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25th anniversary: Countercurrents Gave A Voice to Truth-telling Humanitarians and the Global South
Countercurrents has provided a voice for informed, educated and truth-telling humanitarian writers, scholars and activists for 25 years, a huge achievement for the betterment of Humanity and especially for all those billions without a voice in both the Global North and the impoverished Global South. Such informed voices are increasingly important in a world that is existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and climate change but is not responding effectively – there is no Planet B.
Hidden Holocausts As Inconvenient Truths
Part 1 of this analysis addresses a multiplicity of holocausts: “Framing is about getting language that fits your worldview. When you get the right frame, the facts follow” (George Lakoff, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley). The word holocaust resonates deeply as a signifier of unimaginable mass suffering, destruction and cruelty. It also carries enormous ideological weight and political significance.
Review: “Aemilia Lanyer As Shakespeare’s Rival Poet” – Exposing The Female Voice
Science-trained Shakespeare scholar, author and human rights activist Mark Bradbeer has just published an immensely readable and important literary tour de force in which he adduces historical and stylistic evidence that of the famed 154 Sonnets of Shakespeare a total of 43 were actually written by England’s first great poetess Aemilia Lanyer, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
Experts: 1 Million Gaza Deaths From Violence And Deprivation – Zionist-perverted West: 74,000
The Third Anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp has been marked in the Zionist-perverted West by concern over the 1,195 Israelis killed (many by the IDF) but the 1,200 Gazans killed on that day are ignored. Likewise Western media (including progressive media) briefly and incorrectly “under-count” in reporting about “74,000” Palestinians subsequently killed.
Kindness & Truth Versus Trump: Existential Nuclear, Climate, AI, Genocide & Annihilation Threats
The Great Dicktator – by Mr. Fish The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth but this is grossly violated by racist psychopath, narcissist, serial war criminal and pathological liar Donald Trump. Humanity is existentially threatened by nuclear weapons, climate change and Artificial Intelligence (AI) but Trump threatens the world with a huge nuclear arsenal and regards both climate change and AI threats as “hoaxes”.
West Ignores Horrific US-Israeli Child Killing & 1.5 Million American Preventable Deaths Annually
The bodies of twin 9-year-old brothers Moaz and Moataz, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes that killed at least 60 civilians overnight, are carried at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on 15 May 2025. (Doaa Albaz/ActiveStills) Decent people utterly abhor the killing of children yet Western Mainstream media (MSM) ignore the US-Israeli killing of 325,000 Gaza children in the first 2 years of the Gaza Genocide.
Intolerable “Annual Deaths Per Million Of Population” Expose West-Ignored Gaza Holocaust
Racism is repugnant because we had no say over to whom we were born and by whom we were raised. Racially targeted killing is an extreme manifestation of racism. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide (such as the Gaza Genocide) the ultimate. To quantify deadly racism as reflected in murderous State and non-State terrorism a useful normative metric for comparative purposes would be “people killed per million of population per year”.
50% of Annual Deaths Preventable in Neoliberalism, US- & Zionist-perverted Australia
Australia is a rich, prosperous and peaceful country with all human rights for all, one-person-one-vote democracy, constitutional government and separation of the judiciary from government.
World: Apply BDS NOW To Liberate Gaza Death Camp & End Occupation
Words and numbers crucially matter in accurately describing things and are crucial in accurately describing horrific crimes such as the Zionist-imposed and century-long Palestinian Genocide and Palestinian Holocaust, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) and 1967 Naksa (Setback), the 59-year Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory including Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Concentration Camp, and since 7 October 2023 the Zionist Israeli mass murder of...
Gaza Death Camp: West Ignoring 700,000 Gaza Deaths From Imposed Deprivation
Every day we see the shocking images of devastated Gaza and comprehend a high probability that infants and indeed ourselves could not survive the manifest deprivation from life-sustaining requisites. As estimated from data and methodology published in The Lancet, 875,000 Gazans have died from violence, 175,000, and deprivation, 700,000. However Western media ignore indirect deaths and some academics claim that indirect deaths are only 11% of the direct deaths from violence.
