Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

Look out for your young people as the social media ban comes into effect on Dec 10. We've pulled the rug out from under them and some will need help. So please talk to your kids and keep a caring eye out for the young people in your life e know many Australians, especially parents, support this ban. Their concern for their children on social media are valid (as parents ourselves, we share those concerns) and something absolutely needs to be done. But our kids deserve better than this; they deserve leaders who'll fight for them against industries that profit from their harm - and not just Big Tech, also the gambling and fossil-fuel industries. So let's keep pushing for reforms that do that; and which protect not just our kids but all of us, our societies and democracy. We can do this. But right now, the main message we want to get out is: look out for the young people in your life as the ban comes into effect. Links to sources and further reading in the video description.

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Are Renewables Really Driving Energy Prices? | The West Report by Michael West

'Why are your energy bills so bloody high? Is it renewables, as the Coalition and fossil media claim? No. In this episode of The West Report, Michael follows the money through the entire grid, from generators to gentailers, to show that the real culprits are soaring coal and gas prices and corporate profiteering, not renewables.  We pull live data from the national electricity market to show how cheap rooftop solar and utility solar really are compared with coal and gas, and why renewables are already making up around half the grid while your bill still keeps climbing. Michael breaks down how privatisation created layer after layer of middlemen, why AGL, Origin and EnergyAustralia are raking it in, and how both major parties have let fossil fuel donors write the rules.'

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The Party Line on Migration, the NDIS & the Liberals-

'Episode 11 - The Party Line on the NDIS, migration and the Liberals The team start this ep with a bold marketing ploy: attacking our listeners. We then discuss Jordy’s invitation to attend am allegedly anticapitalist forum hosted by SBS (turns out, it wasn’t). We then discuss the disgraceful comments made by Zack Polanski in relation to migrant workers in the UK, and what it reveals about the limits of liberal anti-racism, before launching into a critique of Labor’s NDIS program and their plan to use AI to further dehumanise and disenfranchise people with disabilities, as well as the workers who support them. The main segment features Chloe Rafferty from Red Flag Radio, our smarter, more sophisticated elder sibling, who led us in a discussion about the current crisis in the Liberal Party, why Sussan Ley is not the answer, why the Teals are no better, and how the growth of the far right will impact Australian politics into the future.

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

Huge thanks to our tireless editors, Persephone Waxman and Charlie Wardrop.'

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The Winker Strikes Back and the Murderer drags Australia towards war | The West Report by Michael West

We look to the rollicking Senate Estimates for our prestigious Scam of the Week. Who will it be, the world's most useless corruption commission, or the red Porsche at Home Affairs supremo, or the heroic 'terror granny'? Michael unpacks how a handful of very well paid public servants and political mates keep dodgy deals secret while ordinary Australians are told to just trust the system.

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The Party Line on Rising Tide and the Greens’ climate capitulation (ft Z...

The Party Line on Rising Tide and the Greens’ climate capitulation (ft Zack Schofield).

Who wants to be a millionaire is a somewhat surprising focus of our first segment, as Anneke and her friend fight for the right to participate in the toxic reality TV industry. We then interview Rising Tide community organiser Zack Schofield, who is one of the wonderful people that have just organised the People’s Blockade of Newcastle Coal Port. We discuss the history of the campaign, its demands and why it’s in workers interest to support the ending of the fossil fuel industry. We follow this up with a scathing look at Labor’s climate bill, in particular the Green’s decision to pass it barely amended, and what it says about the limits of the Greens’ parliamentary approach.

Headlines: Return of nativity scene to Melbourne ends years of ‘woke’ Christmas | Herald Sun How the pope went pop Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé pendant in jewellery store Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To - WSJ Australian prisoner sues for his 'human right' to eat Vegemite Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all | ScienceDaily NDIS plans will be computer-generated, with human involvement dramatically cut under sweeping overhaul | The Guardian A non-white face on a racist asylum policy is just a mask for cruelty | Middle East Eye

This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.

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Why Trump freed one of the world's worst drug traffickers by Ben Norton

Donald Trump pardoned and freed from prison one of the world's worst drug dealers, the former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine and machine guns into the US. Ben Norton explains how the United States has meddled in Honduran elections, backed fraud, and supported a military coup.

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The Continuing Legacy of the Eureka Rebellion by Joe Toscano

·        Dive into the enduring impact of the Eureka Rebellion and how its spirit continues to shape democratic action today.

