13.2 C
Byron Shire
May 14, 2024

US support for Ukraine

Latest News

Public housing forum/doco May 16

A documentary exploring the devastating impacts of losing one’s home owing to the privatisation and demolition of public housing assets will be screened May 16 at the Palace Cinema.

Other News

Labor NSW spruiks healthcare worker incentives as QLD continues to poach

More than a thousand nursing graduates and students have received offers under Labor’s NSW Tertiary Health Study Subsidy Program as part of state efforts to counter staff shortages.

Generosity trashed

The wishes of Florence Price (nee Wigmore), a great benefactor to Ballina, is now just a pile of rubble....

Join the ‘muffment’ and raise money for homeless women

‘We need you to cook a muffin, decorate your muffler, pop on some ear muffs or even ‘Show Us Your Muff’ to raise money for women’s homelessness’.

White spot detected in prawns off Ballina – now a control zone

White spot syndrome virus has been detected by scientists in wild-caught school prawns from the inshore ocean area off the Richmond River estuary near Ballina.

New knife laws for NSW

The NSW government has announced a package of reforms to target possession of knives, particularly among young people, with the intention of reducing knife crime and boosting community safety.

Saffin welcomes Neighbourhood Centre Week

NSW Labor Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin has welcomed today’s start to Neighbourhood Centre Week across the country.

Alan Watterson’s recent ad hominem attack, under the absurdly inappropriate heading ‘Scrivener’s Ukraine’ (Letters, 30 August), demonstrates uncritical acceptance of the mainstream narrative and contempt for anything else. He was triggered by a letter that he clearly didn’t read, or else failed to comprehend, because it wasn’t about Ukraine or Russia and had nothing to do with Wagner.

It was actually about Australia and America and the warmongering war-profiteering plutocracy that rules them. This tragedy in Ukraine was obviously instigated by Nuland’s 2014 regime change operation and furthered via Biden’s corrupt dealings in Kiev. Washington’s goal is to harm Russia using Ukraine, just like it aims to harm China using Australia. America’s self-entitled political elite, devoid of self-awareness, incapable of self-reflection, deluded by hypocrisy and emboldened with odious arrogance, have clearly committed a colossal crime in Ukraine.

But one can hardly expect Alan Watterson to realise this, he’s someone who employs the epithet ‘antivax’ to insult critics of the mass vax agenda. He admits that AUKUS is a waste of money and accepts that America’s previous military adventures were all disastrous, yet he believes this time it’s a worthy cause.

His opinion represents a win for the pro-war PR campaign.

John Scrivener, Main Arm


Support The Echo

Keeping the community together and the community voice loud and clear is what The Echo is about. More than ever we need your help to keep this voice alive and thriving in the community.

Like all businesses we are struggling to keep food on the table of all our local and hard working journalists, artists, sales, delivery and drudges who keep the news coming out to you both in the newspaper and online. If you can spare a few dollars a week – or maybe more – we would appreciate all the support you are able to give to keep the voice of independent, local journalism alive.

1 COMMENT

  1. I find that the people that are pro-Zelensky, are the same people that in any other context, hate the west, and like the white population of the world being reduced, but some how on this one topic…
    And apparently, they can’t stop for one second to question why the resident White Nationalist, who cares vastly more for Europe and Europeans than they ever could, is saying that ‘multicultural-multiracial Russia is in the right on this one’, and that ‘it’s in Europes interest that we all get out of the way’, would be saying so on a whim. White Westerners have an inherit aversion to Russia going back a millenia, ones like me, doubley so. But yet they spout the epithets as a reflex, without the slightest perplexity or curiousity.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Free all the people

By any account, the current ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza today needs thorough analysis, to objectively understand the causes as to why this ongoing...

Exploring the Burmese struggle in Byron, May 30

Rosemary and previously, her late husband, have been teaching, then quietly building clean water systems for villages and schools in the ‘dry region’ of Burma / Myanmar for years.

Freemasonry looks to its future

Meet the Freemasonry Grand PooBah of Lodge Cavanbah in Byron Bay, Nick Towers.

Labor NSW spruiks healthcare worker incentives as QLD continues to poach

More than a thousand nursing graduates and students have received offers under Labor’s NSW Tertiary Health Study Subsidy Program as part of state efforts to counter staff shortages.