Babies and toddlers aged 0 to 4 are among the most-represented age groups of those killed by Israel.
UN: 7 in 10 Killed in Gaza Are Women or Children, in “Grave Violations” of Law
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It should mean Australia has to grow up and accept the responsibilities of being an ethical middle-power in our region, not reliant on an unstable, inward-focused fading superpower.
It should mean, as Paul Keating has put it, that we seek security within our region, not from it.
But it won’t. One of our major parties doesn’t have the ticker, the other is turning Trumpy.
Trumpification Australia. The winners and losers and what might be
Israel cut ties with UNWRA, attacked the West Bank and Lebanon, and announced a pending “complete evacuation” of northern Gaza earlier this week.
While America Voted, Israel Set the Stage for Annexing Northern Gaza
Simply put, the decision is catastrophic, because UNRWA is the main international body responsible for the welfare of millions of Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, and throughout much of the region.
Criminalizing UNRWA: How Israel is Delegitimizing the United Nations
I would never sign up to the policies of Iran, especially on issues like women’s rights, but I do find the invitation to join a broad coalition clarifying: the Axis of Genocide versus The Axis of Resistance. Whose side are you on?
Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
The fascist trend in America’s politics portends a lasting erosion of the underpinnings of the ties which have bound Australia to its most important ally and provides a powerful reason for us to loosen these ties.
The post mortem of this disaster will be long, bloody and it will stink like the rotting corpse of American democracy.
Trump Mark II: Chaos personified
DONALD TRUMP |
Palestinian journalists have recorded atrocity after atrocity after atrocity.
Inevitably, they do this until they are murdered by Israel. Their timeline goes dark and a universe dies alongside a piece of the truth.
No one can say they didn’t know: Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza
Some days it’s hard to say which is more horrific: the Gaza genocide itself, or the moral decay throughout our society which makes it possible.
And for Australia?
Meanwhile, far away on an island continent blessed way beyond any deserving, the Guardian has published a humbling poll that alleges 33 per cent of Australians, if they were eligible, would vote for Trump compared with 41 per cent for Harris – a mere eight-point difference.
Given the saturation coverage here of the election and, especially, Trump’s multitudinous legal, character and policy failings, not to mention his level of dingbat craziness that only Greg Sheridan could like, that is a bit of a worry about the direction of our own nation’s psyche.
This is not to suggest Harris is a great candidate, just that Trump is so palpably bad that America is considered something of a worrying joke everywhere outside of Russia and amongst a third of Australians.
Who knew the drive of the Murdochs’ Fox News business model could reach so far?
Last month BlackRock announced its total assets under management reached $A17.6 trillion, up from $A13.9 trillion the previous year. Comparing this to global GDP, only the U.S. and China have economies larger than BlackRock’s assets; its assets are 6.4 times the value of Australia’s economy.
The fact that capital is running the U.S. has real impact on Australia, 25.1 percent of foreign investment in Australia comes from the U.S., by contrast China, our largest trading partner, accounts for a paltry 1.9 percent of foreign investment in Australia.
contrary to the usual jibe of ‘anti-Semitism’ which is directed against opponents of Zionism, it is the anti-Semites themselves who are the best friends of Zionism. Indeed it was leading Nazis who were most fulsome in support of Zionism, because they both shared the belief that Jews did not belong in Germany.
It prompted Ben Gurion to have the German Nazis forcefully export 60,000 wealthy German Jews to Palestine save Hitler from bankruptcy due to a mutually profitable trade agreement signed with the Zionists
Record numbers step out to vote in the US election while PM Netanyahu fires his defence Minister and protesters gather in Tel Aviv. Israel continues to bombard hospitals and schools in Gaza and homes in Southern Lebanon and Dr. Gabor Maté guides his audience on the truths of Oct 7.
Activists are hailing this a victory for a popular boycott of the French multinational retailer that is deeply complicit in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.
Describing the US starvation of Cuba’s economy in abstract terms like “economic crisis” provides cover for deliberate policy decisions by the US government. By reporting on the embargo only as something that the Cuban government claims, it is easy for readers to dismiss that explanation as simply a Communist excuse. Instead of asking why the United States is choosing to enforce a crippling sanctions regime on another country, outlets like the New York Times find it easier to repeat the line that Cuba’s government has only itself to blame for its problems.
When Lights Go Out in Cuba, Media Blame Communism—Not US Sanctions
What do people in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon think about the US election?
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