April 3, 2024

India blocks ABC reports on Sikh separatism from YouTube

India has ordered YouTube to take down two ABC reports on Sikh separatism and not allow them to be viewed within the country, a demand with which Google, the owner of YouTube, has complied.

March 11, 2024

NOAA warns world's coral on verge of 'Worst bleaching event in history of the planet'

“It’s looking like the entirety of the Southern Hemisphere is probably going to bleach this year,” one scientist said.

November 26, 2023

US hypocrisy results in persistent Western failures in resolving the Palestinian crisis

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which spans over seven decades, serves as a potent illustration of the persistent failures of Western nations, particularly the United States, to facilitate an equitable and enduring resolution.

November 24, 2023

Is that Orwellian or Kafkaesque enough for you? The Guardian removes Bin Ladens Letter To America

The Guardian has long promoted itself as a valiant publisher of news and analysis that holds the powerful to account. It is a thing of wonder that the Guardian appends the following comment beneath news pieces: _Our quality, investigative journalism is a scrutinising force at a time when the rich and powerful are getting away with more and more. For over twenty years, Media Lens has shown how false is this claim.

January 29, 2025

How the Chinese beat Trump and OpenAI

The hype around Artificial Intelligence, the now failed U.S. attempt to monopolise it, and the recent counter from China are a lesson in how to innovate. They also show that the U.S. is losing the capability to do so.

January 11, 2025

Jimmy Carter: An exemplary Christian, exceptional American, and a voice of conscience

An exemplary Christian and an exceptional American, President Jimmy Carter, who passed on last month, embodied the moral conscience of the world. His enduring legacy will continue to inspire generations to come.

October 22, 2024

Bisan: Are you following what's happening in North Gaza?

Emmy award-winning journalist Bisan Owda who continues to share what’s happening with the world, provides an overview of what’s happening in North Gaza, including maps to show the movement of the displaced people of Palestine and the Israeli army.

October 15, 2024

BRICS and the end of the dollar

The upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan on October 22nd to 24th may well accelerate the beginning of the end of the dollar as the world currency.

March 1, 2024

Children die of starvation, dehydration: UN warns life is "draining out of Gaza at terrifying speed"

“The international community is facing a moral and humanitarian test to stop the genocide in Gaza,” said a Gaza Health Ministry official.

January 21, 2024

Israel wants a Palestinian intifada in the West Bank

Three and a half hours. Three and a half hours from Jenin to Tul Karm. In three and a half hours you can fly to Rome, or drive to Eilat. But in the occupied West Bank today you’re barely able to drive between two nearby cities.

November 8, 2023

Stress testing the US alliance: Whitlam and the secrets of Pine Gap. Part 2

When Marshall Green, a very senior official in the State Department, was appointed as Ambassador to Australia in early 1973, President Nixons briefing regarding the relationship with Whitlam was succinct and on point: Marshall, I cant stand that cunt. Green later reflected this was a strange kind of parting instruction to get from your president.

January 21, 2023

West just cannot decide whether it actually wants China to fail

With Western unity enabled by Irans nuclear scheme and Russias invasion of Ukraine, China must not oblige with ruinous cross-strait war.

January 19, 2025

'Damning' new poll shows price Kamala Harris paid for backing Israeli genocide in Gaza

“Israel is a liability,” said one Palestinian-American rights advocate.

January 15, 2025

What Israel should have done

Israel chose the wrong way to deal with its enemies. For a better way, it could have borrowed a leaf from China.

March 22, 2024

Authorised atrocities

Israels lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state.

January 6, 2024

Australia, Sovereignty: the long and short of it

Projections on Australias future are bleak if it maintains its hostility to China and cloying dependence on America, particularly when coupled with a corrupt and incompetent LNP government.

December 30, 2023

Facing life in the Gaza Strip with a new disability

More than 9,000 children have been injured in the Gaza Strip, leaving them grappling with the loss of an arm or a leg.

November 15, 2023

We need a deeper understanding of Chinese politics

We need a better understanding of the complexities of Chinese politics treating it like a Black Box will leave us poorly equipped for a world where China is the other superpower, writes Louise Edwards.

