The Guardian • Issue #2176 • January 26, 2026
Issue #2176
Unhinged US – time to close the bases!
Pine Gap, 20 kilometres southeast of Alice Springs, was established in 1968 in conditions of great secrecy. Local people were told it was a space...
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EDITORIAL
When is a kidnapping not a kidnapping? It’s not a riddle. The answer is “when the famously impartial British Broadcasting Corporation is reporting it and...
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Stamping out hate with draconian laws
When it came time for the Australian home affairs minister to address the press in relation to the omnibus combating antisemitism bill, Tony Burke pointed...
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2025: Federally approved ‘deforestation doom’
The Federal government gave the green light to more than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat destruction last year, making it the worst 12-month period...
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Hands off Venezuela action
Hands off Venezuela action in Boorloo/Perth, 5 January.
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Politics & Picnic in the Park
On Sunday 11 January, Cumberland Branch hosted a fundraiser at Auburn Botanical Gardens to support the upcoming National Congress of the Communist Party of Australia. ...
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Community picket prevents unfair eviction
The Renters and Housing Union Western Australia had a short term victory in an ongoing picket of the eviction of a single mother and two...
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DINGO
The following appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 January: “Australians for Humanity – Demand that the invitation to the President of Israel to...
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Heatwaves: Silent killers
“Exposure to high heat is a major threat to human health. More people die in Australia from heatwaves than all other extreme weather events combined....
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The Global Sumud Flotilla: Interview with an activist
Last year’s Global Sumud Flotilla was the largest ever Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission. The flotillas seek to break the decades-long siege of Gaza to deliver...
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Venezuela: Adelaide rally report
Following the brazen illegal invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro & his wife, Cilia Flores, a coalition led by the CPA...
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Queensland says Hands Off Venezuela
The Sunshine Coast and Brisbane branches attended a snap rally for the Hands Off Venezuela! Trump out of Latin America! event in Brisbane’s King George...
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Indigenous knowledge can help reduce impacts of bushfires, floods, and cyclones
Australia is facing devastating weather emergencies across the country, including bushfires, flooding, and tropical cyclones. Indigenous communities, with a unique connection to the land, are...
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NSW: Aboriginal man sacked over anti-genocide stance
Jayden Kitchener-Waters, a Gomeroi and Ngiyampaa man working for the NSW Aboriginal Language Trust has been first disciplined and then sacked for slogans on his...
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GREEN NOTES
Global coal demand rose in 2025, reaching a record high of 8.8 billion tonnes, with an increase of 0.5 per cent expected for 2026. This...
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Peace is union business
The Guardian is pleased to publish this speech given by Comrade Warren Smith to the 2025 Peace is Union Business conference in Sydney. Comrades, friends,...
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Australia’s AI plan: the digital enclosure
The original enclosures happened when rich landowners in Britain ‘enclosed’ and made private land that had been available for common use, thus making ordinary people...
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AI Blackface: an exercise in cannibalistic colonialism
Keagan John Mason, a South African online content creator based in New Zealand, has created channels across Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram using an AI-generated caricature...
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GLOBAL BRIEFS
NIGERIA: Nigeria has contracted an American PR firm for US$9 million to counter disinformation about Christian persecution and manage the relationship with the Trump administration....
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Israel practices ‘territorial engineering’
Israeli troops have moved a series of yellow concrete blocks, called the yellow line’ far beyond the line that defines the Israeli Defence Force’s line...
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US attacks on Venezuela, the neighbours respond
The islands of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) are only 11 km from Venezuela. In 2025 the T&T government allowed the US military access to its...
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WEASEL WORDS
Security US President Donald Trump has said that owning Greenland, currently part of someone else’s country is vital to US security. Perhaps those ‘cognitive tests’...
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Inside the forces driving Iran’s nationwide protests
Mohammad Omidvar is a member of the Tudeh Party of Iran’s Politburo, a Tudeh spokesperson and the editor of the party’s organ, Nameh Mardom. He...
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