“Black Mist White Rain” Speaking Tour

4-7 April 2016

Four Indigenous women from South Australia and the Marshall Islands are touring four cities over four days to speak about how nuclear testing has impacted their lives, and why a treaty banning nuclear weapons is urgently needed.… Go to Article

In 2011, the ABC broadcast on TV and on its website video footage claiming the Syrian government had massacred its own people.… Go to Article

The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 6th of April at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article

Even-handed?
“Senior players on both sides give their interpretation of events to provide an even-handed and detailed picture of how we got to now in the Middle East.”… Go to Article

Part I – Map Censorship
What is the difference between a textbook publisher giving into pressure from Christian fundamentalists seeking to censor the teaching of evolution, and a publisher giving in to Zionists seeking to censor awareness of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine?… Go to Article

This is your chance to see two of the best known Palestinian new media experts ALI ABUMINAH (The Electronic Intifada) and RAMZY BAROUD (The Palestine Chronicle) as they discuss the challenges of pushing the Palestinian narrative through Israel’s self-described “arsenal of internet tools” and its mega-funded hasbara (propaganda) into the public arena as well as the attempts by Western governments to muzzle free speech such as the right to boycott.… Go to Article

Publisher’s Note: Here is a recent article from The Vanguard in Melbourne … albeit with a critical spin on the Irish revolution.… Go to Article

  But blood for blood without remorse,
    I've ta'en at Oulart Hollow
    And placed my true love's clay-cold corpse
    Where I full soon will follow;
    And round her grave I wander drear,
    Noon, night and morning early,
    With breaking heart whene'er I hear
    The wind that shakes the barley
                  Robert Dwyer Joyce 
                      (1836–1883)

RIGHT FROM THE get-go, the events unfolding at Queensland Nickel have both shocked and surprised everyone involved from the unions through to administrators.… Go to Article

Recently the member for Cairns,  Rob Pyne, resigned from the Labor Party and sat on the cross-benches in Queensland state parliament.… Go to Article

A Lennox Head based Qantas pilot is believed to have deliberately crashed a light plane into the ocean off Byron Bay, Sydney media has reported.… Go to Article

CPSU National Secretary Nadine Flood has called off the Easter strike by Customs, Border Force & Quarantine workers. Ms Flood claimed that the reason was because of the need for greater security in the aftermath of the Brussels terrorist attacks.… Go to Article

All established mayors in the big councils were re-elected on Saturday in Queensland’s local government elections.

With the exception of John Brent, corrupt mayor of the Scenic Rim, recent local government elections have demonstrated that corruption wins in mayoral elections.… Go to Article

“The Powerful Mayor Syndrome” is seriously hampering good governance throughout Queensland. Cairns Labor MP, and one time councillor Rob Pyne, is calling for an Independent Inquiry into local government corruption in Queensland.… Go to Article

Breaking News: Cash-strapped Saudis retreat from Yemen

Two Systems (by Colonel W. Patrick Lang);

The Islamic State Is Pretext To Again Mug Libya;

Syria & Burundi – War-Theatres between the China/Russia Axis & US/EU Axis

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BREAKING NEWS: Kurdish National Council in Syria condemns federalism declaration by Kurdish rival

Federal region of “Rojava-North Syria” proclaimed. Federation of Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Syriacs, Turkomans, Armenians, Circassians and Chechens.… Go to Article

This year Palm Sunday falls on the 13th anniversary of Shock and Awe the opening bombing campaign of Operation Iraqi Freedom!!!… Go to Article

This PALM SUNDAY is shaping up to be a momentous day. This is our time where we the people deliver a message of hope and love for humanity reflecting the traditional symbols of peace on this day.… Go to Article

A beat-up?

ASRC CEO, Kon Karapanagiotidis

Australia’s largest asylum seeker service is in upheaval after an exodus of its most senior staff and claims of a toxic work environment, mismanagement and bullying.… Go to Article

• We believe that everyone has the right to a life
that is free from persecution and life-threatening
situations. Seeking asylum is a human right.… Go to Article

Joanna Kesteven
Secretary QLGRA Inc
Phone: 07 54635304
Mobile: 0413 242 893… Go to Article

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
                       - Bob Dylan

College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor.… Go to Article

Orientalism is “the basic distinction 
between East and West as the starting point for 
elaborate theories, epics, novels, social descriptions, 
and political accounts concerning the Orient, its 
people, customs, ‘mind,’ destiny and so on.”