When the Center didn’t hold

I’ve been in a relationship with the World Trade Center for 51 years. Sometimes we were close.

P. Frazer13 September 2021Comment

Morrison’s craven cave to the QAnon cult -- can he squirm out of this one too?

P. Frazer16 June 2021Comment

Trump loves his deplorables, and betrays them

Trump’s insurrectionary army consisted of a bunch of Nazi-lovers, a swarm of QAnon fanboys, a squad of wanna-be Tom Cruisers, and three who found unintended ways to kill themselves. There are millions of them still willing to dye their hair for him.

P. Frazer12 January 2021Comment

It’s Time — for Byron Shire to save the world

The virus upended everything in 2020, then Trump’s clown army upended him and America, and in Byron Shire our stand-up comic and wise woman Mandy Nolan decided to quit joking and run for parliament — because the real disaster looming over us, the global eco-catastrophe, must be confronted.

P. Frazer7 January 2021Comment

The Loser-In-Chief hits the canvas — frothing blood sweat and Covid

Today is the day Trump got someone to concede the election for him, given he can't be a loser, existentially. What happens now?

P. Frazer26 November 2020Comment

Finally the Emperor Trump has no clothes ... or does he?

P. Frazer12 November 2020Comment

The United Fuck-Ups of America

There will be blood; how much and when it goes viral could determine the future of us all.

P. Frazer3 November 2020Comment

My conspiracy with Abbie Hoffman

The weekly pop paper that corrupted Aussie teenagers in the 60s and 70s

P. Frazer1 November 2020Comment

We need a pandemic of creative change

We’re in a moment that requires immense change so we need visionary thinking. Almost all of our politicians and media chatterers are wildly incapable. They don’t see it as part of their job, let alone the heart of the matter.

P. Frazer9 September 2020Comment

Trump as cornered feral cat, mayhem looms

Trump and his Republican base are preparing to win the upcoming election by preventing millions of voters from voting, including igniting a second Civil War.

P. Frazer22 July 2020Comment

For Australia's current rulers, like colonial masters, policing is their way of being social

P. Frazer29 May 2020Comment

Trump's crumbling base

Mormons — inspired by their man Mitt, in the photo — and women, constitutionalists, military and intelligence pros, are among the Republican voters who’ve had enough of the crowing rooster in the White House. In 2016 the Presidential election was tipped by voters who said they wouldn’t vote for that clown, and then did. This time a similar bunch of folks who won’t tell pollsters they’ve had enough, will switch off from Trump or not show up on the day. It won’t take many to change the outcome.

P. Frazer18 February 2020Comment

The big good things we got in the decade gone by

The decade — the 20-10s or was the teens? — is over and some good things did happen, amidst the many catastrophes slow and speedy. A big view of the past 10 years…

P. Frazer24 December 2019Comment

Sex, drugs and Molly Meldrum: behind the scenes of counter-culture mag Go-Set

Recollections of Australia’s first pop music paper, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary — published at crikey.com in 2016.

P. Frazer24 November 2019Comment

Scott Morrison’s friends in weird places

Tim Stewart is Australia’s most prominent supporter of the nutbar QAnon online movement that believes a “Great Awakening” is coming in which Trump’s enemies, from the Deep State to Obama’s dog, will be destroyed. Tim is also a best mate of our PM Scott Morrison and Tim’s wife works fulltime in the PM’s office.

P. Frazer20 November 2019Comment

We live under a bully-ocracy. We must Be Quiet and Obey.

in Australia today the Coalition government frames every debate with the general rule being: Everything will be decided by Boss Morrison and the Appropriate Minister. The citizenry shall Keep Quiet and Obey.

P. Frazer6 November 2019Comment

This is an existential emergency: stop pretending you're solving it

The burden of Greta’s speech, and its shocking power, came from her refrain: “How dare you.”

P. Frazer2 October 2019Comment

Will they beat Trump? Impeachment is just one of five reasons it’s impossible to predict

Trump might be indicted for “high crimes” that can trigger impeachment, such as for telling the Ukrainian president he can have $400 million in “aid” but only if he slanders Joe Biden (exactly who the whistleblower was and what they said is crucial and as yet unknown). Or he could be embroiled in criminal charges for financial fraud and tax dodging, or lying under oath, or all the above. That said, crimes are hard to stick on a President, especially a bullshitting mud-slinger like this guy.

P. Frazer26 September 2019Comment

What 4 Corners missed about Julian Assange

On Monday night, ABC’s 4 Corners did a Julian Assange update. Here are my four takeaways:

(1) In almost an hour of reporting, the ABC’s Michael Brissenden barely glossed the crucial stories Assange has published: American interference in the internal affairs of dozens of countries (including invading many of them), US phone-tapping of world leaders, how and why the Democratic Party subverted Bernie Sanders in 2016, multiple financial outrages of global corporations and high-rollers.

Phillip Frazer3 August 2019Comment

Science versus the "rights" of MOPPs

America’s men of privilege and power (let’s call them MOPPs) have always defended the Constitutional rights they declared for themselves, and fought like hell to keep any other rights from creeping in – specifically, “social” rights like the right to health, a home, an education, a fair share of nature, and the right of non-MOPPs to invent new rules. Australia, having never dared enumerate our citizens’ rights, will protect Christianity from “narks”, if our Pentacostal PM has his way.

P. Frazer23 July 2019 Comment