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Today’s BnB post is about the myriad rivers flowing into the “West” that intermingled and made the modern “West”. Many of these ideas & technology came via cultural exchanges, facilitated by Zhang Qian’s Silk Road routes. Western exceptionalism is a myth blakandblack.com/2025/09/03/t...
Love it … the West has its “history” of WWII … now the Chinese and Russians have a competing “history” 😉 As it celebrates the 80th anniversary VJ Day, China is trying to recast wartime history by downplaying U.S. help while emphasising Moscow’s role www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
It's not that far from the western end of the Suez Canal, Trump has talked about taking over the Panama Canal as well as Canada & Greenland (which with global warming opening the NW passage will be V important for shipping). All ties in with controlling global trade.
Why Nazis can’t integrate into mainstream society. Liberal democracies like Australia and beyond, are built on principles of equality, diversity, human rights, and the rule of law. It encompasses a broad spectrum of cultures & ideas coexisting peacefully blakandblack.com/2025/09/02/a...
Mine went ages ago … Que Sera, Sera
Completely believable with the root of all evil running the US and Israel. (There goes my tourist visa…)
A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population apple.news/AOEWRlpfqS52...
2 yrs on from Oct 7, 2023 attacks, Gaza's 2.3M residents face devastation amid famine & displacements. Israel pushes to seize Gaza City & dismantle Hamas, claiming lawful ops & aid efforts. Critics highlight attacks on civilians & protected sites. blakandblack.com/2025/08/31/z...
Gaza: Who Really Owns The Genocide Since October 7, 2023, US military aid has been pivotal in Israel’s Gaza operations. The US has provided over $22.76 billion in support, including weapons used in airstrikes and ground incursions. blakandblack.com/2025/09/01/g...
You do not owe the past your dreams, Nor chase the ghosts of “golden” days; No fragile myth of yester-glow Can know the sun you’ll set ablaze. Let memory whisper wisdom’s song – But never let it guide your ways. blakandblack.com/2025/09/01/a...
You do not owe the past your dreams, Nor chase the ghosts of “golden” days; No fragile myth of yester-glow Can know the sun you’ll set ablaze. Let memory whisper wisdom’s song – But never let it guide your ways. blakandblack.com/2025/09/01/a...
Gaza: Who Really Owns The Genocide Since October 7, 2023, US military aid has been pivotal in Israel’s Gaza operations. The US has provided over $22.76 billion in support, including weapons used in airstrikes and ground incursions. blakandblack.com/2025/09/01/g...
2 yrs on from Oct 7, 2023 attacks, Gaza's 2.3M residents face devastation amid famine & displacements. Israel pushes to seize Gaza City & dismantle Hamas, claiming lawful ops & aid efforts. Critics highlight attacks on civilians & protected sites. blakandblack.com/2025/08/31/z...
Let me take you on a wander, To a world spun silver-bright, Woven from the stuff of yearning And the fabric of the might-be – A kingdom balanced on a maybe, Where possibility is the air. blakandblack.com/2025/08/30/t...
Bob Katter wants to punch a journo in the face for mentioning his Lebanese heritage. Why? bad look for joining the Nazi-style rally? Katter doesn’t want us to know his family once came from Lebanon. #LebaneseKatter
So lift the veil and peer with me: This world is not, may never be – Yet the blueprint, the possibility Hums bright and stubborn in our marrow. Let us plant it, water it – In word, in dream, in daily deed – Let us lend hope’s tender muscle, To the world that could be blakandblack.com/2025/08/30/t...
Once, it was said that to be Australian was to knock on your neighbour’s door in the heat of January, offering a cold can and company, or a patch of lawn, just because shade is for sharing and trouble too. blakandblack.com/2025/08/30/w...
Mad Dog in a Ten Gallon Hat Bob Katter and his ten gallon hat tilted against the sunburned north, he spins yarns full of cobwebs and Campbell’s soup, words like fence-wire, rusted, or freshly strung to trip the next question.
As public trust in institutions wanes due to perceived injustices, governments increasingly turn to coercive measures to maintain control. Rather than relying on the consent of the governed, they depend on militarised police forces and expansive surveillance blakandblack.com/2025/08/29/t...
On the southwest side of Minneapolis, a school shooter killed two students and injured more than a dozen others while classes celebrated their first Mass. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
In the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), a quarter-century of uninterrupted Australian Labor Party (ALP) governance has transformed Canberra’s institutions from beacons of accountability into bastions of impunity blakandblack.com/2025/08/28/t...
