Looking forward to Biden admin insisting there’s still no regional war

Netanyahu's regionalization of the onslaught in Gaza is deliberate, for a multitude of reasons addressed below.

With all the different regional flashpoints and actors involved, the risks of miscalculation are immense.

Israel is a strategic liability for the United States.

U.S. defying united global public opinion on this issue as well its own allegedly preferred solution to this conflict. Underscores need to reduce profoundly dysfunctional U.S. influence in this region.

The fact this man is still in a position of an educator while the students he slanders are being suspended, dragged off campus by cops & thrown into jail, is all you need to know about Columbia & and the decision-making processes there.

If you work in an Australian university, are a student at one, or are wondering what kind of education your kids might get at one, this article is essential reading. Servicing the needs of the US military & weapons manufacturers... Is that really what's best for our country? 👇🏻

According to this investigation, University of Tasmania has received $2.94M from the US Department of Defence in the period 2007-2024.
Please read the report linked below for the full story on the militarisation of tertiary education in Australia.
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Israeli media reports the government is convening over fears that the ICC could issue arrest warrants for senior officials over their conduct during the war. Interesting if true as the ICC has been accused of politicization in the other direction lately: timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

Cairo.
'No UN body has taken responsibility for Palestinians who have fled to Egypt, while Egyptian authorities stand accused of profiting from high border-crossing fees.'
theguardian.com/global-develop…

Congrats to Reuters photojournalist @MSalem66 for winning World Press Photo of the Year Award. Taken on October 17, 2023, the photo shows a Palestinian woman embracing her 5-year-old niece's body who was killed in an Israeli strike at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.

This is bad enough but far too many journalists also take free pro-Israel lobby trips (and spend 4 minutes in Palestine, at best):

Hardline Israeli MP Yitzhak Pindrus says the 'Third Temple' will be constructed soon at the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

He urged Jews to perform the 'Passover sacrifice' the following Monday in anticipation of the arrival of 'the messiah'.

Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are

McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥

Solidarity always ✊ we'll keep us safe when we fight together

Earlier this year, Ali Martin and I launched a fundraising campaign to help our dear friends in #Gaza find safety in Egypt. We're rapt to announce that they're now safely in Cairo.
All the details here plus a beautiful and moving video sent by the family in the last 24 hours:…

A topic shrouded in STEM-washing and secrecy. Thank you Antony Loewenstein for guiding us through this investigation

Must read: “Over a 17-year period, the US Defense funding to Australian universities has jumped from $1.7 million in 2007 to $60 million annually by 2022”

REVEALED:
THE PENTAGON’S INFILTRATION OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES

👉 “The United States Defense Department has funded $394 million to Australian universities via grants and contracts since 2007, an exclusive investigation by DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA reveals.

👉👉 “The funds are…

notable that the increase in funding from US DoD matches the increase in funding from Australia's Department of Defence, universities are being militarised from within and without simultaneously

Thanks to the two UTS University of Technology Sydney journalism students who have researched & revealed the scandal of US Pentagon funding of Australian universities.

Much thanks to Eve Cogan & @SStephanieTrann for chasing this important previously hidden story — an outcome…

Great investigation from Eve Cogan Stephanie Tran in Declassified Australia + glad to see ref to our wins in the primary/secondary sphere. Militarisation of education begins with arms industry sponsorship of #STEMeducation programs like NYSF - 40yrs in 2024! FIRSTAus etc.

Now THIS is a scoop!
So proud of Eve Cogan + Stephanie Tran for producing this blockbuster story, uncovered by no other journalists, of the massive infiltration of the Pentagon and defence companies in #Australian universities.
The kind of investigative journalism that…