The cabinet, comprised of the PM, state premiers and territory leaders, was formed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government claims that body’s decisions should be afforded the same protections from disclosure requests as the federal cabinet. The issue came to the fore when the government refused a Freedom …
Read More »‘Appalling slander’: Stop Antisemitism org ripped after branding GOP congressman ‘Jew hater’ for voting against Iron Dome funding
Stop Antisemitism, which was launched in 2018, has listed many Americans as its “Antisemite of the week,” including pop star Dua Lipa, Daily Show host Trevor Noah, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan, and even Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth – a Jewish American whose father was a refugee from Nazi …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Now it’s been proved it considered assassinating or kidnapping Julian Assange, how is the CIA still a thing?
These plans were reportedly made in coordination with the Trump White House as then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo and then-Deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel raged over WikiLeaks’ 2017 Vault 7 release which revealed that the CIA had lost control of an enormous digital arsenal of hacking tools. These included tools which enabled the …
Read More »CDU leader Armin Laschet hopes for coalition, says SPD has no mandate to lead country after narrow victory in German election
During a press conference in which he declared that the CDU/CSU alliance was willing to form a ‘Jamaica’ coalition with the Greens and the Free Democratic Party – which took 14.8% and 11.5% respectively – Laschet claimed that the SPD could not “derive a government mandate from this election result,” …
Read More »‘Hero to the liberals’ Liz Cheney ‘corrects’ Lesley Stahl, says waterboarding ‘not torture’ in CBS interview
CBS News’ Lesley Stahl caught up with the Wyoming representative to discuss her status as a Republican maverick earned after picking a public fight with former President Donald Trump. Cheney’s move cost her standing in the Republican party and may even cause her to lose her House seat. Trump has …
Read More »China warns US using human rights as ‘pretext’ for more anti-Russia sanctions, as Beijing publicly backs Moscow in new standoff
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has accused US lawmakers of using human rights as a “pretext” for imposing new anti-Russia measures that undermine recent negotiations between the Kremlin and Washington. Speaking on Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman said that “China is strongly against Washington applying unilateral sanctions under the pretext …
Read More »Labour’s Angela Rayner says she’ll apologise for calling Tories ‘scum’ if Boris Johnson takes back ‘racist & homophobic’ comments
During the Labour Party’s annual conference on Saturday, Rayner sparked controversy after she reportedly referred to Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party ministers as “a bunch of scum.” After days of backlash, Rayner offered on Monday to apologise for the comment, though with one condition: that Johnson also say sorry …
Read More »China’s ‘hostage diplomacy’ wins: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou flies home a national heroine after her release from detention in Canada
The biggest story of the weekend saw Meng released from house detention in Canada and returned to China, while Beijing subsequently released two Canadian prisoners it had accused of spying. The development brought an end to a horrific three-year saga for all involved. On arrival in Shenzhen, Meng, the company’s …
Read More »German election results ‘not the most encouraging’ for improving relations between Berlin & Moscow – top Russian policymaker
That’s according to Senator Konstantin Kosachev, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament. Kosachev wrote his views on Facebook on Monday morning, following the release of the preliminary results from Germany. The European Union’s biggest country went to the polls …
Read More »Turkey mulls placing new order for Russia’s advanced S-400 anti-warplane missile launcher despite US threats, Erdogan announces
Speaking to CBS News on Sunday, the Turkish leader said that his government would refuse to allow other nations to dictate what weapons it buys, and that it is considering placing an order with Moscow for more S-400 launchers. “In the future, nobody will be able to interfere in terms …
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