The Guardian • Donald Trump
Issue #2145
100 days of Trump
The White House has launched a streaming looped video on X touting President Donald Trump’s amazing accomplishments in his first 100 days in office. Trump...
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Issue #2163
GLOBAL BRIEFS
EU: Trump has lobbied for EU, G7, and NATO countries to impose 100% tariffs on China. Originally also targeted at India, Trump’s new round of...
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Issue #2166
Trump declares war
After decades of financing wars, regime changes and assassinations, the US imperialist political establishment is now trying to appear as a peacemaker. It is invoking...
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Issue #2195
The drugs (policies) don’t work
On 7 March, at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, US President Donald Trump inaugurated the ‘Shield of the Americas’ summit, convening right-wing...
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Issue #2203
Trump’s annexation threat escalates crisis
The Strait of Hormuz became the centre of a new diplomatic dispute after US President Donald Trump threatened to declare the strategic waterway a potential...
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Issue #2158
‘Big Beautiful Bill’
10 million US citizens will lose health insurance coverage as a result of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ Hospital costs are expected to massively increase as...
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Issue #2171
Lasting peace for Palestine
Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people. The...
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Issue #2198
Rinehart seeks to gift stolen land to Israel
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, has signalled that we don’t have to await a Pauline Hanson prime ministership for the MAGA playbook to be set...
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Issue #2136
Cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonising and scapegoating. For its victims, the cruelties...
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Issue #2171
Japanese PM called out for ‘sycophant diplomacy’
On 28 October Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae and US President Donald Trump visited the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington at the US Yokosuka Naval...
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Issue #2137
Gaza: peace so far away
Just recently night-time temperatures in Gaza dropped well below average. It meant that people living in temporary shelters, tents, and in the open, suffered even...
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Issue #2183
China helps Cuba achieve 900 MW per day solar power generation
The Trump administration’s energy siege on Cuba – cutting off oil from Venezuela, threatening punitive tariffs on any country that dares sell fuel to the...
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Issue #2133
Building the Panama Canal ñ A study in US racism
President Donald Trump has claimed the Panama Canal is American as 35,000 Americans were killed during its construction. His figures are false. The great majority...
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Issue #2142
Trump supports dangerous eugenicist beliefs
At a Wisconsin rally in 2024, President Donald Trump called illegal immigrants murderers: “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes....
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Issue #2175
Chavismo survives US attacks on Venezuela
On 3 January the US military attacked Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. More than 100 Venezuelans...
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Issue #2182
Iran and Trump’s ‘terrible mistake’
On 28 February, a few hours after negotiators said that Iran had accepted many of the demands regarding its nuclear program, the United States and...
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Issue #2125
Trump and the global reality
What does the re-election of Donald Trump mean? Why was he elected so comfortably? What does it mean for the USA, and for the American...
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Issue #2133
Mass deportations: Latin America responds
With Trump’s inauguration, the US Department of Homeland Security sent thousands of federal agents to begin arrests and mass deportations. Trump directed the military to...
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Issue #2137
Puerto Rico vs Trump
US President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on 2 March 2025, that designates English as the United States’ official language. This has created much...
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Issue #2142
Trump attacks Black history to ‘Make America White Again’
President Donald Trump continues to attack African American rights, heritage, and history in his desire to Make America White Again. On 27 March 2025, Trump...
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Issue #2110
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UKRAINE: Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has led a Ukrainian delegation to Guangzhou, in China, for peace talks. Kuleba announced that Ukraine is willing and prepared...
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Issue #2124
US election 2024: lessons for Australia
The United States’ election spectacle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has dominated Australian screens and social media this year. Between government policies such as...
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Issue #2125
On the 26 October, the Liberal National Party formed a majority government in Queensland Parliament. On the 5 November (6 November in Australia), Donald Trump...
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Issue #2175
67th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution– °Viva la Revolución!
Cuba celebrated its 67th anniversary on 1 January this year. The CPA congratulates the Cuban people and its government, led by the Communist Party of...
