Human Rights
We are all suspects now

Have you been stopped by the police recently for no apparent reason? Well, if not, it'll be your ...  
Who set the police on to Occupy Melbourne

Although the City of Melbourne has rejected an inquiry into last year's brutal eviction of Occupy ...  
Prisoner X and the God that failed

Will there be any lessons learnt after the murky and suspicious death of Australian Mossad agent ...  
The story of Mustafa

Eight-year-old Mustafa came to Australia on a boat from Afghanistan without his family, and was in ...  
The Australian's media campaign against anti-discrimination

A campaign of distortion and misinformation in The Australian is now underway, says Alan Austin ...  
Cartoonists and Israel — the heinous slander

The calumnies perpetrated by cartoonists against the only democracy in the Middle East, surrounded ...  
Open letter to Australia from Manus Island detainees

Photos have now surfaced of Manus Island immigration detainees. Here, IA provides moving first- ...  
Rape and afterwards

Sadly – so sadly – the girl brutally gang-raped in India has died; with a society in uproar ...  
Solving Sandy Hook

Bob Ellis offers a modest proposal to stop mad young American men from acquiring, and using guns ...  
The Hasbara cover for Israel’s crimes

According to the ubiquitous Hasbara Brigade, if you criticise Israel, you’re an anti-Semite ...  
The power of the hunger strike

The hunger strike has a long political pedigree and minimises harm to others, writes Dr Binoy ...  
Aussie Mark Regev and the Israeli war on journalists

Australian-born Israeli spokesperson Mark Regev says Palestinian journalists killed or injured by ...  
Sub-tropical Fascism (Part 4): A State of fear

In this fourth part of his six part series on Australian fascism, Dr George Venturini considers ...  
Resign Cardinal Pell

Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence calls for the immediate resignation of Cardinal George ...  
Sub-tropical Fascism (Part 2): Media  insecurity

In the second of a six part series on Australian fascism by Dr George Venturini, he looks at ...  
Julian Assange ― ‘To be, or not to be’

That is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outra ...  
Sub-tropical Fascism (Part 1): Nationalism and patriotism

Here we present the first in a jolting six part series by Dr George Venturini; here, he looks at ...  
David Hicks' day in court

David Hicks may yet have his shameful – and now unlawful – US terrorism conviction overturn ...