead) commenced the day before the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) invasion of Turkey on 25 April 1915 and after months of Allied shelling – but both Turkey and Australia are still trapped in genocide denial.April 24 is Armenian Genocide Day that remembers the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Turkish Government in 1915-1923. April 25 remembers Australian and New Zealand war dead in all wars (100,000 and 30,000 respectively) and derives from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and Allied invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli on April 25 1915. Armenian Genocide Day (24 April) solemnly observed by Armenians in Armenia and around the world. It remembers the start on April 24 1915 of the last appalling process of mass murder of Armenians in Anatolia in the period 1895-1923. At the time the Ottoman Empire was being taken over by the British (Mesopotamia was invaded in1914 and indeed the racist, warmongering Brits are still there)…
Gideon Polya, “Easter 2010: greed, ecocide, genocide & denial”, MWC News, 2 April 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/1631-easter-2010-greed-ecocide-genocide-a-denial-.html .
Easter is a festival that celebrates Spring and the renewal of life. The wonder of springtime renewal in all its glorious manifestations surely inspired notions of life after death as in the ancient Greek and Phoenician fable of Adonis that transmuted to the Christian story of resurrection. However, racism, greed and organizational incompetence is pushing the world downhill to genocidal and ecocidal terracide, the irreversible destruction of human and biological complexity…
The climate change denialism in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus is mirrored by denial in relation to human mass mortality. Thus searches on Good Friday 2010 of the UK BBC and Google for the following key terms used by sensible scholars to describe the current catastrophes yield the following number of results from the BBC/results from Google (noting that many of the meagre results obtained in the BBC searches are not actually relevant to the matters discussed above):“racist zionist”(1/ 9,550), “racist zionism” (1/ 18,700), “climate denialist” (3/ 24,500), “climate change denialist” (0/ 301,000), “climate denialism” (0/ 26,400), “climate change denialism” (0/ 807,000), “murdochracy” (0/ 25,600), “Palestinian holocaust” (0/ 33,500), “Iraqi holocaust” (0/ 30,700), “Afghan holocaust” (0/ 13,800), “climate holocaust” (1/ 5,630), “Bengali holocaust” (0/ 6,790), “Indian holocaust” (0/ 82,000), “Palestinian genocide” (1/ 7,380) , “Iraqi genocide” (0/ 26,000), “Afghan genocide” (0/ 15,100), “Bengali genocide” (0/ 1,830), “Indian genocide” (1/ 17,000) ), “climate genocide” (0/ 34,200), “excess death” (5/ 29,800), excess mortality” (9/ 313,000), “avoidable death” (27/ 27,100), “avoidable mortality” (1/ 39,200), “under-5 infant deaths” (0/ 81,700), “ecocide” (5/ 86,800) and “terracide” (0/ 182,000). BBC denialism indeed…
Gideon Polya, “Zionism’s effect in Australia & the world”, MWC News, 14 March 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/1227-zionisms-affect-in-australia-and-the-world.html .
Israeli crimes, whether from state terrorism or organized crime, has been an untouchable area in Western democracies for decades due to the power of the Israeli lobby and its routine defamation of “anti-Semite” applied to anyone objecting to gross Israeli violations of international law, UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, International Court of Justice decisions, and international humanitarian conventions.
Statistics of the ongoing Zionist genocide in occupied Palestinian territory
0.3 million post-invasion excess deaths
0.2 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths
7 million Palestinian refugees in total
85% of Christians have fled
3,600 under-5 year old occupied Palestinians are passively murdered by the Israeli occupiers each year
an estimated 5,700 occupied Palestinians in general are passively murdered by the Israeli occupiers each year
about 800 occupied Palestinians are violently killed by Israelis each year
1.5 million occupied Palestinians (800,000 of them children) are incarcerated without charge or trial in what the Catholic Church describes as Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp, a blockaded concentration camp that is policed by civilian-targeting military shelling, rocketing and bombing from land, sea and air by the war criminal Israeli Defence Force (IDF)
2.5 million occupied Palestinians are similarly confined in ever-dwindling West Bank bantustans
while 1.5 million Arab-Israelis are subject to race-based Apartheid laws, the 4 million occupied Palestinians have no human rights at all
The core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”. However, these sacred injunctions are grossly violated by Israeli Zionists and their Western backers…
Gideon Polya, “Churchill’s crimes & Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq War. Anglo Holocaust Commission”, MWC News, 6 February 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/458-churchills-crimes-a-chilcot-inquiry-on-iraq-war.html .
In WW2 Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death, continued to foster Muslim-Hindu antipathy that led to the horrors of Indian Partition and persuaded his War Cabinet on racist Partition of Palestine. Yet Sir Martin Gilbert, an eminent UK historian and member of the current UK Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War, made no mention of Churchill’s WW2 Bengali Holocaust in 2 definitive books about Churchill. Sir Martin Gilbert is an eminent UK historian and indeed I often have occasion to refer to his works on Jewish history, Zionism, Churchill, WW1, WW2 and 20th century history. He is to be praised as one of very few UK historians who actually mention the 1943-1945 Bengal Famine, a Bengali Holocaust that was to my knowledge the first such WW2 atrocity to be referred to a “holocaust” (by N.G. Jog in 1944; see Jog, N.G. (1944), “Churchill’s Blind-Spot: India”, New Book Company, Bombay).
Thus Sir Martin Gilbert refers (albeit very briefly) to “1.5 million” Bengal Famine victims in at least 3 books, namely M. Gilbert, “British History Atlas”(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London , 1968), M. Gilbert, “The Day the War Ended. VE-Day 1945 in Europe and Around the World” and M. Gilbert, “A History of the Twentieth Century. Volume Two 1933-1951” (William Morrow, New York , 1998).
It is all the more remarkable then that Sir Martin Gilbert, the world’s top expert on Churchill, should have not included in 2 of his key books on Churchill any mention of Churchill’s WW2 Bengali Holocaust – a holocaust greater in terms of victims (6-7 million dead) than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, with 1 in 6 dying from deprivation; see M. Gilbert, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1969 and M. Gilbert, “Atlas of the Holocaust”, Michael Joseph, London, 1982)…
Will the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war even mention the carnage and devastation inflicted on Iraqi by Blair, Bush, Howard and their associates? Cognizant of Sir Martin Gilbert’s uneven record on the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million dead) and Churchill’s role in that atrocity, one can well wonder how Chilcot Iraq War Inquiry member Sir Martin Gilbert (who enthusiastically supported the Iraq War) will deal with Blair’s complicity in the carnage in Iraq that has so far involved 2.5 million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths and 4.4 million violent and non-violent excess Iraqi deaths since 1990.
Gideon Polya, “Racist Zionism and Apartheid Israel exposed in 50 steps ”, MWC News, 30 January 20120: http://mwcnews.com/focus/editorial/311-racist-zionism-and-apartheid-israel-exposed-in-50-steps.html .
Both racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel (under an Irgun terrorist-based Government) and its close friend Apartheid Australia (under an extreme right-wing, racist, pro-coal, pro-war, climate criminal , war criminal, Australian Labor Party Government, aka the Apatheid Labor Party, Government) continue to abuse their subject Indigenous people by grossly violating the Geneva Convention, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Rights of the Child Convention, the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.After the latest Israeli Gaza Massacre in Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp (ultimately about 1,500 were killed by 22 days of merciless bombardment and invasion in retaliation for zero Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets in the previous year), these particular crimes of racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel are now as well known as the Zionist complicit crimes of the German Nazis against Jewish people in World War 2 (5-6 million Jews killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).
Much less well known are the numbers describing the rest of Apartheid Israel’s slow, remorseless, ongoing Palestinian Genocide. Indeed what is as shocking as the data presented below is that these Elephant-in-the room realities are largely ignored by the overwhelmingly pro-Zionist, lying, holocaust-ignoring Mainstream media and politicians in the Western Murdochracies.
1. Post-invasion (i.e. post-1967) Occupied Palestinian non-violent excess deaths total 0.3 million.
2. Post-invasion Occupied Palestinian violent deaths total about 11,000.
3. Post-invasion Occupied Palestinian under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million…
50. Outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people". For anti-racist Jews, and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians, the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”. However these sacred injunctions are grossly violated by the anti-Arab anti-Semitic racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel and their Western backers variously involved in the ongoing Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Genocide (post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths 0.3 million, 2.5 million and 4.5 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million, 0.9 million and 2.4 million, respectively; refugees totalling 7 million, 5-6 million and 3-4 million, respectively, plus a further 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun refugees generated under Obama)…
ANALYSIS
Zionist-subverted America is presently obsessed with alleged interference in its elections by Russians but resolutely ignores US interference in all countries of every country on earth, variously through political subversion, backing coups or outright invasion. Similarly, US lackey Australia is indulging in extraordinary xenophobia and China-bashing over alleged Chinese subversion of Australia but utterly ignores massive US interference in Australia. Thus, for example, the right-wing US Murdoch media empire has cornered 70% of city daily newspaper readership in Australia. Indeed the US CIA and UK MI6 were involved in the 1975 Coup that removed reformist Australian Labor PM Gough Whitlam.
Gideon Polya, “Zionist quotes reveal genocidal racism”, MWC News, 20 January 2018: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/69955-zionist-quotes-reveal-genocidal-racism.html .
The Anglosphere countries (the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) are variously based on genocide of the Indigenous inhabitants but in the post-WW2 era these countries variously came to terms with this genocidal racist past.Indeed Donald Trump and the lunatic right aside, it is now simply unacceptable in Western Mainstream society for Mainstream politicians and other public figures to express outright racism or support for genocide.Indeed Western Mainstream journalist, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes can be described as politically correct racist (PC racist) by endlessly declaring their love of ‘moderate Muslims” and their desire to bring them freedom and democracy, while supporting US Alliance wars in the Muslim world that have killed millions. Thus in this century 32 million Muslims have died from violence, 5 million, or from deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false atrocity that killed about 3,000 people. In the case of Zionism, a genocidally racist political ideology that has only been significant in the last century, there are no such qualms. The Zionists make frank assertions about the inferiority of the Indigenous Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and Asians and the necessity of ethnic cleansing to preserve a Jewish-dominated state in Palestine. This should have (but so far has not) created a serious political problem in the US, Australia and Canada that globally are number 1, 2 and 3 , respectively, in support for nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, racist, Israel. Those supporting Nazi Germany can be reasonably described as pro-Nazi, and those supporting Israel are likewise reasonably described as pro-Apartheid. However while supporting Israel, its Western supporters do not use the genocidally racist rhetoric of the Zionists and hide behind the fig-leaves of an “even-handed approach”, the “Peace Process” and the “Two State Solution”…
ALBRIGHT. Madeleine Albright (Jewish American Zionist, US UN Ambassador , US Secretary of State ), when she defended UN sanctions against Iraq on a US “60 Minutes” segment in which anti-racist Jewish American journalist Lesley Stahl asked her “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?” replied (1996): “We think the price is worth it”…
ZIONIST DEFAMATION OF ANTI-RACIST JEWS. Zionists routinely apply anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and false defamation of anti-racist Jews as “self-hating Jews” or “self-loathing Jews”. The Zionist hatred for Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and Asians also extends to hatred of anti-racist Jews who are compelled to publicly oppose ongoing Zionist human rights abuse, racism, Apartheid and genocide…
Gideon Polya, “Canada’s Leap Manifesto is not enough”, MWC News, 23 November 2017: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/69225-canadas-leap-manifesto.html .
Anti-racist Jewish Canadian activist and writer Naomi Klein is one of my heroines because of her resolute opposition in a series of popular books to the gross human rights abuses associated with neoliberalism, corporatism, globalization, war criminality and climate criminality. Naomi Klein deserves great praise for overcoming tribal loyalties in supporting Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel [6] and opposing the gross human rights abuses of Apartheid Israel and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide (ethnic cleansing of 90% of Palestine, 7 million Palestinian exiles, denial of all human rights to 5 million Occupied Palestinians highly abusively and indefinitely confined to the Gaza Concentration Camp (2 million) or to West Bank ghettoes (3 million), and 2 million Palestinian deaths from violence, 0.1 million, and imposed deprivation, 1.9 million, since WW1). Indeed Naomi Klein famously declared:“There is a debate among Jews - I'm a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: "Never again to everyone, or never again to us? [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card...There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say[s], “Never again to anyone””.
Naomi Klein’s “No Logo” attacks branding-based consumerism and unethical behaviour of corporations, notable in the low-wage Developing World. The same anti-globalization theme is addressed in Naomi Klein’s compendium “Fences and Windows”. Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” exposes the callous but highly profitable exploitation of natural and man-made crises by governments and corporations. “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein exposes the dire impact on the environment of corporate greed, mendacity and lobbying. Unfortunately not quantitatively explored in these books by non-scientist Naomi Klein are the greatest of the crimes of neoliberalism against Humanity from a numerical, scientific perspective, namely the ongoing Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust (in which 17 million people, half of them children, die avoidably from deprivation each year in the Developing World minus China), the ongoing disaster in which 7 million people die each year from air pollution that largely derives from burning carbon fuels, and a worsening climate genocide in which 10 billion may perish this century due to egregiously insufficient climate change action …
Our heroine Naomi Klein entitled her latest book “No is not enough” but this insufficiency also applies to The Leap Manifesto she espouses - Canada’s Leap Manifesto is not enough by far. As demonstrated in the recent dire warning to Humanity by over 15,000 scientists [11, 12], we are badly running out of time to save the Planet. Science-informed people – and especially the young who are most threatened by climate change, climate injustice and intergenerational inequity - must (a) inform everyone they can of the need to urgently reverse man-made climate change by radical systemic change and a return to a safe and sustainable 300 ppm CO2, (b) urge support for the pro-equity, social humanist and Terraphile Greens and Socialists, and (c) expose the continuing deadly war crimes, deadly climate crimes and deadly economic crimes, and demand judicial punishment of war criminals, climate criminals and homicidally greedy neoliberal One Percenters.
Gideon Polya, “UK Balfour infamy & Palestinian Genocide”, MWC News, 2 November 2017: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/68918-uk-balfour-infamy.html .
November 2th 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration whereby the British granted Palestine to the racist Zionists as a “Jewish Homeland” with a disingenuous and rapidly violated caveat that there was to be no detriment to Indigenous Palestinians or to Jews. The infamous Balfour Declaration came a mere 2 days after the victorious cavalry charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba on 31 October 1917 that precipitated British conquest of Palestine and an ongoing Palestinian Genocide. These 2 linked events are being variously celebrated by supporters of Apartheid Israel – the British Government is having an official celebration of the Balfour Declaration with war criminal Israeli PM Netanyahu in London, and a gaggle of Australian and New Zealand figures have celebrated at a re-enactment of the Australian Charge at Beersheba with their Israeli hosts who regard the Australian victory as “foundational” for the nuclear terrorist, neo-Nazi, genocide-based State of Israel…
Below is a summary of the circumstances of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide
(1) The Palestinian Genocide commenced in earnest with the famine deaths of 100,000 Palestinians associated with conquest of Palestine in WW1 by the British and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) .
(2) The violent killing of Indigenous Palestinians commenced with the 1918 Surafend Massacre by ANZAC soldiers.
(3) Since WW1 there have been 2 million Palestinian deaths from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or Zionist-imposed deprivation (1.9 million ).
(4) There are 8 million Palestinian refugees and all of the 14 million Palestinians are excluded from all or part of Palestine…
The racist Zionists and all their pro-Apartheid supporters must be sidelined from public life worldwide as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and Ku Klux Klan. New Zealand is a relatively humane exception to the “Five Eyes Club” of the Anglosphere and its meat exports deserve an exemption from a global BDS campaign. In contrast, meat from deeply racist, serial war criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, pro-Apartheid, Muslim-killing, Muslim-violating, pro-war, US lackey and fervently pro-Apartheid Israel White Australia should surely be regarded by the world’s 1,600 million Muslims as haram (forbidden or proscribed). Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity – please tell everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Rationalism by Brian Ellis slams neoliberalism”, MWC News, 8 October 2017: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/68564-rationalism-by-brian-ellis.html .
Professor Brian Ellis (Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University and Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia) is a leading Australian philosopher, and 5 years ago published an important book entitled ”Social Humanism… This important book set out a theory for the social humanism of the welfare state, empirically arguably the most successful current social system as evidenced by Scandinavia, Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Ellis advanced social humanism (socialism, democratic socialism, eco-socialism, the welfare state) as an alternative to the extremes of communism and neo-liberalism.Neoliberalism, that presently holds sway in the world, demands maximal freedom for the smart and advantaged to exploit the physical and human resources of the world for private profit, with an asserted “trickle down” of benefit to the less smart and less advantaged. In stark contrast, social humanism aims to sustainably maximize happiness, opportunity and dignity for everybody through evolving national and international social contracts.
In 2017 Brian Ellis has published a further book, ““Rationalism. A critique of pure theory” that contrasts the marvellous successes of “rationalism” in science (involving the proving of mathematical models of reality from starting a priori axioms) with the massive failure of asserted “economic rationalism” (also known as neoliberalism) as evidenced by a huge and ever-increasing wealth gap between rich and poor, mounting intergenerational injustice, and the worsening and indeed existential climate emergency…
Gideon Polya, “Mainstream media: fake news through lying by omission”, MWC News, 1 April 2017: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/64626-mainstream-media.html .
Fake news is simply a new, Trump-popularized descriptive for media lying that occurs in 2 basic forms, lying by omission and lying by commission. Lying by omission is far, far worse than lying by commission because the latter can at least admit refutation and public debate. Western Mainstream media impose a huge burden of fake news on Western societies through entrenched and pervasive lying by omission. Indeed the most egregious and pervasive Mainstream media lie of omission is suppression of reportage of such lying by omission. The unimpeded, remorseless, corporate-dominated Mainstream media, politicians and pliant intellectuals are now going further, and variously threatening residual effective free speech and Alternative media on the basis of asserted fake news. Numerous outstanding writers and journalists have commented cogently on Mainstream media lying and censorship and for alphabetically-organized compendia of such views see the websites “Mainstream media lying” and “Mainstream media censorship”.
Gideon Polya, “Review: “Nutshell” By Ian McEwan – parable for the planet’s unborn”, MWC News, 11 March 2017: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/64222-nutshell-by-ian-mcewan.html .
“Nutshell” is a novel by the acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning British writer Ian Mc Ewan that is in essence a bizarre, funny, macabre and contemporary tale that is clearly related to Shakespeare’s seminal and universal play “Hamlet”. “Nutshell” is a classy and eminently readable novel but I initially found some aspects of the novel quite revolting because the story is told by the unborn child of a heavily pregnant, faithless mother who has frequent passionate sex with her brother-in-law and is plotting the murder of her husband, the unborn child’s father. However “Nutshell” shares the universality of “Hamlet”, and as a parable for the as yet unborn of Humanity can be seen from a science-informed humanist perspective as extending the personal life-or-death dilemma of Hamlet, “To be or not to be, that is the question”, to encompass the present worsening, existential threat to Humanity, the Biosphere and indeed most life on Earth. In that sense “Nutshell” can be seen as a parable for the unborn, for the future generations who will have to repair the environmental disaster we are bequeathing them or die in the attempt. Indeed “Nutshell” should become a cult novel for the young and the unborn facing the worsening speciescide, ecocide, omnicide and prospective terracide (death of most life on Earth).
Gideon Polya, “Turnbull & Trudeau anti-BDS and pro-Apartheid Israel”, MWC News, 27 November 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/62399-turnbull-a-trudeau.html .
Liberal Western democracies of the Anglosphere are based on “one-person-one-vote” and “equal rights for all” but these fundamental principles die at the border. This is no better illustrated than by the liberal democracies Australia and Canada led by PMs Malcom Turnbull and Justin Trudeau, respectively, that arguably rank equal second after the United States as supporters of Israel, an Apartheid rogue state that denies the vote to 73% of its now 52% majority Indigenous Palestinian subjects, denies all human rights to the Occupied Palestinians, and denies equal rights to “lucky” Palestinian Israelis by Nazi-style race laws.
Australia and Canada are prosperous, White sister countries of the British Commonwealth. They are liberal, one-person-one-vote democracies with good education access, a good social safety net and universal health care. At a personal level, Australians endear through their rough diamond friendliness and Canadians endear through their more polite and restrained friendliness. Australia is presently ruled by an all-smiles, oh-so-charming, ostensibly “small l” liberal, Centre-Right Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull who heads an ostensibly Centre-Right Liberal Party-National Party Coalition…
However there is a dark side to both Australia and Canada relating to their being, like Apartheid Israel, the products of genocidal European colonization. The Indigenous Australian population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century after the British invasion in 1788 due to dispossession, deprivation, violence and disease. When violent genocide finally ceased in the late 1920s, the Aboriginal Genocide continued through deprivation, ethnocide and the forced removal of children from their mothers that is presently at historically high levels (noting that today Aboriginal children are being removed not on the basis of genocidally racist ideology but by well-meaning state authorities from impoverished and dysfunctional families). Canada has a similar genocidal history in relation to First Nations people that also included forced, race-based child removal polices that only ceased within living memory. War and genocide are the ultimate expressions of racism. As US or UK lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to Canada 25, the British 193, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 (Google “Stop state terrorism”)…
If Turnbull and Trudeau were to espouse crude, Trump-like, bigoted, racist or anti-women positions they would be immediately finished politically, but it is testament to their dishonesty, their cowardice, voter ignorance and the power of the Zionist Lobby that they are world leaders in supporting democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel but get away with it…
Gideon Polya, “Zionist Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan and Neighbourhood Bully”, MWC News, 18 November 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/62232-bob-dylan-a-neighbourhood-bully.html .
The acclaimed Jewish American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was recently controversially awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. However the close association of Bob Dylan with Israel has tainted this award. Good literature is about critically revealing truths about humanity through songs, poetry, plays, short stories and novels. In sharp contrast, Bob Dylan’s poem “Neighbourhood bully” is full of untruths and half-truths that support the racist, anti-Arab, anti-Semitic Zionist agenda and thus betrays the fundamental truthfulness ethos of good literature. However a fundamental crime against Humanity and truth of “Neighbourhood bully” is that it falsely identifies Judaism and all Jews with the political ideology of Zionism that is genocidal racism in obscene 19th century theory and in horrendous 20th century and 21st century practice.
Anti-racist Jews are justifiably proud of the moral and humanitarian and moral tradition of Judaism that has had a huge impact on Islam and Christianity in past millennia and on secular humanism since Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), the subsequent Enlightenment and the 19th century Jewish assimilation with European cultures. For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”. While the late Jewish Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen repeatedly visited Israel, acclaimed anti-racist Jewish Canadian writer Naomi Klein, has observed these sacred injunctions and has unequivocally stated: “There is a debate among Jews - I'm a Jew by the way.The debate boils down to the question: "Never again to everyone, or never again to us... [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card...There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say[s], “Never again to anyone”.
Gideon Polya, “Entrenched White Australian racism exposed”, MWC News, 4 October 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/61322-white-australian-racism.html .
There is entrenched racism in White Australia but the last half century has seen a progressive increase in political correctness that has made in-your-face public racism unacceptable – until recently that is. Although zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by Muslim terrorist organizations and only 2 Australians have ever been killed in Australia by self-described Muslim jihadis, thanks to US and Zionist propaganda Australia now has entrenched anti-Arab, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. There remains, however, a politically correct Mainstream public narrative about “good Muslims” who are a recruiting ground for radicalizing into “bad Muslims” and thence into Muslim terrorists. An extreme right-wing, racist and bigoted party, the One Nation Party led by Pauline Hanson, gained a critical 4 seats in the Australian Senate in the 2016 Federal elections on a platform that included the Donald Trump-like policy of banning Muslim immigrants…
“First they came for the Aborigines, and I did not speak out—
because I was not an Aborigine.
Then they came for the Asians, and I did not speak out—
because I was not an Asian.
Then they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me”.
Gideon Polya, “UK Chilcot Iraq War Report betrays humanity”, MWC News, 11 July 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/59809-chilcot-iraq-war-report.html .
Some weeks before the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US, UK and Australia I joined 150,000 people in Melbourne and millions more around the world demonstrating against the impending war. On 20 March 2003 US, UK and Australia illegally invaded Iraq on the alleged but utterly false basis that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The false WMD claim prevailed in the run-up to war with the help of pro-war, “manufacturing consent” Mainstream media and despite expert testimony to the effect that there was no hard evidence for the proposition. Indeed on 11 March 2003, 9 days before the invasion, Lieutenant Colonel Andre Wilkie very publicly resigned from the Australian Intelligence Office of National Assessments (ONA) over the US lackey Australian Government’s planning for war on the basis of scant evidence about Iraqi WMD. Recently re-elected to the Australian Federal Parliament in the July 2016 Federal Elections as MP for the electorate of Denison (based on Hobart, the capital of Tasmania and my home town), Andrew Wilkie stated (7 July 2016):
“Every time it's said that Iraq had a massive arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and it was cooperating with Al Qaeda, it knew that that was not the case — that it was either clearly not the case or at best for them it was ambiguous. They took us to war on a lie. No wonder John Howard and Tony Blair and George W Bush do stand accused of war crimes. I'd like them to see an international court. I would like them to defend their position and try to prove their innocence because; all of those people who do accuse them of war crimes I think make a pretty compelling case."…
The 2.6 million word Chilcot Report can be disposed of succinctly as follows: [a] The invasion of Iraq was illegal.
Gideon Polya, “Canadian academic: “F--- neoliberalism”, MWC News, 14 May 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/58847-f-neoliberalism.html .
Canadian academic Dr. Simon Springer (Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), has cogently argued the case for utterly rejecting the inhumane and deadly evil of neoliberalism in an article provocatively entitled “F--- neoliberalism.” I have politely edited Dr. Springer’s indignant use of the F word] (see Simon Springer, “F--- neoliberalism”, Academia). Neoliberalism is killing Humanity (mass murder) and the Biosphere (speciescide, ecocide and terracide) and we clearly must dump, can, halt, stop, reject etc. neoliberalism - perhaps “f--- neoliberalism” is the best the English language can do to express the required resolute commitment to the extirpation of deadly neoliberalism…
Neoliberalism seeks to maximize the freedom of the smart and advantaged to exploit the human and natural resources of the world to maximize personal profit, with an utterly dishonest claim of “trickle down” benefits for the less smart and less advantaged. In contrast, social humanism (social democracy, democratic socialism, the welfare state) involves sustainably maximizing human happiness, opportunity and dignity through evolving national and international social contracts for the betterment of all people and the irreplaceable Biosphere (biodiversity) on which they depend.ndeed neoliberalism kills – thus 17 million people die avoidably from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease on Spaceship Earth with inhumane and remorselessly greedy First World One Percenter neoliberals in charge of the flight deck (see my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).
Gideon Polya, “Climate emergency means zero tolerance for climate criminals”, MWC News, 23 march 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/57988-climate-emergency.html .
At some point in the worsening climate emergency Humanity must say enough is enough and institute zero tolerance for climate criminal corporations, governments, and countries. That point has surely been reached now as the latest shocking global temperature rise data confirm that it is now too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees Centigrade temperature rise. But how to identify the worst polluters? Annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution per se is a flawed measure of national culpability for this because it ignores rich countries outsourcing industrial pollution to China, and impoverished countries compelled to pollute to barely survive. A better measure of culpability is weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution taking relative per capita income into account, this revealing that the worst polluters on this basis include the rich Anglosphere countries of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland. Decent people around the world who care for their children and future generations must urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all climate criminal people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries disproportionately involved in the greenhouse gas pollution that so acutely threatens Humanity and the Biosphere.
Worsening climate emergency… revised annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution for all countries (tonnes CO2-e per person per year) … To readily identify the worst climate criminal nations we can now list countries in descending order of “weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” score:
(a) Above 100: Qatar (101.8 x 9.08 = 924.3), United Arab Emirates (82.4 x 4.09 = 337.0), Australia (52.9 x 5.80 = 306.8; if including its huge GHG-generating exports, 116 x 5.80 = 672.8), Luxembourg (23.6 x 10.85 = 256.1), Canada (50.1 x 4.67 = 234.0), New Zealand (53.2 x 4.11 = 218.7), United States (41.0 x 5.05 = 207.1), Ireland (41.4 x 4.99 = 206.6), Norway (20.1 x 9.05 = 181.9), Belize (366.9 x 0.450 = 165.1), Singapore (31.2 x 5.20 = 162.2), Denmark (27.8 x 5.70 = 158.5), Kuwait (37.3 x 4.06 = 151.4), Malaysia (126.0 x 1.02 = 128.5), Netherlands (24.9 x 4.85 = 120.8), Belgium (26.3 x 4.41 = 116.0), Antigua & Barbuda (85.6 x 1.28 = 109.6), Brunei (27.4 x 3.81 = 104.4)…
Gideon Polya, “Exposing horrendous Mainstream media lying by omission”, MWC News, 10 March 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/57731-mainstream-media-lying.html .
Australians are presently quite rightly upset because of revelations that the Catholic Church hierarchy failed to act to expose and stop long-term, egregious child sexual abuse of up to about 40,000 Australian children by Catholic Church personnel. However look-the-other-way Australia resolutely ignores 4.4 million Australians adults who have been sexually abused as children, and the deaths this century of 11.9 million under-5 year old infants and 15.8 million avoidable deaths (half of children) in Muslim countries being war criminally violated by pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey Australia. It appears that the greater the crime, the more resolute the lying by omission by Mainstream media…
Those who ignore, minimize, obfuscate, suggest, support, promote or are otherwise complicit in crimes against children have crossed the line between decent Humanity and Nazi-style barbarism. As they wait in vain for just one more Mainstream journalist to report these horrendous, deadly, Elephant in the Room child abuse realities, decent people must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) eschew lying Mainstream media in favor of truth-telling Alternative media such as MWC News, and (c) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries disproportionately involved in crimes against children.
Gideon Polya, “Exceeding world’s terminal carbon pollution budget”, MWC News, 27 February 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/57489-terminal-carbon-pollution.html .
Several years ago I published an analysis in MWC News in which I estimated that the world had only about 5 years left relative to 2012 before it exceeded its 2010-2050 Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget that must not be exceeded if it is to have a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degrees Centigrade temperature rise.
Using recently revised estimates of annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution for all countries that takes livestock and land use impacts into account, one can readily estimate that about half of all countries in the world have now already used up their fair share of this Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget, with the world as a whole having only about 2 years left relative to 2016 before it exceeds this Terminal Budget. In an immense global injustice, the very low polluting countries with about 15 years or more left before such exceedance include many impoverished, global warming-threatened Island Nations and some major, impoverished, global warming-threatened mega-delta countries that are also variously susceptible to devastation by sea level rise (Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan, India, and Vietnam).
Below are listed revised annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution for all countries (tonnes CO2-e per person per year), the world average being 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e / 7.137 billion people in 2013 = 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year. These revised estimates take the impact of methanogenic livestock and land use into account, and the data are grouped into (A) countries above the world average, and (B) countries below the world average [2].
(A) countries above the world average: Belize (366.9), Guyana (203.1), Malaysia (126.0), Papua New Guinea (114.7), Qatar (101.8), Zambia (97.5), Antigua & Barbuda (85.6), United Arab Emirates (82.4), Panama (68.0), Botswana (64.9), Liberia (55.0), Indonesia (53.6), New Zealand (53.2), Australia (52.9; 116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports), Nicaragua (51.2), Canada (50.1), Equatorial Guinea (47.5), Venezuela (45.2), Brazil (43.4), Myanmar (41.9), Ireland (41.4), United States (41.0), Cambodia (40.5), Kuwait (37.3)…
Gideon Polya, “Free university education”, MWC News, 2 February 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/57033-free-university-education.html .
Education is a basic human right and all education can and should be free. Free university education has been adopted by nearly 20 variously rich or poor countries for their university students.However the neoliberalism-dominated Anglosphere countries (the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand) ) are peculiar in imposing a huge and unjust Education Debt on university students as well as imposing a huge and inescapable Carbon Debt on young people through disproportionately huge greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Free off-campus university education (Reading-Only Tertiary Education (ROTE), Distance Learning (DL) and Accredited Remote Learning (ARL)) and delivered by Free Universities (FUs) (e.g. a notional Australian Free University) can circumvent this pro-One Percenter, neoliberal perversion…
Many countries, both rich and poor, have made tertiary education free for their citizens, the list including (GDP per capita in US dollars in brackets; mostly UN data, 2014): Argentina ($12,645), Brazil ($11,387), China ($7,617), Cuba ($7,274), Czech Republic ($19,470), Denmark ($61,294), Ecuador ($6,346), Estonia ($20,122), Finland ($49,678), France ($42, 802), Germany ($47,966), Greece ($21,414), Libya ($6,602), Mauritius ($9,945), Norway ($97,226), Scotland ($24,060) and Sweden ($58,856). In addition, Chile ($14,528) gives free university education to students from its 50% poorest families and in Nigeria ($3,203), university education is free for Science, Education and Technology students. However in stark contrast, free university education is presently rejected by the rich, pro-One Percenter, neoliberal Anglosphere countries of Australia ($62,290), Canada ($50,169), Ireland ($53,648), New Zealand ($44,189), UK ($46,461) and the US ($54,306). Australia had free university education when university fees were abolished by the reformist Whitlam Labor Government before it was removed in a CIA-backed Coup in 1975…
Gideon Polya, “Australia Day & British Invasion”, MWC News, 25 January 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/56891-australia-day.html .
January 26th is Australia’s national holiday, Australia Day, on which White Australia celebrates the arrival of the British First Fleet and first White settlement of Australia at present-day Sydney on 26 of January 1788.
However Indigenous Australians mark 26 January as Invasion Day or Survival Day, commemorating commencement of an Aboriginal Genocide and an Aboriginal Ethnocide that continues today, this qualitatively representing the worst genocide in human history. The British have invaded 193 countries, as compared to the UK lackey or US lackey White Australians 85, with variously horrendous and genocidal consequences. 26 January should be marked world-wide as British Invasion Day.
In the last 1,000 years the British have invaded 193 out of 203 present-day countries (195 UN-recognized nations and 8 non-UN-recognized self-governing countries) as compared to the French 80, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2. However the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788 ultimately destroyed as many as 600 unique Indigenous Australian tribes and a comparable number of languages and dialects. Thus it is estimated that in 1788 there were 300 distinct Aboriginal language groups and 750 dialects of which only 150 survive) this making the Australian Aboriginal Genocide qualitatively the worst genocide in human history.
Britain’s and Australia’s quantitatively worst genocide was the WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons in the 1942-1945 man-made Bengal Famine, with Australia withholding food from starving India from its huge wartime grain stocks and as many as 0.3 million starving Bengali women and girls subject to civilian or military sexual abuse. The Bengali Holocaust was the first WW2 mass atrocity to be described as a “holocaust” (by N. G. Jog in his 1944 book “Churchill's Blind Spot: India”) but has been largely white-washed from history and general public perception…
Gideon Polya, “Congress of Vienna 2015 failure”, MWC News, 12 January 2016: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/56656-congress-of-vienna.html .
The late Sheldon Chumir was a progressive Canadian lawyer, businessman , Liberal Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Alberta and activist for civil rights, human rights and public education who was opposed to public funding of religious schools. He also founded and endowed the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership that in turn recently supported a Congress of Vienna 2015 for global stability.200 years after the 1815 Congress of Vienna re-organized post-Napoleonic Europe; the Canadian Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership in collaboration with a number of leading policy organisations and universities hosted a lavish Congress of Vienna 2015 to explore policies for a stable world order. This 2015 Congress of Vienna was unfortunately opened by Vietnam war-complicit Henry Kissinger and generated a Draft Report that - as set out below in my tough critique, reality check and Alternative Report - is soft, wishy-washy, myopic and predicated on the Big Power- and Big Money-dominated status quo that kills 17 million people annually through deprivation and threatens to wipe out most of Humanity and the Biosphere.
My science-informed position is that the world is acutely threatened by nuclear weapons (that could wipe out most of Humanity and the Biosphere at any time), poverty (that kills 17 million people each year) and by man-made climate change from greenhouse gas pollution (pollutants from carbon burning kill 7 million people each year but unaddressed man-made climate change may kill 10 billion people this century in an already worsening climate genocide)…
Gideon Polya, “Day of Lamentation”, MWC News, 29 December 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/56397-day-of-lamentation.html .
MWC News' senior editor and humanitarian American scholar Professor William Cook has proposed 30 December as a Day of Lamentation to record the 21st century’s ongoing evils of which the worst are existentially threatening nuclear weapons, poverty that kills 17 million people annually, and man-made climate change that threatens to kill all but 0.5 billion of Humanity. However 31 December is New Year’s Eve on which we make New Year’s Resolutions, and we can resolve to help stop the evils of Apartheid, state crime, state terrorism, non-state terrorism, nuclear terrorism, corporate terrorism, carbon terrorism, and climate terrorism by Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all disproportionately complicit politicians, corporations and countries… It is already too late to avoid a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise. Ninety-nine Percenters, and young people in particular, must be moved to implacable zero tolerance for the racists, Apartheiders, Mainstream media presstitutes, state criminals, climate criminals, war criminals, state terrorists, nuclear terrorists, corporate terrorists, carbon terrorists and climate terrorists existentially threatening Humanity and the Biosphere. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Please tell everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Review : “Age of Fools” by William Cook”, MWC News, 3 December 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/55900-age-of-fools.html .
MWC News contributing editor William Cook (author, activist, poet and professor of English at the University of La Verne, California) has written an important book “Age of Fools” (illustrated by Edward Beardsley) that should be read by everyone as a brilliant and passionate condemnation of the continuing US atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the US War on Muslims, and of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide by a nuclear terrorist, genocidal racist, rogue state of Apartheid Israel. “Age of Fools” employs poetry, prose and European literary traditions to slam the horrendous Bush America and Israeli crimes of the first.
I am a scientist and am used to dispassionate, objective and ideally numerical analysis of reality. Indeed Lord Kelvin (William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and a founder of thermodynamics crucial for the Industrial Revolution), famously stated that “I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be”.
However in the face of immense evil, such as the Palestinian Genocide and the US War on Muslims, this dispassionate, numerical approach is not enough to describe gut-wrenching awfulness and we also need art, music, poetry, passionate prose, and indeed neologisms (new words), and this latter approach is used with unrelenting, compelling force by writer, poet and English professor William Cook in “Age of Fools”. William Cook draws upon European a literary tradition that notably in the English-speaking world includes the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Gideon Polya, “Pre-Paris betrayal People’s Climate Marches”, MWC News, 28 November 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/55804-peoples-climate-marches.html .
We are badly running out of time to tackle climate change. It is now effectively too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees C temperature rise but we are nevertheless obliged to do everything we can to make the future “less bad” for our children, grandchildren and future generations.
On Friday 27 November 60,000 people attended a massive pre-Paris People’s Climate March in the heart of Melbourne to send an urgent plea for action to the Paris Climate Change Conference. This was the biggest ever climate change rally in Melbourne. My partner and I attended with our associates and our huge banner for the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group, this being one of 350 organizations supporting the People’s Climate March in Melbourne which was the first of numerous such massive pre-Paris marches to be held this weekend around the world (except in Paris where war criminal and climate criminal President Hollande has banned any climate march and put climate activists under house arrest),
We carried our huge Yarra Valley Climate Action Group banner and bold signs saying “300 ppm CO2” (climate scientists and biologists say that for a safe planet for all peoples and all species we must urgently return the atmospheric CO2 concentration to the pre-Industrial Revolution level of 300 parts per million CO2 from the present dangerous and damaging 400 ppm CO2).
Gideon Polya, “Polya’s Laws of Economics expose neoliberal capitalism”, MWC News, 17 October 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/54945-polyas-laws-of-economics-expose.html .
Melbourne scientist Dr. Gideon Polya’s 3 Laws of Economics mirror the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics of science and are (1) Price minus COP (Cost of Production) equals profit; (2) Deception about COP strives to a maximum; and (3) No work, price or profit on a dead planet. These fundamental laws help expose the failure of neoliberal capitalism in relation to wealth inequality, massive tax evasion by multinational corporations, and horrendous avoidable deaths from poverty and pollution culminating in general ecocide, speciescide, climate genocide, omnicide and terracide…As exampled above, application of the First Law of Economics enables quantitation of huge hidden subsidies from the remorseless deception described by the Second Law of Economics. The Third Law of Economics presents a terminal boundary condition of the human condition in which irreversible greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, ecocide, speciescide and climate genocide have led to omnicide and terracide, the destruction of Humanity and the Biosphere.
Gideon Polya, “Papal encyclical to save planet”, MWC News, 5 August 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/53364-papal-encyclical-to-save-planet.html .
Pope Francis’ landmark, faith- and science-informed Encyclical “ Laudato si” (“Praise be”) runs to over 190 pages and has 246 sections but the humane essence for a climate change-threatened world can be summarized by his extraordinary use of some key terms. Jesus Christ-informed, science-informed and indeed scientifically- and specifically chemically-trained Pope Francis in his landmark 2015 Encyclical Letter “Laudato si” shows great moral and technical leadership in stark contrast to the frozen, spin-driven, pro-One Percenter leadership of the First World in:
(1) recognizing the worsening existential threat of a man-made climate change “catastrophe” for the Biosphere, Humanity, the poor and future generations;
(2) recognizing that millions of “premature deaths” (avoidable deaths) already occur each year due to pollution and poverty;
(3) demanding urgent action to start slashing fossil fuel burning and replacing it with renewable energy “in the next few years”;
(4) asserting that the environmental and social costs of pollution must be “fully borne” by those incurring them (i.e. a full Carbon Price);
(5) asserting that a market-based Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) approach may simply become a “ploy” to permit continuing pollution; and
(6) advocating individual and collective action through “boycotts” of those responsible for the worsening climate emergency.
Gideon Polya, “Pope decrees full Carbon Price ”, MWC News, 28 July 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/53226-pope-decree.html .
A full Carbon Price (Carbon Tax) on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is required to stop GHG pollution that is killing the Biosphere and threatening Humanity. Pope Francis in his 2015 Encyclical Letter “Laudato si” demands that a “fully borne” Carbon Price be emplaced on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in order to prevent “millions of premature deaths”. Armed with this authoritative moral advice, the billions of Humanity must save themselves and the Biosphere by demanding that the polluters must pay in full by a Wealth Tax (for historical GHG pollution) and a Carbon Tax (for ongoing GHG pollution). Pope Francis, quoting Pope Benedict XVI, essentially advocates Carbon Pricing in Section 195 of his 2015 encyclical “Laudato si”: ‘Yet only when the economic and social costs of using up shared environmental resources are recognized with transparency and fully borne by those who incur them, not by other peoples or future generations,’ can those [economic] actions be considered ethical”
Gideon Polya, “Abbott & Australian Aboriginal Genocide”, MWC News, 11 March 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/50239-australian-aboriginal.html .
Australia has invaded 85 countries and in 30 instances these violations have been associated with genocide of the Indigenous inhabitants [1, 2]. Before the British invasion in 1788 there were 350-750 different Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal) tribes and a similar number of languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of these all but about 20 are endangered in a process of continuing Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide. Now the conservative Coalition Federal and Western Australian governments have given a huge boost to the Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide by forcing closure of as many as 150 remote Aboriginal communities and ultra-conservative Australian PM Tony Abbott has highly offensively supported this, declaring that Indigenous Australians living on their own traditional lands and speaking their native languages constitute “lifestyle choices” that should not be subsidised by the Australian taxpayer… The only thing that can stop the continuing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide are Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against PC racist White Australia as were successfully applied against Apartheid South Africa and are currently being applied world-wide against genocidally racist Apartheid Israel that is resolutely backed by the US lackey Australian Coalition and Labor Right (aka the Lib-Labs or Liberal-Laborals). Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity – please tell everyone you can. Climate criminal and war criminal Australia will only stop invading other countries and destroying Indigenous societies through genocide and ethnocide when the world tells it to stop.
Gideon Polya, “Australia’s Seventh Iraq war”, MWC News, 28 February 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/50028-australias-seventh-iraq-war.html .
