When does politically-motivated violence, or terrorism if you prefer the bastardised term, become legitimate resistance to oppression, occupation and savagery? It’s an unavoidable question because with the exception of pacifists, everyone justifies the use of violence for some political cause – normally because they cast their advocacy as “defensive” and therefore legitimate. Even if your Continue reading »
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China Matters has gone, and that is a tragedy. Australia lost a valuable think tank that could provide policy advice at a critical juncture of Australia-China relations. The implementation of the government hatchet job is set out in detail in Margaret Simon’s extended article, Red Flags, in the latest Monthly, and in Hamish McDonald’s article Continue reading »
UK news reporter Jonathan Pie pulls no punches as he gives a brutally honest view of the UK Conservative party as the UK rolls into election day on Thursday 4 July. Republished from youtube.com/@JonathanPie Continue reading »
New modern coal and gas generation might be the best options if the main aim of policy was containing the cost of energy. However, even an expensive means of reducing greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions should be acceptable if we have an obligation to benefit future generations. We are the ‘pivotal generation’ according to Henry Shue, Continue reading »
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. So is a graph or chart. All provoke questions and new ideas. The above chart clearly portrays China’s economic rise as seen by it winning over and hosting top companies in competition with the United States. It also conjures up some interesting questions… Item Continue reading »
Instead of concern about continuing slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank, the major controversy surrounding Senator Payman’s support for a Palestinian state and for Palestinians’ lives has focused on her non-compliance with rules and discipline in the Labor caucus. That seems astounding. When observing end of time massacres by the Israeli state, why does Continue reading »
Julian Assange’s case shows the danger of journalists being ensnared in legal entanglements when they do not play the power game. For many of us diehard journalists, Julian Assange’s release from jail this week might have reawakened the journalistic fire in our bellies. The WikiLeaks founder spent the last 12 years holed up in an embassy and a maximum-security Continue reading »
China claims sovereignty over roughly 62% of the South China Sea (SCS) as delineated by a nine-dash line first published on a Chinese map in 1947. Taiwan makes the same claim which was reiterated by its former leader Chiang Kai-shek in 1943 when he governed China as a whole. China says that its maritime activity Continue reading »
The conservative megadonor’s network is plowing money into the Republican primary to support Will Scharf, Trump’s personal attorney.
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As voters look for another option, alternative Democratic leaders poll similarly or even better than Biden — even without name recognition.
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