The goal is Empire

The goal is Empire

The goal is Empire I have written many times about Little Atrocities. Hannah Arendt coined the term, the banality of evil. When evil becomes normalised.  Like Hannah, I have been fascinated by the journey to evil. It doesn’t happen in one fell swoop; evil happens one...
When is one body too many?

When is one body too many?

When is one body too many? People all over the world are losing their jobs because they cry out for a ceasefire, they ask for the genocide in Palestine to end. Yesterday an Australian journalist from the ABC – our independent public broadcaster –  was...
The ghost of the dead

The ghost of the dead

The ghost of the dead There was something inside me that felt a trip to Japan without a trip to Hiroshima would have been disrespectful. As we sat in the cable car to the top of Mt Misen on Miyajima Island there were skeletons of trees that had died from acid rain....