David Caldicott

If the Prime Minister was serious about his stance of 'ending the war now' he would withdraw all Australian military assets from the theatre. Leave aside his continuing endorsement of the illegal 'original objectives, this is just empty posturing without action

#Palestine: “Illegal settlers doing the ‘ground-work’ of ethnic cleansing” - UN experts condemn Israel’s escalating campaign of annexation and displacement of Palestinians in the occupied #WestBank, including #EastJerusalem. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Netanyahu says that he "envisions" oil pipelines running from the Gulf countries West through Israel to the Mediterranean and Europe. This is what it’s all about.

Congratulations to the @guardian for winning today's Prize for Complicit Euphemism, by calling Israel's illegal ground invasion of Lebanon ... "to push deeper into". Like it's some kind of garden digging. Slow clap, well done. @AssalRad

Israel sees the press markings as an invitation to murder. You don’t kill that many journalists by accident.

The copy & paste campaign. The ABC ombudsman received 103 identical complaints to remove ABC journalist John Lyons. Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson & News Corp figures have been leading the push to end his tenure. #auspol theguardian.com/media/2026/mar…

Watch Netanyahu. He is the quintessential Israeli, ignorant yet condescending, foaming at the mouth with paranoid greed, realizing that he has bitten off more than he could chew and trying to force it down everyone's throat. Seemingly invincible, rotten to the very core.

Israel throws grenades at Muslim believers gathering at the Damascus Gate of the Old City in Jerusalem (the gate to Al-Aqsa) to celebrate Eid. I am ashamed to be an Israeli Jew.

BREAKING : Brazilian 🇧🇷 President Lula da Silva openly revolted against Trump "You can't allow Trump to think that he owns the world. One day he bombs Iran, other day he wants Iceland. This can't be tolerated. I am against such war" 🔥🔥 Leaders across the world are humiliating Trump and Netanyahu at international level. RESPECT for such courage 🫡

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED THE SITUATION IN THE PERSIAN GULF ACTUALLY IS. 3,200 ships are TRAPPED in the Persian Gulf right now. Crews are running out of drinking water. One ship called the local port authority and BEGGED for permission to dock — just to get water. They were DENIED. 💀 Let that sink in. These aren't military ships. These are commercial vessels — carrying oil, grain, electronics — with civilian crews who are now stranded with NO supplies and NO way out. – 3,200 ships STUCK ⚠️ – Crews running out of WATER 💀 – Port authorities REFUSING to let them dock ⚠️ – Multiple ships reporting the SAME situation 💀 ⚠️ For context — the Suez Canal crisis in 2021 blocked 400 ships. This is EIGHT TIMES worse. And nobody is talking about it. They're showing you missile interceptions and oil price charts. They're NOT showing you thousands of crew members slowly running out of drinking water in the middle of a war zone. If these ships start getting abandoned, the environmental disaster alone would be catastrophic. Thousands of tons of fuel, cargo, chemicals — just sitting there. This is not a shipping disruption. This is a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS unfolding in real time. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 X is hiding this. Follow + RT before it disappears. 🔥