2015 marks the centenary of the commencement of Australia’s First Iraq War (1915-1918). Australia’s closest big city to Iraq, Darwin, is 10,066 kilometers from Basrah, and Canberra is 13, 289 kilometers from Baghdad, but distant Australia as a lackey of the US Alliance has recently embarked on Australia’s Seventh Iraq War in 100 years.However the appalling reality of one of the world’s richest countries, Australia, repeatedly invading and devastating impoverished Iraq for a century is ignored by Mainstream media in look-the-other-way Australia. Iraq is just one of 85 countries Australians have invaded as UK lackeys or US lackeys – Australian state terrorism indeed…
Yet the major Australian parties, the currently ruling Coalition and Opposition Labor (aka the Lib-Labs or Liberal-Laborals) have committed to a long-term accrual cost of $125 billion for the Islamophobic US War on Terror and killing 10 million Muslims abroad rather than keeping 1 million Australians alive at home. Australian state terrorism indeed. Successive pro-Zionist, US lackey Australian Coalition Governments (with support from pro-Zionist, US lackey Labor) have compounded this appalling fiscal perversion and over 1 million preventable Australian deaths since 9-11 with horrendous Islamophobia, terror hysteria and draconian Muslim-targeting anti-terrorism laws that provide for severe penalties variously ranging up to life imprisonment for reading, writing, funding, espousing or supporting things that the Australian Government can simply proscribe at any time by proclamation. Poor fellow my country.
Gideon Polya, “Charlie Hebdo, free speech, terrorism & state terrorism”, MWC News, 12 January 2015: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/49043-charlie-hebdo-free-speech.html .
The world has been shocked by the recent murderous terrorist attacks on media in France and Germany and on a kosher Jewish supermarket in Paris. Millions of people have rightly protested (a) the murder of innocent people and (b) the implicit attack on free speech. However the Western Mainstream media and politicians are profoundly hypocritical in their indignation because they (a) ignore 12 million Muslims killed since 1990 by violence or war-imposed deprivation in the continuing, Zionist -promoted US War on Muslims and (b) massive Western Mainstream lying by omission, censorship and constraint of free speech, including repeated French government banning of Charlie Hebdo and its predecessors…
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Civilized people abhor both terrorism and the vastly more deadly state terrorism. Civilized people utterly condemn Muslim-origin terrorism which has killed about 2,000 Westerners in the last half century (this tally excluding 2,000 Israelis killed by Indigenous Palestinians and 3,000 mostly Americans killed in the US Government’s 9-11 false flag operation; Google “Experts: US did 9-11’) but whose most appalling crime has been to provoke the active and passive mass murder since 1990 of 12 million Muslims by Western state terrorism (US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Canadian state terrorism, German state terrorism, Apartheid Israeli state terrorism and Australian state terrorism).
Gideon Polya, “Lima COP20 failure demands Green Revolution”, MWC News, 15 December 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/48517-lima-cop20-failure.html .
The Lima COP20 Climate Change Conference has just concluded in failure to agree on tough climate change action involving serious reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. The failure of the Lima COP20 Climate Change Conference resulted from the hard-line action of climate racist, climate criminal, high per capita GHG polluters like Australian, Canada and the US who, despite fine rhetoric on the need for action, have sabotaged a succession of Climate Change Conferences by insisting on their asserted “right” to disproportionately pollute the one common atmosphere and ocean of all nations. The Lima COP20 failure sets up the likelihood of a Paris COP21 failure but paradoxically provides a powerful argument for an immediate, non-violent, Green Socialist Revolution involving zero tolerance and Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, companies and countries involved in disproportionate GHG pollution and greed-driven climate change inaction that now acutely threatens Humanity and the Biosphere.
Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) states “The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic [man-made] interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner”. A series of Conferences of Parties (COPs 1-20) have been held to try to determine how to achieve this Article 2 objective, of which the Lima 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) has been the latest…
Decent Humanity must seize this moment of potentially catastrophic international climate change inaction and react with zero tolerance for the business-as-usual, effective climate change deniers and Big Polluters by (a) informing everyone they can, and (b) urging and applying comprehensive Boycotts Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, countries, companies and corporations complicit in the worsening, increasingly disastrous and potentially terminal climate crisis. It’s time to act and to act later may be too late.
Gideon Polya, “Anti-terrorism laws & police state of Australia”, MWC News, 1 Novemebr 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/47535-police-state-of-australia.html .
Backed by a wave of Zionist- and US-inspired “terror hysteria” the extreme right wing Australian Coalition Government with the support of the right wing Labor Opposition has passed further draconian additions to already draconian anti-terrorism legislation that makes Australia a secret police state with detention without charge or trial, Australian Intelligence officers (e.g. those of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization, ASIO) having criminal and civil immunity from prosecution, and reportage on any special intelligence operations criminalized with maximum punishments ranging from 5 years' to 10 years' imprisonment.
Australia and the West are in the grip of “terror hysteria” due to responses by US Alliance state terrorism (US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Israeli state terrorism, and Australian state terrorism) to the advances of the Sunni rebel group Islamic State (IS) in the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars. This “terror hysteria” has been exacerbated by reported barbarous IS acts (beheading of several Western journalists or aid workers, arbitrary killings of others, mass execution of prisoners and the terrorizing of non-Sunni Muslims and of ethnic and religious minorities) and the fear that “home grown” IS supporters will commit terrorist acts (already tragically realized in Canada) or that “foreign fighters” returning from Syria or Iraq will commit such atrocities.
The Australian “terror hysteria” response has been utterly disproportionate because the “annual empirical probability of an Australian dying from a preventable cause” (1 in 294) is about 370,000 times greater than the “annual empirical probability of an Australian dying in Australia from a terrorist attack (1 in 109 million).
Gideon Polya, “Obama’s war in Iraq & Syria”, MWC News, 13 September 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/46129-obamas-war.html .
American President Barak Obama has made a transition from having “no strategy” a week ago to now outlining in a major speech (10 September 2014) how the US and its allies “will degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL” in an Obama Iraq and Syrian War. Indeed Obama has indicated a new and comprehensive global reach in a new Obama War on Terror: “We will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are” … A paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of Obama’s Speech is given below…
The Obama Iraq and Syria war will involve war crimes in a dozen areas as outlined above. The barbarism of the ISIL rebels (beheadings, execution of prisoners, kidnapping of women, and terrorizing of religious and ethnic minorities) does not warrant even larger scale war crimes by the US and its allies and the horrendous avoidable mortality carnage of an “endless war” in the Middle East. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent, pro-peace people around the world should dissociate themselves from US Alliance war crimes by (a) informing everyone they can, (b) demanding cessation and punishment of war crimes, and (c) urging and applying, where possible, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries associated with US Alliance and other war crimes.
Gideon Polya, “WWI centenary & Israeli Gaza Massacre”, MWC News, 5 August 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/44321-israeli-gaza-massacre.html .
4th of August 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the British declaration of war on Germany in 1914, an event that rapidly and inexorably led to the still ongoing Palestinian Genocide involving 2 million Palestinian deaths from violence 0.1 million, or from violently-imposed deprivation 1.9 million, 7 million refugees and the ethnic cleansing of 90% of the former Mandated Palestine.
As of 4 August 2014, after 28 days of Israel’s latest Gaza Massacre, of the 1.8 million Occupied Palestinians in Gaza Concentration Camp (50% children and 75% women and children) , 1,800 have been killed (equivalent to the deaths from 6 MH17 atrocities), 10,000 wounded, 450,000 have been driven from their homes, and 1.8 million are variously traumatized by the Israeli shelling, rocketing, mortaring and bombing of one of the world’s most densely populated conurbations – and all of this in response to zero (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets in the year before this latest Israeli Gaza Massacre, and 28 such deaths in the last 14 years or 2 per year as compared to 130 Israeli deaths each year at the hands of fellow Israelis.
World War 1 (WW1) took the lives of 20 million people, mostly combatants, and was the beginning of a 100-year ongoing genocide applied to the Palestinian people and indeed to other people in the Middle East. The British rapidly used WW1 as an excuse to dismember the Ottoman Turkish Empire with Middle East oil and hegemony being the major prizes. Iraq was invaded and conquered in 1914.
Gideon Polya, “Australian MPs condemn Israeli war crimes”, MWC News, 31 July 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/44087-israeli-war-crimes.html .
Israel’s Gaza Massacre continues against the 1.8 million of its 4.3 million Occupied Palestinian subjects who are highly abusively confined to the Gaza Concentration Camp. by Apartheid Israel and its Fascist Egyptian military dictatorship ally.As of 31 July 2014, after 24 days of genocidal Israeli violence, 1,300 Palestinians have been killed, 8,000 wounded, and 215,000 displaced with 1.8 million Gazans – 0.9 million of them children – variously traumatized by Israel in response to the murder of 3 Israeli settler teenagers killed by persons unknown, and zero (0) Israelis killed by Gaza rockets in the year before the latest Israeli invasion. Indeed 28 Israelis have been killed by Gaza rockets since the start of the Intifada in 2000 or 2 per year as compared to a total of about 130 Israelis murdered by fellow Israelis each year . The Palestinian Genocide has involved 2 million Palestinians killed from violence (0.1 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.9 million) since 1936, the ethnic cleansing of 90% of Mandatory Palestine, and the generation of 7 million Palestinian refugees versus about 3,800 Zionist or Israeli deaths by the “enemy” since 1920…
While the pro-Zionist, US lackey Australian Coalition Government and the Labor Right-dominated Australian Labor Opposition are appallingly united in their support for Israel, 54 Australian Greens, Labor and Independent MPs and the former conservative Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser have signed an Open Letter condemning Israeli war crimes in Gaza… Decent people around the world must (1) inform everyone they can about the horrendous lies, human rights abuses and war crimes of Apartheid Israel in its ongoing Palestinian Genocide; (2) demand immediate cessation of murderous Israeli human rights abuse, Exile and Occupation of Palestinians; (3) demand equal rights and one-man-one-vote for all the present subjects of Israel in the former Mandatory Palestine; (4) demand justice through the International Criminal Court or through an International Tribunal of the most eminent humanitarians; and (5) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against not just US-, UK-, EU-, Canada- and Australia-backed Israel but also, where practicable, against all people, politicians, parties, collectives, companies, corporations and countries complicit in Israeli and Zionist-backed US state terrorism in Palestine, the Middle East and indeed throughout the world.
Gideon Polya, “MH17 atrocity & Gaza Massacre”, MWC News, 19 July 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/43443-gaza-massacre.html .
The entire world has been utterly horrified by the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 (298 dead) on 17 July 2014 by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile launched either by Government Ukrainians, or Rebel Ukrainians (the latter less likely because it can only damage their cause, they have not been supplied with such missiles, and they lack the required skilled Buk system operators. This appalling atrocity coincides with, and has diverted world attention from, the deadly escalation of the latest Israeli Gaza Massacre (about 300 Palestinians killed so far) involving actual ground invasion by the war criminal Israeli Defense Forces (IDF)…
Decent people informed by humanity and “we are all created equal” must (1) inform everyone they can about the horrendous human rights abuses and war crimes of Apartheid Israel in its ongoing Palestinian Genocide; (2) demand immediate cessation of murderous Israeli violence; (3) demand justice through the International Criminal Court or in the face of Apartheid Israeli contempt for International Law, through an International Tribunal of the most eminent humanitarians; and (4) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against not just Apartheid Israel but also where practicable against all people, politicians, parties, collectives, companies, corporations and countries complicit in Apartheid Israeli state terrorism in Palestine, the Middle East and indeed throughout the world.
Gideon Polya, “Climate: young must revolt”, MWC News, 11 July 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/42997-climate.html .
I n 2014 the world is commemorating the start of World War 1 (28 July 1914) and the D-Day landing (6 June 1944) that opened a second front to assist defeat of Nazi Germany by Russia’s Red Army in World War 2. WW1 and WW2 were associated with military and civilian deaths totaling about 40 million and about 100 million, respectively. Young people were dragooned into these appalling conflicts of the 20th century but in the 21st century they are being dragged into a worsening climate genocide in which 10 billion people or an average of 100 million people every year (and half of them children) are set to die due to climate change inaction. Further, young people and future generations will have to pay the presently $220 trillion Carbon Debt associated with One Percenter profligacy (and increasing at $10 trillion every year) or die in their billions… please inform all Australian students and young people you can of the urgent need for them to take resolute action over the worsening threat to their future and the horrendous Carbon Debt burden being placed upon them by the climate criminal climate change inaction of their elders (for further details and documentation see “Climate justice & intergenerational equity” and “2011 climate change course”).
Gideon Polya, “$10 trillion annual Carbon Debt”, MWC News, 8 July 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/42855-carbon-debt.html .
In the face of resolute climate change inaction by their elders, it is now up to young people to take action to stop climate crime and save the world. Humanity and the Biosphere are increasingly threatened by man-made global warming but climate change inaction means that it may soon be too late to act to prevent catastrophic global warming. This climate change inaction is associated with a $10 trillion annual increase in the circa $200 trillion Carbon Debt for young people and future generations. Young people must now realize the truth in the 1960s slogan “Don’t trust anyone over 30” and that the answer of their elders to the question “What did you do in the War on Terra?” is mostly a craven “Nothing”. In the absence of effective action from their elders, young people must urgently reclaim their future from the terracidal, climate criminal One Percenters who are destroying the planet…
With a global Carbon Debt increasing at about $10 trillion annually and the looming prospect that within decades it may become too late to save the planet, young people (and those who care for them) should be as mad as hell and shouldn’t take it anymore. For focused, inclusive, climate activism I advocate an ABC strategy (akin to that successfully employed for other –isms from Humanism to Socialism) involving Accountability (by holding the terracidal climate criminals accountable at the ballot box, in public life in general, and through Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) applied to all people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries complicit in catastrophic climate change), a Badge (wear a messaging badge e.g. “300 ppm CO2” indicating the safe target for atmospheric CO2 reduction), and a Credo ( a concise statement of position e.g. “for a safe and sustainable planet for all peoples and all species we must urgently return atmospheric CO2 from the present dangerous and damaging 400 ppm CO2 to a safe and sustainable 300 ppm CO2”) .
Gideon Polya, “Review: “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty”, MWC News, 1 July 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/42594-thomas-piketty.html .
“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by French economist Professor Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics, France) is a very readable, information-rich, must-read book about the basis of capital accumulation inequality past, present and future. In short, notwithstanding the expansion of democracy and social welfare in the 20th century, the world’s wealth is overwhelmingly concentrated the hands of the rich. Thus, according to Oxfam “[Its] report, Working for the Few, shows that the wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one per cent; the other half to the remaining 99 per cent”. Professor Piketty argues in this important book that current wealth inequality endangers democracy and economic sustainability and proposes a progressive annual wealth tax to address the danger…
“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by French economist Professor Thomas Piketty is a very important book about the historical and structural basis of capital accumulation and wealth inequality. This must-read book makes a strong case that expanding wealth inequity must be controlled for economic sustainability and democracy reasons and proposes an annual global wealth tax to oppose anti-democracy, anti-social and anti-Humanity domination of the world economy by One Percenter wealth, including inherited wealth. Decent folk who want a just, humane and sustainable world will reject Corporatocracy and support an effective annual wealth tax for democracy and economic justice. The world is badly running out of time to act.
Gideon Polya, “4% Annual Global Wealth Tax”, MWC News, 27 June 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/42423-global-wealth-tax.html .
There is an horrendous but largely ignored Global Avoidable Mortality in which currently 17 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease in the Developing World. This is happening on Spaceship Earth with the flight deck under the control of the 10% richest who have about 90% of the wealth of the World and who in turn are controlled by One Percenters who own about half the wealth of the World. An annual global wealth tax of about 4% would yield US$16 trillion annually and enable raising all countries to annual per capita incomes equivalent to the $6,000 per person per year of China and Cuba, countries for which annual avoidable mortality is zero (0). This is a feasible option for stopping the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust. Indeed a progressive annual wealth tax ranging up to 10% for the richest has been proposed for democracy and economic sustainability reasons by French economist Professor Thomas Piketty in his important book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century…
Below is a list of impoverished countries indicating the amount in billions of US dollars required each year to bring them up to the Cuban level of annual per capita income of US$6,301 per person per year. The countries are listed in descending order of population to enable some useful comparisons between countries with similar populations e.g. China requires vastly less than impoverished India and Thailand requires vastly less than its list neighbors impoverished Burma and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (such countries that are making good strides towards a Cuban annual per capita income are noted below)… At another level, young people in the prosperous West and indeed worldwide are being remorselessly disempowered by the obscene wealth accumulation of the dominant One Percenters and top Ten Percenters and are being burdened by a Carbon Debt that is currently increasing at the rate of $10 trillion annually. Young people everywhere should demand a carbon-free economy and a wealth tax for intergenerational justice, humanity and democracy. Please inform and discuss this with everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Obama’s climate change”, MWC News, 8 June 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/41591-obamas-climate-change.html .
The worsening climate crisis has finally been recognized as a major issue by the Obama Administration. However the latest policy announcement on climate change by President Obama - 30% off 2005 greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution of America’s dirty power plants by 2030 enforceable by the US Environment Protection Authority (EPA) under the Clean Air Act - represents too little too late and falls far short of what is needed to address the worsening climate crisis. Thus the annual GHG pollution to be saved in 2030 through this measure will be only 4.5% of America’s current total annual GHG pollution that is re-assessed at 10.3 billion tonnes CO2-e (CO2 equivalent) if the latest data on methane emissions are considered. In stark contrast, the whole world’s 2010-2050 terminal carbon pollution budget that must not be exceeded if we are to have a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2C temperature rise is 600 billion tonnes CO2 and the US finally used up its “fair share” of this terminal carbon pollution budget in 2014…
We are badly running out of time to prevent climate catastrophe. What can decent people –and especially the young - do in the face of worsening climate injustice and intergenerational injustice ? People must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those climate criminals, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries disproportionately complicit in the worsening climate crisis and climate change inaction, and (c) vote 1 Green.
Gideon Polya, ““God’s Fifth Column” by William Gerhardie”, MWC News, 5 May 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/40325-william-gerhardie.html .
English writer William Gerhardie’s outstanding anti-war book “God’s Fifth Column. A biography of the Age 1890-1940” should be a must-read for everyone as we mark in 2014 the centenary of the start of World War 1, the “war to end all wars” that was inexorably succeeded by the 5-fold greater carnage of World War 2 and thence the continuing appalling prospect of annihilation of nearly all of humanity in a nuclear World War 3 or through climate genocide from climate change inaction… William Gerhardie’s “God’s Fifth Column” provides a rich account of the ideas, manners, mentality and motivation of 2 sets of people in the run up to WW1 and thence to WW2 – on the one hand, the wonderful humanitarian writers such as Anton Chekhov, Lev Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw. D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Emile Zola, Anatole France, Marcel Proust, Herman Hesse, and Walt Whitman, and on the other, the English, French, German, Austrian, Italian and Russian kings, emperors, generals, statesmen, diplomats and other Establishment figures, male and female, who inexorably led the world to disaster and of whom the best that could be said in hindsight was that they had good table manners. The term “fifth column” derived from Fascist Nationalist Franco colleague General Mola boasting that in addition to his 4 columns advancing on Republican-held Madrid he had supporters inside the city, described by the Republican defenders as a “fifth column” (page 61). To Gerhardi, “God’s Fifth Column” is those elements that wittingly or unwittingly sabotage defective human social constructs…
Gerhardie details the dichotomy between “Aristotelian [empiricism] exploitation of reason for purposes of power” and “the Platonic Idea of truth and beauty hiding behind the shadow of material form”. (page 274). One is reminded by the view of brilliant Hungarian mathematician and outstanding number theory problem-solver Paul Erdös who made the distinction between, on the one hand, applied mathematics and creating better models for reality from the atom to the universe [this culminating power-wise in the hydrogen bomb], and pure mathematics deriving elegant proofs for pure equations that are utterly independent of physical reality… [Gerhardie:] “We want the League of Nations palace to expand into a World Academy of scientists and economists instructed so to balance the housekeeping accounts of the planet as to encourage, within an adjustable framework of world control, the free play for private initiative. We want them to do precisely that which made Goethe wonder why so comparatively easy an equation should have been beyond the wit of man to work out and maintain: the balancing of an automatic system whereby the violent swinging of the pendulum, whether of politics or economics, is perpetually neutralized, and the defeat of liberty by oligarchy perpetually obviated.” … Gerhardie’s notion of unearned income (1 pound per day, 365 pounds per year) is implicit in the welfare state and the ideal of an evolving social humanism that maximized human opportunity, health and happiness and is an alternative to the clearly failed currently–dominant neoliberalism that maximizes the wealth of the smart and advantaged.
Gideon Polya, “Child abuse in Israel”, MWC News, 29 April 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/40056-child-abuse-in-israel.html .
Horrifying physical, emotional, intellectual and/or sexual child abuse is variously inflicted by Zionists, by Apartheid Israel and by pro-Zionist US Alliance of the rogue state on 6 million exiled Palestinian children, 4.3 million Occupied Palestinian children, 0.9 million Palestinian-Israeli children, 2 million Jewish Israeli children, 5 million Jewish children in general worldwide, 750 million Muslim children, 3 billion Third World children and indeed potentially, through worsening climate genocide, all 3.5 billion children of the world. However Mainstream media exercise extraordinary censorship to hide horrendous Israeli child abuse, and, with some exceptions, also hide British, American, Australian, Aboriginal, and Indigenous child abuse…
According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, 1 in 3 Australian girls and 1 in 6 Australian boys will be sexually abused in some way before the age of 18. The “Little Children are Sacred” Report into child abuse in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory of Australia quoted a similar scholarly estimate that 34% of Australian women and 16% of Australian men had been subject to child sexual abuse… The US National Center for Victims of Crime quotes studies by David Finkelhor, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, showing that:1 in 5 American girls (20%) and 1 in 20 American boys (5%) (an average of 12.5% of Americans) is a victim of child sexual abuse… 48.5 percent of Israeli children surveyed reported that they had suffered one or more kinds of physical, emotional or sexual abuse and 18% reported sexual abuse. However it must be noted that Occupied Palestinian children are violently confined to either the Gaza Concentration Camp or to West Bank Bantustans without human rights and 10% are stunted from Israeli-imposed deprivation About 12 million Muslims, half of them children, have died from violence or from violently-imposed deprivation in the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims and 7 million under-5 year old infants die avoidably each year from deprivation on Spaceship Earth with the Zionist-perverted Neocon Americans in charge of the flight deck… What must decent people do? Decent people must (a) speak out against all forms of child abuse and human rights abuse, and (b) urge and apply Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and its US Alliance supporters who are complicit in horrendous Israeli child abuse. As Jesus said, we cannot walk by on the other side. Indeed in the Northern Territory of Australia it is now an offence for an adult not to report child abuse. Silence is complicity.
Gideon Polya, “Climate change inaction”, MWC News, 5 April 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/39009-climate-change-inaction.html .
The world is witnessing terracidal climate change inaction both from explicit, anti-science, corporate-fostered climate change denialism and from craven effective climate change denialism. The world is facing a worsening climate emergency but remains committed to an ever-expanding carbon economy and is unable to take requisite effective climate change action. Energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and the atmospheric CO2 continue to inexorably increase and it is becoming clear that we are rapidly running out of time to deal with the climate emergency. This inaction derives not just from anti-science climate change denialism fostered by climate criminal fossil fuel companies but also from the effective climate change denialism of politicians and climate activists who understand the problem but are simply too cowardly or inept to bite the bullet and act effectively in the interests of Humanity and the Biosphere…
What can humane, civilized, science-informed people do in the face of massive climate change denialism and massive effective climate change denialism by even ostensibly pro-environment groups? We are badly running out of time to save the Planet. Science-informed people – and especially the young who are most threatened by climate change, climate injustice and intergenerational inequity - must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) vote 1 Green or Socialist, and (c) exercise zero tolerance for climate criminals by urging and applying Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, countries, companies and corporations conspicuous in the War on Terra, the greed-driven, terracidal destruction of the Biosphere through unaddressed, man-made global warming.
Gideon Polya, “Western hypocrisy over Crimea”, MWC News, 1 April2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/38835-western-hypocrisy-over-crimea.html .
International Law must always be respected. National independence, national borders and national sovereignty are sacrosanct according to the UN Charter, and Russia under President Vladimir Putin has violated international law through the incorporation of Crimea into the Russia Federation. However in mitigation one cannot ignore the following realities: the Crimean Parliament unanimously voted for this incorporation; 97% of the participants in a Crimean Referendum supported incorporation; Russian military presence in the Crimea was below that permitted by Treaty with Ukraine; Crimea has been an important part of Russia since its conquest by Catherine the Great in 1783; there is a Russian-speaking majority in Crimea; the crisis was precipitated by US, NATO and the EU fostering of the neo-Nazi-complicit Coup that removed the democratically-elected pro-Russian President and installed a government with key positions held by neo-Nazis and which has removed Russian as an official language… War criminal Western leaders have been correct in condemning the Russian incorporation of Crimea as illegal under international law but in so doing are grossly hypocritical in view of US Alliance invasion of non-contiguous countries in recent decades that, unlike Crimea, were linguistically, culturally and religiously utterly different from the invaders and were opposed to such alien Western invasion and devastation of their countries…
Unfortunately 1 Ukrainian soldier was killed in the Crimea by a pro-Russian Crimean militia as compared to about 80 people were killed in the US-backed riots in Kiev that involved neo-Nazis as well as Israeli Special Forces killers. However the death of 1 Ukrainian in the Crimea contrasts with the 12 million Muslims (half of them children) who have died from violence or violently-imposed deprivation over the last quarter century in the Zionist-promoted, post-1990 US War on Muslims, the breakdown being 4.6 million (Iraq, 1990-2011), 6 million (Afghanistan (2001-), 2.2 million (Somalia, 1992-), 0.1 million (Palestine (1990-), 0.1 million (Libya, 2011-) and 0.1 million (Syria, 2011-.
Gideon Polya, “Film review: “Utopia “ by John Pilger”, MWC News, 14 March 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/37943-utopia.html .
The important movie “Utopia” by the outstanding expatriate Australian humanitarian journalist John Pilger exposes the horrendous circumstances of the Indigenous (Aboriginal) Australians. The following review summarizes the main points raised in “Utopia” and in doing so attempts to quantify and document these horrendous abuses of the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide by what John Pilger describes an Apartheid Australia… it is useful to summarize the main features of the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide. Before the British Invasion in 1788, Indigenous Australians had been living in Australia for about 60,000 years. There were 350-750 different tribes and a similar number of languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of these all but about 20 are endangered. After the brutish British Invasion, the Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million in 1788 to about 0.1 million in the first century through introduced disease, deprivation and genocidal violence. The last massacres of Aborigines occurred in the 1920s but no Treaty has ever been signed. Indigenous Australians were only counted after a referendum in 1967 and were finally given some protection by the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act. In the 20th century up to 1 in 10 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their mothers, the so-called Stolen Generations. In 2000 about 9,000 Aborigines out of an Aboriginal population of 500,000 died avoidably every year but this had declined to about 2,000 annual avoidable deaths out of a population about 670,000 by 2011. Indigenous Australians are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy. There is an ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide, noting that “genocide” is defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group…
John Pilger’s “Utopia” is an important, must-see film about the continuing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide by an Apartheid Australia. What can decent people do? Decent people should (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) urge and apply Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, parties, politicians, companies and corporations complicit in this ongoing, genocidal and ethnocide Apartheid Australian maltreatment of Indigenous Australians. We cannot walk by on the other side.
Gideon Polya, “Review: “Wanting” by Richard Flanagan”, MWC News, 22 February 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/36844-wanting-by-richard-flanagan.html .
The historical novel “Wanting” by civilized and progressive Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan is a work of faction (fact-based fiction) that exposes British racism and in particular the Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide. “Wanting” links on the one hand the merciless, near-comprehensive, 19th century British Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide (the “full blood” Aboriginal population dropping from perhaps 10,000 before first settlement in 1803 to zero in 1876 with the death of the Aboriginal woman Truganini (circa 1812-1876), and on the other the obsessional sexual and pecuniary desires of British writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870). The historical linkage between the Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide and famous British novelist, albeit Charles Dickens, is via the humane and liberal Lady Jane Franklin, wife of Sir John Franklin the Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania (originally known as Van Dieman’s Land until 1856) between 1836 and 1845. In 1841 Lady Jane and Sir John Franklin adopted an Aboriginal girl Mathinna (1835-1852), one of the several hundred Tasmanian Aborigines collected by the so-called Protector of Aborigines, George Robinson (1791-1866), after the Black War and confined to the settlement at Wybalenna on Flinders Island in the stormy Bass Straight (that separates Tasmania from the Mainland of Australia). Lady Jane was childless but Sir John had a daughter Eleanor born of his first wife, the poet Eleanor Porden (1795-1825) in 1824. However on their return to England in 1843 they left 8-year-old Mathinna behind at Queen’s Orphan School in New Town, Hobart. Mathinna drowned in a puddle in Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, in 1852…
The definitive word on genocide comes from outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond who in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction still grossly violated today by racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel and its racist, genocide-committing and genocide-ignoring US Alliance backers, including Apartheid Australia, a racist nation created through the forcible dispossession and untimely deaths of 2 million Indigenous Australian inhabitants. Lest we forget – and “Wanting” by Richard Flanagan helps us remember.
Gideon Polya,” Aboriginal Genocide by Apartheid Australia“”, MWC News, 16 February 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/36610-aboriginal-genocide.html .
Apartheid and genocide are utterly evil, whether Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide or Aboriginal Genocide in Australia. There is an ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide that demands international action against a pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, human rights-abusing Apartheid Australia. Australians have just noted the 6th anniversary of the “Sorry Speech” by former Australian PM Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008 in which he offered a very important formal apology to Indigenous Australians for the hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children forcibly removed from their mothers in the preceding century. However, as summarized below, while progress has been made in reducing the horrendous avoidable deaths of Indigenous Australians, there remain huge differentials between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in relation to life expectancy, health, wealth, employment and educational attainment. The so-called “Closing the Gap” has a long way to go in one of the richest countries in the world…
What can decent people do? Decent Australians should (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last. Decent folk around the world should urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those complicit in the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide, just as they urge and apply BDS against Apartheid Australia-backed Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide [29]. Would you buy soap made in Auschwitz?
Gideon Polya, “Australia commits trillions to carbon pollution and war”, MWC News, 10 February 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/36408-carbon-pollution-a-war.html .
he neoliberal, pro-war, pro-Zionist, anti-science, pro-fossil fuels, US lackey Coalition that rules Australia is happy to commit hundreds of billions of dollars in total annually to war, state terrorism, genocide, human rights abuse, fossil fuel burning subsidies, greenhouse gas pollution, ecocide and terracide – indeed trillions of dollars committed thus over the 3 year term of government - but has refused to give a $25 million subsidy to keep Australia’s last remaining fruit cannery, SPC-Ardmona, open in Shepparton, the main town in Victoria’s rich Goulburn Valley that is described as the “fruit bowl of Australia”. This extraordinary, anti-Humanity, anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-science, pro-fossil fuels and anti-Australian Coalition decision is also anti-health – fruit is good for you (“an apple a day keeps the doctor away’) but fossil fuel burning each year already kills about 10,000 Australians and 4.5 million people world-wide…
The pro-war, anti-science, pro-fossil fuels, climate criminal Australian Coalition Government adamantly refuses to give a $25 million subsidy to keep Australia’s last remaining fruit cannery alive in Shepparton, the main town in Victoria’s rich Goulburn Valley that is described as the “fruit bowl of Australia”. However this same neoliberal Coalition Federal Government happily commits hundreds of billions of dollars in total in annual subsidies and annual increased Australian indebtedness to war, state terrorism, genocide, human rights abuse, fossil fuel burning subsidies, carbon price avoidance, greenhouse gas pollution, ecocide and terracide. In the face of utterly stupid, ignorant, anti-science, climate criminality by the Australian Coalition Government, decent, sensible and humane Australians who care for fellow Australians, children, grandchildren, Humanity and the Biosphere will vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last. However the climate criminal and war criminal actions of the neoliberal Coalition Government of Australia simply mirror those of the governments running the US, UK and Canada. All decent people can do in the face of worsening climate emergency is to apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all the climate criminals destroying the Planet for short-term profit.
Gideon Polya, “France has invaded 80 countries since 800 AD”, MWC News, 15 January 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/35467-france-has-invaded-80-nations.html .
A testament to an entrenched culture of French hubris, French imperialism and state terrorism. Many in France are currently angered over the “invasion of privacy” implicit in the titillating allegation of a love triangle involving the French President François Hollande but ignore or excuse the continuing, horrendous record of French invasions of other countries, French state terrorism and war crimes such as those for which Nazi German generals were hanged after 1945. Indeed the ongoing war criminal French invasion of other countries in the 21st century is regarded by many in the Orwellian, Zionist-perverted US Alliance as “peace keeping” or “responsibility to protect” i.e. these egregious war crimes are not considered to be crimes at all but are regarded as noble humanitarian endeavors. This Mainstream media whitewashing of French war crimes reminds one of the words of great French playwright Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in “Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur” (“Tartuffe or the Hypocrite”): “Le scandale du monde est ce que fait l’offence, Et ce n’est pas pécher que pécher en silence (It is public scandal that constitutes offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all)”…
French invasion of privacy in relation to President Hollande’s alleged sexual escapades is a French farce in stark contrast to the horrendous realities of French nuclear terrorism, French state terrorism, French invasion of 80 countries since 800AD and that between 1950 and 2005, 1.2 billion people died avoidably from deprivation in the Third World, and that of these 142 million people died avoidably from deprivation in countries occupied by France in the post-1945 era. Vastly more significant than President Hollande’s private sex life is the global-reach Western spying and subversion revealed by Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Indeed France has countered the all-pervasive US ECHELON global spying system with its so-called “Frenchelon” signals intelligence system…
Gideon Polya, “Australia banned & censored US whistleblower Philip Agee ”, MWC News, 2 January 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/35007-whistleblower-philip-agee.html .
With rampant, US- and Israeli-led terror hysteria, one would have thought that societal safety would surely be paramount. Societal safety is crucially dependent on rational risk management that successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) science-based analysis involving the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses. and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However this is grossly perverted in the US-beholden Western democracies (aka Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies) in which Big Money buys people, politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality and political power and there is perverted risk management successively involving (a) censorship, intimidation, lying and slices (spin-based untruths), (b) anti-science spin involving the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position and (c) counterproductive blame and shame with state violence being a recurrent horrible outcome in a succession of Western interventions in a swathe of Muslim countries from Mali, through Palestine to NW Pakistan. A recurrent example of this perversion is the persecution of whistleblowers with the maltreatment of world heroes Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. However the New Year release of formerly secret Australian Government documents sheds light on the US, Australia, UK and French persecution of American whistleblower Philip Agee whose book “Inside the Company. CIA Diary” exposed US CIA involvement in corruption, political subversion, torture and deadly terrorism in Latin America…
With our world running out of time to deal with a worsening climate crisis (e.g. see “Are we doomed?”) and 18 million people already dying avoidably each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease. decent people on this beginning of 2014, the UN-declared Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (opposed at the UN General Assembly by the US, Canada, Apartheid Israel, Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau), must resolve to follow the examples of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and the late Philip Agee to expose and oppose deadly neoliberal, corporatist, militarist, imperialist, warmonger and racist Zionist lying and censorship. Please tell everyone you can.
2013
Gideon Polya, “Mandela opposed Apartheid Israel”, MWC News, 8 December 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/34120-mandela-opposed-apartheid-israel.html .
The world is paying tributes to its hero Nelson Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) who is universally admired (except in Apartheid Israel) for his courageous persistence for decades until the evil racism of Apartheid was dismantled and equal rights were finally delivered to Africans, Chinese, Indians, Colors as well as Whites in South Africa. He has accordingly been greatly admired by the Palestinians for his courage and persistence and his support for Palestinian human rights. Thus Nelson Mandela in an address at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 4 December, 1997: “The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”. In the memory of Nelson Mandela and of 2 million Palestinians who have died from violence (0.1 million) or imposed deprivation (1.9 million) decent people must apply Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and its racist supporters until the 12 million Palestinians secure one-man-one-vote, self-determination, freedom and justice. Jailed-for-life Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti (dubbed the “Palestinian Mandela”) in an open letter to Mandela sent from Cell 28 of Hadarim prison in Israel, which was published by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) a day after the South African liberation leader's death: “You said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” And from within my prison cell, I tell you our freedom seems possible because you reached yours”
Gideon Polya, “Child abuse in Australia”, MWC News, 3 December 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/33984-child-abuse.html .
The pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, anti-environment, climate criminal Australian Coalition Government and its Coalition antecedents have an appalling record of warmongering, war making, inequity, environmental vandalism and of egregious human rights abuse, particularly in relation to children. Summarized below in alphabetical order are areas of unforgivable child abuse linked to action or inaction by Australia’s extreme right wing, Liberal Party-National Party Coalition that since the end of World War 2 has been in power from 1949-1972, 1975-1983, 1996-2007 and since September 2013. One notes that a “child” is defined by the UN as anyone less than 18 years of age. 1. Aboriginal avoidable mortality. Based on 2004 data, about 9,000 Aborigines (Indigenous Australians) die avoidably each year out of a population of about 500,000, an avoidable death rate of 1.8% per year for Indigenous Australians in one of the world’s richest countries as compared to 1.0% per year for impoverished non-Arab Africa and 0.4% for impoverished South Asia [2, 3]. Aboriginal children are being exposed to a high level of avoidable disease and death and severely deprived through massive untimely death of relatives… 41. Zionist subversion, Zionist perversion. Australian children are brought up to believe that they live in a free , democratic country. However Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters whose policies are associated with 1 million American preventable deaths annually, their traitorous Australian supporters, neoliberal corporations and corporatists have subverted and perverted Australian democracy. Australia has become a Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy and Corpratocracy in which Big Money buys people, politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality and political power. The Coalition-supported pro-Zionist One Percenters also impose extraordinary censorship on Australians, largely eliminating criticism of Apartheid Israel and US imperialism from Mainstream politician, media and academic debate and have utterly deceived the Australian public including Australian children. However in doing this they are doing what the previous Anglo-centric Establishment had been doing since the British invasion of Australia in 1788.
Gideon Polya, “Australia threatens Jewish academics”, MWC News, 23 October 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/32726-jewish-academics.html .
The new anti-environment, climate criminal, effective climate change denialist, and extreme right wing Coalition Government of Australia is threatening to ban boycotts by environmentalists against companies involved in environmental devastation. However this pro-war, pro-Zionist Australian Government has also foreshadowed cutting off any Federal funding for any academic who supports Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Since some of the leading Australian proponents of BDS are anti-racist Jewish Australian scholars, this repugnant Coalition policy threatens termination of the professional careers and university employment of anti-racist Jewish academics. On circa 26 May 2013, 4 months before the 7 September 2014 Federal Election, Julie Bishop (then Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Opposition and now Foreign Minister of Australia) told the pro-Zionist Murdoch-owned newspaper The Australian: "The Coalition will institute a policy across government that ensures no grants of taxpayers' funds are provided to individuals or organizations which actively support the BDS campaign… It is inappropriate for Associate Professor Lynch [non-Jeiwsh] to use his role as director of the taxpayer-funded CPACS [Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney] . . . in support of the anti-Semitic BDS campaign"… For alphabetically-organized compendia of the views of outstanding anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish scholars and writers who condemn Israel's ongoing Palestinian Genocide and variously advocate Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel see “Non-Jews Against Zionism”. "Jews Against Racist Zionism", “Palestinian Genocide” [8] and “Boycott Israel”.
Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Cambridge History of Australia””, MWC News, 14 October 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/32441-cambridge-history-of-australia.html .
History ignored yields history repeated and history is written by the victors. These aphorisms are well illustrated by my book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (now available for free perusal on the web) that details how British historians, journalists and politicians near comprehensively deleted the horrendous 1942 -1945 Bengali Holocaust from historiography and from general public perception – the whitewashing of an immense atrocity in which Britain with racist White Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons. The 2-volume work “The Cambridge History of Australia” was recently launched at the State Library of Victoria by Her Excellency the Governor General of Australia. This officially-blessed history of Australia follows the entrenched White Australia and British historiography traditions of “look the other way” and makes absolutely no mention of Australia’s intimate and deadly contribution to the WW2 Bengali Holocaust, one of the worst atrocities in all of human history and which exceeded the WW2 Jewish Holocaust in number of victims. However “The Cambridge History of Australia” goes even further – it whitewashes Australian involvement in 30 genocidal atrocities of which several are ongoing… 1. 18th-19th century Aboriginal Genocide. The Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal ) population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century after invasion in 1788 from disease, deprivation and violence (TCHO fails to detail the ongoing ethnocide in which 500 tribes and 250 languages reduced to several dozen and the associated ecocide and the environmental devastation that threatens Australia as analyzed by Professor Jared Diamond who in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people". (While dealing at length with the “history wars” between those asserting and denying “Aboriginal resistance to invasion”, TCHOA fails to refer to leading protagonists Professor Robert Manne (“Aboriginal resistance to invasion”) and non-academic Keith Windschuttle (arguing, incorrectly in the view of many academic scholars and this reviewer, for no major resistance and no deliberate extermination )... 30. Bedouin Genocide. As noted in “16. Palestinian Genocide” above , Australia kicked off the Palestinian Genocide in the Surafend massacre in the Arab village of Surafend and a Bedouin camp in Palestine by soldiers of the Anzac Mounted Division on 10 December 1918. Indeed the Anzac exploits in Palestine have recently been commemorated in a joint Australia-Israel stamp issue that dishonestly implies that the Australian Light Horse charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917 was somehow the second step in the formation of Israel after the 2 November 1917 Balfour Declaration for a Jewish national home in Palestine (actually, according to eminent historian Professor Sir Martin Gilbert, a plot devised to get Russian Zionists to keep Russia in the war). Dr. Vacy Vlazna commented: “Israel and Australia’s joint projects normalizing Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity have sunk deeper in the degenerate mire of hasbara (propaganda & lies)”. The Palestinian Genocide and Bedouin Genocide inadvertently commenced by the Anzac Light Horse in 1918 is continuing today in Apartheid Israel which is preparing to evict up to 70,000 Bedouin from their ancestral homes, villages and lands in the Negev. You may be sure that the Jewish National Fund will use tax-deductible Australian donations to plant Eucalyptus forests over the ethnically cleansed Bedouin villages and lands so the world will forget that the Bedouin had ever lived there. (TCHOA utterly ignores the Australian-complicit Bedouin Genocide and the Palestinian Genocide of which it is a part).
Gideon Polya, “Divest from fossil fuels”, MWC News, 9 October 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/32275-divest-from-fossil-fuels.html .
Divestment from fossil fuel corporations is an important way individuals, religious organizations, social organizations in general (e.g. societies, unions) , institutions (e.g. universities), superannuation funds, pension funds, companies and indeed local, state and federal governments can take concrete action against man-made climate change that is threatening the Biosphere and Humanity. We are all morally obliged to divest from companies involved in fossil fuel exploitation and which are hell-bent on destroying the planet for short-term private profit.The World is facing a climate emergency due to global warming from man-derived greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. The atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is now 400 parts per million (ppm) and increasing at 2.4 ppm per year. Until recently the atmospheric CO2 concentration was in the range of 180-300 ppm for the last 800,000 years, fluctuations in this range giving rise to successive glacial and inter-glacial periods that imposed selection pressures upon evolving humanity. The average surface temperature is now +0.8C above that in 1900 and this has already been associated with major climate, weather and biological disruptions. Indeed the species extinction rate is now 100-1,000 times greater than normal. Both Dr. James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis and atmospheric gas measurements ) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming. Noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division) , these estimates translate to a Climate Genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including roughly twice the present population of particular mainly non-European groups, specifically 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis
Gideon Polya, “US to default on Carbon Debt”, MWC News, 4 October 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/32095-us-to-default.html .
