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I am at real risk of saying something I'm going to regret. Every word of the post below is a lie, and its author deserves to burn in Hell for eternity.

If the US attacks Greenland (a NATO ally) then Australia needs to rapidly act. Assess the threat posed by the many US military assets in Australia and design a strategy to remove them as rapidly as possible. No one can seriously pretend they make us safe anymore.

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Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

Hedges wasn’t there to debate what to him, and to those who have followed his reporting, was obvious. Marr seemed captured by the forum, rather than the substance. Hedges aptly made his case, but he shouldn’t have had to. www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...

"I don't think these people feel any shame at all" - Chris Hedges, on being cancelled by the National Press Club of Australia and Western journalistic complicity

Ghislane Maxwell is causing lockdowns at her new prison during which she gets to meet in the prison chapel with outside visitors. The WSJ says it isn’t clear who she met with but that she was smiling when she returned to her unit and when asked, said it had "gone well".

BREAKING: Israeli forces have opened fire on a young Palestinian man near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/72upo8

Could the National Press Club be less embarrassing and less complicit in the genocide of Palestine/the West's decline into overt fascism, pretty, pretty, pretty please? 🙏 Cancelling Chris Hedges' talk on the betrayal of Palestinian journalists only proves his point. Truly, truly pathetic

BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla organisers have declared a state of emergency on board, as they prepare for the expected Israeli interception of their mission to break the blockade of Gaza.

BREAKING: At least 17 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7a81gb

"Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Stand Tall - Stay Strong!🙏💖 FIGHT✊ FIGHT✊FIGHT✊ for Your RIGHTS! and FREEDOM'S! Never give in to tyranny. 💖🙏🔥 #Resist #Resistance #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

"Let's Call the 'GREAT' Gaza Post-War Plan Exactly What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing" The ridiculous and leaked 'Riviera' proposal offers Palestinians just $5,000 to leave & includes projects like the 'Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone,' writes Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu for Zeteo.

Toll likely to rise, with significant damage reported across mountainous region in eastern Afghanistan, sources say.

An estimated 55,500 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women require an urgent nutrition response.

Ten more Palestinians have died from starvation as Israel continues its blockade, with aid experts warning the famine in Gaza is ‘manmade’ and ‘engineered’ aje.io/e0j8mu

The blood of our martyred journalists in Gaza has not yet dried before the Israeli occupation forces committed another crime against Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammed Salama, together with three other photojournalists.

Breaking News: Trump Speaks for One Hour Without Explaining Where U.S. Citizens Arrested in D.C. for Being Homeless Will Be Taken When He Puts Them in Custody and Sends Them "Far Away"

BREAKING: At least 87 Palestinians, including 52 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2etx3o

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984

If you think that the way Donald Trump is acting—particularly in getting angry today when reporters asked about Jeffrey Epstein—is very much an indication that he's hiding something super incriminating, welcome to the entirety of humanity, from America to nations around the world

Thousands of people die every day in Gaza, but main stream media, including the ABC is more concerned that we hear more stories about the real victims of war in the Middle East: well-off Australians facing the hell of flight delays while on route to their European holidays.

US president congratulates Iran and Israel on truce deal, but neither country has confirmed agreement to end war.

Yup, international law is just so quaint and nostalgic when our allies are the ones breaking it. But God forbid someone we have designated a threat step anywhere near the lines we’re hastily pretending never existed

Gotta love a library that promotes banned books! Thank you, Cleveland Heights library

BREAKING: US federal judge orders release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil aje.io/65stv3

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil To Be Released From ICE Detention Khalil’s arrest was the first in a string of abductions that expanded into a much larger operation against pro-Palestine international students.

The UN is the latest to slam Israel for army’s killing of at least 10 hungry Palestinians seeking aid in southern Gaza.

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

Global condemnation grows as the WHO warns Gaza’s hospitals are out of medicine, while the number of Palestinians killed and injured rises amid Israel’s attacks and blockade. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/gny769

I find myself completely unable to function today. I’ve seen a child surrounded by the flames of what was her family home. Starving babies. Defeated, broken men. Women cradling their shrouded children. It’s too much. And yet I still have to hear ‘but Hamas..’ FUCK OFF. Israel is committing genocide

The lost art of listening www.themonthly.com.au/october-2015...

Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely." Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.

"John has been 'on the ground' in Gaza? Yeah, as an embed.... Yeah as guests of the Israeli military... And you've come back and done exactly what they wanted. You've done their propaganda for them." Me vs Netanyahu ally and supporter John Spencer. Full debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjT...

The incomparable #DavidRowe

Israel is preventing the WHO from sending incubators into Gaza. Think about how savage, how barbaric, how evil, you have to be to defend that and defend the government doing that.

Dreyfus leaves little legacy johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

Breaking. The fabulous Laura Tingle is to leave Canberra to become the ABC’s Global Affairs Editor. Just announced.

This is a breaking news story, more details to follow.

I feel bad for their son but not them.

#GoldsteinVotes 💰💵💰🇮🇱💰💵

BREAKING: Regina city council has held firm on adding fluoride to its water, after a gruelling 8+ hours of debate today. #yqrcc #yqr

Donold, you can’t be pope. The job requires humility, grace... and literacy skills.