Link Roundup: 13 August

Friend of the show Alec Wilmot on Australia’s crimes in Afghanistan are not the result of a few bad apples, but the inevitable consequence of an illegal war.

A child of the ALP reflects on the disintegration of the party into a mass of soulless drones. “Student politicians are spoken of in the same breath as public masturbators and amateur phrenologists for a reason.”

How lockdowns have Western Sydney at breaking point.

How the Canadian government is spending millions on legal warfare against First Nations groups.

Berlin votes on whether or not to expropriate apartments from big landlords. I reckon it would be cool if we did this here. Brisbane is after all Australia’s Berlin, as people often say.

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