As an anti-Semitic fascist movement grows, Zionists attack the anti-fascist left
Far right politics is making a comeback. And with it comes political anti-Semitism. In the English-speaking world, quasi-fascist “alt-right” milieus increasingly consider the “JQ” (“Jewish question”) an important component of their political war against immigration, liberalism, socialism a...CONTINUE READING
Australian war crimes
How many civilians have Australian special forces killed in Afghanistan? We don’t know and may never know. But it is becoming clearer that war crimes of a scale not previously reported or acknowledged have been carried out by some in Australia’s most venerated military units. Documents lea...CONTINUE READING
Palestine is not occupied, it is colonised
June 5 marked the 51st anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. But, unlike the massive popular mobilisation that preceded the anniversary of the Nakba – the catastrophic destruction of Palestine in 1948 – the anniversary of the occupation did not ge...CONTINUE READING
Trump’s new immigration cruelty
Washington has a long history of using deportations to strike fear among undocumented workers. In recent years deportations have increased – former president Barack Obama became known as “deporter in chief”. But Trump has greatly stepped up the drive, mainly against undocumented Latinos, u...CONTINUE READING
Political liberals sook about Trump not being aggressive enough
You might think it’s good that World War Three didn’t break out this week after the Singapore summit between US president Donald Trump and North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un. Not so, according to a swathe of liberal opinion-makers disappointed that Trump didn’t give Kim a bloody nose. From...CONTINUE READING
A rogue state threatens the world with nuclear war. It’s not North Korea
Is there any limit to the hypocrisy of the US over the pending North Korea summit in Singapore? If you listened to the White House and Pentagon, you’d get the impression that North Korea is the major threat to world peace. So far as Trump and his cronies are concerned, the main goal of the...CONTINUE READING
Thawing permafrost a ticking time bomb
Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott last year told an audience at the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank for climate change sceptics, that the “so-called settled science of climate change [is] absolute crap”. In one way, Abbott, like contemporary researche...CONTINUE READING
Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad
What is the background to the protests? The regime of control Israel imposes over Gaza is unprecedented globally, some academics calling it a “digital occupation”. Remote control machine guns and drones monitor and police this tiny territory, which is 360 square kilometres, while Gaza’s ac...CONTINUE READING
Police massacre environment protesters in Tamil Nadu
On 22 May, 13 people in the city of Thoothukudi in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu were massacred by police on the 100th day of continuous protest against the expansion of the giant Sterlite copper smelter. Sterlite is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, a multinational with operati...CONTINUE READING