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Bidding Wars And Nonsense Targets: Cutting Migration Down Under – OpEd

Bidding Wars And Nonsense Targets: Cutting Migration Down Under – OpEd

Key Takeaways: It’s become the disease of affluence: How do wealthy countries limit, restrict or totally bar migrants (whether they

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Eurasia Review

Binoy Kampmark

Counterfeit Righteousness: Anthropic, AI And The Pacing Fallacy – OpEd

Counterfeit Righteousness: Anthropic, AI And The Pacing Fallacy – OpEd

Key Takeaways: It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob

17.09.2026 8

Eurasia Review

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A New Sanctions Regime: Targeting Israel’s West Bank Settlements

International responses to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic composition of the territory, have...

14.09.2026 20

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Skidding Pacts: An AUKUS Delusion Update – OpEd

Key Takeaways: In the unpardonable ecosystem of graft, favours and corruption that is defence contracting, defence conferencing and all matters

09.09.2026 9

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Slanted Cartography: The Politics Of Mapping – OpEd

Key Takeaways: There is much in the nature of a map. The very drawing of a line signifies an assertion,

08.09.2026 10

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Slander And Impunity: The World Central Kitchen Killings In Gaza – OpEd

Key Takeaways: In September 2025, nine countries launched the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel. Australia explained its...

03.09.2026 10

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Thieving Matters: The Trump-Venezuela Oil Steal

When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international...

02.09.2026 10

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Autonomous Weapons and Killer Robots: New Warnings, Old Habits

Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General...

02.09.2026 20

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Thieving Matters: The Trump-Venezuela Oil Steal – OpEd

Key Takeaways: When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open

01.09.2026 10

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Sensible Invalidations: Striking Down France’s Social Media Ban for Minors

Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. This prohibitionist urge has...

01.09.2026 30

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Fagan’s Damning Verdict: Vandalism and Antisemitism Down Under

The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This is particularly so in countries claiming...

27.08.2026 30

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Fagan’s Damning Verdict: Vandalism And Antisemitism Down Under – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This

26.08.2026 10

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Deprived At Sea: The Tribulations Of The USS Abraham Lincoln – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions,

25.08.2026 10

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Imperial Nostalgia: Afghanistan After Five Years of Taliban Rule

The lesson scrawled and etched across the neglected covers of history books (few read them these days) suggests one mighty, consistent rule: Never...

24.08.2026 10

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Imperial Nostalgia: Afghanistan After Five Years of Taliban Rule – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The lesson scrawled and etched across the neglected covers of history books (few read them these days) suggests

21.08.2026 30

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Colluding with Violence: Aiding Israeli Settlers in the West Bank

The latest incidents of Israeli settler violence in the villages of Qusra and Kour, located in the northern occupied West Bank, have again caught...

19.08.2026 10

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Charlatans In Academe: When Jason Arday Went Too Far – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The self-inflicted passing of Jason Arday this month following his resignation from the University of Cambridge is an

19.08.2026 10

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Locking up the Felines: Cat Curfews Down Under

Nothing inspires confidence in the silliness of the human species than its efforts to understand the workings of others. This, at least, makes an...

16.08.2026 10

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Wounding Victory: Nigel Farage Beats Count Binface – OpEd

Key Takeaways It was never really in doubt. The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, irritated, bothered, and keen to throw

15.08.2026 20

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Solemn Anniversaries: The UN Refugee Convention turns 75

That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has suffered...

12.08.2026 10

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Undiplomatic Melons: Anthony Albanese’s Oafish Bungle – OpEd

Key Takeaways “Politicians,” the vituperative satirist Auberon Waugh observed, “can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can

12.08.2026 10

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Solemn Anniversaries: The UN Refugee Convention Turns 75 – OpEd

Key Takeaways: That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations

11.08.2026 10

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Project Panama: Scanning and Book Destruction at Anthropic

Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the dump....

