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A vessel of lies: Australian sailors implicated in the Iran War

09.03.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Binoy Kampmark

Punishing language: Queensland’s antisemitism bill

The Queensland Liberal National government has decided to deal with an alleged antisemitic problem by introducing new laws outlawing certain phrases...

24.02.2026 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Precarious invitations: Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia

05.02.2026 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

The preaching Pentecostal: Scott Morrison in Israel

29.01.2026 10

Green Left Weekly

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Israel and Trump’s Board of Peace

21.01.2026 20

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Pine Gap protests over Gaza elicit surprising concession

07.01.2026 10

Green Left Weekly

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The Colby Review, AUKUS and lopsided commitments

12.12.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Social media ban an experiment in futility

03.12.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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Contract bikies and bribes: Australia’s Nauru refugee deal

02.12.2025 8

Green Left Weekly

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Competing for emissions: The COP31 candidate contest

19.11.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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Mr President, take our critical minerals

28.10.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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The shock of the obvious: Australia’s university oligarchs

03.10.2025 6

Green Left Weekly

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PNG sovereignty threatened by ‘defence’ treaty with Australia

Anthony Albanese’s government is continuing its efforts to shut out China, by pushing for “defence” ties with Pacific Island states. Bilateral...

19.09.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

PNG sovereignty under threat from ‘defence’ treaty with Australia

Anthony Albanese’s government is continuing its efforts to shut out China, by pushing for “defence” ties with Pacific Island states. Bilateral...

18.09.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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US think tank adds new AUKUS demands on Australia

The moment the AUKUS security pact came into being, its true intention was clear. The military agreement between Washington, London and Canberra,...

28.08.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark

Cancelling the ethnic cleansers: Australia revokes Simcha Rothman’s visa

21.08.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Binoy Kampmark

ICJ climate ruling puts fossil fuel lobby on notice

This year is proving to be a good one for climate change litigants and activists. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), as requested by...

09.08.2025 20

Green Left Weekly

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Israeli organisations say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

Among Israeli officials, the state they represent is incapable of genocide. Over time, as Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov writes, “ethical concerns...

30.07.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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An economy of genocide: Israel and Francesca Albanese's report

Francesca Albanese’s report for the United Nations Human Rights Council, titled  From economy of occupation to economy of genocide , makes for...

11.07.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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The fanatic’s gaze: Louis Theroux and the West Bank settlers

10.07.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Binoy Kampmark

The Hegseth directive: Australia, spend more!

08.06.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Binoy Kampmark

Yale, Ben-Gvir and banning Palestinian groups

01.05.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Binoy Kampmark

The Melbourne synagogue fire: Antisemitism, political meddling and exceptional victimhood

03.04.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Binoy Kampmark

Peter Dutton: The man who would be PM

03.04.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

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Coalitions of the deluded: Starmer’s Ukraine peace plan

18.03.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

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First AUKUS meeting of Trump 2.0: Business as usual

16.02.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Targeting climate change protesters, not the fossil fuel problem

Climate change protestors have come to be seen as part of a verminous brood that global fossil-fuel lobbies and corrupt, weak officials, elected or...

27.01.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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Situation critical: UNRWA and its continued operations

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), told the United Nations Security...

24.01.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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AUKUS ‘defence’: Flawed and sinking

Pillar 1 of the AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, Britain and the United States, envisages the transfer and building of nuclear-powered...

16.01.2025 10

Green Left Weekly

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The Merry telegram: How US aid and economic shock therapy deformed Russia

10.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Jimmy Carter, Israel and the apartheid question

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US presidents. Coming to power in...

03.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Australian monopolies and iceless fokkers

He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes began, and plagiarism became commonplace in allegedly...

29.12.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

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Jesting on the environment: Australian mining gets a present

How reassuring it is to be a mining magnate in Australia. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry...

28.12.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

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Tanya Plibersek: Jesting the environment

Mining magnates are the unelected captains of industry. While the official rhetoric might, seemingly, be at odds, especially when it comes to...

28.12.2024 10

Green Left Weekly

Binoy Kampmark