By Stephen Charles

Australia’s bugging of Timor-Leste’s Cabinet rooms and subsequent hounding of Bernard Collaery and a former intelligence officer was a display of mendacity, duplicity, fraud, criminal trespass and contempt of international law.The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste came into existence on May 20, 2002. The Timor Sea, lying ( Read more... )

By Manal Al-Sharif

“I left Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. But the Australian Government’s recent draconian rules remind me so much of home.” Cyber security expert and human rights luminary Manal Al-Sharif reports on the dangers of the new surveillance laws ( Read more... )

By Mike Head

Without providing any details whatsoever, the front-page headline on last Saturday’s Weekend Australian declared: “Police launch raids on foreign agents ( Read more... )

This makes me genuinely nauseous.

By Mike Head

Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week publicly supported the holding of criminal trials in total secrecy if they allegedly involve “national security information”-that is, any information about the undercover activities of Australia’s military and intelligence agencies ( Read more... )

By Christopher Black

15 days after Bolivian President Morales was overthrown in a US backed military coup d’état and granted asylum in Mexico on November 12, American President Trump announced his intention to wage war against Mexico. As soon as Morales arrived in Mexico City the Americans reacted by openly supporting the coup, even denying it was ( Read more... )

By Oscar Grenfell

Over the past week, the Australian political and media establishment has dramatically intensified a three-year campaign alleging that the country is under threat from pervasive “Chinese interference” in virtually every social, political and economic institution.

As in previous outpourings of anti-China hysteria, the statements ( Read more... )

By Oscar Grenfell

In a highly revealing incident, the Labor Party’s manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, shut-down a discussion in the federal parliament’s House of Representatives on the plight of persecuted WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on Tuesday evening ( Read more... )

• Bibi formally charged with cases 1000, 2000 and 4000 (bribery) and is, unexpectedly, facing a primary challenge from within his own party. Will he a) step down to deal with charges, b) deny, deny, deny, c) nuke Jordan or Syria.
• Gantz unable to form coalition government, so 3rd election on the way
• Bolivian right-wing fascist forces continue killing ( Read more... )