Category: Australia
U.S. won’t rule out military action if China establishes base in Solomon Islands, “Australia should prepare for war”
[The Guardian] “One of the most senior US officials in the Pacific has refused to rule out military action against Solomon…
How lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19
[The Grayzone] “Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing…
Finally revealed: Australia assisted CIA coup in ‘Chile’s 9/11’ that installed Pinochet’s murderous military junta
[Michael West Media] “On the eve of its 48th anniversary, documents just declassified by the Australian National Archives show the…
Former Australian PM Bob Hawke was a U.S. Informant and Stooge
[CounterPunch] “In June, a rather unremarkable revelation was made that [Australia’s longest serving Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke,] had been…
YouTube suspension of Murdoch’s Sky News Australia ‘disturbing’ assault on freedom of thought, no matter where you stand
[Sky News Australia] “The freedom to engage in debate and challenge conventional thinking and wisdoms were not always accepted as…
Prison Island: Australian Defence Force called in to help enforcing Sydney COVID-19 lockdown
[The Sydney Morning Herald] “The Australian Defence Force will assist with enforcement of Sydney’s lockdown following a formal request to…
Australia: Producer of political satire FriendlyJordies arrested by NSW terrorist squad, Facebook and Google censor related content
[Michael West Media] “Late last night the Facebook Page, ‘The Common Sense Brigade!’ set up by the FriendlyJordies team to…
AOAV Report: 40% of civilian casualties from airstrikes in Afghanistan were children
[Action on Armed Violence] “Hundreds of children have been killed and hundreds more injured by US and Afghan airstrikes in…
War Crimes Inquiry Report: Australian special forces killed 39 unarmed Afghans
[REUTERS, The Guardian] “The inquiry into alleged war crimes by Australian special forces in Afghanistan has delivered its final report to the…
The Case of Australian Whistleblower Bernard Collaery
[Xenophon Davis] “Last week, there was a secret hearing in Canberra that you and I are not allowed to know…
Video: Australian SAS soldier shoots unarmed man at close range in Afghanistan
[ABC] “Extraordinary footage captured on the helmet camera of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan could result in charges of war…
Police raid Australian public broadcaster ABC over Afghanistan war crimes leaks
[The Independent] “Australian police have raided the offices of the national broadcaster over allegations it published classified material about possible war…
Whistleblower David McBride charged for exposing Australian war crimes, ‘not afraid to go to jail’
[The Guardian] “A former defence lawyer charged for blowing the whistle on alleged misconduct by Australian special forces in Afghanistan says he…
‘The Afghan Files’: Defence leak exposes war crimes by Australia’s special forces
[ABC] “Hundreds of pages of secret defence force documents leaked to the ABC give an unprecedented insight into the clandestine…
Admitted: Australian Troops Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan
[Countercurrents] “Kevin Frost, a special forces sergeant in the Australian Army, has done something unusual. He wishes, even demands, to…
Australia’s two-party system election campaigns: bashing Aborigines and refugees
[The Guardian] “The election campaign in Australia is being fought with the lives of men, women and children. Some drown, others…
Australia’s ‘stop the boats’ campaign, funded by public money, is targeting voters not asylum seekers
[Mumbrella] “Your average member of the public doesn’t know what a media agency does.” Agencies make careful calculations “about the most…
Race riots in Cronulla: PM John Howard says Australia is not racist
[The Sydney Morning Herald] “Racial tension turned to violence today as at least 5000 angry people converged on the beach…
Complicity of US and UK – Nixon, Albright, Kissinger, Carter, Brzezinski, Reagan, Bush and Thatcher – in Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia that killed almost two million
[New Statesman] “On 17 April, it is 25 years since Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. In the calendar…
