Analysis

NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge told Suzanne James that Israel and the United States’ attacks on Iran were “outright illegal”, with “no evidence” that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons.

Niko Leka reports that First Nations Elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe has lodged an application with the Federal Court for Hamas to be removed from the list of terrorist organisations, as Hamas is a legitimate political entity.

Even before Donald Trump got the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to agree to raise military spending, Oxfam said that less than 3% of the richest seven countries’ annual military spending, about US$1.5 trillion, could totally eradicate world hunger. Peter Boyle reports.

Nuclear obsession warps our thinking about truth. Nuclear armed countries establish so-called red lines around their weapons and yet accept genocide in Palestine, aggression in Ukraine and civil wars in numerous other countries, argues Tony Smith.

As Labor pitches AUKUS as an opportunity for “high tech” jobs, the City of Newcastle is conducting a survey that urges respondents to approve of a missile factory, adjacent the Newcastle Airport/Williamtown Air Force base.

Greens spokesperson for foreign affairs, peace and nuclear disarmament, David Shoebridge, speaks to Green Left's Suzanne James.

Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright discusses the illegal United States and Israeli attacks on Iran on the latest episode of the Green Left Show.

The strikes on Iran are the manifestation of a failing international order, where the “mutually binding rules-based order” is being replaced by the pantomime of strongman politics, argues Academics for Palestine WA and Gwen Velge.

The CFMEU’s tradition of struggle can inspire all workers and explains why the ruling class wants to break its power, argues Jonathan Strauss.

Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case win against the ABC in the Federal Court is a victory for all those who seek to tell the truth, argues Isaac Nellist.

Humanity should be in awe of this human story that goes back further than most non-Aboriginal people can fathom, Chris Jenkins told Sue Bull. But Woodside and Labor are putting the exquisite, ancient petroglyphs at risk.

Labor’s position is the culmination of a decades-long process of eroding United Nations’ convention commitments and obligations, argues Peter Henning.