They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.
Great work from Knitting Nannas.
The more exposure the #AtlasNetwork and its affiliates get, the better. #auspol
Never ceases to amaze me that the very wealthy owners and executives of fossil fuel companies.
and the politicians in their pockets,
are more concerned with extending their short-term profits, bonuses and bribes, than the future of their children and grandchildren.
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
The editor-in-chief of Haaretz gives an alternative view on Netanyahu and the danger that he poses not just to Palestinians and the wider region, but to Israel's future.
An Israeli perspective we almost never get in Australian mainstream media, who largely support the war criminal and genocidaire.
Just as Albanese, Marles and Wong don't want Australians to talk about how, in a future conflict, US bases or forces on Australian territory may be targeted.
There is a big difference between Iran targeting other countries and Iran targeting US bases *within* those countries... a difference that Hegseth doesn't want people think about.
It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes.
How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims?
The ALP in your head is long dead.
The Albanese govt needs to be held to account for every instance of potential Australian involvement with illegal US military action, including war crimes.
But they must face the bigger question:
Why are giving up our national sovereignty to a dangerous out-of-control hegemon? #DitchAUKUS #auspol
Katauskas on Operation Epic Fuck-up.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"many Americans are struggling to digest is that the 'good guy' narrative was always more about PR than policy...the 'tearing apart' of global stability has often been an American enterprise."
So few Americans have *any* idea just how bad their governments have been for the rest of the world.
🎯. If only they were on the take from early childhood education, or the homelessness sector, or gambling reform... 😆
But seriously, yet another reason to get $ out of politics. And put in place longish timelines before ex-ministers can accept work in an area they had responsibility for.
After Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan:
"Now the Australian government supports the US again in another war. But worse this time, because Donald Trump is in charge.
...Hopefully this won't be the worst war in my lifetime. But it could be the dumbest." - Barrie Cassidy. #auspol
President Macron is working with partners to keep the conflict from spreading.
Anthony Albanese is leaving it to his fascist friends in Washington and Tel Aviv to sort out the legal technicalities.
While refusing to tell the Australian public how far our bases and personnel are involved. #auspol
Yes, it’s hard to believe that Evatt and Albanese belong to the same party.
Evatt would be spinning in his grave.
So if the US knows Russia is supplying Iran with intelligence that helps it target the US, and the US knows that bombing Iran is increasing Russian oil sales and profits, one has to believe that someone in the US is in the pocket of Russia.
It would have to be someone pretty high up.
💯
2/2 "The question remains: why the hell is Australia backing this racist, colonial barbarity?" @omarsakr.bsky.social #auspol
1/2 "America, having utterly failed to provide a legal basis for its illegal violence and having failed to achieve anything of actual value, is pursuing a white supremacist Christian crusade as its rationale, and Israel is happily riding the wave."
sakr.substack.com/p/albanese-t...
Strategy is fundamentally all about developing a sophisticated theory of the mind of one’s opponent.
With MAGA’s Iran Adventure, guess we’re going to see what a modern war almost totally devoid of anything we’d call “strategy” looks like.
"Australia, in the person of Dr HV Evatt, played a central role in the construction of those rules – motivated by, as the current prime minister put it, the idea that 'looking after each other' matters.
It’s hard to believe that Evatt and Albanese belong to the same party." 💥🎯 #AUKUS #auspol
ELECTIONS Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC PUBLISHED WED, AUG 3 2016 8:05 AM EDT UPDATED WED, AUG 3 2016 3:01 PM EDT Matthew J. Belvedere @MATT_BELVEDERE WATCH LIVE VIDEO 1:20 Trump reportedly asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC
![Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.
"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreiber7pzv36je2r6zhrzajzv7qayzukcurjzp3on7t7w5fwcm4kzay@jpeg)
Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee. "Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.
I will just say it out loud:
I am very concerned Trump will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his quest for a quick victory over Iran.
I am reminded of the story from 2016, when Trump reportedly asked three times in a single briefing why nuclear weapons couldn’t be used:
The woman who told FBI agents that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was as young as 13 recalled that she and her mother received death threats afterward, with callers saying “we know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut."
Here's a Miami Herald gift link.
0920 and I'm already at defcon 4
#BoyOhBoyOhBoy
#WFAF
🎯 . And so many great guest appearances:
Sally Field as Abby’s mum…
Hegseth is exactly what Donald Trump wants in a Cabinet Secretary.
The Albanese govt needs to be held to account for every instance of potential Australian involvement with illegal US military action, including war crimes.
But they must face the bigger question:
Why are giving up our national sovereignty to a dangerous out-of-control hegemon? #DitchAUKUS #auspol
The administration just kicked off an illegal regional war across the Middle East.
Meanwhile, POTUS and SecState:
Meanwhile, the rate of fossil fuel industry propaganda has tripled.
Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds. The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study that tackles one of the hottest debates among climate scientists.
