Beijing has vowed to seize “strategic opportunities” and further raise its “international influence, appeal and power” to shape a rapidly changing world by strengthening Communist Party control of foreign affairs and standing firm against “bullying” and “hegemonism” from the West. At a rare closed-door party meeting about China’s future foreign policy direction that concluded on Continue reading »
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Having failed to see Beijing provoked into war over Taiwan or in the South China Sea, America itself has been dragged into war after war in Europe and the Middle East With US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s announcement last week of Operation Prosperity Guardian – an alliance to defend “freedom of navigation” from attacks by the Iran-backed Continue reading »
The comments come as Israeli ministers make increasingly clear their ambition to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.
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“I’ve been to pretty much any conflict,” the World Food Program’s chief economist said. “And I have never seen anything like this, both in terms of its scale, its magnitude, but also at the pace that this has unfolded.” With roughly 90% of Gaza residents displaced and seeking safety from Israel’s bombardment and ground attacks, crowding Continue reading »
In Gaza, the 16 year old ghetto of two million people that Israel created, it seems that we are looking at Israel’s own hideous “final solution” with their collective punishment of a whole civilian population, their catastrophic genocidal practices and their mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. After decades of a systematic, sustained and strategic Continue reading »
Gibran Rakabuming Raka is smarter than his stolid Dad Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, President of our huge neighbour since 2014. As Vice President Gibran could be a positive change agent – but that demands missionary zeal and the guts to challenge his dangerous leader. Does he have The Right Stuff? In the lead-up to the 14 Continue reading »
The Israel-Premier Tech (PRT) team is clearly a vehicle for advancing Israel’s image, and, indeed, advancing favourable propaganda. Many readers will know that South Australia hosts the Santos Tour Down Under (Tour Down Under) in January each year. It is traditionally the opening event of the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) World Tour. That is the Continue reading »
The judgment of history awaits as we continue to witness the nightmarish visions of innocents being vaporised because of Washington’s unconditional backing of the Israeli blitzkrieg against the people of Gaza. The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on Continue reading »
Instead of thinking through and independently acting in Australia’s best interests, Prime Minister Albanese has followed in the footsteps of his discredited predecessors and outsourced defence and foreign policy to the US. The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is a provincial man with a strong social conscience. He understands issues of health, education and infrastructure and Continue reading »