Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu both want Donald Trump to win so they can prolong and intensify their brutal wars.
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Without flowers, there would be no us.
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The State Department coordinated massive evacuations from Lebanon in 2006 and Egypt in 2011. What’s different now?
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Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people. When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium at the U.N. General Assembly last week, dozens of governments walked out of the chamber. The global opprobrium of Netanyahu and his Continue reading »
Last week, Indonesia, our biggest and closest neighbour, deposited its instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the UN. This was a major international and regional development, a good-news story with a very positive impact on international security, but we’ve heard virtually nothing about it from our government Continue reading »
“Haredim, not Arabs or Iran, are the biggest threat to Israel’, Dan Perry, 2021 Introduction: demography is destiny The Haredim community represents the deeply religious, ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel. They currently (2023) represent 13.5 percent of the total population of Israel. In about 40 years, their relative size will rise to 31.3 percent (see Figure Continue reading »
I am a cultural Jew because I am an atheist. I cannot celebrate the Jewish New Year because of the continuing horror in Gaza, and now in Lebanon. A genocide is being perpetrated by Netanyahu and his government which is destroying Jewish humanist traditions. Netanyahu, Ben-Gevir, Smotrich and other Kahanites have hijacked the Jewish masses Continue reading »
I am writing this because no one at the ABC — whose producers invited me onto their coronation coverage as a guest — has uttered one word of public support. Not one ABC executive has publicly refuted the lies written or spoken about me. I don’t hold any individual responsible; this is an institutional failure. Continue reading »
Lowy’s fudge doesn’t work – Australia has to choose between peace with China or following the US towards war. Don’t tell Joe Biden (“You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world”) but according to a recent article in Foreign Affairs not merely is the US not running the world but it Continue reading »
Much more than a cyclical adjustment, Beijing’s latest policy shift marks a milestone in the history of its economic management. Beijing’s larger-than-expected market rescue plan announced last week is extraordinary in every way. The policies, from interest rate cuts to special funding schemes for the stock market, are significant. But investors are particularly excited about Continue reading »
Everyone knows it’s hard being the high school basketball team that lost to Air Bud. He’s a dog; it’s an embarrassing defeat. But people don’t realize it’s worse being the team that went out, played hard, and beat that beloved golden retriever by eighty-seven points.
Famously, there’s no rule against a dog playing basketball. Apparently, there is one big rule about forfeiting against a dog playing basketball. I gladly would’ve given Air Bud’s team of ragtag teens the morally uplifting win, but the Washington State Athletic Commission made us spend forty-five minutes dunking on man’s best friend.
Trust me, we tried to lose, but it wasn’t enough. Air Bud is very skilled at bouncing a game-winning shot off his snout in an emotional third-act climax, but he’s less adept at small things like dribbling. The dog does not have hands. I said that phrase so many times during the game. There’s only so much stalling you can do before your team starts draining mid-range jumpers.
Mark Martin floated fringe theories to keep Trump in power. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito taught with him — even after January 6.
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Age-verification requirements offer a false sense of safety, and risk both privacy and national security
Puffing on a vape, Peter Kennard flicks through an old notebook, showing me cutouts of his first commission. The images are already fixed in the now iconic Kennard style — an ominous Richard Nixon delivering his State of the Union address, whilst Edward Heath and a crowd representing the British public subserviently pay witness. The […]
Anne Sexton is familiar with the dark night of the soul felt in the body.
With the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel approaching, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme violence on the West Bank and now on Lebanon as well, something very different happened recently in a poky classroom at Columbia University. Two young men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, both of whom had lost people they deeply loved to the conflict, came to speak not about fear and anger, revenge or oppression, but about reconciliation, friendship, and peace. One of them was Arab Aramin, a 30-year-old Palestinian from Jerusalem whose little sister, Abir, had been shot and killed in front of her school by an Israeli soldier. She was 10 years old. The other was Yonatan Zeigen,... Read more
Vance is judged to have performed better than Tim Walz at the Vice-Presidential debate, but the Minnesota Governor got the better of him when they discussed the 2020 election