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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
112 hours 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
212 hours 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
513 hours 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
423 hours 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
62 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
32 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
12 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
43 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
33 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
124 days ago
View commentsView articleWinning 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
24 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
24 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
105 days ago
View commentsView articleCheers 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
27 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
37 days ago
View commentsView articleCould 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
57 days ago
View commentsView articleFixing 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
128 days ago
View commentsView articleWas 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
148 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
49 days ago
View commentsView articleDancing 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
510 days ago
View commentsView articleUNRWA 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
511 days ago
View commentsView articleUN 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
314 days ago
View commentsView articleJeff 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
314 days ago
View commentsView articleThe 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
915 days ago
View commentsView articleSinwar’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
1015 days ago
View commentsView articleDemocrats’ 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
115 days ago
View commentsView articleVirtuous, 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
217 days ago
View commentsView articleFaith 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
718 days ago
View commentsView articleA 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
219 days ago
View commentsView articleWidening 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
421 days ago
View commentsView articleTransit 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
322 days ago
View commentsView articleUN 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
522 days ago
View commentsView articleHow 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
623 days ago
View commentsView articleDutton 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
324 days ago
View commentsView articleNorth 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
625 days ago
View commentsView article'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
425 days ago
View commentsView articleDwindling 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
425 days ago
View commentsView articleQueensland’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
1025 days ago
View commentsView articleHow 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
625 days ago
View commentsView articleBiden 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
428 days ago
View commentsView articleWeak 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
128 days ago
View commentsView articleDonald 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
729 days ago
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