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Politics

Peter Strempel’s comments on politics.

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Identifying the fascist tendencies of Morrison’s Coalition

27 May 2022 Peter Strempel 0

Umberto Eco helps us understand the Morrison Coalition’s fascist tendencies, but only News Corp can show us how it got there.

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The Rowling affair: Our ignorance, narcissism, and neo-Stalinism reflected back at us

20 April 2022 Peter Strempel 0

JK Rowling is no TERF, no matter the neo-Stalinist cant being promoted by the Google-media-Wikipedia disinformation network.

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In the news … October/November 2021

3 November 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for October 2021.

Detail from Salvador Dali’s ‘The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory’ (1952–1954).

Morrison and Freud: What’s on his mind?

24 March 2021 Peter Strempel 0

What could a Freudian perspective reveal to us about the angry Scott Morrison thrashing about for an end to his sexual assault and harassment problem.

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Does left arrogance drive right extremism?

21 March 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Translating Thomas Frank’s editorial about arrogant American ‘liberals’ for Australian audiences reveals a very unflattering picture of local left elitism.

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Our democracy under threat all around

22 February 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Australian democracy is threatened by Chinese expansionism, unregulated corporate excesses, and its own neo-fascism.

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In the news … January 2021

26 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Commentary on current affairs and the state of journalism.

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Scott Morrison: the low road

3 January 2021 Peter Strempel 0

Scott ‘Scotty from marketing’ Morrison represents Aaron Sorkin’s lowest road possible when it comes to leaders.

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In the news … December 2020

17 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Commentary on the news and the state of journalism in December 2020.

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Morrison created China trade war with ideology, ignorance, and incompetence

2 December 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Scott Morrison’s right wing populist, nationalist jingoism doesn’t play with China, even if it is guilty of the same.

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Morrison exposed as champion of toxic Coalition culture

12 November 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Scott ‘Scotty from marketing’ Morrison exemplifies a toxic Coalition culture with his insistence of no responsibility and no consequences for unconscionable conduct.

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Biden’s toughest fight will be in his own party

10 November 2020 Peter Strempel 0

Joe Biden faces his toughest challenge inside his own party, not from Republicans.

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Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

5 March 2018 Peter Strempel 0

Tom Switzer’s arguments expose Australian ‘conservatism’ as a timid kind of neo-fascist, populist demagoguery.

Features

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Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’

12 December 2021 0
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‘As if’ is not ‘what is’

13 January 2021 0
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Typography reveals more than just words

25 December 2020 0
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What does Nietzsche say to us today?

2 December 2020 0
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Switzer’s critique of ABC exposes Australian right as neo-fascists

5 March 2018 0

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