Dr Stephanie Dowrick Joins calls for PEACE FreeDanDuggan Australia behaves as if it is beholden to the USA and has no leverage. Yet Australia is not beholden and has much leverage and should start to exercise it

Hugh White: Why the AUKUS ‘dream’ was never realistic and is likely to die | Pearls and Irritations johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06/h…

Isn’t ASIA our region? And the Pacific? Not “Europe”. Totally agree about Marles. He’s ignorant, arrogant. Dangerous Tony Burke please do something. Fast.

Civilians in #Gaza are suffering unimaginably and must be the focus of all our attention, says UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher. #GNT

Australia: A sovereign continent not for Marles to gift away johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06/a…

Israel supporters want Australian journalists, from The SMH and The Age, found in contempt of court – Hearing on the 25-6-25 kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/06/19/isr…

Five days ago… Imad and I were on our way to get some food. He held my hand tightly and said, “Baba, I just want some bread… and maybe a little cheese. Not much.” I smiled and told him, “We’ll get what we can, Imad. Inshallah, we’ll find something.” We hadn’t walked far — we

Two simultaneous challenges in a time of grave uncertainty: 1) To live the values of cooperation, respect, care, kindness in our own lives. 2) To hold to working for peace strongly — but peacefully. Protecting ALL people & the planet itself creates a life of purpose and meaning.

There are no "chosen" people: we are a single human family open.substack.com/pub/stephanied…

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unicef.org.au/donate/express… The children in our world deserve peace, security and hope. Giving to one of the organisations that reaches the most endangered families provides a drop in the ocean of need.

A good piece by the National Indigenous Times, goes over some of the anti-Voice racism by Advance. nit.com.au/14-07-2025/191…

Privatisation of essential social services ALWAYS a disaster. To "profit" from human need is disgraceful. ALL social services - incl child and aged care - must be nationalised, run only by genuine community and not-for-profit organisations without any history of exploitation.

For those who project their hatred most vehemently, though, who most aggressively deny the humanity of those they name “other”, there is indeed, as Dr Marton says, no protection from total defeat. Dr Stephanie Dowrick Joins calls for PEACE #auspol #israelpalestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/l…

Please read and share. Humanitarians, whoever we are, have a Sisyphean task to shift the propaganda justifying genocide. And to hear Dr Ruchama Marton, founder of Physicians For Human Rights - Israel: "We [Israelis} only want total victory, which is tantamount to total defeat.”

Alas, swathes of "Australia's Catholic leadership" in deadly patriarchal mould. Progressive Catholics everywhere. But not leading dioceses. Popes Francis & Leo terrific examples of honour/courage. YES, we need that here. Anglican G Browning gives hope: georgebrowning.com.au

Let's combat antisemitism. Not use it to dehumanise others. open.substack.com/pub/stephanied… We must speak out for the voiceless.