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Issue #2176
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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Issue #2177
Australia’s secret anti-protest force for US Department of War
As public concerns over the AUKUS alliance rise – with expanding US bases in Australia and Donald Trump’s belligerent conduct, FOI documents reveal the government...
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Issue #2183
GLOBAL BRIEFS
OMAN: Oman has declared that it has no intention to join Trump’s “Board of Peace.” “We affirm our solidarity with the countries in the Gulf...
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Issue #2185
The US Ozymandias – Gaza, Trump and the New Global Disorder
A traveller from an antique land sees half-buried in the desert sand the massive stone legs of a statue and the shattered remains of a...
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Issue #2147
Trump uses ‘sliver’ to get past the law
President Donald Trump has turned over to the Department of Defence the Roosevelt Reservation to be used as a military base. This sliver of federal...
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Issue #2103
GLOBAL BRIEFS
China: The unmanned Chang’e-6 probe successfully landed on the dark side of the Moon for the world’s first mission to collect samples from that region....
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Issue #2125
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PALESTINE: The Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority issued a statement denouncing the continuing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Israel has dropped...
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Issue #2134
HALF THE SKY
Women and children are already dying as a result of the Musk/Trump administration shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). According to Abby...
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Issue #2135
Trump attacks Alaska’s tribal sovereignty
US President Donald Trump’s flurry of Executive Orders has had a lot of attention since 20 January, with Executive Orders affecting Diversity Equity and Inclusion...
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Issue #2137
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa announced the formation of an “independent committee” to investigate armed clashes and massacres that killed more than 1,300 people,...
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Issue #2150
GLOBAL BRIEFS
COLOMBIA: President Gustavo Petro has reaffirmed the need for his proposed referendum on labour and social reforms, emphasising that peace in Colombia cannot be achieved...
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Issue #2158
Ireland to Lesotho – Trump’s tariffs hit hard
In April 2025 President Donald Trump introduced so-called ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, triggering the worst two-day drop in US stock market history, erasing trillions in value....
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Issue #2186
Trump removes Little Bighorn Native American signage
The Trump administration has targeted signage displays at a national monument that honours tribal sacrifices and reflect the Indigenous history of the battle known as...
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Issue #2199
Protection racket: Trump bombs Iran again
The United States carried out its third consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran, as President Donald Trump moved to reimpose a naval blockade on Iranian...
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Issue #2210
We all came here from somewhere
Everywhere , from the Global North to the Global South, we are inundated with rising anti-immigrant rhetoric. It seems to be an inescapable part of...
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Issue #2091
LETTERS
Barbarism and Capitalism While proofreading a page for our comrades who produce the Guardian, I noted something that I feel should be clarified for all...
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Issue #2128
Trump and the coming economic crisis
A damoclean sword hangs over the head of the global economy. Its name is Trump. The president-elect’s economic policies of trade war, tariffs, and protectionism...
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Issue #2132
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UKRAINE: Multiple Ukrainian media outlets have issued urgent appeals for emergency donations after US President Donald Trump suspended US foreign aid programs. Nine out of...
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Issue #2134
Aluminium, and beyond
When Trump launched his trade war, some nations responded with threats of retaliation. Others sought to find ways to ‘deal ‘with the most powerful economy...
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Issue #2137
Trump and Hegseth purge US military
The purging of leading US military leaders, recently announced by US President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth signals a shift in American military...
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Issue #2142
Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin
In Culture Warlords Talia Lavin, a Jewish queer woman, infiltrated the dark side of the internet during President Donald Trump’s first term of office, exposing...
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Issue #2145
100 per cent tariffs on Australia’s film industry threatens 42,000 jobs
Media production is a billion-dollar industry for Australia. US President Donald Trump has proposed to place 100 per cent tariffs on films made outside the...
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Issue #2148
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BOLIVIA: Right-wing Bolivian presidential candidates met for a two-day forum in the United States at the invitation of investment billionaire Marcelo Claure. A major investor...
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Issue #2160
GLOBAL BRIEFS
New Zealand: The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service has released a report claiming that the nation is facing threats of interference and espionage, particularly from...
