11 July 2025
Every day is a bad day to visit China, apparently
Meeting the Chinese president is apparently now treason. At least, that's what you'd think if you followed some of our media's coverage of Anthony Albanese's latest diplomatic sin: talking to Beijing.
11 July 2025
'It is not antisemitic to criticise Israel,' says Federal Court judge – and the Executive Council of Jewry agrees!
In the light of the revelations in the Lattouf v ABC decision about the way in which the Israel lobby hounded the ABC, the judgment in the recently decided Federal Court case Wertheim & Goot v Haddad is both significant, “interesting” and certainly more than revelatory.
11 July 2025
The fanatic’s gaze: Louis Theroux and the West Bank settlers
He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched.
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11 July 2025
US sanctions UN expert Albanese over criticism of Israeli genocide
One critic said Secretary of State Marco Rubio's crude effort to sanction Francesca Albanese only serves to establish that the US is an international outlaw.
11 July 2025
BRICS is sliding towards irrelevance – the Rio summit made that clear
The BRICS group of nations has just concluded its 17th annual summit in Rio de Janeiro. But, despite member states adopting a long list of commitments covering global governance, finance, health, AI and climate change, the summit was a lacklustre affair.
11 July 2025
What are the chances for peace in Ukraine right now?
What makes it so difficult to find a solution? Is Russia a threat to Europe? Five questions for Eurasia expert Anatol Lieven.
11 July 2025
Suggesting a Nobel for Trump is a Netanyahu obscenity
Intent on stroking one another’s outsize egos, two thugs in the White House smirk at the latest ingratiation-beyond-belief feature of their alliance.
11 July 2025
The ANU School of Music: Requiem for a Dream?
On 20 September this year, the School of Music at ANU (formally the Canberra School of Music) should be celebrating its 60th anniversary.
10 July 2025
The story most Israelis are not allowed to hear
I write this in quite a distressed state. On Sunday, I watched the award-winning documentary film – “No Other Land”.
10 July 2025
Australia obstructed probe into deadly ‘Rainbow Warrior’ bombing
France's ‘Operation Satanique’ bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, 40 years ago this month, was state-sponsored terrorism – and Australia had a part in helping French secret agents to escape.
10 July 2025
Israeli defence minister orders plan to build concentration camp for Gaza’s civilian population
Israel Katz says the so-called humanitarian city will be built on the ruins of Rafah.
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11 July 2025
'It is not antisemitic to criticise Israel,' says Federal Court judge – and the Executive Council of Jewry agrees!
In the light of the revelations in the Lattouf v ABC decision about the way in which the Israel lobby hounded the ABC, the judgment in the recently decided Federal Court case Wertheim & Goot v Haddad is both significant, “interesting” and certainly more than revelatory.
11 July 2025
US sanctions UN expert Albanese over criticism of Israeli genocide
One critic said Secretary of State Marco Rubio's crude effort to sanction Francesca Albanese only serves to establish that the US is an international outlaw.
10 July 2025
The story most Israelis are not allowed to hear
I write this in quite a distressed state. On Sunday, I watched the award-winning documentary film – “No Other Land”.
10 July 2025
Israeli defence minister orders plan to build concentration camp for Gaza’s civilian population
Israel Katz says the so-called humanitarian city will be built on the ruins of Rafah.
9 July 2025
Freedom of speech and chants
“Death, death to the IDF [Israel Defence Forces]” and “Death, death to the IOF [Israeli Occupying Force]”. Chants that some in the Palestinian support movement in Melbourne used last weekend.
9 July 2025
Punishment, proportionality and principle
The reaction to the fire bombing on a Jewish establishment in Melbourne has been sadly predictable.
8 July 2025
The one-word problem for Israel
The massive, almost universal, support nations have provided Israel since the Hamas attacks is eroding around the world and new research indicates that most people surveyed over 24 countries now have negative views of Israel and Netanyahu.
8 July 2025
When the helping hand holds a machine gun
There’s no precise number of how many Palestinians have been starved to death by Israel’s embargo on food entering Gaza.
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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11 July 2025
Every day is a bad day to visit China, apparently
Meeting the Chinese president is apparently now treason. At least, that's what you'd think if you followed some of our media's coverage of Anthony Albanese's latest diplomatic sin: talking to Beijing.
9 July 2025
Trump’s budget and the 21st century great divergence
Donald Trump’s recently passed budget has the capacity to lay the foundation for a widening gap between the world's two largest economies, the United States and China, and make China as great, comparatively, as it was before the industrial revolution.
8 July 2025
China and renewable energy: The global impact
China’s renewable energy program is not a local curiosity. It marks a turning point in history with profound consequences for the rest of the globe.
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