How Trump and Hegseth are using manufactured history and dominionist theology to transform the U.S. military into a sectarian warband. The neglected story.
Category: Political Comment
The Deepfake Presidency: Trump’s Billion-Dollar Blitzkrieg Against Reality; Powered by Project 2025, ICE, and the Gospel of Grievance
Trump’s second term is powered by Project 2025, militarized crackdowns, oligarch-backed financing, and billionaire profiteers. This satirical exposé reveals how Trump’s Deepfake Presidency turns out the lights on truth, democracy, and accountability.
Thelma & Louise in Khaki: Abbott, Hastie, and the Liberal Party’s Joyride to Oblivion
Tony Abbott didn’t just endorse Andrew Hastie — he sculpted him from the clay of Cold War nostalgia and culture war fury. Now, as the Liberal Party flirts with leadership disaster, Hastie emerges not as a saviour, but as a symptom of the party’s descent into uniformed theatre and ideological cosplay.
A Cathedral of Grievance: How Murdoch Built The Monster He Can No Longer Control
An unflinching examination of how Murdoch’s media empire evolved into a cathedral of manufactured outrage, now weaponized by tech oligarchs and autocrats—and why the resistance that matters happens at the edges.
Trump’s War Without Rules: When Ignorance Meets Unchecked Power
A searing indictment of Trump’s ruleless sabotage and the global drift toward normalizing tyranny. This piece calls for clarity, resistance, and the courage to name misrule for what it is—before the spectacle becomes the system.
Gunboat Diplomacy in USA’s Neighbourhood: A Call for Honesty, Humility and Humanity
This is not a war on drugs. This is a series of extrajudicial killings, an outrageous violation of international law, and a dangerous assertion that the president can secretly wage war on his sole authority. It is time for the US to abandon this violent authoritarianism and re-engage with its neighbours with a little less duplicity, overweening arrogance and a lot more humanity.
The Gaza “Peace Plan”: When Tyranny Calls Itself Diplomacy
This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a blueprint for entrenching occupation and calling it stability. For managing ethnic cleansing and calling it security. For weaponizing the very concept of peace to justify ongoing war in slow motion.
‘Applaud or Lose Your Rank’: Inside Trump’s Quantico Loyalty Purge
A vivid, incisive exploration of how Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are reshaping the Pentagon—prioritising loyalty over strategy, fantasy over reality, and risking catastrophic failure.
The ‘Youth Crime Wave’ is a Political Construction, Not a Public Safety Crisis
A spectre is haunting Victoria—the spectre of a youth crime wave. Premier Jacinta Allan, nearly two years into the top job, finds herself besieged by a relentless narrative: brazen young offenders running wild, a state in chaos, a government losing its grip. The political playbook … Continue reading The ‘Youth Crime Wave’ is a Political Construction, Not a Public Safety Crisis
Liberal Party Leadership: Myths and Maternal Veto
A blistering satirical op-ed dissecting the Liberal Party’s leadership crisis, maternal veto politics, and the mythmaking machinery of WA’s oligarchy—complete with burner phones, pink lunchboxes, and disappearing ink.
