3 January 2025

Best of 2024: Australian Prime Minister referred to ICC for complicity in genocide

“The Australian government and its most senior officials have both failed to prevent or respond to the genocide committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza and been complicit in the carrying out of this genocide in a manner which falls squarely within Article 25 (3)(c) and/or (d) of the Rome Statute of the ICC,” state Birchgrove Legal in a communiqué to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

23 October 2024

Free speech, journalism and democracy in a time of genocide

Last month in New York at separate forums, two senior Democrat figures - John Kerry and Hillary Clinton - pointed to what they saw as major problems: the First Amendment was ‘an obstacle to building consensus’, and the ‘narrative’ in the press needs to be (even more) ‘consistent’.

25 June 2024

After 13 years, Julian Assange walks free

Julian Assange is expected to be in Australia late tomorrow, a free man.

12 June 2024

Backing the US house of cards

The United States of America is in competition with China, but not ideologically. Who initiated the first agreements with China to outsource factories if not the United States of America themselves? They cannot tell us that it is a fight for freedom… It's [ ] because China is becoming the world's leading power, and from there, gradually, dollars will no longer be used as much as before to trade goods. Thus, the empire is hit at its core.

6 June 2024

Breaking: Australian journalist attacked at violent Jerusalem Day march

Australian ABC TV journalist Alison Horne was attacked  and she and her crew were verbally abused by Israelis participating in the Jerusalem Day march in what is the Muslim quarter, chanting “death to Arabs and singing songs about burning Arab villages down.”

29 May 2024

Duggan’s fate hangs in the balance as his lawyers keep their powder dry

The Magistrate hearing the United States application to extradite Australian citizen and father of six, Daniel Duggan, was floored.

27 May 2024

BREAKING: Horrendous images of burnt children after Israel bombs Rafah refugee camp [Graphic content]

Hours ago Israel bombed a refugee camp in Rafah, an area Israel designated as safe four days ago, setting it ablaze - tents housing families and including the UNRWA office.

23 May 2024

Australian Prime Minister referred to ICC for complicity in genocide..A Repost

“The Australian government and its most senior officials have both failed to prevent or respond to the genocide committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza and been complicit in the carrying out of this genocide in a manner which falls squarely within Article 25 (3)(c) and/or (d) of the Rome Statute of the ICC,” state Birchgrove Legal in a communiqué to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. A Repost from March 6, 2024.

22 May 2024

Living in fear: Can Australia protect its citizens from our dangerous American ally?

The Extradition hearing of Dan Duggan, an Australian citizen and father of six who has been held in solitary confinement for 19 months in breach of U.N. conventions at the request of the United States, will be held this Friday in a Magistrate’s Court in Sydney.

5 March 2024

Australian Prime Minister referred to ICC for complicity in genocide

The Australian government and its most senior officials have both failed to prevent or respond to the genocide committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza and been complicit in the carrying out of this genocide in a manner which falls squarely within Article 25 (3)(c) and/or (d) of the Rome Statute of the ICC, state Birchgrove Legal in a communiqu to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

29 February 2024

We are all Aaron Bushnell. Dont write him out of history

Aaron Bushnell enacted the ultimate sacrifice in the face of atrocities the likes of which have never been seen before and the grotesque, ugly western leadership enabling it to continue.

25 February 2024

The pretense of justice meted out to Assange by the Rules Based Order has come undone

The approval of Julian Assanges extradition is not only morally wrong, it appears to be wrong in law, and serious questions should be asked of the UK Home Secretary, as well as the Australian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and the former incumbents of those positions.

22 February 2024

Assanges draconian prosecution criminalises journalism and grants the US extraterritorial reach

In an extraordinary barely reported turn of events close to the conclusion of Julian Assanges two day UK High Court Appeal against his extradition, a gaping hole appeared in plans to shunt him onto a plane to the US.

5 February 2024

Assanges very life at stake

Julian Assange will soon find out whether he will be granted a final appeal in the UK in his fight against extradition to the US. He may soon be on a plane to the US where he will face the full wrath of US vengeance and cruelty. The all-rights-reserved-to-revoke assurances provided by the US fail to mitigate a new risk factor in Assanges health, as the charade of the Rule of Law his own government has genuflected to throughout, nears its conclusion.

17 January 2024

Independence of Journalism at risk: Antoinette Lattouf should be reinstated

The Lattouf story shows that the same level of white colonial supremacist attitudes that have forged the bond of western leaders on the Middle East issue permeates the leadership of public broadcasting.

12 January 2024

South Africa, beacon to the world, shames Australias enabling of Israeli genocide

Israel has just defended the indefensible in the International Court of Justice, in its quest to have the case brought by South Africa against it thrown out.

7 January 2024

We are being groomed for war with China

Orchestrated components are coming together to enable the US to recruit Australia in future wars of choice. Our media must begin to ask questions about the crude but successful ways the Australian people are being groomed to provide passive or enthusiastic consent.

23 August 2023

ABC shamelessly spruiks China Threat stories on morning of ALP National Conference AUKUS debate

The morning of the ALP National Conference on 18 August, ABC online news led with two Bad China stories. One about whether China is building an airstrip on a contested island, the other likely to cause great discomfort and anxiety to Australians because it showed the level of Chinas spying on Australia via hundreds of satellites and Australias great disadvantage because we have no military satellites whatsoever.

2 August 2023

Pearls packs a big punch, but it needs our support

While we all value Pearls and Irritations (P&I) enormously and come to the site daily to read a sane, considered point of view, and share the articles with friends, family and social contacts, we probably rarely think about how it is all sustained.

18 April 2023

Wong defines Australia's foreign policy ..all the way with the USA

At the National Press Club yesterday, Foreign Minister Penny Wong responded to her critics by laying out the role Australia must play in the world as she sees it, in order to help shape the future of our region.

13 April 2023

We are being groomed for war with China

Orchestrated components are coming together to enable the US to recruit Australia in future wars of choice. Our media must begin to ask questions about the crude but successful ways the Australian people are being groomed to provide passive or enthusiastic consent.

24 March 2023

Turning Damocles Sword against the people

In an unprecedented way, Australias government has now risked both the countrys prosperity and safety in the service of a foreign power, with the setting in stone of AUKUS by a Labor government.