FREE SPEECH ABOUT ISRAEL IS ON THE LINE
As Israel’s destructive war against Gaza continues, a complaint about a tweet of a prominent journalist will force a crucial test for Australia’s free speech, free press and democratic rights.
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DECODED: DEFENCE DEPARTMENT’S DEADLY DECEITS
After nine months of denial and disinformation, the Australian government has been forced to confirm its deadly exports to Israel.
LESSONS FROM FIGHTING FOR ASSANGE FREEDOM
There are vital lessons and warnings that must be considered in the freeing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
JOURNALISM REMAINS A CAGED BIRD
While Julian Assange may now be free, it is clear that journalism is not.
AUSTRALIA PUSHES AHEAD IN THE AI ARMS RACE
As Australia resists new laws to restrain AI weapons development, Australian companies are using real wars to test their killing power.
AUSTRALIA ‘GONE MISSING’ ON PREVENTING GENOCIDE
Newly declassified documents reveal how early and how much Australia knew of Israel’s genocide in Gaza after 7 October – and how it is failing to uphold its international obligations.
REVEALED: THE PENTAGON’S INFILTRATION OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES
The US military and arms dealers are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to ‘educate’ Australians at our leading universities.
HIGHLIGHTS
‘Top Secret’ NSA map, this extract showing the Pacific Ocean and the XKeyScore surveillance facilities located in Australia and New Zealand and other nations.
The NSA surveillance facilities are located in Australia at Pine Gap (Rainfall) near Alice Springs, the signals intelligence satellite stations outside Geraldton in Western Australia, at Shoal Bay near Darwin, and at the HMAS Harman listening post in Canberra, and in at New Zealand’s Waihopai satellite interception station (Ironsand). (Image: NSA, via Edward Snowden)
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SECRETS OF THE WEAPONS TRADE
The Australian government is obscuring weapons exports to Israel despite International Court’s ruling to oppose ‘plausible genocide’
SECRET U.S. MILITARY SPYING OPERATION HIDDEN FROM GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND
NZ’s Waihopai satellite spy base, like Australia’s Pine Gap, has been revealed secretly geolocating targets for US military operations, but without the NZ government’s knowledge.
ASSANGE DEATH PENALTY ‘POSSIBLE’
If a genocide in Gaza doesn’t move the hearts and minds in Washington to act, then it’s not likely they give a toss about what happens to Julian Assange.
THE ASSANGE ‘DEATH PLOTS’
First the CIA, now the US Dept of Justice, could take actions that would see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dead.
SILENCING THE MESSENGER
Israel kills journalists, while the West merely censors them.
JUDGING GENOCIDE
Australia’s reluctance from afar to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza is being challenged by the genocide case against Israel in the World Court
THERE IS A WAR COMING, SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA
John Pilger’s final essay investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the world’s two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
A MASTER OF TERROR
The murky background of the likely next President of Indonesia may come to haunt Indonesia, and Australia.
THE SECRET RULES OF WAR
In war, the rule of law can be a ‘flexible’ concept – but one man stepped forward and blew the whistle on the secret cover-up of Australian war crimes.
AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN THE BOMBING OF GAZA
Being part of the global supply network that supplies parts for the Israeli F-35 jet fighters used over Gaza implicates Australia in their alleged war crimes.
THE PALESTINE LABORATORY
Israel’s actions in Gaza have been fine-tuned over years of imprisonment, humiliation, occupation, and killing of Palestinians.
TARGETING PALESTINE
Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine Gap.