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Pity The Poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO And Spending For War – OpEd

Pity The Poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO And Spending For War – OpEd

There have been politicians who have fancied themselves as poets.  There was Herman Van Rompuy in April 2010 who, when

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Eurasia Review

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Justifying The Egregious: John Howard And Spying On East Timor – OpEd

Justifying The Egregious: John Howard And Spying On East Timor – OpEd

Bugging, in the context of intelligence, is natural for the buggee.  Those who approve it and engage in such a

21.01.2025 6

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Situation Critical: UNRWA and its Continued Operations

In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end...

21.01.2025 8

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Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire

Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke.  This is largely because the ceasefire announced...

20.01.2025 10

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Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire – OpEd

Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke.  This is largely because the ceasefire

19.01.2025 3

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AUKUS: Flawed and Sinking

A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal.  The AUKUS security arrangement between...

15.01.2025 10

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Detained Without Charge: Eleven Yemenis Leave Guantánamo

On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two decades without charge at the...

14.01.2025 30

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AUKUS: Flawed And Sinking – OpEd

AUKUS: Flawed And Sinking – OpEd

A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal.  The AUKUS security arrangement between...

13.01.2025 7

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Targeting Climate Change Protests

Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts...

13.01.2025 10

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Take Your Money and Shove it:  The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, and Russia’s Economic Trauma

“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that insisted...

09.01.2025 10

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Join the Army; Travel to Exotic, Distant Lands; and Radicalize

It has been popular to see political and religious radicalisation as something oddly separable from institutions of state. State institutions are...

08.01.2025 10

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Take Your Money And Shove It: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, And Russia’s Economic Trauma – OpEd

Take Your Money And Shove It: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, And Russia’s Economic Trauma – OpEd

“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that insisted on...

07.01.2025 3

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Join The Army; Travel To Exotic, Distant Lands; And Radicalize – OpEd

Join The Army; Travel To Exotic, Distant Lands; And Radicalize – OpEd

It has been popular to see political and religious radicalisation as something oddly separable from institutions of state.  State institutions are...

07.01.2025 5

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Frail Egos and Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, the United States and Invading Iraq

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again.  The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 – a supposed treat...

06.01.2025 20

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Frail Egos And Sandpit Colonialism: Australia, The United States And Invading Iraq – OpEd

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard is in the news again.  The release of Australian cabinet documents from 2004 – a supposed treat for...

04.01.2025 2

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Ignoring A Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria And Courting Dictators – OpEd

Ignoring A Leopard’s Spots: The UK, Syria And Courting Dictators – OpEd

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values.  When given a chance, they will...

03.01.2025 5

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Far From Ignorant: The European Union, Arms Exports And Israel – OpEd

While international law can, at times, seem an ephemeral creature, vulnerable to manipulation, neglect and outright dismissal, its strictures can...

02.01.2025 4

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Jimmy Carter, Israel and the Apartheid Question

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents.  Coming to power...

02.01.2025 4

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Jimmy Carter, Israel And The Apartheid Question – OpEd

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents.  Coming to power...

31.12.2024 20

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Greenland Redux: Trump and America’s Continuing Obsession

History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways.  Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for...

31.12.2024 5

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Greenland Redux: Trump And America’s Continuing Obsession – OpEd

History shows that empires acquire territories in various ways.  Dynasties link arms through marriage, as the Habsburgs were famous for doing. ...

30.12.2024 6

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Sinking Mike Pompeo: Tucker Carlson, Assange and Trump

Mike Pompeo’s role in the first Trump administration as both director of the Central Intelligence Agency and US Secretary of State will be...

30.12.2024 9

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Sinking Mike Pompeo: Tucker Carlson, Assange And Trump – OpEd

Mike Pompeo’s role in the first Trump administration as both director of the Central Intelligence Agency and US Secretary of State will be...

29.12.2024 2

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Suing Antony Blinken: The US State Department, Israel And The Leahy Law – OpEd

On December 17, a number of Palestinians alleging human rights violations by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank filed a federal lawsuit pursuant to...