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Issue #2161
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The military occupation of Washington DC continues to escalate as the Trump administration prepares for a similar occupation of Chicago. Republican governors from six...
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Issue #2176
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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Issue #2194
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BOLIVIA: Bolivia’s legislature has passed a law granting President Rodrigo Paz the authority to use the military to clear roadblocks set up by anti-government protesters....
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Issue #2201
Trump cuts Medicaid
The Trump administration will withhold a total of US $2.2bn to Medicaid funding in California, as well as $550m to Minnesota. The funding cut will...
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Issue #2132
Trump, Davos, and global capitalism
The earliest days of the Trump presidency have brought images of threat, bullying and all that is worst about autocracy in action. Some commentators claim...
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Issue #2158
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UK: London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested nearly 500 people protesting in support of the Palestine Action group, which was prescribed a terrorist organisation by the...
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Issue #2106
Israeli destruction could spread
US presidential candidates Biden and Trump don’t have much in common – except for blind support for Israel and an almost rabid animosity toward Palestine....
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Issue #2128
Cuba and Trump
How do the Cuban people view the re-election of Donald Trump as US President, and what does a second Trump administration mean for US-Cuba relations?...
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Issue #2134
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRITAIN: Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London to protest US President Trump’s proposal to “take over”the Gaza Strip. The placards and banners in...
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Issue #2135
Trump – and the Coalition’s past and future
Have you ever thought that the landscapes around you look too beautiful? Have you ever thought that your life needs a bit more of that...
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Issue #2139
Canada’s CSIS takes Trump’s invasion threats seriously
President Donald Trump’s threats to invade Canada have been taken very seriously by former senior Canadian intelligence officials, who said that the US is covertly...
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Issue #2147
International Meeting in Solidarity with Cuba, anti-imperialism and against the resurgence of fascism
After celebrating May Day in Revolution Square, international delegates from 269 organisations representing 39 countries gathered to show their support to the Cuban people, the...
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Issue #2151
‘No Kings Day’ protests against Trump
On 14 June more than 1,500 ‘No Kings’ events stood up against President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard and the military at Los...
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Issue #2152
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The Indigenous People’s Coalition (IPC) met in Nashville to discuss opposition to anti-immigrant raids conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the...
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Issue #2159
GLOBAL BRIEFS
Ukraine: Some Ukrainian commanders and officials have expressed concerns over a manpower crisis in the armed forces. At least 650,000 men of fighting age are...
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Issue #2175
GLOBAL BRIEFS
DENMARK: Denmark called on the United States to stop “threatening” Greenland as President Donald Trump told US media that he “absolutely needed” the territory, a...
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Issue #2178
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PALESTINE: The Foreign Press Association expressed disappointment after Israel’s Supreme court postponed a ruling on a petition seeking free media access to Gaza. Journalists have...
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Issue #2180
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UN: United Nations experts on human rights issued a joint statement on 12 February condemning the Executive Order signed by US President Trump on 29...
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Issue #2183
Stop the war on Cuba
The Trump regime has undertaken to starve the people of Cuba. The decision to impose an oil blockade and threaten any country who dares to...
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Issue #2199
African countries reject Trump aid
Bucking the Western stereotype of African countries being needy and desperate, some African countries have rejected foreign aid from the Trump administration due to the...
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Issue #2206
GLOBAL BRIEFS
KENYA: One of India’s major chemical company, Tata Chemicals, has been ordered to leave Kenya after Harare accused it of failing to generate enough benefits...
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Issue #2207
GLOBAL BRIEFS
IRELAND: Thousands of demonstrators filled central Dublin on 12 September in a ‘No welcome to Trump’ protest against the US President’s two-day visit to Ireland....
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Issue #2208
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: NATO intelligence services found no evidence of Russian involvement in a recent drone incident at Leipzig Airport and informed their authorities accordingly, the Russian...
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Issue #2116
GLOBAL BRIEFS
ALGERIA: 78-year-old Algerian president Abdelmaijid Tebboune won the presidential election held last Saturday with 94.65 per cent of the vote, according to the official count....
