The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day. From December 10 this year, as announced by the commissar-minded eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, “age-restricted social...
Dissident Voice
Cocks Coming Back Home to, well, not Roost, but to Gouge, Scratch, Cut, Swipe, Kill
Hmm, genocide and boat captains and mates murdered by accused sexual predator and alcohol abusing Cap’n Crunch Pete, a-okay, but cock fights in how many states, a federal crime? This is yet more breaking news (sic) I have to contend with as I get ready to give a crowd...
Don’t Believe the Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau
BAP’s U.S. Out of African Network & Africa Team co-sign the positions of our comrade, member organizations A-APRP & PAIGC It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet...
Donald Trump, Union Buster
Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor...
Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from straying. But straying happens, transgressions inevitable. Some are...
What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce about Taiwan?
Chinese chairman Xi Jinping met with Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, at her request in Gyeongju, on 31 October, in the Republic of Korea. The recently ensconced Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi began her early leadership with a major diplomatic gaffe...
Soldiers of Solidarity — Part III
Our soldiers did not go to Africa to conquer, but to liberate.” — Fidel Castro1 Read Part I and Part II. In late 1975, as Angola prepared to cast off Portuguese rule, its fragile independence was threatened by apartheid South Africa’s armies and CIA‑backed...
As Public Support for ICE Drops, Women’s March WIN Launches Campaign Urging Agents to Walk Away
As the Trump administration enters its eleventh month pushing aggressive immigration crackdowns, public sentiment appears to be shifting. A new YouGov survey finds growing discomfort with the broad and aggressive methods being employed by the U.S. Immigrations and...
Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed
US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago....
News Junkie? Those Daily Newspaper Days, the Competing AM v. PM Dailies
“Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can’t fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.” It is an amazing g-force terminal...
Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban
On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct participation in the commission of genocide and war crimes across the...
Two Peace Prizes: The Nobel Legitimizes the Empire’s War on Venezuela While the US Peace Prize Honors Resistance
The Nobel Peace Prize was established in 1901. In the decades that followed, Mahatma Gandhi emerged as the international symbol of world peace for resistance to the dominant imperialism of his time – the British Empire. He was never recognized by the Nobel Committee....