We are constantly assured that our governments don’t lie. But in this case the enormity goes beyond a mere cover-up to protect deemed “national security”. That war was a lie from beginning to end. In fact, the actions in 2003-04 endangered our national security for decades as did other acts of ill-considered military intervention, for Continue reading »
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The insurrection in South Korea that was started on 3 December is still ongoing. This insurrection needs to be swiftly put to an end, but in order to do that, we need to consider the qualities of an insurrection and what it means to quell it. Legally, the recent incident bears similarities to Chun Doo-hwan’s Continue reading »
Now the neocons are ready to make Taiwan the Ukraine of Asia. The provocations from Washington just never stop. Be it Nancy Pelosi visiting Taipei or US military personnel stationed on some of Taiwan’s closest islands to mainland China, the US is upping its game to make sure China is provoked into a corner from Continue reading »
In 1971, Time magazine decided that it might do a friendly cover story on newly installed Liberal prime minister, Billy McMahon, and asked for co-operation from his media office. The office asked that questions be submitted in writing. This was not from mistrust of Time – indeed the office was deeply conscious of what Jane Continue reading »
Since the beginning of this century — triggered by the United States’ illegal invasion of Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan, and aided by the turbocharged arrival of the digital age — there has been significant growth in interest among those in the non-Western world around issues related to their colonial past. This quest has been Continue reading »
Judgments about economic management will be critical in the next election. Examination of their respective records and policies suggests that contrary to popular opinion, Labor is better than the Coalition. As we enter a new year, the forthcoming election is quite close and will dominate political discussion for the next few months. For many of Continue reading »
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s abortive attempt to impose martial law has triggered a very serious constitutional firestorm and presented the US with an extremely complicated challenge. Yoon pathetically claimed he was responding to a growing North Korean threat “within his government”, but it was obvious that his dramatic move was born out of his Continue reading »
It falls to someone to bring the discussion concerning what is happening in the Middle East, back to the elephant in the room. And what is the elephant? It is the fact of illegal occupation and what is not being done about it. Our media simply ignores the elephant. It prefers to concentrate upon Hamas Continue reading »
When a review of Commonwealth funding of “strategic policy work”, together with the government’s response, was released just before Christmas, the howls from associates of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute were probably audible on the Moon. A former director of ASPI, Peter Jennings, was among the first out of the blocks with an article in Continue reading »
Early in the New Year, acclaimed journalist and former SBS news anchor Mary Kostakidis posted a statement on her X account in the hope it would bring to a close legal proceedings brought against her in the Australian Human Rights Commission by the CEO of the Zionist Federation of Australia, alleging that social media posts Continue reading »