Exposing Gaza Genocide and Failed Speaking Truth to Power in Zionist-perverted Australia
I am a WW2 Jewish Holocaust-impacted anti-racist Jewish Australian scientist and humanitarian writer with a sole national allegiance to the land of my birth, Australia. I am accordingly inescapably bound by the core imperatives from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, specifically “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”.
Open Letter To MPs: Gaza Genocide & Failed Speaking Truth To Power In Zionist-perverted Australia
I am an Australian scientist and humanitarian writer who for 3 decades as a responsible citizen has been trying to inform Australian Mainstream media and successive Australian governments about serious matters concerning human mass mortality involving Australia (“speaking truth to power”).
Australian Universities Threatened By Zionist Censorship & Repression For Genocidal Apartheid Israel
Under a Zionist US- and Apartheid Israeli-perverted Labor Government Australia is second only to the US as a fervent supporter of genocidally racist Apartheid Israel and hence of the utterly vile crime of Apartheid.
Gaza Genocide Deaths: 73,000 (Western Media) Versus 875,000 In First 2 Years (Science)
Based on data and methodology published by expert epidemiologists in the leading media journal The Lancet, it can be readily estimated that in the first 2 years of the Gaza Genocide Gazan deaths from violence and deprivation totalled 875,000. However Western Mainstream media (MSM) ignore deaths from deprivation and presently report about 73/,000 Gaza deaths due to violence.
4 July 2026: 250 Years Of America-imposed Genocide, 1001 Days Of US-Israeli Gaza Genocide
The bodies of twin 9-year-old brothers Moaz and Moataz, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes that killed at least 60 civilians overnight, are carried at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on 15 May 2025. (Doaa Albaz/ActiveStills) On 4 July 2026 Americans lavishly celebrated the 250th anniversary of the 1776 American Declaration of Independence and American freedom from British rule.
European Countries Overwhelmingly Back Apartheid Israel & Reject UNGA Anti-Nazism & Anti-Slavery Resolutions
Far right, racist, bigoted, nationalist, Trumpist populism grossly mis-rules America, and is surging electorally in the UK (Farage), France (Le Pen) , Germany (AfD), Eastern Europe and variously around the world from Asia and Latin America to Australia (One Nation).
Why Australia Must Leave AUKUS – Submission To Australian AUKUS Public Inquiry
In 2021 Australia joined the anti-China AUKUS (Australia, UK and US) Alliance. For a cost of A$368 billion Australia was to receive a number of nuclear-powered submarines. However it now appears that Australia will only get 3 second-hand US submarines for dubious benefit, the deal will lock Australia into US military strategy for decades, the cost is prohibitive (Australia’s gross debt is about A$1 trillion), and Australia will become a prime nuclear target.
Australia, UK & US AUKUS Alliance Betrays, Robs, Soils, Threatens & Kills Australians
In 2021 Australia joined the UK and the US in a nuclear-armed AUKUS Alliance to militarily dominate the Indo-Pacific. Australia committed A$380 billion to acquiring nuclear-powered submarines and locking Australia into decades of US militarism and nuclear terrorism. This not only makes Australia a prime nuclear target but is a gross fiscal perversion that only benefits Zionist-perverted Trumpist America and demonstrably betrays, robs, soils, threatens and kills Australians.
Australian Mainstream Media & Politician Silence Over Genocidal US-Apartheid Israeli War Crimes
Each Monday morning I have coffee at a Melbourne restaurant with a humanitarian Middle East-origin friend who speaks perfect English as well as Arabic, Aramaic and Hindi.
Review: “The New September 11th”. Questions Persist Over Trust, Corruption, Big Pharma & COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 Pandemic was associated with the deaths of over 7 million people globally. The rising mortality was addressed by emergency measures to limit transmission of the virus and rapid development and global mass application of vaccination, including the novel use of mRNA-based vaccines that promises extremely rapid deployment of this novel vaccine technology in future pandemics as well as its potential application to existing diseases.
