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The Strawman of Antisemitism: Banning Protests Against Israel…

Of late, a spate of incidents has taken place in Australia giving sheer delight to the simian-resembling Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton. On a...

20.12.2024 10

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Australian state curbs protest against Israel, silences Palestinians

19.12.2024 10

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Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence

The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. W e are creating a temporary buffer zone from which...

19.12.2024 30

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Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence

The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. W e are creating a temporary buffer zone from which...

19.12.2024 20

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Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony misfires

The case concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It involves a dicey attempt by the one of the most ruthless newspaper...

19.12.2024 20

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Last Acts: Time for Biden to Pardon Assange

Since making what w as likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and ...

18.12.2024 40

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Last Acts: Time for Biden to Pardon Assange

Since making what w as likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and ...

18.12.2024 20

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Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires

The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It saw a dicey attempt by the one of...

18.12.2024 30

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Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires

The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It saw a dicey attempt by the one of...

17.12.2024 10

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Finding the Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and Genocide

It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza, and increasingly violent activities being conducted against Palestinians in the occupied...

17.12.2024 10

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Ding Dong, Australia’s Misinformation-Disinformation Bill is Dead

Regulating speech at law is much like regulating breath. At what point is an intake of air deemed in appropriate to the body and worthy...

12.12.2024 20

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Chilling Warnings for Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go…

The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and...

11.12.2024 30

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The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdo ğ an must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria , though it is a feeling bound to be tempered by swiftly ...

09.12.2024 20

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FIFA’s Cooked Findings: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Bid

FIFA ha s done it again. With its usual sparkle of inventive interpretation, amoral reasoning, and snappy bravura, the world football federation ...

08.12.2024 40

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The Melbourne synagogue fire: Antisemitism, political meddling and exceptional victimhood

08.12.2024 20

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Absent justice: Australia’s Afghanistan war crimes investigations thin out

Small to middle-sized states often crow at undertaking what are vulgarly described as “world firsts”. Australia is certainly one of them, with...

03.12.2024 10

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The Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies

A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria , as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land . Silly terms such as ...

03.12.2024 10

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Gallic Stubbornness: France, Netanyahu and the ICC Arrest…

The comity of nations , at least when it comes to international humanitarian law, took a rather curious turn with the announcement by France that...

30.11.2024 40

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Another nail in the coffin for Australia’s phantom defence needs

The US submarine base was always going to come first, not for the sake of supplying useless boats for Australia’s phantom defence needs, but for...

29.11.2024 10

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The ABC’s Colonel Blimp

The position of a state broadcaster, one funded directly by taxpayer s from a particular country, place s it in a delicate position. The risk of...

28.11.2024 20

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Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium and the US Energy…

Be careful who you condemn and ostracise . They just might be supplying you with a special need . While the United States security establishment...

27.11.2024 7

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Arrest Warrants from The Hague: The ICC, Netanyahu…

The slow, often grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the issuing of three arrest warrants by the International...

26.11.2024 10

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The Hague and ICC’s arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

The slow, grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the International Criminal Court issuing three arrest warrants...

26.11.2024 6

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The hypocrisies of COP29

COP29 was always going to be memorable, if for no other reason than Azerbaijan, the host country, is a petro state and its rulers are indifferent to...

23.11.2024 10

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Fencing the Ocean: Australia’s Social Media Safety Bill

The Australian government is being run ragged in various quarters . When ragged, such a beast is bound to seek a distraction. And what better than ...

23.11.2024 10

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Trump, AUKUS and Australia’s Dim Servitors

There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket worry that their assumptions on conflict have been upended....

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Satellite honours for AUKUS: Joe Courtney’s Order of Australia Award

Joe Courtney, who serves as Congressman for Connecticut’s second district, has received a rather curious honour. It has come in the form of a...

21.11.2024 10

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Faux electoral reform: Entrenching the Australian Party Duopoly

Australia’s establishment parties are running scared. The Albanese Labor government is particularly scared. Tumbling in the polls, increasingly...

