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Few in history can have achieved so much in a negative sense in so short a time. Instead of gloatingly
Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse...
Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud
He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made...
It’s always comforting to hear politicians reveal wisdoms and novel notions long known to those who vote for them. This
Elder abuse in the frothy swirl of debates regarding the role of the United Nations is currently modish. The body
It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly. But this was precisely what Israel’s Prime Minister,...
On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure for the storage of...
On August 6, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] is using Azure
There is night and day between an entity such as WikiLeaks, a daring publisher of classified government documents extraordinaire, and
“True to the historic commitment of my country to the Middle East, to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, this
It was so startlingly obvious it seemed to snuff out any comment. Lord Peter Mandelson, otherwise known as the sinister Mr Fixit of New Labour from...
These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch. In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology...
Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down. The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe with vulgar...
Bullies, never able to hit upwards, always kick down. The United States beats their vassals in the Indo-Pacific and Europe
When countries have suffered the odd mishap regarding government paralysis or convulsive change, the frequent quip would often be: “Who
It’s all part of a stratagem, bleak and brutal. With Palestinian recognition being promised by France, the UK, Canada and
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...
Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in. While
The International Criminal Court bash fest is getting ever more frenetic in Washington and among the law shredding members of
To get to the venue involves a calming, if early ritual. Uneasy sleep beforehand, given the morning slot. Eagerness to
Over the last two decades, Australia has made a name for itself by pursuing barbaric policies towards refugees and asylum seekers arriving by sea. ...
The moment the security pact known as AUKUS came into being, it was clear what its true intention was. Announced
Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been...
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...
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...
Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been...
History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered. Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom,...
Write, but do not offend. Speak and comment, but do not divide. Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion. ...
It is a curious feeling to see a government, let alone any politician, suddenly find their banished backbones and retired principles. The spine, on...
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