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‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories' worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 George Monbiot Who is running the government's growth school' for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears Thu 11 Sep 2025 15.00 AEST < Share 660

🇨🇦 🧵A big warm welcome to all the lovely Canadians jumping on the Atlas Network train. #NZpol has led the way with the Aus academic @jeremywalker.bsky.social showing the history that got them a “think” tank operative as Dep PM. George Monbiot says “junktanks”👌 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Never believe anyone saying sport & politics should stay separate. Sport is politics!

Iran’s women’s team will be punished when they go home or their families punished if they seek asylum. The regime sought the good PR by having a team but control the population by fear. FIFA must step in.

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Moira Deeming, an eight-minute meeting and the latest flashpoint in the battle within the Victorian Liberals Some Liberals worry the MP may defect to One Nation if she loses preselection but supporters insist she’s not contemplating jumping ship

‘They say the Deeming supporters were simply late. One source says even if those outside had voted, it would not have changed the fact Deeming doesn’t have the numbers to win the preselection ballot.

“She’s toast,” the source says.’

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🇨🇦 Roughly a 25-part thread for #Canada #Cdnpoli #canpoli 🤣

Anyone still saying this was done to free the Iranian people, need their head checked

Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers Conservative outlet aired footage of president saluting at similar ceremony in December for at least three broadcasts Fox News used old video of Donald Trump in multiple reports on Saturday and Sunday, concealing from viewers that the commander-in-chief wore a golf hat throughout a ceremony on Saturday in which he saluted six flag-draped transfer cases carrying the remains of the first US troops to die in his war on Iran. The president had stirred outrage online by failing to remove his Trump-brand white hat during the ritual homecoming at Dover air force base in Delaware on Saturday for six army reserve soldiers killed in Kuwait. Continue reading...

Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Markets are reacting now that it’s clear this war is no flash in the pan and that as each day passes, it’s clear the Administration has no fucking clue what it is doing.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

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Note that the man antisemitism envoy Segal picked for her uni review is linked to Atlas Network partner the Centre for Independent Studies (with his brother Peter at the IPA).

How much is the broadly AJA project integrated into 🇦🇺 Atlas partner ops?

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Israel are really proving to be very grubby people in war. The latest act with The IDF targeting and killing UN peace keepers in South Lebanon.

Yesterday, the far-right Israeli Finance Minister threatened the southern suburbs of Beirut with the same fate of destruction as the Khan Younis neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip

A scarier aspect of the war on Iran is that it is being run by the Dunning Kruger 🤡brigade who believe themselves to be the epitome of genetic superiority’s dictate that 💰white men are categorically better.
Their predecessors made 🤯 stupid interventions with catastrophic consequences despite 👨‍🎓
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More disturbing still were two international speakers. One of them, Bradley Thayer, was introduced to the audience as representing the American Freedom Alliance (AFA). That body is a Southern Poverty Law Center-listed Islamophobic hate group. It has decades of involvement in the network of operations fostering the demonisation of Muslims and Islam. The Fairbrook Foundation behind it was named as one of the top funders of Islamophobic activity twice in the Center for American Progress's 2009 and 2015 Fear inc. reports. The network is no joke: the white supremacist functioning as Trump's Prime Minister to fill pop-up concentration camps learnt his trade in one of its junktanks.

🧵🚨The moneyed classes have been most effective for a century at imposing their goals & worldviews on us ever since the science of propaganda took off in WW1. This sign of what Advance has planned for🇦🇺 must be immunised against by seeing it coming. theshot.net.au/uncategorize... #Auspol

This is an excellent & accessible summary. Please share with your circles.
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MAGA is finally ditching the Trump Regime. People like Alex Jones & Nick Fuentes are furious Trump has hidden the Epstein files & is starting WW3.

Wait until they hear the Iran war is expected to go until September & oil prices are going from $65 a barrel to $150 a barrel.

All to help Israel.

Researchers on social violence in France have been quick to emphasise that far-right groups continue to perpetrate the bulk of politically motivated killings, increasingly targeting Muslims, immigrants and Jews as well as left-wing opponents. Sociologist Isabelle Sommier stressed that of the 57 deaths linked to violence between political groups recorded between 1986 and 2017, the radical right had been responsible for all but five.

france24.com Video footage shows a brief scuffle as counter-protesters tried to snatch a banner carried by Némésis activists, dragging several to the ground - a scuffle from which Deranque appears to have kept his distance. Instead, the violence that led to the 23-year-old student's death broke out hundreds of metres away from the university, on the other side of a dark tunnel burrowing under the railway tracks reaching towards the city's main train station. The moments leading up to Deranque's fatal beating are still fiercely debated, with a video published by anti-fascist site Contre-Attaque showing a group of more than a dozen armed and masked ultranationalist militants charging a group of far-left militants at the junction outside the tunnel. Subsequent footage published by Le Canard Enchaîné shows a fierce clash between a bloc of black-clad far-right militants, some armed with pepper spray, reinforced gloves, a metal crutch and a pyrotechnic flare, and a group of anti-fascist militants, largely in street clothes. Members of both groups were masked and traded blows. At one point in the video, a far-right militant ignites the pyrotechnic flare and hurls it at the head of one of his opponents. Another blasts the leftists with what seems like pepper spray as his comrades ١٠.٠

This account of the bashing death of a young white supremacist antisemite in France makes it sound like it was only v bad luck for him that he was the one to die when heavily equipped Neo Nazis attacked leftists in street clothes. Right is using it to discredit Left. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Does Trump really know what he’s doing in Iran? | Fiona Katauskas He’s got a three point plan

Man with a Plan for Iran- my #Trump cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

Ken Paxton Wants to Implement Texas’ Abortion Ban…in Europe
After losing multiple attempts to sue a New York–based doctor, the anti-abortion AG is now going after providers in Austria and the Netherlands.

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It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.

Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

Typical rightwing hypocrisy. They think we don't notice #auspol

This is a classic of the cynicism of Atlas Network partner operatives’ thinking.
They say that all spending must stop. Except for torrents for their industries, including weapons. 🙄
When one doesn’t believe government is good for anything but removing obstacles to the donors’ power and profit ⬇️

A Beginner’s Guide To Having An Expert Opinion On The Iran–Israel–US war (Australian Edition) Because nothing says informed geopolitical engagement like a suburb-specific moral panic.

Sami Shah's piece in Crikey today is excellent www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/i...

37 pages

Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia - The Shot There is a transnational Islamophobia Industry of massive family foundations and “think tank” operations that have been generating fear and loathing of Muslims since the 1990s.

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social with a great piece of research about the local right-wing establishment social engineering operation occurring of late.

"Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia"

Muslims 'should not be forced to beg' for protection, Labor MP says Labor backbencher Ed Husic says Islamophobia should be examined as part of Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

“The royal commission is about both antisemitism and social cohesion, and if there is not going to be an examination of Islamophobia, that is really concerning," he told the ABC.

"Muslim Australians should not feel [like] they have to beg for protection."

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Australia Institute Deputy Director Ebony Bennett asks The People's Economist Gary Stevenson, why don't Government's tax wealth properly?

Listen to Follow the Money for more from Gary: https://theaus.in/4rM2fYh