The United States is on the brink of defaulting on government debt but the vastly more serious matter unreported by Mainstream media is that the US is about to default on and massively expand its Carbon Debt. The world has a terminal greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution budget (global Carbon Credit) that must not be exceeded if we are to avoid a catastrophic 2C temperature rise. Unfortunately, the US, Australia and Canada have effectively used up their “fair shares” of this budget, are now stealing the Carbon Credit of other countries and are threatening the world with climate catastrophe. The worsening climate crisis means that the world has to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and eventually reach zero emissions. Indeed top climate scientists and biologists are telling us that reaching zero emissions is not enough – we then have to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration from the current 400 parts per million (ppm) to 350 ppm (according to 350 dot org) and thence to 300 ppm (according to the latest science-informed 300 dot org ). Because of extraordinary Mainstream media censorship in the Western Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies (Google “Mainstream Media Lying”, “Mainstream Media Censorship”, Censorship by the BBC”) , very few Westerners appreciate to what extent their country has already exceeded its “fair share” of permissible global GHG pollution before science-demanded zero emissions in 2050.
Gideon Polya, “Carbon Debt versus Carbon Credit”, MWC News, 29 September 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/31908-carbon-debt-carbon-credit.html .
The currently dominant neoliberals dishonestly claim trickle down benefits for the masses from maximizing freedom for the smart and advantaged to exploit natural resources. The neoliberals ignore the worsening problem of Carbon Debt due to pollution of the world’s one common atmosphere with CO2 that can now be estimated at a value of $127 trillion or roughly 2 years of global GDP. Massive European Climate Debt contrasts with the huge Carbon Credit of the major South Asian countries. Top climate scientists and biologists say that a safe and sustainable existence for all peoples and all species on our warming-threatened Planet requires a relatively rapid reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to about 300 parts per million (300 ppm) from the current level of about 400 ppm CO2. 300 ppm CO2 had not been exceeded for about 1 million years until after the onset of the Industrial Revolution and what is now called the Anthropocene Era in view of the massive concomitant mass extinction of species, the species extinction rate now being 100-1,000 times above normal. Repayment of this enormous Carbon Debt requires a rapid switch to the best non-carbon and renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, wave, tide and hydro options that are currently roughly the same market price as coal burning-based power) and to energy efficiency, public transport, needs-based production, re-afforestation and return of carbon as biochar to soils and oxygen-free underground storage coupled with correspondingly rapid cessation of fossil fuel burning, deforestation, methanogenic livestock production and population growth. However simple removal of CO2 from the atmosphere to circa 300 ppm CO2 is insufficient because a huge amount of CO2 has ended up in the oceans.
Gideon Polya, “Australian Government axes Climate Commission”, MWC News, 24 September 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/31706-climate-commission.html .
As soon as it took office, the newly-elected ultraconservative Abbott Coalition Australian Government took an axe to climate change action and the meager steps of its Labor predecessor, in particular axing the expert Australian Climate Commission that has been informing Australians about the latest climate change science. Success in “tackling climate change” is surely measured in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution reduction but Australia’s Domestic plus Exported GHG pollution is huge and ever-increasing. The Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Government (elected on 7 September 2013) and the Labor Opposition have exactly the same overall GHG pollution policies of a derisory “5% off 2000 greenhouse gas pollution by 2020” coupled with unlimited GHG pollution through unlimited coal, gas and iron ore exports. The newly-elected ultraconservative Coalition Federal Australian Government under PM Tony Abbott has an effective, de facto climate change denialist position on man-made climate change. About half the Government are outright climate change deniers and the remainder are de facto deniers in the sense of not supporting effective climate change action. Thus, for example, the earnest Coalition Government Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, is clearly among those Coalition MPs who do regard climate change as a problem to be tackled.
However several days before the Federal Election, the Coalition revealed an extraordinary climate change denialist position in releasing its resources and energy policy (see “The Coalition’s Policy for Resources and Energy”) that (a) made zero (0) mention of man-made climate change from fossil fuel burning and (b) made zero (0) mention of renewable energy except to propose a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) investigation into the climate change denialist furphy of alleged deleterious effects of wind farms, this ignoring the reality that the NHMRC has already found that there is “no published scientific evidence to positively link wind turbines with adverse health effects” (see the NHMRC Report “Wind farms and human health). In contrast, an estimated 10,000 Australians die each year due to pollutants from carbon burning (Google “Australian carbon burning-related deaths” ). Further, the first acts of the newly elected Abbott Coalition Australian Government were to sack the expert Australian Climate Commission and adumbrate closure of other climate change-related government bodies, namely the Climate Change Authority and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation .
Gideon Polya, “New Abbott Coalition Australian Government. 4 key policy failures already”, MWC News, 18 September 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/31479-abbott-coalition.html .
Ultraconservative Liberal Party-National Party Coalition leader Tony Abbott was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Australia on Wednesday 18 September 2013, replacing defeated Labor PM Kevin Rudd. Australia now has a new right-wing, ultraconservative, climate change denialist, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-environment, anti-science, anti-education, anti-equity, human rights-abusing; US lackey Coalition Government for the next 3 years.Tony Abbott clearly re-iterated the Coalition agenda 1 week after the 7 September 2013 Coalition victory in the Australian Federal elections: “The challenges are considerable: we must stop the boats, we must scrap the carbon tax, we must build the roads and we must get the budget back into the black” (Tony Abbott quoted in David Crowe, “Let’s prove we can do it: Abbott”, The Australian, 14 September 2014).
However PM Tony Abbott is already locked into well-deserved failure on each of these 4 key goals as outlined below. 1. “Stop the boats” is a 3-word conservative slogan for maltreatment of desperate Tamil refugees fleeing the ongoing Tamil Genocide in Australia-supported Sri Lanka and Muslim refugees fleeing Western-imposed war, sanctions and persecution in the Muslim world and trying to find safe haven by attempting to reach Australia by boat… 4. “Budget back into black” refers to the enormous debt run up in the 6 years of the successive Rudd, Gillard and thence Rudd Labor Governments. Thus when the first Rudd Labor Government defeated the Howard Coalition Government and came to power in November 2007, Australia’s net assets were worth plus $31 billion but this declined to a current net debt of about minus $184 billion (see John Barron, “Fact checking Australia’s debt”, ABC TV, Lateline, 19 August 2013 ). Labor has “excused” this debt blowout as due to economy- and jobs-saving emergency action taken during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), arguing that Australia’s net debt as a percentage of GDP is much lower than for other OECD countries.
Gideon Polya, “Chile’s 9-11 – 40th anniversary”, MWC News, 11 September 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/31136-chiles-9-11.html .
September 11 is a reminder of Chile’s CIA-backed military Coup in the 9-11- 1973 (3,000 murdered), the launch of the peace and non-violence Satyagraha movement by Gandhi in South Africa on 9-11 in 1906, and the 2001 US 9-11 atrocity involving 3,000 killed, that was used as an excuse for the US "War on Terror" that has so far killed 9.5 million Muslims by violence or violently-imposed deprivation. However on 9-11 Mainstream media exclusively trumpet the lying Bush “official story” of the US 9-11 atrocity. This article attempts to restore the balance. Chile’s 9-11, the 1973 CIA-backed military Coup. After Socialist President Dr. Salvador Allende won the 1970 Chilean presidential election, the CIA embarked on a campaign to remove him and backed strikes by right-wing business people and their supporters. Despite these foreign-backed strikes and a declining economy, Allende’s Popular Unity Coalition gained 43.2% of the vote in the March 1972 elections. A first attempt at a coup by the US-backed military failed in June 1973 but massive US-backed destabilization occurred through strikes, demonstrations and judicial and political interventions. On 11 September 1973 the US-backed military took over the country and President Allende died in his violently besieged presidential palace. 40,000- 50,000 Chileans were subsequently arrested and abusively imprisoned, many were tortured and 3,000 were killed. The US-backed Chilean military junta under mass murderer General Augusto Pinochet was to abusively rule Chile until 1990.
Gideon Polya, “Syria, War, Lies & Media”, MWC News, 30 August 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/30452-syria-war-lies-a-media.html .
Israeli and US state terrorism are poised to destroy another largely Muslim country, Syria. The serial war-makers, war criminals and Obama Administration assert that the Syrian Government has used chemical agents against civilians and is positioning American forces to bomb and devastate Syria. However there is no conclusive evidence for the Obama Administration conclusion as set out in great detail by Stephen Gowans in an article entitled “Accusations continue, but still no evidence of a Syrian military gas attack” in Global Research, 24 August 2013. Indeed the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal concede the absence of conclusive evidence for the Administration claim. Cognizant of the legal reality that for America to attack Syria without UN sanction would be a war crime, the absence of conclusive evidence from the UN inspectors, and the horrendous carnage in Iraq after the US Alliance went to war “on a lie”; the British House of Commons rejected the call for war, albeit by a narrow margin. According to the BBC: “British MPs have rejected possible UK military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to deter the use of chemical weapons.
Gideon Polya, “The new anti-Semitism”, MWC News, 20 August 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/29981-new-anti-semitism.html .
For all anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again for anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”.However these sacred injunctions are grossly violated by the anti-Arab anti-Semitic racist Zionists running democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide - 2 million Palestinians dead from violence or violently-imposed deprivation since 1936; 7 million refugees; of 12 million Palestinians, 6 million are forbidden to step foot anywhere in their own country, 4.3 million are Occupied Palestinians with no human rights living in ever-dwindling West Bank Bantustans (2.5 million) or in the Gaza Concentration Camp (1.8 million), and only the adults of 1.7 million Palestinian Israelis can vote, albeit as Third Class citizens, for the government ruling all of former mandated Palestine (Google “Palestinian Genocide”).
The sacred injunctions of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust are also ignored by the Western backers of racist Zionism who since 1990 have been involved in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims that has been associated with over 20 million Muslim refugees and 12 million Muslim deaths from violence or from war-imposed deprivation, the breakdown including 4.6 million in the post-1990 Iraqi Genocide, 2.2 million in the post-1992 Somali Genocide, 5.5 million in the post-2001 Afghan Genocide, 0.1 million in the post-2011 Libyan Genocide, 0.1 million in the post-2011 Syrian Genocide, 0.1 million in the Palestinian Genocide since 1990, and goodness knows how many millions in other genocidal Western interventions from Mali to NW Pakistan (Google “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”). All decent, anti-racist, humanitarians must vigorously oppose and sideline those supporting racist Zionism, Apartheid Israel and racist Western wars and occupations who are currently complicit in 0.7 million non-violent excess deaths annually in the overseas American Empire; continuing, racist perversion of human rights, humanitarian values and rational discourse in the Western democracies; ignoring of worsening climate genocide (that may kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century through unaddressed man-made climate change); and egregious anti-Jewish anti-Semitism through falsely identifying decent, anti-racist Jews with these appalling crimes.
Gideon Polya, “100 ideas for climate activists”, MWC News, 10 August 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/29586-climate-activists.html .
Around the world there are many climate change activists passionately committed to effective world action over the worsening threat from man-made climate change to species, ecosystems, the Biosphere and Humanity. However those who are scientifically trained despair over the huge gap between the dire reality of worsening climate change as perceived by scientists and the short-term, business as usual (BAU) policies of populist politicians and their largely ignorant and wishful thinking electorates. Thus the recent pre-election decision in Australia of Labor Prime Minister Kevin “I love coal” Rudd to terminate the Carbon Tax, slashing the Carbon Price from $25 per tonne CO2-e to an EU $6 per tonne CO2-e, found immediate electoral approval. In contrast, a risk avoidance-based estimate of $7.6 million for the value of a statistical life, Australian annual subsidies of $11 billion for fossil fuel burning, 9,600 annual Australian carbon pollution-related deaths and Australia’s annual Domestic GHG pollution (2009) of 552 million tonnes CO2-e yield a Carbon Price of $7.6 million x 9,600 annual deaths = $73 billion + $11 billion = $84 billion / 552 million tonnes CO2-e = $152/tonne CO2-e ( = $562 /tonne C) [2, 3]. Climate economist Dr Chris Hope (the University of Cambridge, UK) argues for a Carbon Price of $150 per tonne CO2-e
Both the WBGU (which advises the German Government on climate change) and the Australian Climate Commission (which advises the Australian Government) both estimate that for a 75% chance of avoiding a disastrous 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise the World can now emit no more than 0.6 trillion tonnes of CO2 before reaching zero emissions in about 2050 [5,6]. At current rates of pollution this terminal GHG pollution budget will be exceeded in 16 years according to the Australian Climate Commission [6]. However, using the latest data from the World Bank, the US Energy Information Administration and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space studies, I have estimated that the world has only 5 years left before this terminal budget is exceeded…
Gideon Polya, “Intergenerational equity & justice”, MWC News, 1 August 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/29236-equity-a-justice.html .
Terracidal climate change inaction by older generations threatens intergenerational equity and intergenerational justice Despoliation of the environment due to greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and resultant climate change are the legacies to future generations of current climate criminal, carbon pollution profligacy and climate change inaction. However a huge violation of intergenerational equity and intergenerational justice (and hence intergenerational inequity injustice) is the immense cost of reversing 2 centuries of fossil fuel burning by biochar-based return of the atmospheric CO2 concentration to the pre-industrial 300 ppm from the current 400 ppm, this being variously estimated below at $13 trillion to $53 trillion (US dollars) or 15-62% of the current world annual GDP of $85 trillion. The good news is that these numbers, while daunting, show that it is still possible to save the world from climate genocide. However massive predicted methane release from the warming Arctic means that we are doomed unless there is extremely rapid action to stop further Arctic warming and disastrous man-made climate change. Eminent US climate scientist Dr. James Hansen (former head, NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies and adjunct professor at 96-Nobel Laureate Columbia University) has commented on this key intergenerational equity and intergenerational justice issue in arguing for a progressive and effective Carbon Tax with the proceeds being paid directly to the public (“carbon fee and dividend”: “Fee and dividend can begin with the countries now considering cap and trade. Other countries will either agree to a carbon fee or have duties placed on their products that are made with fossil fuels. As the carbon price rises, most coal, tar sands and oil shale will be left in the ground”.
Gideon Polya, “Why we must support Alternative Media”, MWC News, 13 July 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/28547-alternative-media.html .
Mainstream Media lie shamelessly. The Australian taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC, Australia's equivalent of the UK BBC) has an appalling record of untruth involving censorship, self-censorship, lying by commission and lying by omission but in an act of surely extraordinary hubris and denial has set up an ABC Fact-checking Unit to publicly expose untruths in the media. The pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, anti-science, spin-driven, neoliberal Gillard Labor Australian Government has allocated $10 million for the ABC Fact-checking Unit in addition to the over $1 billion annual operating budget for the ABC. At his own expense and in the public interest, humanitarian Australian scientist Dr. Gideon Polya has created an alternative "ABC Fact-checking Unit" to help the $10 million ABC Fact -checking Unit do its job by exposing and documenting numerous false assertions by Australian public figures, Australian media, by the taxpayer-funded ABC, and by other Australian taxpayer-funded media such as the multicultural Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and the universities-backed, academic-based web magazine The Conversation (see “ABC Fact-checking Unit & incorrect reportage by the ABC (Australia’s BBC)”). Lying is communicating untruths by various means, and is accomplished by the ABC and other Mainstream media in the Western Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies by means such as (1) censorship (blocking or removing the comments of others), (2) self-censorship (active non-reportage for whatever political reason), (3) lying by commission (reporting untruth) and (4) lying by omission (deliberate non-reportage of the truth).
Gideon Polya, “Pro-Apartheid Israel Obama visits South Africa”, MWC News, 3 July 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/28156-obama-visits-south-africa.html .
The world saw an awful display of hypocrisy and lying when US President Barack Obama visited Africa this week, giving lip-service to African “freedom” with US-backed military and demonstrators about to overthrow democracy in Egypt, US-backed French forces occupying Mali, US Alliance forces occupying Somalia (2 million refugees and 2.2 million dead from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1992) and Libya devastated by the US Alliance (0.1 million killed, 1 million refugees). However, the greatest dishonesty and hypocrisy was exhibited by pro-Apartheid Israel Obama on his visit to South Africa that emerged from rule by the US-, UK-, and Israel-backed, White supremacist, anti-African, anti-Asian, racist Apartheid regime only 20 years ago… On his March 2013 visit to Israel Obama gave a speech in which he totally ignored the 1.6 million Indigenous Palestinian Israelis and the over 10 million further Indigenous Palestinians stripped of all human rights by the genocidal racist Zionists and was fulsome is his praise for Apartheid Israel… Climate criminal and war criminal Obama is a ruthless warmonger yet won the Nobel Peace Prize, demands action on climate change while resolutely refusing to take effective action, and decries Apartheid in South Africa while resolutely supporting it in Apartheid Israel. The Obama Administration has vehemently attacked the call by outstanding, anti-racist Jewish American and U.N. special rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Professor Richard Falk, for a boycott of companies involved in illegal Israeli settlements. [27] but Obama has recently called for Americans to “divest” to tackle greenhouse gas pollution. One can well understand therefore why American psychiatrist and former long-term State Department official Dr. Steve Pieczenik has slammed Obama as an "obsessional pathological liar”. The Emperor has no clothes. As 4 July, Independence Day for America, approaches, the billions of victims of One Percenter American state terrorism, subversion and corporate greed around the world will be hoping for the time when 4 July can be celebrated as a Day of Independence from America.
Gideon Polya, “Why Australians must dump Labor”, MWC News, 24 June 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/27904-australians-must-dump-labor.html .
Australia has an extremely unpopular minority Labor Government headed by PM Julia Gillard and barely surviving courtesy of the support of 1 Green MP and several Independent MPs. Both the Australian Labor Party and its leader Julia Gillard are deeply unpopular and facing an election on 14 September 2013 in which, according to a succession of polls, neoliberal, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-environment, anti-science, US lackey Labor (the Labs) will be decimated and replaced by the neoliberal, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-environment, anti-science, US lackey Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (the Libs). The neoliberal Australian Labor Party (ALP) has lurched to the right, like the British Labour Party under warmonger Tony Blair, to become an Alternative Liberal Party, Another Liberal Party, an American Lackey Party, an Apartheid Labor Party, an Apartheid Israel-supporting Labor Party and an Australian Lying Party. Set out below is an alphabetically organized summary of 100 areas in which pro-war, anti-environment, anti-equity, human rights-abusing Gillard Labor has utterly betrayed traditionally anti-war, pro-environment, pro-equity, and pro-human rights Labor voters… In summary, detailed above are 100 reasons why Australians should reject Gillard Labor. Mainstream media lying in Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy and Corporatocracy Australia ensures that most of these reasons are kept well away from the Australian public. Apprised of these matters, decent Australians will vote 1 Green and put Labor last until it reverts to decent values (the Coalition Opposition is just as bad but, unlike neoliberal Labor, has not actually betrayed decent Labor voters and values). Please tell everyone you can. Decent people everywhere must oppose neoliberalism, racism and war.
Gideon Polya, “Effect of gas-fired power stations”, MWC News, 14 June 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/27621-gas-fired-power-plants.html .
Despite the worsening global warming crisis due to ever-increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, the world is paradoxically experiencing a gas boom and a gas a rush. While the world urgently needs to implement 100% renewable energy and concomitantly decrease and eventually cease GHG pollution, massive corporate spin falsely asserts that “gas is clean” and that a first step to a clean energy future is to replace coal burning for power with gas burning. These are extraordinary falsehoods because methane (CH4; a major constituent of natural gas) leaks (2-8% in the US) and has a Global Warning Potential (GWP) 105 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a 20 year time frame and considering aerosol impacts. Thus, depending upon the degree of gas leakage, burning gas for power can be much dirtier GHG-wise than burning coal.
Nevertheless, the egregious falsehoods that “gas is clean”, that “gas burning is cleaner greenhouse gas-wise than coal burning” and that “a coal to gas transition is a way to tackle climate change” have massive currency in the capitalist Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies in which Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality and political power. As a consequence, gas burning for power is remorselessly increasing through the construction and operation of gas-fired power plants (GFPPs). However such plants have to be located somewhere and in an increasingly crowded world that often means location near small suburbs or towns. While the populations of cities have the requisitely massive collective political muscle to stop such contiguous sources of massive and toxic pollution emission, small towns and urban fringe suburbs are much more vulnerable to the gas juggernaut.
Modern societies have Environment Protection Authorities (EPAs), Departments of the Environment, and other regulatory bodies and laws dedicated to protecting human health, human amenity and the environment from toxic pollution of the atmosphere. Citizens faced with proposals to introduce massive sources of pollution into their locality will have to enter into political lobbying at the local government, state government and national government levels and finally enter the legal processes for opposing installation of gas-fired power plants. The legal processes can be very expensive and the Big Guns on the side of anti-pollution citizens’ action groups will typically be like-minded town or shire local governments. Depending on the jurisdiction and the nature of the litigation involved, the legal processes of appeal and counter-appeal can be complex, very expensive and constrained in relation to allowable grounds for complaint and argument.
Gideon Polya, “Educational Apartheid & social inequity. Cheap solutions for Australia”, MWC News, 22 May 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/27112-educational-apartheid.html .
Social humanism and socialism aim to maximize human happiness, human opportunity and human dignity. In contrast, the prevalent corporatist, neoliberal culture wants to maximize freedom for the smart and advantaged to profit from the resources of the world with an asserted “trickle down” effect bringing benefits to the less smart and less advantaged. However the worsening climate crisis and mounting social inequity in the Western democracies (aka Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies) have underscored the failure of neoliberalism (for a detailed discussion see “Social Humanism. A new metaphysics” by Melbourne philosopher Professor Brian Ellis; for review see Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics” By Brian Ellis - Last Chance To Save Planet?” Countercurrents, 19 August 2012).
The failure of neoliberalism is well illustrated by Australia which is one of the world’s richest countries but has worsening social inequity that is most clearly seen in terms of annual avoidable deaths (annual avoidable mortality, excess death, or excess mortality) as a percentage of population which is zero(0) for White Australia but 1.8% for Indigenous Australia (the values of this parameter for South Asia and non-Arab Africa are 0.4% and 1.0%, respectively) i.e. 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably from deprivation each year out of an Indigenous (Aboriginal) population of 0.5 million (Google “Aboriginal Genocide”). The failure of neoliberalism in wealthy Australia has also been exposed by Australia’s Educational Apartheid system that means that the children of the wealthy go to well-resourced, taxpayer-subsidized private schools but most Australian children attend poorly resourced State schools run by the various State Governments. Australia’s Educational Apartheid system means that 46% of Australians are functionally illiterate and 53% are functionally innumerate (see section 3.1 in Josh Fear, “Choice overload. Australians coping with financial decisions”. The Australia Institute, Discussion paper 99 and “Educational Apartheid"); that 80% of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory fail to meet basic literacy and numeracy standards; and that the majority of Australian children who attend State-run schools (as opposed to taxpayer-subsidized private schools) are disproportionately excluded from a good education, university, good universities and top professional courses such as medicine and law.
Gideon Polya, “Mainstream presstitutes & Syrian Genocide”, MWC News, 3 May 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/26663-syrian-genocide.html .
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Lying by commission, lying by omission, censorship and self-censorship by Mainstream journalist, editor, politician and academic presstitutes has enabled the continuing, Zionist-promoted, US War on Muslims that has so far since 1990 been associated with 12 million Muslim deaths from violence or from war-imposed deprivation (Google “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”). Now mainstream lying and censorship is enabling a build-up to a US Alliance destruction of Syria to parallel that in Iraq. One notes that "holocaust" means death of a large number of people and "genocide" means “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group” as set out by Article 2 of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
Thus in the run-up to the illegal, war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq, the US Alliance has used false claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as the excuse for invasion that resulted in 2.7 million Iraq deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation. Indeed Iraqi “threat” was used to justify the 1990-2003 pre-invasion Sanctions against Iraq and the US, UK and Apartheid Israeli destruction of Iraq civilian infrastructure associated with 1.7 million pre-invasion Iraqi deaths from imposed deprivation (Google “Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide”: ). Today we see the same ploy of alleged “weapons of mass destruction” being played out to justify direct Western military intervention in Syria.[Anti-racist] Jewish American writer Stephen Lendman has recently reported the alarmingly increased US and Israeli pressure for Western invasion of Syria based on claimed use of chemical weapons.
Gideon Polya, “ANZAC & Armenian Genocide Day”, MWC News, 24 April 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/26451-anzac-armenian-genocide.html .
On ANZAC Day, Australia’s most sacred day, the nation solemnly pauses to remember those 100,000 Australian heroes who have died in wars. The phrase inextricably linked to ANZAC Day is “Lest we forget”. However the Mainstream media, politicians and academics of Australia have overwhelmingly ignored – “forgotten”- the horrendous number of civilians who died in wars in which Australia has been involved and the moral courage of a small number of pacifists who refused to be party to the evil of war. An extraordinary omission from ANZAC Day remembrance is the Armenian Genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Turkish nationalists in WW1 and which was precipitated by the 1915 invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli by Allied forces, including the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs), a failed invasion by the ANZAC forces from which ANZAC Day takes its name.
April 24 is Armenian Genocide Day of Remembrance sacred to Armenians. It remembers the mass murder in Turkey of 1.5 million Armenians in WW1 that commenced the night before the Allied invasion of the Dardanelles in 1915 involving British, French, Newfoundland, Indian, French West African, Australian and New Zealand forces and which occurred after months of Allied shelling of the Dardanelles. April 25 is ANZAC Day sacred to Australians and New Zealanders that commemorates the invasion of Turkey by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) forces at Gallipoli in a failed attempt inspired by Winston Churchill to open the Dardanelles to Allied warships, The Allied forces evacuated at the end of 1915 after a campaign in which about 220,000- 250,000 Allied forces died (including 8,000 Australians) and about 220,000-250,000 Ottoman Turkish defenders died.
Gideon Polya, “Book review: “Maps of Time. Ignoring Genocides & Holocausts”, MWC News, 27 March 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/25706-maps-of-time.html .
David Christian (a professor of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) has written a big book entitled “Maps of Time. An Introduction to Big History” (University of California Press) that combines the history of the universe over 13 billion years with the history of man (Homo sapiens) over 200,000 years and the history of city-based human civilization over 5,000 years. This huge work fails absurdly in the important arena of moral compass because while there is nothing man can do in the face of the forces of nature, from superstorms to the death of the Sun and the eventual thermal death of the universe, man can and must learn from his bloody history and try to avoid the mistakes of the past. However David Christian has compounded this immense “apples and oranges” error by extraordinarily deleting the very biggest of avoidable human atrocities (and even the WW2 Jewish Holocaust) from his “Big History”. Some “Big History” indeed. Put succinctly, “Maps of Time” stands condemned from the perspective of human moral compass and rational risk management by the aphorism “History ignored yields history repeated”.
Gideon Polya, “Iraq invasion 10 th anniversary”, MWC News, 21 March 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/25565-iraq-invasion.html .
This week it is exactly ten years after the US, UK and Australia illegally invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003 on the utterly false and illegitimate excuse that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The invasion occurred after over 12 years of deadly sanctions, war and bombing that had devastated the infrastructure of Iraq, violently killed 0.2 million Iraqis in the Gulf War and killed 1.7 million Iraqis through war-imposed deprivation (see “Genocide in Iraq. The case against the Security Council and member states” by Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tarik Al-Ani ).
The subsequent US-led invasion and occupation was associated with 1.5 million violent deaths (see the US-based Just Foreign Policy) and an estimated 1.2 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation (Google “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: and see “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” by Gideon Polya, now available for free perusal on the web). In the period 1990-2011 Iraqi deaths from violence or from violently-imposed deprivation totaled 4.6 million, a horrifying number commensurate with the deaths in the World War 2 (WW2) Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from imposed deprivation; see Sir Martin Gilbert, “Atlas of the Holocaust”). While 1.5 million Jewish children were killed by the German Nazis in WW2, the under-5 year old infant deaths in Iraq totaled 1.2 million under sanctions (1990-2003), 0.8 million under occupation (2003-2011) and 2.0 million overall (1990-2011), 90% avoidable and due to gross violation by the US Alliance of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide Convention.
Gideon Polya, “Review: “Genocide in Iraq”. Sanctions as genocide ”, MWC News, 8 February 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/24664-review-genocide-in-iraq.html .
The extremely important new book “Genocide in Iraq. The case against the UN Security Council and member states” by Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tarik Al-Ani (Foreword by Professor Joshua Castellino; published Clarity Press, Atlanta, USA) sets out the case for prosecution of people involved in the Zionist-backed, US-spearheaded genocide in Iraq during the period of Sanctions (1990-2003).
Of course, as recognized by the authors, the carnage continued after the illegal US-led invasion and occupation. However the authors have chosen here to limit consideration to the horrendous effects of Sanctions because they were UN sanctioned, and in being associated with an estimated 1.7 million Iraqi avoidable deaths from deprivation (1990-2003; substantially children; an Iraqi Genocide) violated the intent and letter of international law and international humanitarian conventions devised to protect non-combatants and children. This book should be in every state, city, local, school and university library so that everyone throughout the world (and especially children) can see for themselves the horrendous consequences of mass collective punishment of civilian populations to achieve political and strategic ends i.e. of state terrorism or more precisely, collective state terrorism. However, before reviewing “Genocide in Iraq” in detail it is important to define critical terms such as Holocaust, Genocide, Terrorism, State Terrorism and War Crimes...
Gideon Polya, “Review: “Australian universities. A portrait of decline”. Protecting academics & students!”, MWC News, 4 February 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/24562-australian-universities.html .
Neuroscientist and environmental scientist Dr Donald Myers has published an important and hard-hitting book “Australian universities. A Portrait of Decline” that argues passionately, cogently and with biting irony for a return to decency of a corrupted, dumbing-down, and managerialist Australian university system. The world is running out of time to deal intelligently with the worsening climate crisis, the associated biodiversity, population and poverty crises, and the doomsday shadow of nuclear weapons. Currently dominant greed- and market-obsessed neoliberalism in the Western Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies has sidelined the intelligentsia crucial for what may be the coming last stand for most of Humanity. This perversion is no better illustrated in prosperous, democratic Australia where destructive, anti-intellectual mangerialism and corporatism have taken over Australian universities in an obscene collaboration between neoliberal governments and bloated, self-interested university bureaucracies. This sad reality is described in “Australian universities. A Portrait of Decline” by Dr Donald Meyers.
Gideon Polya, “Book review: “Beyond Tribal Loyalties””, MWC News, 18 January 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/24184-gideonpolya-beyond-tribal-loyalties.html .
Ex-Israeli psychologist Avigail Abarbanel’s “Beyond Tribal Loyalties. Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists” is an important, must-read anthology of the views of 25 anti-racist Jews, who variously, from positions ranging from pro-Zionism to a-political apathy, overcame my-lot-right-or-wrong tribal loyalty and came to realize the immense crime being committed against the Palestinian people and their obligation to speak out for Palestinian human rights. Of course this conversion has also happened for many non-Jewish as well as Jewish anti-racists who have been brainwashed by decades of Neocon and Zionist imperialist propaganda purveyed by the generally Mainstream media in the Western Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies, this being reinforced by the ferocious defamation by endlessly lying Zionists who falsely label all critics of Apartheid Israel as “anti-Semites” and additionally falsely defame Jewish critics of this genocidal Apartheid state as “self-hating Jews”.
Ex-Israeli, and Australia- and thence UK-based psychologist Avigail Abarbanel asked the contributors to describe how they came to this position of supporting human rights for Palestinians and has organized the contributions in 5 sections based on country of origin namely Australia, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States. In an Afterword, psychologist Avigail Abarbanel makes an important conclusion: “I realized that there is in fact something that all the activists in this book have in common: they all have the capacity to tolerate difficult emotions. I call this “emotional resilience”. Emotional resilience means the ability to tolerate uncomfortable feelings without avoiding them, or trying to make them go away. It means that people are able to act according to their values and do the right thing, even when they experience fear, guilt, insecurity, turmoil, confusion and pain, and even when some of these feelings are reinforced by outside opposition or even persecution. Emotional resilience also includes the ability to tolerate the experience of being disapproved of, disliked and rejected by others, sometimes even by relatives and close friends” (p283).
2012
Gideon Polya, “Jesus was a Palestinian. Christmas & Palestinian Genocide”, MWC News, 21 December 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/23611-jesus-was-a-palestinian.html .
On Christmas Day 2012 the World will again celebrate the birth of Jesus but it needs to loudly and publicly proclaim the truth that Jesus was a Palestinian. Goodhearted and honest Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Jews, Animists, Agnostics and Atheists would all agree that Jesus was a wonderful humanitarian, and an outstanding moral philosopher. All of us, from Atheists to Zoroastrians, recognize Jesus as the most renowned Indigenous Palestinian. Today under US-, UK-, Canada- and Australia-backed and racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel the land of Palestine has been 90% ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinians, 75% of Christian Palestinians have fled the Occupied West Bank, and Palestine, one of the oldest civilizations in the world, is peculiar in being denied de facto statehood and remains violently occupied by a nuclear terrorist, rogue state run by genocidal racist European colonizers.
Palestine is the land west of the Jordan River and derives its name from the Philistine sea people who settled the coastal region in circa 1200 BC and are referred to from that time onwards by the Egyptians and thence by the Assyrians in circa 740BC. Canaanite, the name given to Palestinians in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, refers to people trading in the purple cloth of the great Semitic Phoenician civilization. The great 5th century Greek historian Herodotus (circa 484 – 425 BC) referred to ”These Phoenicians… now inhabit the sea coast of Syria; that part of Syria and as much of it as reaches Egypt, is all called Palestine”. The Jewish Roman historian connected with the Hasmonean Jewish aristocracy, Josephus (37-circa 100 CE), was involved in the First Jewish Roman War (67-33 CE) but thence rejected rebellion against Rome as inspired by fanatics. Josephus referred to Jews as among the inhabitants of Palestine (see “The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia”, volume 3).
Gideon Polya, “Book review:”Whackademia”. Australian universities sick & censored”, MWC News, 14 December 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/23467-gideonpolya-whackademia.html .
Richard Hil’s “Whackademia. An insider’s account of the troubled university” is a passionate description of the sorry state of Australian universities by a UK-born Australian academic. The book cover puts the problem succinctly: “Despite the shiny rhetoric of excellence, quality, innovation and creativity, universities face criticism over declining standards, decreased funding, compromised assessment, overburdened academics and never-ending reviews and restructures.” Importantly, these problems not confined to Australia. Richard Hil ‘s book is replete with variously amusing and horrifying stories of the absurdities of present-day corporatized Australian universities that are dominated by aggressive, bean-counting line-managers. He urges a path forward of “engagement and dialogue” by Australia’s fearful, overworked and downtrodden academics to rescue Australia’s universities.
Before dealing with “Whackademia” in detail it is useful to make some general points about academia in general and to sketch a brief history of Australian universities. Scholarly conglomerations go back thousands of years but the first European universities date back to the 11th century. The prime functions of universities are to (1) research, (2) teach and (3) inform the public. and indeed if these functions were reduced to just research, communication of the resultant scholarship would necessarily involve teaching and informing the public. However universities have now become crucial for educating an increasingly sophisticated workforce and for supplying expertise for societal problem-solving and rational risk management crucial for societal safety. Critical to all 3 functions is honesty, free inquiry, and free expression.
Scientific research advances through the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses and free expression of findings so that others can critically test advanced hypotheses. While there is zero tolerance by scholars for dishonesty in science, teaching and ethical advice to society, the neoliberalism that dominates the West is a laissez-faire approach that is profoundly ethically compromised. Neoliberalism simply demands maximal freedom for the smart and advantaged to exploit the world and in particular the less smart and the disadvantaged. Neoliberalism rejects dishonesty if it damages the “corporate brand” or the “shareholders” but accepts “marketing” based on anti-science spin involving the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position i.e. the anti-thesis of science.
Gideon Polya, “Doha climate change inaction. Only 5 years left to act”, MWC News, 9 December 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/23373-gideonpolya-climate-change.html .
Our warming world is badly running out of time to deal with man-made climate change and keep temperature rise to within 2 degrees Centigrade (2oC) - but how much time have we left? Answer: 5.3 years. The basis for this appalling conclusion is set out below. The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Most countries subsequently signed up to the Copenhagen Accord that recognized that climate change is one of the greatest challenges to Humanity and that actions should be taken to keep any temperature increases to below 2 °C (see “2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference”, Wikipedia).
In a 2009 report entitled "Solving the climate dilemma: a budget approach" the WBGU, that advises the German Government on climate change, estimated that for a 75% chance of avoiding a 2C (2oC, 2 degree Centigrade, 2 degree Celsius) temperature rise (EU policy and majority global policy since the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference) the world can emit no more than 600 billion tonnes CO2 (carbon dioxide) (600 Gt CO2) between 2010 and zero emissions in 2050 (see WBGU, “Solving the climate dilemma: the budget approach”). Since CO2 is the most important greenhouse gas (GHG) we could roughly set the world’s terminal GHG pollution budget at 600 Gt CO2-e (CO2-equivalent, this term including other GHGs). Relative to commencement in 2010, how many years have we left before we exceed this terminal CO2 pollution budget of 600 Gt CO2-e? [5 years as of 2012].
Gideon Polya, “Australia’s Carbon Tax scandal”, MWC News, 23 November 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/23026-gideonpolya-carbon-tax.html .
Australian Federal Government [Labor] supports massive conventional natural gas and Coal Seam Gas (CSG) developments and has introduced a Carbon Tax to penalize fugitive emissions (gas leakage). However the endlessly dishonest Labor Government understates gas leakage as 0.12% (rather than the science-based estimates of 3-.3%-7.9% of gas produced) and under-estimates the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane (CH4, the bulk of natural gas) as 21 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2) (whereas it is actually 105 times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (GHG) on a 20 year time frame and considering aerosol impacts). This leads to an immense Carbon Tax Scandal in which a pro-gas Labor Government understates the Carbon Tax obligations of the corporate gas producers by a factor of 137-329, collecting a mere $21 million annually rather than the science-indicated Carbon Tax obligation of about $3-7 billion each year from leakage of natural gas (fugitive emissions) …
Australian Federal politics are dominated by the neoliberal Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Opposition and the neoliberal Australian Labor Party Minority Government (aka the Lib-Labs, or the Liberal-Laborals). The Coalition currently has about 45% of the vote, Labor 35% and the ethical, progressive, pro-Humanity and pro-environment Greens have about 10% of the vote. However much of what passes for political debate in look-the-other-way, Elephant-in-the-Room-ignoring Australia has concentrated on personal abuse over alleged “sexism” and “misogyny”, alleged sexual scandals, and alleged Labor MP involvements with persons involved in misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars of union funds (specifically, from the Health Services Union (HSU) and the Australian Workers Union (AWU)). The previous largest financial scandal under Labor was the recent cessation of legal action against Australia’s biggest corporate criminal, a major donor to the Labor Party and to Apartheid Israel, who had been connected with a circa $132 million premium-stripping insurance company fraud and whose company had been fined $36 million for lying to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over a massive price-fixing fraud. However these scandals are dwarfed by the Carbon Tax Scandal involving Labor Government under-statement of Corporate Carbon Tax obligations of about $3-7 billion annually and of about $100 billion over the coming decade…
Gideon Polya, “Israeli Gaza Massacre. US, UK & Australia back Apartheid Israel”, MWC News, 21 November 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/22988-gideonpolya-gaza-massacre.html .
US and Australia must be described as racist states because of their continuing, appalling record of race-based human rights abuse of foreign subjects. The slavishly pro-Zionist Australian Labor Government has resolutely backed Apartheid Israel’s latest ongoing massacre of Palestinians in what the Catholic Church has described as the Gaza Concentration Camp. Australia has enacted highly discriminatory, race-based policies against Indigenous Australians and Asian refugees in Australia, has grossly violated the Geneva Convention in relation to the genocidal mass murder of its Iraqi and Afghan subjects, and is involved in a continuing Aboriginal ethnocide and an Aboriginal Genocide in which 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year out of an Indigenous population of 500,000, the worst avoidable death rate in the world and occurring in one of the world’s richest countries.
It is hardly surprising therefore that Australia is a staunch supporter of Apartheid Israel and its violent, genocidal oppression of the Palestinians as exhibited in its current latest massacre of Palestinians in Gaza (as of today, 143 killed and 1,000 wounded by Israeli shelling and bombing versus 5 Israelis killed by a homemade Gaza rocket). Palestinian deaths from violence (0.1 million) or from violently-imposed deprivation (1.9 million) total 2.0 million since 1936 (in contrast about 3,700 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians since 1920; Google “Palestinian Genocide”). Indeed in Apartheid Australia financial donations toward the Palestinian Genocide are tax deductible whereas a donation towards a Gaza orphanage could attract life imprisonment under Australia’s draconian, intrinsically anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic Anti-terrorism Laws.
Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Australian child sexual abuse. Mainstream media ignore 4.4 million victims”, MWC News, 15 November 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/22859-gideonpolya-sexual-abuse.html .
The Australian Federal Labor Government has announced an urgently required Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, other churches and other Australian institutions. However while Mainstream media and politicians are concerned with victims of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and religious personnel that total 3,000 to 40,000 over the last 80 years, expert scholarly research indicates that 3.0 million Australian women, 1.4 million Australian men and a total of 4.4 million Australian adults today out of a national population of 23 million have been sexually abused as children. According to a recent report: “Australia's Roman Catholic Church has confirmed that more than 600 children have been sexually abused by its priests since the 1930s in the state of Victoria. The archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, described the figures as "horrific and shameful". The admission came in a submission to a state parliamentary inquiry into the handling of abuse cases; however campaigners say the true figure could be up to 10,000 victims. The church said the 620 cases went back 80 years with the majority taking place between the 1960s and the 1980s, with another 45 cases being investigated” (Al Jazeera, “Australian Catholic Church admits child sex abuse”, 22 September 2012).
However this is the tip of the iceberg as revealed by the “Little Children are Sacred” Report into child abuse in Northern Territory Indigenous Australian communities (Google “Little Children are Sacred”). There is no doubt from the shocking anecdotal accounts in the Report that from a qualitative perspective Aboriginal Child Sexual Abuse is occurring and must be urgently stopped. However the Report (p57) states that “it is not possible to accurately estimate the extent of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory”. Decent, anti-racist Australians support provision of more police, doctors, nurses, welfare workers, teachers and decent housing - and improved social conditions in general - for remote Aboriginal communities, communities that are deprived by successive racist Australian Lib-Lab (Liberal-Laboral, Coalition or Labor) Governments of so many of the services that White Australians take for granted. The “Little Children are Sacred” Report recommendation #1 asked for such services - but also said that they should be provided in a sensible and consultative way. However this recommendation has been grossly violated by the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Howard Government that with Labor Opposition support sending in the army in battle dress, seizing Land - which is sacred to Aborigines and indeed to White Australians - and acting in a racially-selective way, i.e. a racist way, by removing Northern Territory Indigenous Australians from the protection of the1975 Racial Discrimination Act.
Gideon Polya, “Censorship in Australian universities”, MWC News, 29 October 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/22488-gideonpolya-censorship.html .
Censorship is the antithesis of truth-seeking and sabotages rational risk management that is crucial for societal safety – but how can society addresses this major problem if censorship prevents it from perceiving the problem in the first place? Indeed censorship is a huge but largely ignored problem in the Western democracies that have become Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies in which the One Percenters rule because Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality and votes. This perversion is most clearly evident in Australia where an American citizen, Rupert Murdoch, has captured 70% of daily newspaper readership and where the US, Zionist and Corporate lobbies rule the roost. Thus in 2010 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had evoked the ire of the Americans (by demanding destruction of the US-protected Afghan opium industry), the traitorous racist Zionist (by objecting, albeit in the most obsequious way, to Apartheid Israeli kidnapping of Australians in international waters and to Apartheid Israeli forging of Australian passports for terrorist purposes) and the 79% foreign-owned mining industry (by demanding a huge super profits tax on Australia’s huge mining industry).
The Americans, Zionists and mining corporations made their displeasure clear and the latter committed to a $100 million campaign against the Rudd Labor Government. On 23-24 June 2010 PM Kevin Rudd was ousted in an overnight, US approved, pro-Zionist-led Coup and replaced by his pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-iron ore, US lackey deputy, Julia Gillard. This un-democratic transition, involving a foreign-backed ousting of one of Australia’s most popular PMs, had cost the mining industry a mere $23 million in advertising and lobbying. Yet the foreign backing of the Coup is utterly ignored by overwhelmingly US- and Zionist-beholden Australian media (see”Pro-Zionist-led coup ousts Australian PM Rudd”, MWC News, 29 June 2010). While journalists working for media corporations have to censor by omission and commission or be sacked, the same should not be true of journalists working for taxpayer-funded media organizations. Yet, as shown below, the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC, Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) and the taxpayer-funded and universities-backed web magazine The Conversation, have an appalling record of malreportage and censorship…
What can decent people do? Decent folk must (a) inform everyone they can and (b) urge and apply sanctions and boycotts against neoliberal parties, politicians, media and universities complicit in the War on Terra through remorseless greed and dangerous censorship by omission and commission. Please tell everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Endless War on Terror. Huge cost for Australia & America”, MWC News, 14 October 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/22149-endless-war-on-terror.html .
