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 |  | Mail-in ballots have corrupted the electoral process The last thing America needed to see were legal actions by teams representing the Republicans challenging the election results on November 3, 2020. By David Singer - 20/11/2020 | 51 | 4 hours ago |
| | COVID-19 shouldn't kill cash! Cash hasn’t been very useful during the Covid-19 season. Under the shadow of lockdowns, many stores and restaurants have become delivery-only services. Cashless payments have become not just convenient but indispensable. By Mal Fletcher - 27/11/2020 | 6 | 4 hours ago |
| | Skewed responsibility: Australian war crimes in Afghanistan A 'warrior culture' also comes in for some withering treatment, which is slightly odd given the kill and capture tasks these men have been given with mind numbing regularity. By Binoy Kampmark - 27/11/2020 | 17 | 6 hours ago |
| | Sweden eschewed lockdowns. It’s (still) too early to be certain it was wrong. We have been told that Sweden has become a cautionary tale and does not qualify as a model that Australia ought to pay attention to, nevermind follow. By Andreas Ortmann - 24/11/2020 | 9 | 28 hours ago |
| | Seeing deeper and farther Rod Dreher wrote his latest book to relay to us the warnings of others about a looming soft totalitarianism in the West. By Ralph Bowles - 26/11/2020 | 6 | 32 hours ago |
| | China's rivers of sand With twenty percent of the world’s population China has only seven percent of the fresh water. It, though, controls the fresh water needed by three billion people in Asia and will not share it. By Felix Imonti - 26/11/2020 | 8 | 2 days ago |
| | The danger to our democracy is the Republican Party While I cheer Biden's victory in the presidential election, I lament the state of the union Trump is leaving behind. By Alon Ben-Meir - 25/11/2020 | 10 | 2 days ago |
| | Might Taiwan be the next Franz Ferdinand moment? Amid escalating US-China rivalry, Taiwan is considered the most likely trigger for a hot war. Should it occur, Australia would be caught on the horns of a dilemma. By Alan Dupont - 25/11/2020 | 7 | 2 days ago |
| | The sine wave in politics First there were kings and nobles and knights and peasants. While the kings had the power, and were supported by the knights, there was nothing much the peasants could do. By Don Aitkin - 23/11/2020 | 6 | 2 days ago |
| | Why do scientists disagree about climate change? What we would do for industries like smelting, for air travel and for back-up for hospitals and other critical users of electricity I don't know. By Don Aitkin - 12/11/2020 | 84 | 2 days ago |
| | Humanity's response to escalating global cruelty Rees makes clear from the outset, current cruelty is worldwide, deliberate and escalating. By Ken Macnab - 24/11/2020 | 4 | 4 days ago |
| | We’ll need to pay a higher defence premium under Biden In return for being one of the US's most reliable allies, Australia expects and hopes, that in the event of any serious threat to our borders, the US will come to our aid. By Graham Young - 17/11/2020 | 37 | 5 days ago |
| | Covid offices and the religion of remote work Masks can prove liberating. The hidden face affords security. Obnoxious authority breathes better, hiding in comfort. By Binoy Kampmark - 23/11/2020 | 2 | 5 days ago |
| | A significant test for multilateral diplomacy As a forum for multilateralism, ASEM is expected to become a real driving force for the future, consolidating its role as a dynamic facilitator in key areas of interregional cooperation. By Ioan Voicu - 20/11/2020 | 5 | 7 days ago |
| | Annual Indigenous Higher Education Update Higher education has been quite a success story for Indigenous people, particularly for urban women. By Joe Lane - 19/11/2020 | 7 | 8 days ago |
| | A dedicated obsession: Washington's continuing Iran sanctions regime One dogma that is likely to persist in US foreign policy during a Biden presidency will be the sanctions regime adopted towards Iran. By Binoy Kampmark - 19/11/2020 | 4 | 8 days ago |
| | COVID-19: notes on Trump 52-'platitudes matter' After predicting a landslide against Trump and getting a 10% increase in his vote as well as a reduction in the Demcrat majority in the House, the mainstream media has now officially given up on Trump voters. By Arthur Dent - 18/11/2020 | 10 | 9 days ago |
| | The future of economic policy The art of economics consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. By Peter Fenwick - 18/11/2020 | 3 | 10 days ago |
| | Is culture enough? Christianity and art We can trace the museumisation of church art to the process of secularisation aided by the interest in comparative religion. By Peter Sellick - 17/11/2020 | 3 | 10 days ago |
| | Petitions, probes and Rupert Murdoch Australia has given the world two influential and disruptive exports in the field of media. By Binoy Kampmark - 13/11/2020 | 7 | 11 days ago |
| | Has Boris Johnson lost his ‘brain’? The most talented strategist in British politics has been expelled from Number 10 Downing Street. By Keith Suter - 16/11/2020 | 7 | 12 days ago |
| | ‘Bushfires’ Royal Commission – a predictable disappointment Unfortunately, the RC was not designed to seriously act on the major issues that could more substantially reduce the bushfire threat, such as land management and fire-fighting practices. By Mark Poynter - 11/11/2020 | 13 | 12 days ago |
