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It was a sign of someone desperate that his message has failed to take wing and make its way to better lands. With the strategy of Israeli Prime...
“Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”. Such extremism visited...
To say that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one. With a dearth of ideas as to how to come...
There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia...
The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of adventure in policy. ...
They have been the playthings of powers for decades, and there is no promise that this will end soon. Empires
Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers. Be it perceived
It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions
It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions always spurred by the...
Starvation as a way of life. Starvation as a way of death. Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance. As the state of Israel hums along...
Starvation as a way of life. Starvation as a way of death. Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance. As the
Two soldiers find themselves in Belgium attending the Tomorrowland festival in Boom, Belgium. Entertainment beckons. The festival, held...
The messy scrap between the Trump administration and Harvard University was always more than a touch bizarre. On June 4,
Impotence takes various forms. Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip...
Impotence takes various forms. Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza
In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion of US...
The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking...
In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion
The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian
Militarism is catching on across the countries of advanced economies and beyond. The sly, disingenuous term of “defence” is used
Militarism is catching on across the countries of advanced economies and beyond. The sly, disingenuous term of “defence” is used in this...
She has become a notorious figure of international interest, shamelessly exploited for news cycles, commercial worth and career advancement. After
It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and...
He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched. But what makes...
It makes for stark and dark reading. The report for the UN Human Rights Council titled From economy of occupation to economy of genocide makes...
When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way to the digital...
When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way
The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorised
The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President...
The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large
It was a blast to a past wiped out by amnesia, social media and mental decrepitude. Andrew Hastie, Australia’s opposition
De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by
Farce is a regular feature of international relations. It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of
It’s official. If not, it ought to be. Israeli forces freely butcher Palestinians in Gaza of all stripes, standing and
There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran is not playing by the...
Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence...
Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury,
Call it abandonment, anxiety, or just latent stupidity. The messy goo of feelings and fuzzy notions behind Australia’s most injudicious
They really ought to be doing more. But in the scheme of things, the sanctioning of Israeli’s frothily fanatical ministers
The latest incident with the Madleen vessel, pictured as a relief measure by celebrity activists and sundry accompaniments to supply civilians with...
It is one of those things that should be recorded and replayed for eternity: Israel, in order to guard some misplaced sense of security, happily backs...
It is one of those things that should be recorded and replayed for eternity: Israel, in order to guard some
Sandpit politics is rarely edifying and grown toddlers taking their fists to each other is unlikely to interest. But when
Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious...
Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in
Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved. Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy.
What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets
As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following
On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist...
On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the