The 11th anniversary of the war criminal US invasion of Afghanistan (7 October 2001) has just passed. The US War on Terror has had a disastrous impact not just on Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and other Muslim countries but also upon the US itself and on Australia, one of America’s most slavish allies. The War on Terror was precipitated by the 9-11 atrocity that in the view of many science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts must have involved the American Government itself (with some asserting Israeli involvement.) The horrendous US War on Terror (11 million Muslims killed) was enabled by massive Mainstream lying - indeed the horrendous dimensions of the cost to Americans, Australians and other US allies, as well as to Muslims, has been resolutely ignored by Mainstream media, politicians and academics. In Australia this lying has been perpetrated by the successive Liberal National Party Coalition and Labor Governments.
Conservative Australian economics writer Ross Gittins estimated the domestic cost of the War on Terror "since 2001 to well over $US 1 trillion [for the US]. Those figures don't include the cost to US taxpayers of the terrorism-related wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The equivalent figure for Australia (which does include the cost of the wars) is about $30 billion" (see "A vast cost in feeling just a little more secure", Sydney Morning Herald, 14 September 2012).
The accrual cost to America of the Iraq War and the continuing Afghanistan War has been estimated at $3.5 trillion and $1-2 trillion, respectively i.e. as high as $5.5 trillion. This has been associated with deaths from violence or from violently-imposed deprivation totaling 2.7 million (Iraq, 2003-2011) and 5.6 million (Afghanistan, 2001-2012) (not to mention 1.1 million deaths in Somalia this century) (Google "Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide" ); 6,600 US combat deaths; 50,000 US veteran suicides; 230,000 American drug-related deaths from US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share in 2001 to 92% in 2007; and the preventable deaths of about 12 million Americans since 2001 (1.1 million per year) due to the fiscal perversion of killing millions of Muslims abroad rather than saving the lives of millions of Americans at home (see “1 million Americans die preventably each year under racist Neocon & Zionist rule”, Bellaciao, 18 February 2012 ). Decent, ordinary American 99 Percenters won't thank cowardly, racist, Zionist-perverted, US lackey, Australians for their role in this carnage under successive Liberal National Party Coalition and Labor Governments (aka the Lib-Labs, Liberal-Laborals). The Australian Greens have been essentially alone in opposing this continuing atrocity.
In addition to the $30 billion for the Domestic War on Terror (2001-2011; Ross Gittins, see above), Australia has spent about $2 billion annually or $22 billion in total on participation in 21st century US wars (this excluding the accrual cost due to debt servicing and the long term cost of caring for severely injured soldiers and the likely majority of Australian veterans who have been traumatized). The US ratio of accrual cost/budget cost of the Iraq-Afghan Wars is $5.5 trillion/$1.3 trillion = 4.2, and applying this to Australia suggests an accrual cost of Australian participation at 4.2 x $22 billion = $92 billion. If we include a further $33 billion for the domestic cost of the War on Terror (2001-2012) , then the cost to Australia of the Zionist- and corporate-promoted War on Terror is $92 billion + $33 billion = $125 billion. That represents $125 billion that could have been spent on health and on saving the lives of sick Australians.
Gideon Polya, “Letter to Africa. Block Australia’s bid for UNSC seat”, MWC News, 25 September 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/21741-letter-to-africa.html .
Australia’s Labor PM Julia Gillard and its Foreign Minister Bob Carr are in New York lobbying African and other countries to support an Australian seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Anti-racist Australians who deplore Australia’s blind support for the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims (12 million Muslim deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990) and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide by race-based, genocidal Apartheid Israel (2 million Palestinian deaths from violence or violently imposed deprivation since 1936) must urge African nations to vote AGAINST an Australian seat on the UNSC. Twenty (20) detailed reasons why African countries should reject Australia’s bid have been set out in a letter I have sent to the Permanent Missions of African countries at the UN and reproduced below.
Permanent Mission to the UN
Your Excellencies,
The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, is presently at the United Nations meeting African leaders to ask for their support for Australia's bid to be elected to the Security Council.
I urge your country to vote AGAINST Australia’s bid for a seat on the Security Council for the following 20 extremely substantial reasons:
1. There is near-unanimous bipartisan Government and Opposition backing in Australia for Australia’s continuing position as a world leader in supporting Apartheid Israel, just as Australia in the past was a major supporter of Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa. Israel blatantly defies UN resolutions and the International Court of Justice determinations condemning its violence, theft, and war crimes against the Indigenous people of Palestine that is described by scholars as a Palestinian Genocide - 2 million Palestinians killed since 1936 through violence (0.1 million) or violently imposed deprivation (1.9 million); 7 million Palestinian refugees (about 5 million registered with the UN); 90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed (cf British seizure of African lands in Southern Africa and Kenya); only about 7% of 12 million Palestinians are permitted to vote for the government ruling all of Palestine; 6 million Palestinians are forbidden to even step foot anywhere in Palestine; 1.6 million Occupied Palestinians (half of them children, and of whom 10% are stunted through Israeli blockade) are indefinitely and highly abusively confined to what the Catholic Church has described as the State of Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp; 2.5 million Occupied Palestinians are highly abusively confined to ever-dwindling West Bank Bantustans; the race-based, genocidal Israeli system has been described by Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others as Apartheid; Occupied Palestinians have effectively zero human rights and Palestinian Israelis suffer under gross, Apartheid-style racist laws and restrictions...
Gideon Polya, “Book review: “The Shock of the New”. Modern Art, War & Corporatism”, MWC News, 24 September 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/21714-modern-art.html .
Famous expatriate Australian art critic Robert Hughes died on 6 August 2012, aged 74. It is appropriate to remember this impressive Australian by re-reviewing his important book “The Shock of the New” (1980) that analyzes the revolutions in Modern Art since the late 19th century. This re-review is also needed because the corporate takeover of Art perceived by Robert Hughes in 1980 has now extended to a pervasive corporatism that has subverted and perverted Western democracies to the point that they can now be seen as Lobbyocracies, Murdochracies (reflecting the global power of the Murdoch media empire), or Corporatocracies in which Big Money buys politicians, parties, public perception of reality, votes and thence political power.
“The Shock of the New” arose out of a TV series that Robert Hughes wrote and narrated for the UK BBC. It is lavishly illustrated with 261 plates, nearly all in color. However in 2012 we have the advantage of Google “Images” as a companion to reading the book. Thus plates 2 and 3 in the book are of 2 paintings by Paul Cézanne entitled “Mont Ste-Victoire” but Googoling “Paul Cézanne” and then clicking “Images” yields about 400 colored images of paintings by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the post-Impressionist French painter often called the “father of abstract art” as the artist who bridged late-19 th century Impressionism and the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. This wealth of imagery enables one to make connections between Paul Cézanne and the Cubists, the portraits of Modigliani and the radical use of color (notably red) by later artists (e.g. Henri Matisse and André Derain). With the help of Google “Images”, this succinct review of “The Shock of the New” can be seen as a Work of Art itself, providing a wealth of temporally and culturally related images of the works of a large number of modern artists – indeed an infinitely greater informational and perceptional complexity than Andy Warhol’s “200 Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962).
Gideon Polya, “Huge 9-11 deception. Media ignore 21 million US-complicit post-9-11 deaths”, MWC News, 8 September 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/21381-9-11-deception.html .
As we approach the 11th anniversary of the 9-11 atrocity, the World must comprehend the huge 9-11 deception perpetrated on the American and the World 99% by the lies of the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist-dominated US and Western Establishment 1%. The Neocon Western version of 9-11 is that 3,000 people died in an atrocity perpetrated by Muslim-origin non-state terrorists (all of whom allegedly died in the various infernos) and that an indefinite US-led War on Terror was needed to protect the US and indeed the World from Muslim-origin non-state terrorists. However the horrible actualities are that (1) 11 million Americans have died preventably since 2001 plus 1.1 million globally from US-protected Afghan opiates, all linked to successive US Administrations committing $5 trillion to killing Muslims abroad rather than keeping Americans alive at home, (2) 9 million Muslims have died in the post-2011 War on Terror, and (3) the US Government must have been involved in the 9-11 atrocity (Google “Experts: US did 9-11”).
The late American anti-war, pro-Humanity writer Gore Vidal put it succinctly in declaring that “Unlike most Americans who lie all the time, I hate lying” (Google “Mainstream media lying”)). Two nonprofit US journalism groups, the Center for Public Integrity and the affiliated Fund for Independence in Journalism, estimated that the Bush Administration told 935 lies about Iraq between 9-11 and the invasion of that ancient and now devastated country (see “Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war”, CNN, 23 January 2008). Yet Mainstream media around the World blindly accept the lying Bush “official version of 9-11” despite compelling contrary advice from science, architecture, engineering, aviation, military and intelligence experts that the US did 9-11 (Google “Experts: US did 9-11” ). Similarly, Mainstream media have been complicit in massive lying by omission about 11 million preventable American deaths since 9-11 and the deaths of 9 million Muslims from violence or war-imposed deprivation in the post-2001 War on Terror – Western Mainstream media have resolutely ignored the avoidable deaths of some 20 million people linked to the US War on Terror, half of the victims being American.
Gideon Polya, “Review: ”Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics” by Brian Ellis ”, MWC News, 18 August 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/20947-social-humanism.html .
Due to corporate greed our World is rapidly running out of time to act on man-made climate change but a timely blueprint for urgently needed political transformation has just been published, namely ”Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics” (Routledge, UK, 2012) by Melbourne philosopher Professor Brian Ellis (Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University and Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia). This important book was written to set out a theory for the social humanism of the welfare state, empirically arguably the most successful current social system as evidenced by Scandinavia, Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Ellis puts forward his social humanism theory as an alternative to classical theories of the extremes of communism and neo-liberalism.
In short, Ellis’ social humanism involves an evolving social contract geared to the primary goal of maximizing human happiness and based on social idealism, the morality of social agents (individuals, groups of individuals, corporations, and institutions) and society as a whole that in turn involves mutual informing by society and its subsets. Ellis argues that his new moral theory enables us “to discuss rationally which political philosophies go with which moral ones and which are in conflict with one another. I will argue that in fact there are no defensible moral theories that have the same moral foundations as either communism or capitalism. Indeed the only political philosophy of which I am aware that has the same moral foundations as a decent moral philosophy is social humanism, which is the philosophical grounding for a welfare state of some kind. And this, I will argue, is why the welfare state is a productive and highly successful political system” (Preface, ix). Ellis puts forward a “new metaphysical foundation for morals” that involves “two kinds of moral principles, primitive ones that are well justifiable, independently of the nature of the society in which ones lives, and social ones that may well turn out to be culturally relative.”
Gideon Polya, “Oz ABC revision. ABC claims Ashoka “lost” for millennia”, MWC News, 11 August 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/20789-oz-abc-revision.html .
Mainstream media lying and censorship are major causes of the current global economic and climate crises. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC, Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) has, like the BBC, built up an appalling record of Anglo-centric censorship and mal-reportage by omission and commission. However in recent weeks it has exceeded itself in terms of hubris and insistence on publishing the absurdly incorrect. Ashoka is one of India’s most famous rulers but the ABC Late Night Live (LNL) radio program insists that he has been “lost” to the world for 2,000 years and has deleted 6 successive posts on its websites attempting to correct this absurdly incorrect assertion.
The ABC has a longstanding intellectual radio interview program called Late Night Live) (LNL) that is hosted by one Phillip Adams, a middle of the road, 73 year old Australian journalist, farmer and broadcaster who describes himself as a “leftie” while paradoxically also writing a column for The Australian newspaper, the flagship of the extreme right–wing, climate change denialist, pro-war, US-owned Murdoch media empire. One supposes that the ABC, LNL audiences are, like Phillip Adams, liberal, pro-Humanity intellectuals. However the ABC swung to the right under former conservative PM John Howard with LNL surviving as a rare avenue for liberal, pro-Humanity, intellectual opinion. Nevertheless LNL has evidently also been affected by this lurch to the right. The horrible reality is that rich, prosperous, well-educated Australia like other Western democracies has become a Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist-subverted and perverted Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy in which Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality and votes. The dangerous perversion of truth by Australian Mainstream media, including the ABC, involves extraordinary lying by omission, lying by commission and censorship that one would normally associate with totalitarian societies.
Gideon Polya, “US writer opposed lying and war. Gore Vidal (1925-2012)”, MWC News, 4 August 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/20636-lying-war.html .
Outstanding American writer Gore Vidal died this week. Gore Vidal was a brilliant American writer and a resolute opponent of the interconnected evils of lying and war. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was a writer of essays, novels, screenplays and Broadway plays. His numerous books included “Myra Breckinridge”, the historical novels “Julian”, “Burr” and “Lincoln” and “The City and the Pillar” that was notable for featuring explicit homosexuality. Gore Vidal was anti-war and demolished his barbarous critics with scathing wit. Gore Vidal has died but lives on in his writings and comments as exampled below.
Gore Vidal on lying in a UK interview with Melvyn Bragg (2008): Gore Vidal: Unlike most Americans who lie all the time, I hate lying. And here I am surrounded with these hills [in Hollywood] full of liars — some very talented. Melvyn Bragg: What do you mean by lying in that sense? Do you mean telling fictions? Vidal: Yeah, about themselves, about their beliefs, about their histories. Degrees, from universities — this is piled up lies. Americans are not interested in the truth about anything. They assume everybody is lying because they go out and lie everyday about the automobile they are trying to sell you…This is a country of hoax. P.T. Barnum is the god of this republic, which is no longer a republic alas. It is an oligarchy and a rather vicious one. Bragg: Can I quote a bit from Montaigne — something from Montaigne that you quote and refer to several times in these memoirs [of yours], from his essay on lying –Vidal: yes, wonderful…Bragg: “Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human. If we realized the horror and weight of lying, we would see that it is more worthy of the stake than other crimes.” Vidal: … and I’ll drop the match [to set aflame the convict].Yes, it is … — you see this whole American society is based on advertising, which in turn grabbed on to something called television which could just perpetrate lies everywhere into this society and does and did. So I have lived in a rather troubling time.”
Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Memory of Love”. War, trauma & lying”, MWC News, 27 July 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/20471-memory-of-love.html .
“The Memory of Love” by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury, London, 2010) is a superb novel about love, betrayal, war-time atrocities that traumatize people into silence, and “the silent lie” that re-writes personal and national histories. The novel is set in impoverished Sierra Leone today but is informed by awful civil war events over the last 3 decades. The title derives from the intensity of remembered love of key character surgeon, Dr Kai Mansaray that the author compares to the remembrance of pain of an amputated limb: “the aching ghost of a hewn hand or foot… The pain is real, yes, but it is a memory of pain. And when he wakes from dreaming of her, is it not the same for him? The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, and the loneliness he braces against every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, bur a memory of love”.
Before summarizing the story (without spoiling the story of course), a succinct summary of the history of Sierra Leone is useful (from Chapter 7, “Non-Arab Africa – colonialism, neo-colonialism, militarism, debt, economic constraint and incompetence” of my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, now available for free perusal on the Web ): …
This novel is powerful because of the exploration of the characters and for inherently posing hard questions for the reader: how would you have behaved, how would you have survived, what would you have done to survive? These moral issues and how people hide or re-invent their past comes to ahead after Adrian: comments on the courage of the survivors: and Mamakay passionately replies: “Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive. To make sure you never raised your head above the parapet, never questioned, never said anything that might get you into trouble … Who was it who said “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it?” [Winston Churchill] … He’s [Elias] using you to write his own version of history, don’t you see? And it’s happening all over the country. People are blotting out what happened, fiddling with the truth, creating their own version of events to fill in the blanks... A version of the truth that puts them, in a good light … And they’re all doing it. Whatever you say, you will go away from here, and you will publish your papers and give talks, and every time you do you will make their version of events the more real, until it becomes indelible”. Aminatta Forna concludes this exchange thus: “And in Mamakay’s words Adrian hears the echo of his own thoughts of earlier in the day, only differently stated. The silent lie”. The silent lie has become de rigeur for post-war Western culture. Thus during WW2 the British under Winston Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons in the 1942-1945 Bengal Famine, a Bengali Holocaust that has been largely whitewashed from British history and of which there is no mention in Winston Churchill’s 6-volume “The Second World War” for which in part he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.…
Aminatta Forna’s novel “The Memory of Love” has a powerful message about “the silent lie” that buries the horrendous realities of war. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We cannot walk by on the other side. We must all do our bit to oppose censorship, self-censorship and the silent lie by telling everyone we can about past and present atrocities. History ignored yields history repeated.
Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Crisis of Zionism”. Apartheid Israel & Palestinian Genocide ”, MWC News, 14 July 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/20182-crisis-of-zionism.html .
The Crisis of Zionism” by Peter Beinart (Melbourne University Press, 2012) is fatally flawed by the oxymoron of ”liberal Zionism” (Zionism is genocidal racism and accordingly cannot be “liberal”). Beinart’s book describes how the formerly liberal, anti-racist Jewish American tradition has been subverted by the now-dominant, intransigent, right wing, Israeli and American Zionist extremists who variously insist on Palestinian expulsion from about 90 to 100% of the land of Palestine and deprivation of other Palestinian human rights in order to preserve a “Jewish state”. Liberal Zionist Beinart sees this intransigent position as a huge threat to a “democratic Israel” and to the very “legitimacy” of the Zionist project. He hopes that young non-Orthodox and secular American Jews, notably liberal Zionists, will break the stranglehold on US policy by extremist, anti-Palestinian Zionist organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
However Beinart, while sympathetic to justice for Palestinians and for a Palestinian State, fails to point out the obvious that the State of Israel is already clearly not a democracy – it is a democracy by genocide (ethnic cleansing) and he fails to quantitate the appalling demographic realities of the Palestinian Genocide. Thus of roughly 12 million Palestinians in the world, 6 million are forbidden by the racist Zionists to even live in Palestine; only 6.7% (the adults of 1.6 million Palestinian Israelis) are permitted to vote for the government ruling all of Palestine (plus an ethnically cleansed slab of Syria), albeit as Third Class citizens under constant threat of expulsion; 1.6 million Occupied Palestinians (over half of them children) are highly abusively confined without charge or trial and with zero human rights to the blockaded prison described by the Catholic Church as the Gaza Concentration Camp and which is policed by army and navy shelling and air force bombing and rocketing; 2.5 million Occupied Palestinians (over half of them children) are highly abusively confined without charge or trial and with zero human rights to ever-diminishing West Bank “Bantustans”. In contrast, Palestine is ruled by 5.9 million Jewish Israelis (75.3% of the Israeli population) (see “Palestinian Genocide” and the multi-author book “The Plight of the Palestinians”). Democracy by genocide, indeed. Israeli “democracy” is hardly “threatened” as asserted by Beinart - one-man-one-vote democracy no more exists in Apartheid Israel than it did in Apartheid South Africa and it is facile of Beinart to talk of “nondemocratic Israel” (the West Bank Bantustans) as opposed to “democratic Israel” (Apartheid Israel proper).
Gideon Polya, “Book review: “Bypass”. Bypassing Australian Aboriginal Genocide”, MWC News, 28 June 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/19851-aboriginal-genocide.html .
“Bypass” is an enjoyable, good-hearted Australian non-fiction book that nevertheless bypasses the horrendous, continuing Australian Aboriginal Genocide. “Bypass. The story of a road” by Michael McGirr (Picador Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2004) is a very readable true account of a 40 year-old ex-Jesuit priest and his girl friend bicycling from Sydney (New South Wales) to Melbourne (Victoria) following the route of the old Hume Highway through the heart of South East Australia. “Bypass” gets its name from the reality that the Hume Highway, Australia’s busiest, now bypasses all the towns on its former route. “Bypass” is a civilized and humane book containing a wealth of interesting details about explorers Hume and Hovell and the people and towns on the route of the Hume Highway. However “Bypass” nevertheless manages to almost completely bypass the continuing Australian Aboriginal Genocide (2 million deaths from violence or deprivation over 2 centuries and today 9,000 avoidable deaths annually from horrendous deprivation out of a present Aboriginal population of 0.5 million) (Google “Aboriginal Genocide” ).
No Australian Aboriginals (Indigenous Australians, Aborigines) are encountered on this bicycle trip through what was only 2 centuries ago the heartland of a rich and prosperous Aboriginal culture. However, as set out below, there are relatively few mentions of the Indigenous Australian First Nations (500 tribes, 250 languages) that were largely exterminated by the White settlers through violence, dispossession and disease after the British Invasion of Australia in 1788 (the Aboriginal population dropping from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century after 1788)…
Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Finkler Question”, Racism is not amusing”, MWC News, 9 June 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/19471-finkler-question.html .
The comic novel “The Finkler Question” by Jewish British writer Howard Jacobson won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for 2010 but one can well ask did it answer the question? The questions implicit in the novel seemed to revolve around the nature of Jewishness and the moral challenge to Jewry of the race-based Jewish colonization of Palestine. Unfortunately while the novel wittily explores some aspects of Jewish exclusivity it fails to properly address the huge moral issue of racist, genocidal Zionism. Further, much of the humor is at the expense of anti-racist Jews opposing the human rights abuses of Apartheid Israel. Howard Jacobson’s “Coming from Behind” was a very funny addition to the genre represented by British university-based novels like Kingsley Amis’ “Lucky Jim” and David Lodge’s hilarious romps of the so-called "Campus Trilogy" of “Changing Places”, “Small World”, and “Nice Work”..
However Howard Jacobson’s Booker Prize-winning novel “The Finkler Question” starts out very funny but then the laughter quickly subsides – I do not believe one should make jokes about. anti-Jewish anti-Semitism, anti-Arab anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation), the WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slavs Jews and Gypsies killed), the ongoing Zionist-backed US Alliance War on Muslims (12 million Muslim killed through violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990, 20 million Muslim refugees) and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2 million dead since 1936, 0.1 million from violence, 1.9 million from war-, occupation- and expulsion-imposed deprivation and 7 million refugees) (for the Awful Truth see “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”). Indeed “The Finkler Question” makes a joke from beginning to end at the expense of anti-racist Jews and hence implicitly of anti-racists in general who are moved to speak out against the appalling human rights abuses and genocidal crimes of racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel . For alphabetically-organized compendia of the opinions of outstanding anti-racist Jews and anti-racist non-Jews critical of Apartheid Israel see the websites “Jews Against Racist Zionism” and “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”.
There is a quasi-rule of political correctness that by and large only Irish can make jokes at the expense of the Irish (Irishman Dave Allen being a great exponent of this genre) and that only Jews can make jokes at the expense of Jews (brilliant in this regard being a wealth of Jewish comedians such as Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce and works by some great Yiddish writers e.g. Nobel Laureate Jewish American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “The Séance and Other Stories” and Sholem Aleichem’s “The Adventures of Menahem Mendl”). However that is fine when such licensed Jewish satirists are making fun of stupid, ignorant, dishonest, drunken, adulterous, love-sick or self-righteous Jews, but distinctly unfunny when the targets are anti-racist Jews who have the intellectual honesty and courage to overcome blind tribal loyalty and stand up for the egregiously violated human rights of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims. This humor at the expense of anti-racist Jews in “The Finkler Question” becomes even less funny when one considers the new anti-Jewish and anti-Arab anti-Semitism that has been entrenched by racist Zionists and their neocon confrères in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies.
Gideon Polya, “Boycotting Australian universities. Universities complicit with pro-Zionist censorship & genocidal Israeli militarism”, MWC News, 25 May 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/19158-boycotting-australian-universities.html .
Censorship perverts teaching, learning and democracy. Some Australian universities have allowed themselves to become soiled by association with genocidal Israeli militarism and with evidently pro-Zionist censorship by the Australian taxpayer-funded, universities-backed and academic-based web magazine The Conversation. Should such Australian universities be boycotted by Australian and overseas students? Australian universities and Australia’s premier research body CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization) once had a fine reputation for intellectual leadership. This has now been tarnished by association of CSIRO and a number of important universities with an academic–based web magazine The Conversation which censors informed, credentialed, anti-racist, humanitarian academic opinion and by connections of some Australian universities with military research of racist, genocidal Apartheid Israel…
As outlined above, various Australian universities have been spoiled by association with military research by racist, genocidal nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel , specifically the University of Adelaide, Edith Cowan University, Deakin University, Sydney University, University of NSW, University of Newcastle, Victoria University, University of Adelaide, Australian National University, University of Western Sydney, University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University. CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Western Australia have been spoiled by being linked with the Australian taxpayer-funded, Australian universities-backed and academic-based web magazine The Conversation which has censored and blocked informed , credentialed academic opinion critical of the Apartheid Israel’s Palestinian genocide and the Neocon American and Zionist-US Alliance Muslim Holocaust and Genocide. To be fair, there is also outrageous censorship by other Australian media in addition to that by the taxpayer-funded The Conversation from which I am blocked from, commenting…
Gideon Polya, “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide. Exclusion of Palestinians from Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, MWC News, 20 May 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/19048-palestinian-genocide.html .
On the 64th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (the genocidal expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians from Palestine) and nearly 45 years after the 1967 Israeli conquest of all of Palestine, the Western-backed, invasion-, occupation- , theft- , genocide-, lying- and race-based Apartheid State of Israel still comprehensively violates all basic human rights of the Indigenous Occupied Palestinian People as set out below with explanations in square brackets appended to the 30 Articles of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
[1.6 million Israeli Palestinians suffer race-based Apartheid-style laws (race-based ID, marriage and social participation restrictions as in Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa); ditto 4.3 million Occupied Palestinians who are still abusively imprisoned in race-based West Bank Bantustans and the Gaza Concentration Camps(Prison) in a nearly 45 year imprisonment without charge or trial and in gross violation of International Law and the 1968 UN Security Council Resolution 252 …
Gideon Polya, “Australia’s climate racism. Australian Coal, Gas & Iron Ore Exports Threaten Humanity”, MWC News, 15 May 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/18919-australias-climate-racism.html .
Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution and ignores top German climate change scientists who estimated in 2009 that the world must emit no more than 600 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) before 2050 if it is to have a reasonable chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise. Australia’s annual domestic plus exported greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is so high that it exceeded its “:fair share” of this terminal GHG pollution budget by mid-2011. Worse still, Australia’s commitment to unlimited gas, coal and iron ore exports means that it is committed to polluting the atmosphere with over 3 times the world’s total terminal GHG pollution budget. Australia’s annual domestic plus exported per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is about 70 times greater than the annual per capita GHG pollution of acutely climate change-threatened Bangladesh.
In 2009 the German Advisory Council on Climate Change (WBGU) determined that for a 75% chance of avoiding a 2 degree C temperature rise, the World must pollute less than 600 Gt CO2 (600 billion tonnes CO2) between 2010 and essentially zero emissions in 2050. This means that the "fair share" of this global terminal greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution budget of 600 Gt CO2 (600 billion tonnes CO2) for Australia (population 22.9 million in 2012 as compared to a World population of 7,010 million ) is 600 billion tonnes CO2 x 22.9 million/7010 million = 1.960 billion tonnes CO2 = 1,960 million tonnes CO2.
Australia’s annual domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution was 578 million tonnes CO2-e in 2010 (this figure taking into account not just CO2 but other greenhouse gases (GHGs) excluding water (H2O) that were emitted e.g. methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) derived from land use) and accordingly Australia has 1,960/578 = 3.4 years at this rate to use up its “fair share” of the world’s terminal GHG pollution budget [by 2016]…
Gideon Polya, “Review “The Street Sweeper”, MWC News, 12 May 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/18829-the-street-sweeper.html .
The novel “The Street Sweeper “ by Elliot Perlman is an enjoyable, middle-brow book with a highly improbable but predictable plot redolent of TV crime dramas. However this politically partisan novel raises the issue of the legitimacy of fiction versus faction (historical fact-based fiction).
“The Street Sweeper” fails because in its historical sweep of 80 years to the present it has an unacceptable Zionist bias and ignores relevant Elephant in the Room realities. Thus while it commendably deals with atrocities against African-Americans in the struggle for civil rights, it ignores the horrendous realities of life for African-Americans today in neocon American- and Zionist-beholden America. While it graphically describes aspects of the Jewish Holocaust, it ignores the horrors of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2 million deaths, 7 million refugees, 90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed, 6 million Palestininians forbidden to even live in Palestine) and of the Zionist-backed Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (12 million violence- and deprivation-related deaths since 1990, about 20 million Muslim refugees).
“The Street Sweeper": is a long book (554 pages in the Vintage, Sydney 2011 paperback edition) but the unbelievably coincidence-riddled story can be summarized in about 1,360 words… “The Street Sweeper “by Elliot Perlman is an easily read middle-brow novel but falls short as a work of faction, fiction that claims to be based on fact. Writing about the atrocities committed against African Americans and atrocities committed in the Jewish Holocaust is meritorious – as Auschwitz heroine Rosa cries from the scaffold: ”Tell everyone what happened here! Tell everyone! Tell everyone!” However there is a lot that is not being told in Perlman’s work of faction and therein lies the profound weakness of a book that has a carefully subdued, aren’t-we-nice, pro-Zionist agenda. History ignored yields history repeated. The crucial dilemmas presently facing anti-racist Jewish Americans – and indeed all anti-racist Americans - are gross inequities that have devastated not just the African American community but also America as a whole. This century 1 million Americans have died preventably each year while successive neocon- and Zionist -beholden Administrations have committed $5 trillion to the US War on Muslims in which 12 million people have perished from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990 (Google “One Million Americans Die”). Elliot Perlman’s novel of unbelievable coincidences has failed to see horrendous present day racism realities and has thus failed to “Tell everyone what happened here”.
Gideon Polya, “Armenian Genocide & Australian Anzac Day”, MWC News, 25 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/18456-armenian-australian.html .
War is associated with horrendous civilian deaths, notably of women and children. 24 April is Armenian Genocide Day that commemorates the beginning of the World War 1 Armenian Genocide (1.5 million Armenians killed). The Armenian Genocide was precipitated by several months of months of shelling that culminated in the 25 April 1915 Allied invasion of Turkey in the Dardanelles at Gallipoli led by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), this being commemorated in Australia and New Zealand as Anzac Day.The Gallipoli Campaign (aka the Dardanelles Campaign, Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale) was dreamed up by racist, imperialist and warmonger Winston Churchill and was a disaster for all concerned. The British, with an eye on the oil-rich Ottoman Empire, had tricked Turkey into entering WW1 on the side of Germany. According to the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs, the Allied casualties totaled 44,000 dead (21,300 British, 10,000 French, 8,700 Australian, 2,700 New Zealand and 1,400 Indian) and 97,000 wounded, while the Turkish casualties totaled 87,000 dead and 165,000 wounded (Google “Gallipoli Campaign”).
For the Turks the Battle of Gallipoli was a successful heroic defense of their country from foreign invaders. For the Armenians the invasion of Gallipoli marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide by Turks whose xenophobia was exacerbated by Allied attacks by British and French Empire forces in the West and Russian forces in the East. The Armenian Genocide wiped out most of the Armenian population of Turkish Anatolia. However for Australia this was a major blooding of Australian manhood and Anzac Day has become a sacred day that commemorates the approximately 100,000 Australians who have died in war, nearly all in foreign wars in which Australia was allied to Britain and, from WW2 onwards, allied to the US.
Gallipoli has been held up by the Australian Establishment as a glorious defeat that marked the beginning of Australia’s nationhood. However while we remember the fallen with respect, Australia formally gained independence from British in 1901 and Australia’s remarkable, world-leading social achievements of free, secular education, free trade unions, and universal suffrage preceded formal independence and are among the many positive things that should be celebrated about nascent Australia’s unique contributions to the world. Indeed a large body of Irish Australians, cognizant of the crimes of British imperialism (most notably the 1845-1850 Irish Famine in which 1 million Irish were starved to death and 1.5 million were forced to emigrate ) successfully opposed conscription during WW1.
Some decades ago a small band of Australian women used to courageously demonstrate on Anzac Day about violence to women and children in war. However a Zionist- and US-assisted progressive shift to the right in Australia has seen a militarization of Australian culture with glorification rather than condemnation of war. Further, the increasingly horrendous civilian deaths in war have been resolutely ignored – nothing must be allowed to spoil the”official story”. The following is an analysis of civilian deaths in [21] wars in which Australia has been involved…
Gideon Polya, “Media censor of 9-11 truth. BBC & ABC censor Dr. Niels Harrit”, MWC News, 14 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/18222-9-11-truth.html .
The harsh reality is that the widely-esteemed BBC is in actuality the disinformation arm of the British Government and has an appalling record of censorship, lying by commission and lying by omission in support of continuing British and US crimes against humanity, as recorded by "Censorship by the BBC". The Australian ABC has a similar appalling record of censorship and lying. This UK, BBC and Australian ABC censorship is most notable in relation to the 9-11 atrocity (3,000 dead) and the subsequent Zionist-backed, US-led War on Terror (9 million post-9-11 war-related deaths including violent deaths and avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation in Libya, Somalia, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan; Google "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide"). This is exampled below by the complete BBC and ABC censorship of Dr Niels Harrit, the Danish scientist who together with his colleagues found unexploded nano-thermite high explosive in all samples of the World Trade Center (WTC) dust examined.
Professor Niels Harrit is a distinguished Danish chemist from the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, who with his international colleagues found compelling chemical physics-based evidence for unexploded nano-thermite high explosive in all samples of the World Trade Center (WTC) dust examined, this in turn providing compelling evidence for explosive demolition of the 3 WTC buildings (the Twin Towers and WTC7) and hence for US Government involvement in the 9-11 atrocity (see Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen, “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, The Open Chemical Physics Journals, vol.2, pp.7-31 (25), 2009).
Gideon Polya, “Censorship by The Conversation. Pro-Zionist Mainstream media censorship”, MWC News, 6 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/18051-censorship.html .
Free speech and correct reportage are vital for societal safety. As a 5-decade-career academic scientist I am appalled by the disconnect between perception of reality by expert scientists and that of politicians and the public informed by Mainstream media. This disconnect is most astonishingly apparent into man-made climate change – all but a tiny minority of scientists accept that anthropogenic global warming is a reality and a major threat to humanity whereas perhaps only about 50% of laypersons accept this because of egregiously incorrect mainstream media reportage (most notoriously by the Murdoch media empire).
All my professional life I have longed for 2 social innovations that would address this dangerous situation in my own country, Australia: (1) a council of elders who would use the expertise of lesser scientists, scholars and other credentialled experts, advise the community expertly on major issues; and (2) an electronic and/or print mainstream medium that would enlist credentialed academic and other experts to inform the public correctly about major issues. Last year finally saw the advent of an academic-based Australian web magazine called The Conversation which was backed by some major universities and promised to be a major source of expert, credentialled articles and comments from expert, credentialled readers. The Conversation is a very welcome initiative in Australian media. It invites and publishes articles by academic scholars and other experts and invites reader comments. The reader comments are typically non-anonymous and often from professional people with relevant expertise. Unfortunately The Conversation suffers from 3 critical handicaps: (1) the Mainstream media culture of Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy Australia that clearly influences the choice of articles and authors; (2) censoring out of reader comments that The Conversation evidently regards as containing things it does not want its readers to read, know about or think about; and (3) censorship and self-censorship of institutional scholars through institutional and research funding realities.
Academic and other institutional scholars - and laboratory-based scientists in particular – need research funds and are under great pressure to “publish or perish” (the University of Sydney recently absurdly and offensively demanded that academics must publish a minimum average of so many papers each year or be sacked). Scientists in particular are accordingly loath to make any controversial statements that might adversely affect their crucial acquisition of research funds and universities and other research institutions now have “codes of conduct” that restrict expression of views by scientists…
Gideon Polya, “CO2 rise ended Ice Age. Stop emissions, return to 300 ppm CO2”, MWC News, 5 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/18031-co2-rise.html .
US scientists have recently found that a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) preceded the global warming that brought about the end of the last Ice Age. This finding debunks the claims of climate change skeptics that climate change is not happening or if it is then the increased atmospheric CO2 is a consequence and not a cause of global warming. Back during the last major deglaciation event atmospheric CO2 rose from 160 parts per million (ppm) to an eventual 260 ppm. However since the start of the Industrial Revolution CO2 has risen through fossil fuel burning to a current 392 ppm, this being associated with an average surface temperature rise of 0.8 degree C. These latest findings debunk obfuscation of the climate emergency by fossil fuel corporations, some Mainstream media (notably the Murdoch media) and other climate change contrarians and reinforce calls by top climate scientists for urgent action to cease greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and to return atmospheric CO2 concentration to about 300 ppm CO2 ( a level not exceeded for 800,000 years until the last century)…
The World is rapidly running out of time to cease greenhouse gas emissions and some countries have already run out of time in terms of doing their “fair share” of this task. Thus in 2009 the German Advisory Council on Climate Change (WBGU) determined that for a 75% chance of avoiding a 2 degree C temperature rise the World must pollute less than 600 billion tonnes of CO2 between 2010 and essentially zero emissions in 2050. Unfortunately Australia (through disproportionately huge annual fossil fuel burning and exports) and Belize (through disproportionately huge annual deforestation) have already used up their “fair share” of this terminal greenhouse gas (GHG) budget and are now stealing the entitlement of other countries (see “Shocking analysis by country if years left to zero emissions”, Green Blog, 1 August 2011 ). What can decent people do? Insofar as this is practicable, decent people must (a) inform everyone they can and (b) apply sanctions and boycotts against all those corporations, countries, people, politicians, parties, and products disproportionately contributing to the worsening climate emergency and threatening survival of Humanity and the Biosphere. The most useful single thing one can do is to vote 1 Green.
Gideon Polya, “Comparing Burma & Apartheid Israel. ”, MWC News, 4 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/18002-burma-israel.html .
Decent people were very happy to see the huge victory of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the recent Myanmar (Burma) by-elections. However there is concern that there will be a lifting of sanctions against Myanmar before a genuine democracy has been emplaced. Continuing gross human rights abuses in Myanmar merit continuing sanctions and so do those of race-based, genocidal Apartheid Israel which is not subject to such international sanctions and yet should be for continuing war crimes, Apartheid and genocide. The gross human rights abuses of both anti-democracy Myanmar and anti-democracy Apartheid Israel are compared. According to MWC the leaders of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have called for the lifting of all sanctions against Myanmar(see “ASEAN wants Myanmar sanction to end”, MWC News, 3 April 2012 ). The UK BBC has similarly reported that ASEAN leaders want sanctions to be lifted (“ASEAN calls for Burmese sanctions to be lifted”, BBC News, 3 April 2012). The Foreign Minister of US lackey Australia, Senator Bob Carr, has already announced that the Australian Government will ease sanctions (see “Australia to further ease sanctions on Burma”, ABC Network News, 4 April 2012 ) and the US has suggested such action in the near future.
One suspects that the US-Burma thaw has got a lot to do with oil and geopolitical strategy in relation to China but is being dressed up by the ever-lying neocon Americans with the baby-steps towards democracy in Burma - Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party won 40 of the 45 seats at stake in the recent by-election but this represents only 9% of the seats in the undemocratic, military-dominated, 440 seat lower House of Representatives of the national parliament.Indeed the pending departure of the US from Afghanistan and the return of the Indigenous Taliban to power will mean a repeat of the Taliban destruction of the Afghan opium industry in 2000-2001 and the consequent need for Neocon America to boost opium production in SE Asia for profit and continued, evil, opiate-based destabilization of Iran, Russia, Central Asia, African America, Latin America and China. It is estimated that the US Alliance (including US lackey Australia) restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry to a current 90% of world market share has been associated with 1 million opiate drug-related deaths world wide since 2001, this including 3,700 Australians, 200,000 Americans and 18,000 British Google "Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide") .
Fair-minded people would agree that continuing gross human rights abuses in Myanmar merit continuing sanctions and that it is outrageous that similar sanctions have not been applied to racist, genocidal Apartheid Israel for its horrendous human rights abuses. The double standard of the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist Western governments in relation to Burma and Apartheid Israel is exposed by the following comparisons…
Gideon Polya, “Palestinian Land Day”, MWC News, 30 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/17894-palestinian-land-day.html .
March 30 is Palestinian Land Day (Yawm al Ard) on which Palestinians and all decent folk around the world mark the ethnic cleansing of 90% of Palestine by rZionist-run Apartheid Israel. Israel responded by shooting Palestinian protestors in the West Bank and Gaza, killing 1 and injuring 300. The Australian ABC (the equivalent of the UK BBC) reported “Medics in the Gaza Strip said the soldiers used live fire to prevent protesters from approaching the border of the coastal enclave. The protests were much quieter than last year, when Israeli forces fired on hundreds of people who scaled the border fence from Syria and Lebanon, killing 11 people” (ABC News, “Palestinian killed in West Bank Land Day rallies”, 31 March 2012).
On 30 March 1976 a mass strike was called by the Palestinian National Committee for the Protection of Palestinian Lands in Israel after Israeli authorities adumbrated the further confiscation of thousands of acres of Palestinian land in Galilee and making them closed military zones i.e. further moves in the “Judaisation” of Galilee. Palestinians protested peacefully but the Israeli authorities sent military and police into striking Palestinian villages. In response to stone throwing by Palestinian villagers the Israelis opened fire on unarmed Palestinian protestors, killing 6 and wounding hundreds. Many were arrested and curfews were imposed on a number of villages and towns. 30 March has been subsequently commemorated as Palestinian Land Day to mark what is now the alienation and ethnic cleansing of about 90% of historical Palestine by the genocidal racist Zionists.
Australians For Palestine (AFP), which ”seeks to dispel the myths and disinformation about Palestine in Australia” has written thus on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine [detailed maps provided] (2012): “Background. For Palestinians, their land is their identity and this has been taken away from them in ever-increasing amounts since the United Nations decided to partition historic Palestine in 1947. The, the total area of historic Palestine was 6.5 million acres, with only a mere 370,000 acres under Jewish control. The Palestinians , who formed the majority population, owned some 2.25 million acres under various titles with the rest came under the Islamic trust (waqf) and what we would call today “state land”.
The [90%] Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine …
Gideon Polya, “Toulouse Massacre lessons. Stop Muslim Holocaust, racist Zionists & Apartheid Israel”, MWC News, 23 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/17719-toulouse-massacre.html .
The Toulouse Massacre in which 7 people, 3 of them children, were murdered in France by a crazed Muslim-origin gunman Mohammed Merah (a French citizen of Algerian descent), has shocked all decent people. However reason must prevail over emotion and must determine how the chances of a recurrence of this awful atrocity can be minimized. Compelling conclusions are that anti-Arab anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the racist Zionist-backed US Alliance War on Muslims (12 million dead since 1990) must be halted; that the genocidal racist Zionists must be sidelined from public life (as has already happened to like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK); and that the Palestinian Genocide (2 million war- and deprivation-related Palestinian deaths since 1936) must end, with a race-based, genocidal Apartheid Israel being replaced with a non-racist society based on equality, justice and reconciliation.
Rational risk management, that is crucial for societal safety and which has made passenger aviation so safe, successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis, this involving the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses, and (c) science- informed systemic change to minimize recurrence of adverse events. Unfortunately, inevitably corrupt societies typically adopt a dangerously incorrect converse approach that involves (a) lying by omission and commission, propaganda, censorship and intimidation of reportage, (b) anti-science spin involving the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position, and (c) resort to violent blame and shame with rejection of sensible systemic change, this further preventing crucially requisite reportage. A rational risk management approach to the Toulouse Massacre is outlined below…
Gideon Polya, “Quantitating anti-Asian Australian racism. 1,527 Afghans assertedly equal 1 Australian”, MWC News, 18 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/17608-australian-racism.html .
Mainstream media revelations of utterly paltry Australian compensation to its Afghan War victims reveal that the politically correct racist (PC racist) Australian political Establishment values Asian lives over 1,527 times less than White Australian lives. This is compared quantitatively below with other obscene, racist White Australian adherence to White/Non-European superiority factors ranging from "greater than 1" to "infinity".