JUST IN: The Strait of Hormuz blocks the fertiliser from shipping. China just blocked it from being replaced. Beijing has instructed exporters to suspend overseas shipments of nitrogen and potassium fertiliser blends. Urea. NPK mixes. The molecules that American, Indian, Bangladeshi, and African farmers need to plant are now gated at two chokepoints simultaneously: a 21-mile waterway controlled by provincial commanders with sealed radio orders, and a government directive issued from Zhongnanhai that requires no radio at all. One third of global seaborne fertiliser trade transits Hormuz. China is the world’s largest fertiliser producer. When the strait closed and China suspended exports in the same month, the global food system lost its primary supply route and its primary alternative supplier at the same time. There is no third source at this scale. There is no backup to the backup. Urea has surged roughly 40 percent since the war began. CBOT March futures settled at 610.50. The peak at New Orleans touched $683. Those prices were set by the Hormuz blockade alone. China’s ban adds a second floor underneath them. Even if the strait reopened tomorrow, Chinese urea would not flow until Beijing lifts the directive. Even if Beijing lifted the directive, the strait would still need to reopen, insurance to normalise, and vessels to be available. The two gates operate independently. Both must open for the molecule to move. China’s logic is transparent. Hormuz disrupted global supply. Prices surged. Chinese domestic farmers face the same planting windows as everyone else. Beijing chose to protect its own agriculture by hoarding the molecule the rest of the world needs. This is the same country that is simultaneously drawing commercial crude reserves at a million barrels per day, running military exercises near Taiwan, receiving discounted Iranian oil through the permissioned strait, and restricting the phosphate exports it suspended months ago. Every decision serves one objective: China first. The rest of the world absorbs the shortage. The American farmer is now squeezed from two directions. The Gulf urea he used to buy cannot transit the strait. The Chinese urea that could have replaced it is embargoed by Beijing. Domestic US production covers roughly 75 percent of normal needs, but normal needs assumed Gulf and Chinese imports filling the gap. The gap is now unfillable on any timeline that matters for spring planting. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres. Soybeans rising to 85 million. The RFS mandate consumes 43 percent of a shrinking corn crop. The cattle herd sits at 86.2 million, a 75-year low. The protein cascade runs from corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the grocery shelf. China’s ban did not create that cascade. The Hormuz blockade created it. China’s ban removed the last exit ramp. Oman crude at $154. Brent at $102. WTI at $93. Gold at $5,000. The Fed holding at 3.50 to 3.75 with PCE revised to 2.7. Trump telling Israel to stop hitting gas fields. Iran threatening to burn the Gulf to ashes. Four countries’ energy infrastructure offline. And now the world’s largest fertiliser producer has locked its warehouse and told every farmer on Earth that the key is in Beijing, not for sale, and not available until further notice. Two gates. One molecule. No alternative. The calendar closes in four weeks. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Jonathan Cook: BBC’s Protection of Israel on Trial ‘Raffi Berg may be fighting in court for damages, but it’s really the BBC in the dock for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question.’ consortiumnews.com/2026/03/19/jon…

Israel is one of the most prolific sources of foreign interference in governance and democratic elections in the world today, to a degree easily comparable to Russia and China, vastly outpacing other threat actors like Iran. They frequently (and famously) throw their support behind far-right isolationist and ethnonationalist groups who oppose pluralistic democracy and want to replicate the ‘Israeli model’ of ethnonationalism at home. Their interference is often downplayed because of (1) American pressure on Israel’s behalf, and (2) domestic pro-Israel lobbies who threaten to sink politicians, civil servants, and governments in accusations of antisemitism for raising it as an issue. This is often a thorn in the side of domestic counterintelligence services, including in the US, where pressure from the ADL and others have been explicitly cited as strong deterrents against holding Israel accountable for both interference and espionage (both military and industrial). That the ADL intervened on Jonathan Pollard’s behalf when he was first tried, and Trump was compelled by Adelson and members of his own Administration to pardon Pollard’s handler on the last day of his first Presidency, are some of the most glaring public examples. Israel’s reputation as an election interference powerhouse is so significant it has spawned an entire cottage industry of private sector “interference-as-a-service” providers who operate both on behalf of the Israeli government and others, while offering a layer of plausible deniability. That their interference is not only allowed to persist but has become so infamous they now sell it as a private for-profit service just shows how much operational freedom they’ve been granted in democratic affairs the world over.

HOLY SHIT! ‼️ WA Labor is ramming through ‘Post & Boast’ laws that’ll throw you in jail for 3 years just for posting a protest photo!! Even old ones, even if you weren’t there, even overseas! One rally pic and you’re suddenly “boasting a crime”? This is a straight-up war on free speech and the right to protest. WA people: flood them with your protest pics captioned “I could go to jail for this” and tag your MP. Kill this garbage now or kiss your freedom goodbye.

Donald Trump has admitted that he bombed Iran “out of habit.” Our government has given this man permission to use our bases for an illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression. End British complicity — and stop bombing Iran.

Heard of Palantir? Here’s Palantir’s contract with the NHS explained. A company linked to the Israeli forces’ ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza has NO place in our NHS. NHS trusts can do the right thing and refuse to use Palantir. The time is now. Link in bio to learn more. Get involved: amn.st/6019B6ndEH

Viva México 🇲🇽 🤩 President Claudia Sheinbaum announced today that Mexico seeks to resume fuel shipments to Cuba. A huge victory for the Cuban people, for the sovereignty of Mexico, and the integrity of the international trade system at large ♥️

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with dozens of civilians in it?

"Consider the outrage if China were to do to Taiwan what the US is doing to Cuba." @MichaelPascoe01 on the madness of Trump #IranWar‌ #cuba #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-madness-of…