AFL & THE US DEEP STATE – Australian Rules Football and American nationalism By Sasha Uzunov In the National Archives of Australia there are Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) files on indigenous Australian activist Sir Doug Nicholls (1906-88), who in his younger life was a champion Australian Rules Footballer in the 1930s. His every move […]
Comment/analysis: Sasha Uzunov, Editor, Alternate Comms. COLLATERAL DAMAGE? Macedonia is caught between a rock and a hard place. The Macedonian government, Centre-right in orientation, is pro EU/NATO and pro US President Trump. Macedonia could get squashed in the current political fight between EU/NATO and the US over Ukraine and, the hitherto united, Western defence/ foreign […]
Comment – Sasha Uzunov, Editor Alternate Comms AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL – Should the AFL have a British Heritage Round? Britishness in Australia is a very touchy subject, understandably so. Many Indigenous Australians feel sensitive about it because of the impact of colonialism. But the AFL, the governing body of Australian Rules Football in Australia, does […]
Special report by Sasha Uzunov. An expert panel has called for Indigenous Australians to be given the opportunity to reach the top executive administrative positions off field in Australian Rules Football’s governing body the Australian Football League (AFL). Held at Melbourne’s Southbank Theatre earlier tonight, Melbourne University Indigenous Australian academic Dr Barry Judd, indigenous Australian […]
Sociological, cultural, psychological & political analysis of Trump Mania -Sasha Uzunov, Editor Alternate Comms Critics and supporters alike, pundits, politicians, social and cultural elites and average Australians obsessing so much about the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is a mania not experienced in Australia since British pop band the Beatles arrived […]
Comment- Sasha Uzunov, Editor Alternate Comms –CAN CANADA SURVIVE FULL FORCE OF CULTURAL AMERICANNESS & TRUMP? –Is King Charles III the thin royal red line? Let us be brutally honest. Canada faces an existential threat. Let us brutally honest by adding that if it removes the British monarchy, it is finished as a nation-state and will […]
US President Donald Trump (left) and Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristjan Mickovski. PM Mickovski attended US Presidential inauguration. Was it showboating and spin or substantive? Analysis/Opinion – Sasha Uzunov, Editor of Alternate Comms US President Donald Trump has declared his interest in taking over the strategic Danish territory of Greenland near the Arctic north, central America’s […]
Comment: Sasha Uzunov – Editor, Alternate Comms It has now become an annual ritual, like clockwork, for the governing body of Australian Rules Football, the Australian Football League (AFL), to issue a statement condemning Australia Day 26 January as a day of mourning for indigenous Australians. Superficially, the AFL presents itself as “anti-colonial” in criticising […]
by Sasha Uzunov After a two month wait, Australia’s Governor General, Ms Sam Mostyn ,the country’s de facto Head of State who represents the monarch, has issued a statement that she will not be commenting on the Australian Football League’s contradictory anti colonial policy which condemns Australian Day over British colonialism but promotes US nationalism […]
By Sasha Uzunov Tennis Australia has not responded to a question over whether it will ban US tennis player Jessica Pegula from promoting the controversial US sports body, the NFL, at the Australian Open tournament in Melbourne. The NFL has been repeatedly condemned by native American Indian activists who say the sports body denigrates them. […]