Exposing Zionist Subversion & Perversion Of Australia & the West By Submission To Australian Antisemitism Inquiry
The 7 October 2023 Palestinian Breakout from the highly-abusive, 56-year incarceration in the Gaza Concentration Camp was clearly enabled by Apartheid Israel in order to provide an excuse for an ongoing, US-backed and Zionist Israeli-imposed Gaza Genocide that in the first 2 years alone has killed 875,000 Gazans through violence and imposed deprivation, with this horrific carnage including the deaths of an estimated 325,000 children, 207,000 women and 342,000 men.
Truth-Telling Anti-Racist Jewish Submission To Australian Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion
Like the US, Canada, and New Zealand, Australia is a nation deriving from British settler-colonialism involving dispossession and genocidal devastation of the Indigenous people. It is likely for that reason that a Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australia is second only to Zionist-perverted America as a fervent supporter of genocidally racist, egregiously mendacious, endlessly thieving and settler-colonialism-based Apartheid Israel.
Poem Re Queensland Free Speech Ban: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”
US lackey and Zionist-perverted Australia has sought to hide the carnage of the Gaza Genocide (875,000 Gazans killed by violence and deprivation in the first 2 years) [1, 2] by a massive, hysterical and Mainstream media-backed campaign falsely asserting antisemitism by critics of the genocide.
The Lancet Shockingly Undercounts 6.5-Fold 875,000 Gaza Deaths From Violence And Deprivation In 2 Years
Based on data and methodology previously published in The Lancet it is estimated that 875,000 Gazans died from violence (175,000) and imposed deprivation (700,000) over 2 years of Zionist Israeli killing. However The Lancet has just published an April 2026 paper that demands correction because it gives an undercounting estimate of 134,241 Gaza deaths over 2 years from violence (120,551) and deprivation (counted as 13,690 excess deaths from deprivation).
Gaza Holocaust: Submission To UN Special Rapporteur Investigation Into Gaza Journalist Deaths & Media Reportage
As of early 2026, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is actively collecting evidence regarding the targeting of journalists and media workers in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly following October 7, 2023. Key details regarding submissions are: Focus: The study covers the killings and attacks on Palestinian journalists and media workers, the destruction of media infrastructure in Gaza, and the role of Israeli and international media.
Worsening Nuclear Holocaust & Climate Genocide Threats: Iranian Genocide Dirty Bomb Fears & Global Warming Increasing
Global warming has reached the +1.5C Paris target and a catastrophic +2.0C is estimated by 2045, with numerous dire impacts predicted for warming in this range including reaching 11 disastrous and irreversible tipping points. However key global warming factors are at a maximum, and still increasing, not decreasing. Humanity ignores the looming Climate Genocide just as it fails to stop the US-Israeli-imposed Iranian Genocide that threatens nuclear contamination, dirty bombs and a Nuclear Holocaust.
Lying By Commission And Omission By Apartheid Israel, Zionist Trump America, Zionist-Perverted Australia & West
Lying by omission is far, far worse than repugnant lying by commission because the latter at least permits public refutation and public debate. Kindness and Truth is the core ethos of Humanity but is grossly violated by genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious Apartheid Israel that is fervently supported by Zionist America and the Zionist-perverted West, including Australia that is second only to the US in its support for Apartheid Israel and hence for utterly repugnant apartheid.
US-Israel-imposed Gaza Holocaust & Nazi-imposed Warsaw Ghetto: Intolerable Evil Demanding Exposure & Justice
Unbridled cruelty is the warning to Humanity of both the ongoing Gaza Genocide and the WW2 Warsaw Ghetto.To say so is, for some, immediately contentious – some will insist that drawing any parallel between Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto is antisemitic, an erasure of Jewish suffering, or a distortion of history.
Mass Media Under-count Indigenous Deaths in US wars
The eminent, truth-telling and humane Australian web medium Pearls & Irritations has published a responding Letter from me about total sanctions demanded against Apartheid Israel because of hundreds of thousands of Gaza Genocide deaths: Gideon Polya, “MSM under-count indigenous deaths in US wars,” 5 September 2025.
