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In contrast to Labor politicians such as Paul Keating, Bill Hayden, Gareth Evans and Gough Whitlam, the four part series recently published by Keating and Stanford on Australian national security sees no place for arms control measures and peace initiatives. Michael Keating and John Stanford recently wrote a four-part series in P&I arguing the case Continue reading »

Labor came to office last May, replacing a government that had steered Australia’s relationship with the United States to new heights of servility. Our ties with China were in tatters. Many had hoped that the change of government would usher in a shift to a more imaginative and less subservient foreign policy. Nine months later Continue reading »

Overseas students are a key source of export income and a tool of Australia’s soft diplomacy. Whether for good or bad, they have also become a major funding source for university research. But far more importantly, they have since around the year 2000, contributed around 25 percent of the annual migration program – in other Continue reading »

Peter Dutton faces a stern test of his leadership and his strategies in preparing for a by-election in the Melbourne outer suburban seat of Aston. It’s in Victoria, where the Liberal Party has been on the nose, as most recently demonstrated in November by the swingeing repudiation of the party in favour of “Dictator” Dan Continue reading »

There has been a flurry of mention of the Australian War Memorial (‘AWM’) concerning the removal of Chinese-made security cameras from Government buildings . The new Chair of the AWM, Kim Beazley AO, announced that it would so do, out of ‘an abundance of caution’ (codespeak for ‘this is complete BS but we will do Continue reading »

The western sanctions weapon is not new to Syria, but since 2019 it has become a lethal one, destroying entire Syrian sectors and killing its people. First published in The Cradle February 6, 2023 Some 83 years after being employed against Germany in 1940, economic sanctions have become the most widely-used tool in Washington’s arsenal Continue reading »

European nations are nearing a consensus on an interim prosecutor’s office to gather evidence for a future trial.

The post Momentum Grows on Special Tribunal to Prosecute Putin’s Aggression in Ukraine appeared first on The Intercept.

Journalist Maria Romanenko calls on Sir Paul Marshall, a major shareholder in the British TV news station, to avoid Kremlin propaganda

Josiah Mortimer speaks to one of many "failed" applicants still reeling from the latest Levelling Up bidding war.

Trump and Kushner’s cozy relationship with the Saudis is the real corruption scandal Last week featured the first of what promises to be many public hearings about President Biden’s son Hunter, whom the new GOP House majority vows to investigate for the next two years. Going after what they all now casually call “The Biden Crime Family” is their number one priority. That first hearing was about a now infamous New York Post story about the exceedingly weird “discovery” of Hunter Biden’s laptop that Twitter initially suppressed only to allow back on the website just 24 hours later. This incident has become evidence, if you want to call it that, that proves Twitter was working on behalf of the Biden campaign and its alleged allies in the woke FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) to cover up the Bidens’ corruption. That hearing fizzled out, however, when it was pointed out that virtually everyone in politics, most especially Trump and his administration, were constantly asking Twitter to remove tweets they didn’t want widely seen. In the case of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Twitter made the decision itself.

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The US, one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations, stands alone as the only country to reject human rights such as the right to food and the rights of the disabled and children. Learn more about this alarming reality with Lee Camp.

The post 10 Ways The US Is Out Of Line With The Entire World appeared first on MintPress News.

The revelation appeared in an official statement released to the American media by an organization calling itself the Intergalactic Command Force.

Burkina Faso has officially cut ties with France and, like many African nations, has aligned with Russia as global power dynamics shift away from the Western sphere.

The post A Month’s Notice: Why Burkina Faso Ordered French Troops out of the Country appeared first on MintPress News.

What are those things flying our friendly skies? Of course, Republicans want to shoot first and ask questions later. You know, like the Air Force general in Iron Man. U.S. fighters shot down another flying object over Lake Huron on Sunday at President Biden’s instructions (New York Times): An object first appeared over Montana on Saturday and then disappeared, leading officials to conclude that it was an anomaly. But the object reappeared on Sunday over Montana, then over Wisconsin and Michigan. The object, which was flying at 20,000 feet and posed a potential threat to civil aviation, had an octagonal structure with strings hanging off but had no discernible payload, U.S. officials said. An F-16 shot down the object over Lake Huron. National security officials on Sunday discounted the possibility that the objects shot down over the weekend might have extraterrestrial origins. However, Gen. Glen D.

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Since 2007, the representative has had a consultancy with Chad Campbell, a former legislator who backed industry-supported bills and later lobbied for payday lenders.

The post Kyrsten Sinema Founded Consulting Firm With Arizona Figure Tied to Payday Loan Industry appeared first on The Intercept.

Why Republicans dress like supervillains Our theater department staged a modernized version of The Drunkard when I was an undergrad. The temperance play has been around since the mid-19th century. We brought in a specialist from New York to choreograph every over-the-top gesture. Every movement of every character. Each had an entrance theme played on a tinny piano off-stage. The audience is invited to cheer the heroes and boo the villain. We sold bags of peanuts to either eat or throw at the bad guy. The whole point of the melodrama these days is high camp. Amanda Marcotte argues this morning (my take) that what we may be missing is that the right is staging a version of the show every single day. “Why do so many Republicans now dress like cartoon supervillains?” Salon’s headline asks. When Rep.