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Omar Sakr
The end of reality
Two years into the US-Israeli genocide of Palestine, which includes invasions into Lebanon and Syria, the bombing of Yemen, and most recently Iran, it’s difficult to summon any kind of language to describe the age of barbarity and horror we’ve entered. I just watched another video of a screaming Palestinian man holding a headless baby.…
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Dave Milner
WMD 2.0 is so half-arsed, be embarrassed for people falling for it
“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war” – Howard Zinn Spell it out. It’s absurd. There’s this freaky little Nazified genocidal colony swallowing Palestine, 82% of Israeli residents are in favour of ethnically cleansing Gaza, 47% of them want to…
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Jo Dyer
Would you like ICE with your fascism?
Are there any Federal departments in the US that don’t have their own militia that can be set upon its unwitting population at will? The US Postal Service, NASA, the Fish and Wildlife Service, even Amtrak has its own police force – just four of the 73 separate law enforcement agencies whose members routinely wander…
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Joel Jenkins
The AUKUS Truth
AUKUS is falling apart, just as the world slips further into chaos under Trump’s America. Weeks after being told to lift our defence budget into another arbitrary measure of GDP by morning-drinking US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Richard Marles was fumbling through his words in the usual manner, trying to defend AUKUS now the Trump…
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Dave Milner
The Prime Minister is lying to your face about selling weapons for Israel’s genocide
“It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other” – George Orwell It is not difficult to understand the darkness swallowing Gaza. Like comfortable, educated, middle class Germans living in leafy Berlin suburbs with train stations that daily sent thousands of Jews to death…
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Joel Jenkins
Fool me twice, shame on me
Saturday’s Labor victory was its biggest win since the Chifley era, with a lower primary vote (34.7%) than Bill Shorten (34.73%) in his 2016 loss to Malcolm Turnbull. It was a historical victory, with 8-15 seats gained for the ALP, while the Coalition is looking to have lost at least 19, including the Opposition Leader…
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RonniSalt
Is it over yet?
By the time you read this, the 2025 federal election campaign will mercifully have less than 24 hours left on the clock but I’m still happy to declare it the dumbest campaign in living memory. A campaign of 5 weeks that seemed like 5 years, its main achievement has been showing Australians what a desperate…
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Dave Milner
Capitalism has already eaten democracy anyway
There’s an Australian election tomorrow, Joe Exotic from Tiger King is now tangentially involved, and I just cannot take any of this shit seriously anymore. I understand that’s an unusual position for an editor of a political media outlet to take, but it’s 2025, get with the program. If I treated this circus with reverence,…
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Michael Bradley
Sorry Not Sorry, Welcome Not Welcome
“I’m bringing Columbus Day back”, Donald Trump gleefully announced on Truth Social, reinforcing the ancient tradition (that began in 1971) of the American nation officially celebrating one of history’s most successful genocidaires. The depopulation of the Caribbean islands triggered by Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas, a model closely followed throughout the continent, translated easily to…
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Jo Dyer
Everyone, even The Australian, is over Peter Dutton
When you lose the fan club at The Australian, a Coalition leader is in serious trouble. After Andrew Hastie was let out of witness protection last week to stand next to Peter Dutton for the Coalition’s Defence Policy announcement – which, like most of the Coalition’s policy announcements was more a promise to chuck money…
