Every drop of Palestinian and Jewish bloodshed is on the hands of the United States, Australian, and Western countries politicians who closed their eyes to the aggression, occupation, ethnic cleansing, and violation of international laws and resolutions carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people for more than seventy-five years.
Source: Palestinians will not surrender to occupation and apartheid – Pearls and Irritations
Israel sets the standard for gap losing and how we should live. Australia drops the NO bomb
Years of impunity for Israeli crimes against civilians have bred a culture of disregard for international law.
Source: Israel Responds to Hamas Crimes by Ordering Mass War Crimes in Gaza
Robert Reich recently posted this message: “The forces undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up.
“They have money.
“They have megaphones.
“And they have an even more powerful weapon – one that’s harder to spot but incredibly effective: Cynicism.
“Don’t give up.”
The Albanese government has the power to ensure that Australian political speech is as truthful as possible in a world where reliable information is both difficult to determine and utterly crucial.
Source: The Voice reveals the urgent need for truth reforms – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Mundine Means Business, which ran for two seasons on Sky in 2017 and 2018, was funded as part of the Coalition’s Indigenous Advancement Strategy.
Source: National Times – Calls for Voice audit may put Mundine-linked… | Facebook
The whistleblower of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is facing life in prison for exposing the truth, while the perpetrators remain free. Dr John Jiggens reports.
Source: David McBride facing life sentence as war criminals go unpunished
Chaos is the same strategy being applied by the opposition LNP to this referendum, Chaos has been based on the avoidance of truth of any kind in order to fragment the minds of the nation. They have the money, the media, and have forgone any obligation to history, context, and truth. It’s the Trump/ Bannon strategy of “flooding the zone with shit”. Since Morrison left the nation in a shambles Albanese has been getting no media credit for doing the job he was appointed to do. To repair the damage done and make Australia a fairer place by returning this country and moving forward once again to the notion of the Common Good rather than protecting the interests of a limited few. Winning isn’t their only priority
Biden is not getting credit — that the public sees and reads mostly about dysfunction and crises, created largely by Republicans and fomented by Trump — is not just politically disadvantageous for Biden and the Democrats.
It is part of an increasingly effective strategy by Trump and his allies to foment public disgust with our democratic system of government. It is an essential component of Trump’s authoritarian agenda.
Dutton is sadistically politicizing trauma in exactly the way the LNP has always done. They did with Asylum seekers. Desperate people were left to suffer in Limbo for over a decade or more for the sake of LNP’s political need to win. “We don’t know” then meant not doing anything but “Stop Them”- It killed people then and is doing the same today. Asylum seekers were left incarcerated in tropical sweatholes that nobody was allowed to talk about. Dutton repeated that with Robodebt singling out the desperate for punishment and now it’s indigenous Australians who will have to feel the pain of his jackboot yet again. For how many more years?
Dutton has been the king of “do nothing as the Health, Immigration, and Home Affairs Minister we all saw and felt him doing nothing
Doing nothing is always an option – but generally not a good one. To blindly accept the divisive and fear filled arguments of Dutton, Price and their fellow travellers to do nothing is a disservice to your intelligence and the nation. If you don’t know – do the research and make up your own mind.
Source: If you do nothing – you go nowhere – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Thorpe has little if no faith in white institutions. To be honest, I don’t have that much myself.
Source: Neo-Nazi threats against Lidia Thorpe reveal ugly side of politics
Busted by ASIC for accounting shonkery and rebuked by the Court for duping its clients, what’s the scam with law firm Shine Justice (and its auditor PwC)?
Source: Shine Justice – the law firm which breaks the law – bailed up by ASIC – Michael West
“It’s not enough just to provide condemnation … without an active leadership role in solving the problem,” he said. “It’s 75 years now of suffering of Palestinian people. Nobody listens.”
As the scope and scale of the Hamas surprise attack on Israel becomes clearer, one question emerges more than any other from the detritus of the battlefield: How did such a massive, complex undertaking escape the notice of Israel’s vaunted intelligence service?
The shadowy leader of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, said the assault, named “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm,” was in response to the 16-year blockade of Gaza, the Israeli occupation and a series of recent incidents that have brought Israeli-Palestinian tensions to a fever pitch.
Over the past year, Israel’s far-right government has ramped up settlement construction in the occupied West Bank. Israeli settler violence has displaced hundreds of Palestinians there, and tensions have flared around the Al-Aqsa mosque, a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.
