NATO was, in part, established to prevent moves by France and Germany towards independent European defence and foreign policies, such as the West European Union. This has been a geo-political priority for Washington since the end of World War II. Under Joe Biden, there was panic in the US about Europeans going their own way Continue reading »
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The arrogance of early Victorian colonial settlement seems lost to amnesia. Maps of the time show the world as if diseased by a sprawling red virus – the British Empire. With the reach of the red went a blind and over-weening attitude of entitlement, a dictation of what would and would not be. Indigenous people Continue reading »
As Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto steers his giant nation closer to China it’s worth recalling Paul Keating three decades ago: “No country is more important to Australia than Indonesia.” His successors nod and offer warm words, but no longer hear their prophet. Caught up in domestic policies and trying to dodge the Trump Martian machine, Continue reading »
Donald Trump is an awful person and a terrible president. But he may provide an enduring breath of fresh air when it comes to the black/white posturing about freedom versus authoritarianism. Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States of America, is a miserable excuse for a Continue reading »
Prizewinning image shows a leafy seadragon expertly camouflaged in seagrass
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The contracts, seen by Byline Times, include £7 million for a fleet of near silent 'ghost drones'
An international trailer for Showrunner Russell T. Davies's Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who Season 2 offers some new looks.
New research exposes the gaps in parliamentary rules which allow MPs to hide their donations, financial interests and client relationships from voters
There is so much beyond words. There are actually no adequate words for the full complexity of human feeling, for the arcane details of a distant memory, or the colors of the sky. Blue doesn’t really cut it, but most often it’s the best we have. Poems, then, are the last stop before silence. After that, the train goes beyond words, and often beyond any form of representation. All of which has something to do with the necessity of poetry, the necessity of a poet’s urgent and never-ending attempts at making poems. To write is to fail, but to fail well is our only hope, and the good failures are our greatest books. It’s one of the reasons that poetry often arrives in fragments, offering glimpses and snippets: Not only because memory is always an incomplete invention, but also because a poet might wish to dispense with the crude reductivities of plot and setup. The poet wants to take us straight to the shattering moment, or to the essential emotional crossroads, or the livid fact, or the vivid flash of action or perception that changes everything.
“Delivering the longest address to Congress in modern presidential history, Mr. Trump reprised many of the themes that animated his campaign for president and spent little time unveiling new policies, as presidents traditionally have done on these occasions. He spoke for roughly one hour 40 minutes… Democrats lodged protests throughout the evening, with one representative getting kicked out and others holding signs in silent opposition.” — New York Times
Evidence published by the Covid Inquiry reveals that the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm
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A list of DOGE staffers reviewed by The Intercept shows Elon Musk’s quasi-agency has brought in at least four more attorneys.
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Dave Proudlove is one of the most eloquent advocates of the greater Potteries area on the Midlands/Northern England border. A columnist at the Staffordshire Sentinel for many years, and an enthusiastic champion of local sites and subjects on social media, Proudlove has regularly given voice to the hopes and dreams of Stoke-on-Trent and its backcountry, […]
More than 230 organisations worldwide have called on the Australian government to immediately halt the transfer of all F-35 jet components to Israel.
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John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth. On February 21st, as the Rwandan army deepened its invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), John Legend took the stage in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. There, the superstar singer-songwriter headlined a Move Afrika concert produced by Global Citizen, the international NGO […]
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Sarah Schwarz speaks to the silencing tactics against those speaking up for Palestine. Francesca Albanese outlines the many elements that make up genocide. Peter Cronau suggests Australia appears to have breached the International Court of Justice ruling by exporting coal from Newcastle to Israel, while Cameron Leckie suggests a peacekeeping force for Ukraine is disingenuous Continue reading »
On the same day he floated cutting funding at schools hosting “illegal” protests, Trump took a free speech victory lap.
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Today (December 4, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, December 2024 – which shows that the Australian economy grew by just 0.6 per cent in the December-quarter 2024 and by just 1.3 per cent over the 12 months (up from 0.6 per cent).…
To understand how tariffs are going to hit various economies, you need to understand how neoliberal era trade and production was set up. In the old world supply chains were much less integrated. In general, if you made it in your country, your supply chain was in your country. There were always some exceptions, especially for resources like nickel and copper and uranium and so on, but it was the rule. Trade deals and laws in the old era usually required foreign companies which were going to produce in a host country to source a minimum amount of parts from said host country. Almost always this was over 50%. If the infrastructure didn’t exist, the company, usually with government help, would set it up.
