Vacy Vlazna
Dr. Vacy Vlazna is Coordinator of Justice for Palestine Matters. She is the author of East Timor: Reveille for Courage, editor of a volume of Palestinian poetry, I remember my name and writes political commentary for a number of independent online magazines. She was Human Rights Advisor to the GAM team in the second round of the Acheh peace talks, Helsinki, February 2005 then withdrew on principle. Vacy was convenor of Australia East Timor Association and coordinator of the East Timor Justice Lobby as well as serving in East Timor with UNAMET and UNTAET from 1999-2001.
Vacy's recent articles
16 September 2024
How do they sleep at night?
“I think it's important to recognise that probably the three things that characterise Israel and the Israeli Government are arrogance, brutality and stupidity. And those are the three elements that guides them in their actions. Their arrogance is they think Palestinians' lives are not important. They think Palestinians are nothing which is what racist regimes think about the 'other'. Their brutality, like I said from day one, they've demonstrated horrific brutality and cruelty towards the Palestinians. And their stupidity is when you get to know them closely and you are behind the scenes, when you take a look at the...
6 March 2022
Pragmatic national interest vs principled friendship with Timor-Leste
Since WWII, the implied mantra of successive Australian Governments on Timor-Leste is: Your Friends Will Not Forget You- unless it conflicts
25 September 2021
Review: The shock, horror and rage of Mark Willacy's Rogue Forces
Respected journalist Mark WillacysRogue Forcesis imperative reading for its detonatingexpos of Australian SASwar crimes inAfghanistanand the systematic cover-ups at varying levels of the Australian Defence Force operations.
25 January 2021
Victors of colonial terrorism, disguised as civilised democracy, get to write the story
Just as Israels Independence Day and the Palestinian Nakba Day, in remembrance of deportation and deadly dispossession, have a bloody symbiosis, Australia Day/Invasion Day is celebrated or mourned according to the victors or the vanquished.
2 January 2021
Some joy in the gloom
A photo taken in Warruwi on South Goulburn Island off Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory
23 December 2020
BBC & ABC threatening hearts and minds
Apropos the times, in Covid-Speak government propaganda and liesspread by compliant media are a war-mongering contagion and the onlyvaccine is the Truth.. and where do you get it? At principled alternativemedia sites like Pearls & Irritations. They save lives.
26 November 2020
Thug culture, not a warrior culture, to blame
Losers commit war crimes and are punished and pilloried in news articles, books, documentaries and movies while cover-ups by the victors of their atrocities ensure the winners evade justice.
23 September 2020
Review: Cruelty or Humanity by Stuart Rees
Cruelty or Humanity by Em.Prof. Stuart Rees, is essential reading in our present tumult and bedlam of human cruelty.
5 September 2020
Australia's fathers day shame
On this coming Father's Day I want to salute three fathers whose sons, who have not broken Australian law, were and are betrayed by the Australian government: Terry Hicks, John Shipton and Khalil El-Halabi.
9 July 2020
Smashing the Chinese golden goose egg
In the fragile recovery from mega-bushfires, floods, drought and the pandemic, Australians are looking for competent, trustworthy and decent political leadership. If the Eden-Monaro by-election was a leadership testing ground, both major parties failed.
9 December 2019
Israel's Aussie Mensch
The Zionist Federation of Australia bestowed in November its 2019 Jerusalem Prize for exceptional in strengthening Australia-Israel relations or as Prof. Stuart Rees puts it, for sucking up to Israelis, on an exemplary recipient, the prime minister of Australia, Scott Morrison.
26 March 2019
Christchurch, Nobel and the Aussie Comatose Conscience
The Christchurch tragedy has exposed the Canberra virus that haemorrhages hypocrisy, racism, lies, scaremongering and heartlessness infecting the Australian psyche.