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Andrew Fowler

@andrewjfowler.bsky.social
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Journalist/author. Specialising in politics, human rights and national security issues.

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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
More or less sums it up www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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This 26 January, we should question Australia’s subservience to a different empire: Trump’s America | Paul Daley
What would it actually take for Australia to ditch Aukus, dispense with the little America cloak and rethink the alliance?
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Trump and Vance are the great radicalizers. What they are saying and doing will radicalize more people than a million NGOs.#AusPol
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Shakedown! #AUKUS #auspol
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Here's an easy way to brief yourself on the $368 billion AUKUS fiasco. The book I won the Walkley award for is now available on audio. www.audible.co.uk/webplayer?as...
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Australia certainly needs a full independent inquiry. Those who secretly created this diaster need to be held to account.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
How was Assange sprung from the UK’s highest security prison? Listen to the 6.35 am interview on shorturl.at/UgdUt
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Breakfast - ABC listen
Kick start your morning with irreverent musings and all the information you need for the day ahead.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A high recommendation indeed from a great editor. Thanks Katie! @katiemelb.bsky.social
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
If the Zionist Federation of Australia had any good conscience it would drop its prosecution of journalist Mary Kostakidis for her comments about Gaza. Designed, it appears, to bully and intimidate other journalists into silence, it's not working. @marykostakidis.bsky.social #auspol
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
What a shocking attack. The Israeli government must be held accountable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Israel concedes error in video claiming to show Hamas tunnels under hospital
The Israeli military says a video it released that claimed to show Hamas-built tunnels underneath a southern Gaza hospital actually show different buildings.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
You’re right.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Australian voters determined they are skeptical of the US. Now Labor has the time/ freedom to dump the AUKUS subs program - and fully investigate the disaster before it sinks them. @turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social #auspol #aukus @emmashortis.bsky.social
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Criticising Israel is not anti-Semitic johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...
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If Einstein spoke today, he would be accused of antisemitism
In 1948, as the foundations of the Israeli state were being laid upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American Friends of the Fighters for the Free...
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Members of leading British Jewish body condemn Israel’s latest actions in Gaza
Signatories from Board of Deputies say in open letter that ‘Israel’s soul is being ripped out’ and they ‘cannot turn a blind eye’ to loss of life
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
RW demagogues get the star treatment from lazy journalists.. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen
The press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
No Aussie sovereignty, no submarines but all the way with the USA. Labor’s Mr Fix-it Dennis Richardson has lost the plot on AUKUS.: Australia should persist with Auk-us despite risk of US relationship ‘becoming unstuck’, former defence department secretary says #malcolmturnbull
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
There needs to be a full inquiry into the unmitigated disaster of AUKUS. Bob Carr says Aukus a ‘colossal surrender of sovereignty’ if submarines do not arrive under Australian control
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Is anyone else getting crazy cuts (of people coloring in cartoons) in the middle of The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC as she continues to skewer the Trump administration? @maddow.msnbc.com
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It's our budget special this week! Watch the #SundayShot for expert analysis from panellists @grogsgamut.bsky.social and @nickihutley.bsky.social and interviews with @squigglyrick.bsky.social and @theacoss.bsky.social's Cassandra Goldie. We'll likely know the election date by then too... #auspol
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Antony Loewenstein nails it. “The idea of a Jewish state which gives superior rights to Jews above anybody else is by definition, discriminatory and by definition racist,” theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism  - The Shot
Across the Western world, criticising Israel's genocide in Palestine is being stamped down. News laws and a culture of fear make it hard.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Australia among countries worried about sharing intelligece with the US, according to NBC www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S.
Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A heroic act of defiance, no doybt about that. substack.com/@sasscmom/no...
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cs berns on Substack
When I moved to florida four years ago I knew this was a red state. I've been very careful About expressing my feelings about the political situation. But this year has been different.I'm tired of whi...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 09/03/2025
The Australia-US alliance is meant to be built on "shared values". But 31% of Aussies think Trump is the greatest threat to world peace - more than Putin or Xi. @emmashortis.bsky.social explains the latest Australia Institute polling & what it means for the alliance. youtu.be/wOc9CU43EYY?...
