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.

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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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