Prohibited from broadcasting in the United States, the Voice of America always promoted the US as a virtuous brand of democratic good living in the face of tyrants — usually the political left. Binoy Kampmark reports on its silencing.
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Tamils from across Australia rallied in response to the United Nation High Commissioner Volker Türk’s visit to a recently-discovered mass grave site on the outskirts of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. Zebedee Parkes reports.
A week of brutal sectarian violence in Suwayda, in southern Syria, has left more than 1000 people dead, during which disparate Druze factions united against the Syrian government and Israel further consolidated its grip on the region. Sarah Glynn reports.
Jackie Kriz writes that members of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, and family, friends and comrades of Allan Sargent, recognised his dedication and service to the union movement just before he died.
Janet Parker told a protest outside Parliament House that as Australian and other Western governments dig in to support Israel, their most precious, militarised, colonial outpost in the Middle East, pro-Palestine protesters say: “We will bring you down”.
As Israel’s genocide against Palestinians continues, protesters from across the country converged in Canberra, before the new parliament opened, to demand Labor sanction Israel. Pip Hinman and Isaac Nellist report.