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Israel is facing the most significant challenge to its existence since the establishment of the State in 1949. For the first time in its short history this is not a military threat of annihilation from an Arab neighbour with two of which (Egypt and Jordan) it has since formed peace treaties and a normalisation of Continue reading »
When a severe political cancer returns after a period of remission, we have a recurrence. In serious cases, cells from the original cancer regrow and spread virulently. One of America’s best-known commentators, Fareed Zakaria, recently compared the current grave dysfunctionality and panic-driven decision making in Washington to the worst of the McCarthy era in the Continue reading »
There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” “Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that calls for de-escalation toward a ceasefire, respect for national sovereignty, establishment of humanitarian corridors and resumption of peace talks. “Dialogue and negotiation Continue reading »
Although it is in America’s interests that we are urged to prepare for war against China within three years, the graphic image that accompanied the ‘Red Alert’ alert series in the Age and Sydney Morning Herald was designed to speak directly to Australia’s own deep and distinctive historic fears and sense of geographic isolation. Just Continue reading »
There are few who think as clearly, who are as articulate, and who are prepared to speak out in the face of incredible stupidity in Australian politics as Paul Keating. And, as he made clear in his address to the press club this week, AUKUS is nothing if not an exercise in security policy stupidity. Continue reading »
How the SVB bailout confirms the dedication of the elites to self interest only.
"Fool me once, shame on thee. Fool me twice, shame on me." The Global Soutn has wised up in the wake of the war in Iraq.
Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging talk on SVB and other recent bank collapses, focusing on the considerable role of misguided Fed policies
The Norfolk Southern CEO dialled in his Congressional testimony as more and more damning details about the Ohio crash emerge.