Australian Press Council caves into the Zionist lobby and abandons its mission to defend free speech by vilifying cartoonist Cathy Wilcox. Michael West and Kim Wingerei.

Yesterday, the APC, self-proclaimed defenders of free speech, decided to uphold a complaint against SMH/The Age cartoonist Cathy Wilcox’s depiction of how Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel lobby pressured the Government into holding a Royal Commission into antisemitism.

Vale the Press Council. Caves in to anonymous pressure campaign

by Kim Wingerei and Michael West

On June 9 local time, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, commenting on the upcoming EU summit, claimed that European leaders are "increasingly wary" of China. He added that the summit would replace mentions of China with so-called "geo-economic imbalances," because "we are so afraid that we don't even dare to do that."

Belgian PM is not ‘afraid of China,’ but afraid of taking responsibility: Global Times editorial

By Global Times

Democratic Party leaders had a chance this week to push back against Israel’s violent expansionism and the Israel lobby’s massive political spending in the United States.

Once again, Democrats chose instead to punt the issue despite plummeting public support for Israel, both among their base and the wider U.S. public, ahead of the midterms. 

Democrats Reject Resolution Condemning AIPAC Money in Primaries

“Democrats chose genocide over winning in 2024,” one Palestinian rights advocate said. “When does this stop?”

By Mike Ludwig , TRUTHOUT

Tony Abbott, the Liberals’ new activist federal president, is preparing to convene meetings around the country in an effort to drum up membership and support for the struggling party. 

After the Newspoll published at the weekend showed the Coalition falling to 18% (down 2 points), with One Nation on 31% and Labor on 30%, Abbott acknowledged the threat of the insurgent party as well as the Liberals’ difficulty with credibility.

View from The Hill: Tony Abbott to tour the country, trying to energise Liberals

BY Michelle Grattan

In a Tuesday email to supporters he wrote: 

“Like you, I can read the polls.” 

A FIFA Peace Prize, astronomical ticket prices, hiked train fares, threatened boycotts and a consumer complaint.

The build-up to the 2026 World Cup has been overshadowed by sociopolitical issues, which will continue to loom over the tournament.

A lot of the headlines have been generated by US President Donald Trump, who has made various threats and promises in the months leading up to the World Cup, which is being hosted in Mexico, the US and Canada — though almost all of the issues have been in the US.

But he's far from alone in causing angst among soccer fans across the globe, even here in Australia.

As we have already demonstrated many times, Euro-Israeli-American hegemony is the main driving force behind the march toward world war. This is the case from Finland to Ukraine, where the continued advance of the EU-NATO toward Russia's borders was the true trigger of the so-called Russo-Ukrainian conflict, extending to the genocidal Palestine, the continually attacked Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, the destabilised Caucasus, and the ongoing geopolitical struggle from the Taiwan Strait to the Korean Peninsula: eager to take its revenge on Beijing and Pyongyang, Imperial Japan is frantically rearming to support the North American armada carrying nuclear weapons aimed at China and North Korea.

RESISTANCE, COUNTER-ATTACKS, AND THE DUTY OF BEING AT THE FOREFRONT

I - CLOSING RANKS IN THE FACE OF RISING GEOPOLITICAL PERILS

The release of the Epstein Files has shocked the public with unimaginable stories of the pedophilia, exploitation of women and brash depravity of the ruling class. While these stories have been the major source of public outrage, a deeper dive into the Epstein Files reveals the inside world of how the billionaire class operates to control information and collude with each other – hide their crimes and gain massive wealth at the expense of the working class.

Hedges Report: Epstein, the Russian Mob & Maxwell

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s is at the epicentre of the Epstein scandal, says investigative reporter Moe Tkacik, while the F.B.I. and media are complicit in hiding the financial and intelligence crimes of the ruling class.

The Ukrainian government is determined to gather the entire (albeit small) pantheon of Ukraine’s 20th-century national heroes in one place. Simon Petliura and Andrey Melnik are to be joined by one of the founders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Evgeny Konovalets, whose remains will be transferred from Rotterdam. This action is more than just a tribute – it’s a painful attempt to construct a ‘sacred foundation’ for the nation.

Ukraine is running out of heroes, so it’s digging up dead Nazis

A wave of symbolic reburials exposes the fragile foundation of Ukraine’s national identity project

One Nation’s polling surge could create serious instability after the next federal election, with the party’s growing Senate prospects threatening to disrupt the balance of power and test Australia’s political institutions.

South Australia, Farrer, and the latest opinion polling have put One Nation ahead of any third force in Australian politics in the past 80 years, even the Greens and the Democrats, let alone the Australia Party, the United Australia Party, the Centre Alliance, or the Nuclear Disarmament Party – all of which have had parliamentary representation.

Crispin Hull

Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning.

If this is what winning looks like, America can’t afford much more of it.

We are losing ground economically. We are losing credibility abroad. We are losing tourists, workers, stability, trust, constitutional guardrails, and whatever remained of the illusion that the government answers to “we the people.”

If This Is Winning, America Can’t Afford Much More of It

by John W. And Nisha Whitehead

The Audit offers a range of interesting topics and articles that can surely add grist to our mill. The main audit has been examining five key areas. In its own words:

Australia’s foreign policy is being distorted by AUKUS, militarised thinking and a misplaced faith in US power, when the country should be rebuilding its diplomatic strength as an independent middle power.

By all accounts Defence Minister Richard Marles is a personable fellow. One of his passions is his vast collection of snow globes. The fascination with snow globes has been described as a yearning for nostalgia, childhood innocence and the desire to preserve a moment in time. They represent a magical escape from reality.

Kym Davey

A residents' association in Langrune-sur-Mer put out a statement on June 2, 2026, asking Hegseth not to attend a D-Day commemoration ceremony in the village on June 6. Hegseth did not attend the ceremony on D-Day but the reason for his absence was unclear.

In June 2026, as France held events marking the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, a claim(archived) circulated online that residents in a village that hosted a commemorative ceremony said U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wasn't welcome to attend.

The death of an 11-year-old schoolgirl in southwest France has triggered soul-searching and recrimination in a country already roiled by a string of child abuse scandals.

Lyhanna went missing after school on May 29 in her hometown of Fleurance, northwest of Toulouse. Her body was discovered a week later in a disused grain silo 15 kilometres from home.