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Australians lack faith in Trump's America
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Just enjoyed a roller coaster ride through #AUKUS and the madhouse of Trump politics with @instanterudite.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social & @davemilbo.bsky.social a great addition to Sunday mornings
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This morning's episode of the #SundayShot is up! @emmashortis.bsky.social & @andrewjfowler.bsky.social lead us through the disaster that is AUKUS & discuss whether a US-gone-rogue gives us a chance to walk it back. Subscribe to our channel if you like what we do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uWA...
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Well, this is AUKUS - March 9.
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Pine Gap provides intelligence for Ukraine. Australia should continue to do that. It’s a question of sovereignty.#Auspol
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As Trump trashes NATO, is clueless about AUKUS & generally upends world order, a timely foreign policy chat on this week's #SundayShot with @andrewjfowler.bsky.social, @australiainstitute.org.au's @emmashortis.bsky.social & an interview with Bruce Wolpe. Subscribe at www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We're doing an AUKUS/foreign policy special next week with @andrewjfowler.bsky.social and @emmashortis.bsky.social but will inevitably touch on it tomorrow too.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Trump gears up to use the military against the people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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Trump Team Tightens Control Over Government Lawyers Who Might Say ‘No’
At the Justice Department and the Pentagon, the administration is curtailing the ability of lawyers to raise internal objections to the president’s use of power.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The reactors won’t work on the AUKUS subs and our ‘forever’ friends have abandoned NATO. Anyone have a view from Russell ? #auspol
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Former Defence Intelligence China Desk chief Paul Monk joins the chorus questioning AUKUS
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Oafs in charge.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
No more checking with the Pentagon before publishing contentious stories now? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/b...
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Trump Administration to Remove 4 Major News Outlets From Pentagon Office Space
The New York Times, NBC News, NPR and Politico will be replaced by outlets including the right-wing site Breitbart News as part of a “new annual media rotation,” a spokesman said.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Opinion | ‘Trump’s Thomas Cromwell’ Is Waiting in the Wings
Russell Vought views American politics as a life-or-death struggle between the God-fearing right and a malevolent, secular left.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The ‘rule of law’ in our AUKUS partner: preemotive pardons for police offers defending democracy, because they are threatened with prosecution by the incoming president who encouraged the riot.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
No US submarines for Australia, it seems. What an unmitigated disaster. www.aspistrategist.org.au/virginia-we-...
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Virginia, we have a problem | The Strategist
Australia’s plan to acquire Virginia-class submarines from the United State is looking increasingly improbable. The US building program is slipping too badly. This heightens the need for Australia to ...
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Is anyone else having trouble posting from the #guardian
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
France must stand firm in face of ‘new world disorder’ embodied by Musk, says PM Whose side will #AUKUS Australia be on?
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets, airline says
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Prioritize. There is no evidence of that. But I suppose we are well beyond that sort of analysis.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Good report on AUKUS in French newspaper Liberation. www.liberation.fr/internationa...
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Alliance militaire Aukus : trois ans après, l’Australie sous la coupe des Etats-Unis
L’accord de coopération militaire signé par Washington, Londres et Canberra, prend du retard. Et le retour de Donald Trump au pouvoir menace d’en faire un instrument de domination des Etats-Unis sur l...
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr's summer reading recommendations include Nuked: the Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia's Sovereignty tinyurl.com/mryn7tny @mupublishing.bsky.social
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Bob Carr's Summer Reading - ABC listen
Former foreign minister and former NSW Premier Bob Carr  joins Cathy van Extel on Radio National Breakfast to discuss his summer reading list.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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bluesky - Google Search
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
As we used to say ‘You love it, until you’re on it!’ Brilliant work over the years Paul.
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Addressed the Broad Left at its annual Red Flag dinner in Newcastle over the weekend. Tonight a change of pace. I’m at the Australian institute of International Affairs in Sydney.@Austjia.@bsky.social
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Francis Collings @franciscollings.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The iPhone is a remarkable piece of kit. Helped by the wonderful autumnal light, and a clean metro window in Paris… #paris #mojo
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Andrew Fowler @andrewjfowler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thanks Jo!
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Congratulations to @andrewjfowler.bsky.social on his #Walkley Book Award for his excellent book NUKED, a forensic demolition of the ridiculous & dangerous AUKUS. We interviewed him for The Shot podcast when the book first came out. Give it a listen. Buy the book. shows.acast.com/the-shot-pod...
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ANDREW FOWLER -- Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty | The Shot Podcast
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Francis Collings @franciscollings.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What an amazing story. Such bravery. #paris #ww2 www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...
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How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.
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