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21 Apr 2022

This means it is almost impossible within mainstream opinion to simultaneously acknowledge Putin’s insupportable actions and forge a path out of the war that does not involve escalation, and the further destruction of Ukraine.

The Palestinian Question: Celebrating the Liberal Media?

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Alison Caddick

14 Oct 2021

A certain anti-intellectualism, perhaps especially rife in the Australian context, is arguably one of the major problems of mainstream respectable media.

Editorial, Arena no. 5: Political Mutations

Arena Quarterly no. 5

Alison Caddick

Mar 2021

Liberalism and neoliberalism, and thus unthinking economic and cultural globalisation, see only a larger, albeit more diverse, pond over which liberal governance can expand.

Stand in Solidarity with Ken Loach: against the Israel lobby’s smear campaign

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Gavin Lewis

4 Mar 2021

… in February 2021 the Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford, Judith Buchanan, apologised to Jewish students for offering a speaking invitation to Loach, who is one of its alumni, a veteran film-maker, a globally respected human rights activist, and a champion of socialist human solidarity.

Kafka Sunday Morning, Coming Down: Why Julian Assange is still caged

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Felicity Ruby

22 Jan 2021

Extradition would be denied because Julian was weak, not because he was right. We should have been happier, given we have worked and waited for Julian’s freedom for ten years, but having worked on this campaign for ten years, we couldn’t quite believe it was over. And it’s not.

Kafka on Steroids: Summarising the Extradition Hearing of Julian Assange

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Felicity Ruby

8 Oct 2020

Embarrassing the powerful is the harm for which the publisher is on trial, while those who have committed the crimes revealed are free to strike again, to profit again and to continue killing in cold blood.

Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange

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John Pilger

2 Oct 2020

I have sat in many courts and seldom known such a perversion of due process. This is due revenge.

Australia’s ‘Link Tax’: A Path to Total Corporate Media Dominance?

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Justin Clarke

24 Sep 2020

The mainstream media’s conflation of links with content to support the code is very problematic. It entirely avoids the fatal philosophical problem at the heart of the code: the proposition that mere links to content should now be considered, both legally and commercially, content itself to be managed by bureaucratic decree.

Kafka on Acid: The Trial of Julian Assange

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Felicity Ruby

17 Sep 2020

After waiting handcuffed in the holding cells, he is placed in a glass box at the back of the courtroom. Then he is forced back into the Serco van to be strip-searched back at Belmarsh to face another night alone in his cell.