“Don’t kid yourself that it can’t happen here,” warns Kerry O’Brien

Kerry O’Brien spoke what has become the unspeakable truth about the World we are living in. He praised Palestinian journalists and mentioned the the G-Word genocide at this years Walkley’s Awards.

Well done, Keeza.

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‘’The point of what we've just watched is firstly to honour those of our colleagues beyond Australia who have suffered in far too many cases died trying to uphold a principle of their craft to expose the secrets that the abusers of power do not want the public to know. But the second purpose of that package is to provoke an honest appraisal of how that same fundamental principle is working in our own country on our own domestic beats.

 First things first, it would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to theappalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel's war on Gaza. Since the brutal attacks by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago, having excluded med global independent global media access inside Gaza, leaving us all to rely on local journalists substantially to bear witness to the devastating effect of Israel's bombardment on the civilian population of Gaza and the famine that has accompanied it.

Israel has failed dismally to explain with any credibility why so many journalists have been killed. Importantly, what we should acknowledge tonight is the impact those journalists have had in return for their sacrifice.

They've confronted the world with powerful evidence that has gradually taken on the look and feel of genocide in real time in our living rooms as well as the corridors of the UN and its agencies. It is significantly due to the courage and stubborn determination of those journalists that no reasonable citizen of the world has been able to look away. They and their surviving colleagues have provided an irresistible clarity of truth that has profoundly influenced global public opinion to the point where even some close allies have been compelled to condemn the nature of Israel's ongoing war and declare their recognition of a state of Palestine.

On press freedom. Generally, in a world that is becoming more and more illiberal, including now the most powerful democracy of all, the message is becoming stark for our own country. When the president of the United States sits in the White House with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, as he did a week ago, and seeks to dismiss the brutal murdur and probably dismemberment of Saudi journalist and Washington Post writer  Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi government as ‘things happen,’

things happen. And castigates the journalist who dares to ask the crown prince about it. It illuminates just how far the ground has shifted for journalism in the United States. All those massive lawsuits against mainstream media outlets Donald Trump regards as the enemy that are designed to intimidate against continuing to chronicle his alarming demolition job on the institutions that underpin democracy in America are testament to the clear and present danger for a strong, free, effective, and independent media everywhere. And don't kid yourself, it can't happen here……….’’

 

Barnaby Goes Indi, Pauline Goes Global, Australia Goes Huh? | Scam of the Week by Michael West

·     'Australia just had another circus week in politics. Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt made global headlines from the BBC to the New York Times, Barnaby Joyce quit the Nats before firing up $100 Wagyu in a sandwich press, and the NACC somehow apologised its way through another scandal. Plus the Greens strike a deal with Labor on environment laws. Scam of the Week breaks it all down.'

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The Week of the Long Knives | Scam of the Week by Michael West

This week on Scam of the Week, we dive into one of the wildest political reshuffles in years as the Liberal Parties in New South Wales and Victoria pull out the Long Knives. Two leaders dumped in a week, new faces installed, and the unmistakable whiff of panic as the party hemorrhages votes to One Nation.

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The Australian's Super Hissy Fit | The West Report by Michael West

This week on The West Report, Michael digs into how The Australian has stepped up as an unofficial bodyguard for foreign war funding. In fact, Michael’s old column at The Australian has now turned its fire on super funds that dared to divest from companies tied to war crimes and profiteering. Hesta and Vision Super. Then Nine Entertainment, Murdoch's compadres in the fossil media duopoly, bolt onto the scene with a majestic distraction with their Blood Money 'exclusive' nailing super funds for a minority investment in a Malaysian oil terminal which apparently traffics a spot of the 'evil' Vladimir Putin's oil.

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Was Epstein ISRAELI SPY? - Shocking New Revelations by Owen Jones

Owen Jones takes a serious look at Jeffery Epstein’s links to the Israeli intelligence organisation Mossad. By the way I'm defending Owen Jones, who is being sued by the BBC for its pro-Israel coverage of their Genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.
He said,’You may have seen that BBC News online’s Middle East editor is taking legal action against me over my work on the BBC's editorial approach to Israel/Palestine.

I strongly disagree with his claims, and, if necessary, I look forward to vigorously defending my reporting in court.’