The Age newspaper, arguably the most progressive of Australian mainstream newspapers, has reported: "The Australian government has paid $84,836 to 1474 Afghan civilians from late 2009 to January this year" but that the Australian Government "refuses to release a breakdown of the payments for fear of creating a market for compensation seekers in Afghanistan" (see Phillip Thomson, “Compensation for hurt Afghans less than $60”, The Age, 18 March 2012 ).
A$84,836 / 1,474 = A$57.55 was paid per person in compensation per person for injury or loss to 1,474 Afghan civilians… In contrast, a recent valuation of an Australian life (VOSL or Value of a Statistical Life) is A$7.6 million (US$8 million; see Peter Abelson (2007), “Establishing a monetary value for lives saved: issues and controversies”, 2007) and accordingly Australia values an Australian life as at least US$8,000,000 / US$5,240 = 1,527 times more valuable than an Occupied Afghan life. It is useful to compare this racist Australian perception of a 1,527 White/non-European superiority factor with other estimates…
Gideon Polya, “International Women’s Day. Zionist US denies Right to Life of Born Muslims”, MWC News, 8 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/17377-international-womens-day.html .
March 8th is International Women’s Day, a day on which we reflect on the great gains in women’s rights around the world but also on the progress that needs to be made against sexism, misogyny and other violation of women’s rights. A major area of concern remains the reproductive choice of women that is opposed by religious fundamentalists who declaim the Right to Life of the Unborn. However in a process of appalling and deadly hypocrisy these same US Alliance Christian fundamentalists ignore or dismiss the Right to Life of Born infants, of whom 7 million currently die avoidably each year on Spaceship Earth with religious right-dominated America at the helm… A fundamental right of women is reproductive choice. However that also includes the right of a mother to see her BORN infants survive, a right that is denied 7 million women each year whose under-5 year old infants perish avoidably due to warped First World priorities on a Spaceship Earth with religious fundamentalist-dominated America in charge of the flight deck. This horrendous reality is ignored by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-dominated Western democracies that have become Murdochracies (Big Money, such as that of the Murdoch media empire, buys truth, public perception and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception and votes). Those standing up for these millions of poor women are sidelined, censored and drowned out by an ocean of politically correct racist (PC racist) neo-fascist propaganda (see “Boycott Murdoch Media”; “Censorship by The Age” ; “Mainstream Media Lying”; and “ABC Censorship”. Please tell everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Australian climate change inaction. Orwellian Labor Government pretends the opposite ”, MWC News, 5 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/17313-australian-climate.html .
Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However pro-coal, pro-gas Australian PM Julia Gillard has an appalling record of climate change inaction falsely dressed up as the opposite. The biggest and most outrageous untruth of Gillard Labor is that it is "tackling climate change" for a "clean energy future", as systematically set out below.
1. Among PM Gillard's first acts in June 2010, after the Coup that removed the very popularly elected PM Kevin Rudd, was to approve export of dried brown coal from Victoria to Asia that is expected to generate 59 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2020… 16. Ultimately one must judge a government on how well it has been prepared to “tackle climate change” by the annual GHG pollution during its administration. Labor came to power at the end of 2007 when Australia’s domestic plus exported GHG pollution was about 1,363 million tonnes CO2-e and will face the electorate in 2013 when, after 6 years, it will be about 1,497 million tonnes CO2-e, or roughly 10% bigger than under the conservative Liberal Government back in 2007. Labor will have had 6 years to "tackle climate change", is facing utter failure and should be kicked out following the principle "punish the incompetent incumbent".
PM Julia Gilard’s broken pre-election pledge that "There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead", her pre-Coup pledges of loyalty to PM Kevin Rudd, her backsliding on promised poker machine gambling reforms, and her recent assertion that stories of an offer to get former NSW Premier Bob Carr as a Senator and Foreign Minister were "completely untrue" are the least of the incorrect assertions of PM Julia Gillard. To paraphrase the title of a song from the Broadway musical "Paint Your Wagon" (1951), "They call the wind Ju-liar". Utterly betrayed, pro-environment Labor voters will vote 1 Green and put Labor last until it reverts to decent Labor values, not the least of which is being truthful.
Gideon Polya, “Charles Dickens (1812-1870) anniversary. Genocidal racism then and now”, MWC News, 10 February 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/16789-charles-dickens.html .
This week the English-speaking world is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of arguably the greatest Victorian era English novelist Charles Dickens (born 7 February 1812, died 9 June 1870) who was also, in keeping with the racism and genocide of the colonial and imperial Victorian era, a genocidal racist. Today Anglo-American genocidal racism in the War on Muslims (12 million Muslim war-related deaths since 1990) is cloaked with disingenuous, politically correct rhetoric about “democracy” and “human rights” for the victims…
However ignored in the celebrations will be the reality that Charles Dickens, like many of his English and British contemporaries, was a genocidal racist. Thus Charles Dickens in a letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857 about the so-called Indian Mutiny (Indian Rebellion) of 1857: “I wish I were Commander in Chief over there [India]! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously translated into all native dialects,“ I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable atrocities [2,000 British killed in the 1857 Indian War of Independence aka the 1857 Indian Mutiny] (see Grace Moore (2004), “Dickens and the Empire. Discourses of class, race, and colonialism in the works of Charles Dickens”, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK).
Charles Dickens was not alone and the British Establishment acted with extraordinary brutality. Indian historian Amaresh Misra claims in his 2 volume work “War of Civilizations: India AD 1857” that the British killed 10 million Indians in reprisals for the 2,000 British killed in the 1857 rebellion (the so-called Indian Mutiny)…
The British-imposed Indian Holocaust was not confined to the decade after the 1857 Indian rebellion. It is estimated that avoidable deaths from deprivation under 2 centuries of British rule have totaled 1.8 billion with this carnage terminating in the 1942-1945 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indian to death (see my book “Jane Australian and the Black Hole of British History”) and Partition in 1947 in which 1 million Indians died and 18 million fled mass murder as refugees (see my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).
Gideon Polya, “India & Australia. Indian Republic Day & Australia Day”, MWC News, 26 January 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/16460-india-and-australia.html .
26 January is the Republic Day of India which commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force, replacing the British Government of India Act 1935 (26 January 1950), noting that India achieved Independence from Britain on 15 August 1947. The 26th of January was chosen to commemorate the declaration of Indian independence in 1930. 26 January is Australia Day for White Australians and Invasion Day for Indigenous Australians (Black Australians, Aborigines, Aboriginals), commemorating the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788. It is salutary to compare India, Australia and their considerable interactions, of which most - notably excepting those on the cricket field - have been kept from public perception…
On this 26 January Indian Republic Day and Australia’s Australia Day (aka Invasion Day) it is useful to compare the 2 nations in key areas. While Australia is currently thrashing India at Test cricket, India is part of the solution to the acute threat of man-made global warming whereas dog-in-the-manger Australia is a major part of the problem. Both Australia and India must do everything they can to resist subversion by racist, war criminal Neocon American and Zionist Imperialists. India urgently needs to genuinely democratize as does Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy Australia. The climate criminal, war criminal and politically correct racist Australian Lib-Labs need to be exposed, brought to account and sidelined as do those keeping 80% of Indians in wretched poverty. Only Mainstream media lying (Google “Mainstream Media Lying”) enables the corrupt Australian Lib-Labs and the corrupt Indian Establishment to get away with their crimes against Humanity.As outstanding Australian novelist Peter Carey has stated: “If you really want to know what's happening the world, you go out and get drunk with journalists and they will tell you what isn't in the papers.” Brilliant Indian writer Arundhati Roy has put it succinctly: “The ultimate privilege of the élite is not just their deluxe lifestyles, but deluxe lifestyles with a clear conscience.” Please tell everyone you can so we can break thorough the Mainstream media Wall of Silence.
Gideon Polya, “Carbon Debt & Carbon Credit. How Island States can save the Planet”, MWC News, 24 January 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/16412-carbon-debt-and-carbon-credit.html .
The recent Durban COP17 climate change conference failed to achieve requisite international action on the worsening climate crisis that is acutely threatening the World. However quantization of the Climate Debt of all Climate Debtor countries (notably the US, UK and Australia) provides a direct means by which Climate Creditor nations (notably the acutely threatened Island States and mega-delta nations) can help save the planet through insistence on repayment in full. Fossil fuel burning yielding the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major component of man-made global warming. In relation to carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, Net Carbon Debt is equal to the Historical Carbon Debt (from fossil fuel burning since the start of the Industrial Revolution in circa 1750) minus the Carbon Credit (the residual carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning permitted between now and zero emissions in 2050). As outlined below and based on fossil fuel burning, Net Carbon Debt (Net Climate Debt) has been estimated for all Carbon Debtor countries (notably the US, the UK and Australia) and Net Carbon Credit (Net Climate Credit) has been estimated for all Carbon Creditor countries (notably Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and India). This information is crucial for climate justice as the World faces a worsening climate crisis born of GHG profligacy and climate change inaction…
The fossil fuel-based Carbon Debt analysis given above provides a quantitative basis for such reparations payments and should be used by Island States, mega-delta countries and other threatened Climate Creditor countries to force urgently needed climate change action. Using this information the Island States and other threatened nations can indeed help save the Planet.
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Gideon Polya, “ABC censors Bengal Famine”, MWC News, 9 December 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/15391-bengali-famine.html .
The neocon-infested, taxpayer-funded ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) has an appalling record of censorship, lying by omission and lying by commission. Now the ABC has censored reportage of the Australia-complicit 1942-1945 Bengal Famine (Bengali Famine, Bengali Holocaust) in which the British, with Australian complicity, deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death in 1942-1945. India contributed an army of 2.4 million men to assist the British war effort in World War 2. However India was rewarded by a British-imposed Bengal Famine (Bengali Holocaust, Indian Holocaust) that killed 6-7 million Indians in Bengal, Assam, Bihar and Orissa in the period 1942-1945. Australia was a major supplier of wheat but deliberately by-passed starving India, this boosting British food stocks and what was evidently a starvation-based military strategy to prevent Japanese advance into Bengal. While there was no catastrophic decline in the amount of rice or other grain available in Bengal, the price of rice edged up slightly during 1942 and by December 1942 the wholesale price of rice in Calcutta had increased to be double that in December 1941. By mid-1943 it had doubled again to be over 4 times greater than the price in December 1941. As analyzed by Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen (Cambridge and Harvard) the Bengal Famine derived from a cashed-up Calcutta, a major industrial city involved in a war production boom, sucking rice out of a starving, rice-producing countryside [a 2019 Search of the ABC for “Bengal Famine” yields 2 radio interviews in 2018 and 2019 , respectively, in which this atrocity is mentioned].
Gideon Polya, “”The Politics of Genocide” by Edward Herman and David Peterson. Book review”, MWC News, 5 December 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/15306-politics-of-genocide.html .
Repeated, horrendous, intolerable atrocities against Humanity are made possible by remorseless lying on the part of the perpetrators. “The Politics of Genocide” by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson (foreword by Noam Chomsky; Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010) is a very important book that exposes holocaust-ignoring and genocide-ignoring by Western Mainstream media, political and academic Establishments except when the atrocities are committed by “enemies” of the US Alliance… The authors point out that in 1945 the US had “50% of the world’s wealth but only 6% of its population” and the US leaders recognized the need for policies “to maintain this position of disparity” and that “by one estimate, the United States carried out “extremely serious” military interventions in at least twenty-nine different countries from 1945 to 2009”…
The book does not give a detailed catalogue of these crimes. The reader is referred to William Blum’s book “Rogue State” for a detailed account. My book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, in addition to providing a succinct, avoidable mortality-related history of every country of the world from the Neolithic era onwards, uses UN Population Division data to estimate avoidable mortality in all countries of the world since 1950 (when such global demographic data became available). In particular it was estimated from detailed year-by-year, country-by-country analysis that the 1950-2005 avoidable deaths in countries occupied in the post-1945 era by the US totaled 82 million, the corresponding numbers being 727 million (for the UK), 142 million (France), 72 million (The Netherlands), 36 million (Belgium), 24 million (Portugal), 24 million (Israel) and 9 million (Spain)…
“The Politics of Genocide” is a very important book that exposes Mainstream media, politician and academic lying about gross human rights abuse and genocide. History ignored yields history repeated and genocide ignored yields genocide repeated. The latest series of US and UK atrocities is the US Alliance War on Muslims that has since 1990 been associated with 12 million war- and occupation-related Muslim deaths, the breakdown being 4.6 million (Iraq), 5.6 million (Afghanistan), 2.2 million (Somalia), 50,000 (Libya) and 0.1 million (Palestine), these continuing atrocities being associated with refugees totaling 5-6 million (Iraq), 3-4 million (Afghanistan), 2 million (Somalia), 1.2 million (Libya) and 7 million (Palestine) – evidence of an Iraqi Genocide, an Afghan Genocide, a Somali Genocide, a Libyan Genocide and a Palestinian Genocide. Yet these genocidal realities and indeed these very genocide terms are ignored by Western media and formal complaints to the International Criminal Court fall on deaf ears (see “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”). Decent folk must try to get through the Mainstream Establishment Wall of Silence by informing everyone they can. Peace is the only way but Silence kills and Silence is complicity.
Gideon Polya, “Review: “Muddy Spirituality” by Jon Owen. Indian Australian Ministering to Australia’s poor”, MWC News, 1 December 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/15217-muddy-spirituality.html .
“Muddy Spirituality. Bringing it all back down to earth” by Jon Owen (UNOH, Melbourne 2011) is an inspiring book by an inspiring young Indian Australian who works among the poor and marginalized people of the needy suburbs of Melbourne and Western Sydney. The important message of the book to all people, whether theists, atheists or agnostics, is effective service to our fellow man through empathy, cohabitation and practical assistance.
I am an agnostic, humanist scientist but I am also a teacher. I have been teaching university students for about 40 years and recognize that the key to effective teaching is empathy with the students and pitching the Big Picture message in terms that are readily understood. Jon Owen is a Christian who, together with his wife and family, lives and works among the poor and disadvantaged of Western Sydney, Australia. He takes his inspiration from Jesus who lived and taught among the poor and his book repeatedly turns to Gospel stories of Jesus serving those marginalized or despised by society. The humane teachings of Jesus (love thy neighbor, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, he who is without sin cast the first stone) is of course an inspiration for all decent Humanity, whether theist, agnostic or atheist. Indeed Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Communist USSR, author of Russia-West rapprochement and 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner, famously declared that “Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind”.
Gideon Polya, “Economist Mahima Khanna wins Cambridge Prize. Indian economic success but dire poverty”, MWC News, 20 November 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/14978-economist-mahima-khanna.html .
rilliant economics MPhil student Mahima Khanna from Kolkata, Bengal, has been awarded the prestigious Stevenson Prize by the University of Cambridge for her outstanding economics research work. She has become the third Indian to receive this award after eminent economists Professors Amartya Sen and Sir Patha Dasgupta. However India’s economic success must reach all Indians. It must be noted that 1998 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen is also from Bengal and is a former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sir Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is from Kolkata, Bengal. The Times of India (10 November 2011) quotes Mahima Khanna saying “Imagine sharing the roll of honor with thee gods in my field of study… My MPhil papers were related to trade liberalization and informality, based on evidences from the manufacturing sector in India. The size of the informal sector in India is growing. The government should patronize it. India’s fiscal deficits and interest rates also interest me.”
This is more evidence (if more evidence were wanted) of India “moving forward” (to quote the horrible contemporary Newspeak) after suffering 2 centuries of genocidal British rule in which avoidable deaths in India from British-imposed deprivation in the period 1757-1947 totaled 1.8 billion, an Indian Holocaust and an Indian Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention. Using census and other estimates of Indian population in these periods, post-invasion excess deaths totaled 0.6 billion, 1757-1837; 0.5 billion, 1837-1901 under Queen Victoria; and 0.4 billion in 1901-1947; this being 1.5 billion in total and 1.8 billion victims if the carnage in the various royalty-ruled Indian British Protectorate States are included…
Of course through Churchill's deliberate sustained policies 6-7 million Indians were deliberately starved to death in Bengal and adjoining provinces in 1942-1945 while the World looked on and White Australia had to build novel storage silos to store a mountain of hoarded grain kept from starving India under British instructions (see Gideon Polya, "Bengal Famine. How Australia & UK killed 6-7 million Indians in WW2”, MWC News, 27 September 2011). Indians should be very pleased about this prestigious University of Cambridge award to the brilliant economist Mahima Khanna, and the huge economic advances being made by India after 2 centuries of genocidal British rule that converted India from being a world economic leader (together with China) in 1750 to a starvation-subjugated charnel house that is well described as Britain’s Auschwitz. Currently about 3.7 million Indians and 5.3 million South Asians still die avoidably each year from deprivation out of a population of 1.1 billion (India) and 1.5 billion (South Asia) . In contrast, avoidable deaths in China each year are essentially zero (0). The fruits of India’s economic advance need to be shared much more equitably. Economic advance of a society is about maximizing the psychological and physiological well-being of everyone.
Gideon Polya, “Remembering civilian war deaths. Unique Remembrance Day at 11.11.11 on 11.11.11”, MWC News, 11 November 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/14774-remembering-civilian.html .
History ignored yields history repeated. That in part is why at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of each year since the WW1 Armistice Day in 1918 people have held 1 minute’s silence to remember the war dead. However in subsequent wars civilian deaths vastly outnumbered military deaths as killing technology advanced. On Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) we should remember all who died in wars, both civilians and soldiers. 12 million Muslims, mostly civilians, have died so far in the post-1990 US War on Muslims.
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) is peculiar in that at the time of 11.11.11 on the day of 11.11.11, the time (at 11 seconds past 11 minutes past 11 o'clock) and the date (11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of the 21st century) will be a perfect same-numbered palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards, an event which can only happen on one day every 100 years. This singularity should provide impetus for the World to recognize the continuing, genocidal carnage in the post-1990 US Alliance War on Muslims that has so far been associated with about 12 million war-related deaths, a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide that is resolutely ignored by the Mainstream media, academics and politicians of the Western Murdochracies (Big Money buys truth and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians and policy).
“Holocaust” and “Genocide” have very precise meanings. Holocaust simply means the death of a huge number of people as exampled by the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million people killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation), the WW2 Holocaust in general (30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies killed), the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death by the British in 1942-1945) and the 35 million Chinese killed associated with the Japanese occupation of China in the1930s and 1940s.
Gideon Polya, “New White Australian Policy. Apartheid Australia violating human rights”, MWC News, 24 October 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/14355-white-australia.html .
In 1901 one of Australia’s first acts as a nation was to introduce the so-called White Australia policy to exclude non-Europeans from Australia, this including forced repatriation of Melanesian slaves and their progeny and complete cessation of centuries old family and commercial links between Indigenous Australians and Indonesia. This racist policy was abolished in 1974 but now race-based laws and regulations have returned Australia to being an Apartheid state. There is now a New White Australia Policy. Thus while it was a Labor Government that abolished the White Australia Policy in 1974 and abolished federal racism by its 1975 Racial Discrimination Act, the current Australian Labor Government supported exclusion from this Act of Northern Territory Aborigines (Indigenous Australians) suffering under a continuing Aboriginal Genocide (9,000 Aborigines die avoidably each year out of an Aboriginal population of 500,000), of Afghan refugees fleeing the Afghan Genocide ( 5.6 million war-related deaths, 2001-2011) and of Tamil refugees fleeing the Israeli-complicit Tamil Genocide (circa 50,000 killed in the last year alone). In addition Apartheid Australia strongly supported Apartheid South Africa, supports Apartheid Israel (300,000 Palestinian avoidable deaths since 1967), has been involved in all US Asian Wars (war-related deaths 28 million) and is still involved in the Afghan Genocide (post-invasion war-related deaths 5.6 million). Nevertheless, Asians represent not just cannon fodder but economic opportunities for Australia. While in 1901 Apartheid Australia’s first prime minister Edmund Barton stated that “The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of an Englishman and the Chinaman” and in 1947 Australian Labor Government Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell declared “Two Wongs do not make a White”, today China is Australia’s biggest customer and has made Australia the most prosperous country in the World…
Importantly, prospective students must also be made aware of the Australian White Australia Policy (1901-1974) which effectively excluded Indians and other non-Europeans and from Australia but was enacted in a sneaky, secretive fashion to minimize offence to the hundreds of millions of non-European subjects of the brutal, racist British Empire. However, today there is a secret, New White Australia Policy whereby Europeans (with some exceptions) can apply on-line for visas to enter Australia but non-Europeans (with some exceptions) must apply on a completely separate form with more rigorous demands and submit it to an Australian embassy. This New White Australia Policy meant, for example, that the Indian national bowls team, who wanted to do some training in Australia prior to the New Delhi Commonwealth Games, was excluded.
Gideon Polya, “”With All My Might”: losing fear, finding self ”, MWC News, 30 September 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/13806-with-all-my-might.html .
“With All My Might” by Gabriella Naseem Akhtar van Rij is an eminently readable book by a Pakistan-origin woman who was brought up as an adopted child by a Dutch family. In the author’s own words “Diversity, adversity, conformity, and racism have been huge factors in my early years. I would like to show you, the reader, how I have dealt with these factors, how to stay sane and, especially, how to stay true to your own values.” The author succeeds admirably.Without spoiling the story for you, Gabriella Naseem Akhtar van Rij was born Naseem Akhtar to a Pakistani mother and evidently deceased father in about 1963 in Gajar Khan, a small village in the northern part of what was then West Pakistan. After 10 days her Muslim mother deposited her with the Catholic Saint Catherine’s Convent and orphanage in Rawalpindi, nuns of which fortuitously detained the mother and were thus able to record the name and birth details of the child…
Racism, two adoptions, separation from her birth relatives and culture, the divorce of her Dutch adoptive parents, insecurity, 2 unsuccessful marriages (one ending badly and one ending with an amicable divorce), overdose with pills and the attempted removal of her only child – all traumatic problems with attendant fears that Gabriella faced and conquered. Gabriella states “Whether I am the black sheep in the family or not, I decided to embrace it”. Gabriella provides sensible coping advice to the reader, much of which involves turning negatives into positives and making fear transient. Gabriella writes “It is ok to have fears, but when you conquer them, you will see what a true relief it can be. The growth you feel within is huge. You will feel as if you are lifted off the ground. That is how terrific a feeling it is to overcome fear.”
We all have various sets of health, relationship and personal problems that are variously helped by talking to empathic people and indeed by “swapping notes”. Gabriella embraces the reader, takes the reader into her confidence and offers sensible and humane advice based on her experiences. “With All My Might” is a very useful, eminently readable and humane book for an increasingly multicultural world.
Gideon Polya, “Moving Planet Day. Stop greenhouse gas pollution!”, MWC News, 24 September 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/13674-moving-planet-day.html .
Corporate polluters have not completely disempowered humanity. Thus 24 September 2011 is “Moving Planet Day” in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world will be demanding effective action against man-made climate change. A key sponsor is 350.org which wants atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to be no more than 350 parts per million (ppm). 300org, which demands that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) be returned ASAP to 300 parts per million (ppm) from the current 394 ppm (increasing at 2.4 ppm per year), also endorses “Moving Planet Day”. According to key sponsor 350.org: “On September 24, more than 150 countries are expected to take part in a global day events called “Moving Planet” dedicated to the goal of solving the climate crisis by ending the world’s dependence on fossil-fuel energy. From Pacific islands to European capitols, hundreds of thousands will join creative rallies to show that people around the world are ready for clean energy and climate solutions”…
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming. Noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division) , these estimates translate to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including roughly twice the present population of particular mainly non-European groups, specifically 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis (for numerous expert opinions Google “Climate genocide”).
What can decent people do? Decent folk who care for their children, their grandchildren and intergenerational equity must (a) inform everyone they can about the worsening climate emergency and (b) urge and apply sanctions against all those people, politicians, corporations and countries complicit in the worsening climate emergency.We mostly live in the prevalent pseudo-democratic Murdochracies (Big Money buys truth and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians and policy). However decent folk can be empowered by a simple ABC protocol that has been highly successful in all kinds of other movements and which people can apply individually and collectively to tackling climate change:
(A) Accountability – hold corporations, countries, products, politicians and polluters accountable for increasing greenhouse gas pollution;
(B) Badge - wear a pro-Planet badge e.g. bear witness with a “300 ppm CO2” badge to the need to reduce atmospheric CO2 to the level it had not exceeded in the 800,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution; and
(C) Credo – transmit a simple, fundamental core statement e.g. “Return atmospheric CO2 to 300 ppm for a safe planet for all peoples and all species”.
Gideon Polya, “Australian Carbon Price deceit. When more GHG pollution means less ”, MWC News, 9 August 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/12671-australian-carbon-price-deceit.html .
Top climate scientists around the World are saying that to have a high probability of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise the World must stop greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by about 2050. However in Australia, a world leader in annual par capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and in fossil fuel exports, there is an unspoken agreement between the major parties (the Liberal-National Party Coalition Opposition and the Labor Party Government, aka the Lib-Labs) that Australia will keep burning and exporting fossil fuels until the World makes it stop. At huge expense to Australian taxpayers the pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-environment Australian Labor Government is posting out to all Australian householders a 20 page booklet called “What a carbon price means for you. The pathway to a clean energy future” (for free download here) and which dishonestly claims that the Gillard Labor Government is “tackling climate change”. Australian taxpayers should be enraged that they are having to pay for being lied to by omission and commission and that their children are being lied to in a process of massive, nation-wide intellectual child abuse…
While anti-environment, anti-science, neocon Australian Lib-Labs (Liberal –National Party Coalition Opposition and Labor Party Government) are committed to fossil fuel burning and fossil fuel exports, the rest of the world must act promptly to stop this climate criminality by Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs, Sporting Boycotts (including Olympic and cricket and football World Cup exclusions), International Court of Justice litigations and International Criminal Court prosecutions. The World must stop the Australian climate criminals who are threatening both Australia and the World.
Gideon Polya, “World running out of time. Zero emissions by 2023”, MWC News, 1 August 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/12508-zero-emissions.html .
According to top climate scientists the World must reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and eventually reach zero emissions by about 2050. Indeed top climate scientists and biologists are telling us that reaching zero emissions is not enough – we then have to reduce atmospheric (CO2) concentration from the current 394 parts per million (ppm) to 350 ppm (according to 350.org) and thence to 300 ppm (according to the latest science-informed 300orgsite). Because of extraordinary Mainstream media censorship in Lobbyocracy Australia, few Australians realize that Australia has already exceeded its “fair share” of permissible global GHG pollution before science-demanded zero emissions in 2050 and is now greedily stealing the entitlement of other countries. Australia has become a climate criminal country with a disproportionate involvement in worsening global climate genocide. As set out below, based on current GHG pollution rates, the World must actually reach zero emissions by 2023 at which time it will have used up the maximum permissible GHG pollution to avoid catastrophic climate change…
Countries that must cease GHG pollution within 5 years. Belize (0.8 years), Qatar (1.3), Guyana (1.4), Malaysia (1.9), United Arab Emirates (2.0), Kuwait (2.4), Papua New Guinea (2.5), Brunei (2.8), Australia (2.8; 1.1 if including its huge GHG Exports), Antigua & Barbuda (2.8), Zambia (2.9), Canada (3.0), Bahrain (3.0), United States (3.1), Trinidad & Tobago (3.3), Luxembourg (3.4), Panama (3.7), New Zealand (3.7), Estonia (4.0), Botswana (4.1), Ireland (4.3), Saudi Arabia (4.4), Venezuela (4.6), Indonesia (4.8), Equatorial Guinea (5.0), Belgium (5.0)…
Where does your country come in this “years left until zero emissions” analysis? The World will have to take action against the more notorious climate criminal and climate racist countries such as Australia through Sanctions, Boycotts, Sporting Boycotts (as were successfully applied to Apartheid South Africa through exclusion from the Olympic Games and other events), Green Tariffs, International Court of Justice litigations and International Criminal Court prosecutions. Indeed I have sent a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court over Australia’s complicit in ongoing genocidal atrocities (see “9 January 2010 Formal Complaint by Dr Gideon Polya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US Alliance Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim, Aboriginal, Biofuel and Climate Genocides.”). The World is badly running out of time to deal with man-made climate change.
Gideon Polya, “Murdoch Media. Stopping pro-war, anti-science Murdochracy”, MWC News, 18 July 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/12193-murdoch-media.html .
The indignant global responses to the UK phone hacking and police bribery of Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire obscure its vastly worse crimes, most notably (a) promotion of the War on Terror and genocide-ignoring non-reportage of the 12 million deaths associated with US and US Alliance wars in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan and (b) anti-science non-reportage and false reporting about the Climate Crisis that if unaddressed will kill an estimated billions of non-Europeans in a 21st century Climate Genocide. Accordingly, all decent people must boycott Murdoch media to save the Planet.
Rational risk management vital for the safety of society successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis (this involving the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However this is typically perverted by (a) lies, non-reportage and censorship, (b) anti-science spin involving the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position and (c) blame and shame, with the ultimate obscenity being war. The Murdoch Media pervert rational risk management in this fashion, mist notably by (1) promoting the Iraq War and the Afghan War and non-reportage of the resultant carnage (violent deaths and avoidable deaths from war-imposed carnage now totaling 4.6 million and 5.0 million, respectively) and (2) irresponsible climate change denialism, noting that unaddressed man-made climate change is set to kill billions in this century…
We can no longer afford lies, spin, non-reportage and censorship over man-made climate change and other huge threats to Humanity. Decent people should boycott Murdoch media (that are evidently beyond redemption) thereby helping a transition back to Democracy from Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy in the English-speaking World. However we must also resolutely expose such perversions in the remaining Mainstream media, so that our societies can apply rational risk management to major threats to Humanity. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Gideon Polya, “Independence from America Day. 4 July & American Empire”, MWC News, 4 July 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/11885-independence-from-america-day.html .
We all know the great words of the 4 July 1776 American Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. However these words did not apply to American Indians or to African slaves then any more than they apply today to Indigenous People in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia or indeed in any part of the World under violent US hegemony. The World must make the 4th of July Independence From America Day.
These great words beloved of all decent folk today were an immense lie in 1776 and hid a major strategic objection of Independence for the Thirteen American Colonies: the invasion and ethnic cleansing of Indian lands to the West. Britain had been fighting the French for global hegemony in an 18th century repeat of the medieval Hundred Years War but which had a global reach, a veritable World War from India to North America. That war would only cease with the final defeat of Napoleonic France at Waterloo in 1815. As part of an anti-French strategy Britain had an Alliance with North American Indians and prevented the American colonists from expanding westwards toward French Louisiana. The Independence of the Thirteen Colonies was not just about tea and taxes – it enabled the conquest and ethnic cleansing of the US part of North America.
The Indian Genocide that had been ongoing since first European settlement in North America proceeded to new depths after 1776. The Andrew Jackson Indian Removal legislation of 1830 “legitimized” this genocide by actively forcing Indians to re-locate from East of the Mississippi and was of course eventually followed by Indian Genocide West of the Mississippi…
The position of all decent folk is summarized by the words of outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond who in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people". Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. What can decent people do? Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can about the continuing US or US surrogate occupation, mass murder, mass paedocide, holocaust and genocide in the Occupied Palestinian, Somali, Haitian, Iraqi, and Afghan Territories, (b) demand Sanctions and political sidelining against the genocidal Neocon American and Zionist Imperialists (NAZIs), and (c) make 4 July Independence From America Day around the World.
Gideon Polya, “26 June: UN Anti-drugs Day. One million dead from US-backed Afghan opiates”, MWC News, 26 June 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/11702-anti-drugs-day.html .
The UN-decreed International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is celebrated on 26 June, this date commemorating Chinese hero Lin Zexu’s dismantling of the opium trade in Humen, Guangdong, an event that was a catalyst for the First Opium War of Britain versus China.Today Britain is complicit in the US Alliance restoration of Afghan opium industry that now kills 100,000 people annually around the world. In 2003 the Australian National Drug Research Institute estimated that about 7 million people die annually due to drugs, the breakdown being 5 million (tobacco), 1.8 million (alcohol) and 0.2 million due to illicit drugs (with opiates being involved in about 60% of such illicit drug deaths) (see National Drug Research Institute, “Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs responsible for seven million preventable deaths world-wide”). The Anglo-American domination of the world drug trade began in the 17th century with exploitation of American tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) that now kills about 6 million people annually (for the biochemistry see my huge pharmacological book “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds”)…
However global opiate drug-related deaths from US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry now total about 1 million with 200,000 such deaths in the US, 11,900 in the UK, 7,600 in Canada, 3,400 in Australia, 6,700 (Germany), 1,450 (France), 2,800 (Italy) and 680 (the Netherlands). In contrast, US Alliance military deaths in Afghanistan now total 27 (Australia), 156 (Canada), 1,637 (the US), 374 (the UK), 62 (France), 53 (Germany), 36 (Italy) and 25 (the Netherlands).Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can about this US Alliance-imposed carnage and (b) both urge and take sensible action through Sanctions and Boycotts against all people and politicians, corporations and countries complicit in this US Alliance War on Humanity.
Gideon Polya, “WW2 Bengali Genocide. “Churchill’s Secret War” by Madhusree Mukerjee ”, MWC News, 13 June 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/11391-ww2-bengali-genocide.html .
The important book “Churchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II” by Madhusree Mukerjee (Basic Books, New York) is an account of the forgotten World War 2 Bengali Holocaust, the man-made, 1942-1945 Bengal Famine in which 6-7 million Indians were deliberately starved to death by the British under Churchill for strategic reasons in what was one of the greatest atrocities in human history but which has been largely white washed from British history. Other books have been written about the Bengal Famine Thus N.G. Jog’s “Churchill’s Blind Spot: India” (New Book Company, Bombay, 1944) in referring to this Bengali Holocaust was the first to refer to a WW2 atrocity as a “holocaust”. Paul Greenough’s “Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: the Famine of 1943-1944” (Oxford University Press, 1982) is a detailed and definitive account of the WW2 Bengal Famine. Brilliant Bengali film maker Satyajit Ray's film "Distant Thunder" is a profoundly moving account of part of this disaster and concludes with an estimate that 5 million Bengalis perished. My book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 1998, 2008) put the WW2 Bengali Holocaust into a wider context of British racism, imperialism, holocaust commission, holocaust denial and cultural self-deception…
A novel contribution is exposure of the key role in the disaster of incompetent and racist key Churchill adviser Professor Lindemann (Lord Cherwell) who consistently opposed food relief for starving India while Britain was stocking up with excess food. Physicist Mukerjee’s book refers to C.P Snow’s classic book “Science and Government” that excoriates physicist Lindemann for his successful promotion of bombing German cities at the expense of protecting Allied shipping, a policy that led to massive losses in the Battle of the Atlantic. This in turn led to Churchill halving shipping in the Indian Ocean in 1943. Mukerjee, while properly condemning Lindemann for his opposition to food aid for India, overlooks this key consequence of Lindemann’s bombing obsession, specifically .the causal pathway of diversion of Allied bombers from ship protection to bombing German civilians -> loss of Allied shipping -> Mediterranean strategy-dictated halving of Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean -> food price rise in the Indian Ocean region -> famine in India. Indeed C.B.A. Behrens in her book “Merchant shipping and the demands of war” (referred to by Mukerjee) does make this connection and states “the North Africa campaign doomed almost irrevocably to starvation any deficit area in India”, a view with which British historian A.J.P... Taylor concurs…
In 2011 Britain is still making war on Third World Muslim countries, namely Iraq (war-related deaths 4.6 million, 1990-2011), Afghanistan (war-related deaths 5.0 million, 2001-2011) and now Libya, which is being bombed back to the Stone Age. Greed, racism and imperialism aside, a key reason for Britain’s mass murder of Bengalis (substantially Muslims) in WW2 and for its continued atrocities lies in personal self-deception and propaganda-assisted public deception. Madhusree Mukerjee discovered this profound confession by mass murderer and holocaust denier Churchill: “I therefore adopted quite early in life a system of believing whatever I wanted to believe.” I strongly recommend Madhusree Mukerjee’s very readable and vitally important book “Churchill’s Secret War”. History ignored yields history repeated. Holocaust ignoring – as exhibited by several generations of the British in relation the WW2 Bengali Holocaust and Bengali Genocide is far, far worse than outright holocaust denial because the latter, no matter how repugnant, at least admits the possibility of rational discussion in the interests of Humanity.
Gideon Polya, “Pro-Zionist Australian holocaust denial. Holocaust ignoring worse than holocaust denial”, MWC News, 9 June 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/11297-pro-zionist-australia.html .
Holocaust denial is utterly repugnant because it falsifies history, insults the memory of victims, distresses the survivors and dangerously increases the probability of recurrence because that history ignored yields history. However holocaust ignoring is far worse than holocaust denial, because the latter, while obnoxious and repugnant, at least admits the possibility of public discussion. As set out below, a holocaust ignoring and genocidal ignoring culture is entrenched in the Western Mainstream media. With cowardly and/or racist journalists, politicians and academics going along with this obscene, dominant, worse-than-holocaust-denying Mainstream narrative. Mainstream politicians and media in look-the-other-way Apartheid Australia (a country applying race-based laws against minority Subjects) have an entrenched culture of self-censorship and censorship. Indeed this Mainstream lying by omission and commission obtains in all the other pro-Zionist and the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies, pseudo democracies in which “money buys truth”, “money buys perception” and “money buys votes”…
I have published several books that deal with Western [-imposed] holocaust and holocaust denial namely “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” and “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”.Australia is an Apartheid state because it applies discriminatory and damaging race-based laws against particular groups of non-European subjects (specifically Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers) but so far has maintained a remarkably good image through Mainstream politician and media censorship and self -censorship. Few realize that until 1967 Australia refused citizenship to its Indigenous inhabitants who were listed under the Flora and Fauna Act; that today 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably every year out of an Indigenous population of 0.5 million; that Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US-Asian Wars (26 million war-related deaths), or that as a member of the US Alliance, politically correct racist Australia is complicit in the US and racist Zionist generation of 20 million Muslim refugees. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Gideon Polya, “Climate injustice. Stop Australian & US GHG pollution”, MWC News, 5 June 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/11215-climate-injustice.html.
orld Environment Day, 5 June, has been marked around the World by millions of decent folk participating in events demanding action on the worsening climate emergency. Unaddressed, man-made climate change is predicted to kill about 10 billion mostly non-European people or about 100 million people per year this century in what is described as a Climate Genocide. Already about 18 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation in the Developing World (minus China) and this is increasingly being impacted by global warming.
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming – noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050, these estimates translate to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis (for details Google “Climate Genocide” )…
Sanctions worked against a greedy, racist, US-, Australia- and Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa and should also work against a United States and Australia that are greedily, disproportionately and murderously violating the common atmosphere of all Humanity. Sensible political debate on the issue has stalled in both Australia and the US. Accordingly, the World must take action to bring dog-in-the-manger Australia and the US to heel through Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS), sporting exclusions, International Court of Justice litigations and prosecutions of climate criminal, climate genocidal Australia and the US before the International Criminal Court.
Gideon Polya, “Exposing MSM lying & censorship. What Mainstream media won’t publish”, MWC News, 29 may 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/11059-exposing-msm.html .
Media With Conscience (MWC News) exists to counter the horrendous Mainstream media (MSM) censorship in the pro-US, pro-Zionist, fascist Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies. But from a scientific perspective one must consider how one can one begin to expose the nature and extent of this egregious Mainstream media censorship that variously threatens democracy as well as public health and safety in a world beset with Anglo-American and NATO wars and a worsening Climate Genocide predicted to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century.
Murdochracy describes democracy perverted by Big Money media empires such as that of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Lobbyocracy describes democracy perverted by Big Money corporate or other Lobbies (most notoriously, in relation to man-made climate change, by the effective climate change denialist fossil fuel corporations). We know that the Western MSM censor out huge realities such as the horrendous Western-imposed deaths in the US Alliance Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (post-1990, 1.7 million violent deaths, 2.9 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 2.0 million under-5 infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes, and 5-6 million refugees; post-2003, 1.5 million violent deaths, 1.2 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation, and 0.8 million under-5 infant deaths) (Google “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”)…
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We are obliged to try to penetrate the Mainstream media Wall of Silence and to inform everyone we can about the egregious lying by commission, lying by omission and egregious censorship to which we are subjected by pro-US, pro-Zionist Western Mainstream media. We can be inspired by the words of Literature Nobel Laureate Albert Camus in an article entitled “Neither Victims nor Executioners” (1946):
“Over the expanse of five continents throughout the coming years an endless struggle is going to be pursued between violence and friendly persuasion, a struggle in which, granted, the former has a thousand times the chances of success than that of the latter. But I have always held that, if he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward. And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions.”
Gideon Polya, “Obama [allegedly] kills US asset Osama. US still blocking 9/11 truth”, MWC News, 9 May 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/10598-us-asset-osama.html .
US President Obama has blocked 9-11 truth by the [alleged] extra-judicial murder of Al-Qaeda leader and US-alleged 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden who was America’s most valuable terrorist asset over the last 30 years by (a) assisting the US-backed defeat of the Russians in Afghanistan (and thence the dismemberment of the Soviet Empire) and (b) by killing hundreds of Westerners in terrorist atrocities, thus providing the anti-terrorism justification for the post-Cold War explosion of US state terrorism in the Muslim world (bombings, invasions, occupations and 11 million Muslim dead since 1990 in US-attacked countries). Scientific evidence says that the US rather than man-in-a-cave Osama did 9-11 but Osama was used by the actual perpetrators as an endless war-justifying bogeyman like Emmanuel Goldstein in George Orwell’s novel “1984”. As outlined below, the lying, terror hysteria narrative of the genocidal US Alliance and Zionists must be urgently exposed before it transmutes to an even more insidious variant…
To summarize, Osama bin Laden has been America’s most valuable terrorist “asset” for 30 years, fuelling the terror hysteria-based US War on Terror and enabling a racist, pro-Zionist, violent and genocidal neocon America to variously bomb, invade, occupy and devastate Muslim countries from Libya to Pakistan. The US was almost certainly involved in the 9-11 atrocity but Osama bin Laden was made the equivalent of bogeyman Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s novel “1984” by successive US administrations with the help of pro-war, pro-Zionist Mainstream media. Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were responsible for the killing of at most several thousand Westerners if one assumes their unlikely complicity in the 9/11 atrocity. Osama bin Laden was America’s chief terrorist asset and helped enable the US Alliance to kill 9 million Muslims since 9-11 as well as causing the deaths of over 1 million people world-wide from opiate drug-related causes due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry.
The demonization of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda by the Mainstream media and politicians has enabled a vastly more deadly UK, US and Apartheid Israeli terrorism to flourish coupled with overwhelming Mainstream media censorship of the Awful Truth. Hugely disproportionate but predictable, murderous, civilian targeting Western responses to terrorist atrocities by al-Qaeda mean that Osama bin Laden must bear a major responsibility for the Western murder of 11 million Muslims in the period 1990-2011. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity – please tell everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Australian Anzac & Armenian Genocide. Australia’s secret genocide history”, MWC News, 25 April 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/10256-australian-anzac-a-armenian-genocide.html .
History ignored yields history repeated. Armenian Genocide Day, 24 April, commemorates the death of 1.5 million Armenians who died in the Turkish-imposed Armenian Genocide that commenced on 24 April 1915, the day prior to the Anglo-French and Australian and New Zealand Army Corp (ANZAC) invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles on 25 April 1915. 25 April is marked as Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand that commemorates the war dead of both these sister countries. Yet Australia resolutely ignores its causal connection to the Armenian Genocide and indeed to numerous other genocidal atrocities as a participant in past and continuing British and/or American wars.
