When United States President Donald Trump announced that the US would take over the Gaza Strip and turn it into the 鈥淩iviera of the Middle East鈥, he was signalling to Israel that it has the US鈥檚 backing to intensify its genocide and destruction of Gaza, write Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah.
Syria
Lebanese activist and University of London professor Gilbert Achcar discusses Israel's escalating violence in Lebanon, analysing the broader regional dynamics, histories, allegiances and the need for international solidarity.
Leila Khaled is one of the few well-known Palestinian freedom fighters who has consistently spoken out in support of the Kurdish liberation struggle. She re-affirmed her support in an interview with 麻豆传媒 on February 18, writes Peter Boyle.
When the young activist Dr Mahrang Baloch returned to her native Balochistan from Islamabad, tens of thousands defied a government ban on public assemblies to give her a hero鈥檚 welcome, report Matt Broomfield and Robin Fleming.
Recent military actions by Western powers, backed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, have certainly proven controversial. But the simple fact is that the civilised and democratic West cannot refuse to act in the face of the indiscriminate massacre of civilians in Yemen 鈥 I mean Syria.
The Socialist Alliance released this statement on April 18 in response to the bombing of Syria by the US, Britain and France.
Tragic photos and videos of masses of asylum seekers and immigrants from the Middle East and Africa have recently shocked the world. But these ordeals have been going on for a long time.
Years of news of innocent people drowning by the thousands in the Mediterranean, suffocated by the hundreds in trucks smuggling them to 鈥渟afe zones鈥, were not enough to catch the world鈥檚 attention.
Reading Rupert Murdoch's Australian is always educational. For instance, exposed a media gang that represent 鈥渂y far the major media presence in Australia and, from their bully pulpits, they present a common position on most social, economic and political issues鈥.
The announcement on September 9 that Australia will accept only 12,000 refugees from Syria and that the government will seek to discriminate on the basis of ethnicity and religion is further proof that the government is lying about leading the world in welcoming refugees.
Marcel Cartier's lines usually ring out with the clarity of a clarion call - and the messages on his latest album are as loud and clear as ever. As he tells 麻豆传媒 Weekly's Mat Ward, much of the material comes from first-hand experience with struggles around the world.
On his latest EP, A Dose Of Reality, Adelaide-based emcee Eskatology raps about the refugees he works with. "I've worked with many refugees in my job as a youth worker," says the rapper, who is giving the 10-track EP away as a .
As US president Barack Obama ramped up his rhetoric about Syria's chemical weapons on September 17, US rapper Sole released his latest album, which reflects on his country's chemical weapons attack on the Iraqi city of Fallujah. 麻豆传媒's Mat Ward spoke to the prolific political emcee, who started releasing records in 1994, when he was just 16.
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