Source: Hamas Says It Has Over 100 Captives From Attack On Israel | HuffPost Latest News
There will be only one winner in the war that has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
And it is neither Israel nor Hamas. In an operation coined “the Al-Aqsa Storm,” Hamas, whose formal name is the Islamic Resistance Movement, fired thousands of rockets into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters infiltrated Israel by land, sea and air. Hundreds of Israelis have been killed, more than 2,000 injured, and many taken hostage.
In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas and launched airstrikes in Gaza. In the first day of reprisals, close to 400 Palestinians were killed, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
In the weeks ahead, the Israeli military will surely retaliate and kill hundreds more Palestinian militants and civilians. As an analyst of Middle East politics and security, I believe that thousands on both sides will suffer. But when the smoke settles, only one country’s interests will have been served: Iran’s.
Source: The Israel-Hamas war: No matter who loses, Iran wins
As a start, and a prompt, I once again call upon our government to recognise Palestine. Have the courage to stand up to Israel, and its primary backer, the United States. Oh, and another thing, Mr. Prime Minister, and Ms. Foreign Minister – please don’t purport to speak for all Australians when you say “Israel has a right to defend itself”.
We’re seeing the western political/media class bleating the word “unprovoked” in unison again, this time in reference to the massive multi-pronged operation launched by Hamas against Israel on Saturday morning which reportedly killed hundreds of Israelis.
What’s the surprise after a 16year illegal blockade of GAZA one shouldn’t be surprised that 2.3 M imprisoned Palestinians erupt. Netanyahu showed a map of Israel where Palestinians simply didn’t exist. and the West cries “Unprovoked”
The tragic scenes unfolding in Palestine and Israel are a chilling reminder of the horrors that occupation creates — and the urgency of dismantling Israel’s blockades and apartheid system.
Source: The Violence in Palestine and Israel Is the Tragic Fruit of Brutal Oppression
What is “abhorrent” is that the Australian Government never applied that term to the constant and incessant provocations by the Israeli government. They closed their eyes to the Israeli Government’s sponsored, almost daily, attacks on Palestinians in Gaza the West Bank, and in Jerusalem itself. Nothing was said only silence when Israelis invaded Palestinian places of worship whether Muslim or Christian it didn’t seem to matter. It’s shamed the LNP but that was no surprise. But it now shames an ALP government and that’s a major disappointment to those that voted Labor.
Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have joined to condemn Hamas’ assault on Israel, with the Prime Minister condemning the attacks as “abhorrent”.
Source: Albanese and Dutton set aside differences to back Israel
A massive assault by Palestinian resistance fighters infiltrating Israeli military bases around the outer edges of the besieged Gaza Strip led to the killing of between 30 and 70 Israelis (different sources have reported different numbers), mainly soldiers. The subsequent bombing of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli airforce and military has led to 198 Palestinians being killed.
The Palestinian resistance movement’s attack comes in the midst of ongoing attacks on Palestinian civilians, their property and desecration of Muslim and Christian holy sites. During the first eight months of 2023, Israeli paramilitary settler attacks on indigenous Palestinians came at the rate of 3 per day, according to the United Nations.
Source: 198 Palestinians, at Least 40 Israelis Killed in and around Gaza Strip | – IMEMC News
It also comes at a time of mounting tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, with the peace process effectively dead for years. Over the past year, Israel’s far-right government has ramped up settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler violence has displaced hundreds of Palestinians there and tensions have flared around a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site. (Huff Post)
Isn’t this a case of Victim Blaming when put into the context? What has occurred in recent years in the world’s biggest open air prison along with what Israel promises will occur in the future has brought about resistance? Netanyahu literally stood at the UN with a map showing there was no Palestine. Putin declared there was no Ukraine only Russia and invaded. The world and condemned him. But not Netanyahu.
Nearly 300 Israelis and Palestinians have already been killed with the death toll expected to rise.
