Phil Eckert
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“Don’t kid yourself that it can’t happen here,” warns Kerry O’Brien
YouTube video by The Walkley Foundation
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"Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here"
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
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Beyond all other illegalities Hegseth's order to kill survivor's in the water is a crime which implicates all US personnel. If Hegseth's policy would be generally accepted, future US navy personnel shipwrecked would also become lawful targets.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Beyond all other illegalities Hegseth's order to kill survivor's in the water is a crime which implicates all US personnel. If Hegseth's policy would be generally accepted, future US navy personnel shipwrecked would also become lawful targets.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Dead men tell no tales.
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Dead men tell no tales.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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The first time that my mind was boggled in my study of #Auspol I saw this live on the ABC. An economist of his standing whose mind was boggled was hard to ignore. And he's telling us we made stupid deals that rip off every Australian. This is why we can't have nice things.
“I find it mind boggling . . . the fact that [Australia is] giving away these natural resources”. – Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist
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November 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The first time that my mind was boggled in my study of #Auspol I saw this live on the ABC. An economist of his standing whose mind was boggled was hard to ignore. And he's telling us we made stupid deals that rip off every Australian. This is why we can't have nice things.
"The biggest battle we face today is impunity"
"We need information integrity"
"We need information integrity"
Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa's Powerful Speech: “Information Armageddon” Threatens Democracy | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"The biggest battle we face today is impunity"
"We need information integrity"
"We need information integrity"
"Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here"
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
“Don’t kid yourself that it can’t happen here,” warns Kerry O’Brien
YouTube video by The Walkley Foundation
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here"
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
Kerry O'Brien
#auspol
Reposted by Phil Eckert
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This speech at the Walkleys last night was a fist-pumping table thumping boomer
This speech at the Walkleys last night was a fist-pumping table thumping boomer
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This speech at the Walkleys last night was a fist-pumping table thumping boomer
This speech at the Walkleys last night was a fist-pumping table thumping boomer
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🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine.
bit.ly/48mvicJ
bit.ly/48mvicJ
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚨The Russian government has banned us as an “undesirable” foreign organization. Our work hasn’t changed. But what’s changed is Russia’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies, its staggering rise in repression & the scope of the war crimes its forces are committing in Ukraine.
bit.ly/48mvicJ
bit.ly/48mvicJ
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"Most people see through the doublespeak of their leaders who claim to meet in Sharm El-Sheikh to make peace, as they continue the flow of the means of destruction to Israel—" #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Most people see through the doublespeak of their leaders who claim to meet in Sharm El-Sheikh to make peace, as they continue the flow of the means of destruction to Israel—" #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Members of Gaza’s Civil Defense force describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
Gaza’s Civil Defense Forces Keep Digging for 10,000 Missing Bodies
Gazan civil workers describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
theintercept.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Members of Gaza’s Civil Defense force describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
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Palantir: Your friendly Australian Coles supermarket's IT manager.
Happy shopping...
Smile for the camera.
www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
Happy shopping...
Smile for the camera.
www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Palantir: Your friendly Australian Coles supermarket's IT manager.
Happy shopping...
Smile for the camera.
www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
Happy shopping...
Smile for the camera.
www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
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The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine held in Barcelona presented striking evidence of Israel’s forced starvation of the Palestinian people and the deliberate destruction of food security in Gaza.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/inte...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/inte...
#Palestine #Israel
International tribunal finds Israel guilty of genocide, ecocide, and the forced starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza
The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine held in Barcelona presented striking evidence of Israel’s forced starvation of the Palestinian people and the deliberate destruction of food security...
mondoweiss.net
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine held in Barcelona presented striking evidence of Israel’s forced starvation of the Palestinian people and the deliberate destruction of food security in Gaza.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/inte...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/inte...
#Palestine #Israel
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Horrific. Being done with our tax dollars and in our name.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Horrific. Being done with our tax dollars and in our name.
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Poll Shows 70 Percent in US Disapprove of Striking Venezuela as Trump Mulls War truthout.org/articles/pol...
Poll Shows 70 Percent in US Disapprove of Striking Venezuela as Trump Mulls War
The US has built up the largest military presence in Latin America in decades off the coast of Venezuela.
truthout.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Poll Shows 70 Percent in US Disapprove of Striking Venezuela as Trump Mulls War truthout.org/articles/pol...
Shocking.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Shocking.
www.instagram.com/p/DReB_fjkWx...
www.instagram.com/p/DReB_fjkWx...
