1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1000+ words) With much media fanfare, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced last Thursday that a 27-year-old Australian-Russian dual citizen had been arrested on charges of attempting to engage in intentional foreign interference, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment. The…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (656+ words) The New York Times reported Sunday that House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump and one of his closest advisers, held a private meeting in recent weeks. It took place, according to…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (337+ words) The agreement also provides a 3 percent cost-of-living raise each year. But as of July, the 12-month rate of inflation was 3.4 percent for the United States and 4.6 percent for New York City. Therefore, workers would continue to fall behind as the…...

3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (483+ words) Abu Ali Mustafa was the highest-ranking Palestinian leader murdered by the Israeli military during the Second Intifada. Israel had organized a kill list targeting dozens of Palestinian activists and leaders. Western imperialist powers, above all the United States, provided advanced…...

4+ hour, 44+ min ago   (574+ words) The student council at the school issued a communiqué which read in part: We are particularly concerned that a situation that began with the loss of a cell phone ended with students being physically exposed in front of their classmates....

2+ day, 51+ min ago   (1498+ words) The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) flagship “Four Corners” television program on Monday provided a damning, if partial, view of the immense suffering of the elderly under the Labor government’s substantially privatised aged care schemes. Hundreds of thousands of retired workers…...

2+ day, 56+ min ago   (886+ words) The Australian Labor government is once again engaging in a cynical exercise of handwringing over an atrocity by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), while continuing its full support for the Zionist regime and its murderous, ethnic-cleansing operation of Palestinians. On…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (702+ words) Australia confronts a rapidly evolving outbreak of H5N1 Avian Influenza (bird flu). The outbreak began in late June, when two infected migratory seabirds were found on a remote beach in Western Australia. Now, 290 “positive events”—confirmed infections of one or more…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (621+ words) Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally. To these complaints, Lütke responded with enthusiasm to…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (959+ words) On July 24, the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council (UMPNC) announced that 7,200 nurses at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had voted by 94 percent to ratify a three-year tentative agreement negotiated by the union bureaucracy on July 10. Both the tentative…...