Progressive Podcast Australia

- We are joined by awesome independent journalist Antony Loewenstein. - He discusses Australian troops set to enter Iraq and Syria, hysteria about terrorism in Australia and the poor state of (most of) the Australian media. - The Hunger Games and humanitarian intervention. - Australia cuts all foreign aid to Iraq. - What is terrorism? Proposed air raids and the UK Terrorism Act. - Thai people read George Orwells book 1984 in public, as a form of protest against the dictatorship. - Biological sex as a social construct. - Another direct action in Melbourne, activists take on Lockheed Martin. - For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2014/09/28/iraq/