Talk about misrepresenting a situation. Media stories have sounded that the AUKUS deal has been saved. Central to it was the nuclear-powered submarine deal that supposedly handed over Australia these submarines. Australia gets to pay 368 billion for them, of course. The other reality is that they would never be under the control of Australia. These submarines are part of the forward pivot directed against China and would always be under the control of the United States. Continue reading Australia has not been guaranteed the AUKUS submarines and we don’t need them anyway→
In this exclusive (The Guardian 27 February 2023) Nina Lakhani comments on the Israeli strategy to starve Palestinians and calls this an act of genocide in Gaza. The United Nations is speaking more loudly about this now and continuing its call for a ceasefire. She interviews Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food.Continue reading UN expert says Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians→
The following (published by Comon Drams 25 January 2024) by Media Benjamin cofounder of Codepink and rights organisation Global Exchange, with Nicolas Davies, independent journalist, and researcher for Codepink, is about the dangerous road being taken by President Joe Biden. In addition to providing carte-blanche support to the slaughter of Palestinians, he is following the game plan of the Netanyahu government in Israel that is extending its attack on Gaza into other theatres. The intention, it is suggested, is to draw in United States ground forces, even if it risks regional and world war.
As the Israeli invasion Gaza steps up, international revulsion against the dire human crimes being committed against Palestinian civilians is growing rapidly. Global public opinion is on the side of the Palestinians and calling for peace and demanding an end to the butchery that has murdered more than 10,000 so far. Continue reading World sees massive upsurge of support for the people of Gaza→
Acclaimed investigative journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Seymour Hersh, wrote the following article (published in Subtack 26 September 20203). It is about who blew up the Baltic Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Germany. In February, his published investigation that pointed the finger at the Biden Administration earned him personal rebuke and led to unsubstantiated alternative explanations. Seymour Hersh has more to say here, and this is based on information received from his contacts. It adds to the already widely know truth that the attack was planned and executed by a team of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The following by Bevan Ramsden published as an editorial by the Independent and Peacefull Australia coalition is timely, given the escalation of Australia’s participation in war games, which are promoting the escalation of tensions with China. Unfortunately, the Albanese government has proved to be an especially willing pawn in Washington’s geopolitical ambitions to thwart China’s rise through gunboat diplomacy. Doing this is contributing to increasing the risk of a catastrophic war, and the only way to stop this is through a mass movement, such as the one that put an end to involvement in the Vietnam war in 1972.
The Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) coalition, which has been waging a long Campaign against United States led war exercises on Australian soil has released a statement welcoming the decision by India to pull out of the biggest United States led major war exercises on Australian soil. Continue reading India’s withdrawal from the Talisman Sabre war exercises welcomed→
The just concluded NATO summit in Vilnius ended by producing little, except to reveal uncertainty and lack of member unity. This was supposed to be a stage-managed affair, showing the world solid support for the Kyiv side of the war in Ukraine, and a determined launch of NATO presence in Asia. Neither was delivered. Continue reading NATO summit in Vilnius proved to be a major failure→
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