Year: 2026

By James Moore I am in New Orleans this weekend at the city’s book festival, listening to authors and ideas that would move even the most disconsolate of souls. Anderson Cooper of CNN, who has […]

By Dr Dan Steinbock The chaotic conditions created by the US/Israeli war against Iran are now in an escalatory phase. The reverberations will be severe worldwide. Expresso: U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit […]

Lessons from the Jungle: My Father’s Hard-Earned Wisdom from New Guinea I never intended to write this. For most of my life, my father’s stories about the war in New Guinea remained locked away like […]

The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its air force and navy destroyed, its missile capabilities blunted, is […]

Introduction: The Words That Condemn On March 13, 2026, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon briefing and declared: “We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, […]

It was the height of the 1970s, a decade defined by political turbulence and the rise of international terrorism. On June 27, 1976, the world’s attention was hijacked along with Air France Flight 139. The […]

By Walt Zlotow   Some are calling for the Trump cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office for committing war crimes in Iran and lurching the world economy to ruin. Alas, […]

The Knight in Tarnished Armour: Australia’s Hypocrisy and the Iranian Footballers Like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, Australia wears its albatross with pride; only ours is not a bird, but a shackle of our own making. We […]

Australia’s repeated failure to enforce accountability allows harm from crime to persist. Only urgent, decisive action to hold institutions and leaders accountable will break this harmful cycle. After 21 major inquiries in Australia, most close […]

By Peter Brown   During his first presidency, Donald Trump repeatedly boasted that he knew more about defeating ISIS than the generals did – a claim met with widespread ridicule, yet one that captured the essence […]

Introduction: A Leader in Freefall There is a pattern to despots and demagogues that repeats across centuries. When they cannot win with results, they reach for prophecy. When they cannot convince with evidence, they claim […]

The record is extraordinary. The case for bringing more community independents into parliament has never been stronger – and in Farrer, the next chapter is being written right now. By Sue Barrett There is a […]