October 12, 2023

Israel cant imprison two million Gazans without paying a cruel price

Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that well never pay the price and be punished for it. Well carry on undisturbed.

March 15, 2023

What happens when our nuclear subs retire?

Among the breathless press announcements coming out of San Diego on 14 March was that the spent nuclear fuel reactor cells for our submarines would have to be stored in Australia. This on top of the unexplained escalating costs of the subs, estimated delivery not until 2042, and three hand-me-down stop-gap Virginias possibly available around 2033. A dare to embrace greatness, trumpeted Greg Sheridan. A dare to embrace poverty and long-term environmental pollution more likely.

December 11, 2021

Our shocking Parliament: only one-third of federal MPs deserve any respect

Next year’s election is an opportunity for voters to replace the liars and misfits in Parliament with quality independent candidates.

November 3, 2024

Fake news, Melbourne 1966: migrant German priest was a U-boat commander who defied Hitler

A few years ago Ken Haddock, a retired social worker, discovered that a legendary folk tale of Melbourne Catholicism was false. For decades Father Wally Silvester (1919-2005), a charismatic Pallottine priest, has been treated with awe as a former U-boat commander, and hailed as a war hero who defied Hitler by saving enemy Russian sailors.

January 12, 2024

The morality of the West on trial

The hearing at the ICJ is not only a determination of the genocidal nature of Israels assault on Gaza, it is also an adjudication on the morality of the West_._

October 3, 2023

The biggest sporting event the West has never heard of

The last week in September saw the much delayed (due to Covid) opening of the 19th Asian Games. This event which is held on a four-year cycle involves participants from 45 nations, and perhaps unsurprisingly given the enormous populations in this part of the world sees a larger number of athletes taking part than even the Olympics.

March 9, 2023

Attack of the "Pro-Ukrainian Group": notes from The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Thelatest New York Times report on the Nord Stream pipeline bombing is something else. According to NYT’s anonymous US government sources, the pipelines were blown up by a “pro-Ukrainian group” who had no known connections to any military or intelligence agency, but somehow had all the information, skills, diving equipment and military explosives necessary to carry out such an attack.

November 7, 2024

The festering sore of Western civilisation is the only soil in which genocide in Gaza could take root

Some days it’s hard to say which is more horrific: the Gaza genocide itself, or the moral decay throughout our society which makes it possible.

October 31, 2024

An acceleration of global "de-Westernisation" creeps upon the Western world

Decisions taken at last week’s BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, will have a significant impact on the Global South and on the Western world, as the movement towards “de-Westernisation” gathers momentum.

March 20, 2023

Goodbye to Ukraine? US prepares public for defeat

The New York Times report of 8th March that Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say elicited two sets of responses.

March 4, 2023

Democracy-Autocracy divide will not serve global or even Western interests

Taking on autocratic powers has given the West a new-found sense of purpose, but it risks alienating emerging global players with its simplistic world view. A narrative that focuses on the clash between world orders does not resonate with countries more concerned about economic struggle and the climate crisis.

March 1, 2023

Aukus fallout: as US-China tensions grow, Australians reveal mixed feelings about nuclear submarine pact

Surveys reveal concerns that Aukus wont make Australia safer, while fears grow of secretive policymaking and little government accountability. Some observers have also questioned the high cost of Aukus to taxpayers, suggesting there are other, less expensive ways to deter China.

February 15, 2023

Exposed: the US atrocity fabrication industry demonising rival states

Shocking false narratives are concocted by the west to create animosity towards rivals, says 500-page study from University of London researcher.

December 24, 2022

The true inconvenience in New South Wales

When former US vice-president Al Gore used the term ‘inconvenient’ to describe the truth around climate change he used the term euphemistically. The truth about climate change is more accurately termed ‘horrendous’. Now, in a typical inversion of the truth the New South Wales premier has suggested that you should be sent to prison if you inconvenience people as you try to save the planet.

December 20, 2021

War without winners: Taiwan presents a trap for both China and US

China could contemplate seizing the island to demonstrate American decline. But world reaction to such a breach of the peace would likely be great.

March 24, 2024

BYD says plug-in electrics will exceed 50 pct of new car sales in China in next 3 months

The CEO of BYD, the Chinese giant challenging Tesla as the worlds biggest electric vehicle maker, says sales of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs), including battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), will make up more than half of all new cars sold in China within the next three months.

