The war on Iran is unfolding alongside a wave of mass layoffs in the US. These are not separate crises. They are two sides of the same offensive by the ruling class against the working class.
Average real wage of UK workers barely moved since 2008.
Some bosses collect 1,110 times the average worker pay.
50 families have more wealth than bottom 50% of the population combined.
Super-rich buy political parties and lawmakers to advance their interests.
Did you vote for the above?
Supporting ‘illegal aggression’ against Iran ‘the worst thing’ Australia could do, international law experts say | Australian foreign policy | The Guardian share.google/rRBlwoLhciGG...
"Penny Wong quote “What I would say to Australians is that Iran has been a destabilising force in the region for decades…….”
Not trivialising, but is Penny Wong trying to start a new career as a comedian???
Israel? USA? UK? etc would come well ahead of Iran in the act of destabilising the region."
So Albanese:
- supports [unspecified] US action against Iran, even if illegal
- "stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression”, but has said nothing about Trump's or Netanyahu's oppression
- is again proving we are a vassal state.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
So Anthropic, not known for its ethical boundaries, said no to automated killing and secret military mass surveillance, which was too much for Trump. Can we agree now that the US is not sharing our values and we should decouple from the mass surveillance automated killing team?
Had my first piece in @theguardian.com yday about the campaign of illegal interference waged by PSNI & Mi5 against former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney. Reading this paper everyday, cover to cover since I was about ten - so I'm delighted to have written for them
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Talk about freedom of the press 😵
British intelligence agency MI5 had an office at BBC headquarters that was used to vet all journalists, a tribunal has been told.
The claim is made in a submission to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal by veteran Belfast based journalist Chris Moore.
Seeing well meaning calls for data centres to be powered by RE. Sorry folks but that’s not helpful as climate policy. Given capacity constraints in the RE pipeline, insisting on RE will produce an opportunity cost across the rest of the grid in terms of more gas and coal use. 1/2
Lucinda is a disability advocate and community leader.
She’s been a fierce voice for disabled rights.
She was living independently with the support of home nurses until she ended up in hospital.
They discharged her to a nursing home against her will.
This is exactly what she advocated against!
“The results are now visible: aging oilfields and an accumulation of low-producing, marginal assets in need of retirement, creating public health and safety risks.” - Rob Schuwerk
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kT9cUU
Another “difficult woman” lines up to bother poor embattled Albo with a grievance he’s powerless (by choice 😉) to deal with:
…because the people who would be affected by such a limit are mostly wealthy, and Tasmania is a petty oligarchy. Laws are only for poor people here.
Guns are expensive. The fetishists who own dozens of them are rich.
Here's a fun game.
What's your one word description of Anthony Albanese?
Comprador
This is massive, and disgraceful. No organisation called “Tactical Choice” appears to exist.
NEW STUDY: Winter downpours are getting heavier in parts of Spain, Portugal and Morocco as the region recovers from a month of relentless storms.
Between mid-January and mid-February nine named storms brought torrential rain hurricane force winds causing major damage and disruption. 1/5
47-48 days to conduct the impact assessment by a Sydney firm - only one bid for the contract received somehow.
I was going about my normal duties pretending to be one of the common folk on the Karl Stephanovic podded broadcast when I slipped and accidentally described a woman as ‘difficult’ when I actually meant that the dear deluded girlie had had a difficult early life due to being poor and uneducated
Betrayed!!
We’ve been betrayed 😞😞 #auspol
#GraceTame Has NOT had a "DIFFICULT LIFE" !?? @albomp.bsky.social
#GraceTame Was SEXUALLY ABUSED as a Young Woman
@albomp.bsky.social
Michael Bradley, legal writer for Crikey and lawyer for Abdel-Fattah's defamation suit against Malinauskas, writes so eloquently about why she won't share a platform with a Zionist.
Apart for the exquisite structure of his argument he kills when he describes ALP as the "Party of Polite Concern".
The UN has warned of total collapse in Cuba. This is deliberate punishment imposed by the most powerful nation on earth on one of its poorest neighbours that dares to have a different political system. Australia should not stay silent while bully USA starves the people of Cuba.
The US is not only sanctioning third countries that send oil to Cuba, but even those who receive Cuban trained doctors. Cuban medical teams for decades have provided essential international medical aid, now that’s also a crime under US law.
Australian media isn’t covering this but what’s happening in Cuba is dreadful. Trump signed an executive order cutting off Cuba’s last oil supply. Ten million people are paying with their lives. Sewage systems are failing, food is rationed, it’s getting worse.
Labor and the Coalition’s new hate laws mean you are guilty until proven innocent - this is not how a free society is meant to work www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
The Bondi Royal Commission has confirmed it won’t be examining the Bondi attack.
Top work, everyone.
In all seriousness this sits within a wider propaganda project to shape Australian attitudes about Israel, migration, Muslims & the ME. And it will unfortunately be effective. One revelation from the Epstein files is that books like this are commissioned and promoted for specific purposes.