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Issue #2128
On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
On Cuba is a great introduction to modern Cuba and the problems it currently faces. Having taught Cuban history at university level, I recommend it...
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Issue #2130
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MYANMAR: Myanmar’s government and a major ethnic rebel group have signed a formal ceasefire agreement. The new ceasefire was brokered by China and came into...
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Issue #2139
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NAMIBIA: Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as Namibia’s first female president, nearly sixty years after she joined the liberation movement fighting for independence from apartheid...
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Issue #2143
Why is blocking Trump’s Executive Orders so difficult?
In his first 100 days of office President Donald Trump has signed 123 executive orders (EOs), fewer than any new president taking office during the...
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Issue #2153
Trump increases ICE budget by US$45 billion
President Trump’s signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill” has tripled funding for locking up immigrants to US$45 billion(~AU$70 billion). This is larger than the amount...
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Issue #2155
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The largest teachers’ unions in the US, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), have, alongside the American Federation...
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Issue #2159
Trump’s culture wars
On 27 March 2025 President Donald Trump issued executive order Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History attacking the “widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s...
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Issue #2177
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: The Pentagon has issued orders to prepare several hundred active-duty military police for potential deployment to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The orders come amid growing concerns...
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Issue #2187
Iran’s Lego meme war
Explosive News has released more than fifty AI-generated, Lego-inspired President Donald Trump videos, with millions of views across X, TikTok, Instagram and other social media...
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Issue #2194
LETTERS
Moronocracy I was incensed that some commentators on an otherwise interesting podcast compared Trump and the buffoons and sycophants around him to those surrounding Joseph...
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Issue #2195
Albanians rise up against Trump resort
Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, is trying to quell protests over a holiday resort being constructed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald...
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Issue #2203
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SOUTH KOREA: South Korea has angered President Trump by refusing to participate in the US-Israeli war against Iran. In response, the US President ordered to...
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Issue #2128
LETTERS
On Cuba Dear Guardian Editor, Thank you for your coverage of Cuba. I went on the Southern Cross Brigade at the end of last year....
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Issue #2129
LETTERS
Capitalist climate change The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout...
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Issue #2130
Demonstrations against Trump’s threat to take Panama Canal
On 23 December 2024, US president-elect Donald Trump threatened to take back the Panama Canal, in a post on his Truth Social platform, because of...
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Issue #2134
Saudi Arabian Oil Policy and the Iran-Iraq War
With US President Donald Trump promising to produce cheap global oil, this is a useful study that shows why the United States has tried, but...
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Issue #2146
ON FASCISM: 12 lessons from American history
Published during Trump’s first Presidency, this book is an interesting investigation of the way that fascist dictators can take control. He looks at those men...
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Issue #2147
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump squandered his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success
Buettner and Craig, two New York Times investigative journalists, reveal how the 45th and 47th US president, Donald Trump, was given over US$400 million, lost...
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Issue #2149
GLOBAL BRIEFS
United States: The US has once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Gaza. The most recent resolution, introduced by a coalition...
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Issue #2150
McCarthyism is back – Hawley style
US Senator Josh Hawley, was briefly famous for raising a fist of encouragement to the 6 January mob that attacked the US Capitol building seeking...
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Issue #2165
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CHINA: Three US companies – unmanned vehicle maker Saronic Technologies, satellite technology company Aercomm, and subsea engineering firm Oceaneering International, have been added to China’s...
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Issue #2133
Trump targets Native American birthrights
If US President Donald Trump’s executive order to end automatic ‘birthrights’ takes effect, it means that after 19 February children born in the United States...
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Issue #2135
Palestine is Not for Sale Rally, Boorloo/Perth WA
Friends of Palestine WA organised a rally in Forrest Place, Perth attended by about 200 people. The MC was Palestinian activist Heba who like most...
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Issue #2139
Back to Jim Crow: Trump’s discriminatory legislation
The Trump administration has been condemned for heading the US back to the times of the ‘Jim Crow’ laws which used to enforce racial segregation....
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Issue #2143
New information released on CIA involvement in Cuba
On 18 March, under President Donald Trump’s executive order, 80,000 documents were uploaded to the National Archives website. Amongst these documents are a plethora of...
