A Friday Rave

A Friday Rave is joined by Rawan Arraf, Principal Lawyer and Executive Director of the Australian Centre for International Justice to discuss the Federal Court Order against Defence Minister Richard Marles to disclose the list of documents pertaining to export permits and actual exports to Israel prior to and since October 2023. In the case bought about by Al-Haq, the Palestinian Centre for Human...

This week we explore Gina's lastest investments in critical minerals projects and her MAGA-style courtship of Pauline and Elon. We talk about data centres, semiconductors, bottle-necks and the South China Sea. And a quick run through of the companies that the cops are using to get data from your tech

Today we talk about the 11th hour adjournment of the case brought by AL-HAQ against Richard Marles for documents pertaining to defence exports to Israel in the Federal Court. And we look at some of the lesser known Australian companies that are sole-source suppliers to the global F-35 program... including Israel. And yes, that picture is one of them.... The full report produced by Mercedes can be...

Defence has announced increased private investment to bolster the multi billion dollar defence budget. We look into the Advanced Capabilities Investment Fund and some of the companies poised and ready to take up the cash cow. It becomes blindingly obvious that defence decisions are all about the money, and not for "national security" as they would have you believe.

It's the 78th year since the first Nakba, but the catasrophe has never ended. The defence budget, the whole of government approach, israel's impunity and australian surveillance planes are all part of the genocidal project. None of us are free until Palestine is free

Outgoing CEO of Lynas Rare Earths addressed the National Press Club, so we dig into that as an exercise in lobbying, and trying to convince kids that mining is excellent, nothing to see here. And we have a quick yarn about the recently announced multinational defence bank. 

It all comes back to May Day.... It has always been about workers having a say in how we live.. from when we will and won't work, and what we will do with our time, the dignity of working people. So where are we today? A May Day perspective of working people and our lives today, from the apartheid employment system in Australia, the Royal Commission and classified recommendations and government lo...

We are joined by Clinton Fernandes to discuss the ramifications for food security by the war on Iran, debt as a mechanism for control and how Geoscience Australia conducted the publicly funded gas surveys only to sell the information to private companies to make a killing, and how we are seeing it happen again with critical minerals. 

We go over Richard Marles' (yes, he's still defence minister) National Press Club address announcing the 2026 National Defence Stategy and Intergrated Investment Policy... A couple of hours of spin to say not a whole lot, but we did it so you don't have to. $53 billion more bucks for defence companies and $53 billion less for the public. 

We talk about the arrest of Ben Roberts Smith on allegations of war crimes, the government seeming to care more about maintaining the authority in the conduct of atrocities rather than the atrocity themselves. And how war is the theft of childhood. 

The pitiful address to the nation.. and all the rest of it

This week we revisit Brave1 in the context of Zelensky's visit to Saudi Arabia to talk weapons transfers. Jumping off of our conversation about the war economy last week, we have a bit of a rave about the tech industry and how war and defence contracts are the only thing propping it up... making more billionaires by the minute and training systems to kill. 

This week we discuss the business as usual that is the US empire; regardless of who's at the healm, it commits the same atrocities but change how they spin it. And the Australian Government goes hand over fist to please them. This is what the war economy is. We also look at what will be the final Defence Major Projects Audit, cos when you're 57 collective years and tens of billions of dollars in t...

Mercedes is away today, but Jacob raves on about Australian Sovereignty... almost as if it exists.

The first Friday Rave since the War started in earnest.

The War in Ukraine continues.

The Eptein Files revealed a lot of awful stuff that was illegal... but its the awful stuff that's legal that we talk highlight today

Apologies dear listener for the technical issues with last week's broadcast... no we weren't being intercepted, it was human error on AFR's end...But of course, we discussed Albanese and Herzog's blood-soaked handshakes and how this is exemplary of politics as normal at the helm of global capital. And there's still time to subscribe to keep radical radio on air! www.3cr.org.au/subscribe

We take a look at the Navy Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS Submarine (Pillar 1) Project: Background and Issues for Congress.... 116 pages about the division of labour for the nuke subs that Australia isn't getting. And the abomination that is the Board of Peace Charter, doing away with international law in favour of a technocratic collection of trump affiliates looking to get their hand...

Jacob and Mercedes are out of action this week so we chopped together a show about the G.R.E.A.T Plan, the first iteration of the Board of Peace, which we will be dicussing in more detail next week. 

This week we go other the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 that was rubber stamped in Parliament this week, and just a few of the glaring issues. We also go back to Palantir, who are waiting in the wings with the technology to aid and abet ASIO, the AFP and other government departments in surveillence and data on us all. 

For the final Saturday Kick Ons of the Summer Series, we go into the dark depths of predictions markets, and the sites that let you gamble on pretty much anything, regardless of how macabre. We dive into how they work, how they are legislated and how they are rife for insider trading while appearing as credible insight into global events and the dangers that lie in the facade. When in reality, the...