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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
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...
The latest phase of slaughter and seizure on the part of Israeli forces in Gaza has commenced. Following relentless airstrikes
Shocking it might be, yet still part of an old pattern. The US Department of Homeland Security is floating the
Contrary to the propaganda of moral upstarts, terrorism pays. It proves rewarding. It establishes states and reconstitutes others. ...
They seemed made for each other. A former reality television star, with dubious real estate credentials, a freakish alienation from
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...
Commercial gimmicks are sometimes impossible to beat off. Their stench and pull follows, even as you look the other way.
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...
It has been unedifying, and, it should be said, far from noble. But being unedifying has become something of a
Killing civilians wholesale, starving them to convince those unaffected to change course, and shepherding whole populations like livestock into...
The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got to work. If...
The dust had barely settled on the Australian federal election on May 3 before the hagiographers, mythmakers and revisionists got
The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen
The murder and starvation of populations in real time, subject to rolling coverage and commentary, is not usually the done
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...
Universities are in a bind. As institutions of learning and teaching, knowledge learnt and taught should, or at the very
Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice. Killing...
Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that
Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice.
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...
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...
It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But
In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord
Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting...
Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting
Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the...
Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue
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...