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 |  | 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 | 12 hours ago |
| | The 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 | 4 | 14 hours 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 | 6 | 23 hours 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 | 1 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 6 | 2 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 | 3 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 | 4 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 | 4 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 | 6 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 | 6 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 | 6 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 | 8 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 | 8 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 | 9 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 10 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 | 13 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 | 15 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 | 4 | 15 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 | 15 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 | 17 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 | 17 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 | 18 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 | 18 days ago |
| | Thank 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 | 6 | 21 days ago |
| | Has 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 | 6 | 23 days ago |
| | Trump 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 | 2 | 23 days ago |
| | The 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 | 2 | 24 days ago |
| | How 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 | 6 | 26 days ago |
| | Why 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 | 3 | 26 days ago |
| | Tea, 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 | 1 | 26 days ago |
| | Trump 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 | 4 | 27 days ago |
| | Towards 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 | 3 | 27 days ago |
| | This I believe In a world that often feels adrift, we all need something to believe. By Steven Schwartz - 15/11/2024 | 12 | 28 days ago |
| | They 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 | 2 | 28 days ago |
| | Hold 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 | 10 | 29 days ago |