February 23, 2023

Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd must speak at Australia's Adelaide writers' festival

Australias major literary festival is facing backlash as it prepares to host renowned Palestinians writers Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd. Once again Israels crimes against Palestinians are absent from the media storm, writes Randa Abdel-Fattah.

December 16, 2022

NATO chief voices fear of war with Russia while US greenlights drone strikes on Russian territory

In what Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp describes as “a rare acknowledgment of the dangers of backing Ukraine,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged a fear of something going “horribly wrong” and leading to a hot war between the nuclear-armed alliance and Russia.

December 14, 2022

Russians and the Ukraine war: few think it was a good Idea, fewer want it to end in defeat

What do ordinary Russians think about the war in Ukraine? Do they think it was a bad idea from the start? How eager are they for it to end, and on what terms? Accurate information on these vital questions is submerged in a great swamp of propaganda and partisan reporting.

February 29, 2024

Lessons on genocide from Xinjiang and Gaza

Days before the International Court of Justice’s initial ruling late last month that found there was a plausible risk of genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights Council conducted its “universal periodic review” of China’s human rights record.

February 18, 2023

We must address the alarming rates of female veteran suicide

This article discusses suicide.

It was 10 years ago that then Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Morrison AO gave his famous speechin support of service women, (written mostly byCatherine McGregor AM).

December 22, 2022

The empire is built on our closed eyes

They can’t work toward peace in Ukraine because it will serve Putin. They can’t work toward peace in Yemen because it will serve Iran. They can’t end the occupation of Syria because it will serve Assad. They can’t stop military expansionism because it will serve China.

December 22, 2021

Lessons in loneliness at Christmas from Dorothy Day

Following Dorothy Day’s example, facing our emptiness is the first step to asking and receiving the healing grace of Christmas.

December 24, 2024

In the fight against tyranny, don't let your happiness depend on big wins

If you stand for truth, peace and justice in this world then it’s important not to make your happiness dependent on large-scale wins.

April 1, 2024

Egypt's atrophy could revive the Brotherhood

The unprecedented political, economic, and social crises in Egypt may trigger a resurgence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has historically filled gaps the state cannot meet.

December 15, 2023

Hong Kongs national security law

As Hong Kong gears up for both Christmas and the following Lunar New Year celebrations there is plenty to look forward to in this dynamic city.

December 10, 2023

Netanyahu has given people an excuse to unleash their antisemitism

There is, I think, the hint of a better future after the latest heartbreaking revelation to emerge from the Middle East that the Israeli government knew a year ago about Hamas plans for the horrific murders on October 7.

February 5, 2023

Twisting in the wind: A view from Hong Kong

The year of the Rabbit has arrived, and Hong Kong is bouncing back with a vengeance.

November 3, 2022

It's impossible to understand Chinas Party Congress through White Man's Media

While the worlds of the democracies have been afflicted by growing inequality and corruption, the Chinese government has worked to stop corruption and gross inequality of wealth. Here are six basic points to better understand Chinas recent Party Congress.

January 29, 2024

Houthis save the world: Why New Zealand is on the wrong side of history

The State of Israel can butcher thousands of innocents but New Zealand would not lift a finger to provide support to its victims. IDF soldiers can gun down old men and women waving white flags, shell lines of refugees queuing for aid and deprive hospitals of power and medicine and all New Zealand does is a collective shrug. When, however, Yemens Houthis disrupt the passage of frozen meat, pizza bases and iPhones through the Red Sea, suddenly New Zealand goes on the warpath. We have declared war on Ansar Allah (the Houthis) and sent a strike force of six men and a dinghy to join Operation Prosperity Guardian, led by the USA.

November 3, 2023

Xi and Albanese navigate the virtuous circle of Sino-Australian dialogue

Prime Minister Albanese’s much anticipated visit to Beijing raises a key question. What rules of behaviour are most likely to energise genuinely robust dialogue, re-establishing trust in China’s relations with the West and setting the pace for wider regional and international multilateral responses to the economic, social, security and environmental crises currently affecting humanity?

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