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
ABC's too timid to enquire who might be behind the payments for antisemetic graffiti...? People will draw their own conclusions, as they do every day.
Sydney man offered $1K for role in anti-Israel vandalism spree
The court heard Thomas Stojanovski was financially motivated to help fund his illicit substance abuse for an injury he was dealing with at the time.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
ABC's too timid to enquire who might be behind the payments for antisemetic graffiti...? People will draw their own conclusions, as they do every day.
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Thank me.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thank me.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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“Israel no longer belongs within the civilized community of nations.
Barbarism demands decisive actions, including embargo, suspension & even expulsion [from the UN]”
- Malaysian PM Anwar bin Ibrahim 👏👏👏
Barbarism demands decisive actions, including embargo, suspension & even expulsion [from the UN]”
- Malaysian PM Anwar bin Ibrahim 👏👏👏
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“Israel no longer belongs within the civilized community of nations.
Barbarism demands decisive actions, including embargo, suspension & even expulsion [from the UN]”
- Malaysian PM Anwar bin Ibrahim 👏👏👏
Barbarism demands decisive actions, including embargo, suspension & even expulsion [from the UN]”
- Malaysian PM Anwar bin Ibrahim 👏👏👏
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Dr Assal Rad—
“Killing dozens of Palestinians is not a 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦.
“It’s a massacre.”
“Killing dozens of Palestinians is not a 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦.
“It’s a massacre.”
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Dr Assal Rad—
“Killing dozens of Palestinians is not a 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦.
“It’s a massacre.”
“Killing dozens of Palestinians is not a 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦.
“It’s a massacre.”
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ICYMI: Friday's #PlanetAmerica with @therealjohnbarron.bsky.social and Chas Licciardello on the Epstein saga is outstanding, quality journalism. Highly recommended. #EpsteinFiles #USPolitics iview.abc.net.au/show/planet-...
Planet America: Weekend Edition (Friday 21/11/2025)
How did Jeffrey Epstein get so rich? We ask about the sex trafficker's alleged work with Israeli intelligence and why mainstream media is largely ignoring it. Plus Trump signs the bill to release the ...
iview.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
ICYMI: Friday's #PlanetAmerica with @therealjohnbarron.bsky.social and Chas Licciardello on the Epstein saga is outstanding, quality journalism. Highly recommended. #EpsteinFiles #USPolitics iview.abc.net.au/show/planet-...
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Australia doesn't have a gas supply problem, we have a gas export problem.
Good to see the govt considering diverting export gas to the 🇦🇺 market. This should apply to existing projects. There's simply no need for new gas.
www.afr.com/companies/en...
Good to see the govt considering diverting export gas to the 🇦🇺 market. This should apply to existing projects. There's simply no need for new gas.
www.afr.com/companies/en...
Looming east coast gas reserve could cut prices by 20pc
Labor is targeting a domestic reservation system that would ensure enough extra gas to bring down prices but not so much that producers rein in output.
www.afr.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Australia doesn't have a gas supply problem, we have a gas export problem.
Good to see the govt considering diverting export gas to the 🇦🇺 market. This should apply to existing projects. There's simply no need for new gas.
www.afr.com/companies/en...
Good to see the govt considering diverting export gas to the 🇦🇺 market. This should apply to existing projects. There's simply no need for new gas.
www.afr.com/companies/en...
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My thoughts on the dismissal of the Whitlam govt. 50 years later - the language of the dismissal has shifted to now acknowledge, as the PM described, a ‘calculated plot’ to remove an elected govt #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
A calculated plot, an ambush, a coup
Five decades on from the dismissal of the Whitlam government, Australia is seeing a notable shift in the narrative that now recognises it as a calculated coup, and an assault on the conventions of gov...
johnmenadue.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My thoughts on the dismissal of the Whitlam govt. 50 years later - the language of the dismissal has shifted to now acknowledge, as the PM described, a ‘calculated plot’ to remove an elected govt #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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Sarah Wilkinson—
“Israeli journalist Gideon Levy educates his audience on the deep-rooted sickness of being israeli — killers who cry “victim” | from @umyaznemo”
“Israeli journalist Gideon Levy educates his audience on the deep-rooted sickness of being israeli — killers who cry “victim” | from @umyaznemo”
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sarah Wilkinson—
“Israeli journalist Gideon Levy educates his audience on the deep-rooted sickness of being israeli — killers who cry “victim” | from @umyaznemo”
“Israeli journalist Gideon Levy educates his audience on the deep-rooted sickness of being israeli — killers who cry “victim” | from @umyaznemo”