Former Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has been awarded more than $340,000 in damages and interest after the WA Supreme Court found her ex-staffer Brittany Higgins defamed her in a series of social media posts. apple.news/ADcJe9ts4RNa...
Posts like this are offensive not only to the police who died in the line of duty, and to their families, but to the community at large … man I’m sick of conspiracies, both right wing and left wing…
The top 100 billionaires, mostly from the West, hold wealth equal to or greater than the bottom 3.8 billion, largely in developing nations. Ending resource plundering and economic exploitation could reduce refugee crises by fostering true development. blakandblack.com/2025/08/27/e...
In Canberra’s murk, where shadows choke the light, A society stumbles, blind to its own blight. Wealth hoards its crowns, all tarnished and cold, While Labor’s grip strangles dreams of old blakandblack.com/2025/08/27/b...
More than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam, a portrait by an Italian master has been spotted on the website of an estate agent advertising a house for sale in Argentina. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The top 100 billionaires, mostly from the West, hold wealth equal to or greater than the bottom 3.8 billion, largely in developing nations. Ending resource plundering and economic exploitation could reduce refugee crises by fostering true development. blakandblack.com/2025/08/27/e...
Oh, the Zionists are fuming, their outrage off the chart, As everyday folks flood the streets, tearing them apart. Crowds chant for Gaza’s freedom, a tidal wave of care, While Lebensraum hunters bomb from their lofty lair. blakandblack.com/2025/08/25/o...
The Sydney March for Palestine was part of a nationwide movement, with demonstrations occurring in over 40 Australian cities and towns, from Melbourne’s bustling streets to regional centres like Wollongong, Newcastle, and even remote Alice Springs blakandblack.com/2025/08/26/t...
The new reality in Trump’s America…
Oh, the Zionists are fuming, their outrage off the chart, As everyday folks flood the streets, tearing them apart. Crowds chant for Gaza’s freedom, a tidal wave of care, While Lebensraum hunters bomb from their lofty lair. blakandblack.com/2025/08/25/o...
Oh, Angel, legend in your lunchtime lore, What drives the man behind the grandiose score? For confidence masks the doubts that lie beneath, A bravado worn like armour, though it sheathes. blakandblack.com/2024/09/13/t...
Fair question…
Zorba was a genuine philosopher
In my humble opinion this is one on the finest three minutes in cinematic history… m.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0w...
Anything that MAGA dislikes or doesn’t understand is automatically Socialism … but … here’s a classic example of Socialism in action done by Dear Leader Trump … not a peep from MAGA about that despised Socialism #GoFigure 🤷🏽♂️
It lives on only in the warped imagination of Advance
Cook’s legally questionable claim to the entire East Coast of Australia for the British Crown helped usher in one of the world’s most egregious examples of settler colonialism … the latest iteration of which, the world is watching play out in real time, in Palestine blakandblack.com/2025/08/23/col…
It seems that MAGA on Trump’s caps has been replaced with his ego…
Settler colonialism represents a distinct form of imperial domination, characterised not merely by economic exploitation or administrative control but by the systematic displacement and replacement of indigenous populations with settler communities blakandblack.com/2025/08/23/c...
In the history of political leadership, far-right politicians have consistently demonstrated a pattern of manufacturing enemies to consolidate power, only to claim accolades for addressing crises they themselves instigated. blakandblack.com/2025/08/22/t...
Ask not for whom the empire withers – its decline is not a lesson, but a legacy; its dying embers are flares illuminating only the bones of joy, the records of what it costs when we forget how to be human to one another. blakandblack.com/2025/08/16/e...
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When ego soars higher than intellect’s reach, A tragedy brews, like Greeks on the beach, Fates weave their threads in a sorrowful play, Lehrmann’s downfall, in the light of day. So heed this tale of the man and his hat, Where pride over wisdom invites… blakandblack.com/2025/08/21/t...
They might develop some empathy for those of us who have been in that position for a long time
Sobering news for those white Christian males who believe that society should revolve around them - you’ll soon be a minority. By 2030, projections show “no religion” at 45%, Asians 20%. White Christian males <15%. Australia evolves as immigrant beacon. blakandblack.com/2025/08/20/w...
I dislike supremacists of any kind; whether racial, faith-based, or any other form that slips my mind right now. The moment you claim supremacy, you're declaring others unequal. And once we deem others unequal, anything becomes possible... and history shows it almost always does. #EqualityForAll
This post argues that the March for Australia represents a misguided quest to reclaim a past that never truly existed in its idealised form, driven by a profound misunderstanding of the underlying issues. Such protests divert attention from systemic solutions blakandblack.com/2025/08/19/t...
