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Australia Excludes the Pacific Island Press Corps

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe with vulgar...

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Kicking Downwards: Australia Excludes The Pacific Island Press Corps – OpEd

Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down.  The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe

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Superfluous Appointments: Albania’s Sunny AI Minister – OpEd

Superfluous Appointments: Albania’s Sunny AI Minister – OpEd

When countries have suffered the odd mishap regarding government paralysis or convulsive change, the frequent quip would often be: “Who

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Buying Time: Israel’s Rogue Attack On Qatar – OpEd

Buying Time: Israel’s Rogue Attack On Qatar – OpEd

It’s all part of a stratagem, bleak and brutal.  With Palestinian recognition being promised by France, the UK, Canada and

11.09.2025 4

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Destroying Gaza City

Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in.  While this should be shunned and...

10.09.2025 10

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Destroying Gaza City – OpEd

Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in.  While

09.09.2025 7

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Blunting Justice: Trump And The International Criminal Court – OpEd

Blunting Justice: Trump And The International Criminal Court – OpEd

The International Criminal Court bash fest is getting ever more frenetic in Washington and among the law shredding members of

05.09.2025 4

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Digging Deeper On Community Radio: Triple R And Indispensable Airwaves – OpEd

Digging Deeper On Community Radio: Triple R And Indispensable Airwaves – OpEd

To get to the venue involves a calming, if early ritual.  Uneasy sleep beforehand, given the morning slot.  Eagerness to

03.09.2025 2

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Refugee Dunghills: Australia Makes Another Nauru Deal

Over the last two decades, Australia has made a name for itself by pursuing barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea. ...

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Think Tanker Demands For AUKUS: What Australia Should Do With US Submarines – OpEd

Think Tanker Demands For AUKUS: What Australia Should Do With US Submarines – OpEd

The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was.  Announced

03.09.2025 5

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Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action And Anti-Terrorism Laws – OpEd

Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action And Anti-Terrorism Laws – OpEd

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late.  Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been...

03.09.2025 2

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Let Them In: Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps

The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the...

02.09.2025 10

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What Australia Should do with US Submarines

The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was.  Announced in September 2021, ruinous to...

27.08.2025 10

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Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late.  Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been...

26.08.2025 10

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Making it Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City

History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered.  Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom,...

25.08.2025 10

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Lethal Nonsense: Antisemitism, Codes of Conduct, and the Bendigo Writers Festival

Write, but do not offend. Speak and comment, but do not divide.  Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion. ...

21.08.2025 10

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Cancelling the Ethnic Cleansers: Australia Revokes Simcha Rothman’s Visa

It is a curious feeling to see a government, let alone any politician, suddenly find their banished backbones and retired principles.  The spine, on...

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A Shield of Lies: Netanyahu’s Battle Against the World

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...

14.08.2025 20

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Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif

“Assassination,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, “is the extreme form of censorship”.  Such extremism visited...

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Occupation and Slaughter: Netanyahu and Taking Over Gaza

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...

11.08.2025 10

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Foiling the Anti-Protest Sceptics: The Pro-Palestinian Sydney Harbour Bridge March

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...

06.08.2025 10

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Misusing the Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy and Censorship

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. ...

04.08.2025 10

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Diplomatic Merchandise: Exploiting The Issue Of Palestinian Recognition – OpEd

They have been the playthings of powers for decades, and there is no promise that this will end soon.  Empires

03.08.2025 6

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The Paranoia Of Officialdom: Age Verification And Using The Internet In Australia – OpEd

Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers.  Be it perceived

01.08.2025 7

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When Israelis Call It Out: Finding Genocide In Gaza – OpEd

It’s been almost an article of faith among Israeli officials: the state they represent is incapable of genocide, their actions

29.07.2025 8

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When Israelis Call It Out: Finding Genocide in Gaza

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...

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Intentional Policies: Dystopian Killing Fields and Starvation in Gaza

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...

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Intentional Policies: Dystopian Killing Fields And Starvation In Gaza – OpEd

Starvation as a way of life.  Starvation as a way of death.  Starvation as policy, justification and vengeance.  As the

28.07.2025 8

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Caught In Belgium: Universal Jurisdiction And The IDF – OpEd

Two soldiers find themselves in Belgium attending the Tomorrowland festival in Boom, Belgium.  Entertainment beckons.  The festival, held...

25.07.2025 3

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How Not To Reform A University: Trump’s Harvard Obsession – OpEd

The messy scrap between the Trump administration and Harvard University was always more than a touch bizarre.  On June 4,

24.07.2025 4

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Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza

Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza Strip...

23.07.2025 10

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Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement On Gaza – OpEd

Impotence takes various forms.  Before the daily massacres, incidents of starvation and dispossession of Palestinians taking place in the Gaza

22.07.2025 4

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Propaganda Siren: Silencing the Voice of America

In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion of US...

22.07.2025 20

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Ominous Plans: Making Concentration Camp Gaza

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...

21.07.2025 10

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Propaganda Siren: Silencing The Voice Of America – OpEd

In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion

21.07.2025 5

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Ominous Plans: Making Concentration Camp Gaza – OpEd

The odious idea of a camp within a camp.  The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian

19.07.2025 3

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K-Defense Day: Pimping For The Arms Dealers – OpEd

Militarism is catching on across the countries of advanced economies and beyond.  The sly, disingenuous term of “defence” is used

15.07.2025 4

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K-Defense Day: Pimping for the Arms Dealers

Militarism is catching on across the countries of advanced economies and beyond.  The sly, disingenuous term of “defence” is used in this...

14.07.2025 10

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Death By Fungi: Cashing In On Erin Patterson – OpEd

She has become a notorious figure of international interest, shamelessly exploited for news cycles, commercial worth and career advancement.  After

09.07.2025 2

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Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF

It’s made to order.  First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering.  Then, kill, starve, vanquish and...

09.07.2025 10

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The Fanatic’s Gaze: Louis Theroux and the West Bank Settlers

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...

08.07.2025 9

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An Economy of Genocide: Israel and the Albanese Report

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...

07.07.2025 20

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Trump, Leakers and Journalists: The Assange Precedent and Revisiting the Espionage Act

When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way to the digital...

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Trump, Leakers And Journalists: The Assange Precedent And Revisiting The Espionage Act – OpEd

When campaigning in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump was delighted by leaked, hacked or disclosed material that wound its way

03.07.2025 4

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Operation Midnight Hammer: Were Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Damaged? – OpEd

The aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, a strike by the US Air Force on three nuclear facilities in Iran authorised

01.07.2025 3

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The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise of War

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...

30.06.2025 10

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The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise Of War – OpEd

The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large

29.06.2025 5

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Hastie’s Sensible Advice: More Transparency On US Forces In Australia – OpEd

It was a blast to a past wiped out by amnesia, social media and mental decrepitude.  Andrew Hastie, Australia’s opposition

25.06.2025 6

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Directive To Iran: Retaliation Bad; De-Escalation Good – OpEd

De-escalation has become one of those coarse words in severe need of banishment, best kept in an index used by

23.06.2025 3

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Skewed Diplomacy: Europe, Iran And Unhelpful Nuclear Nonsense – OpEd

Farce is a regular feature of international relations.  It can be gaudy and lurid, dressed up in all manner of

23.06.2025 4

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