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Mary Kostakidis

Mary Kostakidis

Pearls and Irritations

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Free speech, journalism and democracy in a time of genocide

Last month in New York at separate forums, two senior Democrat figures – John Kerry and Hillary Clinton – pointed to what they saw as major...

22.10.2024 7

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Embarrassing backdown for US as Assange walks free

Julian Assange is expected to be in Australia late tomorrow, a free man. Footage tweeted by Wikileaks hours ago showed Assange walking up the...

25.06.2024 20

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Backing the US house of cards

“The United States of America is in competition with China, but not ideologically. Who initiated the first agreements with China to outsource...

11.06.2024 20

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Breaking: Australian journalist attacked at violent Jerusalem Day march

Australian ABC TV journalist Alison Horne was attacked  and she and her crew were verbally abused by Israelis participating in the Jerusalem Day...

06.06.2024 20

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Duggan’s fate hangs in the balance as his lawyers keep their powder dry

The Magistrate hearing the United States application to extradite Australian citizen and father of six, Daniel Duggan, was floored. Duggan’s...

28.05.2024 30

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BREAKING: Horrendous images of burnt children after Israel bombs Rafah refugee camp [Graphic content]

Hours ago Israel bombed a refugee camp in Rafah, an area Israel designated as safe four days ago, setting it ablaze – tents housing families and...

27.05.2024 40

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Australian Prime Minister referred to ICC for complicity in genocide

“The Australian government and its most senior officials have both failed to prevent or respond to the genocide committed by Israel against...

22.05.2024 10

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Living in fear: Can Australia protect its citizens from our dangerous American ally?

The Extradition hearing of Dan Duggan, an Australian citizen and father of six who has been held in solitary confinement for 19 months in breach of...

21.05.2024 60

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Australian Prime Minister referred to ICC for complicity in genocide

“The Australian government and its most senior officials have both failed to prevent or respond to the genocide committed by Israel against...

05.03.2024 80

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We are all Aaron Bushnell. Don’t write him out of history

Aaron Bushnell enacted the ultimate sacrifice in the face of atrocities the likes of which have never been seen before and the grotesque, ugly western...

29.02.2024 20

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The pretense of justice meted out to Assange by the Rules Based Order has Come Undone

The approval of Julian Assange’s extradition is not only morally wrong, it appears to be wrong in law, and serious questions should be asked of the...

25.02.2024 20

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Assange’s draconian prosecution criminalises journalism and grants the US extraterritorial reach

In an extraordinary barely reported turn of events close to the conclusion of Julian Assange’s two day UK High Court Appeal against his extradition,...

23.02.2024 30

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Assange’s very life at stake

Julian Assange will soon find out whether he will be granted a final appeal in the UK in his fight against extradition to the US. He may soon be on a...

06.02.2024 9

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Independence of Journalism at risk: Antoinette Lattouf should be reinstated

The Lattouf story shows that the same level of white colonial supremacist attitudes that have forged the bond of western leaders on the Middle East...

17.01.2024 10

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South Africa, beacon to the world, shames Australia’s enabling of Israeli genocide

Israel has just defended the indefensible in the International Court of Justice, in its quest to have the case brought by South Africa against it...

12.01.2024 5

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We are being groomed for war with China

Orchestrated components are coming together to enable the US to recruit Australia in future wars of choice. Our media must begin to ask questions...

07.01.2024 10

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