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The Lovely War
A Note on the Instrument. Martin Amis understood that certain horrors cannot be approached frontally. You do not walk up to the monstrous and describe it. You circle it, you find its vanity and its […]
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The Expanding Presidency of Donald J. Trump
There was a time – not so long ago – when the office of President of the United States seemed a sufficiently demanding role. Nuclear codes, global alliances, the occasional domestic crisis. A full plate, […]
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The Deconstruction of Control
How a 400-Year-Old Corporate Blueprint Became the Architecture of Modern Power – and Why We Can Choose to Make It Irrelevant Dedicated to my wife, who sees the pattern before the pieces fall. I. Introduction: […]
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Why Do Australians Pay for the NBN After Funding It?
By Denis Hay Description Why do Australians pay for the NBN if it was publicly funded? Discover where your money goes and why the internet still costs so much. Introduction: The Question Millions Are Asking […]
Politics
Australian Political Futures: Is Balancing Optimum Defence Self-Reliance with National Sovereignty Really Possible within US Global Hegemony?
Diplomatic sorties by Prime Minister Albanese to maintain supplies of petroleum from refineries in South East Asia coincided with the release of the 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS). The fire in Unit Four at the […]
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The Moon That Never Rose
By James Moore “America’s greatest promise is that something is going to happen, and after awhile you get tired of waiting because nothing happens to people except that they grow old and nothing happens to […]
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The new nuclear weapons are so much better and cheaper – they’re the enemy’s nuclear sites!
Yes, ain’t it grand! We, the God-fearing, God-loving, West and Israel don’t really need any longer to put our $billions of tax-payer money into those horribly expensive nuclear missiles, bombs, submarines. Good old new technology […]
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The Holy War on the Holy See
A NOTE ON CLARKE AND DAWE John Clarke and Bryan Dawe were, for thirty years, the sharpest double act in Australian public life. Every Thursday night on the ABC, Clarke played the politician, the bureaucrat, […]
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Confused Closures and Opaque Openings: Continuing Dramas in the Hormuz Strait
Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the world over, and they are not better for it. The latest […]
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Iran aside, don’t ignore Trump’s war crimes in the Caribbean, Venezuela and Somalia
By Walt Zlotow As Trump was cooling his massive, murderous bombing of Iran, he was ramping up his murderous bombing of small civilian boats in the Caribbean. In the last 5 days he obliterated 5 […]
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The Merchants of Death in Our Midst
How Palantir Profits from Genocide – and Why Australia Must Walk Away Dedicated to my wife, who knows evil by the way it behaves. I. The Company That Kills Enemies Alex Karp, the CEO of […]
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Two men found dead on the Moon
I’ve recently started watching For All Mankind, the alternate-history series where the Soviets reach the Moon first and the space race never ends. It’s gripping stuff – but it also sent me back to the […]
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Caps Off: How Mark Hammond’s Appointment Completes Labor’s Capture by Uncle Sam and the AUKUS Boondoggle
Look at the photo. Anthony Albanese, grinning in his USS Vermont baseball cap like a kid who just won a free submarine from the Pentagon’s lucky dip. Beside him, Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, now our […]
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The Normalisation of Contradiction
There are moments in politics when language is no longer used to describe reality, but to overwrite it. This week, Donald Trump declared that the United States has a “very good relationship” with Iran – […]
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Beyond the screen: Beijing’s film festival becomes a citywide experience
By Chen Ziqi I’ve always loved that strange, slightly magical moment after a film ends. You step out of a cinema, the final scene still lingering in your mind. For a moment, the world […]