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 |  | Why the US-Australian alliance needs immediate re-examination The recent revelations from the DOGE USAID expose highlights potential undue US influence on Australian political leaders and leading defence establishment officials. By Murray Hunter - 25/2/2025 | 7 | 13 hours ago |
| | California Governor Newsom has positioned the state to be a national security risk for the entire USA For the 5th largest economy in the world, the State imports most of its demand for oil from foreign countries and imports more electricity than any other state in America. By Ronald Stein - 25/2/2025 | 1 | 21 hours ago |
| | The quest to cut government spending A true indication of the generosity of Australians would be to leave decisions on foreign aid to individuals. By David Leyonhjelm - 24/2/2025 | 5 | 14 hours ago |
| | Zelensky, Trump, and the fate of Ukraine: a study in power, personality, and peril Three years into Russia's devastating war against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky faces a challenge that may eclipse even the initial decision to stand and fight against Vladimir Putin By Yuri Koszarycz - 24/2/2025 | 8 | 22 hours ago |
| | Rate cut won't help Albo much Several leading economists have declared it was the wrong move, which could add to inflationary pressures and virtually rule out any further cut when the board meets again in April. By John Mikkelsen - 21/2/2025 | 5 | 5 days ago |
| | The Arab states must stop Trump and Netanyahu in their tracks When the Arab states convene an emergency session in Egypt to address Trump’s/Netanyahu’s plans to take over Gaza and exile the Palestinians, they must warn Trump that acting on this plan will usher in a catastrophic conflagration. By Alon Ben-Meir - 21/2/2025 | 6 | 5 days ago |
| | Cutting the ghost budget: Elon Musk versus the Pentagon There is much to be concerned about with Elon Musk's merrily psychotic scything as chief of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), notably in terms of security access to payment and data systems. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/2/2025 | 3 | 5 days ago |
| | Re-nationalising the airline industry ... a sink or soar government decision? Proposals by the Albanese government to buy the financially stressed Rex Airline is reminiscent of the Chifley Labor government's failed attempt to nationalise the country's airlines and banks. By Scott Prasser - 19/2/2025 | 7 | 4 days ago |
| | Trump hastens end to United Nations inciting Jew-hatred worldwide President Trump's decision on 5 February to takeover and makeover Gaza will hopefully hasten the end to eight years of the United Nations (UN) inciting Jew-hatred worldwide. By David Singer - 19/2/2025 | 10 | 6 days ago |
| | Trump is not making America great again, he is dismantling America’s greatness brick by brick The executive orders that Trump issued in a blizzard during the first three weeks of his presidency are unconstitutional, inhumane, and beyond the pale of absurdity. By Alon Ben-Meir - 18/2/2025 | 6 | 7 days ago |
| | Far from benign: the US aid industrial complex The attack by President Donald J Trump on USAID as part of his axing crusade against bureaucratic waste is not, for all its structural and constitutional limitations, without harsh merit. By Binoy Kampmark - 18/2/2025 | 2 | 8 days ago |
| | DEI is killing people Men are most likely to suicide, and least likely to get assistance. Why? By Bettina Arndt - 17/2/2025 | 6 | 7 days ago |
| | Existing stockpiles of SUNF contain 270 years of electricity demand in the US The current water-cooled reactor design for 96% of the 440 reactors worldwide, only uses 3% of the electricity potential of nuclear fuel. By Rolan Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 17/2/2025 | 1 | 9 days ago |
| | Our regional plan won’t end well The DNA of our current regional plan can be traced to the late 1990s but so much has changed since then, are the assumptions within it any longer relevent? By Ross Elliott - 14/2/2025 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Forcing the Palestinians out of Gaza is a recipe for unimaginable disaster We have known Trump to be unhinged and unpredictable, and often thoughtless and insensitive, but not once has it occurred to many of us that he is capable of stretching insanity to such new heights as he embarks on a journey of conquest. By Alon Ben-Meir - 14/2/2025 | 28 | 4 days ago |
| | A thief’s mentality: Trump, real estate and dreams of ethnic cleansing Not only would any aspiration of political independence and Palestinian sovereignty be terminated, it would reach its terminus in the form of tourist capitalism and real estate transactions. By Binoy Kampmark - 13/2/2025 | 12 | 8 days ago |
