We talk glibly about our [Australia's] future in Asia, but we are stuck in a US and UK media cul de sac.
The Washington consensus and our legacy media frames and conditions our thinking and actions. It promotes fear of Asia, the yellow peril.
Anyone with any knowledge of Iran's history and culture will know that it will not be bribed or bullied into doing what the West wants.
Screenwriters in Hollywood who “say they are Jewish” have been planting pro-war narratives about Iran in mainstream entertainment for more than a decade, Wikileaks has claimed.
Twenty-one months into its genocide of the Palestinian people, Israel has extended its attacks to Iran, with the USA collaborating. Back in Oz, governments look away. Emma Thomas with the latest from the NSW antisemitism inquiry.
‘[John Hepworth] turned death into an art form …Theatrical by inclination, he was determined to die in his own bed with his hat on… Hepworth was splendid while dying. Dressed in a magnificent nightshirt, and wearing a Victorian smoking cap, he entertained the friends who had come to say goodbye.’
The Age, November 1994
Vice President J.D. Vance has pushed back against comparisons between US airstrikes on Iran and previous American wars in the Middle East, claiming that this time Washington’s actions are truly limited and rooted in national security objectives – not a drive for regime change.
