'The skin toasted DefMin Marles, who resembles, w/ each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was adamant..

Forget diplomacy & funding the cause (and course) of peace – it’s all about the weapons & the Yellow Peril, baby..

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The notion of “ #sociallicense ”, framed in fictional, #socialcontract terms, should propel those with a scintilla of integrity and wisdom to take arms and rage.
#Universities for #AUKUS : The Social License Confidence Trick - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/uni… #auspol

BREAKING: Google orders Police to arrest staff in their workplace for protesting the tech giant's US$1.2 billion contract with Israel to provide 'Project Nimbus', a cloud computing project providing AI computing and cloud services to the Israeli military and government.

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#Universities for #AUKUS : The Social License Confidence Trick - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/uni… #militarism #MilitarySpending #university

The Australian #Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend! - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2024/04/22/the… #auspol #defense #military #cost #expenditure

Musk getting censorship demands from Australia and NZ, Rumble too. Facebook and mainstream and corporate media already heavily censoring. Thin end of the wedge

CIA director refuses to provide information on Spanish company’s espionage of Julian Assange

Burns invoked state secrets privilege in NY lawsuit arising from the spying operation revealed by EL PAÍS in 2019

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Dan Duggan has languished in jail for two years facing extradition, 65 years in US prison - after he trained Chinese pilots 12 years ago. But the Americans may not get their hands on him. Andrew Gardiner ✊ reports
#auspol
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'If you want to wage a #war , you want to prepare the populace and #educate them to say that war is a good thing and call it ‘ #defence ’.'
REVEALED: THE PENTAGON’S INFILTRATION OF AUSTRALIAN #UNIVERSITIES declassifiedaus.org/2024/04/18/rev… #Pentagon #auspol #MilitaryIndustrialComplex

'Federer’s non- #political position is somehow outdated, somewhat like #Swiss #neutrality .'
Swiss Tennis Idol Roger #Federer is Contested, But Not by #Rafa or #Djoko - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2024/04/19/swi… #RogerFederer #brand #advertising #politics #sports

Faulty Assurances: The Judicial Torture Of Assange Continues counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/fau…

Any idiot who uses such terms as #KPI and #spreadsheets in the same sentence is no academic. #university #declineandfall

The WikiLeaks founder has already spent 5 grueling years in London’s Belmarsh prison, where he continues a remarkable campaign against the US extradition request on 18 charges, 17 incongruously and outrageously based on the US Espionage Act of 1917. counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/fau…

CIA Director Bill Burns claims that a lawsuit challenging CIA backed-spying against Assange visitors would gravely damage US national security if allowed to proceed thedissenter.org/cia-director-c…

Thanks to the two UTS University of Technology Sydney journalism students who have researched & revealed the scandal of US Pentagon funding of Australian universities.

Much thanks to Eve Cogan & @SStephanieTrann for chasing this important previously hidden story — an outcome

Faulty Assurances: the Judicial #Torture of #Assange Continues - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/fau… #JulianAssange #WikiLeaks #extradition #FreeSpeech #journalism

For decades, Israel has struck targets in sovereign countries with impunity, using expansive doctrines of pre-emption and self-defence. In doing so, Israel always hoped that the understanding of tolerable violence would prevail. The equation has changed. counterpunch.org/2024/04/17/sus…

The Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Conspiracy as Mother’s Milk - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2024/04/04/the…

Attempting the impossible? #Fining Australia’s parliamentarians for misconduct themandarin.com.au/244208-attempt… via The Mandarin #auspol #parliament #politicians #conduct #behaviour