Nihon Hidankyo, Japan’s nationwide organisation of atomic bomb survivors, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The award announcement said one reason the organisation received the award was that the personal testimony of its members has advanced “stigmatising the use of nuclear weapons.” When Nihon Hidankyo’s award was announced on Oct. 11, I recalled the visit Continue reading »
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Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has told colleagues that he has been doing the hard yards when it comes to Coalition policy, and will soon be announcing that he plans to convert the controversial, American designed Project 25, to the metric... Read More ›
The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress.
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Cruz’s opponent, Rep. Colin Allred, is no crypto foe, but the industry heavily favors Republicans.
The post Crypto PAC Throws a Lifeline to Ted Cruz in Tightening Senate Battle appeared first on The Intercept.
In Michigan, ads tout Harris’s pro-Israel policies. In Pennsylvania, they claim Harris is “secretly campaigning for Palestine.”
The post Mitch McConnell Group Funneled Cash to a PAC Pitting Arab and Jewish Voters Against Harris appeared first on The Intercept.
Statements by John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, have made it nearly impossible for the media to avoid Hitler comparisons.
The post Mainstream Media Was Afraid to Compare Trump to Hitler. Now the Press Has No Excuse. appeared first on The Intercept.
Why you should pay attention to Arizona's Proposition 314 this election.
The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America. Reading various accounts of Yahya Sinwar’s political thinking, it’s extraordinary how much the slain Hamas leader thought like Osama bin Laden. Likewise, there are the terrifying parallels between the response of the Israeli state and that Continue reading »
On October 10, The Atlantic premiered ‘A Night at the Garden‘, an unsettling seven minutes and five seconds long video made of film footage that American documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry had accidentally found. The footage showed the 20,000-strong rally held by the American Nazi Party — the German American Bund — at Madison Square Garden Continue reading »
Those who work in the social service sector in Alice Springs, as I do, know this fact intimately: there is an incredible amount of money funding our response to a community who have incredibly little. Our system watches as desperate people stumble and waits for them to fall before extending a paternalistic hand or one Continue reading »