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Today in The Hague, U.S. taxpayers and human rights lawyers will submit evidence to the ICC, seeking arrest warrants for Trump, Rubio and other senior U.S. officials over alleged complicity in crimes in Gaza.
Press conference at 11 AM CET. Watch live! youtube.com/watch?v=8t3NoHl-…
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Exclusive: A Chinese university with deep ties to the People's Liberation Army bought Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips last month despite being on a US export blacklist, procurement records show, highlighting gaps in Washington's efforts to curb China's access to advanced technology reut.rs/4AlcAOS
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Qantas blames AI for 850 job cuts. AI may be driving change, but in 2025 this company was fined $90 million for illegally sacking 1,800 workers, and it paid its CEO $6.3 million.
Qantas told the union it had no plans to offshore jobs in August, a month before it gave the Aviation Minister lifetime platinum status as a ‘gift’.
abc.net.au/news/2026-11-10/8…
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Freedom of information data released this morning supports what disability advocates and NDIS recipients have been telling us for over a year: the vast majority of ‘savings’ from the recent NDIS reforms will come from cutting services and supports for vulnerable Australians, not from fraud or integrity measures.
health.gov.au/resources/foi-…
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World is changing. The @abcnews would have reported this in the old days.
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UN Chief António Guterres has called for ‘clear next steps’ from the Australian Government in their commitment to a fossil fuels transition.
The world is saying the time for words has passed - now is a time for action.
Sign the petition here!
gas-plebiscite.australiainst…
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This train station in China cost A$12 billion to build.
Australia could have built 10 of these across the country — and then spent A$240 billion for 10 new decentralised cities (to ease the housing crisis), all linked by high speed rail — for less than the cost of the AUKUS subs.
And still have enough change left over to bring in free dental cover under Medicare…
Just saying…
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Iranian Vice President and head of the Department of Environment Shina Ansari has called for pursuing legal action over environmental damage caused by the war, describing war-related environmental damage as acts of ecocide.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/1peed1
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BREAKING: REP. THOMAS MASSIE ON PETE HEGSETH:
“Hegseth has been effective. He was effective at killing 200 schoolchildren.
He was effective at bombing fishing boats that may or may not have had people who were guilty of smuggling drugs.
He's been effective at waging an unconstitutional kidnapping in Venezuela.
In some aspects, he has been effective. And that's what we're impeaching him for: his effectiveness in breaking the law and violating the Constitution.”
The proposal to impeach @SecWar includes concerns about the illegal killings at sea of alleged drug traffickers - my Briefing Note here on why those killings are grossly illegal ohchr.org/sites/default/file…
I’ve seen some of my colleagues say @SecWar Hegseth has been effective and they agree with the war, so they’ll vote not to impeach.
That’s not the question though. The question is whether he committed impeachable acts, and the answer is yes, eight times:
massie.house.gov/UploadedFil…
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"AUKUS is not just about nuclear-powered submarines," writes Peter Garrett. "Crucially. AUKUS has reversed the bipartisan consensus on what should constitute the basis of Australia’s defence policy – namely, the actual defence of the Australian continent." trib.al/3nrvRDk
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BREAKING: A coalition of Jewish groups have published an open letter to the @BoardofDeputies which accuses them of Genocide denial - the final phase of Genocide. It follows the Board's attack on the Green Party and also cites their complaints against the government's mild criticism of Israel and halt of some arms sales. Signed by 260 Jewish people, it accuses the Board of complicity in Genocide through its denial of Israel's war crimes.
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If true this is outrageous.
It seems that Andy Burnham’s latest version of ending 40 years of neoliberalism is handing Thames Water over to US hedge funds.
Labour have stopped even pretending to serve us or our communities anymore.
Labour stand for the hedge funds.
🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
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When a country spends this much energy telling the world how dangerous its rival is, it’s worth asking: who is the audience?
Not China. China knows what China is doing.
Not the Global South, which has largely stopped organizing its foreign policy around Washington’s threat assessments.
The audience is domestic.
The China panic is, at its core, an American political product, something manufactured for American consumption, to explain American decline in terms that don’t require Americans to examine American decisions.
It’s always easier to have an enemy than an audit.
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Israel must immediately open all Gaza crossings and let humanitarian aid in, starting with new tents and modular housing, clean water, nutrient-rich food, medicines. If by 9am tomorrow Israel still refuses, any principled leader would send humanitarian vessels to break the siege.
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The British government has awarded £10.7m ($14.4m) in public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, it has emerged middleeasteye.pulse.ly/bobl2…
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NEW ISSUE | Gaza: The Way Forward | Nov-Dec 2026
Much has been written about the genocide from legal, historical, political, and literary perspectives. Thinking Palestine, however, would like to approach the subject differently and more directly: What has changed three years into the genocide?
In this new issue, twenty writers, scholars, journalists, and experts contribute a short reflection examining one aspect of this broader question: from changes in the realm of international law, global perceptions of Palestine, solidarity and civil society mobilization, to the centrality of Palestinian voices to their own struggle and changes, or the lack thereof, in mainstream media coverage of Palestine.
Contributors include Professor Richard Falk, Professor Ilan Pappé, Hanan Kattan, Craig Mokhiger, Na'eem Jeenah, Dan Kovalic, among others.
Full issue available now on thinkingpalestine.com
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About: Thinking Palestine offers a dedicated space where journalism and scholarship converge, providing rigorous, timely analysis that challenges dominant narratives and advances a deeper, historically grounded understanding of Palestine amid rapidly evolving political realities.
#Palestine #InternationalLaw #Solidarity #Liberation #History
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AJA CEO Robert Gregory has admitted the AJA has special access to “senior people in social media companies” who remove restrictions after their accounts are banned for hateful or racist content—& that “ordinary Australians have no ability to do this.”
There you have it. #auspol