Fascism wants the people of the country to not have any knowledge of their war plans.  America is so smart in thinking when China responds it will happen to Australia instead of the USA.

FM Wong's performance on this occasion is seriously inept. Having revealed the hazard of US bombers being at liberty to transit Australian airfields and airspace while armed must be challenged. Aus national policy should state no foreign military aircraft be permitted to enter or transit Aus airspace when armed without Defence Minister approval. This is an easy refinement of the existing Dip/Mil Clearance process.

Straight Ahead

Two Days

Days after the war in Ukraine began it was reported by The New York Times that "President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has asked the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, to mediate negotiations in Jerusalem between Ukraine and Russia." In a recent interview, Bennett made some very interesting comments about what happened during those negotiations in the early days of the war. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

More Evidence That The West Sabotaged Peace In Ukraine

In the latest escalation in Australia's increasingly forceful campaign to manufacture consent for war with China, the Murdoch-owned Sky News Australia has aired a jaw-droppingly propagandistic hour-long special which advocates a dramatic increase in the nation's military spending.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Murdoch Propaganda Pushes Australia To Double Its Military Budget For War With China

The US government is permitted to have nuclear weapons in Australia. What's more, Australians are not permitted to know whether or not this is happening. What's more, not even Australia's elected senators are permitted to know whether this is happening. It's assumed to be none of Australia's business whether there are foreign nuclear weapons in Australia.

This was clarified during a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday, when Greens senators were condescendingly admonished by the Australian foreign minister for the very normal and appropriate attempt to clarify the government's policy regarding the presence of US armageddon weapons on Australian soil.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Australians Aren't Allowed To Know If There Are American Nukes In Australia

There's this Pink Floyd line that's been rattling around in my head, "You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to." Because it's so true; you can't deceive people who don't trust you. Propaganda only works if people don't know it's happening — if they don't think of its source as untrustworthy.

That's why it gives me hope that trust in the mass media is plunging to historic lows: if people sufficiently distrust those who lie to them, then those lies won't take root in their minds anymore. Without trust, the propaganda machine can't function. 

All our world's troubles are ultimately due to propaganda; people only consent to status quo systems which hurt their interests because their consent is manufactured via propaganda. And that propaganda only works because of public trust in the messengers.

We can fight this by working to exacerbate public distrust in the institutions that manufacture our consent, spreading public awareness of the fact that everything we've been taught to believe about our nation, our government and our world is a lie. All positive changes in human behavior — whether individual or collective — are always preceded by an expansion of consciousness. Make people more aware that they are being deceived, and the liars will no longer be trusted by the people they lie to.

Reading by Tim Foley.

You Have To Be Trusted By The People That You Lie To

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Well it's another big day for Democrats doing Democraty things.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Praise Bush, Want More Small-Business War Profiteers

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

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