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Independent journalism and activist for social & environmental justice. I use @MEAA code of ethics. I’m a radical in my seventies. Past Prof Journalism UTS. Wendybacon.com

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Yes in exclusive interview with Jerusalem Post

04.10.2025 11:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"A threat to civilisation" says doctor against hospital's Children and War event - Michael West Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.

Meet Dr Samuell, the #Zionist who attacked #RCH forum. As
@sstephanietrann
& I report, he has record of attacking ethical health professionals . While Prof MacDonald was saving lives at #StVincents, he was busy astroturfing to destroy #Greens michaelwest.com.au/a-threat-to-...

04.10.2025 05:23 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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"A threat to civilisation" says doctor against hospital's Children and War event - Michael West Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.

"He recommends depoliticising hospitals and mandating civility training.

“This is not just a threat against Jews, this is a threat to civilisation”.

Gaza censorship in medical field @wendybacon1.bsky.social @sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol #antisemitism
michaelwest.com.au/a-threat-to-...

03.10.2025 23:18 — 👍 56    🔁 21    💬 6    📌 9

"In the mid-2000s, Samuell attracted significant public scrutiny for his role in challenging academic research on the psychological harm of detention for children and refugees."

& so much more in this excellent piece by @wendybacon1.bsky.social & @sstephanietrann.bsky.social

04.10.2025 01:23 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Join me in supporting the Support freedom of speech: Support Professor Peter Macdonald Campaign The Israel Lobby is pressuring St Vincent hospital to punish Professor Peter Macdonald for speculatively pointing out the Israeli foreign influence in local and foreign Australian policy.  Send a lett...

My good friends at the Palestine Justice Movement Sydney have put together this email campaign in defence of Professor Peter Macdonald. Just over 4000 emails already sent. Please take a few seconds to add your name, and please reshare!

palestinejusticemovement.good.do/supportprofe...

22.09.2025 07:05 — 👍 74    🔁 39    💬 5    📌 4
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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

24.09.2025 16:22 — 👍 228    🔁 178    💬 8    📌 37

Modus operandi: make abhorrent comments against a respected cardiologist then go to ground & hope no one follows up

Bad luck 4 them as @wendybacon1.bsky.social & Cathy Peters scrutinise board members at St Vincent's Hospital & the VictorChang Cardiac Research Institute 4 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

29.09.2025 09:04 — 👍 62    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 3

Hoping that St Vincent's - a vitally important (publicly funded) institution in Australia will see fit to respond to these questions by @wendybacon1.bsky.social

29.09.2025 10:05 — 👍 120    🔁 55    💬 3    📌 2
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🇵🇸✡️ A group of anti-Zionist religious Jews marching in Jerusalem to protest against Zionist Israel and support a Palestine state was brutally dispersed by Israeli police and their Palestinian flags stolen.

Judaism is NOT Zionism

(Credit: Jewish Voice)

29.09.2025 06:00 — 👍 118    🔁 58    💬 2    📌 6

Do you know any more?!

21.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Antisemitism? St Vincent's heartless treatment of cardiologist who asked a question - Michael West Peter McDonald asked questions about Israel in a public forum and has been censored and condemned by St Vincent's Hospital.

If you asked me if a Sydney cardiologist would end up “off work” & vilified by St Vincent’s for stating his view at a public meeting that #mossad was involved in #antisemitism incidents, I’d have said ‘no’ - when I investigated, I found it was true! michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism...

20.09.2025 05:36 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Since 2005, fossil-fuel interests have spent $954M lobbying the US government on CCUS, yielding major legislative wins.
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Groups tied to fossil-fuel use or sales made 89 % of CCUS lobbying expenditures between 2005 to 2024.
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Industries used to justify CCUS (e.g., steel, cement) spent just 1/24 as much on CCUS lobbying as did the fossil-fuel sector.
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Half of all CCUS lobbying expenditures came from 15 entities, each with direct financial ties to fossil fuel production.

Highlights • Since 2005, fossil-fuel interests have spent $954M lobbying the US government on CCUS, yielding major legislative wins. • Groups tied to fossil-fuel use or sales made 89 % of CCUS lobbying expenditures between 2005 to 2024. • Industries used to justify CCUS (e.g., steel, cement) spent just 1/24 as much on CCUS lobbying as did the fossil-fuel sector. • Half of all CCUS lobbying expenditures came from 15 entities, each with direct financial ties to fossil fuel production.

Whatever CCS *could* be, it is and always has been a fossil fuel industry technology, designed to extend the lifespan and expand the scope of the combustion of coal, oil and gas, and worsen overheating.

New @lindseygulden.bsky.social paper here -->>>

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

05.09.2025 18:10 — 👍 88    🔁 36    💬 5    📌 3
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Israel lobby has luxury antisemitism summit on Gold Coast while Gaza burns - Michael West While hundreds were killed in Gaza the Israel lobby held a luxury summit for local councillors to suppress criticism of Israel.

