Iran’s monarchist opposition’s support for “liberation” by invasion proved to be a nightmare for ordinary people, says Iranian American socialist feminist Frieda Afary in an interview with Alternative Viewpoint’s Farooq Sulehria.
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The British Labour government has proscribed protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation in a frightening overreach of power, reports Simon Hannah.
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Sarah Glynn looks at the brutal crackdown on Kurds and other minorities and activists since the Israeli-United States bombings of Iran.
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The Ecosocialism 2025 agenda has been updated with new international and local speakers and sessions. Fred Fuentes, a conference organiser, reports.
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Corporate media and establishment politicians went into a frenzy when musicians performing at the iconic Glastonbury Festival in Britain spoke out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, reports Isaac Nellist.
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NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge told Suzanne James that Israel and the United States’ attacks on Iran were “outright illegal”, with “no evidence” that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons.
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Niko Leka reports that First Nations Elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe has lodged an application with the Federal Court for Hamas to be removed from the list of terrorist organisations, as Hamas is a legitimate political entity.
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Even before Donald Trump got the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to agree to raise military spending, Oxfam said that less than 3% of the richest seven countries’ annual military spending, about US$1.5 trillion, could totally eradicate world hunger. Peter Boyle reports.
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Scholar and activist Marty Branagan examines how language, film, history, gender issues, the arts and religion “can contribute either to cultural violence or to cultures of peace” in his book, The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding. Jim McIlroy reviews.
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Nuclear obsession warps our thinking about truth. Nuclear armed countries establish so-called red lines around their weapons and yet accept genocide in Palestine, aggression in Ukraine and civil wars in numerous other countries, argues Tony Smith.
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The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the United States Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorised by President Donald Trump, was raucous and triumphant. But that depended on what company you were keeping, writes Binoy Kampmark.
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Left organisations in Malaysia, the Philippines, India and Australia have responded to Israel’s illegal “pre-emptive” strikes on Iran and the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan by the United States, reports Susan Price.