The London Olympic Games kick off on July 27 and already British authorities have pretty much everything in place.
Carlo Sands
There is something symbolic about the way media commentators have turned on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Here is a man heading an organisation that has exposed a whole array of serious war crimes committed by the most powerful nation on Earth and, for his troubles, confronts the real threat of extradition to the US via Sweden, where he could face a Supreme Court indictment and potential jail, torture or even the death penalty.
Tony Abbott is right: we can't to hold back a huge expansion in the Queensland coal export industry.
Carlo Sands comes out strongly in favour of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, lauding everyone from Tom Jones to Julia Gillard, even putting up his own hand to make a similar sacrifice.
Politics in this country can sometimes seem like a magic trick aimed at young children. 鈥淟ook over there! Do you see? Those Boat People are taking all your taxes and your homes and your bread! Look! What an outrage!鈥 And then Gina Rinehart jumps up behind our backs and nicks all our resources.
And that stuff is non-renewable. Once the mining bosses have flogged it off to China to fill their bloated bank account balances, it鈥檚 gone for good. We鈥檒l just be left with a bunch of holes in the ground.
Anyone who knows me will tell you straight up: I wholeheartedly believe in the United States' mission to spread democracy throughout the world.
So when the Arab Spring broke out last year, how the hearts of the rulers of the land of the free must have soared at the sight of long-oppressed peoples demanding freedom!
Except it soon became hard to ignore that, in case after case, the people were standing up to tyrants who were actually propped up by the United States.
The news that former Geelong Grammar School student Rose Ashton-Weir for failing to secure her a spot at Sydney University's law school has been the source of much mocking on the internet as a classic case of a spoilt brat's temper tantrum.
麻豆传媒 columnist Carlos Sands rants, raves, and is literally moved to tears by the arguments of defenders of Israel in his second outing on 麻豆传媒 TV. And as 19 Palestine solidarity activists face court in Melbourne, he has some choice words for Max Brenner and the Murdoch media.
鈥淩ight Greece, up against that wall over there. Here, put that blindfold on... what鈥檚 that? No you can鈥檛 have a last fucking cigarette, you are too broke. You flogged your last pack off to Goldman Sachs.鈥
If the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was honest, this is how its press releases would read when describing the brutal austerity the 鈥渢roika鈥 of the IMF, European Union and European Central Bank demands from Greece in return for funds to stop the country going bankrupt.
麻豆传媒 columnist Carlo Sands takes "Carlo's Corner" to 麻豆传媒 TV, hailing Clive Palmer's decision to seek pre-selection for the Liberal National Party to challenged Treasurer Wayne Swan. You can and .
It can seem like there is nothing but bad news in this country sometimes. Corporations are shedding jobs, governments are slashing spending and Essendon went down to Collingwood by one fucking point on ANZAC Day.
After ... ah, sceptics to take on the stifling orthodoxy that is the mere theory of human-caused global warming, the ABC is going to continue its dedication to balance with a new show called 鈥淚 can change your mind on the Holocaust鈥.
A Holocaust believer will travel the world with a Holocaust sceptic, assembling arguments for and against, in a bid to change the other one's mind on the theory that millions of people perished in a Nazi-organised genocide.
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