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Issue #2148
Cuba: An American history
Ada Ferrer’s history of Cuba begins with Columbus and the island’s Spanish colonisation, and ends with Donald Trump’s election in 2016. Ferrer takes a pro-Cuba...
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Issue #2151
‘No Kings Day’ strikes and mass demonstrations
The US political organisation 50501 (50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement) sought to build a General Strike to coincide with the protests on 14 June...
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Issue #2166
Trump uses shutdown to push mass sackings
US President Donald Trump has said that his director of budget and management, Russell Vought, will use the government shut-down as rationale to start illegally...
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Issue #2198
Trump’s anti-communist crusade, a midterm panic move
In the space of a single week, the contours of the Trump administration’s political strategy heading into the November midterms snapped into focus. It is...
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Issue #2203
The Front at fifty
Fifty years on, The Front (1976), starring Woody Allen, is especially relevant with the Trump administration’s crackdown on freedoms taken for granted in the United...
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Issue #2126
Trade war, Trump and decaying capitalism
The world is bracing itself for the coming war. No shot will be fired, at least not immediately. No troops will be paraded, but the...
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Issue #2138
Trump ensures white farmers get compensation in Zimbabwe
In January 2025 US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off funding to South Africa because of land confiscations, without citing evidence, Trump said that...
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Issue #2139
Trump deports hundreds of Pacific Islanders
While the United States’ mainstream media has covered the recent mass deportations to Mexico and Venezuela, it has paid little attention to the mass deportation...
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Issue #2149
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House analyses the 2024 United States presidential election, examining Joe Biden’s disastrous bid for re-election, and the...
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Issue #2151
AFTER AMERICA: Australia and the new world order
This book is a well-timed look at the new world ‘disorder’ and particularly analyses the situation in which Australia now finds itself, having been subservient...
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Issue #2164
ABC barred from London press conference
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) was excluded from a press conference US President Donald Trump is set to hold near London, following a recent clash...
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Issue #2180
LETTERS
Resistance to Trump You can’t get red wool in Minnesota at the moment – it’s all sold out. Why? Because people are busy knitting red...
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Issue #2184
Time of monsters – The US lashes out
This year isn’t even three months old and we’re seeing constant escalation of wars across the world, primarily from the United States’ imperial ambitions. Iran...
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Issue #2126
What Trump’s extremist cabinet tells us
President-elect Donald Trump’s new cabinet will begin on 20 January 2025. His selection tells us a lot about what Trump 2.0 will be and will...
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Issue #2131
Trump’s threat to annex Canada
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration he has continued his threat to annex Canada as the 51st state, using economic rather than military force. An enlarged...
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Issue #2138
Trump attacks Canada over the 1908 Treaty
President Donald Trump meeting with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, threatened to use the 1908 treaty on the Canada-US border to make Canada the...
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Issue #2141
Trump‘s existential threat
Trump is a performer. He knows how to whip up a crowd and win over a large section of the working class contrary to their...
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Issue #2142
Business as usual
There are a lot of comments flying around about Donald Trump betraying his country and destroying cherished American principles. A look at past behaviour and...
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Issue #2159
LETTERS
Comrade Editor, The Channel 9 papers seem determined to push Australia into buying the hideously expensive AUKUS submarines and a war with China. So desperate...
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Issue #2166
‘Peace through war’
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth welcomed the 800 military leaders assembled in Quantico to the “War Department” last month saying, “the era of the...
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Issue #2167
PEACE NOTES
Weapons stocks soar The business pages of our mainstream papers are rubbing their hands with glee as they report on Trump urging the world to...
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Issue #2185
LETTERS
Cyprus, Greenland, and the US I write this in response to US President Trump’s continuing threats to take over Greenland and his comments about why...
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Issue #2210
Trump manipulates AI
Welcome to the Orwellian world of US President Donald Trump’s new federal AI chatbot portal, America.gov. Trump has recently signed an executive order for Americans...
