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 |  | The so-called 'green movement' increases the world's demands for crude oil! All the parts and components to make, transport, and install wind turbines, solar panels, and EV's are made from the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil. By Ronald Stein - 21/11/2024 | 2 | 9 hours ago |
| | Trump might try reversing Obama-Biden ploy at United Nations President-elect Donald Trump will resume locking horns with the United Nations (UN) when he returns to the White House on 20 January 2025. By David Singer - 21/11/2024 | 1 | 9 hours ago |
| | Has the United Nations outlived its usefulness? The UN, which was established to foster global peace and stability, has now become a paralyzed institution, constrained by an archaic structure. By Alon Ben-Meir - 20/11/2024 | 4 | 20 hours ago |
| | Thank you for emitting: the hypocrisies of COP29 Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by 128% between 2000 and 2021. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/11/2024 | 5 | 10 hours ago |
| | Why Southeast Asia will stand up to Trump There no need for ASEAN leaders to buy MAGA merchandise especially submarines and missile systems or to ingratiate themselves further with the new US president. By Teck Lim - 19/11/2024 | 3 | 2 days ago |
| | Tea, Trump, and tyranny: could America rejoin the British Empire? 'People are saying this is a surrender. Fake news! This is the ultimate deal, folks. We're coming back as the top colony. No one's ever done that before.' By Vince Hooper - 19/11/2024 | 1 | 2 days ago |
| | How to deliver a 'world class' public service The newly elected Crisafulli Government should revive Fitzgerald’s Electoral Administrative Review Commission to deliver a ‘World Class’ Public Service By Scott Prasser - 18/11/2024 | 6 | 2 days ago |
| | Towards a 2025 UN summit on youth The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. By Ioan Voicu - 18/11/2024 | 3 | 3 days ago |
| | This I believe In a world that often feels adrift, we all need something to believe. By Steven Schwartz - 15/11/2024 | 12 | 4 days ago |
| | Trump Deal of the Century meets Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine HKOPS – contrary to Trump's Proposal – calls for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one new Hashemite-governed territorial entity to be called 'The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine'. By David Singer - 15/11/2024 | 4 | 3 days ago |
| | They were there first: election denialism, the Democratic way Clinton, in late July 2016, 'had approved a campaign plan to stir a scandal against US Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee'. By Binoy Kampmark - 14/11/2024 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | Hold onto your hats: As Trump 2.0 nears, we should be afraid. Very afraid. Despite promises to turbocharge the economy, Trump saw job losses in every year of his presidency – 2017, 2018 and 2019 – even when the disastrous COVID data of 2020 is excluded. By Remy Davison - 14/11/2024 | 10 | 5 days ago |
| | The Democrats’ stunning defeat and the way forward The Democrats must search their souls, carefully study what went wrong, and develop a compelling new domestic and foreign policy agenda while cooperating with the Republicans on any issue that advances America’s well-being and global leadership. By Alon Ben-Meir - 13/11/2024 | 3 | 7 days ago |
| | Cheers for a true blue Aussie hero I would say he was obviously not the sort of policeman who would enjoy pushing a desk or sitting in an SUV off the side of the road on a downhill slope catching unwary motorists. By John Mikkelsen - 13/11/2024 | 2 | 7 days ago |
| | The Trump tariff fallacy With trade deficits between many Asian countries and the United States, there are possibilities many countries may be targeted if Trump's objectives are to reduce bilateral deficits. By Murray Hunter - 12/11/2024 | 4 | 9 days ago |
| | Winning against the feminist machine The male vote played a major role in Trump's historic victory – with big swings from Hispanic and Black men, and also younger male voters. By Bettina Arndt - 12/11/2024 | 2 | 4 days ago |
| | Could the US election result dent the 'Huge Australia' plan? Here we go again. Falsely, ABC claims Australia 'doesn’t have' a population plan. But we do – and it’s massive. Can Donald Trump’s victory change that at all? By Stephen Saunders - 11/11/2024 | 5 | 7 days ago |
| | Dancing with the Tsars: A perilous waltz (without Matilda) for American democracy? Following Donald Trump's unexpected win in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, where the Woke got Poked, concerns about his cosy relationship with authoritarian leaders, especially Russian President Vladimir Putin, have surged once again. By Vince Hooper - 8/11/2024 | 5 | 10 days ago |
| | UNRWA to be booted from Israel with good reason These seven Foreign Ministers were blatantly attempting to interfere in Israel's internal affairs using their respective Governments – not their Parliaments - as their Trojan horses. By David Singer - 8/11/2024 | 5 | 11 days ago |
| | Jeff Bezos is right: legacy media must self-reflect Iccan count on one hand the times I have seen leaders of media organisations engage in anything that could be described as hard-hitting forms of self-critique in the public square. By David Thunder - 7/11/2024 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Democrats’ Green New Deal will keep the poor…poor, and the rich…rich! The derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil are the basis of more than 6,000 products in our society that did not exist 200 years ago. By Ronald Stein - 6/11/2024 | 1 | 15 days ago |
