I am horrified by the violent actions of police at US universities smashing protests against an ongoing #genocide perpetrated by a foreign country. Such a dystopian reality.
May students and faculty members be safe.
May the genocide end.
May justice and reason prevail.

Tomorrow is World Press Freedom Day. The world’s most consequential journalist is in prison. Speak up. And show up on May 20th! #WPFD #FreeAssangeNOW #JournalismIsNotACrime #LetHimGoJoe

Colombia to sever relations with Israel over 'genocidal' war in Gaza. President Petro: ‘Tomorrow diplomatic relations with Israel will be broken ..for having a genocidal president.. If Palestine dies, humanity dies & we are not going to let it die’ #auspol middleeastmonitor.com/20240501-colom…

CNN screams that US students are “unsafe”. (Don’t tell them about kids in Gaza!) NYT notes the campus protest has been infiltrated. Oooh! And the FT is recycling a debunked anti-China spy story. In other words, business as usual. (Comments on this week's news: 3m50s).

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Woeful response from major US media to the mass graves, ⁦The New York Times⁩ referring to them as ‘wartime chaos’ in accordance with a directive to use watered down language #Gaza fair.org/home/news-of-m…

Dehumanization of the Other comes in many forms and shades. For Palestinians it is not only Israeli soldiers bombing them out of existence, but it is also individual citizens destroying flour packs before they could reach starving Palestinians in #Gaza .
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Albanese and Wong mouth high sounding words but refrain from any meaningful action on Gaza..
#auspol #gaza #israelpalestine
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Day 200+ on the Gaza strip with still no end in sight to Israel's genocide, while our country continues to support Israel. #auspol #israelpalestine
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He is by far the most popular Palestinian leader alive today - and yet few people in the West even know his name. Everyone one in Gaza or the West Bank knows him. That difference speaks volumes about who dominates the me ...
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Ruling institutions — the state, the press, the church, the courts, universities — mouth the language of morality, but they serve the structures of power, no matter how venal, which provide them with money, status and au ...
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We must chip away at the resilient male hegemony. We should not shift the responsibility onto women for achieving changes feared and resisted by men. #auspol #DFV
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American students are protesting the genocide in Gaza. They are scorning the moral bankruptcy of governments which supply arms to Israel which simultaneously pretend support for humanitarian aid. #auspol #USpolitics #Isra ...
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India, regarded as a friendly nation by Australia, operated what is being called a “nest of spies” in this country, the ABC reports, adding that the group was kicked out in 2020 after ASIO discovered what they were up to ...
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Polling is over in Solomon Islands. There might be recounts and electoral petitions in which losers challenge results in court. For now, results have been announced for all 50 of the country’s electorates. And the MPs-el ...
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Though both the Australian and US markets are off their lows of the 19 April there is a risk that US stocks which look overvalued on the Shiller P/E ratio (see chart below) could undergo a major price revaluation if Amer ...
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Israel: We’re going to bomb the shit out of Gaza from top to bottom. U.S.: Okay we’ll reward you from start to finish with ammunition, money, vocal support and all the aid you need. Russia: We’re going to invade Ukraine. ...
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It is a crisis, and it is occurring day and night in homes and suburbs across the country where police are struggling to keep up with reporting of male violence and too many offenders avoid detection, because our leaders ...
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To allow any military cooperation with Israel at the moment would be as unconscionable as it is grossly hypocritical - treacherous to the international rules based order and the good faith expectations of the Australian ...
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One upshot is the latest OECD figures show low and middle income workers in Australia had the highest increase in personal income taxes in the developed world in 2023. #auspol
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The ‘National Defence Strategy’ is not a strategy. It is an ideology. An ideology that firmly ties Australia’s future to that of the United States. A horrifying thought. Cameron Leckie#auspol #NDS
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