Marles was promoted as speaker but in fact delivered by video link - enthusiastically endorsing CAM agenda michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...

05.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

She was asked by @Guardian about NeoNazis and specifically didn’t want to comment

05.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Criticis of Antisemitism Summit 'antisemitic' says Israeli antisemitism chief - Michael West The Zionist movement is unable to handle criticism, naming anyone who criticises their efforts at narrative control antisemitic.

Not handling criticism well - Israel antisemitism chief hits out at critics of CAM Antisemitism junket on Gold Coast for being antisemitic
@wendybacon1.bsky.social #auspol

michaelwest.com.au/criticis-of-...

28.08.2025 21:25 — 👍 111    🔁 49    💬 25    📌 7
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Deputy PM Richard Marles to address Israel lobby summit on Gold Coast - Michael West Deputy PM and Minister for Defence is on the speakers' list to address the controversial Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Summit today.

Deputy PM Richard Marles is on the speakers' list to address the controversial Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Summit today.
#auspol #whatsthescam By Wendy Bacon
michaelwest.com.au/deputy-pm-to...

03.09.2025 02:35 — 👍 39    🔁 23    💬 16    📌 5

Nanna Dom and Helen are true warrior-Nannas. Indefatigable in their advicacy for clean water, air and earth for the kids!

14.08.2025 06:28 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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BLAIR CONSIDERED A 'SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP' BETWEEN ISRAEL AND NATO Downing Street files show Tony Blair was prepared to allow Israel to take over part of the West Bank and to give Israel a “privileged” alliance with Nato and the European Union.

NEW -- Blair considered a "special partnership" between Israel and Nato

by @markcurtis30

Files show Tony Blair was prepared to allow Israel to take over part of the West Bank and to give Israel a “privileged” alliance with Nato and the EU.

www.declassifieduk.org/blair-consid...

05.08.2025 08:06 — 👍 82    🔁 67    💬 14    📌 7

What 200,000 or more people called with a single voice was #SanctionIsrael - why can’t we talk about that? - not views of NSW police on their dodgy views of potential risks that never looked like eventuating #MarchforHumanity

03.08.2025 22:20 — 👍 249    🔁 90    💬 11    📌 3

WTF abc repeating nsw cop fascist language:

“It’s a miracle nobody was killed in this dangerous situation”

Police were concerned about a possible crowd crush

Cops whingeing they didn’t have enough time to properly prepare

Oh fuck off

You must be so disappointed how peaceful it was

03.08.2025 22:08 — 👍 67    🔁 22    💬 6    📌 0

Everyone was peaceful on #MarchforHumanity ystrday. Due to cops’ directions there was some uncertainty. The word ‘catastrophic’ is distortion & spin intended to deter future marches. Police should be Q’d about permit refusal. Have cops learned from judge’s decision? #RNBreakfast #MarchforHumanity

03.08.2025 22:11 — 👍 51    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.

03.08.2025 08:10 — 👍 1584    🔁 443    💬 105    📌 17
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Wong says there are 'challenges' to overcome before Palestinian recognition happens French President Emmanuel Macron's move to announce France's intention to recognise Palestine in September renews conversations about the issue in Australia.

Penny Wong seems to be more worried about the accountability of the Palestinian Authority than she is about the deliberate starvatuon of people in Gaza. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

27.07.2025 22:03 — 👍 37    🔁 18    💬 11    📌 0

Well now, if onIy some journos had been saying a couple of years back that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war

It seems we're allowed to speak about Israel's war crimes without being labelled 'antisemitic' now that our PM has given us all the ok signal

#pfffft
bsky.app/profile/anto...

27.07.2025 02:18 — 👍 297    🔁 82    💬 9    📌 1
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It was just as possible then as it is now.

27.07.2025 03:57 — 👍 214    🔁 80    💬 23    📌 4
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Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

19.07.2025 23:00 — 👍 301    🔁 215    💬 13    📌 27
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Australia's silence on genocide gives Netanyahu a free pass to exterminate Palestinians The refusal of Australia and other Western countries to talk about Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza is encouraging a more blatant Israeli program of exterminating Palestinians.

Pathetic, Labor

When democracies refuse to call out GENOCIDE, FORCED STARVATION and SLAUGHTER AT FOOD AID STATIONS then you become the problem

You make our democracy fragile, without values and on the side of fascists

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/04/i...

04.07.2025 02:50 — 👍 30    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 1
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Just leaving this here.

04.07.2025 23:32 — 👍 63    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 0

The ethnic cleansing consultants

04.07.2025 23:46 — 👍 42    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0

Awful but do we have verification of where it was taken & not manipulated?

03.07.2025 01:59 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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