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Issue #2203
100 Years of Fidel
Fidel’s centenary arrives as Cuba weathers perhaps the most severe external assault in its history. Trump and Rubio’s fuel blockade has cut Venezuelan oil supplies,...
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Issue #2134
PEACE NOTES
There’s an understandable, but mistaken tendency to treat the subject of war and peace as optional extras, as not the main game. As a topic,...
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Issue #2141
A tariff is a tax
A tariff is simply a tax imposed by a government on goods or services imported from another country. It is paid to the government by...
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Issue #2179
PEACE NOTES
High probability of failure (AUKUS) Comments from retired rear admiral Philip Mathias, a former director of nuclear policy with the UK Ministry of Defence, have...
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Issue #2185
PEACE NOTES
The War in the Middle East The extent and brutality of the war just continue to mount with very little protest from the Australian government...
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Issue #2175
NO blood for oil
On Monday 5 January, people in Boorloo/Perth took to the streets as part of the national emergency rallies called by the Hands-off Venezuela Coalition. The...
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Issue #2109
DINGO
This week’s target of US aggression since the end of WW2 is the Middle East 1956-58: The Eisenhower Doctrine stated that the United States was...
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Issue #2131
LETTERS
Feigned concern Albanese and Wong are delusional if they think their ‘mate’ in the Whitehouse is their friend or they can do deals with him....
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Issue #2141
Tariffs blackmail will backfire
On 2 April, US president Donald Trump imposed sweeping, so-called “reciprocal tariffs” ranging from 10% to 50% on almost all nations based on the US’s...
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Issue #2163
PEACE NOTES
The Australian mainstream media Sometime in the late 80’s the Australian mainstream media adopted the policy of not reporting on peace rallies or criticisms of...
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Issue #2165
Trump ‘peace plan’ presented as Israel kills 45
As this edition goes to press, the world is learning about US President Trump’s 20-point ‘peace plan.’ Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has confirmed that Hamas’...
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Issue #2145
PEACE NOTES
After a White House meeting between Trump and Netanyahu, Netanyahu said, “We’re both united in the goal that Iran does not get nuclear weapons.” He...
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Issue #2175
Pirates of the Caribbean, welcome to 2026
We welcomed 2026 with the news the US had bombed Venezuela on 3 January and kidnapped its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife who is...
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Issue #2125
DINGO
ExxonMobil is using Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in an Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to sue the Netherlands over the early shutdown of gas production in...
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Issue #2141
AUKUS, Trump, and the Indo-Pacific – an address by Vijay Prashad
The opportunity to listen to Vijay Prashad is one not to be missed, and in Sydney and on Zoom he wowed comrades and friends once...
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Issue #2155
PEACE NOTES
What’s the biggest threat to world peace? Is it those nuclear weapons Iran is supposed to be working on? Is it the much-demonised country of...
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Issue #2175
Hands off Venezuela!
The Communist Party of Australia unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s illegal military attack against Venezuela, including the forcible kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his...
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Issue #2129
DINGO
It could be tempting to treat Elon Musk’s provocations as the attention-seeking of a petulant plutocrat who was born into the wealth of his father’s...
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Issue #2130
DINGO
“LA 2028 will be the Olympic version of the Hunger Games,” says Dr Tom Heenan, who lectures in sport, global and Australian studies at Monash...
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Issue #2134
Peter Dutton is super popular
The Murdoch Press and other conservative media outlets have been trying their best to convince Australians that Peter Dutton is all the rage. Anytime a...
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Issue #2177
PEACE NOTES
Given all the dramatic stories coming out of the US, perhaps it’s not surprising that one very important story has slipped under the radar, apparently...
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Issue #2183
Black Cockatoos: Sacrifices for Trump
US aluminium giant Alcoa has been granted permission by the federal government to continue clearing Western Australia’s Jarrah forests, despite past illegal practices, in part...
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Issue #2136
Chaotic, deregulated, unaccountable
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) describes superannuation funds as being “the heart of Australia’s capital market system,” and with good reason. With total...