Source: After Surprise Attack by Hamas, Netanyahu Says Israel Is “At War” – Mother Jones
By Anjuman Rahman AnjumanAleena ( Middle East Monitor ) – The universal human right to water, ensuring “sufficient safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses” is a principle upheld by international conventions. However, in the Occupied West Bank, this right is systematically violated through Israel’s targeted assaults on civilian water infrastructure. Just last week, Israeli occupation forces raided the peaceful village of Susiya, nestled south of Hebron in the Occupied West Bank, ruthlessly dismantling its main water network. Fuad Al-Amour, the Coordinator of the Protection and Resilience Committee in Masafer Yatta, expressed dismay over the
Source: Israel’s Strategic Weaponization of Water Against Palestine is a War Crime
Our political and corporate leaders within the Anglosphere group of countries have recovered a global outreach beyond the wildest dreams of King George III (1738-1820).
Wind and solar roll-outs are increasing globally. Australia and other Climate Wreckers ignore the science and develop new oil and gas fields.
Videos that explain The Voice in simple terms to help you decide how to vote at the 2023 Referendum on the 14-10-23
As the referendum over a First Nations Voice approaches, the No campaign is turning to deranged conspiracies that link Aboriginal rights with communism. But it’s not just paranoia — they’re drawing on a long history of racism and red-baiting.
Source: For the Australian Far Right, Aboriginal Rights Have Always Been Synonymous With Communism
“I think it’s really sad that people are going to vote no. I worry about how we will feel as a people after the vote. I don’t understand why there isnt more advertising to promote the yes vote.”
This is an everyday experience Indigenous Australians dealt with for years. Stan Grant spoke of the fear felt when Social Services knocked. The kids immediately ran in fear and hid.
The aftermath of police mistakes The warrant to take the children should never have been issued. The Children’s Court orders should never had been made. Yet the DCJ think it’s reasonable that Angela should be out of pocket for the ordeal. This story is a true story, but for two things. 1) All the names have been changed for legal reasons and 2) the words in this article fall far short of properly describing the trauma caused by the events. A gross misfeasance has taken place; a gross misfeasance that could happen to anyone in NSW who doesn’t have half a million Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) followers, like Friendly Jordies does. The NSW Premier, Chris Minns, ought to intervene directing the Secretary of the DCJ, Michael Tidbal, to not only pay Angela’s Court cost, but also compensation – although the Premier must recognise that no amount of compensation will ever really heal the children’s trauma.
Source: Family in distress as Police Fixated Persons Unit hits the wrong target, again – Michael West
“But you tell me, if the leader of the Democratic Party – so that that would be Joe Biden – was facing four indictments with 91 felony counts, he had been found liable of sexually assaulting a woman and defaming her – that’s E. Jean Carroll – guilty of fraud, sharing the nation’s secrets – not only in the Mar-a-Lago indictment but there was a report yesterday from ABC News that he had shared information about our nuclear submarine capacities with an Australian billionaire who’s a member of Mar-a-Lago, who had then gone on and shared that with dozens of other people,” Tarlov rattled off, “and included specifics as to how many nuclear warheads they carry, and how close they can get to Russian subs without being detected.”
“And then I told you, so all of that is happening, and he’s shooting up in the polls. And when you see those interviews of Trump supporters outside of the rallies, they’re like, ‘none of this is true. It’s the big lie, he won the election,’ etc. And you wouldn’t say to me, ‘you guys are in a cult?’ It’s actually tame to what Hillary Clinton was saying.”
The video clip has gone viral, with over 350,000 views in one hour.
Source: ‘Spare me’: Fox News liberal slams Trump and his ‘cult’ of MAGA Republicans – Raw Story
One of his first moves was to nominate former PM Tony Abbott to the Board of News Corp. Abbott would have little to offer in terms of leadership. He was a failure at that. He did, however, have expertise in the delivery of gutter politics. Therefore, he will be well suited to a seat on the right of Lachlan.
Source: Murdoch to Murdoch – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Haggai Matar is an award-winning Israeli journalist and political activist, and is the executive director of +972 Magazine.
Contrary to what many Israelis are saying, and while the army was clearly caught completely off guard by this invasion, this is not a “unilateral” or “unprovoked” attack. The dread Israelis are feeling right now, myself included, is a sliver of what Palestinians have been feeling on a daily basis under the decades-long military regime in the West Bank, and under the siege and repeated assaults on Gaza. The responses we are hearing from many Israelis today — of people calling to “flatten Gaza,” that “these are savages, not people you can negotiate with,” “they are murdering whole families,” “there’s no room to talk with these people” — are exactly what I have heard occupied Palestinians say about Israelis countless times.
