By Mari Yamaguchi Tokyo: Tens of thousands of protesters in Okinawa vowed to stop the planned relocation of a U.S military base, saying they want it off the southern Japanese island entirely. Opponents of the relocation say the plan to Continue reading Tens of Thousands rally for removal of US Okinawa Base, SMH, 12 August 2018
Stephens, David: Australian War Memorial consults the public on mooted massive extensions: is anything ‘sacred’? Open for Comments ↓ David Stephens* ‘Australian War Memorial consults the public on mooted massive extensions: is anything “sacred”?’, Honest History, 3 August 2018 The Continue reading Is anything ‘sacred’, David Stephens, Honest History, Have your say re the War Memorial expansion proposals, 5 August 2018
KATHRYN KELLY. Armed Neutrality for Australia? Pearls and Irritations , 16 July 2018 The talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un give some reason for a glimmer of hope for the Korean Peninsula, but given Donald Trump’s predilection for middle Continue reading Armed Neutrality for Australia? Kathryn Kelly, Pearls and Irritations, 16 July 2018
LIZZIE O’SHEA. Witness K and foreign interference hypocrisy (Eureka Street 2/7/2018)
Mondoweiss The ‘One Democratic State Campaign’ program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel Jeff Halper May 3, 2018 As the Leonard Cohen song goes, “everybody knows” the two-state solution is dead and gone. Zionism’s 120-year quest to Judaize Palestine Continue reading Palestine-Israel: The One Democratic State Campaign, Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
An IPAN South-West Victoria Regional Group was recently established in May in Warrnambool and Portland – two major regional centres in south-west Victoria. Local residents, Gillian Blair and Julie Hart, invited Shirley Winton, Victorian coordinator of the Independent and Peaceful Continue reading IPAN South-West Victoria Regional Group established in Warrnambool and Portland – May 2018
SUE WAREHAM. How the Australian War Memorial has lost its way.
The Job Opportunity Cost of War – Heidi Garrett Peltier Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, military spending creates fewer jobs than the same amount of money would Continue reading Don’t Buy into War – military spending creates fewer jobs than the same amount of money would have, if invested in other sectors.
If you’ve not read or heard Richard Flanagan’s brilliant address last week to the National Press Club – and have the time, it’s very much worth it. It addresses issues very relevant to Anzac Day, including aboriginal dispossession, our increasing Continue reading Brilliant speech by Richard Flanagan at the Press Club, 18 April 2018 – ANZAC Day, Indigenous Justice, democracy
Parliamentary Debate on War long overdue – Dr Sue Wareham, President MAPW – Canberra Times, Tuesday 21 March, 2018 Dr Wareham is also the Secretary of Australians for War Powers Reform, a campaign which IPAN strongly supports. To find out Continue reading Parliamentary Debate on War long overdue – Dr Sue Wareham, President MAPW
IPAN Don’t Buy Into War rally, 8 May 2018 Parliament House, Canberra
‘A really big deal’: New York City’s fossil fuel divestment could spur global shift Economists say city’s status as financial and cultural giant means move to sever ties with fossil fuel will catalyze others in US and around the world Continue reading New York City to Divest from Fossil Fuels – Guardian 12 Jan 2018
Largest Dutch pension fund to divest from nuclear weapons 11 Jan 2018 ⋅ by Maaike Beenes ⋅ The largest Dutch pension fund, the civil servants fund ABP, has decided to end its investments in producers of nuclear weapons. ABP has Continue reading Largest Dutch pension fund to divest from nuclear weapons – 11 Jan 2018
War on the Cheap, by Alison Broinwoski, 6 January 2018 at the Pearls and Irritations blog.
Following is a good history of the Palestine-Israel situation TRUMP AND JERUSALEM: THE TRUTH EXPOSED Posted By: Chief Bandicoot 10/12/2017 ■ The Orbiting Eye provides the facts you need to understand the Jerusalem crisis. Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel Continue reading Trump and Jerusalem: The Truth Exposed, 10 Dec 2017
