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Disinformation Isn’t the Problem: Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem
What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a […]
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License to Muzzle: Taking Offence at Flag Wavers for Hezbollah
It was done for the Viet Cong in numerous countries during the US involvement in Vietnam. It was done for the African National Congress (ANC). It was done for the Irish Revolutionary Army (IRA). Across the United States, Europe and Australasia, all three organisations, demonised as terrorist outfits, received tacit, symbolic support from protestors. In […]
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Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting of the Chagossians
It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, whose residents had been brutally displaced between 1965 to 1973, to Mauritius. In an October 3 joint statement between London and Port […]
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Australian Officials Push Authoritarian Crackdown on Pro-Hezbollah Speech
As Israel begins another invasion of Lebanon, Australian officials from both sides of the imaginary partisan divide have been falling all over themselves to get Australians punished for speech crimes about the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah. The Australian political-media class have been in an uproar ever since footage surfaced of people waving Hezbollah flags at […]
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Unrealisable Justice: Julian Assange in Strasbourg
It was good to hear that voice again. A voice of provoking interest that pitter patters, feline across a parquet, followed by the usual devastating conclusion. Julian Assange’s last public address was made in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. There, he was a guest vulnerable to the capricious wishes of changing governments. At Belmarsh Prison […]
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Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza?
Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe zone’ at the time– Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt,10 August 2024 One would expect that human rights organisations would spring into action during an impending or […]
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Israel’s Enforced Disappearance of Palestinian Women from Gaza
Our latest visual captures the horrific testimonies of Palestinian women from Gaza who were arbitrarily detained and held incommunicado by Israel for more than 50 days, according to interviews by Amnesty International and the UN. Held hostage under the “Detention of Unlawful Combatants law,” which grants the Israeli military sweeping powers to detain anyone from […]
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Chanukah 2023
Boeing Headquarters, Chicago December 14, 2023 On the last night night of Chanukah, you stand on a bridge, alongside twelve others, blocking traffic. You hold a black rectangular posterboard with the letter “I” lit up in small holiday lights bright against the dark matting. You are letter seven in the phrase CEASEFIRE NOW! “F” stands […]
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Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Freedoms
In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. —Thomas Jefferson Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps […]
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