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Net Zero, mates' state funerals, Nauru Dupe | Scam of the Week by Michael West

This week’s Scam of the Week covers the kind of political circus you could never make up. State funerals for political mates, two billion dollars flowing to Nauru with no receipts, a net zero backflip pushed by fossil fuel donors, and a DroneShield share dump that raised eyebrows across the market. We also look at the Offset Alpine insider trading saga that refuses to die, the Minns government’s sudden blindness to a Nazi protest outside parliament, and the Coalition’s new energy plan that relies on carbon capture fantasy. Scam of the Week breaks down the stories the major outlets avoid, the conflicts they tiptoe around, and the decisions that cost the public every day.

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The Great Climate Lie | The West Report by Michael West

'Australia’s energy transition is happening whether the fossil fuel lobby likes it or not. Half of the nation’s electricity now comes from renewables, yet the Murdoch press and coal-aligned politicians are flooding the airwaves with lies claiming fossil fuels are cheaper than clean energy. They’re not. In this episode of The West Report, Michael West breaks down the coordinated campaign between News Corp, fossil fuel giants, and political figures like Matt Canavan, Barnaby Joyce, and Jacinta Price a campaign designed to stall climate action and protect corporate profits.'

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This is Trump's plan to steal Venezuela's oil by Ben Norton

Donald Trump admitted he wants to “take over” Venezuela and its oil. Marco Rubio is overseeing the war plans, aiming to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install US puppet María Corina Machado, who vowed to privatize Venezuela's natural resources and sell off $1.7 trillion of her country's assets to North American corporations. Ben Norton explains.

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SBS Dateline Exclusive Interview with Christopher "Falcon" Boyce by Mark Davis

It was 11-11-1975. I was a sixteen year-old Trotskyist Socialist walking through the old Melbourne Post Office and stopped when I noticed a Remembrance Day Ceremony taking place in it with a couple of Naval Sailors, a floral reef being laid after he Last Post had been played for Australia’s war dead. There was the minute’s silence and after that I then went into Socialist Workers League/Socialist Youth Alliance office in Little Bourke. Then we heard that Whitlam was sacked and we would join the protests that erupted that day after his sacking. And I still remember Bob Hawke saying there was not going to be a General Strike over Whitlam’s Sacking. It was a bloodless Coup D’état by Australian Ruling Class,and US because he threatened the US Bases in particular Pine Gap. Fifty years I’m still angered over it. If you have doubts about the US role in it check Christopher Boyce’s and hear what he says about Hawke.

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In the 1970s, Christopher Boyce's name became inextricably linked with the political tensions of the time when he was jailed for selling classified US information to the KGB in the Soviet Union. The spy's story was also made famous by the movie, The Falcon and The Snowman, but in recent decades Boyce has been off the radar. Mark Davis tracks him down to the mountains of Oregon, where he's been living in virtual anonymity since his release from prison. In an explosive interview, Boyce recounts his time working for a CIA subsidiary that provided satellite equipment to the spy base at Pine Gap in central Australia. And he makes claims that during the time of Gough Whitlam's troubled government, the CIA was interfering in Australian politics and its trade unions. http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/...

Honest Government Ad | Selling Canada to MAGA oligarchs

This LNG project is cooked on so many levels. And not just because of it's deep connections to Trump and MAGA oligarchs. But I'll let the video do the explaining.

What I do want to highlight though, is that we in Australia are perfectly placed to warn Canadians about the dangers of investing in an LNG export industry. We went down this path years ago, and we still got shafted with higher energy prices and bugger-all royalties. But doing this in 2025, in the midst of a climate crisis, is just criminal.

And the fact that our very own Woodside Energy is involved in Ksi Lisims makes that point even clearer. So of course (spoiler alert) we had to have an Aussie/Woodside cameo.

Warning Canadians is only part of this HGA's objective, however: we also made it to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow, whose territories (Lax'Yip) are in the pathway of the proposed PRGT pipeline that would feed fracked gas to Ksi Lisims.

First Nation peoples are often on the frontlines of the fight to protect clean land, air and water from extractivist industries. So supporting them isn't only important from a justice perspective, but also from a climate and environmental one.

And believe me, the Gitxsan and Gitanyow are going to be the biggest obstacle to building the PRGT pipeline. Such is their staunchness and determination to protect the Lax'Yip - one of the few parts of the world where you can still drink from clean rivers and see wild salmon.

It was truly inspiring to witness this when we where invited to attend the Peace and Unity summit on the Lax'Yip in August. (Here's my post about that trip, in case you missed it)So yeah... this HGA is our way of lending them a hand, by rainsing awarenss about this dodgy, MAGA-billionaire-owned project, in Canada. Where most people know nothing about it.