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Issue #2195
One Nation under Genocide Gina
Pauline Hanson’s Make Australia Great Again mirrors many of Donald Trump’s MAGA policies: pro-big business, anti-worker, small government, climate denial, anti-immigrant, and racism. She, like...
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Issue #2125
‘Homeland’ is written in blood
On a sunny November day in Perth, Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) held a rally to protest the continued slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by...
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Issue #2189
DINGO
The United Workers Union says the announcement that G8 Education will close approximately 40 childcare centres across Australia is deeply concerning for workers, families and...
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Issue #2195
South Australia: CAUSE and effect
Early this year, the formation of the Coalition Against the United States Empire (CAUSE) was announced in Tarndanya (Adelaide), a coalition of groups and individuals...
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Issue #2126
Pratt goes out of his way to prove Marx correct
Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt has announced that he now has his Green Card and will be a permanent resident of the United States. His packaging...
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Issue #2129
EDITORIAL
It was the UN Secretary-General who famously said, “The world is burning. We need a renewables revolution.” It is literally burning in California. Other parts...
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Issue #2128
EDITORIAL
It’s easy to be despondent about 2025, as we go into the holiday season. Trump will be US president next year. It’s quite possible Australia...
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Issue #2197
EDITORIAL
The United States turns 250 this year. You’d expect some epic celebrations, but they’ve been somewhat overshadowed by President Trump’s clownish behaviour. In the middle...
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Issue #2125
EDITORIAL
Trump’s victory should have Albanese terrified. Harris and the Democrats tried to run an election campaign based on insubstantial rhetoric about the “promise of America.”...
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Issue #2130
EDITORIAL
The inferno that has ravaged large spans of urban areas in Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, and taking with it more than...
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Issue #2138
DINGO
A survey of 1,011 people across Australia has found half of respondents are going without food, medication and other essentials to try to pay their...
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Issue #2140
DINGO
Temu Trump or Mini Musk? Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been accused of being ‘Temu Trump’ with various attempts to come across as Trump-lite before...
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Issue #2141
DINGO
Increasingly patients visiting their local GP are being told, “sorry we don’t bulk-bill anymore, just can’t afford to keep the practice open if we do.”...
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Issue #2125
Israel’s ethnic cleansing
There have been 1,500 deaths in northern Gaza in the last month alone. The warnings of ethnic cleansing in the north have been proven to...
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Issue #2126
DINGO
The fact that the world has so far continued to buy dollars come what may has underpinned US power, funding its enormous deficits, themselves largely...
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Issue #2133
Greenland’s destiny – How the US took over Danish West Indies
Since the 19th-century the United States has claimed Manifest Destiny to support its brutal occupation and wars against Mexico and elsewhere. This grab of foreign...
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Issue #2145
DINGO
Israel’s crimes of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians have been ongoing, as the following eyewitness report Dingo came across in the Summer...
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Issue #2179
EDITORIAL
How’s your health? People like to say you can’t take your health for granted. One thing we do take for granted in Australia – most...
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Issue #2133
DINGO
Hate symbols and terror offences in Australia will now be subject to mandatory sentencing with new laws, which could bring prison terms ranging from one...
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Issue #2150
EDITORIAL
US President Donald Trump is always in the news. There are a lot of reasons to think he’s an especially horrible person. He’s very corrupt...
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Issue #2165
Trump’s climate colonialism
US president Trump stunned and alarmed delegates with his arrogant and reckless one-hour rant to the UN’s 80th General Assembly on 23 September. Most notably,...
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Issue #2174
EDITORIAL
This last issue of Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly for 2025 comes to you on the edge of the ‘silly season,’ a time when everyone is...
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Issue #2179
OPPOSE EMERGENT FASCISM
The rise of the right is clear to see in Australia’s defence of Israel’s genocide on the Palestinians, with a news blackout reinforced by the...
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Issue #2195
RESISTING THE GLOBAL BULLY
In its attack on Iran, the US global bully has hit a wall of resistance. Framed as a state that could be isolated, sanctioned, and...
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Issue #2136
EDITORIAL
What do real action on Climate Change and the acronym Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) have in common? The answer is not ‘Donald Trump,’ although...