The Dardanelles Campaign was the WW1 brain-child of racist, imperialist and militarist Winston Churchill who conceived the plan to capture the Dardanelles (that links the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea) in order to supply the Russians were fighting the Germans on the Eastern Front. The Turks who had been pushed by the Anglo-French Allies into Alliance with Germany and Austria were fighting the Russians in eastern Anatolia and were paranoid about Christian Armenian support for Christian Tsarist Russia. About 2 months of naval shelling of the Dardanelles and a huge build up of an Allied invasion force preceded the invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsular by the Allies on that first Anzac Day, 25 April 1915. The 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide commenced on the preceding day, 24 April 1915, with the round up and murder of Armenian community leaders (doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, priests, councilors, and mayors) and the butchery that was to kill 1.5 million Armenians…
About half the victims of these Australia-complicit holocausts and genocides have been children. Here are some messages to look-the-other-way Australia on Anzac Day, 2011: remember the children and women victims of war; “thou shalt not kill children”; and those who ignore, obfuscate, deny, minimize, support or are otherwise complicit in the mass murder of women and children (not to mention men) have crossed the line separating decent humanity from Nazi-style barbarity.What can decent people do? Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can about gross abuses of humanity (of which active and passive killing are the most egregious examples) and (b) apply sanctions and boycotts against all people, politicians, corporations and countries involved in gross abuse of humanity.On 9 January 2010 I sent a Formal Complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US Alliance and Australian involvement in the Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim, Aboriginal, Biofuel and Climate Genocides. The Silence has been Deafening – while the US does not recognize the authority of the ICC over it citizens, the ICC dances to the tune of the war criminal US Alliance.Please tell everyone you can that invading other countries is evil and that most of the victims of high technology wars are women and children. Lest we forget.
Gideon Polya, “Stop coal to gas transition. Gas worse than coal GHG-wise”, MWC News, 16 April 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/10063-coal-to-gas-transition.html .
The World is undergoing a gas boom and a gas rush in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia. Indeed US-, UK-, EU- and Australia-backed Apartheid Israel is now threatening Lebanon over gas exploitation and the France-UK-US Coalition is bombing gas-rich Libya. Yet the greedy push for a global Gasland and a coal to gas transition ignores the science which says that gas burning for power is worse than coal burning in relation to greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. This gas rush based on anti-science lying is no better illustrated than by the pro-Zionist, pro-war, pro-gas, anti-science, climate criminal Australian Labor Government.
Australia has been described as a Murdochracy (because its media are dominated by the Rupert Murdoch Empire) and a Lobbyocracy (because the mining, coal, gas, big business and Zionist lobbies dominate Australian political life). Now the pro-gas, neocon Gillard Labor Government of Lobbyocracy Australia has opted for a disastrous, Carbon Tax-driven coal to gas transition, ignoring the science which says that gas burning for power is worse than coal burning GHG-wise. Australia has a shocking record of climate change inaction coupled with an unenviable position as a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution…
Methane (CH4) is a major greenhouse gas (GHG) that on a 100 year time scale has a relative global warming potential (GWP) that is 25 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2). However a re-assessment by US scientists that takes atmospheric aerosol responses to CH4 into account has found that on a 20 year time scale CH4 (the major constituent of natural gas) is 105 times worse than CO2 as a GHG (as compared to 79 without considering aerosol effects). Further, recent data from the US EPA indicates that the industrial leakage of CH4 in the US is 3.3%. Using this information it can be readily estimated that gas burning for power can be much dirtier GHG-wise than coal burning.
Gideon Polya, “Iraq Invasion 8th anniversary. US Alliance commences Libyan War ”, MWC News, 21 March 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/9443-iraq-invasion-8th-anniversary.html .
20 March 2011 marked the 8th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US, UK and Australia. In post-invasion Iraq, violent deaths (1.4 million) and non-violent avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million) have totaled 2.6 million (so far). Yet the West ignores the carnage of the ongoing Iraqi Genocide and marked this dreadful anniversary by commencing a devastating high technology war on another Arab nation, Libya. A legitimate fear from the US-backed Palestinian Genocide, the Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide and the Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide is that this latest US war, the Libyan War, will likewise evolve to holocaust and genocide dimensions and to a Libyan Holocaust and Libyan Genocide. As of 20 March 2011, the 8th anniversary of the illegal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003, the human cost the Iraq War since 2003 involves 2.6 million violent and non-violent avoidable deaths of Indigenous Iraqis (4.5 million since 1990). In comparison, post-2003 US Alliance deaths in the Iraq War now total 4,758…
The devastation of Iraq by the US Coalition under Sanctions and US, UK and Israeli no-fly zone bombing (1.7 million Iraqi avoidable deaths from deprivation, 1990-2003) and under Occupation (1.2 million Iraqi avoidable deaths from deprivation, 2003-2011) was enabled by Mainstream media non-reportage and warmongering in the Western Murdochracy. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. On this 8th anniversary of the illegal Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, decent people must (a) tell everyone they can about the horrendous human cost, and (b) insist that the war criminals be held accountable through sanctions, boycotts and criminal prosecutions. All decent folk will have great sympathy for the desire of the Libyan people, of all Arab people and indeed of all people for human rights and genuine democracy but they must oppose the cowardly, turkey-shoot destruction of Libya by the genocidal, war criminal US Alliance. One hopes that the Libyans themselves will find a solution through dialogue before too much damage has been done in terms of Libyan lives, infrastructure and the economy on which life depends.
Gideon Polya, “Australian climate change inaction. Climate activists surrender to pro-gas Government spin ”, MWC News, 5 March 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/9089-australian-climate-change-inaction.html .
The pro-coal, pro-gas Australian Government has proposed a Carbon Tax-ETS-Ignore Agriculture (CTETSIA) policy that means climate change inaction by Australia, a world-leading per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters. Astonishingly, major climate activist groups have been seduced by neocon political spin and are supporting this disastrous policy that promotes a pointless coal burning to gas burning conversion, scuppers science-demanded 100% renewable energy by 2020, institutes a counterproductive carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) and ignores agriculture which is responsible for over 50% of GHG pollution.
Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Thus “annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” in units of “tones CO2-equivalent per person per year” (2005-2008 data) is 0.9 (Bangladesh), 0.9 (Pakistan), 2.2 (India), less than 3 (many African and Island countries), 3.2 (the Developing World), 5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 16 (the Developed World), 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia’s huge Exported CO2 pollution is included). However as briefly outlined below, climate criminal Australia is hell bent on burning and exporting fossil fuels until the World makes it stop…
Behind the endless neocon lies and spin is the reality that climate criminal Australia is going to continue burning and exporting fossil fuels until the World tells it to stop via sanctions, boycotts, green tariffs, litigation before the International Court of Justice and arraignment of climate criminals before the International Criminal Court. All decent people who care for their children, their grandchildren, Humanity and the Biosphere must resolutely oppose the worsening global coal to gas transition and oppose all new coal- and gas-fired power plants, demand 100% renewable energy by 2020 (see: https://sites.google.com/site/100renewableenergyby2020/ ), and urge return of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to a safe and sustainable 300 parts per million (ppm) from the current damaging and dangerous 392 ppm (see https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm ). We are running out of time.
Gideon Polya, “Eco-socialism & Green Socialism. Science & Equality demand Climate Socialism for Climate Crisis”, MWC News, 17 February 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/8718-eco-socialism-a-green-socialism.html .
Science and equality in the face of a worsening Climate Emergency dictate Eco-Socialism, Climate Socialism and Green Socialism to save Humanity and the Biosphere. Unaddressed man-made climate change is set to kill 10 billion people this century. Already the species extinction rate is 100-1000 times greater than normal. Sloppy, non-scientist arguments about the asserted greater economic efficiency of capitalism fall flat in the face of capitalism’s failure to address the acute problem of man-made climate change that is increasingly impacting a global avoidable mortality holocaust in which 18 million people die avoidably each year in the Developing World (excluding China).
The purpose of a "society" is surely the common good, but capitalists justify the increasing proportion of the cake taken by the wealthy since the 1960s by the claim that capitalism is superior to socialism in wealth creation (for a discussion of the increasing proportion of the cake taken by the rich see Gavin Kelly, “Wanted: a new purpose for British capitalism” (New Statesman, 16 February 2011). However man-made climate change has radically changed the equation even if the politicians, media, voters and Capitalist Establishment of the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies haven't yet got the message due to Mainstream lying by omission, lying by commission and remorseless obfuscation (for details see “Mainstream media censorship” and “Mainstream media lying” websites).
Thus top climate scientists argue for drastic economic decarburization if the world is to avoid a disastrous 2C temperature rise (EU policy). According to Professor Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute, Germany) the World must achieve zero (0) carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050 and (all men being equal with equal shares in atmospheric pollution) that means that high per capita polluters such as the US and Australia must reach zero by 2020 with India able to increase pollution before finally ceasing by 2050. Based on UN Population Division population projections, Australia’s 2020 annual per capita Domestic plus Exported GHG pollution is accordingly projected to reach 1319 Mt CO2-e/ 23.4 million people = 56 tones CO2-e per person per year, 62 times that of Bangladesh, a densely populated country acutely threatened by inundation from mainly First World-imposed GHG pollution…
Science and Equality are clearly dictating Eco-socialism, Green Socialism, and Climate Socialism on our one and only Spaceship Earth. With renewable energy, biochar and re-afforestation we can save Humanity and the Biosphere. But crucially this salvation must involve equal shares in atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution until zero emissions are achieved mid-century and, of course, a cessation of the horrendous and increasingly climate change-impacted avoidable mortality from capitalist greed-imposed deprivation.
Gideon Polya, “Egyptian Revolution. End of Zionist American Empire?”, MWC News, 31 January 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/8354-egyptian-revolution.html .
The World looks on as the heroic Egyptian people attempt to take back their country from the grossly human rights-abusing, US-backed, pro-Israel Mubarak dictatorship. But the pro-US, pro-Zionist Mainstream media of the Western Murdochracies have already started spinning a line consonant with the interests of the American Empire and Apartheid Israel, as illustrated by the astonishing example below of pro-Zionist, pro-US Mainstream media censorship… The narrative being massaged by the Mainstream media in the Western Murdochracies is that democracy is better than dictatorship but this narrative whitewashes the disastrously malignant effect of the UK, US and US-, UK- and EU-backed Apartheid Israel on Egypt and on the Arab World and the Muslim World of which it is a part. Indeed Mona Eltahawy states “Meanwhile, the uprisings are curing the Arab world of its obsession with Israel. Successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict. Israel's bombardment of Gaza in 2009 increased global sympathy for Palestinians. Enough with dictators hijacking sympathy for Palestinians and enough with putting our lives on hold for that conflict”…
All decent people hope that the Egyptian people succeed in removing the Zionist and US puppet Mubarak from power and achieving true democracy after 2 centuries of Western impositions. The US, the UK and Apartheid Israel have caused immense harm to Egypt, the Arab World and the Muslim World that can objectively described as a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention.The culprits should ideally be arraigned before the International Criminal Court but this is unlikely to happen. Hopefully, Egypt will free itself from the pro-US, pro-Israel Mubarak dictatorship; Apartheid Israel will be replaced by a non-racist, democratic, unitary Palestinian state with equal rights for 5.5 million Jewish Israelis and 12 million Palestinians; and a violent, racist, genocidal and bankrupt neocon America will be expelled from the Middle East and indeed from all countries around the World. The Gringo-violated Latin Americans have been saying “Yankee go home!” for 2 centuries. It is time for all Arab, Muslim, Asian, African, European and Latin American peoples to unite in the demand “Yankee go home”!
Gideon Polya, “Vegetarianism can help save planet. Stop eating meat to stop starvation & warming”, MWC News, 24 January 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/8188-vegetarianism-can-help-save-planet.html .
We must stop eating meat to stop mass malnutrition and mass starvation and also to stop greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution that threatens the Biosphere and Humanity. However meat producers and some environmentalists argue otherwise. Thus Professor Tim Flannery is a leading Australian environmentalist but has already raised the ire of many other environmentalists by supporting the empirically ineffective and hence counterproductive Carbon Trading-based Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) approach to putting a price on carbon pollution. He has now rejected the sensible approach of the vegetarians by stating that “I believe that in a world facing a food shortage and a climate crisis, livestock represent a potent weapon in the fight to stabilize our climate.” As detailed below, Professor Flannery, no matter his good intentions, is wrong on both matters…
[Otherwise admirable Professor Tim Flannery: ] I believe that in a world facing a food shortage and a climate crisis, livestock represent a potent weapon in the fight to stabilize our climate ” (see Tim Flannery, “Red meat can be green”, Sydney Morning Herald On-line, National Times, 9 August 2010)… Professor Flannery has stated “I believe that in a world facing a food shortage and a climate crisis, livestock represent a potent weapon in the fight to stabilize our climate” but is wrong on both counts. As outlined above, methanogenic livestock production contributes over 51% of our annual GHG pollution. Further, while food prices are escalating and threatening the lives of billions of people, it takes 7 kg of grain to produce 1 kg of beef. Professor Tim Flannery’s call for livestock to help feed a starving world is rather like the famous remark incorrectly attributed to Marie Antoinette of “Let them eat cake”. Methanogenic livestock production must cease if we are to stop mass malnutrition and mass starvation and to save the planet in the short time we have left to do so. Please tell everyone you can.
2010
Gideon Polya, “Christmas Memo to America. Thou Shalt Not Kill Children ”, MWC News, 24 December 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/7513-christmas-memo-to-america.html .
At Christmas 2010 we celebrate the birth of Jesus and remember His parents fleeing as refugees from the slaughter of the children by cruel King Herod. However 2 millennia after the birth of Jesus there are 7 million Palestinian and 20 million Muslim refugees and President Obama presides over an American Empire that murders about 1,000 children every day and has murdered over 4 million infants in Iraq and Afghanistan alone (consult the website “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”)…
However whether a Muslim child in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi or Afghan Territories dies from bombs or bullets or from Occupier-imposed deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease, the end result is the same and the moral culpability the same. We know that the racist Zionists have been blockading the Gaza Concentration Camp (1.5 million inmates, 800,000 of them children) for several years and if you consult the World Health Organization (WHO) you will find that the “total health expenditure per capita” permitted by the US Alliance Occupiers in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan is US$124 and US$29, respectively, as compared to US$3,122 (for Occupier Apartheid Australia) and US$2,784 (for Occupier UK) (consult WHO).
All decent people abide by national and international laws, respecting the words of Jesus Christ: “ Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's” (Matthew 22.21, the New Testament of the Holy Bible) and so the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and all world leaders (except for the leaders of the war criminal US Alliance and racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel) would recognize the obligation to abide by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War which demands that an Occupier should provide its Conquered Subjects with food and medical life-sustaining requisites “to the fullest extent of the means available to it”…
On Christmas Day 2010 about 7.8 million/365 = 21,370 under-5 year old infants will die avoidably in the World due to US Alliance greed, racism and violence.Christmas Day should be a Memorial Day for the millions of children who die each year, not just in US wars but also due to violent, racist and greed US Alliance hegemony that means that about 7.8 million under-5 year old infants die from US- and First World-imposed deprivation every year. The bottom-line Christmas Day message to the whole World and to America in particular is that “thou shalt not kill children”.
Gideon Polya,” Christmas Island disaster. Australia's complicity in 20 million Muslim refugees ”, MWC News, 21 December 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/7459-christmas-island-disaster.html .
On 15 December 2010 an overloaded wooden boat carrying about 90 mostly Muslim refugees was driven on to the rocky coast of Christmas Island (Australia) in the Indian Ocean. 50 refugees perished. Australian mainstream media and politicians have been weeping crocodile tears and ignore their complicity in this disaster and the 20 million Muslim refugees that anti-Asian, war criminal Apartheid Australia has helped the US generate…
Australia has participated in all post-1950 US Asian wars, catastrophes that have been associated with violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation totaling 23 million, the breakdown being 1 million (Korea), 13 million (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos), 4.4 million (Iraq, 1950-2010) and 4.9 million (Afghanistan) (see my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).
Indeed anti-Asian US lackey Apartheid Australia evidently wants involvement in more US Asian wars. Wikileaks has revealed that former Labor Opposition leader and present Labor Ambassador to the US, Kim Beazley, had promised Australian troops for a US war with China and that former Australian Labor PM Kevin Rudd suggested US use of force against China to Hillary Clinton (see article by former conservative Australian PM Malcolm Fraser entitled “Slavish devotion to the US a foreign policy folly for Australia”, The Age On-line, National Times, 14 December 2010).
Australia has been involved in about 22 genocidal atrocities in its short but bloody 222 year history (see “Australia’s secret genocide history”). The ongoing genocides in which it is complicit include those noted above and the Global avoidable mortality holocaust, Climate Holocaust, Climate Genocide, and Aboriginal Holocaust, Aboriginal Genocide. Below is a succinct summary of Australia’s record in these ongoing genocides…
There are currently 50,000 visa overstayers (genuinely “illegal” immigrants) in Australia but the Labor Government decided in 2009 that none of these will be put into detention centers (concentration camps) when arrested. The PC racist Australians have an unreasoning fear of the “legal” asylum seekers who come to Australian by BOATS – these will continue to be imprisoned indefinitely in their thousands in facilities ranging from razor wire-surrounded concentration camps to a new, just commenced “humane” initiative of “nice” suburban camps for mothers and children only…
Violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths associated with the US Alliance War on Terror now total 8 million as compared to 5-6 million Jews killed in the Jewish Holocaust (1 in 6 dying from deprivation; see Professor Sir Martin Gilbert's "Atlas of the Holocaust"). The annual death rate is 7% for under-5 year old Afghan infants under US Alliance Occupation as compared to 4% for Poles under the Nazis and 5% for French Jews in Nazi-occupied France in WW2. Reality: US Alliance and Australian holocaust commission and holocaust denial." What can decent people do about Australian holocaust commission, genocide commission, holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring? Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can and (b) apply and urge Sanctions and Boycotts against all people, politicians, corporations and countries complicit in holocaust commission, genocide commission, holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring. How extraordinary it is to live in a look-the-other-way society, Australia, which is complicit in the very worst atrocities since World War 2 but which resolutely and almost comprehensively ignores the Awful Truth of 8 million excess deaths associated so far with the Australia-backed US War on Terror.
Gideon Polya, “Australian Government threatens Australian Julian Assange”, MWC News, 11 December 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/7215-australian-julian-assange.html .
Julian Assange, the famous leadership figure of Wikileaks, is an Australian citizen who was born in Queensland, North East Australia. So far the Wikileaks releases re Australia have exposed what US officials thought of PM Rudd (“control freak” and other unflattering comments); Rudd’s appalling advocacy of US war with China and Australian soldiers for war in Pakistan; successful lobbying of the Labor Government by BHP Billiton to help block a $21 billion Chinese investment in mining giant Rio Tinto; revelation of secret Australian Government pessimism over the Afghan War; and exposure of 3 [pro-Zionist, pro-US] Labor MPs as involved in giving insider information and opinions to the US. The US lackey Australian Government has reacted by threatening Assange with criminal proceedings, this in turn provoking widespread support for Julian Assange from both ordinary and eminent Australians… [PM] Ms. Gillard: "I absolutely condemn the placement of this information on the Wikileaks website; it's a grossly irresponsible thing to do and an illegal thing to do" (ABC News, 9 December 2010)…
Since the US-backed Coup in 1975 (see William Blum’s “Rogue State”), the Australian Labor Party has become more and more pragmatic, conservative and pro-American Establishment. Now the Australian Labor Party is further revealed by Wikileaks and its illegitimate, threatening responses to the Wikileaks disclosures as a pathetic lackey of the US that puts craven submission to the US before the human rights and safety of Australians. Decent Australians who value Freedom of Information and Human Rights will Put Labor Last until it reverts to the anti-racism, pro-peace, pro-truth, pro-environment, pro-Humanity values held by Labor before the Whitlam Labor Government was removed in the US-backed 1975 Coup.
Gideon Polya, “Media report Wikileaks but not huge US atrocities”, MWC News, 4 December 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/7044-wikileaks-not-huge-us-atrocities.html .
Recently Wikileaks challenged the US Establishment culture of violence and lying by releasing hundreds of thousands of secret US documents bearing on the US War on Terror. However the American Empire has struck back. Wikileaks has been closed down world-wide and its heroic Australian founder Julian Assange is facing arrest. But the real Wikileaks scandal is that while there is selective reportage of the Wikileaks US document leaks, Mainstream media (MSM) resolutely refuse to report horrendous US crimes that involve scores of millions of deaths and which are publicly documented by readily accessed data from authoritative UN agencies.
Lying by Anglo-American imperialists has a long history. 2 centuries of British atrocities in India involved 1.8 billion avoidable deaths (mainly from British-imposed deprivation). 2 centuries of British rule were characterized by repeated British-imposed famines, from the 1769-1770 Great Bengal Famine (10 million deaths) to the 1943-1945 Bengal Famine (6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death by the British in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Assam). Yet the British Rulers were and are very clever and generations of British politicians, journalists and academics have airbrushed these atrocities from the history books and from general public perception. Thus these atrocities are completely absent from the recent lavish BBC TV production “The Story of India”. Only resolute scholarly honesty can overcome this entrenched Anglo Establishment lying (see my book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”)…
Wikileaks has been closed down world-wide and World hero and Wikileaks principal, Australian Julian Assange, is facing arrest with nowhere to hide in a neocon-dominated World committed to lying and to The Big Lie. The lying, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-US Australian Government promises that Julian Assange will be arrested if he returns to Australia. Yet the brutal government-corporate censorship of Wikileaks hides the horrendous lying by holocaust-denying Mainstream media, politicians and academics in the Western Murdochracies. One can estimate that post-1950 violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries variously occupied by the US in the post-1945 era total about 90 million, a death toll greater than that of World War 2 in both the Eastern and Western theatres combined. All decent people everywhere must be inspired by the example of World hero Julian Assange and are obliged to (a) tell everyone they can about horrendous US crimes against Humanity, most recently the 8 million deaths associated with the US Alliance War on Terror, and (b) urge Sanctions and Boycotts against all Mainstream media, politicians, countries and corporations complicit in these atrocities and the attendant The Big Lies.
Gideon Polya, “UK Royal Wedding. And Australian Genocide-ignoring”, MWC News, 19 November 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/6700-uk-royal-wedding.html .
The “happy families” engagement of Britain’s Prince William to “commoner” Kate Middleton has generated lot feel-good media coverage but has also provided a good example of mainstream media (MSM) censorship in anti-Asian, racist Apartheid Australia. However in a good example of the media censorship applying in Apartheid Australia, The Age On-line (Melbourne) has declined to publish the shocking, documented details of the devastation of circa 100 million mostly Muslim and far-from-happy families subject to Occupation and Muslim Holocaust of the Anglo-American War on Terror.
107 years ago the British held a hugely expensive Durbar in Delhi (1903) in Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the coronation of the new King and Queen of the United Kingdom. This hugely expensive event (thousands of participants, caparisoned elephants etc) was held shortly after huge famines that had devastated India. The contempt of the genocidal, racist British for their starving Indian subjects was well expressed by Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India in the following statement justifying murderous British inaction in the circa 1900 Indian Famine: “In my judgment any government which imperiled the financial position of India in the interests of a prodigal philanthropy would be open to serious criticism. But any government which, by indiscriminate alms-giving, weakened the fiber and demoralized the self-reliance of the population would be guilty of a public crime” (see Chapter 13 of my book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”)).
Now we will shortly see another vastly expensive British “Royal Wedding” pageant played out with a backdrop of 23 million people dying avoidably from First World-imposed deprivation each year (about 3.7 million dying thus in India alone) and the continuing Western-imposed Muslim Holocaust (post-invasion violent death sand non-violent excess deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan now total 2.5 million and 4.9 million, respectively).
Gideon Polya, “US mid-term victories doom Planet”, MWC News, 9 November 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/6491-us-republican-mid-term-victories.html .
Top climate scientists argue that the world must reach zero carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution by 2050 and, all men being equal, that world leading annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution countries like the US and Australia must reduce to zero by 2020. The Republican victories in the US mid-term Congressional elections (they now have a majority in the House of Representatives) are widely seen as a huge setback for the Cancun Climate Change Summit (Mexico, 2010) and for any effective US cutback on its enormous GHG pollution.
It is not hyperbole to suggest that the Republican mid-term victories spell doom for the Planet. As outlined below, leading climate scientists say that major per capita GHG polluters like the US, Australia and Canada must act urgently within the next decade in order to avoid disaster for Humanity and the Biosphere. However Republican (and Democrat) climate change deniers and climate change action delayers will mean Business As Usual (BAU) and inevitable disaster.
Already 16 million people (about 9.5 million of them under-5 year old infants) die avoidably every year due to deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease – and man-made global warming is already clearly worsening this global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust. However the predicted 10 billion avoidable deaths due to unaddressed, man-made global warming this century yields an average annual avoidable death rate of 100 million per year.
Gideon Polya, “Australian MPs oppose Afghan War”, MWC News, 31 October 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/6292-australian-mps-oppose-afghan-war.html .
Australia has an appalling 60 year history as a cowardly, greedy and racist lackey of a violent, racist and genocidal US. Australia has participated in all post-1950 US Asian wars, wars that have been associated so far with 24 million violent deaths or non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation, the breakdown being 1 million (Korea), 13 million (Indo-China), 4.4 million (Iraq), 4.9 million (Afghanistan) and 0.8 million (global opiate drug-related deaths due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world share in 2001 to over 90% today). Astonishingly, while Australian forces have been involved in Occupied Afghanistan for 9 years it has only been in October 2010 that the Australian Federal Parliament actually debated the matter…
The pro-peace Greens (14%of the vote, 1 out of 150 members of the House of Representatives and 5 out of 76 senators with 4 more senators their seats in 2011) are opposed to the Afghan War and the Iraq War whereas Labor and the Liberal-National; Party Coalition (aka the Lib-Labs) supported both conflicts. Labor opposed the Iraq War but nevertheless prosecuted the Iraq War for 2 years in government under PM Kevin Rudd. Accordingly the Afghan War Debate was largely predictable but nevertheless threw up several surprises. Thus in addition to the 5 Green Senators opposed to the Afghan War, the Debate has so far revealed opposition to the Afghan War from 5 MPs in the House of Representatives, namely new Green MP Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Victoria), the new Greenish Independent MP Andrew Wilkie (Denison, Hobart, Tasmania), 2 decent Labor MPs, namely Anna Burke (Chisholm, Melbourne, Victoria) and Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Melbourne, Victoria) and Liberal medical practitioner MP Dr Mal Washer (Moore, Western Australia)…
A majority of Australians now oppose the Afghan war (56% in 2008). Only international Sanctions and Boycotts – including exclusion of Apartheid Australia from sporting events such as the Football World Cup, the Commonwealth Games, the Davis Cup and the Olympic Games – will make decent Australians take effective action against their war criminal politicians. Any Australians voting for the pro-war, war criminal Lib-Labs and any people avoidably buying Australian goods and services are wittingly or unwittingly complicit in the ongoing passive mass murder of Afghan infants at the rate of about 0.3 million annually. Thou shalt not kill children.
Gideon Polya, “60,000 will die on 10.10.10”, MWC News, 9 October 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/5772-60000-will-die-on-101010.html .
Sunday 10 October 2010 - 10.10.10 - is being marked around the World as One Day on Earth to consider global realities. The horrible reality is that on 10.10.10. 60,000 people will die avoidably from deprivation in our US-dominated World, 1,000 children will die avoidably in the American Empire (for details simply Google “Hey, hey, USA”), and 770 Afghan under-5 year old infants will perish avoidably in US Alliance-occupied Afghanistan (for details simply Google UNICEF)…
Dr Hansen is correct – the disaster does not have to happen. Cessation of greenhouse gas pollution and population growth, installation of 100% renewable energy and CO2 draw-down through re-afforestation and biochar production can return the atmospheric CO2 concentration to a safe and sustainable level of 300 ppm for all peoples and all species. The recently launched Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) Zero Carbon Australia by 2020 (ZCA2020) Plan shows how well-endowed Australia can implement 100% renewable energy by 2020 and has received many important scientific, industrial and broad spectrum political endorsements..
One hopes that these horrifying daily avoidable mortality statistics will help prompt collective action to put a stop to the horrifying carnage of the Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan and ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and also to help avert the worsening Climate Genocide disaster (10 billion people may die otherwise ). Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) tell everyone they can and (b) exhort Sanctions and Boycotts against those responsible (principally the US, UK, Apartheid Israel and Australia) for these ongoing genocide atrocities.
Gideon Polya, “War & climate change ignored in Australian election farce”, MWC News, 25 August 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/5772-60000-will-die-on-101010.html .
Australia has just experienced a 6 week election campaign that concluded with a hung parliament for the first time in 70 years and increased support for the anti-war, pro-environment Greens. While Australia is the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas polluter and has been involved in all post-1950 US-Asian wars (excess deaths 23 million), the key issues of climate change and war were off the Mainstream agenda in the look-the-other-way, spin-driven Australian federal election campaign.
On Saturday 21 August Australians went to the polls to elect a new federal Government. The incumbent pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-Zionist Labor Government (the Labs) is headed by post-Coup PM Julia Gillard who was installed by an overnight pro-Zionist led Coup against former Labor PM Kevin Rudd on 24 June 2010. Rudd was subjected to an overnight political assassination because his popularity had fallen from a record high to an election-losing low. Labor is opposed by the pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-Zionist Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (the Libs), these pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-Zionist neoconservatives being collectively called the Lib-Labs. The Lib-Labs were principally opposed by the anti-war, pro-environment, pro-human rights minor party, the Greens…
Australia is disproportionately culpable. “Annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” in units of “tones CO2-equivalent per person per year” (2005-2008 data) is 0.9 (Bangladesh), 0.9 (Pakistan), 2.2 (India), less than 3 (many African and Island countries), 3.2 (the Developing World), 5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 16 (the Developed World), 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia’s huge Exported CO2 pollution is included).If look-the-other-way, war criminal, climate criminal, politically correct racist (PC racist), pro-US, pro-Zionist Apartheid Australia doesn’t clean up its act on genocidal wars and climate change then the World will insist that it does through Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs and International Court prosecutions - just as the world successfully acted with Sanctions and Boycotts against Apartheid South Africa and is slowly advancing Sanctions and Boycotts against Apartheid Israel.
Gideon Polya, “New book : “The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, MWC News, 25 July 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html .
“The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, edited by Professor William A. Cook (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010) is a collection of articles about the ongoing Palestinian Genocide by about 3 dozen variously eminent humanitarian writers from around the world.
I have been resolutely writing about the Palestinian Genocide and the immense injustice to the Palestinian people for many years. The essence of this atrocity is that in 1880 there were about 500,000 Indigenous Arab inhabitants of Palestine and about 25,000 Jews in Palestine, of whom about half were Jewish immigrants. In 1917 the British betrayed the Arab people by promising Palestine as a Homeland for Jews in the hope (not to be realized) that the Russian Zionists would succeed in keeping Russia in the First World War. However the 1917 Balfour Declaration had a condition that there was to be no detriment to either Jews or Indigenous Palestinians – a condition to be grossly violated by racist British, racist American and racist Zionist perfidy. In 1948 0.8 million Palestinians were driven from their homes by racist Zionist terrorists (the 1948 Nakba) to be followed by a further 1967 Nakba in which a now nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel seized all of the Holy land plus parts of Lebanon and Syria and Egypt, imprisoning several million more Palestinians.
The last 43 years has seen a worsening Palestinian Genocide by Apartheid Israel: post-invasion non-violent and violent excess deaths total 0.3 million; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million; refugees total 7 million; 85% of West Bank Christian Palestinians have fled; 1.5 million Occupied Palestinians (50% children, 75 % women and children) are abusively imprisoned in what the Catholic Church has described as Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp; 2 million Occupied Palestinian (50% children, 75 % women and children) are abusively imprisoned in dwindling West Bank Bantustans in what heroes in the fight against South African Apartheid have called Apartheid conditions; 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis suffer under highly discriminatory, race-based Apartheid laws; Apartheid Israel deliberately murders over 6,000 Occupied Palestinians each year (mostly children), with about 90% dying from racist Zionist-imposed deprivation and 10% being violently killed (for details see “Palestinian Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; and “Palestinian Genocide Essays”: http://sites.google.com/site/palestinegenocideessays/ ).
“The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, edited by Professor William A. Cook, is a timely anthology in which outstanding, anti-racist, humanitarian scholars (many of them Jewish) describe the horrible reality of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide that is a blot on Jewry and a blot on Humanity.
Gideon Polya, “Humanism & overcoming evil. 'Deep Mind' painting dichotomies”, MWC News, 10 February: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/547-humanism-a-overcoming-evil.html .
'Deep Mind' is a huge painting that explores the World Within, the Mind, and prompts questions such as What are we? Who are we? Why are we here? How do we balance and control the dichotomies within us of light/dark, human/animal, good/bad, peace/passion, joy/anger, love/hate, altruism/greed?
This indeed is an ambitious painting, my first attempt in Art (in 2007) to address the big question about Life, the Universe and Everything (the answer to which according to Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is simply “42”). I have painted a further version but a Loved One who is my most trenchant critic says that she loves this later version but it looks better rotated 90 degrees - perhaps after 42 attempts (hard work painting huge paintings this size!) I will find the Answer.
This reminds me of the Buddhist parable about an illiterate peasant who asks the Master: “I am just an ordinary Man, I toil hard for a living, I am untutored and I do not know how to read – how can I find the Answer?” The Master replies “Take a bag of rice on your back and climb to the top of the Mountain and you will find the Truth”. The peasant does as he is instructed, climbs the Mountain and finally reaches the top, casts down the bag of rice and takes in the enormous view. The Master was Right – he has Arrived…
Central to my “Deep Mind” painting are the ideas of Higher and Lower Minds and that Memes (socially selected ideas) can overcome the animal nature endowed by our Genes. However we have a long way to go and, as dramatized by the desperate G77 pleas at the December 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, we are badly running out of time. The avoidable death rate (currently 22 million people die avoidably each year) is expected to reach an average of 100 million avoidable deaths per year due to unaddressed , man-made global warming (see "Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide": sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ and "Climate Genocide": sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ).
Gideon Polya, “”, MWC News, 3 February 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/390-alhambra-pollock-painting-art-for-arab-muslim-a-west-amity.html .
Arab, Muslim and West amity and understanding is urgently needed at this time with anti-Arab anti-Semitism and Islamophobia entrenched in the West, American or US-surrogate forces partially or completely occupying a swathe of Arab culture, Islamic countries from Somalia to Afghanistan (Somalia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan), with Iran under attack from Afghan opium smugglers and from US-backed Pakistani Baluchistan terrorists and Iran (population 70 million) also under acute threat of conventional or even nuclear attack by the US or by America’s Middle East surrogate, Apartheid Israel.
Small comfort that outstanding French Jewish writer Emmanuel Todd argues that the American Empire is in its last throes in his best-selling “After the Empire” (“Après l’Empire”; English translation Constable, London, 2004) - because he also indicates that a lot of innocent people will die in the process. Indeed as of December 2010, the post-invasion excess deaths (violent and non-violent avoidable deaths) in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories now total 0.3 million, 2.5 million and 4.5 million, respectively; the post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million, 0.9 million and 2.4 million, respectively (90% avoidable); and the refugees from these Occupied countries now total 7 million, 5-6 million and 3-4 million, respectively.
I have painted a huge painting “Alhambra Pollock” that attempts to enhance Arab-West and Muslim-West amity through art.The painting arose from a series of other large paintings with a similar humanitarian, pro-Peace, pro-Woman and pro-Mother and Child messages that can be seen on the Web via Flickr, notably Qana, Sydney Madonna, Manhattan Madonna, Melbourne Madonna, and Truelove (see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ ).
Gideon Polya, Book review: ““Death’s Dream Kingdom. The American Psyche since 9-11”, MWC News, 28 January 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/265-book-review-deaths-dream-kingdom-the-american-psyche-since-9-11.html .
Walter Davis’ “Death’s Dream Kingdom. The American Psyche since 9-11” (Pluto, London, 2006) is about how sensible humans attempt to understand themselves (through earnest, honest, painful introspection) and others (through empathic internalizing and analyzing of the suffering of others) – as compared to the psychotic, “ideology-driven” simplicity of “compulsory happiness”, “endless demand”, “axiomatic rightness”, “certainty- and guarantee-demanding”, denial, avoidance of empathy and introspection, and violent externalizing of inner fears by both the Religious Right and contemporary Capitalist America.
This is a great, must-read book for our dreadful times – but nothing worthwhile comes easy and you have to work at it. Indeed several chapters in the middle of the book are tough going and it was helpful for me to have a Big Dictionary closed at hand. Thus (to help any future readers as deficient as myself) the following confessional (actually I sort of knew some of the following but needed to check for philosophical or contextual exactitude): apotheosis (exaltation), deracinate (pull out by the roots), deracination (pulling out by the roots), evanescent (vanishing), evanescence (vanishingness), hermeneutics (science of interpretation), hermetic (alchemical /airtight), incarnate (embody or embodied), individuated (formed into an individual entity), ineluctably (inescapably), interpellated (interrupted, exhorted), mentation (from mind), jouissance (enjoyment), noumenal (given only by intuition, non-phenomenal), ontogeny (study of being), quotidian (pertaining to daily or sustaining some character), rebarbative (repellent), reify (materialize), reification (materialization) and thanatos (death; I discovered that I am, among other things, a thanatologist, one who studies the causes of death). Print this article out and use it as a handy bookmark!...
Chapter 10 (Men of Good Will: Toward an Ethic of the Tragic” uses a heroic US football star, Pat Tillman, and Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark as counter examples in addressing ethical issues in traumatizing situations. Pat Tillman gave up an outstanding football career, joined the Army and ultimately died in action. In his sacrifice Pat Tillman is described as an Apostle of Duty. Hamlet (“to be or not to be, that is the question”) approaches a crucial ethical concern by earnest introspection and reflection, the course favoured by Davis: “Nietzsche calls for a “pessimism of strength” (i.e. to have the courage to face a negative reality and grow stronger as a result of doing so) and I suppose that for most readers this book constitutes a similar call.” Agreed. Professor Davis concludes: “all you have to do is overcome the belief that any argument that doesn’t end up restoring the guarantees and thereby making us feel happy and secure again is a counsel to despair.”
Gideon Polya, “Book review: “The Chronicles of Nefaria” by William Cook”, MWC News, 26 January 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/analysis/207-book-review-the-chronicles-of-nefaria-by-william-cook-.html .
“The Chronicles of Nefaria” by William Cook (Expathos, Groningen, Netherlands, 2008) is more than a novel - it is simultaneously also a poem, a play and a liturgy. It is a very important morality tale about overcoming rage in our dreadful times.
The novel is mostly set in a hospital ward in the Holy Week of the Season of Forgiveness and Retribution in the State of Nefaria. An apparently comatose Patient is General Demas, the violent and racist quasi-dictator of the quasi-democratic ethnocracy Nefaria. General Demas has been struck down by a stroke. The Patient is unable to move or to see, touch or feel anything but, unknown to his visitors and carers, he can still hear and think. Throughout the book we read, in bold type, the secret thoughts of the Patient in response to his circumstances, his political, military and diplomatic visitors and his carers.
The Nefarian generals and politicians are quite blunt as they discuss the Patient among themselves or with the representative of Nefaria’s chief backer, Emperor Violentus of the United Corporate State. The Patient, drifting in and out of consciousness, can only silently rail against the disloyalty of his former subordinates…
A related novel on the genocide of the Jews, Gypsies and Slaves and the colonial genocide of Indigenous People is Australian Alex Miller’s “Landscape of Farewell” from which comes a beautiful quotation from the German poet Goethe’s “Iphigenie auf Tauris” that can be well applied to wonderful, humanitarian Americans such as William Cook: “Die Götter brauchen manchen guten Mann/Zu ihrem Dienst auf dieser weiten Erde” (“the gods need many a good man at their service in this wide world”).
Peace can happen tomorrow in Nefaria-Elusia [Israel-Palestine] with strict non-racism, justice, equity and reconciliation (as, for example, outlined, in my first ever article published in MWC News: ). Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent folk must be inspired by William Cook’s novel to “bear witness” and to act ethically (e.g. by Sanctions and Boycotts as were successfully applied against Apartheid South Africa) until “zero tolerance for racism” brings immediate peace and justice to the Holy Land.
POLITICS
2014.
Gideon Polya, “20 reasons for Scottish Independence “Yes” vote”, MWC News, 9 September 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/45986-scottish-independence.html .
On 18 September 2014, about 4 million Scots voters will have the opportunity to vote for Scottish Independence. The latest poll indicates 51% support for the “Yes” vote for Scottish Independence. Outlined below are 20 reasons why Scots should vote “Yes’ for an Independent Scotland. 1. An Independent Scotland will mean a fairer Scotland if decision making moves from Westminster to Scotland. Local rule will mean decisions by Scots for Scots… 20. An Independent Scotland would provide an example of civilized, rational, non-intrusive nationalism. The rise of nation states has been associated with the horrors of jingoistic nationalism (e.g. “Rule Britannia”), wars, devastation; slavery and genocide (see my books “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” and “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, both now available for free perusal on the web). All decent people want peace, self-determination and civilized, peaceful, and enriching dealings with their neighboring cultures. An Independent Scotland can provide a further example of such a civilized society. Indeed the very survival of Humanity from the current acute nuclear, poverty and climate threats requires general adoption of such a civilized position. An Independent Scotland can show the way…
According to independent accounts from Canada and Australia, my earliest known British ancestor was Guigan MacDonald who fled to Ireland as a proscribed MacDonald after the Battle of Culloden (1746) in which he participated (if caught he would have been hanged by the English conquerors). When he deemed it was safe to do so, he returned to his home in the Western Highlands as Donald McGuigan (a short boat trip of about 10 kilometers). Two of our small crofters cottage homes still survive just north of the Mull of Kintyre, one without a roof and the other with a roof and presently used as a barn for sheep. Donald McGuigan’s descendants and their Highland Scots ilk were pushed off their land by landlords (including clan chiefs) associated with the genocidal English ethnic cleansing of Scotland called the “Highland Clearances”. Replaced by sheep in their Highland home, Highlands Scots fled to new lives in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Now Scots have an opportunity to put the Scottish people and indeed Humanity first by voting “Yes” for an Independent Scotland that can make a huge contribution to saving our nuclear weapons-, poverty- and climate change-threatened world.
Gideon Polya, “Nobel Laureates: arms embargo of Israel”, MWC News, 21 July 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/43524-arms-embargo.html .
Apartheid Israel’s Gaza Massacre continues. 21 July is now Day 14 of the latest Israeli Gaza Massacre (aka “Operation Protective Edge”) that commenced on 8 July 2014 after the discovery on 30 June 2014 of the bodies of 3 Israeli settler teenagers on the West Bank (killed by persons unknown but possibly by Israeli state terrorists), and the subsequent Israeli killing of 5 West Bank Occupied Palestinians and the burning alive by Zionists of an Occupied Palestinian child. By 17 July 230 Gaza Palestinians had been killed (74 percent of these, 171 people, being civilians, 48 children, and 31 women) and 1,764 Gaza Palestinians have been injured (this including 521 children and 372 women) with zero (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets. However on 17 July 2014 in the face of world inaction and under cowardly cover of the appalling shooting down by Government or Rebel Ukrainians of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 (298 dead), the Israelis escalated its latest Gaza Massacre with a ground invasion that has brought the Palestinian deaths and wounded to over 400 and 3,000, respectively, as of 21 July 2014…
Numerous eminent humanitarians from around the world, including Nobel Laureates and leading anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish figures, have written an Open Letter protesting the horrendous violence by the state of Israel against its captive Palestinian population and concluding “We call on the UN and governments across the world to take immediate steps to implement a comprehensive and legally binding military embargo on Israel, similar to that imposed on South Africa during apartheid”… Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people around the world should (1) sign the BDS Movement Petition; (2) inform everyone they can about the horrendous human rights abuses and war crimes of Apartheid Israel in its ongoing Palestinian Genocide; (3) demand immediate cessation of murderous Israeli violence; (4) demand justice through the International Criminal Court or in the face of Apartheid Israeli contempt for International Law, through an International Tribunal of the most eminent humanitarians; and (5) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against not just Apartheid Israel but also where practicable against all people, politicians, parties, collectives, companies, corporations and countries complicit in Apartheid Israeli state terrorism in Palestine, the Middle East and indeed throughout the world
Gideon Polya, “”Renewable ethanol” is a lie”, MWC News, 18 April 2014: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/39566-renewable-ethanol.html .