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Hitler Was a Leftie? Peace Protesters Sprayed, Consultants Paid | Scam of the Week Out Michael West

This week on Scam of the Week, we’ve got a full buffet of political absurdity and corporate grift. One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts has officially jumped the shark, declaring that Hitler was a lefty. Yes, really. Meanwhile, Labor and the Liberals have joined forces once again to block an inquiry into AUKUS the biggest deal in Australian history — while quietly forming a secret Defence Oversight Committee with no cross-benchers allowed. Over in the private sector, Deloitte charged taxpayers $440,000 for an AI-generated report so riddled with fake laws, wrong judges, and phantom documents that it’d make RoboDebt blush. Their punishment? A $98,000 refund. And as if that wasn’t enough, peace protesters were pepper-sprayed in Sydney while NSW Premier Chris Minns wined and dined with the Israel lobby the next day. All that and more — from weapons expos to media silence — in this week’s Scam of the Week.

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The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State by Chris Hedges with Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today. 

Photo in thumbnail:Vice President-elect Mike Pence looks on as President-elect Donald Trump shakes the hand of Peter Thiel during a meeting with technology executives at Trump Tower, December 14, 2016 in New York City. This is the first major meeting between President-elect Trump and technology industry leaders.

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ZOHRAN AND PROP 50 WIN! THE RIGHT MELTS DOWN by Francesca Fiorentini

Zohran's politics of affordability and inclusivity is the antidote to fascism. Also Prop 50! Prop 50 is key to reclaiming our democracy from the lawless power grab of Trump. Let's not forget that.

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Sportsbet Ads, Netflix Laws, and the Lobbyists Who Run Canberra by Michael West

'The Government has announced legislation to compel the multinational streaming giants to produce more Australian content. But it’s not what it seems.

Also, the government keeps dragging its heels on implementing the recommendations from the Murphy Report on gambling harm.

You can find more on these stories on our website.'

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Mamdani’s STUNNING Victory - A TRIUMPH For Global Left by Owen Jones

This is a win in a time of Fascism and Genocide. I totally agree with Owen Jones who I support on Patreon if you can do that too great but please share. Mamdani’s victory shows that it is a good time to be a Socialist.

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Chris Hedges - 'Palestine Betrayed' - RMIT Storey Hall Melbourne 17 October

It was a honour to film this talk from Chris Hedges on behalf of APAN @ RMIT on 17 Oct 2025 Bogan Intelligentsia

The ACCIDENTAL EMAIL LEAK that Exposed Australia's Gaza Playbook

It was meant to stay behind government walls, a private email from Canberra, carefully written for Labor MPs, outlining exactly how to talk about Gaza. But one staffer made a mistake. They sent it not to Parliament, but to a Palestinian advocacy group. Inside that email was the government’s full internal playbook on Gaza, how to answer difficult questions, what language to avoid, and how to present Australia’s position without revealing too much. Among the most revealing details was a quiet admission about Australia’s role in the supply chain for F-35 fighter jets — the same jets used in Israel’s bombing campaign over Gaza. This is OnePath Unfiltered — where we go beyond the headlines to uncover the stories that shape our world. 🔔 Subscribe to our YouTube to stay up to date with our latest productions.

T-Shirt Outrage and the Death of Real Journalism | Scam of the Week by Michael West

This week, the media lost its mind over a t-shirt. Anthony Albanese stepped off a plane wearing a Joy Division shirt — and suddenly, the Prime Minister was branded “anti-Semitic” by the Murdoch press and the Liberals. The outrage was instant, the headlines relentless, and the actual news? Forgotten. While the media obsessed over “T-Shirtgate,” the government is quietly handing out billions in corporate subsidies, foreign streaming giants are dodging local content laws, and the National Anti-Corruption Commission continued to do ... extremely little. Michael West breaks down how the outrage machine distracts from real scandals the ones costing Australians billions.

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Venezuela by Jesse Welles

2500 miles away from the American border,

there's a boat humming along with a 100 miles worth of gas.

It's got some fisherman out there in it.

Little do they know but here in a minute they'll be sunk down to the bottom and

dead from an American blast.

Now our infallible intelligence knows a whole lot about them.

See, these are Narco Terrorists with drugs strapped to their back.

Now, it's the same intelligence that had the perfect wisdom in the real

good sense to know there's weapons of mass destruction hidden in Iraq.

Well, if your leader is a fugitive of American justice, and if your people need a

liberation from their own soil,

If you're a threat to our national security, well, we're probably just in

need of your oil.