10.08.2026 40

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Project Panama: Scanning And Book Destruction At Anthropic – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries

06.08.2026 10

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Stillborn Peace Plans: Israel, Hamas And The Question Of Disarmament – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US

05.08.2026 10

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Football Lucre: The Revolt Against Infantino’s Funding Plans

It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque organisation of mafia...

03.08.2026 20

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Managed Extinguishment: Husic, Debating Gaza and the ALP Conference

The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party that...

02.08.2026 20

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Enrichment Antics: Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Deal

The Israelis had their jaws dropping and dragging on the grounds. The Saudis were cock-a-hoop. The Trump administration remains, as it always does,...

29.07.2026 20

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Karim Khan: Sex, Politics, and the ICC

Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had, in the Wing of Zion,...

28.07.2026 10

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Karim Khan: Sex, Politics, And The ICC – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime

28.07.2026 20

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Modish Blockades: The Houthis, Trump and Expanding the War

The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy international traffic and cargo...

27.07.2026 40

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Modish Blockades: The Houthis, Trump And Expanding The War – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy

23.07.2026 10

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Manuring the Ground: Trump, China and Stolen Elections

He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate on the election...

22.07.2026 40

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Close That Facility: The 2026 Pine Gap Protests – OpEd

Key Takeaways: It remains a prickly reminder that Australia remains an embarrassed vassal of power, annexed to the security interests

21.07.2026 20

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Acting the Goose: Pauline Hanson’s Tour of Blighty

She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack of erudition, and dismissed as...

21.07.2026 30

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Manuring The Ground: Trump, China And Stolen Elections – OpEd

Key Takeaways: He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald

20.07.2026 20

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Fearing Justice: Rubio Gets Bolshie About the ICC

Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal Court, have...

19.07.2026 20

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Acting The Goose: Pauline Hanson’s Tour Of Blighty – OpEd

Key Takeaways: She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her

19.07.2026 20

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Rivalries and Anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz Railway

History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it...

16.07.2026 30

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Fearing Justice: Rubio Gets Bolshie About The ICC – OpEd

Key Takeaways Why are they so afraid? The Trump administration, pathologically obsessed about the exaggerated reach of the International Criminal

15.07.2026 10

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Trash Politics with Brio: Count Binface Versus Nigel Farage

Let the mockery and disdain begin. The elected member of the Essex seat of Clacton, also leader of the populist Reform UK party, has decided to avoid...

15.07.2026 30

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Laboratory Politics: Monoculture Down Under

Words can function as prisons and windows. They can cage meaning and suffocate understanding. They can also reveal concepts which breathtaking...

14.07.2026 30

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Deferring a Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks

Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated....

13.07.2026 50

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Uranium Diets: Nuclear Energy, Modi And Down Under Toadies – OpEd

Key Takeaways: It was a distasteful affair, but Australian politicians have become accustomed to those toadying practices that accompany capitulations

12.07.2026 10

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Demagogue Stunt: Nigel Farage’s By-Election Gambit

Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a facsimile), the leader of Reform UK had been...

09.07.2026 30

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Deferring A Crisis: The Iran-US Ceasefire Cracks – OpEd

Key Takeaways Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired;...

08.07.2026 20

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Binoy Kampmark

Demagogue Stunt: Nigel Farage’s By-Election Gambit – OpEd

Key Takeaways Nigel Farage is not a picture of happiness. As Britain’s version of Trumpism (only a version, never a

08.07.2026 20

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Scrutinizing the Unpardonable: The AUKUS Public Inquiry So Far

In the annals of policy, strategy and budgeting, the AUKUS pact comprising Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States will be seen as one of...

06.07.2026 50

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Adding to Failure: Amending Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban

When something is not working, abandon it. The policymaker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and the endless tapping...

02.07.2026 20

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White Flag Judgments: Palestine Action, Protest And The UK Courts – OpEd

The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino

01.07.2026 30

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