27.12.2024 1

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Jesting on the Environment: Australian Mining Gets a Present

Mining magnates seem to have it all.  Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that...

27.12.2024 2

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Jesting On The Environment: Australian Mining Gets A Present – OpEd

Mining magnates seem to have it all.  Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that...

26.12.2024 9

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Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group

The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance for the global security market, was the brainchild of three engineers drawn...

24.12.2024 2

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Concentrated Markets And Iceless Fokkers – OpEd

He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes coarsened him, and plagiarism became commonplace in...

23.12.2024 2

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The Strawman of Antisemitism: Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under

Of late, a spate of incidents has taken place in Australia giving sheer delight to the simian-resembling Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton.  On a...

23.12.2024 20

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Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware And The Liability Of The NSO Group – OpEd

The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance for the global security market, was the brainchild of three engineers drawn...

22.12.2024 60

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Feeding Chaos: Israel Cripples Syria’s Defence – OpEd

The justifications are always the same.  We are moving into territory for security reasons. We are creating a temporary buffer zone from which...

19.12.2024 5

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The Strawman Of Antisemitism: Banning Protests Against Israel Down Under – OpEd

Of late, a spate of incidents has taken place in Australia giving sheer delight to the simian-resembling Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton.  On a...

19.12.2024 2

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Last Acts: Time for Biden to Pardon Assange 

Since making what was likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and...

19.12.2024 10

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Last Acts: Time For Biden To Pardon Assange – OpEd

Since making what was likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and...

18.12.2024 3

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Foiling Rupert Murdoch: Project Harmony Misfires

The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided.  It saw a dicey attempt by one of the...

18.12.2024 20

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Finding the Unmentionable: Amnesty International, Israel and Genocide

It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza, and increasingly violent activities being conducted against Palestinians in the...

16.12.2024 10

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Chilling Warnings for Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go Bad

The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly.  Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks.  Armed men ebullient...

11.12.2024 3

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FIFA’s Cooked Findings: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Bid

FIFA has done it again.  With its usual sparkle of inventive interpretation, amoral reasoning, and snappy bravura, the world football federation...

10.12.2024 10

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Chilling Warnings For Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go Bad – OpEd

The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly.  Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks.  Armed men ebullient and...

10.12.2024 4

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The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria, though it is a feeling bound to be tempered by swiftly...

09.12.2024 3

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Right To Statehood Or Recipe For Next Inferno – OpEd

By Dr Alon Ben-Meir Trump, who wants an end to the Israeli-Hamas war even before he reassumes the Presidency, must know that denying the...

08.12.2024 2

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The Sectarian Risk: Turkey’s Syrian Mission – OpEd

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria, though it is a feeling bound to be tempered by swiftly...

08.12.2024 3

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FIFA’s Cooked Findings: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup Bid – OpEd

FIFA has done it again.  With its usual sparkle of inventive interpretation, amoral reasoning, and snappy bravura, the world football federation...

07.12.2024 4

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The Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies

A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria, as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land. Silly terms such as...

05.12.2024 5

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The Syrian Civil War: New Phases, Old Lies – OpEd

A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria, as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land. Silly terms such as...

03.12.2024 3

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The ABC’s Colonel Blimp: Why Kim Williams Misunderstands Joe Rogan

The position of a state broadcaster, one funded directly by taxpayers from a particular country, places it in a delicate position.  The risk of...

03.12.2024 3

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Gallic Stubbornness: France, Netanyahu and the ICC Arrest Warrants

The comity of nations, at least when it comes to international humanitarian law, took a rather curious turn with the announcement by France that it...

02.12.2024 3

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Gallic Stubbornness: France, Netanyahu And The ICC Arrest Warrants – OpEd

The comity of nations, at least when it comes to international humanitarian law, took a rather curious turn with the announcement by France that it...

30.11.2024 3

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Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium and the US Energy Market

Be careful who you condemn and ostracise.  They just might be supplying you with a special need.  While the United States security establishment...

29.11.2024 4

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Arrest Warrants from The Hague: The ICC, Netanyahu and Gallant

The slow, often grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the issuing of three arrest warrants by the...

27.11.2024 3

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