| | What to do about the worst type of government: local From the infamous Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall notoriety of New York City in the late 19th century, to the present, council maladministration, if not outright corruption, has too often been co-driver with council governance. By Philip Lillingston - 10/11/2020 | 8 | 12 days ago |
| | The effects on deficit – Trump vs Biden Trump cuts tax, Biden lifts tax: both add deficit stimulus. By Michael Knox - 16/11/2020 | 3 | 12 days ago |
| | Winnowing fan of the woke Who would have thought the New York Times would ever come out against the secular state? By Edie Wyatt - 13/11/2020 | 5 | 13 days ago |
| | Australia’s migration advice industry in disarray Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has fragmented the profession into two distinct categories, leaving many free from scrutiny and not subject to governance or the profession’s code of conduct. By Murray Hunter - 12/11/2020 | 8 | 14 days ago |
| | Climate change, models, recent long-term temperature data and energy policy: is Covid-19 affecting our leading minds? Having an opinion about climate change, let alone declaring it, is now the centre of personal, political and international disputes. By Charles Essery - 6/11/2020 | 49 | 16 days ago |
| | Climate change/polster failings are now secondary to the universal postal ballots in US 2020 election The 2020 US election may have damaged the global reputation of democracy more than anyone could have imagined. By Charles Essery - 11/11/2020 | 12 | 16 days ago |
| | Normalization alone is not a path for Israeli-Palestinian peace The normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan is another step forward toward the establishment of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. By Alon Ben-Meir - 9/11/2020 | 15 | 16 days ago |
| | Biden's victory: a eunuch presidency beckons A Joe Biden presidency promises to be a return, not a progression. But a glance at the US electoral map suggests no easy pathway to political amnesia. By Binoy Kampmark - 10/11/2020 | 22 | 16 days ago |
| | Democrats need to galvanise the working class to ensure future victories As a Biden-Harris victory becomes apparent in the United States Presidential race it's well to consider the various stratum of voters and how they have determined the result. By Tristan Ewins - 9/11/2020 | 9 | 18 days ago |
| | Meanwhile, back at climate change… I keep seeing suggestions that now we know how to deal with Covid-19 (do we?) it's time to deal with the biggest threat of all, climate change. By Don Aitkin - 30/10/2020 | 50 | 18 days ago |
| | The people's treaty In 90 days the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force in internation law. By Daryl Le Cornu - 6/11/2020 | 28 | 18 days ago |
| | The US Republic, Trump and the authoritarian fear-mongering club It's an oxymoron with a long history: American democracy. In referring to the United States, it does not exist. By Binoy Kampmark - 5/11/2020 | 11 | 19 days ago |
| | I want my American dream back Never has it occurred though to the multitude of Americans that one man, in four short years would nearly shatter everything that America stood for. By Alon Ben-Meir - 5/11/2020 | 25 | 20 days ago |
| | No end in sight to Rohingya crisis The challenges facing the Rohingya people have unfortunately continued following their arrival in Bangladesh. By Beenish Ashraf - 29/10/2020 | 12 | 22 days ago |
| | US Election 2020: are the analytics correct? A friend runs bets for a small group of us who are interested in world politics. In 2016, I was a newbie-maverick by forecasting Brexit, the UK Election and worst of all (in friends eyes) the Trump win. By Charles Essery - 4/11/2020 | 17 | 22 days ago |
| | Do elites rule at the ABC? Is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation too focused on the interests of a relatively small group of people in the inner cities of Sydney and Melbourne? By Peter West - 29/10/2020 | 45 | 23 days ago |
| | Queenslanders vote for safe pair of hands Presented with two parties offering no clear vision of the future, voters opted for certainty by voting for incumbents and voting for border closures. By Graham Young - 4/11/2020 | 10 | 23 days ago |
| | Driven underground by Christianity Strangely enough for a work that centres on the secret, esoteric and arcane, 'The Secret Teachings' is largely concerned with the methodical application of rational logic. By Peter McMahon - 3/11/2020 | 6 | 24 days ago |
| | Google meets the Sherman Act This month, the US Department of Justice summoned up the courage to use Section 2 of the Sherman Act in filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google. By Binoy Kampmark - 3/11/2020 | 3 | 25 days ago |
| | Smugglers are gonna smuggle Across the Tasman, the New Zealand Customs Service is increasingly concerned at the record volume of illegal cigarettes entering the country through Malaysian criminal syndicates. By David Leyonhjelm - 30/10/2020 | 20 | 25 days ago |
| | The United Nations is a paper tiger The Armenia and Azerbaijan war is a superb example of the UN's problems. This war is a territorial dispute over the Armenia-backed breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, located inside Azerbaijan. By Peter Bowden - 2/11/2020 | 4 | 26 days ago |
| | Mainstream media avoid investigating Obamagate and Bidengate Bidengate raises questions concerning alleged corruption by the Biden family including his son Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's claim that he had no knowledge of his son's business activities. By David Singer - 2/11/2020 | 3 | 26 days ago |