When a review of Commonwealth funding of “strategic policy work”, together with the government’s response, was released just before Christmas, the howls from associates of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute were probably audible on the Moon. A former director of ASPI, Peter Jennings, was among the first out of the blocks with an article in Continue reading »
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It falls to someone to bring the discussion concerning what is happening in the Middle East, back to the elephant in the room. And what is the elephant? It is the fact of illegal occupation and what is not being done about it. Our media simply ignores the elephant. It prefers to concentrate upon Hamas Continue reading »
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s abortive attempt to impose martial law has triggered a very serious constitutional firestorm and presented the US with an extremely complicated challenge. Yoon pathetically claimed he was responding to a growing North Korean threat “within his government”, but it was obvious that his dramatic move was born out of his Continue reading »
Judgments about economic management will be critical in the next election. Examination of their respective records and policies suggests that contrary to popular opinion, Labor is better than the Coalition. As we enter a new year, the forthcoming election is quite close and will dominate political discussion for the next few months. For many of Continue reading »
Since the beginning of this century — triggered by the United States’ illegal invasion of Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan, and aided by the turbocharged arrival of the digital age — there has been significant growth in interest among those in the non-Western world around issues related to their colonial past. This quest has been Continue reading »
In 1971, Time magazine decided that it might do a friendly cover story on newly installed Liberal prime minister, Billy McMahon, and asked for co-operation from his media office. The office asked that questions be submitted in writing. This was not from mistrust of Time – indeed the office was deeply conscious of what Jane Continue reading »
Now the neocons are ready to make Taiwan the Ukraine of Asia. The provocations from Washington just never stop. Be it Nancy Pelosi visiting Taipei or US military personnel stationed on some of Taiwan’s closest islands to mainland China, the US is upping its game to make sure China is provoked into a corner from Continue reading »
The insurrection in South Korea that was started on 3 December is still ongoing. This insurrection needs to be swiftly put to an end, but in order to do that, we need to consider the qualities of an insurrection and what it means to quell it. Legally, the recent incident bears similarities to Chun Doo-hwan’s Continue reading »
Rep. Sara Jacobs is trying to raise the alarm about the key U.S. ally’s conduct after the Christmas strike killed 10 civilians.
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He won Four years ago today I watched on television as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol during the joint session of Congress to stop the certification of the presidential election and I thought to myself, “it’s finally over. Trump can’t possibly come back after this.” Until then I had assumed that he would immediately start his comeback. It didn’t occur to me that he could survive inciting this violent assault, especially since he egged it on as it was happening: As we later saw on video, the crowd soon began chanting “hang Mike Pence!” Later in the evening Trump finally emerged and put out a video telling the rioters he understood why they were so upset about all the evil people who stole the election but they needed to go home now. He said he loved them and they were very special: Over the course of many hours we watched on TV as bizarre Trump supporters occupied the Senate floor and took possession of the dais, the Capitol was vandalized and trashed and rioters beat police over the head with American flags. It was the most shockingly surreal event I’ve ever observed in American politics.
It’s a snow day in Baltimore and that means one thing–a post about cocktails! Full disclosure: I wanted to share these before New Year’s Day, but I’m lazy. And distracted. And lazy. Let’s be honest. I’m just really, really lazy. But better late than never, right? These two new Bloody Marys are the result ofContinue reading Snow Day Bloody Marys (Hemingway and Doritos)
DREW: This house has been run down since the ’70s. We’re hoping we can help it get its groove back!
JONATHAN: That’s right. We’re going to give this fixer-upper a big boost of curb appeal.
GEORG: Why do you avert your eyes? Can you tell that I am nude beneath my velvet cloak?
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JONATHAN: I think we should redo the roof first.
DREW: No way, I’m all about bringing these floors back to their glory days.
GEORG: Have you ever eaten tiger prawns on the burnished gold sands of Tahiti’s shores? It is true: I, Georg Property, have long known such carnal delights.
JONATHAN: The driveway is—
GEORG (sadly): We are the only species that dips the bodies of our fallen prey in butter. We are a species of lonely gods.
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JONATHAN: This kitchen is so dated!
The Conservative Party leader's refusal to criticise the X owner's dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office
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How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? By merely posing his dazzling question in 1952, Aneurin Bevan captured liberal democracy’s greatest paradox. Today, in the era of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and their Big Tech brethren, Bevan’s time-honoured paradox has only grown preposterously. […]
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As a new year begins and the blog starts fresh in 2025, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the highlights of the blog in 2024. In case you missed any of our posts the first time round, the five most viewed posts of last year were: We hope you enjoyed the blog … Continue reading Our top five posts of 2024
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In November, CIA employee Asif Rahman was charged with violating the Espionage Act. The US government alleged that he disclosed two documents revealing American military assessments of Israel’s plan to strike Iran. Rahman has pleaded not guilty.