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Jeffrey Sachs: Ending the genocide now

A UN Security Council vote to grant Palestine permanent UN membership would end Israel’s zealous delusions of permanent control over Palestine, write Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares. But the US stands in the way.

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Gaslighting the electorate, virtue signalling to our ‘partners’

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Australia is one trade deal away from backing authoritarians, says Taiwan
Fred Zhang

Anti-China Media Watch

Australia is one trade deal away from backing authoritarians, says Taiwan

In the grand tradition of diplomatic overreach, Taiwan's deputy foreign minister recently offered some sweet and spicy talking points to our media: semiconductors are tanks, China is akin to WWII Germany, and if Australia doesn't fast-track Taiwan into the CPTPP, we might all wake up speaking Mandarin under a fascist AI regime, as reported by News Corp and 7 News.

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Chasing a chimera: The political dream of AUKUS that consumes reality
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Chasing a chimera: The political dream of AUKUS that consumes reality

For the sake of taxpayers, let's hope that the Audit Office is inspecting the AUKUS books closely.

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Since the outbreak of the Gaza war on 7 October 2023, Washington has made its position clear: full and unconditional support for Israel.

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Absent – The 3D essentials: Discipline, direction and determination

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Taking a win from Alaska
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Death or displacement, ‘Please no more polite language about the Netanyahu evil’
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Death or displacement, ‘Please no more polite language about the Netanyahu evil’

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The West’s long struggle against genocide prevention: Obliteration and complicity
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Dr. Steinbock’s highly topical new book The Obliteration Doctrine is about the genocide in Gaza, the West’s complicity and long struggle against genocide prevention. In this Q&A with Dr. Steinbock, we will focus on just a few themes of the his highly topical new book.

Redefining Hamas, pleading for a peace force
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Redefining Hamas, pleading for a peace force

In conflicts, unless perception of opponents is re-defined, claims as to who is worthy, who unworthy are repeated and resolution remains elusive.

As press freedom groups decry latest 'murder' of journalists by Israel, fury grows over impunity
Brad Reed

As press freedom groups decry latest 'murder' of journalists by Israel, fury grows over impunity

Israel's broadcasted killing of journalists in Gaza continues while the world watches and fails to act firmly on the most horrific attacks the press has ever faced in recent history, said one press freedom advocate.

Caritas Internationalis statement on the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City
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On 20 August 2025, Israeli forces stormed Gaza City, where nearly one million displaced civilians had sought refuge, many already starving.

John Menadue's book on Israel's war against Gaza

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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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Australia is one trade deal away from backing authoritarians, says Taiwan
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Anti-China Media Watch

Australia is one trade deal away from backing authoritarians, says Taiwan

In the grand tradition of diplomatic overreach, Taiwan's deputy foreign minister recently offered some sweet and spicy talking points to our media: semiconductors are tanks, China is akin to WWII Germany, and if Australia doesn't fast-track Taiwan into the CPTPP, we might all wake up speaking Mandarin under a fascist AI regime, as reported by News Corp and 7 News.

MAGA 2.0: Making China great again
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MAGA 2.0: Making China great again

In Donald Trump’s make-believe world prices are falling, the economy is booming, he is bringing peace all around the world, and gas costs less than US$2 a gallon.

Managing a mature Australia-China relationship
Gareth Evans

Managing a mature Australia-China relationship

The Australia–China bilateral relationship remains strong, despite Australian concerns about China's commitment to a free and open rules-based trading system. Trump's disruptive tariffs demonstrate that Australia must balance its relationship with the United States while ramping up cooperation on regional economic and trade issues with China.

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What democracy?

Bob Pearce — Adelaide SĄ

For every example of a succesful democracy, there are marginal/unsucessful so-called democracies. The latest and least dependable is the US, the democracy that has been proven to have interfered more times to undermine the democratic process of its own and other countries, including our own. The behaviour of the latest questionably democratically elected US president shows little regard for democracy and the civil liberties of US citizens. In our own country, those civil liberties are under threat from the state premiers (mostly Labor) in particular, who have been passing Trump-like laws. I doubt if those who...
The tyranny of the rules-based international order

Les Macdonald — Balmain NSW 2041

This article is a good summary of what could be a sane and balanced approach to China that does not pay homage to the absurd propaganda put out continuously by the US deep state that China is some existential threat to the democratic world. But to sensibly deal with China, we need to dispense with our fatuous dedication to a rules-based international order that appears to only exist in the minds of that US deep state and to those who have, as Gareth says, drunk the Kool-Aid of that deep state. If we are referring to international law...
Rees correctly demands blunt honesty in language

Gideon Polya — Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

Eminent and wonderfully resolute humanitarian Professor Stuart Rees correctly demands blunt honesty in language, for example: “At long last, an influential leader spoke truth to power. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia described the actions in Gaza of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his regime as inhumane and beyond the bounds of sanity. ‘I have never seen read or heard in recent times people as cruel as this. Netanyahu and his ilk are truly deranged.’ Reality shown. No politeness. Nothing abstract. Language honest, appealing, humane.” The core ethos of humanity is kindness and truth, but this is grossly and...
Australian kids don’t have to be nuclear targets

Gideon Polya — Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria

Excellent analysis by John Menadue, echoing the international law-cognisant and Australia-first wisdom of former prime ministers Malcolm Fraser and Paul Keating. Indeed in the must-read The Big Fix: Rebuilding Australia’s National Security, Albert Palazzo argues that Australia should adopt a science-informed strategic defensive position as a truly sovereign nation to defend island continent Australia, rather than its traditional strategic offensive position since World War II as a minor partner in all US-Asian wars, paying an “insurance premium” in blood in the hope that the US will defend Australia from long-feared invasions by Asians. The racist and jingoistic Coalition blindly...

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