How much fentanyl does Venezuela make? Well, Johnny, that's

about 0%.

See, China ships the precursors into Mexico. They mix them in

a lab, then they press them into pills and ship them up to Uncle Sam.

Oh, well then, how much cocaine does Venezuela produce?

Well, Johnny, that's a goose egg, too.

But don't you worry your little head, cuz they're all just going

to be like dead.

Some call it murder. Some call it justice. You can call it

whatever you like, but dry your liberal tears cuz you know around here we

call a presidentially authorized lethal kinetic strike.

Well, if it looks like al-Qaeda and smells like ISIS, you're headed down

the road for a refugee crisis.

Well, they can dangle the Nobel carrot out in front of the mule, but I

guess it wasn't orange enough to really pull the card.

Pete and Marco, come out of the closet and say you're coming on in for

that oil deposit.

The only war you'll ever end is the one you start.

Saffrine Duggan: Australia must not extradite my husband and father of s...

‘CN Live! talks to Saffrine Duggan, wife of the Australian pilot Dan Duggan, who will appear in the Federal Court of Australia this week in relation to an extradition request from the United States, which he is hoping to have overturned. His alleged offence centres around advanced flying lessons he gave at a South African flight academy in 2012 to foreign nationals, some of whom were Chinese. Dan used to be a US citizen and he was a pilot in the army until 2002. The secret Grand Jury indictment against him states that he didn’t obtain a licence from the US State Department to deliver the training. It also accuses him of being involved in the purchase of the school’s plane before he was hired, to give what amounted to 18 hours of lessons. The problem with the indictment is that Duggan ceased being a US citizen on Australia Day 2012, January 26th, which predates the flight lessons. Also, what he did was not a crime in Australia. Other Australians who delivered the same type of training have not been charged with anything. Duggan’s defence team will argue that the US has no sovereign control over him and that there is an absence of dual criminality. The problem with the process is that it is somewhat endless. Dan was arrested and placed in solitary confinement as a high risk prisoner three years ago. He not only has a wife but six children, who have had very little contact with him, contrary to Articles 3 and 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Dr Paul Anthony Bauert a practising paediatrician with over 40 years’ experience, and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians has said he has ‘very serious concerns for Dan Duggan’s children’s physical and mental health. Each of the six children is exhibiting unmistakeable signs of stress and severe anxiety and is vulnerable to compounding ill-health.’ The stress and trauma suffered by the children, including recurring nightmares, is also detailed in commentary by Mr Duggan’s wife Saffrine in submissions direct to the Attorney. The Duggan family has suffered enormously, both emotionally and financially and we invite Saffrine to share their story.’

What has happened to Dan Duggan is a sycophancy to the US.

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AI slop patriots, Barnaby embraces Pauline, Albo embraces Trump | Scam of the Week by Michael West

‘Scam of the Week is here! Barnaby Joyce jumps ship to One Nation. Albanese locks out journalist John Lyons at the Trump meeting. Digital ID charges forward while government transparency sinks. The rare earths deal is all letters of intent. Northern Beaches Hospital quietly slides back into public hands. Cardiac specialist Professor Peter McDonald is reinstated after a dodgy persecution campaign. AI propaganda floods politics faster than regulators can blink. It has been a busy week in Scam Land. Keep up with the stories the mainstream misses.’

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The REAL reason why Trump is attacking Latin America by Ben Norton's Geopolitical Economy Report

The Donald Trump administration seeks to forcibly impose the US empire's hegemony in Latin America, waging war on Venezuela, imposing sanctions on Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, hitting Brazil with tariffs, and meddling in Argentina's election. Ben Norton explains how Trump and Marco Rubio are trying to cut off all western hemisphere ties with China and Russia, bringing back the colonial Monroe Doctrine, now known as the Donroe Doctrine.

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Hedges SLAMS Hostile Australian Interview, Unpacks Press Club Mess + Western Media Betraying Gaza

Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf to unpack his time in Australia so far, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. We also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about: how western journalists are betraying their colleagues in Gaza. Plus, Chris offers some honest advice for young people who still want to tell stories and speak truth to power.Read what he wrote in response. https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/03...

Chris Hedges: The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists at NSW Teachers Federation auditorium in Sydney on October 20

This is the speech Chris Hedges was supposed to deliver at Australia's National Press Club, live to the nation on ABC, the country's national broadcaster. Despite written confirmation the club cancelled the talk, reportedly citing an interest in “balancing out our program”, after learning more about what he was going to say. Hedges claims he was told by a reliable source that the club had then reached out to Israeli Ambassador.

