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Michael Mckinley

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Fact and fantasy: US justification on Venezuela

Fact and fantasy: US justification on Venezuela
05.12.2025 20

The New Daily

Michael Mckinley

America’s justification for attacking Venezuela: Part 2: fact and fantasy in the drug wars

America’s justification for attacking Venezuela: Part 2: fact and fantasy in the drug wars
03.12.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

America’s justification for attacking Venezuela: Part 1 – a calculated insult to us all

America’s justification for attacking Venezuela: Part 1 – a calculated insult to us all
02.12.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

An immodest proposal for an ideal source of strategic policy advice

19.10.2025 30

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Disengaging from the dangerous alliance

24.09.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Speaking terrorism Part 2: Evading reality, atrocities and self-image

05.09.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Speaking terrorism Part 1: The things we forget

05.09.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Military operations seen through Gauguin, the Colosseum and responsibility

19.07.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Reflections on Ukraine’s 'Spider Web' and other attacks on Russia: why the euphoria?

13.06.2025 4

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

A Joycean defence of Harvard (and Australia’s universities?) from Trump’s derangement Part 2 of 2

11.06.2025 6

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Trump’s attacks on Harvard: Cardinal Wolsey and the prologue to an Australian encounter? Part 1 of 2

10.06.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

The need for depressive realism and a forgotten type of truth-telling

09.05.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

To Australia’s 'realists': Gnothi seauton (Know yourself)

09.04.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

We can see clearly now: We’re closely allied to a fascist regime and so must realign

08.03.2025 9

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

The Varghese review of funding for strategic policy work: the triumph of the poverty of imagination

The Independent Review of Commonwealth funding for strategic policy work, conducted and authored by Peter Varghese is now published. It almost...

08.01.2025 4

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

The 2-Israel Problem

Palestine’s problem is only partly expressed as a frustrated 2-State Solution; it might, more effectively be understood as a 2-Israel problem. The...

03.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Australia’s colonised universities: in partibus infidelium*

 Among a group of corporations which also includes Boeing and BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin is a particular target for this action. Though...

11.09.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Engaging Pillar 2 of AUKUS: losing self-respect and encouraging self-harm

Pillar 2 is a thing that AUKUS created: it appears at different times and with different meanings and possibilities and yet is not entirely, or...

21.08.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley

Engaging Pillar 2 of AUKUS: losing self-respect and encouraging self-harm

Pillar 2 is a thing that AUKUS created: it appears at different times and with different meanings and possibilities and yet is not entirely, or...

20.08.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Michael Mckinley