| | Energy literacy - understanding crude oil's vital role The world faces critical energy crossroads, with Energy Literacy conversations needed on the role of crude oil, renewables, and nuclear power in driving future growth. By Ronald Stein - 12/2/2025 | 4 | 13 days ago |
| | Trump buries Biden-UN two-state solution in Gaza's rubble President Trump's decision to take over, and makeover, Gaza has seen the Biden-United Nations two-state solution buried in the rubble of Gaza. By David Singer - 12/2/2025 | 9 | 11 days ago |
| | How NOT to save the planet and get poor Despite it never having been done anywhere before, we were promised clean, green and cheap energy, but reliability was not promised. By Charles Hemmings - 11/2/2025 | 3 | 15 days ago |
| | Reviving the death penalty is one of Trump's greatest moral failures Capital punishment is a moral travesty, and Trump's hunger to not only reestablish executions but expand their use is a clear signal of his deepening depravity. By Kimberlee Hurley - 10/2/2025 | 12 | 14 days ago |
| | Boosting defence quickly and cheaply 114 years later, with a population of 28 million, Australia disappointingly now has a Naval fleet of only 49 vessels, By Stuart Ballantyne - 10/2/2025 | 2 | 16 days ago |
| | Another green dream bites the dust When Queen front man Freddie Mercury belted out the chorus to Another One Bites the Dust back in 1980, he would never have imagined those lyrics could have been a wake up call for today's green dream believers. By John Mikkelsen - 7/2/2025 | 24 | 7 days ago |
| | Planet Earth’s Natural Resources are limited to its 8 billion residents! Why is it that environmentalists insist on spending money and resources on litigating against the oil, coal, gas and nuclear industries, instead of advancing technologies that truly encapsulate the full circular economy of the energy cycle? By Ronald Stein, Robert Jeffrey and Olivia Vaughan - 6/2/2025 | 3 | 17 days ago |
| | Will the election bring a new dawn to Kosovo Most Kosovars hope that the February national election and the formation of a new coalition government will usher in a promising new era that will substantially improve the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. By Alon Ben-Meir - 5/2/2025 | 1 | 21 days ago |
| | We have to talk about wind droughts In 2020 The term 'wind droughts' began to appear in the literature of the Energy Realists of Australia and in the notorious Integrated System Plan. By Rafe Champion - 5/2/2025 | 8 | 20 days ago |
| | Funeral atmospherics at the British Library On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world's finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. By Binoy Kampmark - 4/2/2025 | 2 | 22 days ago |
| | The kidnapping of Ukrainian children during the Russia-Ukraine War (2022 - ) A humanitarian catastrophe of staggering proportions has been brought on by the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which intensified in February 2022. By Yuri Koszarycz - 3/2/2025 | 4 | 18 days ago |
| | Can Hamas redeem itself? Now that the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is in place, with some ongoing hiccups, the question is, will the second phase follow, and what lesson, if any, has Hamas learned following 15 months of horrendous death and destruction? By Alon Ben-Meir - 3/2/2025 | 11 | 19 days ago |
| | Pity the poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO and spending for war Rutte is a martial type keen to advance the rule of the gun in the service of the alliance. The result is the evil of banality delivered in poesy. By Binoy Kampmark - 31/1/2025 | 4 | 24 days ago |
| | Trump & Rubio: staunchest supporters of Israel and the Jewish people Rubio established his credentials when addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition on 3 December 2015. By David Singer - 31/1/2025 | 2 | 26 days ago |
| | Looking at Trumpism as the ‘greatest show on earth’ Trumpism is just so much more than The Art of the Deal.Trump is much deeper than the dynamics of The Apprentice. Trumpism has much more depth than his personal branded ‘popularism’. By Murray Hunter - 30/1/2025 | 8 | 21 days ago |
| | Low quality homes and the housing crisis If the objective is to get more people into homes they can afford, and quickly, we need to lower our standards and risk taking new approaches. By Ross Elliott - 30/1/2025 | 10 | 25 days ago |
| | A world premiere in public international law The Convention's nine chapters provide a detailed approach of modalities to prevent and combat the global problem of cybercrime while also including appropriate human rights safeguards. By Ioan Voicu - 29/1/2025 | 1 | 24 days ago |
| | Should wine carry a cancer warning? When relative risks are inflated and absolute risks ignored, the result is not informed consent but unnecessary anxiety. Let's not lose sight of moderation-in drinking and in public health messaging. By Steven Schwartz - 28/1/2025 | 5 | 28 days ago |