Huge disparities in wealth accumulation have meant that our democracies have become anti-science Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies in which Big Money determines “truth” and “reality”. No better example is the use of the term “renewable ethanol” by fossil fuel corporations and Mainstream media despite the reality from a science-based perspective that “renewable ethanol” is a blatant lie - no matter the source of the biological feedstock for bio-ethanol production, the CO2 generated from carbon burning-based production of bio-ethanol plus the CO2 generated from burning the bio-ethanol are much greater than the CO2 consumed in the photosynthetic production of the biological feedstock.
As we were getting petrol (“gas” in US parlance) at a BP service station (“gas station”) in Sydney recently, I noted a sign on the petrol pump stating that this petrol contained “10% renewable ethanol”. Not just BP but other fossil fuel corporations such as Shell and Caltex also claim to sell “renewable ethanol”. It is not just fossil fuel corporations but Mainstream media also use the term. Thus Fox News, American ABC News and the UK BBC while utterly ignoring the US Alliance “Iraqi Genocide” (4.6 million deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990), uncritically report on “renewable ethanol”.
The Australian ABC is Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC and claims to be “Australia's most trusted, independent source of news. Our networks of more than 500 journalists at home and abroad provide unrivalled coverage”. However a search of the “entire ABC site “for the term “renewable ethanol” yields the following 2 items that both make false and misleading claims about “renewable ethanol” as a renewable energy source… The world is threatened by a worsening Climate Emergency with an increasing probability that we will run out of time to save a decent future for the next generations. There is a huge issue of Climate Justice and Intergenerational Equity and all decent, concerned people who care for future generations - and all decent, concerned young people in particular - must (a) inform everyone they can about neoliberal, corporatist lying and deception and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those complicit in the worsening Climate Genocide.
2013.
Gideon Polya, “Australia spies on the world for US, UK & Israel”, MWC News, 11 December 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/34209-australia-spies.html .
Australian Intelligence has been spying on Australians and the whole World for the benefit of UK, Israeli and US state terrorism. Australia and its close neighbors Indonesia and Timor Leste have recently been rocked by revelations that Australian spies hacked into the phones of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and his colleagues, spied on the Timor Leste Cabinet to give a huge commercial advantage to Australian fossil fuel company Woodside in gas exploitation negotiations, and routinely spy on everybody in the world for metadata and other data, with intelligence being fed to the Americans and thence to war criminal drone strikes and to Apartheid Israel.
Australian Coalition Government and Labor Opposition MPs and Australian spies have responded with a routine mantra “We do not comment in intelligence matters”. Faced with this of the Australian Government refusal to come clean, sensible Australians are entitled to entertain the worst possibilities. Indeed Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have revealed that reality is far, far worse than anything reasonable, ordinary Australians might have entertained. Below are examples, in rough chronological order, of Australian Intelligence involvements and intelligence failures that are detrimental to democracy and to Australia's security: 1. Australian Intelligence involvement in safe haven for Nazi and Croatian Ustase war criminals in Australia… 50. Australian Intelligence complicity in dangerous stultification of public life through obsessive secrecy and a national culture of massive misinformation, disinformation, lying, censorship and explicit and unspoken intimidation.
All of these matters call for a public judicial inquiry [49] but at such an inquiry public servants and Liberal Party-National Party Coalition and Labor (Lib-Lab, Liberal-Laboral) MPs will hide behind the mantra "we don't comment on intelligence matters". How does one describe those Australian public servants who spy against Australians and the world for foreign nuclear terrorist rogue states, are complicit in the estimated preventable deaths of hundreds of thousands of Australians, and lie by commission or omission to Australian Governments and the Australian people? Decent Australians must (a) demand a public spy inquiry now, (b) inform everyone they can, and (c) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those people and parties, media and MPs actively or passively involved in this egregious perversion of democracy. Of course the same Australian, US, UK and Israeli perversion of democracy and decency is happening in your country too and it is likely to be worse than you imagine.
Gideon Polya, “”, MWC News, 8 November 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/33215-australia-shift.html .
Australia has shifted to the climate change denialist extreme right - it has a new extreme right wing, pro-war, pro-Zionist, anti-environment, anti-science, effective climate change denialist, war criminal, climate criminal Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Federal Government headed by PM Tony Abbott. This extreme right wing Coalition Government is currently held in check by a Labor plus Greens majority in the Senate but after mid-2014 a new Senate will have an extreme right wing conservative majority and the Coalition will have free reign to implement its regressive agenda. The main opposition to the right being Coalition Government comes from the pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-refugee, pro-science, pro-human rights Greens. The Australian Labor Party (the ALP) represents the formal Opposition but under right wing Opposition Leader Bill Shorten the neoliberal, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-environment, anti-science, US lackey Labor (the Labs) is very similar, rhetoric aside, to the neoliberal, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-environment, anti-science, US lackey Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (the Libs)…
1. ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) censorship, sidelining, blocking and defamation. Despite repeated complaints about lying by omission, lying by commission, defamatory anti-Arab anti-Semitism, defamatory anti-Jewish anti-Semitism, censorship (notably of anti-racist Jewish opinion), genocide ignoring, holocaust ignoring, genocide denial and holocaust denial by an egregiously politically correct racist (PC racist), Orwellian and Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist-subverted and-perverted ABC (Australia's equivalent of the UK BBC), the Coalition (like Labor) has ignored the complaints and increased the ABC budget to over $1 billion per annum… 71. National interest. Both the Coalition and Labor have grossly violated the national interest by acting as slavish lackeys of the US and thence of Apartheid Israel, permitting US and Apartheid Israeli subversion and perversion of MPs and institutions and allowing egregious violation of the privacy of Australian with the resultant information being delivered to the US and thence to Apartheid Israel.
Gideon Polya, “Zionist-imposed American Holocaust”, MWC News, 27 August 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/30291-american-holocaust.html .
The huge financial cost of Israel to Americans has now reached trillions in today’s dollars. However the human cost involves the preventable deaths of millions of Americans – passive mass murder of Americans in an American Holocaust inflicted by the fiscal perversion of American Neoconservative and Zionists committing $8-10 trillion to ethnic cleansing and active and passive mass murder of Muslims abroad in support of Apartheid Israel instead of keeping Americans alive at home… Zionist-subverted American Government support for Apartheid Israel in circa 2008 dollars totals about $40 trillion, the breakdown being (1) $3 trillion (1948-2003), (2) $4-6 trillion (Zionist-promoted Iraq and Afghan Wars), (3) $0.7 trillion (the VSL-based cost of 88,000 US veteran suicides since September 2001) and (4) about $30 trillion (one quarter of the VSL-based cost of 15.6 million preventable American deaths since September 2001)…
What can decent people do? Decent people are obliged to speak out against all human rights abuse and the horrendous, genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel and its US Alliance supporters in particular. Decent, patriotic Americans, and indeed all decent people who care for ordinary Americans and their fellow human beings in general, should inform everyone they can about the Zionist-imposed American Holocaust and Zionist perversion of an America in which 1.3 million Americans die preventably each year linked to the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenter fiscal perversion of committing trillions of dollars to killing Muslims abroad rather than saving American lives at home. Americans must wake up to the deadly perversion of their society by the traitorous and genocidal racist Zionists and their neocon supporters. The Zionists and their neoconservative supporters should be exposed and sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, and KKK.
Gideon Polya, “Why study in Australia? High cost, corruption & censorship disincentives”, MWC News, 18 August 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/29890-why-study-in-australia.html .
Overseas students, mostly from Asia, have made Australian universities their destination for many years. Currently about 240,000 overseas students worth $16 billion per annum to Australia are a financial mainstay of the grossly underfunded Australian university system. However greed, anti-intellectualism, parsimony, dumbing down, corruption, racism and censorship are making Australian universities much less attractive to overseas students. Neoliberal, greed-driven, US lackey, look-the-other-way Australia is now the world’s most expensive country for university education and the decline of the standards of Australian universities means that overseas students are getting much less for their money.1. Cost – Australia is the most expensive place globally for university education. For overseas students and their families the cost of higher education in Australia must be a major consideration. Australia is the most expensive place on earth for study by overseas students followed closely by the United States and thence by the United Kingdom… 15. Accredited Remote Learning – All for ARL and ARL for All. Education at all levels should be free. In recent decades a new culture developed whereby many “on-campus” students at Australian universities will attend only the first week of lectures and then relies on downloadable lecture notes and other teaching materials from the web. Essentially free web-based provision of detailed lectures and other teaching materials coupled with further electronic teaching and learning aids means that high quality teaching and learning is possible for minimal cost to unlimited “off campus” students (quality accrediting examinations can be provided for a token examination fee of, say, circa $10 per semester unit or the cost of a snack and a cup of copy at a cheap eatery)…
Australia has been a destination for many overseas students in the past and currently about 240,000 overseas students worth $16 billion per annum are a financial mainstay of the grossly underfunded Australian university system. However greed, anti-intellectualism, philistinism and parsimony are killing off the goose that laid the golden egg. Australia is now the world’s most expensive country for university education and such education is now much less attractive due to dumbing down of courses, soft assessments, lowered standards, violence against Asian students, anti-Asian, anti-African, and anti-Muslim xenophobia, and academic corruption. The devaluation of academics and learning in neoliberal Australia is evidenced by massive downsizing and casualising of academia, the dominance of anti-academic managers and bean counter-driven dumbing down. The readily realizable, free, high quality Accredited Remote Learning (ARL) and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) approaches make the huge expense of studying at low quality, corrupted Australian universities a huge waste of money. The main reasons why overseas students should not study at complicit Australian universities are outrageous intimidation and censorship of academics by universities, by the Australian Government via the US-linked Defence Trade Controls Bill (10 years in prison for non-compliant academics) and by the universities-linked organizations the ABC (Australia’s BBC) and the academic-based web-magazine The Conversation. Prospective overseas students should seriously ask themselves - why study in Australia?
Gideon Polya, “US has invaded 70 nations. Make 4 July Independence From America Day ”, MWC News, 5 July 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/28254-us-has-invaded-70-nations.html .
The Fourth of July is Independence Day for the United States of America and commemorates the 4 July 1776 Declaration of Independence for America, the key passage of which is “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Unfortunately American racism has grossly violated the proposition that “all men are created equal” and the worst form of racism involves invasion of other countries. The US has invaded about 70 countries since its inception and has invaded a total of about 50 countries since 1945. The World needs to declare a transition from the 4th of July as Independence for America Day to the 4th of July as Independence from America Day. The following is a list of countries invaded by the US forces (naval, military and ultimately air forces) since its inception in order of major incidents… (1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre),… (71) Niger (2013)….
America has invaded 70 countries since its 4th of July Independence Day in 1776. American imperialism has made a major contribution to the 1.3 billion global avoidable deaths in the period 1950-2005. The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters can be seen as the New Nazis. The World, including ordinary Americans (1 million of whom die preventably each year), must shake off the shackles of endless American One Percenter warmongering, war, mass murder and mendacity. Please tell everyone you can that the World must make the Fourth of July Independence from America Day.
Gideon Polya, “Easter, Jesus, betrayal & Palestinian Genocide”, MWC News, 31 March 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/25799-betrayal-and-palestinian-genocide.html .
Coinciding with the pre-Christian celebration of New Life, at Easter time the Christian world pauses to consider the Passion of Christ and the story of His crucifixion and resurrection. Mainstream Media will cover this major annual religious event but will largely ignore a crucial message of the Passion story - our critical obligation to bear witness and speak out against evil. I endlessly repeat a key message for the people of the endlessly war-making but internally peaceful and democratic nations of US Alliance: “Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity”. 12 million people have died from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990 in the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims but the Western mainstream media and most of the citizenry of the West look the other way from the suffering of Palestinians, of Muslims and indeed of all Third Worlders under US hegemony…
However missing from public analysis of the Labor debacle is the horrible reality that the militant pro-Zionist faction has now taken over Federal Labor. Of the 42 Labor Ministers, 42 have all been endorsed by leading pro-Zionists; 41 have through public statements and voting record, actively or passively exhibited support for Apartheid Israel e.g. through failure to insist on Palestinian rights, and opposition to the UN Palestinian statehood proposal or to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against grossly human rights-abusing Apartheid Israel; 20 have been on Zionist-sponsored or other visit to nuclear terrorist, genocidal racist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel; 14 have made speeches at Zionist functions; and 6 have intimate links to Zionists or leading pro-Zionists or corporate links with Apartheid Israel. Notable exceptions to this catalogue of pro-Zionist infamy in the March 2013 Gillard Labor Ministry are Kelvin Thomson (representing Wills, Victoria , the only member of the House of Representatives to have asked in Parliament about how many people we had killed in Iraq.) and Melissa Parke (representing Fremantle, Western Australia) who was a signatory to a petition by eminent Australians demanding Palestinian human rights (Google “Petition for Palestinian statehood”) that stated in part: “130 member states of the United Nations have so far committed to recognize a Palestinian state. If Australia’s long-standing commitment to a two-state solution is genuine and meaningful we should join them.” The list of signatories includes 2 Federal Greens MPs, and 5 Federal Labor MPs but zero people from the staunchly pro-Zionist Federal Coalition…
Genocidal Israeli Apartheid is intolerable to decent people. Throughout the world, racist Zionists and their supporters must be sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK. In Australia the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has shifted to the Right under PM Julia Gillard and has become an Alternative Liberal Government., Another Liberal Party, the Apartheid Labor Party, the Apartheid Israel-supporting Labor Party, the American Lackey Party and an Anti-democracy Labor Party. In this shift it is similar to formerly Centre-Left parties around the world that, subjected to Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist perversion and subversion, have now lurched to the Right (e.g. the war criminal British Labour Party). Decent, anti-racist, pro-democracy Australians who totally reject Apartheid will vote 1 Green and put Labor last until it has reverted to decent values, has begged for forgiveness and, like Peter, “wept bitterly”.
Gideon Polya, “Obama’s craven Israel speech. US capitulates to Apartheid Israel ”, MWC News, 22 March 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/25584-israel-speech.html .
US President Barack Obama made a speech on his recent arrival in Apartheid Israel that completely ignored Palestinians and gave US endorsement of Zionism and Israel “forever”. The transcript has been published by the Wall Street Journal owned by the pro-war, pro-Zionist, Jewish Australian-origin US media mogul Rupert Murdoch (see “Transcript of Obama’s speech arrival in Israel”, Wall Street Journal, 20 March 2013:). Obama’s speech was made on the 10th anniversary of the illegal, war criminal, genocidal, Zionist-backed US Alliance invasion of Iraq (2.7 million post-invasion Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation) and of the horrible murder of American peace activist Rachel Corrie by Israeli war criminals. Obama’s speech was a litany of lies of omission and lies of commission and reveal him to be a pathological liar and a genocidal racist Zionist as well as being currently the world’s number 1 operating anti-Arab anti-Semite, Islamophobe, state terrorist, warmonger, drug pusher, mass pedocide and war criminal as carefully analyzed below, taking his 35 sentences in order of delivery (they are numbered below for your convenience). 1. “Shalom. (Applause.) Comment. “Shalom” or “peace” in Hebrew is an immense lie coming from the president of the nuclear terrorist US that has invaded over 30 countries since 1945… 35. Thank you very much.”Comment. Obama was surely being disingenuous in thanking the racist Zionists of Apartheid Israel whose traitorous racist Zionist colleagues in the US have endlessly white-anted him in Congress, opposed him in the elections, involved the US in endless, genocidal wars against Muslims, trashed America’s international reputation , bankrupted America, and been party to the preventable deaths of 12 million Americans since 2001. In this craven and dishonest speech Obama has trashed what little remains of his reputation. Obama no longer needs to be re-elected and the racist Zionists dominate American mass media, but one faintly hopes that some remarkable American journalist might yet ask racist warmonger Obama whether it was worth it - whether the Palestinian Genocide (2 million dead, 7 million refugees), the Zionist–backed War on Muslims (12 million dead, over 20 million refugees), 6,000 US servicemen dead, hundreds of thousands traumatized and 50,000 committed suicide from participation in Zionist-backed wars, America bankrupted morally, spiritually and financially, and 12 million American preventable deaths due to the Zionist-backed War on Terror, were worth it. Cowardly, racist warmonger Obama has given American endorsement of genocidal racist Zionism, Apartheid Israel and the Palestinian Genocide “forever”.
Gideon Polya, “Australia ignores new anti-Semitism”, MWC News, 28 January 2013: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/24396-new-anti-semitism.html .
he slavishly US lackey, pro-war and pro-Zionist Australian political Establishment permits egregiously false Zionist defamation of anti-racist Jews critical of the ongoing horrendous human rights abuses of Apartheid Israel. This unacceptable abuse amounts to anti-Jewish, anti-Semitism and is occurring in addition to the horrendous anti-Arab implicit in the Australia’s complicity in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2 million Palestinian deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation since 1936, 90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed, 7 million Palestinian refugees, 6 million of 12 million Palestinians forbidden from even stepping foot in their own country) and the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims ( 12 million Muslim deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990). For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”. Only about a dozen of my wider family survived the WW2 Jewish Holocaust in Europe. “Never again” means for me and other anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish people that we are obliged to protest any human rights abuses i.e. “Never again to anyone”, including the sorely oppressed Palestinians…
It is to the shame of Australia that it’s Labor Government, half of its universities, and its taxpayer-funded ABC (the equivalent of the UK ABC) permit egregiously false Zionist defamation of anti-racist Jews critical of the ongoing horrendous human rights abuses of Apartheid Israel. Zionist defamation of anti-racist Jews amounts to anti-Jewish anti-Semitism in addition to the horrendous anti-Arab anti-Semitism implicit in its complicity in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2 million Palestinian deaths from violence or violently-imposed deprivation since 1936, 90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed, 7 million Palestinian refugees, 6 million of 12 million Palestinians forbidden from even stepping foot in their own country) and the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims (12 million Muslim deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990).
2012.
Gideon Polya, “Romney unfit to be president”, MWC News, 8 October 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/22018-romney-unfit.html .
The neo-liberal agenda of the Republicans – maximum freedom for the advantaged to exploit the disadvantaged - means that over 1 million Americans die preventably each year due to deadly policy perversions that promote militarism, war, violence and dangerously unregulated capitalism. While President Obama backs regulation and preventive medicine, his opponent Mitt Romney’s fanatical Republican neo-liberalism will make this appalling situation much worse. The breakdown of these over 1 million American [annual] preventable deaths is 443,000 (smoking), 300,000 (obesity), 79,000 (preventable adverse events in hospital), 79,000 (air pollution from carbon burning), 75,000 (alcohol), 45,000 (lack of health cover), 33,000 (vehicle accidents), 31,000 (guns), 30,000 (suicides, 20% being of veterans), 21,000 (under-5 infant deaths), 21,000 (opiate drug-related deaths from US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry), and 15,000 (homicides)…
Outlined below are 21 reasons why Romney is unfit to be president because of his neoliberal policies that will kill many Americans and many others abroad, will damage the American and global environment, and which violate America’s noblest value that “all men are created equal”. 1. 1.1 million American preventable deaths annually. Ultimately these deaths could have been prevented by better regulation of dangerous capitalism, better education, better preventive medicine and more money devoted to health rather than to militarism and war… 21. Republican- and Romney-backed war (12 million Muslims killed in 2 decades) is the ultimate abuse of risk management and humanity. The Republican-initiated War on Muslims has been associated since 1990 with 12 million Muslim deaths from violence or from war-imposed deprivation, the breakdown being 4.6 million (Iraq, 1990-2012), 5.6 million (Afghanistan, 2001-2012), 2.2 million (Somalia, 1992-2012), 0.1 million (Palestine, 1990-2012) and 0.1 million (Libya, 2011-2012). Warmonger Romney has enthusiastically supported all of these atrocities and promises massive diversion of funds from social welfare, education and health to the military and hence more mass murder of impoverished people around the World (Google “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”). In summary, Romney is unfit to be president of the United States of America because of his policies that will kill large numbers of Americans and others, that will damage the American and global environment, and which violate America’s noblest value that “all men are created equal”. Please tell everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Anti-Islam movie. Riots & media lying obscure Muslim Holocaust”, MWC News, 16 September 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/21543-anti-islam-movie.html .
The anti-Islam movie has deeply offended the Muslim world, this leading to violent riots around the globe. Violence is wrong, counterproductive and only serves the interests of horrendously violent and deadly US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism and Apartheid Israeli state terrorism. Muslims must resolutely inform the world about the Muslim Holocaust of about 12 million Muslims killed from violence (3.6 million) or war-imposed deprivation (8.9 million) in the post-1990 Zionist-backed US War on Muslims. It is reasonable to suppose that Muslim anger at the US and the West that has now boiled over into violent riots is not just about this utterly repugnant and offensive American anti-Muslim movie but also about the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims that has (so far) killed over 12 million Muslims through violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990. This atrocity constitutes a Muslim Holocaust (a holocaust being the death of a huge number of people), and indeed a Muslim Holocaust that is two (2) times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) or the “forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians, half of them Muslims, deliberately starved to death by the British under Churchill for strategic reasons, with Australia being complicit through withholding food for starving India from its huge grain stores) (see my books “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” and “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, now both available for free perusal on the Web). This ongoing Muslim Holocaust also constitutes a Muslim Genocide, genocide being defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group…
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity - please tell everyone you can. The Muslim Holocaust and the Muslim Genocide will not stop until people realize the horrible dimensions of this ongoing atrocity and demand that it stop. Muslims should take the lead, condemn violence, and resolutely bear witness to the horrendous dimensions of the Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide that has killed over 12 million Muslims since 1990.
Gideon Polya, “Canada cut links with Iran. Pro-Zionist Canadian Government war crimes exposed ”, MWC News, 10 September 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/21419-canada-iran.html .
The Canadian Government has broken off diplomatic relations with remote, peaceful Iran and justified this with a comprehensively false litany of allegations. While Iran has not invaded any other countries for centuries, the pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey Canadian Government has been involved in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims that has killed 12 million Muslims through violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990. Further, 1.1 million Canadians have died preventably since 2001 linked to perverted Canadian Government fiscal priorities of killing Muslim abroad rather than keeping Canadians alive at home. On 7 September 2012 the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, announced severance of diplomatic relations with Iran…
The pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, Zionist-beholden Canadian Government has broken off diplomatic relations with remote, peaceful Iran and justified this with a comprehensively false litany of allegations. While Iran has not invaded any other countries for centuries, Canada has been involved in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims that has (so far) killed 12 million Muslims through violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990. Further, 1.1 million Canadians have died preventably since 2001 linked to perverted Canadian Government fiscal priorities of killing Muslim abroad rather than keeping Canadians alive at home. In addition while 158 Canadians have been killed and 1,859 have been wounded in the Afghan War, it can be estimated that about 10,000 Canadians have died opiate drug-related deaths since 2001 linked to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry. The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist-beholden Canadian Government has an appalling record of lying and massive complicity in US Alliance state terrorism, war crimes (12 million Muslim deaths in the post-1990 Zionist-backed US War on Muslims), 1 million global opiate-related deaths due to US Alliance and Canadian protection of the world-leading Afghan opium industry, and the preventable deaths of over 1 million Canadians since the invasion of Afghanistan due to perverted pro-killing government fiscal priorities. What can decent Canadians and indeed all decent people around the world do about this barbarism? Decent people must inform everyone they can, demand Canadian electoral rejection of the US- and Zionist-subverted and perverted Canadian Government, and demand prosecution of all complicit Canadian, US Alliance and Apartheid Israeli politicians before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Gideon Polya, “Oz ABC 80th birthday. Exposing ABC lying & censorship”, MWC News, 4 July 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/19970-oz-abc-80th-birthday.html .
We live in an increasingly dangerous world and the key to rational risk management and societal safety is information about major realities. Conversely, censorship and lying endanger society and pervert democracy. The Australian ABC (the Australian equivalent of the British BBC) started its operations 80 years ago. Unfortunately the taxpayer-funded ABC, like the UK BBC and other Mainstream media of the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies, has failed its audience by serving up censorship, lying by omission and lying commission to the detriment of public safety and public morality.On this 80th anniversary of the ABC I sent the following Open Letter to the ABC, to other Australian media and to Australian MPs in the national interest and indeed in the interests of Humanity and the Biosphere. Open Letter to MPs & media re taxpayer-funded Australian ABC lying & censorship…
Australia’s most outstanding journalists Wilfrid Burchett, Phillip Knightley, John Pilger and Julian Assange have all voted with their feet, doing their most important work overseas rather than in Australia with its profoundly dishonest and racist culture of censorship, genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring, noting that such ignoring is far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial or holocaust denial which at least admit the possibility of discussion. While William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) was hanged for working as a journalist in genocidal Nazi Germany, nobody would suggest such punishment for ABC journalists complicit in the ongoing, Australia-complicit Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (12 million deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation since 1990). Indeed scholars have criticized Western European laws that criminalize genocide denial as inimical to scholarship and free speech. The appropriate punishment for genocide ignoring should simply be the ignominy of public exposure but that is not going to happen in Australia with an unprincipled and cowardly ABC positioned between the appalling pro-war Murdoch media empire and the somewhat more reasonable but still conservative and now seriously threatened Fairfax media empire. This has been written in the public interest on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the start of the Australian ABC. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Please tell everyone you can – the ABC certainly won’t..
Gideon Polya, “World Refugee Week. 20 Million Muslim Refugees”, MWC News, 23 June 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/19760-world-refugee-week.html .
A fundamental right is surely to live in your own community in your own country but the Islamophobic US, UK, Australia and Israel think otherwise for Muslims. World Refugee Week is observed on 18-24 June in 2012. As another refugee boat carrying several hundred desperate refugees to Australia has foundered in the Indian Ocean with an estimated 90 asylum seekers perishing, it is timely to examine the global refugee disaster and in particular the role of pro-Zionist, pro-war, US lackey Australia in generating over 20 million Muslim refugees and its subsequent egregious maltreatment of refugees. The pro-American, pro-Zionist, pro-war, former Labor PM of Australia Kevin Rudd made the following assertions about people trying to find safe haven for refugees, people commonly referred to a “people smugglers” in Australia (2009): “"People smugglers are engaged in the world's most evil trade and they should all rot in jail because they represent the absolute scum of the earth. People smugglers are the vilest form of human life. They trade on the tragedy of others and that's why they should rot in jail and in my own view, rot in hell. We see this lowest form of human life at work in what we saw on the high seas yesterday. That's why this Government maintains its hardline, tough, targeted approach to maintaining border protection for Australia" (see “Rudd wants people smugglers to “rot in hell”, ABC News, 17 April 2009). One can well ask that if those trying to find safe haven for over 20 million Muslim refugees are “the absolute scum of the earth” who should “rot in jail” and “rot in hell”, how then does one describe the genocidal warmongers of the American-Neocon and Zionist-beholden US Alliance and Israel that created over 20 million Muslim refugees in the first place?...
A huge irony is that according to Jewish Israeli Professor Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University it is the Palestinians who are the genetic and cultural descendants of the Jewish and non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine at the time of Christ. In contrast, most Jewish Israelis are descendants of Yemeni, Berber and Khazar converts to a proselytizing, universalist Judaism of the early Christian era (see Shlomo Sand, “The Invention of the Jewish People”). Whereas Australia guards its currently over 4,300 refugees (including over 460 children) behind razor wire and now subdues refugee riots using tear gas and non-lethal beanbag shot gun rounds, war criminal Apartheid Israel polices the densely populated Gaza Concentration Camp using navy and army shelling and air force rocketing and high explosive bombing. However in terms of annual avoidable deaths of Indigenous people from deprivation, Australia outperforms Israel by far. Each year about 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably from gross deprivation out of an Indigenous population of about 0.5 million. In contrast, Israel murders about 4,500 Occupied Palestinians each year with several hundred being killed violently and the remainder dying from Israeli-imposed deprivation, this death toll occurring in an Occupied Palestinian population of about 4.1 million. What can decent people do? Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can about the appalling treatment of refugees and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against all countries, companies, politicians, people and products linked to this racist and genocidal obscenity.
Gideon Polya, “UK QEII Diamond Jubilee. Celebrations hide 700 Million Commonwealth avoidable deaths ”, MWC News, 7 June 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/19427-diamond-jubilee.html .
The British always put on great royal celebrations and now the UK and the British Commonwealth are celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne as Queen of Great Britain and various other countries and as Head of the British Commonwealth. However the enthusiastic celebrations for a much-admired and much-loved monarch hide the Awful Truth of the over 727 million avoidable deaths linked to British imperialism and neocolonialism over the last 60 years. Of course there is nothing new in this: the British have the carnage of 1,000 years of imperialism to hide and are very good at both war and hiding its awful consequences. The most useful parameter for assessing the success or otherwise of social policy is avoidable death (excess death, excess mortality, avoidable mortality, deaths that did not have to happen) which for a country over a given period can be defined as the difference between deaths actually occurring and deaths expected for a peaceful and decently run country with the same demographics (the same population and age distribution). Avoidable deaths can be determined for all countries since 1950 using data available from the UN Population Division. Most of the victims of colonialism and neocolonialism die not from bullets or beating but from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease. A useful parameter is 1950-2005 avoidable mortality/2005 population expressed as a percentage and is (m = million) 9.750m/ 366.7m = 2.7% (Overseas Europe i.e. Australia, Canada, Apartheid Israel, New Zealand and the US), 19.680m/ 394.4m = 5.0% (Western Europe), 25.578m/ 338.8m = 7.6% (Eastern Europe), 50.579m/ 540.0m = 9.4% (Latin America and Caribbean), 168.585m/1,544.5m = 10.9% (East Asia), 49.147m/ 237.4m = 20.7% (Turkey, Iran and Central Asia), 70.536m/ 306.0m = 23.0% (Arab North Africa and Middle East), 140.222m/ 558.2m = 25.1% (South East Asia), 2.347m/ 8.6m = 27.3% (Pacific), 465.320m/ 1,459.0m = 31.9% (South Asia), and 300.8m/ 696.5m = 43.2% (non-Arab Africa)…
Of the 12 million Muslims killed since 1990 in the US-UK War on Muslims and of the 20 million Muslim refugees generated about half have been children. Thou shalt not kill children. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Please tell everyone you can – because the Mainstream media of the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies certainly won’t but will continue with holocaust-ignoring, genocide-ignoring censorship, lies of commission, and lies of omission. The celebrations for the much-loved Queen Elizabeth II hide an awful ongoing reality of British involvement in deadly neocolonialism and genocidal wars, with Syria and Iran likely to be the next victims.
Gideon Polya, “New Statesman protects Ed Miliband”, MWC News, 1 June 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/19311-miliband.html .
Pro-war UK Labor leader Ed Miliband has written a self-promoting article about himself for the UK magazine New Statesman that avoids the reality of his high level political involvements in UK foreign wars, first as a member of in the UK Labor Governments involved in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War and then as leader of the UK Labor Opposition that supported the Libyan War. However the New Statesman, that continues to publish the most horrible, false defamations of anti-racist Jewish scholars by anonymous readers, has removed anti-racist Jewish comments mildly critical of Ed Miliband’s pathetically equivocal stance on Israeli Apartheid. Now Ed Millband benefited from Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle in May 2006 when he was made the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office, as Minister for the Third Sector, with responsibility for voluntary and charity organizations. In June 2007, when Brown became Prime Minister, Miliband was appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and promoted to the Cabinet Thus while a critic of the Iraq War, Ed Miliband was a member of the Blair and Brown Labor governments prosecuting it, noting that the British were actively militarily involved from 1990 to mid-2009 in the Iraqi Genocide (4.6 million war-related deaths in the period 1990-2011, and 5-6 million refugees). Ed Miliband supported the Afghan War (5.6 million war-related dead, 3-4 million refugees) and the Libyan War (0.1 million dead, 1.3 million refugees). Ed Miliband, to say the least, is hardly a Mother Theresa.
However you dress it up, removal of informed, credentialed, documented, non-anonymous reader comments by a newspaper or magazine is censorship. Censorship is utterly repugnant because it prevents sensible interlocution, scholarly communication, scholarship, scientific research and science-based rational risk management crucial for human safety. For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”. Accordingly, anti-racist Jews in particular are inescapably obliged to speak out about racism and human rights abuses and censorship of anti-racist Jewish opinion is particularly repugnant…
Neocon American and Zionist derived Mainstream media censorship enables the continuation of the Palestinian Genocide (2 million invasion-related deaths since 1936, 7 million refugees) and the Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (12 million war-related deaths since 1990; 20 million refugees; Google “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide). It is very disappointing when even an ostensibly progressive weekly like the UK New Statesman removes even mildly reproving comments from a credentialed anti-racist scholar, while permitting the most horrible, false defamation of anti-racist Jewish scholars critical of US and Israeli war and occupation policies. Indeed the New Statesman has now apparently blocked further comment on Ed Miliband’s article to protect him from further critical comment. . Show that it is possible to get through the Mainstream media’s Wall of Silence by telling everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “US Memorial Day. US 99 % betrayed by Neocon & Zionist 1%”, MWC News, 29 May 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/19241-us-memorial-day.html .
On US Memorial Day Americans should not only remember the US war dead but also the shameful treatment of US veterans (of whom about 50,000 have committed suicide since 9-11), the appallingly treated American 99% (1 million of whom die preventably each year because the Neocon American and Zionist 1% spends trillions of dollars on killing Muslims abroad rather on than saving American lives at home), the 38 million Asians who have died from violence or war-imposed deprivation in the post-1950 US Asian wars, and the circa 13 million Muslims who have died from violence or war-imposed deprivation in the post-1990 US War on Muslims. Memorial Day is an American federal holiday observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May and is a day of remembrance for the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. It was formerly known as Decoration Day and originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. However, by the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. 1. Vietnam War US dead & wounded. 58,220 US service personnel killed and 303,664 wounded. A major consequence of the war was to greatly increase the US Government-complicit heroin trade within the US with a devastating impact on African American communities in particular that continues to this day… 8. Shocking 38 million Asians dead in post-1950 US Asian wars. Spare a thought for the estimated 38 million people who died from violence or war-imposed deprivation associated with post-1950 US Asian wars, the breakdown being 5.2 million (Korea), 1.2 million (Laos), 6.1 million (Cambodia), 15.3 million (Vietnam), 4.6 million (Iraq) and 5.6 million (Afghanistan). About 13 million Muslims have died from violence or war-imposed deprivation in the post-1990 US War on Muslims, the breakdown being 4.6 million (Iraq), 5.6 million (Afghanistan), 2.2 million (Somalia), 0.1 million (Palestine) and 0.1 million (Libya)…
As President Obama said on his 2012 Memorial Day speech: “Tell your story as it should have been told all along. That’s one more way we keep perfecting our union, setting the record straight. And it starts today. Because history will honor your service”. The American 99% should take note of the Awful Truth as set out above and use what remains of their democratic rights to throw off the shackles of the lying, traitorous, anti-American Neocon and Zionist 1% who dominate US mainstream media, public life and government. Indeed outstanding Jewish Hungarian-American philanthropist, investor, and Holocaust survivor George Soros has demanded the de-Nazification of America, stating stated: “America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.
Gideon Polya, “Censorship in Lobbyocracy Australia. The Big Lie Downunder”, MWC News, 27 May 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/19204-censorship.html .
Censorship violates free communication vital for democracy. Crucially, censorship short-circuits rational risk management that is crucial for public safety and which successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis, and (c) informed systemic change to minimize the risk to society. The fundamental scandal of so-called “open societies” such as the Western democracies is that there is entrenched media censorship that has made these societies Murdochracies (Big Money buys truth, public perception of reality and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception and power). An interesting insight into Mainstream media ownership, media bias and media censorship comes from Murdochracy and Lobbycracy Australia where corporate wealth buys political influence, votes and public policy. Indeed in 2010 the huge Mining Industry only had to spend $22 million of an adumbrated $100 million “war chest” to bring down a very popularly elected Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, who was removed by a pro-Zionist-led Coup on 23-24 June 2010 (for details suppressed by Neocon American and Zionist (NAZI)-beholden mainstream media see Antony Loewenstein, "Does the Zionist lobby have blood on its hands in Australia ?" and Gideon Polya, “Pro-Zionist-led Coup ousts Australian PM Rudd”, MWC News, 29 June 2010). Australia has an extraordinary concentration of mainstream media ownership in which Australian-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch has 70% of newspaper readership with most of the remainder owned by the Fairfax media empire. There has been much disquiet after the world's richest woman, iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart (worth $29 billion), purchased a large pile of shares in Fairfax…
Over 500 years ago when Columbus sailed west, many believed that he would fall off the edge of the World. Today in censorship-ridden 21st century Australia, the major party bipartisan, Liberal-Laboral (Lib-Lab) position is effectively just as absurd – it is as if that once Australia’s coal, iron ore and LNG ships reach the 10 mile limit they go through a Dr Who-style magic wall into a new space, time and morality dimension in which the subsequent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have nothing to do with the Australians who extracted the coal, iron ore and gas in the first place. The trouble with this sort of cowardly, silent, anonymous censorship and deceit is that most people don't know it is happening and if they do they don't know why - could it be anti-science? Anti-intellectual? Anti-academic? Anti-Semitic? Xenophobic? Self-interest? Who knows? Censorship is a dangerous perversion that sabotages rational risk management which is crucial for societal safety and which successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis, and (c) informed systemic change to minimize the risk of adverse events. Mainstream media presstitution through censorship, lying by commission and lying by omission is not merely unethical, it is downright dangerous. Climate Genocide through unaddressed man-made climate change is predicted to kill 10 billion people this century (Google “Climate Genocide”). You can help counter dangerous media censorship by (a) telling everyone you know about this obscene and dangerous corporatist perversion that is subverting democracy in the Western Lobbyocracies and (b) by urging and applying boycotts against all countries, corporations, politicians and parties involved in democracy-subverting censorship.
Gideon Polya, “[ABC] Censorship in Lobbyocracy Australia”, MWC News, 30 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/18571-lobbyocracy-australia.html .
Censorship is insidious because it violates human communication and fundamentally subverts science-based rational risk management that is crucial for societal safety. Censorship plays a major role in the transformation of Western democracies to neofascist, corporatist Murdochracies (Big Money buys public perception of the truth and hence votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality, and votes). As outlined below, censorship is entrenched in Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy Australia, with major perpetrators including the taxpayer-funded ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) and the Australian universities–backed and academic-based web magazine, The Conversation...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) is a taxpayer-funded broadcasting organization and is the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC. In addition to news reportage, the ABC (TV, radio and On-line) has a key role in Australia's cultural life through involvement in the Arts (especially music and films), public education and public discourse in numerous areas through numerous programs. Affectionately known to its supporters as "Aunty", the ABC has an important role in a country in which most of the print media are owned by either the Murdoch or Fairfax media empires and Rupert Murdoch's New Limited has 70% of the daily newspaper readership. False, unethical, biased and indeed criminal reportage has led to calls for a boycott of Murdoch media world-wide (Google "Boycott Murdoch Media").
The ABC has traditionally trodden a path of "balance" between the 2 major political groups in Australia, namely the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (traditionally Right) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) (traditionally Left) (collectively known as the Lib-Labs or as the Liberal-Laborals). However a huge shift to the Right by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has turned it into a pro-Zionist, pro-US, pro-war, pro-fossil fuels, anti-environment Alternative Liberal Party, Another Liberal Party, an Apartheid Labor Party, an Apartheid Israel-supporting Labor Party, an American Lackey Party and the Australian Lying Party. This Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist rightward shift of the ALP has meant that the ABC now typically positions itself between the Right Labs and the often Extreme Right Libs…
The taxpayer-funded ABC is an important institution in the intellectual life of Australia. The Australian universities–backed and academic-based web magazine, The Conversation, potentially has a comparable role. However censorship by both the ABC and The Conversation subverts and perverts this role. The free speech of Australian intellectuals and academics is already constrained (e.g. see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Public University Journal, volume 1, Conference Supplement, “Transforming the Australia University”, Melbourne, 9-10 December 2001: and Gideon Polya, “Crisis is our Universities”, Ockham’s Razor, 19 August 2001). Google the phrase “Why you should study in Australia” and you will find over 1 million results, headed by numerous reasons offered by the Australian Government as to why overseas student should study in Australia. However universities which are complicit in censorship are neither fit for scholarly researchers nor for students . Decent, responsible people must speak out to defend free speech against society-perverting censorship. Please tell everyone you can – only free speech can defeat the insidious evil of censorship.
Gideon Polya, “Nobel writer speaks out. Günter Grass opposes Israeli annihilation of Iran”, MWC News, 15 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/18245-guenter-grass.html .
Humanitarian, anti-racist, Nobel Prize-winning German writer Günter Grass has been egregiously defamed and banned by the racist Israeli Government from visiting Apartheid Israel and the Occupied Territories of Palestine for publishing this month a quite mild poem entitled “What needs to be said” ("Was gesagt werden muss") in response to the daily threats of attack on peaceful, remote, non-nuclear-armed Iran by a nuclear-armed Israel and the German contribution to Israeli war-making and a potential Iranian Holocaust by the race-based, genocidal, serial aggressor rogue state, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel. US writer Heather Horn has published her English translation of the poem in The Atlantic (see Heather Horn, “Günter Grass’ controversial poem about Israel. Iran and war, translated”, The Atlantic, 6 April 2012. The key passages of the poem are the first few verses as follows:
“Why do I stay silent, conceal for too long
What clearly is and has been
Practiced in war games, at the end of which we as survivors
Are at best footnotes.
It is the alleged right to first strike
That could annihilate the Iranian people--
Enslaved by a loud-mouth
And guided to organized jubilation--
Because in their territory,
It is suspected, a bomb is being built…
It is notable that Günter Grass is in good company with other Nobel Laureates who are similarly critical of Apartheid Israel, the list of such anti-racist Jewish Nobel Laureates including Albert Einstein and Harold Pinter (Google “Jews Against Racist Zionism”: ) and the list of such anti-racist non-Jewish Nobel Laureates including Jimmy Carter, Mairead Maguire, Nelson Mandela, Jose Saramago and Archbishop Desmond Tutu ( Google “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”). Racist Zionism is genocidal in theory and in obscene practice and has subverted and perverted the Western democracies to the point that it has successfully promoted a new anti-Jewish anti-Semitism directed against anti-racist Jews (such people representing the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of our time) and involving the societal sidelining of anti-racist Jewish scholars; the false, gross defaming of anti-racist Jews as "self-hating Jews" and "anti-Semites"; and the utterly false conflation of the appalling, genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel with all Jews, including decent, anti-racist, humanitarian Jews.
To protect anti-racist Jews, all anti-racist humanitarians, decent values and democracy the racist Zionists should be sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK i.e. they can say what they like but decent people will no more listen to them than they would to pro-Zionist, racist, neo-Nazi mass murderer Anders Breivik (since 1936 0.1 million Palestinians have been killed and a further 1.9 million have died from invasion-, occupation-, war-, expulsion - and occupation-imposed deprivation; there are 7 million Palestinian refugees; see "Palestinian Genocide" and the multi-author book by numerous anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish writers "The Plight of the Palestinians", Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010). Humanitarian, anti-racist, Nobel Prize-winning German writer Günter Grass deserves praise and support from all decent people around the world.
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Gideon Polya, “BBC censors “Palestine””, MWC News, 10 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/18133-bbc-censors.html .
The BBC censors the word “Palestine” and, in addition, using the BBC Search function one finds that the BBC completely censors the term “Palestinian Holocaust” (2 million dead) and largely censors out the term “Palestinian Genocide” (2 million dead, 7 million refugees, 90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed and only 6% of 12 million Palestinians can vote for the government of Apartheid Israel that rules all of historical Palestine plus an ethnically cleansed part of Syria). In addition to its blatant anti-Arab anti-Semitism, the anti-Semitic BBC exhibits anti-Jewish anti-Semitism by censoring out the “anti-racist Jew”, “anti-racist Jews” and “anti-racist Jewish” humanitarians.The BBC has an appalling record of pro-Zionist, pro-US, pro-war, pro-imperialism, pro-neocolonialism and racist censorship, lying by commission and lying by omission (e.g. see Gideon Polya, “Censorship by the BBC. How the BBC censors US-UK atrocities”, MWC News, 8 April 2012). 1. BBC censors “Palestine”. Anti-racist Jewish Australian writer Antony Loewenstein (author of “My Israel Question”, Melbourne University Press) and others have exposed BBC censorship of the very word “Palestine” from a broadcast of a rapper’s song… 5. Pro-Zionist BBC censorship mirrored by pro-Zionist Australian ABC censorship. Australia was a former colony of Britain and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the taxpayer-funded Australian equivalent of the UK BBC. The ABC, like the BBC, is pro-Zionist, pro-war, pro-US, pro-imperialism and holocaust ignoring – and also censors, lies by omission and lies by commission (Google “ABC Censorship”)…
In addition to involvement in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide and virulent backing of the US war on Muslims (12 million war-related deaths since 1990), the racist Zionists have subverted and perverted media and political life in the Western democracies. All decent folk must (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) urge and support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel and its racist supporters. The racist Zionists must be sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK.