19.11.2024 10

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Thank You for Emitting: The Hypocrisies of COP29

COP29 was always going to be memorable , for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan , is a petrostate indifferent to...

19.11.2024 10

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Natural Resources and Palestinian Sovereignty: Israel’s Further Isolation

Two more United Nations committee resolutions . Both concerning the conduct of Israel past and current. While disease, hunger and death...

17.11.2024 10

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Blinken Atrocious in a Dangerous World

It is hard to credit one of the least impressive Secretary of States, the United States has ever produced with any merit other than being a...

15.11.2024 9

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They Were There First: Election Denialism, the Democratic…

The scene is memorable enough. November 2016. The Twin Peaks Tavern, Castro District. Men gathered , beside themselves . “It’s...

13.11.2024 40

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The Remembrance Day Amnesia Racket

It was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive. It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. The First World War...

12.11.2024 7

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The Remembrance Day amnesia racket

World War I was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive.  It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. It was a...

12.11.2024 9

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The Musings of Shigeru Ishiba: Visions of an…

Japan’s new prime minister , Shigeru Ishiba , is stirring the pot – notably on regional security matters. He has proposed something...

11.11.2024 8

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South Africa presents the ICJ with more evidence on Israel’s genocide

The timing, as with so much in Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset on October 28 signalled its intent to...

07.11.2024 10

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The Price of Eggs: Why Harris lost to…

It takes some skill to make Donald J. Trump look good. Two Democrats have succeeded in doing so: Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024. ...

07.11.2024 20

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Ruthless Settlements: BHP, Brazil and the Samarco Fundão…

The BHP Group , as with other mining giants, has much explaining to do in the way it has approached the environment. It has become a master of the...

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Perceptions of bias: The National Anti-Corruption Commission and Robodebt

From the outset, a question mark hovered over whether Australia’s federal National Anti-Corruption Commission would serve the purpose of shedding...

04.11.2024 10

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South Africa’s Memorial to the ICJ: More Evidence…

The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset had signalled its intent on crippling...

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Virtuous, Smug and Venal: British Electoral Interference in…

The British cannot help themselves. They are a meddling island people who conquered huge swathes of the earth in a fictional fit of...

31.10.2024 10

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Cattle Dog Gusto: How Bluey Conquered the United…

For decades, the cultural phenomenon known as Americanisation has taken place with diffusing e ase . Momentum was gained with the retreat of...

29.10.2024 7

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The Queensland contradiction: Reflections on a state election

Lock up criminally minded children and teach them a firm lesson. Mind your cars, mind your keys. Chat about the Olympics and moan about whether stadia...

28.10.2024 10

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Crippling UNRWA: The Knesset’s Collective Punishment of Palestinians

The man has a cheek. Having lectured Iranians and Lebanese about what (and who) is good for them in terms of rulers and rule (we already know what he...

26.10.2024 20

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Political Labelling: The EU’s Legal Stance on Goods…

Never let it be said that the European Union, whose officials self-advertise as staunch defenders of international law, that some bending can take...

25.10.2024 30

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The meekness of the Australia’s anti-corruption body

Warnings about the National Anti-Corruption Commission’s (NAAC) ineffectiveness were there from the start. The law that brought it into existence,...

25.10.2024 10

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Stifling the Sikh Diaspora: India’s Continuing War on…

It was never a good look. Advertised as the world’s largest , complex and most colourful of democracies , India’s approach to certain...

23.10.2024 30

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Weak Endeavours: The Meekness of the Australia’s Anti-Corruption…

The warning signs of the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission’s ineffectiveness were there from the start. The enacting legislation...

21.10.2024 50

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Widening the War: The US Sends Troops to…

The dangers should be plastered on every wall in e very office occupied by a military and political advisor . Israel’s attempt to reshape the...

20.10.2024 20

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Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran

The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation i t has been...

17.10.2024 8

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