The inclusion of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist actions and speech in the definition of antisemitism is a gross infringement on freedom of expression in this country, the group Jews Against the Occupation says in a submission to a government inquiry into antisemitism at Australian universities. The full submission is below. Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee Continue reading »
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If it wasn’t already clear, the writing is now well and truly on the wall for the fossil car makers: Just a week after BYD launched its $US15,000 “Corolla killer” and with the world’s largest EV battery maker recently announcing it’s on track to cut battery costs in half this year, new research suggests the decline in Continue reading »
How reassuring it is to be a mining magnate in Australia. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that governments will do whatever they can to accommodate their wishes and whims. True, the rhetoric might sometimes be sharp and seemingly at odds, especially when it comes to Continue reading »
Only in Australia could such an edgy political satire be put on stage. Sharp and witty, Donald’s Inferno, written and directed by Jon-Claire Lee, was launched in Sydney this month to a modest but discerning audience. Buried in its wacky story, the comedy pulled no punches in its description of current tensions between the Chinese Continue reading »
I’ve had a hard day’s night watching an excruciating, made-for-Fox-TV showdown between political scientist Norman Finkelstein and the former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum. It’s white knuckled viewing, no doubt about that. It’s designed to be. Piers Morgan, an infotainment stalwart, presides over these so-called “debates” (which are anything but) by extolling his own Continue reading »
Are you: a better coach for having played the game at highest level; a superior baron of a media corporation if you started as a desk journalist; a smarter tech billionaire for having cut code; an out-performing venture capitalist if once a failed entrepreneur; a far-sighted head of NASA if you journeyed as an astronaut; Continue reading »
In October 2024, four key Southeast Asian countries became partners of BRICS, making the organisation much closer to home for Australians. So why have Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam put themselves on a path to membership? What is BRICS? BRICS was established in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and is viewed Continue reading »
When we hear of so many incidents in which Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank detain Palestinians and gratuitously ransack their homes (if not completely destroy their homes), one tries to understand what role humiliation plays in the way in which the soldiers orient themselves to Continue reading »
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch Make America Grouse Again (Axios): This will not end well: Meanwhile, Trump supporters are engaged in as much wishcasting about whose benefits Trump sill slash (not theirs, just those low-caste Irresponsibles) as lefties who believed after the Berlin Wall fell that the “peace dividend” would be a boone for social safety net programs.
The results are in, and they’ve exceeded our wildest hopes.
Equalizers on retainer Anticipating Donald Trump’s “promised revenge tour,” Josh Marshall floated the idea of about ten days ago that anti-Trumpers with deep pockets assemble a big pile of money for the legal defense of women and men on his enemies list. Marshall is back to report there is movement on this effort in a good-news, bad-news sort of way. Since then, he’s become aware of “groups or consortia that are organizing to be the place that Trump targets can go when they get their subpoena or their lawsuit,” but for now they are keeping their identities below the radar: For very real reasons these groups don’t want to draw a lot of attention to themselves. They don’t want themselves to become the targets of harassment and lawfare when they’re trying to defend others from it. If they themselves get run out of business who’s going to be around to help everyone else? So I can’t give websites for these operations that you’d want to look up if you’re a target or show you how to contribute money. They’re not set up that way and they don’t want the attention.
Ncuti Gatwa is the most emotionally open take on the Doctor in the new Doctor Who era, but is the constant tragedy getting to be too much?
Tax experts say IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn’s leaks provided a public service — and fear Trump will take retribution.
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Niall Harbison (@niall.harbison) Every morning when I wake up and put on my glasses the first thing I look at online is this feed by Niall Harbison. It never fails to get my day started in the right frame of mind. (That link is to his Twitter feed, but he also posts all the time on Instagram.) Niall lives in Thailand and runs a street dog rescue. Every day he has an amazing story about what he does often featuring the story of one dog he’s found in some terrible situation whom they bring back to what he calls “the land” and they fix the pup up both physically and psychologically. Then they find many of them a home there in Thailand and all over the world. One of the dogs was even adopted by Liam Gallagher from Oasis View this post on Instagram A post shared by Niall Harbison (@niall.harbison) He also runs sterilization clinics, feeds hundreds of street dogs and gives medication to those who need it every day.
The NY Times reports: With all due respect, the look that Prince William sported at the starry reopening of Notre-Dame in Paris this month was nothing special: a well-tailored overcoat, a dark blue tie, a pressed white shirt. And, naturally, his new beard. But that simple outfit did not fail to wow one luminary. “He looked really, very handsome last night,” President-elect Donald J. Trump said about the future king of England, according to The New York Post. “Some people look better in person? He looked great. He looked really nice, and I told him that.” His praise was just the latest instance in which Mr. Trump, 78, had complimented another man’s looks, part of a larger pattern of obsession he has with the personal appearance of individuals. That includes during the presidential campaign, when Mr. Trump often waxed poetic about the pilots posted to Air Force One, during his first term, likening them to taller versions of Tom Cruise. “These guys are specimens,” he said during a late October interview with Joe Rogan. “Like perfect specimens.” […] In the last three months alone, Mr.
Some readers may recall an earlier article Israel and the Tour Down Under, published on 4 January. The article addressed the then forthcoming Santos Tour Down Under due to take place from 12 – 21 January. The cycling event, established in South Australia in 1999, is an annual event and part of the UCI (Union Continue reading »
. Starta Pressarna bad yours truly besvara några av de vanligaste frågorna de får skickade till sig. Vad är Lafferkurvan? Finns det en jämviktsarbetslöshet? Stämmer ‘Hästskitsteoremet?, m. m., m. m. I veckans avsnitt diskuterar — och kritiserar — yours truly tillsammans med Daniel Suhonen begrepp och antaganden som ofta används inom nationalekonomi och ekonomisk politik.
If you have time to read one long story today, I recommend this one about the South Korea coup attempt in the Washington Post. I’m including a gift link so you can read the whole thing. Let’s just say the echoes are deafening: Piecing together their accounts shows that Yoon’s plan had probably been months in the making and that he intended to use martial law to target political opponents and pursue baseless election fraud claims — a much more extensive agenda than he has claim […] There was Yoon’s increasingly sharp rhetoric about his opponents. Then came the surprise appointment of his friend as defense minister. Then that minister surrounded himself with loyalists at the top of the chain of command. It seemed as if something as extreme as martial law could be in the works, said Park, formerly the nation’s deputy intelligence chief. “We knew they were an extremely right-wing force, and they would do things we cannot imagine,” he said.