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Michael Smith goes to Canberra

Private Bill hope to save Australia from World War III

Geoff Ebbs /25 October, 2016

As news stories predicting an imminent global conflict proliferate, Michael Smith is walking from Central Victoria to Canberra carrying a proposed Act of Parliament intended to stop Australia entering a war without parliamentary approval. Mr Smith’s legislation requires any resolution to deploy forces overseas to be approved by both houses of parliament. As Mr Smith approaches Continue Reading →

Scene from Megacities, a movie by the US Army

US plans for militarisation of megacities

Geoff Ebbs /25 October, 2016

The Pentagon is preparing US police and armed forces for a brutal and anarchic future in which the apparatus of the state is in locked in constant battle with the people. This is the premise of a 2014 video made by the US Army called Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity currently being shown at the Pentagon Joint Continue Reading →

John James, author, healer and publisher

John James Newsletter 143

Geoff Ebbs /25 October, 2016

The first war crime committed in any war of aggression is against the truth Michael Parenti     In 2015 the US imposed penalties on Volkswagen for emission violations of more than $13b. In revenge the EU imposed a $14.5b fine on Apple for unpaid taxes. The US now seeks penalties of $14b against Deutsche Bank for its part Continue Reading →

The Menz Guassa Community Conservation Area

Ethiopian Commons survives fifth colonial century

Geoff Ebbs /18 October, 2016

2016 marks 500 years since the arrival of Portugese colonists in Ethiopia. Due to its continued resistance of colonisation the Ethiopian Commons remains intact providing communal use and preservation of valuable grazing lands and ecosystem services. The country has never been colonized despite ongoing invasions by Turkey, Portugal, Britain and Italy, an experience that has thrown the Continue Reading →

US-occupied Afghanistan provide six sevenths of the world's heroin

Heroin floods USA post-Taliban

Geoff Ebbs /18 October, 2016

Seven thousand deaths from heroin in the USA during 2014 can be directly traced to opium sourced from US-occupied Afghanistan claims a report by NY Congressional Candidate Will Edstrom published last week. Six sevenths or Eighty Five percent of the world’s heroin, 6,400 tonnes, now comes from US-held Afghanistan. Ten thousand of the 4.5million US heroin Continue Reading →