Read what he wrote in response. https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/03...

The speech was instead delivered to a full house at the Teachers Federation auditorium in Sydney on October 20. The event was chaired by Sara Saleh, a Palestinian writer & race critical human rights lawyer. It was sponsored by the journalists' union MEAA, PEN Sydney and the magazine Pearls and Irritations. It was organised by Stop the War on Palestine and Palestine Justice Movement.

Lobbyland Strikes Again, Reynolds Targets Mean Girls and Scomo Finds a New Lobbying Caper by Michael West.

'Albo’s somehow became Prime Minister and president of a lobby group, Linda Reynolds is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into “Mean Girls,” and Scomo’s scored himself a shiny new caper lobbying for Saudi Aramco. Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws have been curbed by the courts, the Feds have shelved their super tax plan for the rich, and the Zionist lobby’s taking free speech to court. Welcome to Lobbyland where the rich win, politicians lobby, and democracy’s just another side hustle.

Michael West.

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No King: Trump Faces Historic, Peaceful Protests All Over the US-Zeteo

Click on link underline to watch the video. No time to watch all the coverage of the ‘No Kings’ rallies? Zeteo teams have you covered on the ground in Chicago and DC. 

Millions of Americans attended thousands of “No Kings” events across the United States on Saturday to protest Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian presidency. It was one of the largest single-day protests in US history and came amid Trump’s brutal immigration raids and efforts to militarily occupy cities such as Chicago, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles.

Republicans may have inadvertently juiced turnout by constantly complaining and hysterically lying about the anti-Trump protests in recent days. House Speaker Mike Johnson kept calling the events the “Hate America rally.” Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the No Kings events were “part of antifa,” the disparate anti-fascist movement that Trump wants to eliminate. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the events would feature the “the farthest left” and “the most unhinged in the Democratic Party.”

Conservative Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley claimed, with zero basis, that the No Kings rallies would be violent and that its funders should thus be investigated and prosecuted. Senior sources within the Trump administration told Zeteo that federal agencies would be monitoring the No Kings protests throughout the country, including the Hands Off Chicago marches, for any signs of what they called “domestic terrorism” or violent “extremism” that they could use as part of their efforts to clamp down on liberal non-profits and donors.

As you can see in the video above, at the huge Chicago rally that Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng covered, there was no sign of any vast parade of antifa radicals or “terrorist” sympathizers that Republicans claimed would materialize this weekend. The multiple Chicago-area events instead represented the exact type of demonstration of solidarity and outrage that Team Trump wants Americans to believe isn’t possible: massive crowds of diverse and peaceful protesters nonviolently opposing Trump, standing against his federal shows of force against US cities.

An estimated 200,000 people turned out for the No Kings event in DC – where Zeteo’s editor-in-chief, Mehdi Hasan, spoke to the crowd. The event was safe and orderly, and felt like a parade or rally rather than a disruption. Protesters who spoke with Zeteo’s Prem Thakker expressed anger about Trump’s masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs kidnapping immigrants and citizens alike. Attendees were also concerned about Trump’s attacks on free speech as well as Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Watch the video below:

Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at the DC event and warned that Trump is putting US democracy in danger with his attacks on immigrants, free speech, and the media. He spoke out against Trump’s efforts to consolidate “more and more power in his own hands and in the hands of his fellow oligarchs.”

Wannabe King?

The first round of No Kings protests took place in June, when Trump hosted his military birthday parade in DC. An estimated five million people attended those No Kings events, in what was one of the largest days of protest in US history. Organizers expected a similar number of people or even more would turn out this weekend. Indivisible, a group involved in the planning, announced that nearly seven million people attended the No Kings events on Saturday, calling it “the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history.”

The point of the No Kings protests, according to its organizers, is to show that “America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.” The name wasn’t plucked from thin air: Trump’s White House previously described the president as “the king” on social media. (Trump also recently claimed that “a lot” of Americans would “like a dictator.

In the lead-up to the No Kings rallies, Trump tried to downplay the idea he sees himself as a king. “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” he said in a Fox News interview clip released on Friday.

During the No Kings rallies on Saturday, however, Trump’s political team repeatedly posted images on X showing the president wearing a crown, and also posted an AI-generated video with Trump dressed in a monarch’s robes while standing at the White House.

