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"Both of these warmongering nations [US and Israel] have displayed a total lack of integrity and credibility through their disingenuous words and actions over many decades."
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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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Iranian negotiators flew to Pakistan on a plane they called “Minab 168” as a tribute to the 168 people - mostly schoolgirls - killed in a US missile strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab on February 28
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Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

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Chinese oil supplies from Iran in Washington's sights
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Why Iran will never break – and Iranians will decide their...

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Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

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The Iran fiasco is only the latest in a host of examples revealing how to defeat US President Donald Trump
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Robert Reich: Lessons on how to defeat Donald Trump every time

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US President Donald Trump (left) and Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
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"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s press conference on the first day of the Iran ceasefire on 8 April 2026
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Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious

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April 11, 2026
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"Israel’s supporters in the West have launched the biggest assault on free speech since the height of McCarthyism"
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Owen Jones: At The Telegraph, journalist support for Israel is now...

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"War is stupid" . . . a message from three generations of New Zealand peace protesters
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What, then, have the two sides actually agreed to
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Israel’s attack on Lebanon was “one of the deadliest single bombing campaigns
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"ME the People."
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Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?

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New Zealand surgical team leader in Vietnam Dr Peter Eccles-Smith
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How museums can remember war while honouring civilian trauma and resistance

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Remembering Nelson Anjain: A champion for nuclear justice in the Pacific

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So now this modern American Nero struggles to convince us that he "won"
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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