In Asian media this week: Imran Khan the ‘winner’ in Pakistan elections. Plus: Prabowo to adopt ‘Indonesia First’ foreign policy; China’s BYD overtaking Tesla; West really thinks it’s a jungle out there; Thai activists arrested for disrupting royal convoy; PLA not able to invade Taiwan; the land where pet strollers outnumber baby buggies. The phrase Continue reading »
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Reading the latest Scanlon Foundation social cohesion report makes you aware that there are two quite distinct images of Australia. One – totally dark and doom laden – is depicted in the mass and social media and the other – clear-eyed about both serious problems and opportunities – is depicted in the 2023 Scanlon Foundation Continue reading »
On the anniversary of Caroline Flack's death, Byline Times launches a new #MediaToo investigation into her treatment by the police and the media with an interview with her mother Christine
"A political line has been crossed - and we are angry", the paper's editor wrote.
It is apparently antisemitic to engage in a comparison between Israel and Nazis. This is, in a nutshell, what has put me at odds with Max Planck Society’s lawyers. What to me is a fair, intellectual critique of Israel, for them is ‘antisemitism according to the law in Germany’. On Wednesday 31st of January morning Continue reading »
The Australian Parliament failed to recognise its responsibilities last week when Greens Leader Adam Bandt, responding to the International Court of Justice interim ruling to prevent genocide, initiated a vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Australians are indebted to human rights champions Adam Bandt, Elizabeth Watson Brown, Stephen Bates, Max Chandler-Mather, Helen Haines and Continue reading »
This year we need your help to follow the money, call out corrupt campaigning, and monitor voter suppression wherever it occurs
In what world does a dominant state claim they have a right to defend themselves against those they have unethically, immorally and illegally imprisoned for decades, killed and persecuted without trial? There’s been an abundance of evidence… Our intelligence sources say… It is very credible intelligence… A complete and transparent investigation… According to the intelligence Continue reading »
Katherine O'Donnell delivers a powerful rebuke to the media and politicians for the 'irrational, obsessional' hatred and misrepresentation that Brianna Ghey and her family faced every day
Substantial evidence of criminal behaviour and cover-up at Mirror Group Newspapers emerged last summer at trial