The Grand Illusions of the leaders of Western Democracies are crashing to defeat in Ukraine. (more…)
Category: Media
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Murdoch media problems
The good news for the Murdoch media is that it’s not the most distrusted brand in Australia – despite the efforts of its journalists. (more…)
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T20: blessing or curse to cricket?
Several developments in recent times suggest that T20 is a potential danger to cricket. (more…)
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Pearls and Irritations: taking you places commercial media dare not go
Pearls and Irritations has become invaluable to understanding how Australia and the world actually works … or doesn’t work. (more…)
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Jim Chalmers’ new economics: a frontal assault on capitalism?
It’s no surprise that Jim Chalmers’ gentle challenge to neoliberal economics has generated an often rabid and intensely hostile response from the Murdoch media. To be hoped for is a more reasoned, informed national debate which focusses on, as Chalmers points to, fundamental changes to our economic environment. (more…)
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Exposed: the US ‘atrocity fabrication’ industry demonising rival states
Shocking false narratives are concocted by the west to create animosity towards rivals, says 500-page study from University of London researcher. (more…)
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Pearls and Irritations has never been more necessary
Pearls and Irritations is essential reading for anyone interested in public policy analysis. (more…)
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China statecraft must avoid war with US and keep Taiwan peace
It would be a grave mistake for Beijing to respond in kind in the face of incessant provocations and escalations by America and its allies. (more…)
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My sources corroborate Hersh’s Nord Stream Report: notes from The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
My sources corroborate Seymour Hersh’s report that the US was behind the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage. (My sources are logic, common sense, and public statements by US government officials.) (more…)
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Platitudes don’t bring peace to occupied Palestine
The blood bath that was 2022 in occupied Palestine claimed the lives of more than 230 Palestinians. The Israeli Occupation Forces and the heavily armed illegal Jewish settlers in the West Bank have continued their feral killing spree into 2023 unabated. (more…)
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School reform: shift the deck chairs, forget about the ship
The school year has started with the usual flurry of excitement about new policies and reforms, but flaws in the structure of Australia’s school system still aren’t on any agenda. (more…)
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China containment line buttressed: Asian Media report
In Asian media this week – Taiwan key to first island chain control. Plus: US fosters belief war is inevitable; why the West thinks it speaks for the world; independence anniversary but nothing to celebrate; balloon saga shows why US must act tough; nothing can live in Manila Bay. (more…)
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Pulitzer prize-winning Hersh: evidence US behind Nord Stream Pipeline sabotage
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a story Wednesday alleging that the United States was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline system last year, citing a source “with direct knowledge of the operational planning.”
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Pearls and Irritations comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable
Pearls and Irritations comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable. (more…)
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Blindly following our political masters? Pearls and Irritations can help
Pearls and Irritations provides informed alternative perspectives on policy issues to those provided by the conventional-thinking mainstream media. (more…)
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What’s wrong with addiction
As I watched the Four Corners program, Vape Haze, in 2022, I was struck by the program’s focus on addiction, a bad thing. A mother spoke of her devastation when her 16-year-old daughter told her she was vaping. (more…)
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Pearls and Irritations is a sorely needed voice
The only place in our media landscape where I can get a well argued and penetrating alternative view to our overwhelmingly conservative mainstream media. (more…)
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Opus Dei: A Catholic sect
Opus Dei is a sect. Its spirituality doesn’t free the spirit, but enslaves it.
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Laura Tingle: the next ABC staff-elected director?
So Laura Tingle, the ABC’s 7.30 political editor, has nominated for the staff-elected director position on the ABC board. Interesting. (more…)
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Leak confirms U.S. agents created massive ‘Kremlin web-bots’ scam
A group of top US agents, mostly Democrats, pumped hundreds of fake news stories into the mainstream media, it was revealed at the weekend. (more…)
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Please support Pearls and Irritations: It operates on the faint memory of the smell of an oily rag
On the faint memory of the smell of an oily rag, John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations public policy journal daily publishes a range of opinion and insights that shames the lack of diversity in our much bigger and better resourced media. (more…)
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What’s in a name? Ardern’s pledge
In the applause showered on Jacinda Ardern at the close of her term there’s one credit missing: The NZ PM swore to never mention the name of the 2019 Christchurch mass murderer. (more…)
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Why the Dutton Voice approach won’t work
Opinion polls suggest Peter Dutton and his media accomplices – both Murdoch and the Nine Newspapers – are having some initial success in confusing The Voice issue. (more…)
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Freeing Assange?
On New Year’s Day 2023, John Lyons, the Global Affairs Editor of the ABC, made the extraordinary prediction that within the next two months Julian Assange would be released. (more…)
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Conservatives fight desperate, losing battle against decolonisation of Australia
Conservatives rail against references to “invasion day”. Ultimately, however, these are the despairing sighs of an old, dying Australia which no longer exists and isn’t coming back. (more…)
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Jacinda Ardern, the ultimate accolade, and Jim Molan
The least well-developed political sense is the feel for when it is time to move on. (more…)
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China’s social credit system and America’s counterpart
In recent months, Sinophobia in the mainstream media in the West, in particular in the United States, has resulted in widespread condemnation of China for its undemocratic and repressive social credit system. Never mind America has something similar. (more…)
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The Ultra High Net Worth Individual’s strongest weapon: News Corp
We are at a crossroads. The Ultra High Net Worth Individual (UHNWI) class is creating a new international feudal order, assisted by the professional enabler class including politicians in pursuit of their money. One of those enabling mechanisms is the media. In Australia, News Corp serves as the strongest weapon in the creation of their desired world. (more…)
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Pearls and Irritations needs your financial support to keep improving and growing. (more…)
