On 6 December last year, a fire was lit in the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne. Considerable damage was done and one person was injured. A few days later, on 11 December there was a similar fire at a synagogue in Sydney. Anti-Israel graffiti was sprayed on walls and a car set alight (which the Continue reading »
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Trump Two is the world’s big story – will he fly high and take the dollar aloft – or crash and fry? Whatever, he’s shading the sun from the right-wing blusterer next door who isn’t doing well after three months. Duncan Graham reports. Prabowo Subianto is a frightening and frightened man. Standing in a jeep Continue reading »
The Virginia University’s publication, Sabato’s Crystal Ball, recently published an interesting article about the recent voting performance of the various US states relative to the nation as a whole. The US approach is not directly transferable to Australia. Particularly because we have only eight states and territories compared to 50 states in the USA. In Continue reading »
Mulumehoderwa Balangalizi, also known as John Peter, was born in 1999 in the village of Kabumba, located in the Kanyola zone of Walungu District in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). For much of his early life, Kabumba was home to his family’s farmland and a mountain rich with minerals—resources that eventually brought turmoil to Continue reading »
The Israel-Hamas ceasefire has been all but universally welcomed but, as with all ceasefires, it will end, probably in failure. That problems with the agreement have surfaced before it was even implemented, in particular over the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, did not bode well for its longer term success. The first thing Continue reading »
The Judge ordered lawyers for both sides to go to the Court of Appeal after rejecting their applications for an adjournment
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg cater to business leaders, offering unvarnished insights into the harsh realities of capitalism and US imperialism.
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Although it has since been removed from the White House website, on Friday afternoon, with...
Inspired by Chris’s recent photo-blogging post, I thought I’d share a less well known little gem about (the original) Ravenna: not a byzantine church interior full of mosaics, but the submerged crypt of an early medieval Church (the Basilica of San Francesco), populated by goldfish (and the inevitable coins thrown in for good luck). Incidentally, […]
Despite repeated corrections by X's own Community Notes, Musk continues to promote accounts notorious for spreading pro-Israel disinformation.
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In this episode of MintCast, host Mnar Adley speaks with historian, journalist, and author Vijay Prashad about the turmoil shaping 2025.
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My name isn’t important, only what I have to say. I’m writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It’s Year 24 of Our Trump (though he himself, of course, is no longer with us, just his kids who are running things). I feel like I should try to explain our era to whoever opens this time capsule a century from now, though you may need scuba gear to get at it. A lot of records could be lost by then. The Chinese climate hoax was less of a hoax than we thought at the time. Forgive me, Donald, but despite what the New Evangelical Church says, you were anything but infallible — even if I... Read more
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What can I say, it’s an old picture, but I like it
Well, they say you should never trust a politician, and it seems I’ve been duped.
For months before and since I cast my vote for Donald J. Trump—and yes, I’m one of those people who really leans into the “J” for some reason—I have been promised by every reliable source that change was finally coming to America, after four years of the failed leadership of Joe Biden and then the four years before that, which I can’t remember.
But it’s abundantly clear that the Trump presidency is delivering more of the same. And it’s the bad kind of same that’s been happening lately, not the good kind of same like from the good old days. When men could be men, women could be women, and I didn’t have to go to work or pay for anything because I was a child.
On issue after issue, we are being force-fed “now” when we were promised “then.”
Take rising prices. On January 20, at noon sharp, I busted down the door of my local grocery store like it was Black Friday—and after management told me that the door would’ve opened automatically if I had waited two more seconds, I was shocked by what I saw.
Green Party's Deputy Leader Zack Polanski challenges the Home Secretary, as row deepens over police handling of Palestine solidarity march
Rupert Murdoch's media empire is accused of a corporate cover-up on an “endemic scale”
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