| | UN Secretary-General and the ethics of engaging with Putin On one side, critics argue that Guterres’s cordial engagement with Vladimir Putin is tantamount to endorsing his actions. By Daniel Raynolds - 6/11/2024 | 3 | 14 days ago |
| | Sinwar’s death presents a new challenge to Israel and Hamas The death of Sinwar, the mastermind behind the savage October 7 attack presents a new challenge to Netanyahu and Hamas. By Alon Ben-Meir - 5/11/2024 | 10 | 15 days ago |
| | Was Tony Abbot Australia’s worst prime minister? This article argues yes. The main reasons are his disastrous and uncaring budget of 2014. By Peter Bowden - 5/11/2024 | 14 | 8 days ago |
| | Fixing the Queensland Public Service or putting in a new political ‘fix’? Certainly, in these times, Queensland needs a 'world class public service' to do these tasks, but what do we have now and what is a 'world class public service'? By Scott Prasser - 4/11/2024 | 12 | 8 days ago |
| | Virtuous, smug and venal: British electoral interference in the US The British cannot help themselves. They are a meddling island people who conquered huge swathes of the earth in a fictional fit of absentmindedness and remain haughty for having done so. By Binoy Kampmark - 4/11/2024 | 2 | 17 days ago |
| | The problem with the police For libertarians, maintaining a criminal justice system, of which the police are a major component, is viewed as one of the few legitimate roles of government. By David Leyonhjelm - 1/11/2024 | 9 | 15 days ago |
| | A new up-wave in commodity prices What I want to look at is the structure of demand and where I think the structure of demand will be coming from. By Michael Knox - 1/11/2024 | 2 | 19 days ago |
| | Widening the war: the US sends troops to Israel Israel's attempt to reshape the Middle East, far from giving it enduring security, will merely serve to make it more vulnerable and unstable than ever. By Binoy Kampmark - 31/10/2024 | 4 | 21 days ago |
| | Transit Oriented Development: a little less conversation a little more action, please? Planners see it mostly as an opportunity to create housing density around train stations, on the assumption that most people who might live there will also want to travel where the trains will take them. By Ross Elliott - 30/10/2024 | 3 | 22 days ago |
| | Faith in Australia Western democracy is at a crossroads. We can drift into a future marked by division and despair, or we can use our strength to forge a new chapter of unity, resilience, and hope. By Steven Schwartz - 29/10/2024 | 7 | 18 days ago |
| | UN inflaming Jew-hatred by keeping Gazans penned inside Gaza The continuing failure of the United Nations to remove Gaza's children, women, the sick and the elderly to the relative safety offered by refugee camps located in Jordan and Syria has been a monumental failure of judgement. By David Singer - 29/10/2024 | 5 | 22 days ago |
| | Dutton may be winning in the polls. But he has a major problem to overcome Despite recent favourable opinion polls, Peter Dutton faces one big major hurdle in taking his Liberal-National coalition to office at the next federal election. By Scott Prasser - 28/10/2024 | 3 | 24 days ago |
| | How can the resistance ever counter, Copacabana Albanese's 1.5m migrants? Democracy seems futile, up against Huge Australia. Not even 'extraordinary developments' are likely to budge this Albo-tross. What other tactics are available? By Stephen Saunders - 28/10/2024 | 6 | 23 days ago |
| | Queensland’s Truth Telling Commission breaches Westminster and election conventions Recently, the chair of Queensland's government's Truthtelling and Healing Commission publicly attacked the leader of the Liberal National Party and opposition, David Crisafulli, for his party's stated policy. By Scott Prasser - 25/10/2024 | 10 | 25 days ago |
| | 'Renewables' increase fossil fuel demands A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired plant. By Ronald Stein and John Shanahan - 25/10/2024 | 4 | 25 days ago |
| | North Korean materiel and troops in Ukraine – both a threat and opportunity for Seoul Despite a supermajority of the world’s states condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the vast majority of the free world supporting Ukraine, the Kim regime has chosen to back Russia. By Liang Nah - 24/10/2024 | 6 | 25 days ago |
| | Dwindling delights and mobile frights For the past couple of weeks my mobile phone has been leading the charge for my tossing and turning at night. By John Mikkelsen - 24/10/2024 | 4 | 25 days ago |
| | Weak endeavours: the meekness of Australia’s anti-corruption body Far from being effective, the body's role is intended as impotently symbolic, an annexure of the corruption consensus that rots at the capital's centre. By Binoy Kampmark - 23/10/2024 | 1 | 28 days ago |
| | How to overcome Australia’s foreign policy crisis? At the moment, Australian foreign policy is shaped by indoctrinated ideologues working in partnership with the military industrial and financial complex. By Ordan Andreevski - 23/10/2024 | 6 | 25 days ago |
| | Donald Trump and Peter Dutton have both embraced populism. Are working-class voters buying it? There is evidence of this populism in the willingness of Trump, Dutton and other figures in their parties to attack 'big business'. By David Smith - 22/10/2024 | 7 | 29 days ago |
| | Biden must champion the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution Israel's elimination of 16 Hamas and Hezbollah leaders since 7 October 2023 has paved the way for President Biden to achieve what no other American President has accomplished. By David Singer - 22/10/2024 | 4 | 28 days ago |