Binoy Kampmark | Global Research | March 25, 2015 It was made as a special statement. The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott wanted it known that Australian soldiers who had fought in Afghanistan in what has been the country’s longest war should not be treated like those who had fought in Vietnam. “Afghanistan is a better country…
Heather McNab | Daily Mail | 10 Jan 2015 Prime Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed that Australian Special Forces have begun providing training and assistance for an Iraqi security force which a former intelligence officer claims has committed war crimes. The Australian Special Operations Task Group has partnered with the Counter-Terrorism Service of Iraq in…
Press TV-Webster G. Tarpley | Sydney hostage taker and “hate Sheikh” Man Haron Monis a notorious psychopath: on bail pending trial together with girlfriend for stabbing/burning murder of ex-wife; charged with over 50 rapes; flew the nusra-al qaeda flag; vilified Iran & Assad on twitter; harassed soldiers’ families; many takfiri posts online — evidently a…
Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post | 15 December 2014 n the aftermath of yet another highly publicized terror attack (or at least the potential for a high profile attack) in Australia by foreign-born jihadists, the Western public is once again experiencing a variety of emotional reactions that they have carefully been trained to experience whenever such events…
Malcolm Fraser | The National Interest | 16 Dec 2014 Australia should not embrace America, writes its former prime minister, but preserve itself from Washington’s reckless overreach. IT IS time for Australia to end its strategic dependence on the United States. The relationship with America, which has long been regarded as beneficial, has now become…
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report | 16 Dec 2014 Suspect had multiple aliases, granted political asylum by Australian government, interviewed by Australian media, spent years as fake pro-Western “Shia’a cleric” condemning Iran and Syria before recently “converting” to Sunni and supporting ISIS. Another embarrassing chapter has unfolded for Western intelligence and security communities in the wake of the so-called…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | December 15, 2014 Self-proclaimed spiritual leader has long criminal record The man said to be responsible for taking hostages at the Lindt café in Sydney is an Iranian mystic who claims to practice black magic, not an ISIS terrorist as previously reported. Man Haron Monis, aka Mohammad Hassan Manteghi,…
by Steve Watson | Infowars.com | October 28, 2014 [AM editor’s note: the ostensibly casual response by the US government to the apparent Ebola outbreak is curious. Is this questionable competence of the CDC Aussies freeze visas from West Africa, meanwhile CDC calls for voluntary quarantine While the Obama administration continues to argue against travel…
John Pilger | 23 Oct 2014 Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. An American commentator wrote that no country had “reversed its posture in international affairs so totally without going through a domestic revolution”. Whitlam ended his nation’s colonial servility. He abolished Royal patronage, moved Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement,…
American Buddha | 22 Oct 2014 “The CIA’s aim in Australia was to get rid of a government they did not like and that was not co-operative… it’s a Chile, but in a much more sophisticated and subtle form.” ]- VICTOR MARCHETTI, ex-CIA officer, 1980 “There is profoundly increasing evidence that foreign espionage and intelligence…