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 |  | Trump expected to annihilate California's 'green mandates' - the most radical in the world Governor Newsom remains oblivious that there is no replacement for oil that provides products that support the 8 billion on this planet. By Ronald Stein - 23/12/2024 | 3 | 22 hours ago |
| | Feeding chaos: Israel cripples Syria’s defence The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. We are creating a temporary buffer zone. By Binoy Kampmark - 20/12/2024 | 14 | 4 hours ago |
| | Hot mike on Trump inauguration Will President Xi accept his unprecedented invitation to President Trump's inauguration, and why was it even made? By Teck Lim - 20/12/2024 | 2 | 3 days ago |
| | A call for an international democratic movement against authoritarianism and neo-fascism The rise of reactionary extremism in many countries, including the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and parts of Western Europe, raises the spectre of the internationalisation of 21st Century neo-fascism and authoritarianism. By Barry York - 19/12/2024 | 6 | 6 hours ago |
| | Australia joins Jew-haters at United Nations On 3 December 2024 Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong overruled the advice of Australia’s UN mission to abstain on a General Assembly resolution. By David Singer - 19/12/2024 | 14 | 4 days ago |
| | No more silent tears for the National Museum of Australia Over 500,000 children experienced life in an orphanage, other institutions or foster care in the 20th century. 50,000 were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, known as the Stolen Generations. By Adele Chynoweth - 18/12/2024 | 5 | 28 hours ago |
| | Palestinian statehood or setting the stage for the next catastrophic war Denying the Palestinian right to statehood and conceding further Palestinian land in the West Bank and Gaza to Israel is a recipe for the next horrific inferno. By Alon Ben-Meir - 18/12/2024 | 6 | 3 days ago |
| | ANU Migration Hub – immigration gaslighter of the year The Migration Hub has excelled in 2024, with misleading takes on immigration policy and numbers. Their Xmas brief 'proves' the Albanese immigration deluge isn't happening. You probably imagined it. By Stephen Saunders - 17/12/2024 | 5 | 12 hours ago |
| | Ding dong, Australia’s misinformation-disinformation bill is dead The very idea that speech requires ordering and control is the first step to preventing its exercise. Death, in this case to freedom of thought and political expression, is bound to follow. By Binoy Kampmark - 17/12/2024 | 2 | 7 days ago |
| | Australia the 'Dumb Country' - can we get lucky again? Much of that is down to the fact that our Labor Federal Government refuses to acknowledge the rest of the world's industrialised nations are rapidly embracing clean, reliable nuclear energy under bi-partisan agreements. By John Mikkelsen - 16/12/2024 | 10 | 12 hours ago |
| | The fall of the Assad regime: the rebels’ prospect for success or failure The question is, will the rebels fulfill their promise to be inclusive and lift the Syrian people out of their misery, and what can the US and Israel do to help shape the trajectory of the new regime. By Alon Ben-Meir - 16/12/2024 | 8 | 6 days ago |
| | United Nations acts illegally in violation of its own charter Article 80 was inserted in the United Nations Charter in April 1945 after the Jewish Agency for Palestine submitted a Memorandum to the United Nations Conference. By David Singer - 13/12/2024 | 7 | 8 days ago |
| | Advancing intercontinental diplomacy At the November 2024 G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, leaders emphasized in different contexts the themes of solidarity, trust, and diplomacy in addressing global challenges. By Ioan Voicu - 13/12/2024 | 3 | 10 days ago |
| | Congressional committee condemns (nearly) every feature of the Covid response Are there words in the English language that fully describe what happened during the Covid years that are not already overused? Calamity comes to mind. Disaster. Cataclysm. By Jeffrey Tucker - 12/12/2024 | 9 | 8 days ago |
| | Chilling warnings for Syria: when foreign interventions go bad The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and shooting into the sky with adventurist stupidity. By Binoy Kampmark - 12/12/2024 | 3 | 12 days ago |
| | Post-Assad power struggle: a new battle awaits Syria The watershed moment in Syria with the ousting of Bashar al-Assad has triggered a complex and high-stakes scramble for influence in a region already rife with instability. By Bahauddin Foizee - 11/12/2024 | 4 | 11 days ago |
| | Stop the ‘green hallucinationists’ plan to close all 200 coal power plants Right now, China already has a total of 1,142 operating coal-fired plants and is building six times as many coal-fired power plants as the rest of the world combined. By Ronald Stein and George Harris - 11/12/2024 | 2 | 13 days ago |
| | Trump: the great global reset Trump’s win is like Reagan’s win in that it signals a change in the world. It’s not the cause of the change, but it provides an anchor point for negotiating change. By Graham Young - 10/12/2024 | 7 | 5 days ago |
| | The Syrian civil war: new phases, old lies What counts as news reporting on the subject in the Western press stable adopts a threadbare approach. We read or hear almost nothing about the dominant backers in this latest round of bloodletting. By Binoy Kampmark - 9/12/2024 | 5 | 13 days ago |
