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The Factory Of Perceptions: Starmer’s Woes And Media Magnification – OpEd

The Factory Of Perceptions: Starmer’s Woes And Media Magnification – OpEd

Few in history can have achieved so much in a negative sense in so short a time.  Instead of gloatingly

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Estranged Realities: Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla

Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse...

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Estranged Realities: Israel And The Global Sumud Flotilla – OpEd

Estranged Realities: Israel And The Global Sumud Flotilla – OpEd

Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud

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Palestinian Subordination: Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan

He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made...

03.10.2025 40

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The Shock Of The Obvious: Australia’s University Oligarchs – OpEd

It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdoms and novel notions long known to those who vote for them.  This

03.10.2025 2

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Elder Abuse In International Relations: Attacking The United Nations At 80 – OpEd

Elder Abuse In International Relations: Attacking The United Nations At 80 – OpEd

Elder abuse in the frothy swirl of debates regarding the role of the United Nations is currently modish.  The body

30.09.2025 2

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Attempts to Delegitimize: Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly

It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly.  But this was precisely what Israel’s Prime Minister,...

30.09.2025 10

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Violating the Terms of Service: Microsoft, Azure and the IDF

On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure for the storage of...

29.09.2025 10

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Violating The Terms of Service: Microsoft, Azure And The IDF – OpEd

Violating The Terms of Service: Microsoft, Azure And The IDF – OpEd

On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure

26.09.2025 4

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Launching Silent Courier: MI6 Goes WikiLeaks – OpEd

There is night and day between an entity such as WikiLeaks, a daring publisher of classified government documents extraordinaire, and

24.09.2025 3

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Symbolic Declarations: Palestinian Recognition At The UN General Assembly – OpEd

Symbolic Declarations: Palestinian Recognition At The UN General Assembly – OpEd

“True to the historic commitment of my country to the Middle East, to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, this

23.09.2025 3

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Lord Mandelson’s Epstein Problem

It was so startlingly obvious it seemed to snuff out any comment.  Lord Peter Mandelson, otherwise known as the sinister Mr Fixit of New Labour from...

22.09.2025 40

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Suspending Courses, Washing Delicates and Baking: A University Justifies Harming Staff and Students

These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch.  In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology...

18.09.2025 10

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Australia Excludes the Pacific Island Press Corps

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe with vulgar...

16.09.2025 10

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Kicking Downwards: Australia Excludes The Pacific Island Press Corps – OpEd

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe

15.09.2025 3

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Superfluous Appointments: Albania’s Sunny AI Minister – OpEd

When countries have suffered the odd mishap regarding government paralysis or convulsive change, the frequent quip would often be: “Who

14.09.2025 5

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Buying Time: Israel’s Rogue Attack On Qatar – OpEd

It’s all part of a stratagem, bleak and brutal.  With Palestinian recognition being promised by France, the UK, Canada and

11.09.2025 5

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Destroying Gaza City

Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in.  While this should be shunned and...

10.09.2025 10

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Destroying Gaza City – OpEd

Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in.  While

09.09.2025 7

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Blunting Justice: Trump And The International Criminal Court – OpEd

The International Criminal Court bash fest is getting ever more frenetic in Washington and among the law shredding members of

05.09.2025 6

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Digging Deeper On Community Radio: Triple R And Indispensable Airwaves – OpEd

To get to the venue involves a calming, if early ritual.  Uneasy sleep beforehand, given the morning slot.  Eagerness to

03.09.2025 2

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Refugee Dunghills: Australia Makes Another Nauru Deal

Over the last two decades, Australia has made a name for itself by pursuing barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea. ...

03.09.2025 40

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Think Tanker Demands For AUKUS: What Australia Should Do With US Submarines – OpEd

The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was.  Announced

03.09.2025 5

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Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action And Anti-Terrorism Laws – OpEd

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late.  Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been...

03.09.2025 4

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Let Them In: Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps

The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the...

02.09.2025 10

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What Australia Should do with US Submarines

The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was.  Announced in September 2021, ruinous to...

27.08.2025 10

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Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late.  Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been...

26.08.2025 10

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Making it Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City

History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered.  Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom,...

25.08.2025 10

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Lethal Nonsense: Antisemitism, Codes of Conduct, and the Bendigo Writers Festival

Write, but do not offend. Speak and comment, but do not divide.  Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion. ...

21.08.2025 10

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Cancelling the Ethnic Cleansers: Australia Revokes Simcha Rothman’s Visa

It is a curious feeling to see a government, let alone any politician, suddenly find their banished backbones and retired principles.  The spine, on...

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A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World

It was a sign of someone desperate that his message has failed to take wing and make its way to better lands.  With the strategy of Israeli Prime...

14.08.2025 20

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Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif

“Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”.  Such extremism visited...

13.08.2025 10

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Occupation and Slaughter: Netanyahu and Taking Over Gaza

To say that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one.  With a dearth of ideas as to how to come...

11.08.2025 10

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Foiling the Anti-Protest Sceptics: The Pro-Palestinian Sydney Harbour Bridge March

There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia...

06.08.2025 10

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Misusing the Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy and Censorship

The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of adventure in policy. ...

04.08.2025 10

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Diplomatic Merchandise: Exploiting The Issue Of Palestinian Recognition – OpEd

They have been the playthings of powers for decades, and there is no promise that this will end soon.  Empires

03.08.2025 6

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The Paranoia Of Officialdom: Age Verification And Using The Internet In Australia – OpEd

Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers.  Be it perceived

01.08.2025 7

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When Israelis Call It Out: Finding Genocide In Gaza – OpEd

It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions

29.07.2025 8

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When Israelis Call It Out: Finding Genocide in Gaza

It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions always spurred by the...

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Intentional Policies: Dystopian Killing Fields and Starvation in Gaza

Starvation as a way of life.  Starvation as a way of death.  Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance.  As the state of Israel hums along...

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Intentional Policies: Dystopian Killing Fields And Starvation In Gaza – OpEd

Starvation as a way of life.  Starvation as a way of death.  Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance.  As the

28.07.2025 8

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Caught In Belgium: Universal Jurisdiction And The IDF – OpEd

Two soldiers find themselves in Belgium attending the Tomorrowland festival in Boom, Belgium.  Entertainment beckons.  The festival, held...

25.07.2025 3

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How Not To Reform A University: Trump’s Harvard Obsession – OpEd

The messy scrap between the Trump administration and Harvard University was always more than a touch bizarre.  On June 4,

24.07.2025 4

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Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza

Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip...

23.07.2025 10

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Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement On Gaza – OpEd

Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza

22.07.2025 4

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Propaganda Siren: Silencing the Voice of America

In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion of US...

22.07.2025 20

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Ominous Plans: Making Concentration Camp Gaza

The odious idea of a camp within a camp.  The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking...

21.07.2025 10

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Propaganda Siren: Silencing The Voice Of America – OpEd

In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion

21.07.2025 5

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Ominous Plans: Making Concentration Camp Gaza – OpEd

The odious idea of a camp within a camp.  The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian

19.07.2025 3

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K-Defense Day: Pimping For The Arms Dealers – OpEd

Militarism is catching on across the countries of advanced economies and beyond.  The sly, disingenuous term of “defence” is used

15.07.2025 4

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