If, as it seems, the president of the United States takes orders from Israel, this makes Israel today’s arch-imperialist power, which is strange insofar as Israel apparently, alone, among history’s successive hegemonic powers, is uniquely lacking in an ideological justification with something approaching plausibility for external, and not just internal, consumption. To be God’s chosen people can surely be flattering and praiseworthy only to those who can see themselves as included in this category. Does this mean that such an imperialist power can rely only on blackmail to maintain its position? The first of the European powers to seek hegemony over the New World was Portugal, whose supremacy was quickly challenged, with the assistance of the Dutch, by Spain. Here is a timeline, presented by Robin Blackburn in his book “The Making of New World Slavery” (p.9) “The theory of empire which the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English came to expound appealed to God-given rights, but with interesting differences of emphasis. The Portuguese emphasized their rights as “discoverers”, not so much of the land as of the sea-routes between Europe and the newly discovered coast; Portuguese captains were required to register navigational details of their discoveries as well as … Continue reading
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The flood of migrants from everywhere that is currently coming into Australia in an unmistakeable attempt to change the demographic character of the population appears destined to make Australia like a bad (even worse) copy of the European Union. Who has not seen the photograph (a photograph?) of the crowds in Melbourne outside Flinders Street station, where there is hardly a “white” face to be seen. But this situation can be turned on its head, particularly when one bears in mind Israel’s success in instituting Hebrew as the language of their state, in glaring contrast to e.g. Ireland’s failure to implant the Irish language as the lingua franca of that country. The attempt to turn Ukraine into “the new bigger Israel” has apparently failed. Perhaps it is time to take some hints from one of the successful aspects of the colonization of Palestine: Israeli linguistic policy. Hebrew has been successfully introduced as the primary language of the Israeli state, displacing Yiddish, displacing or at least overshadowing, the national languages of the many countries from which Jewish immigrants have come to Israel. In Australia the “white Australia policy”, which survived into the mid twentieth century, has been replaced at the official … Continue reading
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6th February 2026 W.H. I have just been given your book “Son of Hydra” by my friend Vice-Admiral Heraklis Kalogerakis. Shelley Dark: How lovely – please thank Vice-Admiral Kalogerakis for me. I hope you enjoy it. W.H. I am starting it now. We are just over the road from the Voulgaris estate. S.D. Wayne, do you know anything of the history of the Voulgaris estate? Or maybe an online reference? I would love to know more. W.H. https://www.karapanou.com/the-story/#the-history-of-oikia S.D. Thank you so much, Wayne. That is interesting, Wayne. Do you know when it was acquired? I didn’t include any mention of Aegina in “Son of Hydra” because I wasn’t sure when the land was acquired – whether the Sultan granted it to Giorgos along with the title of Bey and governor of Hydra or whether he bought it before he became governor, during his time in office or later, after leaving Hydra, under pressure from the Council. But Ghikas would certainly have known about it. W.H. I am not well informed about all this. You can ask Heraklis the relevant questions. But here is something I sent to Heraklis the day before yesterday and mentioned to him last night when we were together in a restaurant: https://main.cse-initiative.eu/?p=1349 … Continue reading
“Here, courtesy of my Byron Bay friend Jan, what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (in my youth called the Australian Broadcasting Commission) has to say about Hugo Lennon.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-28/who-is-behind-march-for-australia-anti-immigration-rallies/105657548?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web Postscript on the idea that “far left” and “far right” are “all the same” The story of Queensland medical doctor the late John McCarthy refutes this idea. It is true that John’s political views – which were more or less shared in the 1970s, albeit off the record, even by such people as former governor-general Bill Hayden, have not stood the test of time. The collapse of the Soviet Union could not be intellectually integrated by the then probably most influential Trotskyist theoretician, the Belgian economist Ernest Mandel. Specifically Mandel’s belief that the Soviet nuclear arsenal provided “a measure of protection” to the Soviet state as such appears illusory. But John McCarthy’s devotion to justice and in particular to what are now known as “first nation Australians” was unquestionable. His companion of that time, the later well-known Marcia Langton, would not dispute that, in my opinion. If she and John had remained together she herself might not have become a celebrity but on the other hand John also may not have departed this world at the … Continue reading