The Civilized World Must Act Immediately over Mass Starvation in Gaza
Over 23 horrific months the people of Gaza (47% children before the present Gaza Massacre) have suffered bombing, shooting, burying under rubble, near-total devastation of homes and infrastructure, and substantial deprivation from water, food, shelter, fuel, electricity, medicine, and medical care. The mass murder of 680,000 Gazans by violence and imposed deprivation has now transmuted to man-made famine and mass starvation that has galvanized the global conscience.
Mass Starvation in Gaza: Boycott US, Israel and Germany - Global Research
Over 23 horrific months the people of Gaza (47% children before the present Gaza Massacre) have suffered bombing, shooting, burying under rubble, near-total devastation of homes and infrastructure, and substantial deprivation from water, food, shelter, fuel, electricity, medicine, and medical care. The mass murder of 680,000 Gazans by violence and imposed deprivation has now transmuted to man-made famine and mass starvation that has galvanized the global conscience.
Gaza Genocide By Numbers: Apply BDS Over 0.7 Million Gaza Deaths From Violence And Imposed Deprivation
How many people does Apartheid Israel have to kill before the World acts decisively to stop the killing? In 1960 the World responded to the killing of 69 Africans with Sanctions on Apartheid South Africa. By 25 April 2025 deaths from violence and deprivation in the Gaza Genocide totalled 680,000 but the World ignores deaths from imposed deprivation that are 4 times violent deaths. Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Apartheid Israel and all its supporters NOW.
0.7 Million Gaza Genocide Deaths Demand End Killing & Human Rights Denial NOW
From data published in The Lancet by expert epidemiologists it is estimated that by 25 April 2025 about 680,000 Gazans had been killed in the Gaza Genocide, 28% of the pre-war population and mostly children. Yet racist and lying Western Mainstream media presently report about 50,000 Gaza deaths. We must acknowledge the deaths and apply draconian sanctions on US-backed Apartheid Israel and all its supporters in the absence of an immediate end to the killing and human rights denial.
US Alliance-Backed Genocidal Apartheid Israel: The Last European Settler Colonialism Project
After WW2 the hundreds of millions of subjects of European colonialism demanded self-determination from their war-weakened colonial rulers. The struggle was eventually largely successful, but was particularly bloody and protracted in places where there was substantial European colonizer settlement (notably Algeria, Kenya, Southern Africa and Palestine). US, UK and European support for racist Zionism meant that Apartheid Israel is the last genocidal European settler colonialism project.
Unprovoked: US-, Australia- & G7-Backed, Nuclear-Armed Apartheid Israel Bombs Nukes-Free Iran
G7-, Australia- , UK- and US-backed, 90 nuclear weapons-armed, and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel has launched unprovoked massive attacks on nuclear weapons-free Iran while US-sanctioned Iran was engaged in strategic negotiations with the US. The US immediately backed the ongoing war criminal attacks. Cowardly and racist US lackeys Australia, G7 and the UK referred to the “threat” from Iran while refusing to condemn the flagrant violation of International law.
A Reckoning For Israel Awaits| Countercurrents
It’s not possible to materially compensate someone for the grief they feel over the loss of a loved one. To suggest otherwise, is to disregard what it means to be human. So far, in Gaza alone, the rate of killing, even by the modern standards of the world’s worst conflicts, is truly horrendous.
Zionist-perverted, US Lackey Australia Ignores Palestinian Genocide On Anzac Day & Election Day
Australia will shortly remember its circa 100,000 war dead in observing Anzac Day on 25 April. On that date in 1915 heroic Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers joined British, French and colonial forces in an ultimately unsuccessful land invasion of Turkiye at the Gallipoli Peninsular in the strategically vital Dardanelles Strait linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
Mainstream Undercounting 0.6 Million Gaza Deaths
Dear Honorable Member, Australians will vote to elect a new Federal Government on 3 May 2025. For decent Australians the major issue is the Gaza Genocide, the US-backed, Zionist Israeli mass murder of about 0.6 million Indigenous Palestinian children, mothers, women and men, and unforgivable Mainstream Australian complicity in this appalling and ongoing atrocity.
