Dr. Binoy Kampmark on the secretive, absurd prosecution and persecution of East Timor’s lawyer, Bernard Collaery, and a former Australian intel officer (and apparently a whistle blower). PDF below, original post here: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=HL2006/S00203/wasteful-secret-and-vicious-the-absurd-prosecution-of-witness-k-and-bernard-collaery.htm
ACIJ publication, full PDF below, original post here: https://acij.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ACIJ-Policy-Brief-June-2020.pdf
The NSW MP put out this pamphlet in mid-June, about tabloid media smears, before the second media storm linked to AFP raids on his office and home. As Moslemane said earlier this year: “The dregs of White Australianism from the […]
Resolution on the Right of the Palestinian People to Self-Determination In a resolution (A/HRC/43/L.39) on right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, adopted by a vote of 43 in favour, 2 against and 2 abstentions, the Council confirms that the […]
Cold war propaganda sought to blame a Nazi massacre of Polish officers on the USSR. Grover Furr examines the evidence. Review below, original post here: https://thecommunists.org/2018/12/15/news/history/book-grover-furrs-mystery-of-the-katyn-massacre/ Grover Furr, The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre: The Evidence, the SolutionErythros Press and […]
Full text below, and the article posted at Counter Punch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/print/ (Author’s note: In this article I rely heavily on the evidence cited in the research of Mark Tauger of West Virginia University. Tauger has spent his professional life studying […]
The Russian President addresses western historical revisionism over WW2. Full PDF below, one of the online posts here: https://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/vladimir-putin-real-lessons-75th-anniversary-world-war-ii-162982
“At the ‘peace village’ [in April 2018] Kim and Moon “solemnly declared before the 80 million Korean people and the whole world that there” would “be no more war on the Korean Peninsula” and that a new era of peace […]
Nasser Qandil interprets Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on ‘The Road to Jerusalem’. Full PDF below, original post here: http://middleeastobserver.net/the-road-to-jerusalem-scholarly-certainty-in-coming-fall-of-israel-pt-1/
How is it that Syria, targeted by war and economic siege, has had such striking success in controlling the COVID19 pandemic? With epidemics raging on either side – across Europe and all around the Persian Gulf – how did the […]
Chapter Seven (‘Trump heads for the door in Syria and Afghanistan, and can’t find it’) of John Bolton’s tedious and mendacious book: The Room Where it Happened. Bolton presents himself as the level headed hero and Trump as the bumbling […]
Dr Tim Anderson interviews Dr Gary Foley on Aboriginal Rights, deaths in custody and links with the Black Power and Black Lives Matter movements in the USA. Counter Hegemonic Chat #4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3djUtlzbxes
Brief history of the development of Aboriginal rights, from the early the 20th century. “To better understand the influences and inspirations for the 1970s Australian Black Power Movement one needs to understand the context of their times., as well as […]
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah – tribute to former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Salah and discussion of the economic pressures on Lebanon and Syria. Translation by Haidar Akarar, video here: http://www.u-news.net/en/news/30/26515 See also: ‘Sayyed Nasrallah: Our Weapons Will […]
Autobiographical book (en espanol / in spanish) on Marcello’s life in the Chilean left (the MIR), 1960s-1970s, and the origins of his involvement in human rights campaigns.
One of the key organizations promoting and pushing hostility towards Iran is a shadowy group called United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI). Founded in 2008, it was expanded and reorganized in 2014 under the umbrella of the Counter Extremism Project […]
Tim Anderson & Jay Tharappel discuss the failure of the Western Left to identify the resistance to US imperialism during the wars of the ‘Arab Spring’. Why does the Western Left so often fall for ‘colour revolutions’? Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJnQcju9NI
By simultaneously rolling out the BSN and the digital yuan, China is poised to capture the economic gains of a rapidly digitizing global economy. But there is also an important geopolitical dimension … if Beijing’s efforts are successful, it could […]
Big majorities of north American Jews both support Israel and oppose Netanyahu. 42% “say Trump favors Israel too much — far more than is the case for Catholics or Protestants” PDF below, original post here: https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/265898/american-jews-politics-israel.aspx
Dr. Tim Anderson and Jay Tharappel discuss the war on Yemen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAvMmL9huD8&t=1872s Second in a series of counter-hegemonic chats. Jay Tharappel explains the roots of the war on Yemen, including how it differed from the other ‘Arab Spring’ movements. The […]
There are no distinct Jewish genetics. “Although Jews maintained detectable vertical genetic continuity along generations … intensive horizontal genetic relations were maintained both between Jewish communities and with the gentile surrounding. Thus, in spite of considerable consanguinity, there is no […]
How do we understand a distorted world? A contribution to counter-hegemonic epistemology. Knowledge in the western tradition was often thought to be gained through rational, scientific processes, typically independent enquiry involving a combination of ideas and experience. Some intellectual and […]
Counter Hegemonic Chat #1: Discussion on the pandemic and political responses, by Tim Anderson and Jay Tharappel Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pDa-egWtoM&t=9s
The global pretensions of the USA and the UK have been stripped naked by the virus and responses to it. These profit-driven systems failed to protect lives. Only the fabricated anti-China hysteria and the pseudo-science of the pandemic sceptics hides […]
US-China cold war adds a ‘Thucydides Trap’ to the pandemic recession, undermining any rapid recovery, says Nouriel Roubini. PDF below, original post here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/why-the-economy-is-headed-for-a-post-coronavirus-depression-nouriel-roubini.html