Vice President J.D. Vance and Trump’s “crypto czar” David Sacks both shared an AI video showing Trump putting on a crown and robes and wielding a sword, and Democratic lawmakers bowing to him. Around 9:30 p.m. ET, Trump shared the video on Truth Social. It seems he is now openly fantasizing about being a king.

Team Trump may want Trump to be a king. The president may think his supporters want him to be a dictator. On Saturday, millions of Americans stood together to say: No Kings.

As Prem noted at the DC rally, if the sprawling crowd was filled with Marxists and antifa, as Speaker Johnson claimed, that means “the Republican Party is in a bit of hot water.”

Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela, as US military kills innocent people by Geopolitical Economy Report (Ben Norton)

‘The United States is waging a war on Venezuela. Donald Trump authorized the CIA to carry out "lethal operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. Meanwhile, the US military has killed innocent people in boats in the Caribbean, including citizens of Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago. Ben Norton reports.’

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Ceasefire Is OVER: Israel Killing, Bombing And Starving Gaza by Owen Jones

A ‘Ceasefire’ where the shooting of the Palestinians does not make a ‘media story’. Israel’s Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing continues with the support of the Western Mainstream Media.

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Trump-backed Venezuelan coup leader promises to give oil to US corporations by Geopolitical Economy Report (Ben Norton)

'2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, a US government-funded far-right coup leader, vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil and give it to US corporations. "We are going to privatize all our industry", she told Donald Trump Jr. "American companies ... are going to make a lot of money", she promised. Ben Norton exposes the neocolonial US war on Venezuela.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump's war on Venezuela, pushing for regime change against President Nicolás Maduro. Ben Norton exposes the ugly truth.'

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BREAKING: Tens of Thousands Join Pro-Palestinian Rally in Sydney | Ceasefire Faces Doubts | AH1Z

It was a great demo today in Gadigal/Sydney for Gaza,against Israel's Genocide. It was fantastic to be at the largest Palestine demo since we marched on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. A Ceasefire is not justice for the Palestinians who have been the victims of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. Every man, woman and child in Gaza are Holocaust Survivors.

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The REAL Truth Behind Gaza Ceasefire-Lowkey

Kareem Dennis, better known by his stage name Lowkey, is a British rapper and activist from London. Here he gives a detailed analysis on the so-called ‘Peace Plan for Gaza for Double Down News.

This ceasefire was a break from Israel’s Genocide the Palestinians. This has not been a war but a one-sided Genocide by Israel. This is a Colonial Ultimation from Trump. We still need be on the streets demanding justice for the Palestinians.

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Is Gaza Genocide FINALLY OVER? - A Masterclass From Palestinian Analyst with Owen Jones

Owen Jones has a detailed interview here with Palestinian Analyst Muhammad Shehada. This ceasefire was a break from Israel’s Genocide the Palestinians. This has not been a war but a one-sided Genocide by Israel. This is a Colonial Ultimation from Trump. We still need be on the streets demanding justice for the Palestinians.

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Anyone That Isn’t MAGA Is Now A Terrorist by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

'The Trump regime has officially labeled any dissent against them as supporting Antifa, which they now consider a domestic terrorist group. His FBI under Crazy Eyes Patel is now investigating foundations and nonprofit funding sources, hoping to cut the legs out from any movement that could mount any amount of resistance to his darkest plans. The “War on Terror” is now coming for all of us… Trump officially signed NSPM-7, which effectively labels anyone who is “anti-American” or “anti-captialist” or “anti-fascist” or “anti-Christianity” as a potential terrorist. Effectively anyone who is critical of MAGA’s agenda and their Christian Nationalist agenda. All of that is perfectly vague enough to allow them to label any non-MAGA person as a potential terrorist. Including of course the Democratic party. All that is bad enough, but NSPM-7 also gives the joint terrorism task force the power to, “disrupt any individuals or groups that foment political violence, including before they result in political, violent political acts before.” So basically pre-crime. This is 1984 and Minority Report having a very ugly baby. See you all down in Guantanamo Bay, I guess…for the crime of thought.'

Francesca Fiorentini

It’s time to break Australia’s links to Trump’s Fascist USA.