Open Letter To Australian MPs: Mainstream Undercounting 0.6 Million Gaza Deaths
Dear Honorable Member, Australians will vote to elect a new Federal Government on 3 May 2025. For decent Australians the major issue is the Gaza Genocide, the US-backed, Zionist Israeli mass murder of about 0.6 million Indigenous Palestinian children, mothers, women and men, and unforgivable Mainstream Australian complicity in this appalling and ongoing atrocity.
Zionist UK, US & Australia Attack Anti-Zionist Free Speech: Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism But Pro-Zionism Is
Australia is a craven lackey of the serial war criminal, Zionist-subverted and Zionist-perverted US. Australia is second only to the US as a supporter of genocidal Apartheid Israel, is complicit in the horrific, US- and Apartheid Israel-imposed Gaza Genocide in 20 ways and lies for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways. Now Australian Federal and State governments are threatening the free speech of anti-racist and hence anti-Zionist Australians with draconian custodial penalties.
Trump’s Move To Shut Down The Education Department Is A Warning To Academia| Countercurrents
President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to dismantle the Department of Education isn’t just a headline—it’s a political warning shot. Framed as a push to “return power to the states,” Trump’s March 21 directive demands the department take “all necessary steps” to wind itself down. His administration argues the department is bloated with bureaucracy, fueled by liberal ideology, and ultimately responsible for declining academic outcomes. But the implications go far deeper than red tape.
Trump Hypes Up Tensions With Iran| Countercurrents
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The US attacks began on Saturday and continued into Sunday on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas reportedly killing 31 people and wounding 101 so far, most of them children and women.
Europe And Trump| Countercurrents
With Donald, the Terrible back in power, diplomatic relations between the USA and the EU are set to be in stormy waters. Europeans, as well as the whole world, know that the last Trump presidency was marked by confusions and frustrations as his reign ended badly, if not deadly. And now, the European Union plus others like the UK are facing Trump 2.0 Tellingly, Trump’s hyper-televised inauguration show has excluded many of those worshipping their messiah.
Making (Non)Sense Of Donald Trump, Or The Success Of Failure| Countercurrents
Yes, “shock and awe” is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration and, whether the president has actually said it or not, it’s now regularly in headlines, op-eds, and so much else. If you remember, it was the phrase used, in all its glory, to describe America’s massive bombing and invasion of Iraq in 2003.
At Least 174 Children Killed In A Single Day In Gaza| Countercurrents
At least 174 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since Tuesday morning, marking one of the “largest one-day death tolls since the beginning of the genocide.” More than 400 Palestinian civilians have been killed, the majority of whom are children, and over 560 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip as Israel continues attacking the enclave since the early hours of Tuesday.
Israel, Trump And The Latest Bombing Of Gaza| Countercurrents
Israel relaunched its bloody war on Gaza, with vehemence and callousness and with the blessing of the Donald Trump administration in the White House. Its back to the “good old bloody days” of murder, mayhem and slaughter of mostly innocent women and children who have no part in the current war waged between Israel and Hamas.
Israel Refuses To Learn From History| Countercurrents
During the 7 October, 2023 attack by Hamas, 1195 Israelis were killed and 251 taken as hostages. There was worldwide condemnation of the ‘terrorist’ attack carried out by Hamas. In response Israel has killed approximately 70,000 Palestinians, which includes about 15,000 missing or presumed dead, close to 60% of whom are women, children and elderly and still continues to kill Palestinians on one pretext or the other.
Israel Resumes Genocidal War In Gaza After Two-Month Pause| Countercurrents
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel has resumed its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip after nearly two months of ceasefire. The attacks began in the early hours of Tuesday morning, killing over 200 starved civilians, most of whom are children. Israeli air force jets launched a wave of attacks across Gaza, targeting multiple areas in the north, center, and south. Reports confirm heavy bombardment of residential homes and makeshift shelters housing displaced Palestinians.
One Million Children ‘Struggling To Survive’ In Gaza Amid Israel’s Aid Blockade:UNICEF| Countercurrents
UNICEF, the UN agency for children, reported that one million children in Gaza are “struggling to survive” due to Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the enclave.
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