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Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement on Gaza

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Impotent Effusions: The Joint Statement On Gaza – OpEd

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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...

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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K-Defense Day: Pimping for the Arms Dealers

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Shelling The Aid Seekers: Israel’s ‘Humanitarian’ Project In Gaza – OpEd

It’s official. If not, it ought to be. Israeli forces freely butcher Palestinians in Gaza of all stripes, standing and

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Condemning the Right to Self Defence: Iran’s Retaliation and Israel’s Privilege

There is a throbbing complaint among Western powers, including those in the European Union and the United States. Iran is not playing by the...

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Rogue States and Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran

Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence...

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Rogue States And Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran – OpE

Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury,

15.06.2025 10

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AUKUS: A Very Antipodean Stupidity – OpEd

Call it abandonment, anxiety, or just latent stupidity. The messy goo of feelings and fuzzy notions behind Australia’s most injudicious

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The Morality Of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers – OpEd

They really ought to be doing more. But in the scheme of things, the sanctioning of Israeli’s frothily fanatical ministers

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Catching Israel Out: Gaza and the Madleen “Selfie” Protest

The latest incident with the Madleen vessel, pictured as a relief measure by celebrity activists and sundry accompaniments to supply civilians with...

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Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias in Gaza

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...

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Bad Old Habits: Israel Backs Palestinian Militias In Gaza – OpEd

It is one of those things that should be recorded and replayed for eternity: Israel, in order to guard some

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The Inevitable Souring: Elon Musk Falls Out With Donald Trump – OpEd

Sandpit politics is rarely edifying and grown toddlers taking their fists to each other is unlikely to interest. But when

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Off to War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review

Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in obvious...

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Off To War We Go: Starmer’s Strategic Defence Review – OpEd

Unpopular governments always retreat to grounds of lazy convenience. Instead of engaging in exercises of courage, they take refuge in

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Thieves In The Kitchen: The Stealing Of Recipes – OpEd

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Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut Of The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – OpEd

What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets

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Roads To War: The EU’s Security Action For Europe Fund – OpEd

As the world was readying for the Second World War, the insightful humane Austrian author Stefan Zweig made the following

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Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan and Operation Sindoor

On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist...

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Squabbling Siblings: India, Pakistan And Operation Sindoor – OpEd

On April 22, militants from The Resistance Front (TRF), a group accused by Indian authorities of being linked to the

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Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants and Reality Television

Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the idea of using a reality television...

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The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza: Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots – OpEd

The latest phase of slaughter and seizure on the part of Israeli forces in Gaza has commenced. Following relentless airstrikes

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Celluloid Exploitation: Immigrants And Reality Television – OpEd

Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the

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Rehabilitation And Confidence Tricks: Al-Sharaa, Trump And Sanctions – OpEd

Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. ...

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Trump, Planes And The Arabian Gulf Tour – OpEd

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Fantasy and Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen as something of a turn by the...

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Commemorating Mummy: Reflections On Mother’s Day – OpEd

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White Smoke and Speculation: The Election of Pope Leo XIV

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first...

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Bratty Royal: Prince Harry And Bespoke Security Protection – OpEd

It has been unedifying, and, it should be said, far from noble. But being unedifying has become something of a

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Expulsion And Occupation: Israel’s Proposed Gaza Plan – OpEd

Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into...

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Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes and Labor Triumphs

The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got to work. If...

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Refashioned History: Liberal Catastrophes And Labor Triumphs – OpEd

The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got

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