“No matter that Israel is the only nuclear power in the region and that the US is the sole nation to have dropped A-bombs on another country, ongoing negotiations towards a US-Iran deal deemed successful by an Omani mediator were also abandoned.”
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260302-the...
“The weapons-grade gaslighting accompanying this war on behalf of “the brave Iranian people” – as Israel puts it – is off the scale: Iranian civilians, including schoolgirls, apparently approve of being slaughtered and having their homes destroyed, just like the Palestinians.”
- Nabila Ramdani ⤵️
“Despite all the hate-mongering, mutual ignorance and disinformation, the vast majority of Americans and Iranians are on the same side. Their common foe is tyranny. Their leaders are the problem. There is no need for this fight.”
from Simon Tisdall
#Iran
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“.. There is no agreement on what the any more, as to when it is just or reasonable for one state to take military action against another. That leaves us in a dangerous place.” - Melissa Clark
#Insiders
“.. We could go to the US domestic scenario. All of that has been put to one the concept circumstances of intervention be warranted. Does it need to be a pre-emptive move warranted…
👇🏽
As US & Israel attack Iran & their retaliation.
“We don't have a rules international order because there is no longer agreement between the norms set. So no longer is there a complete dispensing of things like wanting a UN Security Council endorsement or working with a coalition of allies… ”
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“It leaves us with the world I think we knew coming, that Mark Carney Canadian PM described, of "might is right" kind of world, where references to the rules-based order are quaint in the current environment. And Australia is paddling behind and trying to justify these positions.” - Mark Kenny
1/4
“Mr. Trump discussed plans for strikes on Iran in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday. The meeting included VP JD Vance; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe; & Susie Wiles, the White House CoS.”
Yet ⤵️
“The issue most economists see is that despite the president’s proclamation, there’s no evidence the US isn’t able to pay its bills or meet the obligations it has to international investors. If there was, financial markets would be selling off American assets and the dollar would be collapsing…”
23.02.2026 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The project has been nearly two decades in the making. Altus Chief Executive Officer David Young first floated the idea in 2007, cold-calling Ivanka Trump to discuss the proposal, according to the company’s statement. It was signed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this month, he said.”
#ausnews
If UK news shows won’t call this absolute boll**** out let do it ourselves
19.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 547 🔁 205 💬 23 📌 7
“The current government of Israel does not believe in agreements – neither the cease-fire agreements it has signed in Gaza and Lebanon that it systematically violates, nor peace agreements.”
2/2.
🎁 ‘Israel's Disarmament Demands Reveal a Strategy of Perpetual Threat’
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
📚 “The demand to disarm all organizations and countries that threaten Israel is not just a pipe dream; it is a farce because it is presented as a prerequisite for any diplomatic solution. It is as if disarmament is the only obstacle separating us from a long-awaited peace.”
From Zvi Bar’el
1/2
“The inaugural Board of Peace meeting served as a soapbox for the president's peacemaking ambitions. It seemed beside the point that they have little to do with facts on the ground, especially in Gaza”
From Ben Samuels ⤵️
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
This Angus Taylor, ICYMI.
We still don't know where that money went btw - bc Cayman Islands.
“Angus Taylor has been elected the Liberal party’s new leader, ousting Sussan Ley in a partyroom ballot, 34 votes to 17.
Taylor won a strong victory after the spill motion to change the leader passed 33 votes to 17, with one informal vote.”
#auspol
A group of Muslim men had already received police permission to worship during a Sydney protest before they were disrupted mid-prayer by officers, NSW Police Force confirms.
12.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 32 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 5
“These unjustified restrictions on democratic freedoms are themselves stimulating social division and political exclusion, factors which risk making protest more, not less, unruly.”
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
“This includes preventing incitement to violence or national, racial or religious hatred, including antisemitism as properly defined.” - Ben Saul
10.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Otherwise, protests can only be restricted by law where it is necessary and proportionate to protect vital interests such as national security, public safety, public order or the rights of others.”
10.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“.. If a society aspires to be truly democratic, its governments must allow protests to take place without unjustified interference. Protests must be “peaceful”, meaning an absence of widespread and serious violence to people and property. Otherwise … ”
10.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Political protest and speech enjoy the highest protection. People have a right to express ideas even if they shock, offend or disturb, are disagreeable to the authorities or majority opinion, or are exaggerated or untrue.”
10.02.2026 10:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
▪️Article from Ben Saul, Challis Chair of International Law at Sydney Uni.
“Under international law, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression are not only crucial human rights, but are essential to democracy and political inclusion, the rule of law, and the peaceful resolution of differences.”
▪️ “Media workers say the layoffs amount to a strategic retreat from international journalism, narrowing the range of voices, perspectives, and firsthand reporting available to western audiences.” 👇🏽
04.02.2026 21:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
A Royal Commission is not the beginning or the end of what Australia must do to eradicate antisemitism, protect ourselves from terrorism or strengthen our social cohesion. That is an ongoing national effort, for all of us. Because an attack on Jewish Australians, is an attack on all Australians.
I want Albanese to tell us what the Israeli President who signs bombs that blow up Palestinian families and denies civilian status to Palestinian children has to do with an “attack on all Australians”. In his own words. I’ll wait.
29.01.2026 09:16 — 👍 85 🔁 29 💬 6 📌 0
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, working with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, filed a lawsuit Saturday evening seeking to prevent the destruction of evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
25.01.2026 03:45 — 👍 474 🔁 173 💬 24 📌 4One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
24.01.2026 21:29 — 👍 10530 🔁 2862 💬 104 📌 108
Trump's Doctrine offers a grim choice for the world: Obey or suffer - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trumps-donroe-doctrine-offers-grim-choice-world-obey-or-suffer
25.01.2026 09:42 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
📚 “While many leaders act like stunned victims in the face of Trump's threats, Canada's Carney acknowledged that the international order has collapsed - and offered a pragmatic, optimistic path forward” from Dahlia Scheindlin - Haaretz
2/2.
www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
