Trump’s “freedom zone” is nothing more than a violent, colonial land grab
Donald Trump’s latest act of lunacy was, last week, to suggest that the killing fields of Gaza should be turned into a “freedom zone”, adding that, “I'd be proud to…
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Reckoning with Gaza’s Death Toll
To truly grasp the human toll of the conflict in Gaza, it is not enough to tally the dead. Body counts—often contested, manipulated, or denied—are only part of the picture.…
Australia hides behind a wall of secrecy and obfuscation when it comes to climate breakdown
Faced with the gut-wrenching horrors occurring in the Ukraine, Ethiopia, Sudan, Myanmar and the Middle East, it’s hard to fathom that an even more calamitous global tragedy is already upon…
Cruelty, power and forgetting
Anyone with a heart will surely be aghast at what’s happening in the Middle East. The cruel slaughter of innocents, the destruction, the endless cycle of hate, recrimination and vengeance.…
Trump Does A Dirty Harry – And Africa Starves
So;President Trump launches 59 Tomahawk missiles(each costing over $1 million) to obliteratea Syrian air base because, we’re informed, he was moved by footage of chemically impacted children.As it turns out,…
Policy Making As Violence – The Case Of The Carmichael Mine
There’s violence, and then there’s violence. A few years ago, one of my more eccentric friends swept aside my idea of a peace conference in favour of a violence festival.…
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