| | The politics of feelings Since antiquity, feelings and emotions have been intrinsic to being political - they can stir up a sudden, vital, and decisive move, in person or in a group at the most basic level, to swing to or from an idea, a goal, or an object. By Mamtimin Ala - 9/12/2024 | 1 | 15 days ago |
| | Trump’s revolution is coming for the health technocrats Of all the creatures in the US bureaucratic swamp, environmental and medical science organisations have the most to fear from the return of Donald Trump. By Peter Ridd - 6/12/2024 | 8 | 15 days ago |
| | Aleppo’s fall: a crumbling regime and the shifting sands of Syria’s civil war With his primary allies distracted and internal cohesion reportedly fraying, Assad faces perhaps his most precarious moment since the uprising began. By Vince Hooper - 6/12/2024 | 10 | 15 days ago |
| | Sporting nation, lost identity: where's the real Australia gone? What is sport really doing for Australia's identity today? Has our entire sense of self been reduced to an obsession with who can throw, kick, or run the fastest? By Vince Hooper - 5/12/2024 | 7 | 17 days ago |
| | Welcome to Country: Israel’s response to the ICC, UN & Jew-haters Israel is unique among the 193 UN member states: The only state that has reappeared on world maps after being erased for 3000 years. By David Singer - 5/12/2024 | 2 | 19 days ago |
| | Economic philosophy under question The election of Donald Trump has thrown contemporary economic commentary into overdrive. It has also exposed the limitations of contemporary economic knowledge and comment. By Ben Rees - 4/12/2024 | 6 | 19 days ago |
| | Will national identity become obsolete? Like many other Western countries, it is divided over many issues, including Aboriginal rights, immigration, economic hardship, climate change, and racial reconciliation. By Mamtimin Ala - 4/12/2024 | 12 | 17 days ago |
| | Nato membership for Ukraine: a path to peace or prolonged conflict? Zelenskyy's proposal marks a significant departure from Ukraine's previous stance of rejecting any compromise on territorial integrity. By Vince Hooper - 3/12/2024 | 8 | 18 days ago |
| | Penny Wong as prime minister of Australia Asian, female and gay, and extremely competent, she would put Australia as the leading nation on the world map. Even Anthony Albanese would give up his power to Wong to ensure his party stayed in power. By Peter Bowden - 3/12/2024 | 10 | 19 days ago |
| | The ABC's Colonel Blimp: why Kim Williams misunderstands Joe Rogan Williams makes a point of juxtaposing the weak, impressionable consumer of news and those of Rogan and his tribe of entrepreneurial podcasting fantasists. By Binoy Kampmark - 2/12/2024 | 7 | 19 days ago |
| | Special interest subsidies DO NOT support the diverse 8 billion on this planet Under the system we have today in which government spending picks winners and losers in the business world and hires massive amounts of people, we have amassed an unsupportable debt of more than $100,000 per person. By Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis - 2/12/2024 | 2 | 22 days ago |
| | Water planning 101: stabilise the population Stabilising population, argues the report Big thirsty Australia, is the safest and cheapest avenue to meet arid Australia's water needs. Not what government wants to hear, is it? By Stephen Saunders - 28/11/2024 | 12 | 19 days ago |
| | Why the Russian Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile is a game-changer in warfare In the Indo-Pacific region such intermediate range hyper-sonic systems could render intercontinental ballistic systems obsolete. By Murray Hunter - 28/11/2024 | 5 | 5 days ago |
| | Arrest warrants from the Hague: the ICC, Netanyahu and Gallant International law remains a curious creature, one of mixed shape and uneven maturity, being based on the mutual, grudging acknowledgment of conventions between countries. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/11/2024 | 6 | 27 days ago |
| | Joe Biden won the 2020 election against Donald Trump, when Kamala Harris, also a Democrat, could not in 2024? Why? There are a multitude of eminent people who have argued whether or not we have free will. This paper sets out the assertions of these writers, both for and against. By Peter Bowden - 27/11/2024 | 8 | 26 days ago |
| | The implications of Trump’s return to power for the EU and the Balkans These concerns primarily revolve around national dynamics, economic implications, and the solidification of nationalist attitudes and inter-political combustion within the Balkan states. By Alon Ben-Meir - 26/11/2024 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | Shooting stars What is it about movie celebrities, highly skilled in pretending to be other people in pretend situations, they would willingly shoot themselves in the foot and lose 50-60% of their fan base? By Stuart Ballantyne - 26/11/2024 | 4 | 27 days ago |
| | Fencing the ocean: Australia’s social media safety bill While this proposed legislation will prove ineffectual in achieving its intended purpose – here, protecting the prelapsarian state of childhood from ruin at the hands of wicked digital platforms – it will also leave the apparatus of hefty regulation. By Binoy Kampmark - 25/11/2024 | 14 | 24 days ago |
| | Prescription for pain, angst and 'silly old buggers' Telcos, banks and health insurers are among the many businesses I'd include in the bracket that fail to recognise more than 17 percent of their customers are probably over 65. By John Mikkelsen - 25/11/2024 | 3 | 26 days ago |