Paul Keating, this time telling us what he really thinks about the @SMH / The Age and it's Sinophobic scaremongering. A thread :

I have had my differences with Paul Keating, but his lone stand against a war-with-China mania that has gripped the Australian Labor Party and the media deserves all our support. Please read this important and urgent piece: johnmenadue.com/news-organisat…

Somewhere along the way this interview with Paul Keating has turned into a one-man roast of the entire press gallery.

Oh how I miss Paul Keating. When he was PM, I was highly critical - with good reason. Alas, 8 PMs later, he shines like a bright star in the gutter. theguardian.com/australia-news…

EMBITTERED journos have taken to Twitter to complain after being held to account by Paul Keating yesterday. They say robust scrutiny of their work makes them feel “attacked” and it's “not fair”. SMH has even defended its sloppy work, hitting back with angsty pot-shots. #auspol

While Chinese diplomacy reunites two old foes, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and offers to broker peace in Europe, gormless Australia is suckered into paying billions for the latest lunatic American belligerence aimed at restoring it to king of the world. Tragic. scmp.com/comment/opinio…

Watching Paul Keating tear strips off of all those Australian mass media war propagandists was so satisfying because it showed Australians the appropriate emotional posture to have toward those disgusting freaks. That's the level of contempt they should always be treated with.

New submarines are on their way! Eventually. Possibly.

A historic shift as Aus starts to celebrate profiting from investing in war. Dangling a very, very small carrot for $385bn. Empire also chucked a slice of cake to its predecessor. Biden will laugh till the day he dies about this. So much hope & faith in Labor misplaced #USUKA

Lest we forget: 20yrs after illegal Iraq invasion & its 1 million deaths. No instigator tried, ever, in any court of law (national or international) No restitution for the victims BUT Chelsea Manning jailed for 7yrs for exposing them Julian Assange slowly killed in Belmarsh

Prescient

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Twenty years since the bloodfest of Iraq. The gang who amplified and promoted the lies are no different from those who beckoned and provoked and now sell the West's war on Russia, to be followed by a war on China - if we allow it. medialens.org/2023/the-dwind…

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‘A recent opinion poll shows that 79 percent of Australians want #Assange released and bought home.’ consortiumnews.com/2023/08/01/aus…

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After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this