Author: Jmedia Manager
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‘I thought he was being sent to war’: Refugee shares trauma onstage
Iranian-born Nima Doostkhah grew up hearing the sounds of air raid sirens, seeing his city fall into darkness and feeling the rumble of a bomb hitting the ground. Born in beautiful but war-torn Esfahan during the Iran-Iraq war, he spent his early childhood witnessing bombings. Now Doostkhah and the rest of the cast of new…
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Protesters say no war on Iran
Activists joined in a global day of action against war in Iran, initiated in the United States by United National Antiwar Coalition. One hundred people took part in Sydney on January 25. The protest took place on the eve of the mobilisations to mark the beginning of the colonial dispossession of First Nation’s peoples. Nick…
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We cannot trust the media’s reporting on international affairs
The mainstream media’s pro-U.S. and Western bias distorts the truth, writes Dr Evan Jones. OUR HALLOWED ABC had a segment on its hallowed 7.30 program on 15 January titled “Finland working hard against the threat of Russian hackers“. The ABC’s talking head proclaimed: The Mueller Report laid bare the extent of Russian hacking and meddling to influence the 2016 U.S.…
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Auschwitz survivor returns to death camp for 75th anniversary
It was a malfunctioning gas chamber that delivered Yvonne Engelman a miracle escape from the site of the largest mass murder in the world’s history. A desire for distance from the horrors of Auschwitz propelled the orphaned Jewish girl to a strange continent on the other side of the globe, where seaside Maroubra in Sydney…
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Trump’s Mideast peace plan to be revealed
US President Donald Trump says he’ll likely release the long-awaited White House Mideast peace plan before his meeting next week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benny Gantz. “It’s a great plan. It’s a plan that really would work,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to a…
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Israeli air strikes pound Gaza after wave of firebomb balloons
Israeli warplanes have struck Hamas strongholds in Gaza as retribution for a wave of unmanned balloons equipped with incendiary devices released on the wind from the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli military said the sites included weapons manufacturing sites and intelligence-gathering facilities. There were no reports of injuries from the airstrikes in southern Gaza Strip on…
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The extraordinary courage of ordinary people during dark times
Mihrinissa Ulkumen was heavily pregnant when bombs crashed through her roof. Petite and dark-haired, she sustained critical injuries, putting both her own life and that of her unborn son in grave danger. It was the summer of 1944 and Mihrinissa’s husband was Selahattin Ulkumen, the 30-year-old Turkish Consul-General on Rhodes Island and a practising Muslim.…
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Iran threat as bad as Nazi Germany: Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel and the US have called for action against Iran, comparing it with the threat once posed by Nazi Germany, as world leaders marked 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. “There will not be another Holocaust,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Jerusalem gathering of more than 40 heads of state and government…
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Aussies pay $20k for Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s artists’ residency in Paris
Outspoken Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Australian public purse to spend half a year writing a book in Paris. Controversial Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been handed $20,000 from the public purse to spend six months writing a book – and not even on home soil. Instead, taxpayers…
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US warns slain Iran general’s successor
The US special representative for Iran says the successor to Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike, would suffer the same fate if he followed a similar path of killing Americans, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper has reported. Washington blamed Soleimani for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias against US forces in the region. US…