The coming week will see an enormous festival of US alliances with and in Australia, with the biggest “Talisman Sabre” exercise ever, and a visit to Australia by the US Secretaries of State and Defence for the annual “AUSMIN” talks. All of this has been made more glamorous by the arrival of a new US Continue reading »
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Different ways of paying for drug development could generate more drugs that we desperately need more cheaply.
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The United States left Afghanistan in a state of dangerous and monumental disorder in 2021. Soon after, it made matters still worse by confiscating the meagre foreign exchange reserves of one of the world’s most deprived countries — shamelessly claiming that it was advancing certain human rights while doing so. Therefore, it took the US Continue reading »
For decades, the Indian state has suppressed the democratic rights of Kashmiris. Narendra Modi’s hard-right government is taking this pattern of repression to new extremes, with the complicity of Indian intellectuals who seek to toxify the cause of Kashmir. First published in JACOBIN July 16, 2023 India-controlled Kashmir is one of the most heavily militarised zones Continue reading »
Whereas once upon a time Australia was regarded as a country of goodwill, tolerance and decency, it is now reputed, worldwide, to be the country with the most inhumane treatment towards refugees. When I moved to the U.S. in 1981 I carried the Australian flag with an immature and ignorant pride, totally oblivious to the Continue reading »
Is our deepest yearning to be ‘Us’, together, on our islands of Australia? A reflection on the Voice referendum and life, after a conversation this week at a swimming pool. On Monday, changing after swimming, a bloke struck up a conversation. “I am voting ‘No’ at the Referendum”, he said. He then went into some Continue reading »
One plaintiff vomited while recounting her ordeal. The case marks the first time patients denied abortions have sued a state since Roe was overturned.
The post Testifying Against Texas, Women Denied Abortions Relive the Pregnancies That Almost Killed Them appeared first on The Intercept.
Sexual abuse victims without the resources to fight off lawsuits may feel forced to recant their accusations — or never speak out in the first place.
The post Years After #MeToo, Defamation Cases Increasingly Target Victims Who Can’t Afford to Speak Out appeared first on The Intercept.
The upcoming Spanish elections indicate the unthinkable – the resurrection of Franco’s influence within a new government. But perhaps it could be the last of his death throes. When I was five years old and lived in Argentina, my capacity for political analysis was even more limited than today. But that little boy from Buenos Continue reading »
It’s hard to know whether to cry or laugh reading the highlights of the hour-long conversation Joe Biden had with the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman on Tuesday, after meeting President Isaac Herzog. One can cry over the impotence and uselessness of the strongest superpower in the world when it comes to its protégé, Israel. Continue reading »