Yet I remember that everything that I am feeling now, which every Israeli must be sharing, has been the life experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long. The only solution, as it has always been, is to bring an end of apartheid, occupation, and siege, and promote a future based on justice and equality for all of us. It is not in spite of the horror that we have to change course — it is exactly because of it.
Source: Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context
The biggest public announcement of war with the ABC has been announced with Tony Abbott being appointed to the board of News Corp by Lachlan (Rupert) Murdoch. Abbott took the LNP to war with the ABC with his promise to Murdoch that he would eliminate it in a quid pro quo arrangement for his support. Every effort was made from the moment Abbott came to power. His No Cuts promise broken Abbott went directly for the heart of Australia’s Democracy. Our access to News and Information is the very reason why the ABC exists in the first place. A Statutory Independent Body was created to ensure governments were held to account. Abbott began neutering the ABC with budgets and banned his government Cabinet ministers from appearing on the ABC. He cozied up to Murdoch as we saw in their faux photoshoot in Atlanta even after having lost the leadership of his own party in order to show he was still relevant. Now he’s been appointed a general on the board of Australia’s worst Democratic enemy News Corp. For how long can News Corp and the Murdochs provoke us before we retaliate?
Why Australians would be concerned with the ramblings of an unknown conservative politician halfway around the world whose main obsessions are pot-holes and fighting the “woke disease” is anybody’s guess, but don’t discount the desperate research moles at the ABC, ably assisted by their research assistants at the right-wing IPA, who helpfully and regularly plant stories and suggest suitable guests to the ABC like dogs laying down beloved bones.
Because a few weeks after the obscure radio interview with Nick Fletcher-Who? where he raised the subject of a UK Minister For Men, Nick’s little issue had remarkably travelled across the world and become a major talking point on the ABC’s alleged premier panel show, QandA. Never mind that QandA has morphed into that 1990’s white trash Jerry Springer Show; the bigger question is why and how this became an issue for Australians at all?
The problem is, by shifting to that model, the ABC just wallows down in the gutter with the rest of them. Murdoch is already doing gutter journalism; his worldwide media outlets do ugly well. Why compete with them? If the ABC’s audience, and by that I mean their audience everywhere on all platforms, if they wanted to observe fabricated culture war bullshit, if they wanted to have relevant facts obscured from them, if they wanted an obvious lack of research or care, if they wanted the endless lies of the Vote No campaign re-framed as some sort of credible truth – if they wanted all of that, they’d simply consume Murdoch 24 hours a day.
Murdoch already does that better than anybody else on the planet – why not choose the higher ground where quality and facts exist instead?
Beset by “schoolyard bickering in the Murdoch media” the Liberal Party is in disarray, out of office in every state and territory save Tasmania. Steph Preston reports as the NSW Liberal Party fails to find a suitable administrator to push through much needed reforms identified after the Federal election loss. Does nobody want the job?
Source: Branches and Beefs: is anybody up for a job in the Liberal Party? – Michael West
They encourage violence. Their ideology demands it. And their escalating fixation toward Indigenous women in a position of power cannot be taken out of context. It poses a danger in Australia through the current Referendum debate and the target it has painted on Indigenous women in politics and so, too, in Aotearoa where young Maori women running for Parliament are being made to fear for their lives by the far-Right.
Who is next to get dragged into their fold as a result of all this press they’re getting and how far might that new recruit dare to go? Will the next lonely dreg these neo-Nazis goad on to violence, whether it be toward Senator Thorpe or whoever they fixate on next, make good on all the talk? Will we begin to take this problem seriously only after an Indigenous woman in politics is hurt?
I am as surprised as Lidia Thorpe is that a sitting senator cannot expect prompt and effective protection from this rising threat. But what I do know is that for whatever it’s worth, Lidia will receive unending solidarity and support from activists and grassroots anti-fascists in Australia, in whatever way we can provide it. I hope that our communities won’t let her down where so many insufferable liberals, racists, cops and spooks can’t help but do time and again.
Following violent threats online, Senator Lidia Thorpe has now received vitriol on social media after standing up for herself.
Whether or not one is a supporter of the AUKUS project, it is impossible not to see the shortcomings of the responsible ministers and officials as putting Australia’s security at the mercy of forces the government cannot affect. Collectively successive governments might have authored the greatest policy blunder in Australia’s history.
