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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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Eurasia Review

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

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 3

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

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

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

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

19.06.2025 4

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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...

17.06.2025 10

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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...

16.06.2025 10

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Rogue States And Thought Crimes: Israel Strikes Iran – OpE

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

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

13.06.2025 6

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

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

12.06.2025 7

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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...

11.06.2025 8

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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...

09.06.2025 9

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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

08.06.2025 7

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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

06.06.2025 10

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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...

05.06.2025 20

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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

03.06.2025 10

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Thieves In The Kitchen: The Stealing Of Recipes – OpEd

Recipe author Nagi Maehashi, unmoved by her own numbing banality, is peeved.  Her target: Penguin books and author Brooke Bellamy. 

02.06.2025 7

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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

01.06.2025 10

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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

29.05.2025 5

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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...

29.05.2025 10

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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

28.05.2025 10

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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...

22.05.2025 10

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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

21.05.2025 4

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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

21.05.2025 4

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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. ...

19.05.2025 6

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Trump, Planes And The Arabian Gulf Tour – OpEd

They seemed made for each other.  A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from

16.05.2025 4

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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...

15.05.2025 10

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Commemorating Mummy: Reflections On Mother’s Day – OpEd

Commercial gimmicks are sometimes impossible to beat off.  Their stench and pull follows, even as you look the other way. 

13.05.2025 4

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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...

12.05.2025 20

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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

09.05.2025 8

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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...

07.05.2025 9

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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...

07.05.2025 10

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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

06.05.2025 6

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Fantasy And Exploitation: The US-Ukraine Minerals Deal – OpEd

The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen

02.05.2025 6

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The ICJ, Israel And The Gaza Blockade – OpEd

The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done

30.04.2025 40

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Yale, Ben-Gvir and Banning Palestinian Groups

Universities are in a bind.  As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very least could, be put into...

28.04.2025 6

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Yale, Ben-Gvir And Banning Palestinian Groups – OpEd

Universities are in a bind.  As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very

28.04.2025 7

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Euphemistic Practices:  The IDF, Killing Aid Workers and Self-Investigation

Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice.   Killing...

24.04.2025 10

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The Selling Of America: Ending The US Dollar’s Exorbitant Privilege – OpEd

Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that

24.04.2025 10

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Euphemistic Practices: The IDF, Killing Aid Workers And Self-Investigation – OpEd

Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice.  

22.04.2025 8

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Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance...

22.04.2025 10

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De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East.“Security...

21.04.2025 9

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Dotty And Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS – OpEd

It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals.  But

21.04.2025 20

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De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy – OpEd

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord

18.04.2025 10

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Flexible and Sly: Indonesian Defense Policy, Russia and Australian Anxiety

Island states tend to be anxious political entities.  Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting...

17.04.2025 10

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Flexible And Sly: Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia And Australian Anxiety – OpEd

Island states tend to be anxious political entities.  Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting

16.04.2025 5

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Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the...

15.04.2025 10

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Gender Stunts In Space: Blue Origin’s Female Celebrity Envoys – OpEd

Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue

15.04.2025 5

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Junk Science and Bad Policing: The Homicide Prediction Project

The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot.  To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and...

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