No one is immune to this
Putin’s Alaskan play … Donny T’s Kryptonite…
It’s been a 60-year quest to take Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion didn’t get it. Spying didn’t get it. So now Australia is waiting them out. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social reports from Dili #auspol michaelwest.com.au/timor-austra...
These racist bigoted dumbshits want to increase unemployment, send our economy down the drain. Because that is what happened everytime to Australia when immigration is restricted.
Israel is a settler colonial society which displaced the indigenous population The picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies blakandblack.com/2025/08/18/t...
Chops and 3 veg forever… it’s what they want. Monoculture, nothing new, nothing different because they are scared. Far out, but they can’t even handle ALDI.
Tariffs … working class MAGAts shooting themselves in both feet
What do they say about mad dogs and Englishmen 😉
17 August 1945, George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was published—a powerful satire unveiling the perils of totalitarianism through the eyes of farm animals. A timeless reminder of the fragility of freedom. MAGA take a look at the future you’re creating for yourselves and the rest of the United States…
The locations of the racist marches - let’s make Australia a less tolerant and more bigoted place to live 🤮 Long live Australian monoculture 🤮 What/who are the real vested interests behind this racist bullshit 🤔
“My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” ~John Lennon~ blakandblack.com/2025/08/17/t...
I'm keen to understand why the ABC never mentions that the vast majority of Beings, 147 of 190 in the UN already recognise Palestinian Statehood But they make a big thing about a handful of the rest as a "movement" Makes me sick to the stomach
Labor hasn’t just rejected the environmental movement, they’ve rejected the need to govern within environmental constraints. Less openly science denying than the LNP but equally damaging for practical purposes and arguably more dangerous because of this.
Then came the sails, pale ghosts from distant seas, Their words like fences, sharp and unyielding, Silencing our lore, veiling our wisdom in shadows. We became echoes, spoken over, not with— Our ceremonies stolen, our voices chained in foreign scripts, blakandblack.com/2025/08/17/v...
James Baldwin, in his essay “The Creative Process,” articulated the artist’s role explicitly: “The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness… so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose.” blakandblack.com/2025/08/17/t...
The organisers of Bendigo Writers Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, & every other gathering of writers might want to read this & then invite BlakandBlack to their next festival! BandB knows a thing or two about racism. Nice work, as always! #auspol
"The IHRA definition of antisemitism application in academia is worrying enough; extending that reach to festivals is counter to the multiculturual ethos that has enabled this country to forge ahead in the past half century."
Jillian Shirley Segal AO is a human tornado 🌪️ ripping the Australian arts scene to shreds… blakandblack.com/2025/08/16/u...
To the wheel worshippers: No culture’s history stands apart from the progress of humanity. Every culture moves through history hand in hand with every other culture. So it was, so it will forever be, encapsulates a profound truth about human civilisation blakandblack.com/2025/08/14/c...
Trump is testing the limits of his power — and, by extension, of our democracy. He’s feeling out what the Supreme Court, Congress, and the public will let him get away with. theintercept.com/2025/08/11/t...
The Sudan crisis: Over two years into a brutal civil war, more than 150,000 people have perished, 12 million have been uprooted from their homes, and 24.6 million, half the population, face acute food insecurity blakandblack.com/2025/08/15/i...
At last … proof that lizard people really do run pizza restaurants in New York…
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To the wheel worshippers: No culture’s history stands apart from the progress of humanity. Every culture moves through history hand in hand with every other culture. So it was, so it will forever be, encapsulates a profound truth about human civilisation blakandblack.com/2025/08/14/c...
The Egyptian Sphinx What awful boredom It must have experienced In this lonely spot Since men first planted it here And forbade it to move off!
We need to explain history not try and eradicate it… blakandblack.com/2025/08/13/m...
I wrote this poem yesterday, about a photo from Gaza, of a family of dead children, that was doing the rounds on X yesterday … of all the shocking images coming out of Gaza, I found this one particularly disturbing … talk about the entrance to Hell… blakandblack.com/2025/08/13/s...
Part of an exchange of emails between the former Indigenous Commissioner for ACT Revenue and AFP Commissioner Keelty’s office in 2008. These issues remain unresolved after seventeen years.