Gideon Polya, Censorship by the BBC. How the BBC whitewashes US-UK atrocities ”, MWC News, 8 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/18092-bbc.html .
Hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of people around the world have grown up listening to the words “This is the BBC” and being variously deceived by the pro-Zionist, pro-US, pro-imperialism, pro-neocolonialism censorship of the BBC, an organization with an appalling record of Anglocentric and Eurocentric censorship, lying by omission and lying by commission. According to Wikipedia re the BBC “The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament”. The UK BBC has an assertedly good reputation around the world for impartial, authoritative broadcasting - but there is a lot of hard evidence that contradicts this assessment. In reality the BBC is the propaganda arm of the British Government and has an appalling record of lying by commission and omission in support of continuing British crimes against humanity. The seriousness of the lying by the BBC is qualitatively and quantitatively directly proportional to the seriousness of the offence as most clearly evident in BBC reportage of horrendous atrocities in which the UK has been involved…
The BBC recently broadcast a TV series called “The Story of India” which ignored the 2 century Indian Holocaust under the British that was associated with 1,800 million avoidable Indian deaths, mainly from British-imposed deprivation. While the British ruled through starvation of its Indian subjects that was associated with massive famines from the 1769-1770 Great Bengal Famine (10 million deaths) to the 1942-1945 Bengal Famine (6-7 million Indian deaths) with scores of millions of Indians perishing from starvation in between. Yet the BBC’s TV series “The Story of India” makes no mention at all of “famine” or of this Indian Holocaust that surpasses all atrocities and holocausts of human history (see Matthew White’s “Atrocitology. Humanity’s 100 deadliest achievements”, John Withington’s “A Disastrous History of the World” and Gideon Polya’s “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” that includes mortality-related histories of every country of the world). I have created a “Censorship by the BBC” website to systematically report humanity-threatening BBC censorship, lying by omission and lying by commission (see: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/ ). However the BBC is not the only Mainstream medium in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies to censor and lie (e.g. Google “Boycott Murdoch Media”, “ABC Censorship”. “Censorship by The Conversation” and “Censorship by The Age”. Please do your bit to counteract corporatist , ethnocentric, holocaust ignoring Western Mainstream media censorship by telling everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “Gross Austrslian climate mal-reportage”, MWC News, 3 April 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/17977-australian-climate.html .
Rational risk management that is crucial for societal safety requires accurate reportage. The ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) has an appalling record of incorrect reportage and lying by omission on all kinds of matters from horrendous war-related deaths to the worsening climate crisis (Google “ABC Censorship”). Australia is a world leader in greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution but the ABC has been reporting that Australia is leading the world in tackling climate change and ignoring the acute seriousness of the climate emergency. In March 2012 I sent a carefully composed letter to Australian MPs and media about Australia’s appalling climate change inaction. As far as I am aware only one significant medium published this letter, namely the Green Left Weekly which is outstanding for correct and humane reportage of important matters. Indeed outstanding expatriate Australian journalist John Pilger has the stated: "Australia has the most restrictive media in the western world. Censorship by omission denies Australians their democratic right to make sense of whole stratas of political and foreign policy. That's why Green Left Weekly is a beacon, doing a job of honourable journalism, as an agent of people, not power".My letter published by Green Left Weekly is reproduced below (see Gideon Polya, “Climate inaction”, Letters to the Editor, Green Left Weekly, 24 March 2012 ):“Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution. Pro-coal, pro-gas Australian PM Julia Gillard has an appalling record of climate change inaction falsely dressed up as the opposite…”
Rational risk management that is crucial for societal safety requires accurate reportage. The taxpayer-funded ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) must be condemned for incorrect reportage and lying by omission over many serious matters of which climate change action is the most serious (Google “ABC Censorship”). Of course the Australian ABC is simply doing what all Mainstream media are doing in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies where Big Money effectively determines editorial policy, “all the news that’s fit to print” and public perception of reality.
Gideon Polya, “Australia’s climate genocide. Victoria increases its huge GHG pollution”, MWC News, 27 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/17822-climate-genocide.html .
he State of Victoria, Australia, is named after Queen Victoria who ruled over Britain, India and the British Empire from 1837-1901, during which time 500 million Indians perished avoidably from British-imposed deprivation. Victoria is the worst polluting state in Australia which in turn is one of the worst countries in the world for annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However the new ultra-conservative government of Victoria is trying to increase GHG pollution in all kinds of ways and has just announced its intention to scrap an existing plan for "20% off GHG pollution by 2020". Victoria’s premier Mr Ted Baillieu recently visited India with a 300-delegate trade mission from Victoria but the Mainstream media ignored the horrible reality that climate criminal Victoria and Australia threaten India and the World with a worsening Climate Genocide that is set to kill 2 billion Indians and about 10 billion people world-wide this century…
Victoria, like the rest of Australia, is committed to remorselessly increasing GHG pollution despite the fact that Victoria is the dirtiest state in one of the worst GHG polluting countries in the World. Thus “annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution” in units of “tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year” (2005-2008 data) is 0.9 (Bangladesh), 0.9 (Pakistan), 2.2 (India), less than 3 (many African and Island countries), 3.2 (the Developing World), 5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 16 (the Developed World), 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 64 in 2010 if Australia’s huge Exported CO2 pollution is included). Noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division) , it is estimated that the world is facing a worsening Climate Genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including roughly twice the present population of particular mainly non-European groups, specifically 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis. (Google “Climate Genocide” ).
What can decent pro-environment, pro-Planet people do? Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can and (b) urge international action to force climate criminal , climate racist Australia to get to zero emissions. Such actions might include sanctions, boycotts, green tariffs, sporting boycotts (including exclusion from the Olympic Games and the World Cup), International Court of Justice litigations and International Criminal Court prosecutions (e.g. see Gideon Polya, “9 January 2010 Formal Complaint by Dr Gideon Polya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US Alliance Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Muslim, Aboriginal, Biofuel and Climate Genocides”).
Gideon Polya, “Australian Labor’s new anti-Semitism. Oz Labor threatens anti-racist Jews”, MWC News, 15 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/17530-new-anti-semitism.html .
Australia’s ruling Labor Party (ALP) is now an Anti-Arab, anti-Semitic Party. The pro-Zionist Labor requires national and international censure for its anti-Semitism and the threat it poses towards decent, anti-racist Jewish Australians.For anti-racist Jewish Australians and indeed all anti-racists and anti-racist Australians the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and the World War 2 European Holocaust in general (30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies killed) have 2 core messages, specifically “zero tolerance for racism” and “never again to anyone”. Yet these sacred injunctions are grossly violated the current Australian Federal Labor Government and the by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in general which has reverted to its deeply racist past and is now an Anti-Arab anti-Semitic Labor Party, an Anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Labor Party, an Anti-Asian Labor Party and an Anti-African Labor Party which is beholden to foreign Neocon American and Zionist Imperialists and traitorous Australian racist Zionists.
Egregious, de facto Australian Labor Party (ALP) anti-Jewish anti-Semitism is revealed in the following dozen areas of abuse. 1. Zionist-subverted Labor falsely conflates the racist, war criminal and genocidal policies of race-based, nuclear terrorist, genocidal, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel with all Jews, including decent, anti-racist Jews, this representing the worst possible defamation of the Jewish people… 12. Zionist-subverted Labor through its support for racist Zionism, Apartheid Israel and Zionist-beholden US imperialism is actually killing Australians – a reality that is suppressed by Zionist-subverted Mainstream media, including the ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) , but which threatens the security of decent, patriotic, anti-racist Jewish Australians. Thus 66,000 Australians die preventably each year due to callous disregard by Zionist-subverted Labor that prefers to spend billions of dollars on killing Muslim women and children rather than on saving Australian lives at home. Thus 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year due to this triple racism of Labor (pro-Zionist, pro-war and anti-Indigenous) and 3,700 Australians have died opiate drug-related deaths due to the Zionist-backed US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry to 90% of world market share….
Australia’s ruling Labor Party (ALP) is now an egregiously politically correct racist (PC racist) Anti-Indigenous, Anti-Arab, Anti-Jewish, Anti-Semitic, Anti-Asian and an Anti-African Labor Party. This new racist, neocon, pro-war, pro-Zionist, slavishly pro-USrael Labor diminishes anti-racist Jewish Australians in a dozen key areas. Of course the Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition is just as bad but to many decent Australians the Australian Labor Party has utterly betrayed decent, anti-war, anti-racist, pro-equity Labor voters and become Another Liberal Party and an Alternative Liberal Party. Anti-racist Jewish Australians must necessarily defend themselves by informing everyone they can and urging all decent Australians to vote against racist and anti-Semitic Labor. In Australia’s political system that means decent, anti-racist Australians must vote 1 Green and put Labor last.
Gideon Polya, “India bans Israeli weapons. Apartheid Israel corruption”, MWC News, 7 March 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/17352-israeli-weapons.html .
The Indian Defence Ministry has banned for 10 years some defence contractors for corruption, notably Israeli Military Industries which supplies weapons, ammunition and military technology to the Israeli military, including the Uzi submachine gun used by criminals and mercenaries around the world to kill people (see “Indian Defence Ministry bans 6 arms firms”, UPI, 6 March 2012 ). Race-based, nuclear terrorist and genocidal Apartheid Israel (Israel anagram: e-LIARS) has an appalling record of corruption, racism, genocide and horrendous criminal violence throughout the world as set out below. 1. Apartheid Israel has violently attacked some 13 countries (Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, the United States, Australia) with 1950-2005 avoidable deaths from deprivation in these countries totalling 75.630 million, this carnage being related in part to the need of African, Asian and Latin American countries to defend themselves from Zionist- and US-backed traitors, Zionist-backed US violence, and from the US-backed rogue state Apartheid Israel (see Gideon Polya, ”Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).. 12. And now nuclear-armed, nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel (400 nuclear weapons) is hysterically mounting a campaign to destroy anti-nuclear weapons, NPT-signatory Iran – a country with a population of 74 million, that has not invaded another country for centuries, that has no nuclear weapons and that desires no nuclear weapons - with conventional or even nuclear weapons.
There need to be comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against racist, war criminal, genocidal, race-based, nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel and all its backers, as were successfully applied to Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa. The traitorous racist Zionists need to be sidelined in public life as have already been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK.
Gideon Polya, “US and Zionist subversion – Labor is finished Downunder”, MWC News, 26 February 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/17132-zionist-subversion.html .
Neo-conservative corporate, US and Zionist subversion is about to achieve a huge victory for corporatism, neo-fascism and racism in Australia – it appears that by midday Monday 27 February 2012 the corporate-, US- and Zionist-subverted Australian Labor Party will have been effectively destroyed when, as predicted, two thirds of the Labor MPs will vote for right wing, pro-war, pro-Zionist, anti-environment and slavishly pro-US PM Julia Gillard to be PM and against former PM Kevin Rudd, who nevertheless has the support of two thirds of Australian voters. In 2007 right wing (”small c conservative” ) Kevin Rudd won a landslide victory in the Australian Federal elections in which the conservative pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-US, anti-environment Coalition PM John Howard lost his own seat. The key election issues were inhumane treatment of asylum seekers (refugees), man-made climate change, war, and industrial fairness for workers. PM Rudd quickly moved to ease the maltreatment of refugees, sign the Kyoto Protocol, say “Sorry” to Australia’s sorely oppressed Indigenous people, remove Australian combat troops from Iraq, and scrap the draconian industrial legislation of the previous Coalition Government. Because of a Coalition-dominated Senate Rudd was unable to get through legislation on an Emissions Trading Scheme or ETS (a so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme or CPRS, which would have actually increased Australian domestic plus exported greenhouse gas pollution) but we was able to secure a Renewable Energy Bill to enable 20% renewable energy by 2020.
Critically, Rudd ensured that Australia was negligibly affected by the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in contrast to all other European G20 countries. However, as amplified below, Rudd made enemies of the US (over Afghanistan), made enemies of the Zionist Lobby (by protesting Israeli terrorist attacks on Australians) and made enemies of the foreign-owned mining corporations (by proposing a massive tax on excess mining profits). The Mining Lobby launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign against Labor, Labor’s popularity plummeted and Rudd resigned as PM on 24 June 2010 after being ambushed in a 24 hour Coup led by the extreme pro-Zionist faction within the Labor Party which installed left wing-turned-right wing, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-war, anti-environment and slavishly pro-US Julia Gillard as PM. The 2010 elections resulted in a Minority Labor Government that could only rule with the help of 1 Green and 3 independent MPs. However the election returned a large number of Green Senators which meant that Labor legislation was no longer blocked in the Senate…
What can decent Australians do? Decent Australians will vote 1 Green and put Labor last until it reverts to decent, Australia-first values and will urge and support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all countries, corporations, people, politicians and parties supporting this race-based, racist, genocidal, nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, nuclear terrorist rogue state that together with the US has successfully subverted Labor, the Coalition, Australian Mainstream media and the cowardly , taxpayer-funded ABC (Google "Boycott Apartheid Israel", "Boycott Murdoch Media", "ABC Censorship", "Censorship by The Age", and "Mainstream Media Lying"). Crucially, Australia and other Western countries are already no longer proper democracies – they are Murdochracies (Big Money buys truth public perception and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies, public perception and voters). There needs to be transparency is dealings of foreign countries, foreign corporations and their lobbyists with politicians. In particular, as unsuccessfully advocated by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, the Zionists need to be registered as agents of a foreign country. Indeed the racist Zionists need to be sidelined from public life as have been like racist such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK.Time is running out for Rudd, Labor and democracy in corporate-, US- and Zionist-subverted Australia. It may already be too late for other Western countries.
Gideon Polya, “Mainstream media lying. MSM hide corporate, US and Zionist subversion”, MWC News, 13 February 2012: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/16850-mainstream-media-lying.html .
Australia is one of the World’s oldest democracies but is now a corporate-, US- and Zionist-perverted country in which neocon, pro-war, pro-US, pro-Zionist, corporatist Australian Mainstream media (including the taxpayer-funded ABC, the Australian equivalent of the taxpayer-funded UK BBC) remorselessly censor news, reader comments and foreign perversion of Australian democracy (Google “Censorship by The Age”, “ABC Censorship” and “Mainstream Media Lying”). Such Mainstream media (MSM) lying in general throughout the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies. Below is an example of censorship by The Age newspaper, Melbourne, of non-anonymous, credentialed reader comments referring to an excellent article by outstanding expatriate Australian journalist John Pilger in Green Left Weekly (“Threat to Assange a threat to us all", GLW, 8 February 2012) and an excellent article by outstanding anti-racist Jewish Australian writer Antony Loewenstein (“Does the Zionist Lobby have blood on its hands in Australia?", 2010 )…
As illustrated by the resolute refusal of Australian Mainstream media to report the actual history of the US- and Zionist-backed anti-Rudd Coup, Australia is in thrall to foreign-owned mining companies, the endlessly subversive neocon Americans and the racist Zionist Lobby. What is happening in Australia is symptomatic of neo-fascist corporate, neocon American and racist Zionist perversion and subversion of the Western democracies that have become neo-fascist, corporatist Murdochracies (Big Money buys public perception and votes) and Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies and elections).
What can decent, anti-war, anti-racism, pro-equity, pro-democracy people do? Decent folk – the 99% - must (a) inform everyone they can about the perversion of our democracy; (b) urge and apply sanctions and boycotts against corporations, countries, politicians and indeed all people complicit in such perversion; (c) demand, as did John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy (albeit unsuccessfully), that traitorous racist Zionists are registered as agents of a foreign power; and (d) urge the sidelining of racist Zionists and their supporters from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the KKK.
In US- and Zionist-beholden Australia, for example, that means a boycott of all Mainstream media and that decent folk should vote 1 Green and put Labor last until it returns to decent values and ceases being an anti-Arab anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic tool of the Neocon Americans and Zionist Imperialists who currently hold sway Downunder. Restoring former Labor PM Kevin Rudd to the prime ministership would be an important step toward re-assertion of democracy and national independence in Australia.
2011.
Gideon Polya, “Australian ABC censorship. ABC censors anti-racist Jewish scholars”, MWC News, 27 December 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/15796-australian-abc-censorship.html .
The egregiously dishonest, cowardly, taxpayer-funded Australian ABC has failed to report a petition by some of Australia’s most outstanding Jewish scholars denouncing and renouncing the racist and genocidal Israeli “law of return” that is a key instrument in Apartheid Israel’s Palestinian Genocide. The taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) is Australia’s equivalent of the taxpayer-funded British BBC. The Australian ABC has an appalling record of lying by omission and lying by commission, indeed ABC censorship has plumbed Orwellian depths (Google “ABC Censorship”). This extraordinary ABC censorship stems from the reality that the ABC, like other Mainstream media in Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy Australia and in other Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies, is subject to pressure form neocon Americans, racist Zionists and their associates. Australia is a Murdochracy (Big Money determines public perception of the truth and hence votes) and a Lobbyocracy (Big Money buys politicians and policy). The Zionist Lobby is extremely powerful in what has become an Australia that now follows the Israeli and Israel-supported Apartheid South African racism examples and applies race-based laws and regulations to Indigenous Australians and to refugees…
Australian media are not just anti-Arab, anti-Semitic (by supporting the ongoing Palestinian Genocide and the ongoing Muslim Genocide that has killed 12 million Muslims in the last 2 decades) but are also anti-Jewish anti-Semitic by resolutely ignoring the opinions of outstanding anti-racist Jewish scholars (for such views from Hannah Arendt to Howard Zinn Google "Jews Against Racist Zionism") and by utterly falsely and dangerously conflating racist Zionism and its genocidal crimes with decent, anti-racist, secular, liberal and Orthodox Jews. The taxpayer-funded ABC through its lying by omission and commission over the Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan and Muslim Genocide (12 million Muslim war- and occupation-related deaths, 1990-2011) by endangering decent anti-racist Jews and sidelining their opinions. The failure of the ABC to report the “Petition Against the Right of Return to Israel on Behalf of Australian Jews” signed by outstanding anti-racist Australian Jewish intellectuals is a further instance of lying by omission by ABC (Google "ABC Censorship" ) and of its entrenched anti-Arab, anti-Semitism and inherent anti-Jewish that threatens Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and decent, anti-racist Jews.
The cowardly journalists and editors of the Western Mainstream media had better soon decide whether they owe a primary allegiance to their own country, the country of their readers, or to the race-based, Zionist-run, nuclear terrorist rogue state of Apartheid Israel and its traitorous, neocon supporters.
Gideon Polya, “Kim Kardashian publicizes Armenian Genocide”, MWC News, 4 November 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/14608-armenian-genocide.html .
History ignored yields history repeated. Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated. Armenian-American celebrity beauty Kim Kardashian understands this despite not having attended college, and passionately publicizes the Armenian Genocide. However the US, Turkey, the Zionists, Apartheid Israel and mainstream historians, politicians and media variously ignore, censor or deny this atrocity in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed.The Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) followed the Namibian Genocide (1904-1907) in which the Germans murdered 0.1 million Namas and Hereros in South West Africa. 1.5 million Armenians perished in the Turkish-imposed Armenian Genocide (1915-1923). However Turkey denies the Armenian Genocide and the US, US Zionists and Apartheid Israel refuse to acknowledge the genocidal nature of the atrocity. British and Australian invasion of Turkey in 1915 contributed to the deadly and catastrophic Turkish xenophobia but British and Australian historians have largely deleted this atrocity from their national histories. While Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian has demanded recognition of the 1.5 million-victim Armenian Genocide, arguing that genocide ignored will yield more genocide, even the most progressive of Australia’s major newspapers evidently does not want its readers to read, know or think about this.
The Armenian Genocide . The Armenian Genocide commenced on 24 April 1915, the day before the Allied invasion Turkey at Gallipoli and 24 April is commemorated as Armenian Genocide Day. The 25 April is commemorated as Anzac Day by Australia and New Zealand after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) that was involved in the invasion that occurred after months of Allied shelling in the Dardanelles. The Turks were being attacked in the West by the British, French, and Australian and New Zealand invaders and in the East by the Russians and this greatly exacerbated xenophobia to a deadly and disastrous level. The Armenian Genocide began with the rounding up of Armenian community leaders and thence butchery of the Armenian population with millions being driven into the Syrian desert to die. It is estimated that 1.5 million Armenians died in the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923)…
The Armenian Genocide killed 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-1923 but has been denied as a genocide by Turkey, the US, racist Zionists and genocidal Apartheid Israel. Armenian American entrepreneur and celebrity Kim Kardashian has urged recognition of the Armenian Genocide, indicating that genocide ignored may lead to genocide repeated. While British, French, New Zealand and Australian invasion of Turkey on 25 April 1915 evidently disastrously exacerbated Turkish xenophobia and helped precipitate the Armenian Genocide, this atrocity has been remarkably excluded from Australian History and World History works by Australian historians and from histories of England and Britain. Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated and genocide ignoring is far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial or holocaust denial because the latter at least admit the possibility of debate. Why there are so few celebrities like Kim Kardashian who are prepared to stand up for human rights and the fundamental right of ethnic existence?
Gideon Polya, “UN anti-racism conference. 14 pro-Israel US Alliance countries boycott Durban III”, MWC News, 31 October 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/14511-anti-racism.html .
Decent folk must oppose all racism, including genocidal racist Zionism. In September 2011 the UN held the Durban III meeting on racism (World Conference on Racism) at UN Headquarters in New York. “Durban I” was the original 2001 meeting and “Durban II” was a review conference in Geneva in 2009, both conferences being subject to boycotts and walkouts by pro-Israel US Alliance members. 179 countries attended Durban III but 14 boycotted in support of genocidal, race-based Apartheid Israel. The US Alliance-beholden and genocide-ignoring UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon referred to prior “controversy” in addressing the conference: “We are all aware that the original Durban conference and its follow-up two years ago caused immense controversy,” he said. “We should condemn anyone who uses this platform to subvert that effort with inflammatory rhetoric, baseless assertions and hateful speech” (see “Israel once again accused of “Apartheid” at U.N. racism meeting”, CNS News, 23 September 2011). While racist Australia, one of Apartheid Israel's best friends, boycotted the anti-racism meeting, the Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi attended and referred to the "continuing existence of state-apartheid in the Palestinian occupied territories."
Racism is as racism does. Apartheid Israel-supporting Australia must be described as an Apartheid state because it has passed race-based laws and regulations excluding Indigenous Australians, Afghan refugees and Tamil refugees from the protection of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act and has had an appalling complicity in 24 genocidal atrocities, 10 of them ongoing (see “Australian Anzac & Armenian Genocide. Australia’s secret genocide history”, MWC News, 25 April 2011). Indeed Apartheid Australia’s maltreatment of its Indigenous inhabitants continuers to be far, far worse than that by Apartheid Israel and constitutes an ongoing Aboriginal Genocide. UNICEF reports that 4,000 under-5 year old Occupied Palestinians die each year (75% avoidably, i.e. 3,000 die avoidably from Apartheid Israel war crimes perpetrated in gross violation of the Geneva Convention). This means that total annual Occupied Palestinian avoidable deaths total 4,000 x 1.4 = 5,600 out of an Occupied Palestinian population of 4.2 million or an annual avoidable death rate of 5,600 /4.2 million = 1,333 avoidable Occupied Palestinian deaths per million of population per year. In contrast, avoidable Aboriginal deaths in Apartheid Australia total 9,000 annually out of an Indigenous population of 500,000, this giving an annual Indigenous Australian avoidable death rate of 9,000/0.5 million = 18,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal) deaths per million of population per year in Apartheid Israel-backed and Apartheid Israel-backing Apartheid Australia (see “Body count: the awful truth”, National Indigenous Times, 14 June 2007). In contrast, the annual homicide rate in Detroit, Michigan (the highest for any US city) is 473 per million per year; the annual homicide rate within the State of Israel proper is 15 per million per year ; and the annual rate of Israeli deaths from Palestinian violence since 1950 is about 2,600/4.083 million (average population, 1950-2010) = 637 deaths per million of population over 60 years = 637/60 years = 10.6 i.e. about 11 deaths per million of population per year (less than the rate at which Israelis murder each other).
All decent people around the world should apply Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against US-, Australia-, UK- backed Apartheid Israel and all its racist supporters.
Gideon Polya,” Stop coal seam gas. Zero emissions by 2050”, MWC News, 22 October 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/14321-coal-seam-gas.html .
Man-made global warming or anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is threatening Humanity and the Biosphere. In particular a huge threat is posed by the increasing exploitation of natural gas from coal seams (coal seam gas) as an energy source. Gas is dirty energy and set out below are 3 major reasons why the World must stop coal seam gas (CSG) exploitation. There is a gas rush worldwide as fossil fuel corporations seek to exploit natural gas as a source of energy. Notwithstanding the endless false claims that “gas is clean”, natural gas (mainly methane, CH4) is a dirty energy source. Thus burning 1 tonne of methane generate 2.8 tonnes of the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2) whereas burning carbon (C, the major constituent of black coal) yields 3.7 tonnes of CO2. However CH4 leaks and is 105 times worse than CO2 as a GHG on a 20 year time frame. Depending upon the source, burning gas for power can be worse GHG-wise than burning coal. A major new source of gas are deep coal seams and this gas is referred to variously as coalbed gas, coalbed methane or coal seam gas (CSG). A major mechanism for liberating such gas involved hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in which water containing a variety of additives is pumped into coal seams to fracture them. This ‘fracking” process can pollute underground aquifers with fracking chemicals. Water then removed to permit gas escape from fractured coal seams can be saline and represents a major surface pollutant…
3. Methane leaks and is 105 times worse than CO2 as a GHG. A coal to gas transition, that is unfortunately favored by the pro-coal, pro-gas Labor Australian Federal Government, is an environmental and economic disaster as set out in point #2 above. However, in addition, methane (most of natural gas) is a gas, it leaks significantly and is 105 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a GHG on a 20 year time frame with aerosol impacts considered (see NASA’s Dr Drew T. Shindell et al., “Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions”, Science, 30 October 2009: Vol. 326 no. 5953 pp. 716-718). Significant methane leakage means, for example, that with existing power plants in Victoria, Australia, at a 3.3% systemic gas leakage (the US average) burning gas for power is roughly as dirty GHG-wise as burning coal and at 7.9% leakage (as from fracking-derived gas in the US) burning gas for power can be twice as dirty GHG-wise as burning coal (for details and documentation Google "Climate change course summary" and also see Cornell University’s Professor Robert W. Howarth, et al “Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations”: Climatic Change, 2011 ).
What can decent people of the 99% do in the face of the 1% corporate greed threatening Humanity and the Biosphere? Responsible members of the 99% of Humanity must (a) inform everyone they can and (b) urge and apply sanctions and boycotts against all corporations, countries, politicians and people involved in the terracidal gas rush and hence in the worsening Climate Genocide that is set to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century due to unaddressed man-made climate change.
Gideon Polya, “9-11 10th anniversary. 9 million dead in US War on Terror”, MWC News, 10 September 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/13335-9-11-10th-anniversary.html .
The three most deadly problems facing the world are nuclear weapons, poverty and global warming but US Alliance exploitation of the US-complicit 9-11 atrocity has worsened the threat. 3,000 people died in the 9-11 atrocity but in the subsequent 10 years war-related deaths in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan alone have totaled 9 million, global avoidable deaths from deprivation have totaled about 170 million and continued global inaction on man-made climate change threatens destruction of most of humanity and the biosphere, and all this has been enabled by resolute Mainstream media lying in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies. The White, Red, Black and Pale Four Horses of the Apocalypse in Revelations of the New Testament of the Holy Bible are commonly are regarded as Victory, War, Famine/Pestilence and Death. However the first disastrous decade of the 21st century requires a modified interpretation. Professor John Holdren of Harvard University is currently President Barack Obama’s’ chief scientific adviser. In 2008 in an address as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Professor John Holdren nominated poverty, climate and nuclear proliferation as posing major global risks. However to these we must add lying that prevents rational responses to risk and thus the Four Horses of the Apocalypse are the Victory (of lying over reason) with consequential War (with nuclear war as the ultimate disaster), Poverty (and attendant avoidable mass mortality from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease) and Death (not just of Humanity but of much of the Biosphere due to unaddressed man-made global warming).
With this in mind we can revisit the disastrous events of the first decade of the 21st century and examine how Mainstream media lying about 9-11 and other matters has enabled this worsening catastrophe. 1. Experts: US did 9-11. The 9-11 atrocity involved destruction of 4 passenger planes, 3 World Trade Center buildings (the Twin Towers and the third building known as WTC7) and part of the Pentagon. About 3,000 people, mostly Americans, perished in the attack. FBI warnings of such an attack were ignored and air defenses developed for just such an event were stood down. The Mainstream lying commenced before the atrocity had concluded. Thus the UK BBC reported the collapse of WTC7 at 4.54 pm New York time, 27 minutes before the actual collapse at 5.21pm.
The “official conspiracy theory” of the egregiously dishonest Bush Administration involved the hijacking of 4 passenger jets by 19 Muslim terrorists armed with non-lethal box-cutters with 2 planes flying into the Twin Towers, a third flying into the Pentagon and a fourth crashing in Pennsylvania after an on-board struggle. All of the alleged perpetrators were killed so that no alleged perpetrators were put on trial. In 2011 the alleged master-mind of 9-11, Osama bin Laden, was supposedly murdered by US forces in Pakistan and the body dumped at sea. Most of the alleged perpetrators were Saudis and none were Afghans or Iraqis. The subsequent US investigation by the Bush Administration-appointed 9-11 Commission supported the “official story” and critically concluded that the WTC buildings had collapsed because fires had weakened the steel support columns. The US authorities quickly shipped the steel from the collapsed WTC off to Asia for destruction The inherent implausibility of the Hollywood-style “official version” of 9-11 led to organization such as Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice and Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth who demanded a proper science-based inquiry. ..
The three most deadly problems facing the world today are poverty, global warming and nuclear weapons proliferation. However US Alliance exploitation of the 9-11 atrocity has worsened the threat. About 3,000 people died in the 9-11 atrocity in which, according to numerous science, engineering military and intelligence experts, the US was complicit. In the 10 years since, 9-11 war-related deaths in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan alone have totaled 9 million; global avoidable deaths from deprivation have totaled about 170 million; and continued global inaction on man-made climate change threatens destruction of most of humanity and the biosphere.The US-complicit 9-11 atrocity, the subsequent US cover-up, the genocidal US War on Terror (9 million Muslims killed so far) and the US-led, Gadarene to rush fossil-fuel-based climate genocide and terracide have all been enabled by resolute Mainstream media lying in the Western Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies. On this 10th anniversary of 9-11 what can decent people do? Decent people must inform everyone they can about the 9 million victims of the War on Terror, as well as the initial 3,000 9-11 victims, and the huge threat to the Planet from Mainstream media and politician lying that still enables war and suicidal fossil fuel burning.
Gideon Polya, “Dirty gas threatens world. Stop coal seam fracking”, MWC News, 17 August 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/12845-dirty-gas-threatens-world.html .
The World is running out of time to deal with the worsening climate emergency. To make things even worse, the World is now undergoing a gas rush and a gas boom, with gas derived from conventional on-shore and off-shore sources and also from shale deposits that are being subject to hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”. Because methane (85% of natural gas) leaks (3.3% US average, up to 7.9% from fracking) and is 105 times worse as a greenhouse gas (GHG) on a 20 year time frame with aerosol impacts included, a coal to gas transition represents a huge threat to a World that must get to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by about 2050 if it is to avoid a disastrous 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise…
Natural gas represents a huge threat to the World if, as adumbrated by corporations and governments, there is a coal to gas transition. Ignored by MPs, mainstream media and MPs in the Western Lobbyocracies is the reality that because methane (85% of natural gas) leaks (3.3% US average, up to 7.9% from fracking) and is 105 times worse as a greenhouse gas (GHG) on a 20 year time frame with aerosol impacts included, a coal to gas transition represents a huge threat to a World that must get to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by about 2050 if it is to avoid a disastrous 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise. Hydraulic fracturing for shale deposit gas destroys agricultural land in a hungry world, pollutes and depletes aquifers and increases the systemic GHG pollution associated with heat and power generation. All countries and international jurisdictions must follow the examples of France, England and New York State and ban shale deposit fracking. The World is running out of time to seriously tackle the worsening climate emergency.
Gideon Polya, “Obama emulates lying Bush. Obama’s Middle East Speech ”, MWC News, 22 May 2011: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/10881-obama-bush.html .
President Barack Obama’s 19 May 2011 speech on the Middle East is extraordinary for its comprehensive dishonesty involving egregious deceit, lying by commission and lying by omission. Obama’s ignoring of the US-imposed Muslim Genocide (about 12 million Indigenous deaths in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan) is far worse than genocide denial or holocaust denial because at least “denial” admits the possibility of public discussion.The US think-tank, the Center for Public Integrity, determined that the Bush Administration told 935 lies about Iraq in the 2 years after 9-11, lies that, unaddressed, enabled the illegal invasion of Iraq that led to 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence or from war-imposed deprivation. The extraordinary lying by Obama in his 19 May Middle East speech emulates the egregious dishonesty of his predecessor and for a similar imperialist purpose. The sub-text of this new Obama doctrine is that a financially and morally bankrupt America will apply a new approach to Middle East hegemony with the Libyan intervention as an example and involving lying propaganda, turkey shoot air power and selective, disingenuous support for the Arab Revolution…
1. Iraq. Obama: “After years of war in Iraq, we have removed 100,000 American troops and ended our combat mission there. In Afghanistan, we have broken the Taliban's momentum, and this July we will begin to bring our troops home and continue transition to Afghan lead”. Reality: ignoring US interference in Iraq’s internal affairs and Israeli bombing of Iraq prior to 1990, the US has been making war on Iraq since 1990. In the Sanctions period 1990-2003, violent Iraqi deaths in the Gulf War totaled 0.2 million, avoidable deaths from war- and sanctions-imposed deprivation totaled 1.7 million and under-5 infant deaths totaled 1.2 million, 90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes. Post-invasion in the period 2003-2011, violent deaths have totaled 1.5 million (see US Just Foreign Policy), post-invasion non-violent avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation total 1.2 million, under-5 infant deaths total 0.8 million (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention) and refugees total 5-6 million. 1990-2011 has seen an Iraqi Holocaust involving 4.6 million dead, an Iraqi Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention… 8. Apartheid Israel should go back to 1967 borders. The good thing in mass murderer Obama's speech was his (qualified) insistence on the pre-1967 borders between Apartheid Israel and Palestine, something that has been supported by international law, the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council and all decent, anti-racist humanity for over 40 years.Of course the Zionists have immediately rejected this proposal to obey international law and international humanitarian conventions…
Obama’s speech was a disgraceful litany of lying by commission and lying by omission. Of course the biggest lie of all was implicit in the Obama “back to 1997 borders with swaps”. If Obama seriously wanted Apartheid Israel to obey the UN and International Law and return to the 1967 borders he would simply suspend the gigantic aid that permits this nuclear-armed racist Zionist colony to survive economically while treating its Indigenous Subjects and neighbors like untermenschen (sub-humans). Lying, racist, genocidal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, warmongering, war-making, war criminal Obama simply won’t do it because of the power of the traitorous racist Zionist Lobby in the US. However decent people can say “Yes we can” by (a) informing everyone they can and (b) by imposing Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Apartheid Israel and on all countries, corporations, people and politicians who support racist Zionism. We must expose Obama’s new doctrine of imperialism by lies and air power, the new hi-tech gunboat diplomacy. Thus 800,000 Palestinian children remain abusively and indefinitely imprisoned by US-backed Apartheid Israel in the Gaza Concentration Camp without charge or trial and simply for the crime of being Arabs living in the land continuously inhabited by their forebears for thousands of years. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
2010.
Gideon Polya, “9-11 th anniversary. Was it for oil & hegemony? ”, MWC News, 10 September 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/5138-9-11-9th-anniversary.html .
The world is marking the 9th anniversary of the 9-11 atrocity (3,000 dead) which led to the US Alliance War on Terror that has killed 8 million people so far. Scientific and intelligence experts present a compelling case that the US did 9-11 and very likely with Israeli terrorist complicity. There are 2 major 9-11 narratives - either (1) according to some top scientific and intelligence experts, the US Government, with likely Israeli state terrorist support, killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11 to launch the War on Terror for oil, US hegemony and US-Israeli domination of the Middle East or (2) religious fundamentalists in Central Asian caves without state intelligence, armed forces, or military-industrial infrastructure achieved a devastating attack on Metropolitan United States that the Axis Powers failed to do in World War 2 and, furthermore, did so for no obvious cost-benefit reasons.Two Swiss scholars, Professors Daniele Ganser and Albert A. Stahel of the University of Zurich, reported in the largest Swiss newspaper, "Blick", have seriously questioned the "official Bush version" of what happened on 9/11…
Means, Opportunity and Motive (MOM) analysis makes a compelling case that the US did 9-11, most likely with the involvement of the genocidal racist Zionists running Apartheid Israeli state terrorism… September 11 should also be remembered for the anniversary of the launching of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha Movement for peaceful resistance in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1906.9-11 must be made a day to remember the launching of Mahatma Gandhi’s ultimately successful Satyagraha Movement for peaceful opposition to racist violence; to remember the US (and most likely Israeli) destruction of 3,000 Americans on 9-11; and to remember the 8 million people murdered, so far, by genocidal US and Zionist violence since 9-11 (2.5 million violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation in Iraq; 4.5 million violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation in Afghanistan; and 0.8 million opiate drug-related deaths – 50,000 in the US and 3,000 in Australia - due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world share in 2001 to over 90% today). Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Tell everyone you can.
Gideon Polya, “July 4, US Independence Day message . World must declare Independence from US”, MWC News, 3 July 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/3579-4-july.html .
US imperialism, US state terrorism and US genocide threaten Humanity. For billions of people around the World 4 July means that day in 1776 on which the United States declared independence from Britain and declared war on Humanity. The message of 4 July, US Independence Day, should be that for the sake of human and biosphere survival the World must declare Independence from the US. For the United States of America the Fourth of July is US Independence Day, a US federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from Great Britain. In our poverty-, nuclear weapons- and global warming-threatened World of 2010, the 4 July US Independence Day Message is clear: the World must declare Independence from the United States of America
Ask yourself the question: what countries in Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas has the US (a) threatened, (b) suborned, (c) invaded, (d) devastated or (e) occupied? The answers: (a) the US threatens all countries on earth; (b), the US suborns all countries on earth (read Philip Agee, “Inside the Company. CIA Diary” and John Perkins “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”); (c), (d) and (e). the US has actually invaded, occupied and devastated about 30 countries in the 65 years since 1945 alone (read William Blum’s book “Rogue State” and for an avoidable mortality-related history of genocidal US imperialism read my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”). The US has military forces in 156 countries and bases in about 63 countries. Its nuclear weapons-armed nuclear submarines spread a message of racist state terrorism and racist nuclear terrorism around the globe…
The core moral position for all decent human beings on Spaceship Earth has been put by a further outstanding American scientist, Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond, who in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction grossly violated by genocidal and indeed terracidal US imperialism and US state terrorism. All civilized people around the World - including Americans) should start observing 4 July as their Independence Day, the day on which they all recognized the need to throw off the shackles of racist US imperialism, state terrorism and genocide. The message of 4 July, US Independence Day, should be that for the sake of human and biosphere survival the World must declare Independence from the US.
Gideon Polya,“ Pro-Zionist-led Coup ousts Australian PM Rudd“”, MWC News, 29 June 2010: http://mwcnews.com/focus/politics/3488-pro-zionist-led-coup.html .
About 35 years ago a CIA-influenced coup dismissed the reformist Australian Labor Party Whitlam Government. 6 year ago the US vetoed Labor Opposition leader Mark Latham’s bid for office. On 24 June 2010 a pro-Zionist led coup sacked an insufficiently pro-Zionist Labor PM Kevin Rudd. This was a dramatic change of leadership in Australia. Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd, who only about 30 months ago led Labor to a famous landslide victory after 11 years in the political wilderness, was abruptly removed from power in a ruthless process taking less than 1 day. According to The Age newspaper, Rudd was only told at about 7 pm on the evening of Wednesday 23 June and was kicked out by 9.30 am on Thursday 24 June. The sacking of Labor Hero Kevin Rudd was significantly due to aggravation of the powerful Mining Industry, the subsequent highly successful Mining Industry advertising campaign and a precipitous loss of support for Labor. The excuse offered by Rudd’s post-coup replacement, PM Julia Gillard, Rudd’s former Deputy PM, was that Labor “had lost its way” under Rudd. But, of course essentially all of the Labor Parliamentary Caucus were complicit in the refugee, war, climate change and taxation decisions of the Rudd Labor Government - they all had "lost their way".
However the major Gillard Labor conspirators were all pro-Zionists as is the new pro-war and pro-Zionist PM Gillard. Some of the key plotters had visited Israel on trips funded by Australian pro-Zionist organizations. 2 weeks before his demise the evidently insufficiently pro-Zionist PM Rudd attempted (unsuccessfully) to mend fences with the Zionist Lobby over gross Israeli violations of Australian border protection and sovereignty by forging Australian passports and Israeli terrorism against Australians in International waters (piracy, kidnapping, false imprisonment, theft). Pro-Zionist Rudd’s responses were timid - he called the piracy on the Gaza Aid Flotilla “deplorable” and asked Israel to conduct an investigation. He eventually followed the UK example and demanded the ousting of 1 Israeli diplomat over the Israeli forging of Australian passports for terrorism purposes. The Australian Zionists were furious at even these obsequious responses and were evidently not mollified by further Rudd obsequiousness…
Kevin Rudd, a “Labor hero” elected as Prime Minister by the Australian people in an historic landslide victory in November 2007, was ignominiously dismissed in a process taking less than 24 hours. The commonality of the Left and Right Faction Labor MPs who betrayed PM Kevin Rudd was self-interest (fear of adverse poll results) and support for the nuclear terrorist rogue state of Apartheid Israel even when it violates Australian rights and Australian sovereignty. Those involved in this betrayal of a major political figure and of the Australian people – the Zionist Lobby, Australian sovereignty- and Australian human rights-violating Apartheid Israel, pro-Zionist MPs, the Murdoch Media Empire and the Mining Industry - must be exposed by History.
We are already aware of the power of the military-industrial complex, other neocon corporations and the Israel Lobby in the US. The US still dances to the Israel Lobby tune even as it is becoming clear to many that the US was directly involved in the 9-11 atrocity and very likely with the complicity of Apartheid Israel (e.g. see the cogent and expert views of top Middle East journalist Alan Hart, former Italian President and intelligence intimate Francesco Cossiga, former head of US Army Intelligence Major General Albert Stubblebine, and University of Copenhagen scientist Professor Niels Harrit whose research team found unexploded nanothermite high explosive in all World Trade Centre dust samples studied (thus proving US Government involvement in that atrocity).
Yet in Australia a “search of the entire ABC site” (the ABC being Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) reveals zero relevant Mainstream ABC reports (as opposed to reader comments) about the 9-11 views of the very eminent world figures Alan Hart, Francesco Cossiga, Albert Stubblebine and Professor Niels Harrit. Mainstream media lying by omission, corporate money, unprincipled politicians and the Zionist Lobby all threaten democracy. The Zionists should be sidelined politically as have been other racist groups such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis and KKK. Informed by anti-war activists, genuine Climate Activists and by outstanding, anti-racist, humanitarian “Jews Against Racist Zionism” one hopes that comprehensively betrayed, anti-war, anti-racism and pro-Planet Labor voters, and indeed all decent pro-Humanity and pro-Planet Australians, will reject the pro-Zionist Gillard Labor betrayal, vote 1 Green and put Labor last. But this issue of betrayal affects every country in the world. Please do your bit for democracy and inform everyone you can.