2 August 2025
Why are our Australian institutions so silent regarding the Gaza genocide?
A reality of our day: The Israeli Government, with the full support of the United States, is conducting genocide in Gaza. Numerous other countries, including Australia, as well as a multitude of corporations worldwide are complicit.
2 August 2025
Gaza: Options for urgent action put to parliamentarians
Organising to meet a considerable number of federal parliamentarians in Canberra during a sitting week is never easy but that was the goal of Australians for Humanity desperate for new ways for Australia to contribute to urgent humanitarian action in Gaza.
2 August 2025
Trump trashes India, boosts Pakistan over oil – Asian Media Report
In Asian media this week: India and Russian are “dead economies”. Plus: Border clash ceasefire a test for ASEAN; Populist Right rising in Japan; Jakarta wants all nations to follow France’s Palestine lead; Pyongyang “not interested” in easing tensions; Kashmir pilgrimage a “river of humanity”
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2 August 2025
New ethical multilateralism of the fraternal economy program of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
We have arrived at a pivot of history. The world system that emerged at the end of World War II is over. The seeming truths of an earlier age have become dangerous illusions of our own age.
2 August 2025
New National Climate Risk Assessment - more ommision than commission?
The Albanese Government will soon deliver Australia’s first domestically-oriented National Climate Risk Assessment, which was due in December 2024.
2 August 2025
No-one is okay
When you ask me how I am, I will answer with a lie because the truth is too painful to convey.
2 August 2025
US integration of Pacific allies into war plans must be opposed
The United States is increasing its military footprint on Australia and Pacific and Pacific Rim countries as it prepares for war against China.
2 August 2025
Australian media persists with a misguided and tragically ineffectual strategy – the way to prevent suicide is not to talk about it
Statistics are cold-hearted methods to gauge the success of suicide prevention strategies, yet they are the only tool available to measure the number of Australians who take their lives each year.
2 August 2025
The moral correctness of a conscientious 'flotilla'
Lest anyone imagine that the recent attempt by a ship containing aid for distressed Palestinians was without precedent, they should consult a cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald of 28 July 1995 by Alan Moir.
2 August 2025
Worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
1 August 2025
Humanitarian propaganda conceals the real famine in Gaza
I wrote this piece from the heart of the ongoing famine in Gaza and the chaos orchestrated by the Israeli occupation to make life in Gaza unbearable.
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2 August 2025
Why are our Australian institutions so silent regarding the Gaza genocide?
A reality of our day: The Israeli Government, with the full support of the United States, is conducting genocide in Gaza. Numerous other countries, including Australia, as well as a multitude of corporations worldwide are complicit.
2 August 2025
Gaza: Options for urgent action put to parliamentarians
Organising to meet a considerable number of federal parliamentarians in Canberra during a sitting week is never easy but that was the goal of Australians for Humanity desperate for new ways for Australia to contribute to urgent humanitarian action in Gaza.
2 August 2025
No-one is okay
When you ask me how I am, I will answer with a lie because the truth is too painful to convey.
2 August 2025
The moral correctness of a conscientious 'flotilla'
Lest anyone imagine that the recent attempt by a ship containing aid for distressed Palestinians was without precedent, they should consult a cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald of 28 July 1995 by Alan Moir.
2 August 2025
Worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in the Gaza Strip.
1 August 2025
Humanitarian propaganda conceals the real famine in Gaza
I wrote this piece from the heart of the ongoing famine in Gaza and the chaos orchestrated by the Israeli occupation to make life in Gaza unbearable.
1 August 2025
Our media refuse to call out genocide in Gaza
Through its love affair with Israel and intimidated by the Zionist lobby, our legacy media has enabled the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel’s apartheid regime and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land over the past century.
1 August 2025
Americans' support for Israel's Gaza war hits record low, poll shows
Just 8% of Democrats and 25% of independents now back Israel's campaign in Gaza, compared to 71% of Republicans, marking the largest partisan divide Gallup has recorded on the issue.
Israel's war against Gaza
Media coverage of the war in Gaza since October 2023 has spread a series of lies propagated by Israel and the United States. This publication presents information, analysis, clarification, views and perspectives largely unavailable in mainstream media in Australia and elsewhere.
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1 August 2025
Britain’s back, China’s the target. We’ll likely pay the price again
Britain's HMS Prince of Wales has docked in Darwin, flanked by other warships and declarations.
1 August 2025
How Trump’s vision of a single-minded China containment has failed
Instead of disengaging to focus on China, Trump’s America is more deeply involved in Europe’s defence and the Middle East than before.
1 August 2025
Temu and Shein: cheap and very nasty
A garbage truck full of textiles is dumped in landfill every second. Sixty percent of the materials used in the fashion industry comes from plastic in one form or another. The production of nylon and polyester that is used is highly energy-intensive and relies on fossil fuels in the production process.
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