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People shouldn't be punished for revealing the secrets of the government, governments should be punished for keeping secrets from the people.

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Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington, writes Joe Lauria.

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Low rating Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt has demanded that the Australian Constitution be rewritten in white ink. ”It is so divisive to have white paper with black ink, and who decided that the ink was black, not white?”... Read More ›

France’s president has proven himself to be a well-oiled weathervane. What he says on Monday may not match what he says or does on Wednesday. But his remarks while visiting China are interesting in several ways.

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With mounting Ofcom complaints, Julian Petley looks at the 'person' behind the controversial new broadcaster and its biases toward climate change

By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack Seven progressive Democrats from the House of Representatives have signed a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the Biden administration to drop the charges against Julian Assange and cease seeking his extradition. It’s a good letter as far as these things go. It lists the major press freedom advocacy groups […]

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Fascism is in the news again, with the nazi salute being banned. Fascism is much more insidious than a few extremist adherents. With careful rebadging it has begun to pervade some of our institutions. Fascism is a hideous ideology, think of German Nazism unleashed on Europe by Hitler and Axis allies (Mussolini, Petain) with its Continue reading »

Recently a writer for the Sydney Morning Herald claimed to have solved the mystery of why Sr Liguori fled her convent in Wagga Wagga one frosty evening in July 1920. In its day the Liguori affair was one of the most sensational episodes in Australia’s sectarian history. As the Herald writer notes, ‘It seems every Continue reading »

In August, it will be three years since Australia’s China-based correspondents were harried out of China. In an extraordinary over-reaction, the ABC, Fairfax, and News Corp closed their offices in Beijing and Shanghai. The ABC opened its Beijing office in 1973. It was one of a handful of European and Canadian news organisations to have Continue reading »

Murdoch has his best suit at the dry cleaners for yet another walk up the aisle next week… to the Witness Box. Dan Evans reports on his long history of brushes with the law