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Issue #2160
EDITORIAL
Have you taken any medicine in the last week/month/year? How useful was it? How much did you need it? How about the people you care...
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Issue #2170
DINGO
US attacks on boats allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker...
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Issue #2174
2026: Rights! Peace! Justice!
In 2025 a significant shift in international relations included the growing movement amongst the global south away from the US and former colonisers. A number...
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Issue #2177
Board of Peace? – Gang of rogues
Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ was slammed as a “board of war” by campaigners on the day the US president launched it at Davos. With...
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Issue #2186
EDITORIAL
Is Trump as mad as a meat axe, or is there a plan? This is the choice that has been presented by a lot of...
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Issue #2196
EDITORIAL
There’s an El Niño on the way. It will push global heat higher. It’s impossible to say exactly what will happen where, but next year...
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Issue #2139
EDITORIAL
Tariffs are in the news. US President Trump likes using tariffs as a threat, and there has been a lot of hand-wringing about Australia facing...
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Issue #2196
Unite against racism
The ongoing mainstreaming of fascistic Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party reached a new low with the invitation to Hanson to address the National...
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Issue #2208
REJECT THE RACISTS
“Housing and the housing shortage we have is not caused by migrants,” Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in an address to the National Press...
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Issue #2156
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“This is not a temporary crisis, but a deliberate long-term policy designed to humiliate and kill slowly.” Refaat Ibrahim in Gaza (Pearls and Irritations) “The...
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Issue #2131
DESCENT TOWARD FASCISM
“One of the most ‘democratic’ republics in the world is the United States of America, yet nowhere is the power of capital, the power of...
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Issue #2141
EDITORIAL
At time of writing, Trump’s imposition of tariffs around the world is getting a lot of attention. The tariffs are having a big effect on...
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Issue #2155
EDITORIAL
PM Anthony Albanese’s trip to China seems to have been a success. As well as the usual diplomatic niceties and photo-ops, Albanese had substantial time...
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Issue #2156
EDITORIAL
US President Donald Trump loves tariffs. He’s called ‘tariff’ his favourite word. He also loves bullying. In tariffs, he thinks he’s found the perfect way...
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Issue #2168
EDITORIAL
So you’ve heard about ‘Taco trades’? Taco stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. A Taco Trade is when a stockbroker bets on US President Donald...
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Issue #2154
Segal comes up Trump
Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, has handed down recommendations to cut funding to universities and cultural institutions that “enable or fail to...
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Issue #2167
Gaza genocide
Israel has continued to launch attacks across Lebanon and Syria, while continuing to violently expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. More than 700,000...
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Issue #2181
EDITORIAL
According to polls, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) party is doing well. We’ll see what happens at the South Australian election, but the polls say...
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Issue #2126
Trump, Israel, and dark days for Palestine
Israel continues its calculated program of starvation and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. In a move that surprised no-one, the Biden administration has pledged to...
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Issue #2181
NO WAR ON IRAN!
When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran in an unprovoked act of war, they opened the way for conflict to escalate in the...
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Issue #2201
Gaza – the hidden tragedy
Gaza has slipped from the headlines of most mainstream media outlets, but the killing continues and the aftermath of previous assaults is ongoing. ORPHANS Since...
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Issue #2148
Quotes of the Week
“this is about excellence, innovation, and American dominance on the world stage – something the MAGA movement is all about” Donald Trump Jnr on the...
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Issue #2133
Barefaced imperialism
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, on hearing of US President Trump’s ‘plan’ to turn Gaza into a post-genocide playground for the rich was, after a momentary...
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Issue #2152
Israel’s nuclear threat
The ceasefire between US/Israel and Iran does not mark the end of imperialist hostilities against the sovereign state of Iran. The debate around the damage...
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Issue #2149
Australia-US ‘alliance’
The alliance with “our great and powerful friend” the USA comes at a human and financial cost to Australians, currently demonstrated by the Albanese government’s...
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Issue #2151
Iran Resists
(editor’s note: this piece was written just before the US bombing of Iran) 19 June marked the seventh day of Israeli strikes against Iran, with...
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