An irony … indeed the irony of all ironies … when I went to the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal seeking a document from CMTEDD the ACT Solicitor General tendered to ACAT and subsequently to the ACT Supreme Court a forged document, to support their claim that my application was fraudulent 😉🤦🏽🤣
FBI Director Kash Patel has fired former acting director Brian Driscoll, who refused to turn over the names of FBI agents who investigated the January 6th attack on the Capitol. REPOST if you stand with Driscoll against Patel and tRump!
Faces frozen in pixels, children’s bodies draped in pale cloth, their stillness a scream muted by screens. Eyes that once held starlight now lie shut, cradled by Gaza’s dust. Each click unearths another wound – small coffins stacking in endless feeds, blakandblack.com/2025/08/13/s...
🌍 André Gorz, a visionary thinker, challenged the relentless pursuit of growth in capitalism during a pivotal era of environmental awakening. His 1972 inquiry urged us to scrutinise the structures prioritising profit over ecological and social health tinyurl.com/3s3m34xc
But in each broken street, in every cradle, the question persists: what is the weight of a child against the cogs of strategy? How many lies before the sum of them blots out the names, the faces, the hope? blakandblack.com/2025/08/12/b...
Ego as we’re told is not a dirty word … but … once Zionists were empowered to conflate Zionism with Judaism … all things Palestinian, became the most unmentionable of evils … the dirtiest of dirty words… blakandblack.com/2025/08/12/t...
Ego as we’re told is not a dirty word … but … once Zionists were empowered to conflate Zionism with Judaism … all things Palestinian, became the most unmentionable of evils … the dirtiest of dirty words… blakandblack.com/2025/08/12/t...
The world watches – or it claims to. Eyes glazed by distance, calculations written on napkins in conference rooms ablaze with electric light, where dignity is sold for whispers of alliance, where the price of turning away is measured in barrels and votes. blakandblack.com/2025/08/12/b...
Zionism, a nationalist movement, advocated for a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine. Its realisation relied heavily on Western imperial powers. This support culminated in the 1948 Nakba. marking the birth of Israel and the onset of enduring conflict blakandblack.com/2025/08/12/t...
Dirty deals done dirt cheap by the AFP … the AFP are far from being colour blind when it comes to enforcing the law blakandblack.com/2025/08/11/r...
Yes … it always is
… and the system closed ranks to protect the author at the expense of his Indigenous target and the Indigenous target’s family
I'm only part of the way through reading yet I'm stuck on - "....the Commissioner’s Indigenous identity rendered him inherently unfit for leadership..". The colony in a nutshell right there.
The letter … a potential crime in itself … the cover up of that crime and an associated PID by Peter Garrison, the ACT Solicitor General, in coordination with other ACT Government officials … “friends in the AFP” helped … cronyism at its worst blakandblack.com/2025/08/11/r...
That's the polite way of saying it.
The entire history the AUKUS negotiations have been shrouded in secrecy by Morrison - why 🤔
Morrison’s enthusiasm for AUKUS raises questions about potential conflicts of interest, particularly in light of his rapid transition to high-paying roles in the defence and strategic advisory industries after leaving politics. blakandblack.com/2025/08/10/t...
The child who learns to twist the truth, Grows roots in soil of borrowed lies, Evil blooms from tender youth, In playground taunts and stolen cries. We nurture it with every slight, A garden dark, devoid of light. blakandblack.com/2025/08/07/n...
Australia’s legal framework for freedom of speech and expression is fragmented, deriving from international obligations, constitutional implications, common law, and state-level charters rather than a unified national guarantee. blakandblack.com/2025/08/09/f...
Freedom of speech & expression stand as cornerstones of democratic societies, allowing individuals to articulate ideas, critique authority and participate in public discourse without undue interference. These rights encompassing verbal, written, artistic… blakandblack.com/2025/08/09/f...
"Such discoveries prove that Palestine has civilisation and history, and no-one can deny or falsify this history," he said. "This is the Palestinian people and their ancient Canaanite civilisation."
Whose land is it really… A stone statue of an ancient goddess of beauty, love and war has been found in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian archaeologists say that the head of the Canaanite deity, Anat, dates back 4,500 years to the late Bronze Age. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...
Beneath the veil of righteous fire, Wars are waged in virtue’s name, Where evil thrives in false attire, And innocence becomes the game. No devil pulls the strings above – It’s us who push, who feign the love. blakandblack.com/2025/08/07/n...
Freedom of speech & expression stand as cornerstones of democratic societies, allowing individuals to articulate ideas, critique authority and participate in public discourse without undue interference. These rights encompassing verbal, written, artistic… blakandblack.com/2025/08/09/f...