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View commentsView articleAdvancing 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
312 hours ago
View commentsView articleThe shifting nature of journalism - it's being turned upside down
The revelation that 'Deep Throat' was Mark Felt, an assistant director of the FBI at that time, arises another possibility - the Woodward and Bernstein were being used.
By Murray Hunter - 22/11/2024
414 hours ago
View commentsView articleTrump: 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
623 hours ago
View commentsView articleUnited 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
12 days ago
View commentsView articlePost-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
42 days ago
View commentsView articleCongressional 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
62 days ago
View commentsView articleChilling 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
33 days ago
View commentsView articleStop 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
24 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
54 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
16 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump’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
86 days ago
View commentsView articleAleppo’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
106 days ago
View commentsView articleWill 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
128 days ago
View commentsView articleSporting 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
78 days ago
View commentsView articleNato 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
89 days ago
View commentsView articleEconomic 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
610 days ago
View commentsView articleWelcome 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
210 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
710 days ago
View commentsView articleWater 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
1210 days ago
View commentsView articlePenny 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
1010 days ago
View commentsView articleSpecial 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
213 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
215 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy 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
415 days ago
View commentsView articleFencing 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
1415 days ago
View commentsView articlePrescription 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
317 days ago
View commentsView articleJoe 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
817 days ago
View commentsView articleArrest 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
618 days ago
View commentsView articleShooting 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
418 days ago
View commentsView articleThank 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
621 days ago
View commentsView articleHas 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
623 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump 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
223 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
224 days ago
View commentsView articleHow 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
626 days ago
View commentsView articleWhy 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
326 days ago
View commentsView articleTea, 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
126 days ago
View commentsView articleTrump 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
427 days ago
View commentsView articleTowards 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
327 days ago
View commentsView articleThis I believe
In a world that often feels adrift, we all need something to believe.
By Steven Schwartz - 15/11/2024
1228 days ago
View commentsView articleThey 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
228 days ago
View commentsView articleHold 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
1029 days ago
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