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Greta Thunberg Blasts Israel, 'Complicit' World Leaders After Release From Israeli Jail-DRM News

Greta Thunberg delivered a fiery speech in Athens after her release from Israeli detention, calling Israel’s Gaza actions a “live-streamed genocide” and urging governments to “end complicity and arms transfers.” Speaking to thousands, she condemned global silence and vowed to keep fighting for Palestine through the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Greta Thunberg: “A Live-Streamed Genocide Before Our Eyes” — Powerful Athens Speech “Our Governments Are Complicit!” Greta Thunberg’s Fiery Speech in Athens After Detention Greta Thunberg Returns, Slams Israel Over Gaza: “No One Can Say We Didn’t Know” Emotional Scene in Athens: Greta Thunberg Speaks After Israeli Detention DRM News delivers live coverage as Greta Thunberg and 27 Greek nationals arrive in Athens following their deportation from Israel after the Global Sumud Flotilla's interception en route to Gaza. Hear accounts of detention, aid blockade challenges, and calls for justice. Watch now for exclusive insights and subscribe for breaking international news on humanitarian crises.

Israel KIDNAPS Flotilla: Piracy Denounced As “TERRORISM"

This is piracy. Israel is kidnapping hundreds of people, including politicians and journalists, on a flotilla of boats which has sought to end the illegal starvation of the people of Gaza by Israel. Now there are 44 boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla with around 500 people from up to 50 countries. These boats are bringing humanitarian aid like food and medicine to a people who have been deliberately starved by Israel. But crucially, this flatillo was seeking to open a corridor and proving that Western nations could end the siege of Gaza at any moment if they so chose. The Israeli military have raided these boats. We can see footage of that from cameras on the boats streaming what has been happening....'
Owen Jones

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Trump Gaza "Peace Plan" Is A DYSTOPIAN Lie - w/. Muhammad Shehada & Owen Jones

Owen Jones interviews Muhammad Shehada exposes Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ as an ultimatum to drive the Palestinians out of Gaza. And its no surprise that our Crawling Shit of a prime minister Anthony Albanese supports Trump’s ‘Peace Plan.’

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Trump's UN General Assembly Speech in under 10 minutes-Swollen Pickles

Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a speech that drew widespread global attention. Here is his rambling, hour long address cut down to 10 minutes, covering the main points.

Hastie's Rising, UK's Digital ID and Trump comes after our drugs | Scam of the Week

Scams don’t take a holiday and this week has been overflowing with them. First, Anthony Albanese heads to the UN, and Murdoch’s media machine has a meltdown. If he skips Trump, it’s “disgraceful.” If he takes a photo with Trump, it’s “humiliating.” Damned if you do, damned if you don’t all while Rupert keeps pulling the strings. 

Meanwhile, Susan Ley is busy bootlicking foreign powers, writing apologies to US Congress for Australia recognising Palestine, while her own party tears itself apart at CPAC with Matt Canavan, Jacinta Price, and Tony Abbott sharing the stage with Liz Truss and Rowan Dean. Comedy or politics? Hard to tell. 

Over in the UK, Keir Starmer pushes a mandatory digital ID for anyone to work by 2029, sparking fierce backlash over civil liberties. And in the US, Trump’s chaos only deepens: honoring war criminals at Wounded Knee, joking with Erdogan about rigged elections, and claiming Tylenol in pregnancy causes autism a claim his allies’ supplement companies stand to profit from. But it doesn’t stop there. 

Trump has now slapped a 100% tariff on Australian pharmaceuticals, directly targeting our PBS system to please American drug giants. That means higher costs for taxpayers, less stability in our health system, and more profits for his billionaire backers. 

And through it all, the Liberal Party is auditioning Andrew Hastie as their next leader. With Jacinta Price, Angus Taylor, and Matt Canavan lining up behind him, he’s selling nostalgia about “bringing back Aussie manufacturing” while ignoring the fact his own party killed it in the first place. Add in his contradictions on net zero, and Hastie’s pitch looks less like policy, more like theatre. 

This week’s Scam of the Week award goes to Andrew Hastie the Liberals’ would-be Trump, wrapped in Murdoch’s headlines and serving up old ideas as if they’re new.

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Gas Lobbyist RESPONDS To My Rant In Parliament House | Punters Politics

'I attended a tax roundtable in Parliament House where I gave my first amateur lobbying speech calling out gas companies only to discover that a professional gas industry lobbyist was sitting right behind me ... he responds.'

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Israel’s TERRIFYING Threat Against Flotilla by Owen Jones

As the Flotilla heads towards Gaza from Crete, the Israel propaganda machine has cranked up the volume saying that they are Hamas supporters as they continue their Genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza. Israel has said they will impound all the boats and imprison all of the Flotilla crews and members. Here Owen Jones interviews one of the Flotilla’s organisers.

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