claireconnelly

Fudgeit 2018: If the budget overview were honest

The Australian federal government seems to have omitted some key pieces of information from its budget overview document, so I fixed it for them. Stellar illust...

Why the federal budget is mostly bulls***

It is budget week in Australia, the week where the federal government unveils its plans for spending over the next four years, except not really, because promis...

Talking media myths, complicity & conclusion on 2SER

In which I discuss the ANZAC myth & Fairfax’s big retraction, Michelle Wolf & her White House correspondents dinner speech, Russian bots, Jeremy Corbyn and ABC’...

Syria the gateway to WWIII: Who stands to benefit?

Illustration by Rachael Bolton. The world’s major superpowers are converging on Syria, the centre of a new Cold War between America and Russia, and a significan...

Who are the White Helmets?

.png) The White Helmets are often presented by the western press as a humanitarian search-and-rescue NGO and occasional ‘freedom fighters’ against Assad, howeve...

Everything you think you know about the financial crisis is wrong

In which I interview economic historian, Dr Philip Mirowsi about why the left has been so spectacularly unsuccessful at countering the pernicious effects of neo...

Capitalism and the veil of ignorance

“It is easier for us today to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism — “ Fredric Jameson. So, I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that the p...

The art of (cold) war

“By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.” ― John le Carré. This new Cold War is thrilling, isn’t it? The spy...

How to stop drinking the Kool-Aid

The first step is admitting you have a problem. The Sydney Morning Herald — (international readers: wait, come back! I promise this is relevant to you too!) — r...

ABC has been 'pre-emptively buckling' to government for decades - journalists blow whistle

An exclusive I wrote for New Matilda in which former ABC Director Quentin Dempster, former broadcaster Carol Duncan and an ABC journalist call BS on the public ...

Turnbull's taxation tantrum a big, sexy, gift to the nation

Something incredible has happened. Malcolm Turnbull might be the first Prime Minister in history to pick a fight with the public broadcaster and accidentally op...

'The accused war-criminal who walks freely in the White House has his eye on Asia as a new lucrative target for destabilisation'

https://steemitimages.com/DQmbmvbjAZK2Xn15h7S3P6aMkpWiVheKb2w8dASsnP5gQxv/Kissinger.jpg Me on the alarming and entirely predictable direction the Cold War: Part...

'Governments have the cash. And they spend it. Just not on the people who vote.'

Here's a piece I wrote for Renegade Inc on the things governments can and cannot afford....

Why a Universal Basic Income is a smokescreen for the destruction of social security

My interview with Real Progressives in which Steven Grumbine and I talk about why a Universal Basic Income is a smokescreen for the destruction of the social sa...

Me on Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp

I was recently interviewed by Lee Camp on Redacted Tonight about the myths of money and history that have led to the present political crisis. Check it out for ...

2018 & burying the proverbial hatchet

It’s 2018 and while I have no data to measure this, it feels as though a cloud has lifted. After the toxic cesspool of last year, I was fully expecting 2018 to ...