In one of our most macabre and diabolical acts, humans are unburying and reactivating the Earth’s teeming dead from ages long gone by, in a wild act that is sure to haunt every one of us for the remainder of our days. Trillions of organisms that perished over hundreds of millions of years and whose Continue reading »
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Our foreign minister’s first and hardest overseas task in 2024 is likely to be her visit to Israel. Penny Wong and other foreigners, apart from aid workers, cannot enter Gaza. This will circumscribe what she sees, whom she meets, and what she achieves. If Anthony Albanese follows her visit to Israel, the Coalition and the Continue reading »
Just when will the horror that is Gaza today prompt the Albanese Government to acknowledge publicly that the war in the territory is now consumed by Israel’s blood-lust revenge and a hunger for ethnic reconfiguration? Is it too much to hope that the government can find a conscience of its own rather than mimicking the Continue reading »
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is the first candidate to win an endorsement from Justice Democrats for the 2024 cycle.
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The Biden administration is due in federal court later this month, while Israel faces charges of genocide at The Hague this week.
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"They don’t particularly like being answerable to the media and they like even less the scrutiny that comes with public office."
Summary: the distinguished historian Avi Shlaim argues that in its war with Gaza, Israel openly displays its true colours as a Eurocentric settler-colonialist and apartheid state. Today’s newsletter is a transcript of our 6 December podcast with Avi Shlaim the historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In June his Continue reading »
Prime Minister Albanese, “don’t wait 200 years to apologise for the brutality of a coloniser, be on the right side of history now, today.” I am not in the habit of publishing or forwarding work by other writers, but in this case I am making an exception. This is not written by a journalist, but Continue reading »
It is time for Albanese to take the public into his confidence. He has an instinct for secretiveness that almost matches that of Scott Morrison. If the sacked secretary of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, had planned to appeal or seek judicial review of his sacking, he has probably now run out of time. That deprives Continue reading »