Source: AUKUS: The greatest policy blunder – Pearls and Irritations
Israel no longer operates in the best interests of America
Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War, its legacy still defines US policy in the Middle East. The aftermath of the conflict saw Washington massively expand aid to Israel — while buying off Arab governments in order to isolate the beleaguered Palestinians.
Source: Fifty Years After the Yom Kippur War, the US Should End Its Blank-Check Aid to Israel
Today, Israel is linked to Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia. The group was formed after the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014 and was eventually absorbed into Ukraine’s armed forces. The group is accused of war crimes by the United Nations, and its paramilitary arm, the National Corps, is associated with attacks against local Roma and the LGBTQ community. Despite claims to the contrary, the Azov Battalion still uses the Wollfsangel symbol as part of its uniform, a logo widely used in Nazi Germany and which remains popular with neo-Nazis today. According to multiple reports, the Azov Battalion has used weapons manufactured by major Israeli arms firms like Rafael and Israel Weapon Industries.
In an attempt to whitewash the brigade’s image, an Azov Battalion officer, Illia Samoilenko, visited Israel on a publicity tour organized by local activist group Israel Friends of Ukraine in December. During his trip, Samoilenko met with Naama Lazimi, a Labor Party politician in Israel’s parliament.
Beyond Europe, Israel has supported authoritarian regimes in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. These relations often involve arms deals, such as the sale of arms and provision of military training to Chile during dictator Augusto Pinochet’s rule from 1973 to 1991. Israel has also sold arms to military regimes in Bolivia and Guatemala in the 1970s and 80s. During this time, Guatemala committed genocide of around 200,000 majority indigenous people. Israeli arms were also used in the Rwandan Genocide and continue to be used in Myanmar’s ongoing genocide against the Rohingya people.
The attempt by Mike Pezzullo to reintroduce Defence Notices is a concerning act of trying to stifle press freedom, writes Dr Alison Broinowski.
The AUKUS nuclear submarine program team has racked up a travel bill of $15.2m over the past two years. By anyone’s standard, that’s an incredible amount. But in the context of Anthony Albanese’s opulent $368B nuclear boat program, people inside the tent will see $15m as a drop in a very large ocean of funds. Rex Patrick looks to the details of the gravy plane.
Source: AUKUS Gravy Plane: $633K a month in flights with the taxpayer picking up the tab – Michael West
The New Israel allows Jewish freedom to spit on Christians.
Israeli journalist Nir Hasson at Haaretz put a spotlight on the disturbing practice of some Ultra-Orthodox Israelis of eastern European heritage of spitting on Christians in Jerusalem. The incident concerned what appeared to be Filipino pilgrims carrying a cross, but the people who suffer most from such forms of aggression are the 15,000 Palestinian Christians living in Palestinian East Jerusalem.
The largest and oldest class struggle in America has been between capital and labor — between the owners of big corporations and the people who work for them, between those who live off their investments and those who live off their wages.
Andrew Bolt never apologized for telling Australia the planet was cooling for 10 years. He just ignored it and moved on in the 24/7 news cycle and turned to Blomborg was his name was the guy Tony Abbott wanted to gift into an Australian University to legitimize his cooling planet Woke movement.
July 2023 remains the hottest month ever recorded, while August’s record makes the northern hemisphere’s summer the hottest since records began in 1940.
Last month was the also the hottest August on record globally, the third straight month in a row to set such a record following the hottest ever June and July, the EU said on Wednesday.
Source: Climate Data Says Summer Of 2023 Was The Hottest On Record | Crooks and Liars
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is relying in part on what critics call the “drug dealer’s defence”. It’s reasoning that argues:
if we don’t sell this product, someone else will.
Source: Why the ‘drug dealers defence’ doesn’t work for exporting coal. It’s actually Economics 101
Many Indians have bristled at a perceived double standard on extrajudicial killings amid Canada’s investigation into the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Source: U.S. Targeted Killings Inspired Foreign Assassinations, Indians Say
Do Indigenous Australians live there?
There are counties in the U.S. where you’re beating the odds if you make it past 70, writes Richard Eskow. The country should stop tinkering around. It needs Medicare for All.
Source: US in Neoliberal Death Spiral
His lawyers asked federal judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the four-count felony indictment because Trump’s actions are protected by “presidential immunity.”
Source: Trump Requests Jan. 6 Charges Be Dismissed | HuffPost Latest News
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