Nothing Like Talk Of A War To Silence A Small Target Opposition Leader

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1. Game of Drones

I note that police are now dressing up in paramilitary garb and given new powers to combat the spectral menace. And the promise not to torture people is framed as a significant concession for Labour, as a raft of new laws are hastily redefining our relationship with the world in the context of never ending war.

Manufactured fear draws our attention away from the privatisation of hospitals, destruction of the reef...and all other symptoms of the methodical americanisation of Australia. The real war isn't being fought against terror, its being waged against social democracy everwhere. Isis is just the latest diversion in a system that will churn out an endless stream of trolls and bogeymen, bread and circuses...with less and less bread. It won't stop until it extracts all of the profit from every vulnerable source and establishes a neo feudal state.

This is not politics, as Chris Hedges points out, it's a business cycle.